Prof. Blocher McTigue presented work surrounding the phase transitions of carboxymethyl cellulose polyelectrolyte complexes at the 2026 APS March Meeting titled "Enzymatic Degradation of Precipitates and the Processing of Coacervate Droplets of Cellulose-Derived Materials to Study Phase Transitions." This talk highlighted recently published reseach from Chaeyoung Lim and ongoing work from Ana Becker.

Chaeyoung Lim's work on the enzymatic degradation of complexes between carboxymethyl cellulose and poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) has been published in Biomacromolecules!

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.biomac.6c00029 

Alli Courtenay and Matt Mastowski's work on solution blow spinning has been published in the Journal of Polymer Physics!

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pol.20250970