NEWS!
News from 2021
September 2021: We successfully released the open source code for CREASE and conducted a tutorial for colleagues at NIST on Sept 15-16! Check out the open source codes by visiting our research link in the menu above
September 2021: Congratulations to Zijie and Ziyu on having their paper be accepted in JACS Au!
September 2021: Arthi leads the new NSF funded NRT graduate traineeship Click here to learn more about NRT-MIDAS
August 2021: Congratulations to Christian on having his paper be accepted in ACS Materials Au!
July 2021: Congratulations to Arthi for being awarded the 2021 AIChE COMSEF Impact Award
July 2021: Congratulations to Michiel Wessels for his latest paper on machine learning enhanced CREASE method for faster analysis of scattering results getting accepted in ACS Polymers Au
May 2021: Congratulations to former PhD student, Tom Gartner! He just accepted a tenure track position in the Chemical Engineering department at Georgia Tech! He will be Prof. Gartner as of January 2022.
May 2021:Congratulations to Phillip for winning the best talk prize for his talk on collagen-like-peptide simulations at the 2021 MRS Spring meeting SM09: Peptide and Protein Design for Responsive Materials symposium !
May 2021: Congratulations to Arjita for being selected to participate in the 3M RISE symposium this summer!
May 2021: Congratulations to Michiel for successfully defending his PhD and landing a great position at Siemens!
May 2021: Congratulations to Phillip for being selected as one of the department's teaching fellows for AY 2021-22!
March 2021:Congratulations to Ziyu for being recognized as runner up for Forum for Early Career Scientists (FECS) 2021 March Meeting Postdoctoral Poster Prize! Her poster was on CREASE applied to analyzing vesicle structures seen in biomaterials!
February 2021: Congratulations to Arjita for winning best poster in the DARWIN supercomputing symposium and also being awarded UD Doctoral Fellowship for her last year of doctoral
research!
February 2021: Arthi takes on the editorial role as the deputy editor of the new ACS Polymers Au journal, which is the fully open access counterpart of hybrid journals Macromolecules, Biomacromolecules, and ACS Macro Letters. She will continue to serve as Associate Editor for Macromolecules as well.
News from 2020
December 2020: Four papers accepted: one in Macromolecules (CREASE paper from Michiel), one in Soft Matter (collaborative experimentsimulation paper on collagen like peptides from Phillip and members of Kloxin group), one in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (perspective article including Utkarsh and Christian from our group and members of the MURI collaboration on melanin, and another in Macromolecules (collaborative experiment-simulation-theory study on polymer nanocomposites from Arjita and members of Russ Composto group at UPenn). Great way to end 2020!
September 2020: Arthi is elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society via the Division of Polymer Physics!
September 2020: Arthi is named the Centennial Term Professor for Excellence in Research and Education in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering!
September 2020: The most recent paper from our DMREF collaboration with Pochan and Wooley labs is published in Macromolecules! Congrats to the Jee (Pochan lab), Yue (Wooley lab) and Michiel (Jayaraman lab)!
September 2020:Our recent paper from our NSF CBET collaboration with Kiick lab is published in Molecular Systems Design and Engineering! Congrats to the Phillip and Haofu!
August 2020: Welcome to Dr. Ziyu Ye, the newest member of our group!
July 2020: Our most recent model development paper describing cellulose coarse-graining published in JCTC. Congrats Zijie!
April 2020: Congrats to Arjita for winning the 2020 Richard Wool department award given to an outstanding woman graduate student in green engineering!
February-March 2020: Arjita publishes her paper in Macromolecules on polymer nanocomposites showing larger particle-particle correlation with increasing wetting!
February-March 2020: Multiple papers from the group members working on the MURI project - Congrats to Utkarsh, Tom and Christian!
January 2020: Michiel's paper on branched amphiphilic copolymers on attractive surfaces accepted in Soft matter and featured in the cover art!
January 2020: Welcome to Shizhao and Jihyuk, the newest members of our group!
News from 2019
Aug 2019: Daniel and Michiel's paper with Karen Wooley's group and Darrin Pochan's group on computational analysis of scattering results for molecular reconstruction of micelle structure in accepted in JACS!
