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The 2024 Innovation in Materials Symposium will bring together the materials research community at CU Boulder and beyond for presentations by faculty and students as well as discussion and collaboration opportunities. This free symposium will foster a greater sense of community and interdisciplinary cooperation among faculty, students and industry.

When and Where

The 2024 MSE Symposium will take place Thursday, August 15 from 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. at the Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building on CU Boulder's East Campus.

Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building

Event Parking information will be sent to all non-CU affiliates who register for the event.

Symposium Schedule

8:30 – 9:20  Plenary Session, JSCBB A115, Butcher Auditorium, Prof. Stephanie Bryant, Presiding

• 8:30 – 8:40     Introduction and Welcoming Remarks, Prof. Stephanie Bryant
• 8:40 – 9:05     Selected Examples of 3M’s Industrial R&D in Composites, Dr. Kristin Thunhorst, 3M  
• 9:05 – 9:20     An Introduction to the COSINC Facility and Recent Developments,  Aju Jugessur, COSINC Director

9:20 – 9:35     Break and Transition

9:35 - 10:50    Parallel Sessions, JSCBB A115 and JSCBB A108

• JSCBB A115  Energy Materials, Prof. Daniel Dessau, Presider
  • 9:35 – 9:55     Redox-enabled recycling methods - sustainability one electron at a time, Prof. Oana Luca
  • 9:55 – 10:15   Driving redox catalysis with photoexcited semiconductor nanocrystals, Prof. Gordana Dukovic
  • 10:15 – 10:35 Transparent thermally super-insulating metamaterials, Prof. Ivan Smalyukh
  • 10:35 – 10:55     Generation of Colossal Defect Concentration under Electric Fields, Rishi Raj
• JSCBB A108 Polymeric Materials, Prof. Christopher Bowman, Presiding
  • 9:35 – 9:55     Harnessing Acoustofluidic Microstreaming for Membrane Fouling Mitigation, Prof. Yifu Ding
  • 9:55 – 10:15   Embracing dispersity to promote co-continuous nanostructures via copolymer self-assembly, Prof. Ryan Hayward
  • 10:15 – 10:35 Low Density Actuators for Soft Robotics, Prof. Timothy White
  • 10:35 – 10:50 Electrochemical Methods for the Valorization of Ester-Based Waste Materials, Phil Pham

10:50 – 11:15              Break

11:15 – 12:50              Parallel Sessions, JSCBB A115 and JSCBB A108

•  JSCBB A115  Quantum and Other Materials, Prof. Rishi Raj, Presider
  • 11:15 – 11:35 Quest for Novel Quantum States of Matter, Prof. Gang Cao
  • 11:35 – 11:55 Electronic structure measurements of novel quantum materials, Prof. Daniel Dessau
  • 11:55 – 12:15 AI-Accelerated Discovery of Materials: Challenges, Opportunities, and Integrated Test Cases, Prof. Hendrik Heinz
  • 12:15 – 12:35 Why most compounds object to being doped and why false metals become quantum insulators.. Prof. Alex Zunger
  • 12:35 – 12:50     Nonlinear Elastic Bottlebrush Polymer Hydrogels Support Bone Cell Network Formation, Dr. Monica Ohnsorg
• JSCBB A108 Biomaterials and Materials Characterization, Prof. Timothy White, Presiding
  • 11:15 – 11:35 Using Molecular Nano-Pulleys to Dissipate Stress in Bio-Friendly Soft Materials, Prof. Carson Bruns
  • 11:35 – 11:55 Medical microrobots for drug and cell delivery, Prof. Wyatt Shields
  • 11:55 – 12:15 Modulation of tendon mechanical properties by hyaluronic acid, Prof. Sarah Calve
  • 12:15 – 12:35 Mechanics of Synthetic and Living Polymeric Materials, Prof. Konane Bay
  • 12:35 – 12:50 Impact of Surface Chemistry and Particle Size on Inertial Cavitation Driven Transport of Silica Nanoparticles and Microparticles, Talaial Alina

12:50 – 1:45  Lunch Break

1:45 – 2:45     Parallel Sessions, JSCBB A115 and JSCBB A108

•  JSCBB A115   Materials Development and Characterization, Prof. Stephanie Bryant, Presider
  • 1:45 – 2:05     Tabletop short-wavelength light sources for materials characterization and microscopy, Prof. Henry Kapteyn
  • 2:05 – 2:25     Chalcogenide materials for nonlinear, integrated optics, Prof. Juliet Gopinath
  • 2:25– 2:40    Rational design of the frequency response of microrobots powered by acoustic streaming, Ritu Raj
• JSCBB A108 Membrane and Other Materials, Prof. Oana Luca, Presiding
  • 1:45 – 2:05     Putting bubbles to work: Air-trapping membranes for advanced water purification, Prof. Anthony Straub
  • 2:05 – 2:25     Electron Enhanced Thin Film Growth and Etching, Prof. Steven George
  • 2:25 – 2:45     Multifunctional graphene membrane electrodes (grMEs), Prof. John Pellegrino

2:45 – 3:00     Break and Poster Setup

3:00  - 4:30     Poster Session (Poster presenters with last names starting with A-K present from 3:00 – 3:45; Poster presenters with last names starting with L-Z present from 3:45 – 4:30)

4:30 – 5:00     Plenary Session, JSCBB A115, Prof. Christopher Bowman, Presiding

• Addressing the plastic waste crisis today while engineering recyclable materials for tomorrow, Dr. Katrina Knauer, NREL and CU Boulder