Congrats to Adhithi Varadarajan, who will be working this summer as an intern at the PM Group doing process design!
Welcome to Hannah Bannish, a rising junior who will be joining us in the fall to investigate the matereial and electrochemical properties of bio-derived complex coacervates!
Welcome to Rayyan Khan, a rising senior who will be joining us this summer to investigate the matereial and electrochemical properties of complex coacervates!
Congratulations to Jussara Alves Penido on the publication of her paper on phase behavior in surfactant-polymer complex coacervates!
"Miscibility and Phase Behavior in Bulk and Micellar Systems of Surfactant-Polymer Coacervate Mixtures," J. Alves Penido, W. Loh, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, (2025) - ASAP. [PDF]
Congratulations to Xianci Zeng and Alex Lawton on the publication of their paper on excipient effects on complex coacervation!
"Exploring the Effects of Excipients on Complex Coacervation," X. Zeng, P.U. Joshi, A. Lawton, L. Manchester, C.L. Heldt, S.L. Perry, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, (2025), 695, 137808.[PDF]
Congratulations to Dr. Sonu Kizhakkepura, who is starting a new position as an R&D Scientist at Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, a multi-national pharmaceutical company headquartered in India!
Congratulations to group alumnus Hansen Tjo, who was just awarded a Tau Beta Pi fellowship in support of his PhD studies at Princeton!
Congratulations to Arvind Sathyavageeswaran on having been awarded a travel grant to help support his attendance at the International Symposium on Polyelectrolytes this summer in Campinas, Brazil!
Congratulations to Khiem Le on having accepted an offer to join the automation company Keynce after graduation!
Congratulations to Ethan Rivers on having accepted an offer to join the PhD program in Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida next year!
Check out this awesome news highlight celebrating Yaozu Chen on being named a 2025 UMass Amherst Rising Researcher!
Congratulations to our wonderful collaborator Prof. Charles Sing on having been awarded the AIChE Owens Corning Early Career Award!
Congratulations to Emily Ng on having accepted an offer to join the PhD program in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware next year!
Júlia Bonesso Sabadini presented her research on Protein Encapsulation in Nanometric Domains: Insights from the Continuous Phase at the APS Global Physics Summit.
Prof. Perry presented on Affinity Controls Polyelectrolyte Pair Strength in Complex Coacervate: A Titration Calorimetry Investigation at the APS Global Physics Summit.
Isaac Ramírez Marrero presented his research on Design Rules and Mechanical Properties of Polyelectrolyte Complex Materials at the APS Global Physics Summit.
Xianci Zeng presented her research on Understanding the Role of Excipients in the Stability of Biological Macromolecules at the APS Global Physics Summit.
Congratulations to Yaozu Chen on being named a 2025 UMass Amherst Rising Researcher!
Congratulations to Isaac Ramírez Marrero on the publication of his "homopolymer stretchies" paper!
"Brittle-to-Ductile Transitions of Polyelectrolyte Complexes: Humidity, Temperature, and Salt," I.A. Ramírez Marrero, N. Kaiser, B. von Vacano, R. Konradi, A.J. Crosby, S.L. Perry, Macromolecules, (2025), 58(6), 2925-2938. [PDF]
Congratulations to Xianci Zeng and our DMREF collaborators on the publication of our new paper!
"Flipping Out: Role of Arginine in Hydrophobic Interactions and Biological Formulation Design," J.W.P. Zajac, P. Muralikrishnan, I. Tohidan, X. Zeng, C.L. Heldt, S.L. Perry, S. Sarupria, Chemical Science (2025), 16, 6780-6792. [PDF]
Prof. Perry gave an invited talk on Polyelectrolyte Complex Materials at the New England Complex Fluids Meeting hosted by Yimin Luo at Yale University.
Prof. Perry gave a seminar on Polyelectrolyte Complex Materials in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Missouri S&T.
Congratulations to Júlia Bonesso Sabadini on winning a travel award to attend the DPOLY Short Course on The Physics of Charged and Ion-Containing Polymers!
Welcome to Dr. Abhik Manna, who is joining us to work on microfluidic platforms for mRNA manufacture!
Congratulations to our collaborators in the Schiffman Lab, along with Dr. Pankaj Pandey on the publication of their new paper!
"Electrospinning of Self-Assembling Oligopeptides into Nanofiber Mats: Impacts of Peptide Composition and End-groups," P. Rathore, B. Montz, S.H. Hung, P.K. Pandey, S.L. Perry, T. Emrick, J.D. Schiffman, Biomacromolecules (2025), 26(3), 1604-1613. [PDF]
Prof. Perry will be giving a seminar on Polyelectrolyte Complex Materials in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Colorado School of Mines.
Best wishes to Dr. Isaac Ramírez Marrero as he ends his time with us in the Perry lab and starts his new journey as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working with Prof. Antonia Statt and Prof. Simon Rogers!
Check out this video put together by the NextFlex Women in STEM Education program!
Congratulations to Dr. Sarthak Saha and Yaozu Chen on the publication of their new paper!
"Scalable Fabrication of Array-Type Fixed-Target Device for Automated Room Temperature X-ray Protein Crystallography," S. Saha, Y. Chen, S. Russi, D. Marchany-Rivera, A.E. Cohen, S.L. Perry, Scientific Reports, (2025), 15, 334. [PDF]
Best wishes to Dr. Sarthak Saha as he ends his time here in the Perry lab and starts his new journey as a postdoctoral researcher the lab of Dr. Avanish Mishra at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital!