Aug 2019: Tom's paper with Ali Dhinojwala's group on colloidal assembly of melanin particles accepted in Science Advances!
Aug 2019: Arthi starts as Associate Editor at Macromolecules!
May 2019: Tom Gartner is now Dr. Gartner after a fantastic final PhD defense!
May 2019: Michiel wins the Robert L. Pigford outstanding TA award! Congrats Michiel!
April-May 2019: Michiel has a great week with two papers accepted - one in ACS Nano (with Wooley group), another in Soft Matter - on coil brush and bottle brush polymers assembly
March 2019: Arjita's and Kevin's paper on coarse-grained simulations studying polymer nanocomposites with direction interactions published!
February 2019: Arthi and Tom's perspective article on Modeling and Simulation of Polymers is published in Macromolecules. It is now one of the top most read papers in the last 12 months in Macromolecules!
February 2019: Utkarsh joins our group, welcome!
January 2019: Multiple papers accepted - Arthi and Tom's perspective article in Macromolecules accepted. Prhashanna's paper on ONA-polymer conjugates focused on solvent effects published in J Polymer Science B: polymer physics. Prhashanna and Phillip's paper on ELP-CLP conjugates with experiments from Kiick lab published in Biomacromolecules! Congrats to all!
January 2019: Welcome to Zijie and Christian, the newest members of our group!
News from 2018
December 2018: Tom selected as a finalist in the APS DPOLY Frank Padden Symposium recognizing excellence in graduate research in polymer physics.
November 2018: Michiel and Ivan's PRISM and MD paper on bottlebrushes accepted in Macromolecules!
October 2018: Tom wins first place in the Excellence in Graduate Research in Polymers Symposium at the 2018 AICHE annual meeting!Congrats Tom!
Sept 2018: UDaily highlights Arthi's teaching philosophy! LINK
April 2018: Tyler and Tom's paper on open source code pyPRISM has been published in Macromolecules! Link to code Link to paper !
March 2018: Daniel, Ivan, Michiel and Tom present 5 talks and poster at the APS meeting!
January 2018: Three different papers accepted; two papers on copolymer solution assembly and one on a new coarse-grained model for collagen like peptide.
January 2018: Arjita joins our group. Welcomel
News from 2017
October 2017: Tom's paper on solvent vapor annealing of linear, cyclic, star homopolymer solutions and blends is accepted in Soft Matter!
October 2017: Tom receives first place in poster session organized by Materials Engineering and Science Division at the AICHE Annual Meeting in Minneapolis!
July 2017: We welcome Dr. Prhashanna Ammu, the newest postdoc in our group!
June 2017: Kevin and Tyler's paper on theory and simulations of comb polymer grafted particles is accepted in Macromolecules!
May 2017: Group attends Mid-atlantic soft matter meeting (MASM) held at UPenn. Arthi gives an invited talk, Daniel and Ivan give sound bites!
April 2017: We are part of a awarded MURI headed by UCSD! LINK!
April 2017: Our recent soft matter paper gets selected for cover art LINK!
February 2017: Josh and Tyler's paper on atomistic and coarse-grained simulations of thermoresponsive polymers accepted in Soft Matter !
February 2017: Arthi joins Advisory Board for RSC journal: Molecular Systems Design and Engineering
January 2017: Arthi elected member-at-large for the executive committee of DPOLY within APS
January 2017: We welcome to our group the newest undergraduate member Daniel Intriago!
News from 2016
Nov 2016: We welcome Dr. Daniel Beltran as a new postdoc into our group!
Sept 2016: Tom's paper on Gibbs Ensemble based simulation method has been accepted in JCTC! Congrats Tom !
Sept 2016: Tyler finishes his tenure in our group and moves on to do exciting new things as a NRC Postdoctroal fellow at NIST! We wish you the very best!
Sept 2016: We welcome Dr. Ivan Lyubimow as a new postdoc into our group!
August 2016: Josh wins ACS PMSE Distinguished Poster award at the ACS Fall meeting in Philadelphia! Congrats Josh!
August 2016: Ahmad's paper on effects of polymer conjugation on nucleic acid melting is accepted in J. Phys. Chem B.!
