Talks and presentations

Dynamical Simulations of the “Bricks-and-Mortar” Mesophase in Blends of Miktoarm Block Copolymers and Homopolymers

July 28, 2020

Talk, 2020 Virtual Polymer Physics Symposium, Virtual, Online

In this talk I followed up on my prior talk at AICHE on using molecular simulations to study the phase behavior of the bricks-and-mortar phase formed from a nonlinear block copolymer architecture; this talk had a primary focus on calculations of mechanical properties (viscosity, dynamic modulus, and Young’s modulus especially), with updates to my calculations where appropriate.

In-Silico Dynamic Properties of the “Bricks-and-Mortar” Mesophase from Binary Miktoarm Star Block Copolymer/Homopolymer Blends

November 14, 2019

Talk, 2019 AIChE Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida

In this talk I elaborated on preliminary results first shown in the prior talk at APS, on using molecular simulations to study the phase behavior of the bricks-and-mortar phase formed from a nonlinear block copolymer architecture; this talk had a primary focus on calculations of mechanical properties (viscosity, dynamic modulus, and Young’s modulus especially).

Three-dimensional particle-based simulations of fluctuation-stabilized copolymer mesophases

March 04, 2019

Talk, APS March Meeting 2019, Boston, Massachusetts

In this talk I introduced preliminary results using molecular simulations to study the phase behavior of the bricks-and-mortar phase formed from a nonlinear block copolymers architecture (prior results can be found in https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.macromol.5b01210 and https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.macromol.7b01106); the primary innovation of our work is to use three-dimensional particle-based simulations to probe the phase diagram and dynamic properties of the mesophase.

Formation, Stability, and Annihilation of a “Stitch” Morphology in Block Copolymer Thin Films

October 31, 2018

Talk, 2018 AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

In this talk I introduced preliminary results for a forthcoming paper using molecular simulations to study the unique defects seen experimentally in https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b03881 and https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.8b05247. Full details will be available in the draft coming soon.