Congratulations to Savannah Szemethy on having been awarded a Research Assistant Fellowship from the Commonwealth Honors College!
Congratulations to Bryan Chua on having been awarded both a Research Assistant Fellowship, and an Honors Research Grant from the Commonwealth Honors College!
Shuo Sui gave a fantastic G.R.A.S.S. Seminar today on Graphene-Integrated Microfluidics for Advanced Crystallography.
Check out the UMass news article highlighting Brandon Johnston as one of six 2017-2018 UMass Amherst Rising Researchers!
Prof. Perry will be giving seminar today in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of New Hampshire.
Congratulations to Shuo Sui on having passed his prospectus this afternoon! Shuo is the first graduate student from the Perry lab to do his prospectus. Excellent job!
Yalin Liu gave a fantastic G.R.A.S.S. Seminar today on Designing Material Dynamics in Polyelectrolyte Complexes.
Congratulations to Bryan Chua and his teammates on winning four prizes at the 2017 HackUMass hackathon for their LiveWaterMap project designed to enable crowdsourced mapping of water quality for places like Puerto Rico.
Our recent paper on "The Effect of Comb Architecture on Complex Coacervation" was highlighted in the Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry Blog!
News about our new paper onSequence and entropy-based control of complex coacervates was also highlighted by Nanotechnology Now, Electronics 360, Nanowerk, Phys.org, and BusinessWest.com.
Our new paper onSequence and entropy-based control of complex coacervates was highlighted by the UMass Amherst News Bureau!!
Congratulations to Brandon Johnston on having been named a 2017-2018 UMass Amherst Rising Researcher!
Our new paper onSequence and entropy-based control of complex coacervates was highlighted by the Illinois News Bureau!
Congratulations to Li-Wei Chang and Jon Vélez on the publication of their collaborative paper with the Sing Lab examining the effect of charge patterning on complex coacervates!
"Sequence and Entropy-Based Control of Complex Coacervates," L.W. Chang, T.K. Lytle, M. Radhakrishna, J.J. Madinya, J. Vélez, C.E. Sing, S.L. Perry, Nature Communications, (2017), 8, 1273. [PDF]
Whitney Blocher presented on the Encapsulation and Thermal Stability of Immunological Biologics Using Complex Coacervation at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN.
Yalin Liu presented on Designing Material Dynamics in Polyelectrolyte Complexes at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN.
Prof. Perry presented on A Student-Created, Open Access, Living Textbook at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN.
Artwork created by Savannah_Szemethy was highlighted as the cover art for the Dean's Report for Fiscal Year 2017!
Welcome to Juanfeng Sun, a Master's student in Chemical Engineering who will be working on a joint project with the Schiffman Lab on the electrospinning of complex coacervates.
Congratulations to Yalin Liu on successfully completing the Soft Materials For Life Sciences Training Program.
Prof. Perry and Prof. Schiffman presented on their work at the 9th Joint Sino-US Joint Conference on Chemical Engineering in Beijing, China.
Shuo Sui presented on Graphene-Integrated Microfluidics for Advanced Crystallography at the CBI Chalk Talk.
Whitney Blocher gave a presentatation on Encapsulation and Thermal Stability of Immunological Biologics Using Complex Coacervation as part of the 2017 Fall Polymer Event!
Whitney Blocher, Li-Wei Chang, Yalin Liu, and Zoey Meng presented posters at the combined 2017 Fall Polymer Event/SMLS Retreat.
Welcome to Svilen Kolev, a junior in Chemical Engineering who will be working in collaboration with Prof. Anne Gershenson from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology on a project to use microfluidics to study protein folding diseases.
Congratulations to Yalin Liu on the publication of her paper examining the rheology of salt-driven liquid-to-solid transitions in complex coacervates!
"Rheological Characterization of Liquid-to-Solid Transitions in Bulk Polyelectrolyte Complexes," Y. Liu, B. Momani, H.H. Winter, S.L. Perry, Soft Matter, (2017), 13, 7332-7340. [PDF]
Congratulations to Brandon Johnston and Cameron Johnston on the publication of their paper on the effect of comb vs. linear architecture on complex coacervation!
"The Effect of Comb Architecture on Complex Coacervation," B.M. Johnston, C. W. Johnston, R. A. Letteri, T.K. Lytle, C.E. Sing, T. Emrick, S.L. Perry, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, (2017), 15, 7630-7642. [PDF]
Welcome to Lila Durán Ruiz, a sophomore in Chemical Engineering who will be working on the incorporation of conjugated polymers into complex coacervates.
Our collaborator, Prof. Charles Sing just published an exciting new paper on the theory of complex coacervation!
"Transfer Matrix Theory of Polymer Complex Coacervation," T.K. Lytle and C.E. Sing, Soft Matter, (2017). [PDF]
Li-Wei Chang gave a fantastic presentation on Sequence and Entropy-based Control of Complex Coacervation at a special PMSE symposium on Polyelectrolytes, Coacervates, Precipitates and Multilayers at the ACS Annual Meeting in Washington DC!
Congratulations to our new Chemical Engineering Colleague Ashish Kulkarni on being named one of C&EN's Talented 12 for 2017!
Congratulations to my good friend and colleague from graduate school Fikile Brushet on being named one of C&EN's Talented 12 for 2017!
Congratulations to Kush Basu, Tyler Carpenter, and Brandon Johnston on having been awarded Research Grants from the Commonwealth Honors College in support of their senior theses!
