ORNL Soft Matter Symposium 2022

Agenda

ORNL Soft Matter Symposium 2022

 

Building 8600, Iran Thomas Auditorium

Oct. 27-28, 2022

 

Day 1, Thursday Oct. 27, 2022
Time	Event	Speaker & Affiliation	Moderator
8:00 – 9:00 am	Checking in and Breakfast	Building 8600, Visitor Center/Atrium
9:00 – 9:10 am	Opening Remarks	Hans Christen Neutron Scattering Division Director
9:10 – 9:20 am	Workshop Introduction	Lilin He
9:20 – 10:20 am	“Toward Superionic Conductive Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium Ion Batteries”	Yu Zhu  University of Akron
10:20 – 10:40 am	Coffee Break and Group Photo
10:40 – 11:40 am	“REActive high-PErformance Resins (REAPER) for SLS and FDM printing” Virtual talk via zoom	Theo Dingemans University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11:40 – 1:00 pm	Working Lunch “Overview and status of the Second Target Station (STS) object”	Graeme Murdoch Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1:00 – 2:00 pm	“Manufacturing Fit-for-Purpose Water Treatment Devices from Nanostructured Polymers”	William Philip University of Notre Dame
2:00 – 3:00 pm	“Closed-loop Circularity of Plastics by Chemical Upcycling”	Tomonori Saito Oak Ridge National Laboratory
3:00 – 3:15 pm	Coffee Break
3:15 – 4:15 pm	“CryoEM and low dose imagining – observing beam sensitive samples at atomic resolution”	Alexis Williams Oak Ridge National Laboratory
4:15 – 5:15 pm	“Some open problems in dynamics and rheology of polymers: a personal take based on recent studies”	Yangyang Wang Oak Ridge National Laboratory
5:15 – 7:00 pm	Working dinner: Poster Session and Collaboration Discussion	Building 8600 Hallway

 

 

 

Day 2, Friday Oct. 28, 2022
Time	Event	Speakers & Affiliation	Moderator
8:00 – 9:00 am	Breakfast	Building 8600, Atrium
9:00 – 10:00 am	“Carbohydrate-Rich Biomaterials Determined by Cellular Solid-State NMR: Plant Cell Walls, Fungal Pathogens, and Microalage”	Tuo Wang Michigan State University
10:00 – 11:00 am	“Plasmon Mode in Semi-Dilute Polyelectrolyte Solutions”	Rajeev Kumar  Oak Ridge National Laboratory
11:00 – 11:15 am	Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:15 pm	“Ion Transport and Segmental Dynamics of Polymer Electrolytes at Interfaces”	Xi Chelsea Chen Oak Ridge National Laboratory
12:15 – 1:30 pm	Working Lunch “Advances and Challenges in Polymer Additive Manufacturing”	Vlastimil Kunc Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1:30 – 2:30 pm	“Computational Modeling of Plant Biopolymers: Challenges, Progress, and Applications”	Micholas Smith UTK/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2:30 – 3:30 pm	“Charged Chain End: A Powerful Parameter in Tuning Polymer Structures and Dynamics”	Kunlun Hong Oak Ridge National Laboratory
3:30 – 3:45 pm	Coffee Break
3:45 – 4:45 pm	“Microscopic dynamics of confined fluids of energy applications”	Naresh Osti Oak Ridge National Laboratory
4:45 – 5:00 pm	Wrap up and future symposiums
5:00pm	Adjourn

 

**Agenda is on Eastern Standard Time**

 

Event contact	Admin Assistant: Jessica Pierce, piercejd@ornl.gov  Phone: 865.341.2102