News
2024
April
Ejajul received a Graduate Student Government (GSG) Research Fellowship Award to support his thesis work. Way to go!
Khanh Phan joined the group as an undergraduate researcher to work on a collaborative project with Prof. Aashish Priye's group (Chemical Engineering, UC). We are looking forward to a fun summer of research.
March
Ejajul passes his comprehensive exam and is now officially a Ph.D. candidate. Congrats!
Ben attends the APS March Meeting in Minneapolis, MN. He presented an invited talk in the "Additive Manufacturing of Soft Materials" session and shared some new results on polymer gelation from the RheOhio group. A top highlight was the Squishy Science Sunday outreach event!
Ben is named a 2024 URC Faculty Scholar! This award will support research that addresses the plastic waste crisis and recycling of plastic packaging.
February
Members of RheOhio and Soft Materials and Interfaces @ UC groups volunteered with the ACS Dayton Local Section at TechFest Dayton. We conducted many hands-on chemistry experiments with the visitors, but the "Elephant Toothpaste" was definitely the highlight!
We received a "new" TA Rheometer, kindly donated from our friends at Dow Chemical. This rheometer will be used for new soft matter characterization capabilities within the college and across UC campus.
January
Welcome to Spring semester 2024! The RheOhio Lab is now 1 year old!
2023
December
And thats a wrap on the semester! Congrats to everyone in CHE 3022 - Transport I for making it through Ben's first semester teaching. We all look so excited to take the final exam!
November
Our in-situ UV curing set up is installed on the rheometer and ready to go!
October
We hosted Prof. Gosia Chwatko (Chemical Engineering and Material Science, University of Kentucky) for Chemical Engineering Seminar. We learned all about new cutting edge polymer physics in membranes.
It is National Chemistry Week! We had a lot of fun helping out with many demos and experiments at the Chem Fest outreach event at Boonshoft Museum of Discovery in Dayton, organized by ACS Dayton Local Section!
September
Excited to have the rheometer in the lab! Thanks to Jon and John at Anton Paar for installation and training. We can't wait to explore the next frontier of polymer rheology and polymer physics.
August
Its a new semester at UC! Welcome Bearcats to Fall 2023. Ben begins teaching CHE 3022 - Transport I to the chemical engineering undergraduates. Sarah & Ejajul continue their dissertation research in the lab.
July
Ben and Sarah attended the XIXth International Congress on Rheology in Athens, Greece. Sarah participated in the short course "Advances in rheometric methods and rheological data analysis" and Ben contributed a talk about using in-situ X-ray scattering to understand structure formation in 3D printing. What fun week with our rheology community!
We toured the Functional Materials Beamline (FMB) at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS). Exciting to see the new developments in characterizing soft materials during processing.
June
Our new speedmixer from FlackTek was installed. We cannot wait to mix up some polymers!
We received our lab keys and are beginning to occupy our new research space.
Ben visited the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton to present a talk on polymer composite processing to scientists and colleagues in the Materials & Manufacturing Directorate.
May
Ben delivered a keynote presentation at the 8th Pacific Rim Conference on Rheology, hosted by the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Lots of fun sharing recent research on amine containing polymers and catching up with old group members at UBC!
April
The ACS POLY/PMSE Student Chapter of SW Ohio met for a Spring symposium event in Cincinnati. Students from UC and Miami University got together to network and share a love of polymers.
Ben presented at the ACS Dayton Section Spring Poster Session at the National Museum of the Air Force in Dayton. Ben received 1st Prize in the Professional Division. Congratulations!
Ejajul Hoque joined the group as a Ph.D. Student. Ejajul will be developing scattering techniques to study structural dynamics in polymer networks. Welcome!Â
March
Ben attended ACS Spring 2023 in Indianapolis. A great opportunity to hear about cutting edge polymer research and meet with many friends. Ben judges the POLY Division poster session at Sci-Mix. Congrats to all of the winners and participants!
The group received its first "equipment" order! A lab copy of Polymer Physics by Rubinstein and Colby.
February
Ben's work on 3D printing of UV curable resins was published ACS Applied Engineering Materials.
Ben's work on the rheological properties of aminated polyolefin blends was published in Rheologica Acta.
January
Sarah Barber joined the group as a Ph.D. Student. Sarah will be working on transient rheology of polymer nanocomposites. Welcome!
Ben started as an assistant professor at UC!