August 2016: Ahmad completes his tenure in our group and is off to join Proctor and Gamble in October. Congrats Ahmad, and best of luck!
July 2016: Arthi delivers a lecture at the Gordon Research Conference on Polymer Physics in South Hadley
April 2016: Francesca's paper on hybrid atomistic - coarse-grained simulations of PEG in water is accepted in J Phys. Chem. B.! Congrats Francesca! Wish you the best on your next steps of your career!
March 2016: Arthi delivers the Saville Lecture at PRinceton University, Dept. of Chemical Engineering !
March 2016: Tyler gives an excellent talk at the APS Padden Symposium for Graduate Excellence in Polymer Physics. Congrats for being a finalist, Tyler!
January 2016: Tyler successfully defends his PhD thesis! Congrats Tyler!
January 2016: Ahmad's paper on melting thermodynamics of nucleic acids with modified backbone chemistries is published in soft matter!. Congrats Ahmad !
News from 2015
December 2015: Our collaborative simulation-experimental paper with Prof. Todd Emrick and group gets accepted in Biomacromolecules. Congrats Ahmad !
December 2015: Tyler has been selected as a finalist for the Frank Padden symposium for excellence in polymer physics at the APS March Meeting 2016! Congrats Tyler!
November 2015: Tyler was selected as a finalist for Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research at the AICHE Annual Meeting 2015! Congrats Tyler!
September 2015:Research highlight on our JACS paper!Link US Department of Energy also tweets about this work Link
September 2015: Arthi has been selected as Princeton University's Saville Lecturer for 2015-16!
August 2015: Our collaborative simulation-experimental paper gets accepted in JACS. Congrats Tyler!
May 2015: Robert's paper on surface effects on DNA hybridization and stability gets accepted in Biomacromolecules !
April 2015: Hilary successfully defended her PhD, with a dual experimental-computational thesis in collaboration with Dr.Garry Rumbles at NREL!
April 2015: Carla successfully defended her PhD and has accepted a position at Boeing!
March 2015: Tom, who is co-advised by Prof.Epps, was just awarded an honorable mention in this year's NSF GRFP competition! Congrats Tom!
January 2015: Arthi Jayaraman and Luis Campos (Columbia) have been elected to co-chair Gordon Conference Macromolecular Materials in 2019!
News from 2014
December 2014: Hilary awarded best oral presentation in MRS symposium on organic electronics at MRS fall meeting 2014! Congrats Hilary!
November 2014: Our collaborative work with Hilary's simulations and experiments by Alex Briseno and coworkers on BTTT conjugated molecules is accepted in JACS!
November 2014: Our work on copolymer grafted particles gets selected for cover art in J Polymer Science B: Polymer Physics Link
September 2014: Arthi joins the editorial advisory board of Macromolecules and ACS Macroletters beginning Jan 1 2015
August 2014: Arthi presents invited talk at the Excitonic Photovoltaics meeting.
August 2014: Hilary wins best poster at Excitonic Photovoltaics meeting! Congrats Hilary!
August 2014: The Jayaraman group moves to University of Delaware!
July 2014: Arthi awarded tenure at CU. http://connections.cu.edu/news/tenure-list-june-2014/ for official announcement!
May 2014: Tyler's bidisperse matrix paper gets accepted in J Polymer Science B Polymer Physics special issue on "Hairy Particles"!
May 2014: Anna and Brandon graduate with BS and MS respectively! Congrats!
May 2014: Arthi receives the dept. of chemical engineering outstanding junior faculty award!
May 2014: Arthi receives the dept. of chemical engineering outstanding graduate teaching award!
Apr 2014: Group alum Eric Jankowski accepts faculty position at Boise State Materials program. Congrats!
Mar 2014: Robert's ssDNA on surfaces paper gets accepted in J. Chem Phys!
Mar 2014: Hilary and Eric's conjugated polymers paper gets accepted in Macromolecules!
Mar 2014: Carla's paper on copolymer graft composition effect on assembly gets published in J Chem Phys!
Mar 2014: Multiple talks and posters from our group at the APS and ACS this year- 5 presentations at APS and 2 invited talks at ACS!
