Heat Transfer and Molecular Ordering in Polymers

Presentations

• Molecular Phononics: Understanding and Controlling Thermal Transport in Polymers from Single Molecules to Micro/Nanoscale Fibers

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  March 16, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Publication: References:
  
  1. S.C. Yelishala*, Y. Zhu*, P. M. Martinez*, H. Chen, M. Habibi, G. Prampolini, J. C. Cuevas, W. Zhang, J. G. Vilhena, L. Cui, Phonon interference in single-molecule junctions, Nature Materials, 24, 258–1264 (2025).
  2. S.C. Yelishala, C. Murphy, L. Cui, Lithography-free, low-cost, picowatt-resolution calorimeter for micro and nanoscale thermal characterization, Sensors and Actuators A, 388, 116494 (2025).
  3. S. C. Yelishala, C. Murphy, L. Cui, Molecular perspective and engineering of thermal transport and thermoelectricity in polymers, Journal of Materials Chemistry A 12, 10614-10658 (2024).
  

  Presenters

  • Longji Cui

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  Authors

  • Longji Cui

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

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• Layer Stacking Order Tunes Thermal and Mechanical Properties in the 2D Covalent Organic Framework TAPB-DMPDA

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Aditya Dey

    • Carnegie Mellon University

  Authors

  • Aditya Dey

    • Carnegie Mellon University

  • Manoj Settipalli

  • Austin Evans

  • Alan McGaughey

    • Carnegie Mellon University

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• Effect of Hardener Functional Groups on the Higher-Order Structures and Thermal Conductivity of Cured Epoxy Resins

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Publication: R. Marui, H. Maeda, K. Hatakeyama-Sato, Y. Nabae, and T. Hayakawa, Ortho-, Meta-, versus Para-Substituted Mesogens Inducing Higher-Order Structures for Highly Thermal-Conductive Cured Epoxy Resins, Macromolecules 2024, 57 (23), 11221–11228.

  Presenters

  • Rika Marui

    • Institute of Science Tokyo

  Authors

  • Rika Marui

    • Institute of Science Tokyo

  • Kan Hatakeyama-Sato

  • Yuta Nabae

  • Teruaki Hayakawa

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• Composite phase change electrolytes for combined electrochemical and thermal energy storage

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Publication: Jamieson Brechtl, Andrew M Ullman, Kai Li, Guang Yang, Jagjit Nanda, Kashif Nawaz, Robert L Sacci, Phase change electrolytes for combined electrochemical and thermal energy storage, Energy Reports, 11 (2024), 3931-3940.

  Presenters

  • Robert Sacci

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Robert Sacci

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Jamieson Bretchtl

  • Andrew Ullman

  • Guang Yang

  • Jagjit Nanda

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Kashif Nawaz

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• Dynamically Tuning the Kuhn Length to Expand Property Control of Polymer Networks.

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Emilie Moses

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Authors

  • Emilie Moses

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Ed Samulski

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Dimitri Ivanov

  • Andrey Dobrynin

    • University of North Carolina

  • Sergei Sheiko

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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• Intracrystalline Dynamics in Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) and Its Role in Morphological Evolution and Mechanical Implications

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Publication: Anuar, A., Yu, Q., Jariyavidyanont, K., Petzold, A., Androsch, R., Thurn-Albrecht, T., & Saalwächter, K. (2024). Poly-3-hydroxybutyrate, a crystal-mobile biodegradable polyester. Macromolecules, 57(17), 8507-8518. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.4c00938)

  Presenters

  • Mohd Afiq Bin Anuar

    • Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg

  Authors

  • Mohd Afiq Bin Anuar

    • Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg

  • Yu Qiang

  • Katalee Jariyavidyanont

  • Albrecht Petzold

  • René Androsch

    • Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

  • Thomas Thurn-Albrecht

    • University of Halle-Wittenberg

  • Kay Saalwachter

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• Flow Induced Crystallization in Polymer Melts with Molecular Dynamics simulations

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Tzortzis Koulaxizis

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Authors

  • Tzortzis Koulaxizis

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Antonia Statt

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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• Re-entanglement Kinetics of Shear-induced Isotropic and Nematic Poly-ether-ether-ketone

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Publication: Planned paper: Re-entanglement kinetics of Shear-induced Isotropic and Nematic Poly-ether-ether-ketone

  Presenters

  • Ping Yi Leslie poh

    • Penn State University, Erie

  Authors

  • Ping Yi Leslie poh

    • Penn State University, Erie

  • Xiaoshi Zhang

    • Penn State University, Erie

  • Alicyn Rhoades

    • Penn State University, Erie

  • Gijs de Kort

  • Ralph Colby

    • Pennsylvania State University

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• A Kinetic Monte Carlo Model of Secondary Nucleation of Linear and Short-Branched Polyolefins

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Ronald Larson

    • University of Michigan

  Authors

  • Ronald Larson

    • University of Michigan

  • Zhiqiang Shen

  • Jeffrey Weinhold

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• Molecular insight on thermal welding of semicrystalline polymer interfaces

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Publication: [1] Valsecchi M, Kumar SK, Grest GS. "Molecular insight on thermal welding of semicrystalline polymer interfaces", in preparation

  Presenters

  • Michele Valsecchi

    • Columbia University

  Authors

  • Michele Valsecchi

    • Columbia University

  • Sanat Kumar

    • Columbia University

  • Gary Grest

    • Sandia National Laboratories

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• Investigating the Hydrolytic Degradation of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers towards their use in Biomedical Applications

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 6:06 PM

  Publication: Danielsen, L.C.; Burdick, J.A.; White, T.J. Engineering and Exploring Hydrolytic Degradation in 3D-Printed Liquid Crystalline Elastomers. In preparation.

  Presenters

  • Lorin Danielsen

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  Authors

  • Lorin Danielsen

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Jason Burdick

  • Timothy White

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

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• Theory of Uniaxial-Biaxial Nematic Phase Transition in Ribbon-Like Conjugated Polymers

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 6:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 6:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Jiayi Huang

    • North Carolina State University

  Authors

  • Jiayi Huang

    • North Carolina State University

  • Artem Rumyantsev

    • North Carolina State University

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• Biaxial nematic ordering of conjugated polymers modeled as ribbon-like chains

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 6:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 6:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Srikant Sagireddy

    • Stanford University

  Authors

  • Srikant Sagireddy

    • Stanford University

  • Jian Qin

    • Stanford University

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