That's a wrap on the 16th Grad Student Symposium in CBE@Penn [11.14.2025]. Great day of talks, posters, and networking among students, faculty, industry representatives and colleagues. Thanks to Lonza, Axalta and Arkema for generous sponsorship! @cbe-penn.bsky.social @pennengineering.bsky.social

Folks doing research in polymer science - nominate your outstanding graduate students for the APS DPOLY Padden award. More information is available here: engage.aps.org/dpoly/honors... . Deadline for nomination is 5 PM ET 10/23. @cemilyd.bsky.social

Thrilled to congratulate CBE Asst. Prof. Dohyung Kim on his selection as a 2025 Packard Fellow, for his groundbreaking experimental work in electrocatalysis.
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The CBE Graduate Student Symposium (GSS) returns Nov. 14, 2025!

Join us for a full day of research talks, poster sessions, and networking opportunities with experts across industry and academia–– led by our very own graduate students. @pennengineering.bsky.social

Happy to see this in print - remarkably robust ion specific effects on the rheology of cellulose nanofibrils, in both intrinsic viscosity and elastic modulus. Great work by R. (Ning) Wattana and D. Park, supported by
CEMB STC. doi.org/10.1039/D5SM...

3rd Annual SoftAE Symposium: Martin Seifrid from NCSU on "Data-Driven Organic Materials Lab". @pennengineering.bsky.social #softae

3rd Annual Soft-AE Symposium is underway, with Jie Xu from Argonne discussing autonomous experimentation, including on electronic polymers. @pennengineering.bsky.social

Looking forward to the 3rd Annual Symposium (tomorrow, 5/2) on Autonomous Experimentation in Soft Materials & Science Policy, part of the Penn "Soft AE NRT". Great lineup of speakers.

CBE@Penn had the pleasure of hosting Victor Zavala for our department seminar. Great talk on using geometry (topology!), optimization and machine learning to transform data to decisions, in varied contexts. @pennengineering.bsky.social

It's that time of the semester/academic year, when things start happening at a furious pace. Big congrats to Chris Johnson, who defended his outstanding PhD thesis on ion transport in 1 nm-scale pores of self-assembled polymer membranes. @pennengineering.bsky.social

Visiting @ucdavisengineering.bsky.social for the day!

Looking forward to some good science discussions. Thanks to Tonya Kuhl and the rest of the CHE department for the seminar invitation.

Chemical and biomolecular/biological engineers - do you have good suggestions for "casual reading" for undergrads entering the field? Stuff along the lines of "The Chemical Age" or "Four Laws That Drive the Universe", but particularly on the bio-side? I am assembling a short reading list. Thx!

Last paper with my friend & collaborator Doug Gin who passed away in a tragic accident last year. We enjoyed working together on molecular design for nanoporous polymers. This work highlights morphology and hydration effects on anion transport. doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c14234

Beautiful work by my colleague K. Stebe et al. on the use of peptide chemistry for rare earth element separations. bit.ly/43cDuLG @pennengineering.bsky.social

Carbon capture and decarbonization right here in PA. Great article from the folks at Wilcox Lab/CEC Lab @pennengineering.bsky.social
Rising Toward a Cleaner Future: Pennsylvania’s CCS Ladder for Industrial Decarbonization
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A different type of "GPT", from my colleague Xue Sherry Gao on "minimal versatile genetic perturbation technology" (mvGPT) that "merges gene editing and gene expression control, making it easier to address complex genetic conditions." @pennengineering.bsky.social blog.seas.upenn.edu/a-new-era-in...

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