Congratulations to Savannah Szemethy, Matt Labbe, and Bryan Chua, and on having been awarded Research Assistant Fellowships from the Commonwealth Honors College!
Welcome to Bryanne Zonghi, a rising junior in Chemical Engineering who will be working on particle-based complex coacervates.
Prof. Perry presented on Graphene Microfluidics for Room Temperature Crystallography at the 91st ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium.
Zoey Meng presented both a poster and a presentation on Encapsulating Cargo Using Electrospun Complex Coacervates Fibers at the 91st ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium.
Congratulations to Whitney Blocher on having her review paper formally come out!
"Biomimetic Complex Coacervate-Based Materials for Biomedicine," W.C. Blocher, S.L. Perry, WIREs Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology (2017), 9(4), e1442. [PDF]
Prof. Perry presented on Patterning and Molecular Control in Complex Coacervation at the Telluride Science Research Center Workshop on Molecular Engineering of Soft Matter: Spanning Small Molecules to Macromolecules.
Prof. Perry will be tomorrow presenting on Ultra-Low Background Graphene Microfluidics at a workshop on the Emerging Frontiers in Biology using Synchrotron Radiation at the 2017 CHESS User's Meeting. Check it out live on Youtube!
Welcome to Caleb Boucher, a rising junior in Chemical Engineering who will be working on a joint project with the Schiffman Lab on the development of films and fibers from polyelectrolyte complexes.
Congratulations to Tyler Carpenter, who will be working at SWM in Greenfield, MA this summer as a safety engineer!
Congratulations to Shuo Sui, who was named as one of the Spring 2017 Tillwick and Eldridge Teaching Assistant Award winners for his efforts in CHEM-ENG 590E: Microfluidics and Microscale Systems in Materials in Biology!
Congratulations to Shuo Sui on having been awarded a portion of this year's Tillwick and Eldridge Teaching Assistant Award for his work in CHEM-ENG 590E!
Congratulations to Adam Murphy, who will be joining OpGen as a Research and Development Associate Engineer after graduation!
Prof. Perry will be presenting on Ultra-Low Background Graphene Microfluidics at a workshop on the Measurement and Interpretation of Diffuse Scattering in X-Ray Diffraction for Macromolecular Crystallography at the NSLS II and CFN Users’ Meeting at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Congratulations to Perry group members Rasmia Shamsi, Christine Davis, Alex Brosseau, Adam Murphy, and Cristina Vieira Robalo, graduating seniors from the class of 2017
Prof. Perry presented on Graphene Microfluidics for Room Temperature Crystallography at the Symposium on Synchrotron-Based Drug Discovery: The Next 25 Years at the APS/CNM Users’ Meeting at Argonne National Laboratory.
Congratulations to Rasmia Shamsi, who will be joining United Technologies after graduation!
Congratulations to Christine Davis, who will be joining Shire Pharmaceuticals after graduation!
Congratulations to Alex Brosseau, who will be joining Mylan Technologies as a Chemist after graduation!
Prof. Perry is one of two people honored this year as Outstanding Teachers in the College of Engineering!
"Complex Coacervation: Chemically Stable Fibers Electrospun from Aqueous Polyelectrolyte Solutions," X. Meng, S.L. Perry, J.D. Schiffman,ACS Macro Letters, (2017), 6, 505-511. [PDF]
"Microfluidics: From Crystallization to Serial Time-Resolved Crystallography," S. Sui, S.L. Perry, Structural Dynamics, (2017) 4(3), 032202. [PDF]
Congratulations to Yalin Liu, Kush Basu, and Rasmia Shamsi on the publication of a paper in collaboration with Prof. Charles Sing!
"Molecular Connectivity and Correlation Effects on Polymer Coacervation," M. Radhakrishna, K. Basu, Y. Liu, R. Shamsi, S.L. Perry, C.E. Sing, Macromolecules, (2017) 50(7), 3030–3037. [PDF]
Welcome to Xi "Ryan" Hao, a junior in Chemical Engineering who will be working on using complex coacervates as oxygen barriers in graphene microfluidics.
Our review article on the Linear Viscoelasticity of Complex Coacervates was just published as part of a special issue of Advances in Colloids and Interface Science on complex coacervation!
Congratulations to our collaborator, Prof. Charles Sing at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on having been awarded an NSF CAREER Award on Developing the design rules of charge sequence to inform polymer self-assembly!
Welcome to Matt Labbe, a freshman in Chemical Engineering who will be studying the rheology of complex coacervates.
Welcome to Elizabeth Voke, a freshman in Chemical Engineering who will be working on understanding charge patterning in complex coacervation.
A collaborative paper with Prof. Shelly Peyton on the use of Wikipage-based course textbooks was just published!
"A Student-Created, Open Access, Living Textbook," S. Galarza, S.L. Perry, S. R. Peyton, Chemical Engineering Education, (2017) 51(1), 2-9. [PDF]
Welcome to Rachel Brody, a junior in Biology who will be working on understanding protein encapsulation and stabilization in complex coacervates.
Our joint project with the Klier lab and Camco Corporation to decrease the methanol content in windshield washer fluid was highlighted at UMass-Lowell!
Prof. Perry will be giving a seminar on Nature-Inspired Molecular Engineering of Polyelectrolyte Complex Materials in the Department of Chemical Engineering at WPI on Wednesday, January 18th.