Jan 2014: Our paper with experiments from Prof. Bryant's group gets published in Biomacromolecules!
News from 2013
Dec 2013: Robert successfully defends his PhD! Congrats Dr. Elder !
Nov 2013: Robert wins AIChE COMSEF graduate student award !
Oct 2013: Tyler and Arthi's paper on ideal graft distribution for particle dispersion gets published in Macromolecules !
Sept 2013: Robert wins 1st place in STARS research symposium! Our group grad students have won awards in four of the last five STARS symposia!
Sept 2013: Robert's NLS peptide sequence based paper gets accepted in J Phys Chem B!.
Sept 2013: Arezou's bidisperse DNA grafted particles paper gets accepted in Molecular Simulation.
July 2013: Arthi receives Provost Faculty Achievement Award 2013!
July 2013: Arthi selected as 2014 ACS Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering PMSE division Young Investigator!
June 2013: Arthi receives the 2013 AIChE Computational Molecular Science and Engineering (CoMSEF) Young Investigator Award!
June 2013: Eric and Hilary's Macromolecules paper on blends of conjugated polymers and fullerene deriatives gets accepted!.
May 2013: Robert receives the Max Peters Graduate Research Award! Congrats!.
Mar 2013: Tyler is awarded NSF graduate fellowship! Congrats!.
Mar 2013: Arthi gives an invited talk at APS March meeting in Directed Assembly in Hybrid Materials.
Feb 2013: Tyler is awarded GAANN fellowship!.
Feb 2013: Tyler's Soft Matter paper accepted!.
Jan 2013: Arthi gives an invited talk at Gordon Research Conference- Macromolecular materials.
Jan 2013:Arezou defends her PhD thesis successfully! Congrats Dr. Seifpour!
News from 2012
Nov 2012:Our paper on polydispersity effects in polymer nanocomposites has been accepted for publication in Phys Rev Lett!
Nov 2012:Tyler awarded CU Boulder College of Engineering Teet's Family Endowed Doctoral Fellowship! Congrats Tyler!
Oct 2012:Arthi gives an invited talk in the "Emerging Areas in Polymer Science and Engineering" plenary session at AICHE 2012 Link
Oct 2012:Robert, Arezou and Hilary give 4 presentations and Arthi gives 3 invited talks at AICHE 2012
Oct 2012:Tyler wins first place among second years and Robert wins third place among seniors in the annual student research symposium! Our group has won awards three out of the last four years! Congratulations!
Sept 2012: Tyler's copolymer grafted particle assembly paper gets published in Soft Matter!
Sept 2012: Hilary's coarse-grained simulations of morphology in conjugated polymer-acceptor blends is accepted for publication in J. Polymer Science B Polymer Physics!
Sept 2012: Robert's coarse-grained simulations of polycation-DNA binding paper gets accepted into Macromolecules!
Aug 2012: Dr. Eric Jankowski joins our group. Welcome Eric! .
June 2012: Arthi's paper with Lisa Hall and Ken Schweizer in Current Opinion Solid State and Materials Science listed as one of the top cited article published since 2007.
April 2012: Arthi gives an invited talk at University of Texas-Austin Institute of Computational Science and Engineering.
April 2012: Robert's drug-DNA recognition paper gets accepted into Biophys J!
March 2012: Arthi gives an invited talk at ACS Spring meeting.
February 2012: Paul's polydispersity paper gets accepted in J polymer science B: Polymer Physics!
January 2012: Arthi gives a department seminar at Colorado School of Mines
January 2012: Tyler and Alex are our group's newest graduate students. Welcome!
News from 2011
December 2011: Robert's paper on drug-DNA recognition gets accepted in Molecular Simulations!
November 2011: Charles and Hilary pass their prelim exams! Congrats!
October 2011: Arthi named Patten Faculty fellow by the Dept. of Chemical and BIological Engineering here at CU!
September 2011: Robert wins Fall 2011 ACS Peter Kollman Award for High Performance Computing!Congrats Robert!!
September 2011: Robert's gene delivery paper gets accepted into Biomacromolecules!
September 2011: Robert's poster wins first place in Front Range SuperComputing Symposium held in Golden,CO!
