Kimia Mirlohi, Ana Becker, Matt Mastowski, Sarah Lee, and Kavia Famolari presented at the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Polymer Science and Engineering Program Symposium. Their work spanned the sequestration of nucleic acids to innovative processing methods, all using the fundamentals of polyelectrolyte complexation.
Maggie Campbell presented her work as a poster at the 2025 BMES Annual Meeting in San Diego! Her work centers around evaluating cell growth on coacervate thin films and spun fibers.
Kimia Mirholi has published her first technical paper in Biomacromolecules with our collaborators Dr. Donghui Zhang and Anuja Thapa from LSU!
Ana Becker, Chaeyoung Lim, and Kimia Mirlohi presented their work at the 11th Annual Chemical and Biomolecular Graduate Symposium!
Welcome to Jonah Berry Brown, Eddie Moore, Jenna Rush, and Stella Siokos! Jonah will be working with Chaeyoung on degradable polyelectrolyte complex systems for drug delivery. Eddie and Stella will conduct research with Ana to further explore the potential for solution blow spinning to be used with complex coacervates. Jenna will be working with Kimia to expand our knowledge of peptide/peptoid systems with nucleic acids.
Prof. Blocher McTigue presented a talk titled "Transition of Polyelectrolyte Complexes from Solid-Liquid to Liquid-Liquid Systems through Enzymatic Degradation" discussing work by Chaeyoung at the 2025 APS March Meeting.
Kimia presented her poster "Nucleic Acid Complexes with Polypeptoids: A Step Toward Thermal Stabilization" on peptide and peptoid complexes with nuclelic acids from her collaboration with LSU at the 2025 Peptide Materials Gordon Research Conference.
Prof. Blocher McTigue presented a poster titled "Transitioning Polyelectrolyte Complexes: Captureing Liquid-Liquid and Liquid-Solid Transitions" on research encompassing Chaeyoung's work on the enzymatic degradation of polyelectrolyte complexes and Alli's intitial results on airbrushing complex coacerates at the 2025 Peptide Materials GRC.