June 2011: Chris Mckinney, an REU student from Clarkson, joins our group for summer research. Welcome!
May 2011: Arthi presents invited talk at the "Young Investigators in Materials Research" symposium at UMASS Amherst MRSEC.
May 2011: Nathaniel Wentzel completes his postdoctoral research with us and joins Milligen as Assistant Professor of Physics. Wish you the best!
April 2011: We have been awarded NSF funding to carry out collaborative research on multivalent ligand design for DNA purification, with Dr. K. Rege in Arizona State.
April 2011: Tyler and Arezou's Soft matter paper on assembly of functionalized particles get accepted! Congrats!
April 2011: Nitish and Nate's Bidispersity paper gets accepted in J Chem Phys!
April 2011: Arthi wins the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Faculty Award for 2010-11!
April 2011: Mohamed wins the Outstanding TA award for 2010-11! Congrats!
March 2011: Steven Dahl completes his part-time postdoctoral stint with us and joins BP-Houston. Wish you the best!
February 2011: Arthi presents invited seminars at UIUC (MatSci), Texas A&M(ChemE) and Rice(ChemE)
January 2011: Hilary and Charles are our group's newest graduate students. Welcome!
News from 2010
December 2010: Arthi elected as Liaison Director for COMSEF
December 2010: Paul receives UROP fellowship to work in our lab in Spring 2011!
December 2010: Nitish completes his postdoctoral term in the group to join General Motors in India. We wish you the very best!
November 2010: Arthi receives ACS Women Chemist Committee Lectureship Award to present a seminar at Vanderbilt
October 2010: Robert wins 2nd place in STARS symposium for his talk on gene delivery! This is the second year in a row our group has won a place in the symposium! Well done guys!
October 2010: Robert and Arezou pass their prelim exams. Congratulations!
August 2010: Nitish's paper accepted in Macromolecules!
July 2010: Nate joins our group! Welcome!
June 2010: Dongsheng joins our group! Welcome!
June 2010: Tyler Martin an undergraduate from Clarkson University joins us for summer-REU . Welcome!
May 2010: Arthi awarded a RASEI seed grant!
May 2010: Jeff, graduate student in Applied Math, joins our group for summer rotation. Welcome!
March 2010: Arezou, Phil and Nitish's paper accepted to J. Chem. Phys.
February 2010: Arthi gives an invited talk at the Telluride Science Workshop "Interfacial Phenomena in Nanostructured Materials and Devices"
February 2010: Neil Patel, a Broomfield high school senior, wins third place in the Roche Colorado Regional Science Fair for the research he conducted in our lab on DNA damage with Mohamed. Congratulations to Neil and Mohamed!
January 2010: Arthi has been awarded a DOE Early Career Research Award!
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News from 2009
December 2009: Arezou officially joins our group as a graduate student. Welcome!
October 2009: Mohamed wins third place in the STARS research symposium. Congratulations!
October 2009: Mohamed passes his prelims. Congratulations!
October 2009: Phil receives UROP fellowship for his research. Congratulations!
July 2009: Nitish joins our group. Welcome!
July 2009: Dr. Jayaraman (PI) and Dr. Park (co-PI) have been awarded an NSF grant!
May 2009: Phil Spicer joins our group for summer research. Welcome!
May 2009: Arthi receives CU Innovative Seed Grant !
May 2009: Mohamed receives Honorable Mention from the NSF Graduate Fellowships. Congratulations!
April 2009: Ronald has joined our group. Welcome Ronald!
April 2009: Owen wins an assistantship from UROP for summer research in our lab. Congratulations!
April 2009: Arthi receives the CU CRCW grant-in-aid award for DNA damage research!
April 2009: Arezou joins our group for summer rotation. Welcome!
February 2009: Phil joins our group for rotation. Welcome!
January 2009:Owen joins our group. Welcome!
News form 2008
December 2008: Mohamed joins our group. Welcome!
December 2008: Audrey graduates. Congratulations and Best of luck!
October 2008: Arthi, Andrij and Ivan receive ICAM Junior scientist exchange award to support Andrij's visit.
August 2008: Arthi joins University of Colorado as tenure-track Assistant Professor.
