September 2022
Matt Hausladen's research is feature on the CSE website! Here is a link.
Annie Moorhead, Jonathan Nyugen and Matt Hausladen present their research at the 21st International Coating Science and Technology Symposium (ISCST 2022), which was held in Minneapolis, September 11-14, 2002. Their talks were excellent and well-received. Great job!
August 2022
"Synthetic growth by self-lubricated photopolymerization and extrusion inspired by plants and fungi," appears online in PNAS. Matt Hausladen, co-advised by Chris Ellison, is lead author and Dr. Boran Zhao (former post-doc in Ellison/Francis group) is a co-author. The work is collaborative with Prof. Tim Kowalewski and graduate student Matt Kubala in the Mechanical Engineering Department. Here is a link to the paper.
July 2022
"Adhesion of Silica and Block Copolymer Toughened Epoxy Composites," appears online in ACS Applied Polymer Materials. Vincent Pang, co-advised by Frank Bates, is lead author; the work is collaborative with Dr. Zach Thompson and Dr. Guy Joly of 3M. Here is a link to the paper.
Jonathan Nyugen, Annie Moorhead, Matt Hausladen, Deepti Kannan and Prof. Francis participate in outreach events for CSE's Eureka summer camp. Three hands-on outreach events under the theme of Exploring Materials Engineering were offered in collaboration Prof. Mike Manno and also involving other CEMS graduate student volunteers.
June 2022
The Coating Process Fundamentals Short Course educates 58 scientists and engineers from industry! More information on the next short course at: https://cpfpshortcourse.cems.umn.edu/
May 2022
Annie Moorhead, Matt Hausladen and Jonathan Nyugen give presentations and/or posters at the IPRIME Annual Meeting. Good job!
March 2022
"The colloidal nature of complex fluids enhances bacterial motility," appears online in Nature. Shashank Kamdar, co-advised by Xiang Cheng, is lead author. Here is a link to the paper.
"Capillary flow of evaporating liquid solutions in open rectangular microchannels," appears online in Journal of Fluid Mechanics Panayiotis Kolliopoulos, advised by Satish Kumar, is lead author. The work is part of our effort in printed electronics. Here is a link to the paper.
Post-doc Hyeok-jin Kwon joins the group. He completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea. Hyeok-jin will be coadvised by Prof. Dan Frisbie. His research topic is printed electronics. Welcome to the group Hyeok-jin!
Feb 2022
Post-doc Sruthi Lalitha joins the group. She completed her PhD in Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Sruthi will be coadvised by Profs. Michelle Calabrese and Chris Ellison. Her research topic is fundamentals of adhesive force. Welcome to the group Sruthi!
Post-doc Yidenekachew Donie joins the group. He completed his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Karlsruhe School of Optics and Photonics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Yidenek will be coadvised by Profs. Vivian Ferry and Dan Frisbie. His research topic is photonics. Welcome to the group Yidenek!
"Band Gap Tuning of Films of Undoped ZnO Nanocrystals by Removal of Surface Groups", appears online in Nanomaterials. Chenjian Zhang, co-advised by Uwe Kortshagen, is lead author. Here is a link to the paper.
Oct 2021
"Solution-Based, Additive Fabrication of Flush Metal Conductors in Plastic Substrates by Printing and Plating in Two-Level Capillary Channels" appears online in the Journal of Flexible and Printed Electronics. Krystopher Jochem, co-advised by Dan Frisbie, is lead author. Here is a link to the paper.
Nov 2020
Graduate student Deepti Kannan joins the group and will be coadvised by Profs. Michelle Calabrese and Chris Ellison. Her research topic is fundamentals of adhesive force. Welcome to the group Deepti!
Oct 2021
"Solution-Based, Additive Fabrication of Flush Metal Conductors in Plastic Substrates by Printing and Plating in Two-Level Capillary Channels" appears online in the Journal of Flexible and Printed Electronics. Krystopher Jochem, co-advised by Dan Frisbie, is lead author. Here is a link to the paper.
July 2021
"Block Copolymer and Nanosilica-Modified Epoxy Nanocomposites," appears online in the ACS Journal of Applied Polymer Materials. Vincent Pang, co-advised by Frank Bates, is lead author. This work was a collaboration with Dr. Zach Thompson and Dr. Guy Joly. Here is a link to the paper.
Krystopher Jochem, Ph.D. candidate in Chemical Engineering, successfully defends his thesis titled "The Optimization and Development of Additive Manufacturing Strategies for High Performance Printed Electronics and Metal Interconnects.”. He was co-advised by Prof. Dan Frisbie. Congratulations Krystopher!
June 2021
Vincent Pang, Ph.D. candidate in Chemical Engineering, successfully defends his thesis titled “Block Copolymer and Silica Modified Epoxy Structural Adhesives.” . He was co-advised by Prof. Frank Bates. Congratulations Vincent!
Jan 2021
"Capillary-flow dynamics in open rectangular microchannels," appears online in Journal of Fluid Mechanics Panayiotis Kolliopoulos, advised by Satish Kumar, is lead author. The work is part of our effort in printed electronics. Here is a link to the paper.
Dec 2020
“Self-Aligned Capillarity-Assisted Printing of High Aspect Ratio Flexible Metal Conductors: Optimizing Ink Flow, Plating, and Mechanical Adhesion,” appears online in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research. The paper's lead author is Krystopher Jochem. This is collaborative work with Dan Frisbie, Krystopher's co-advisor. Here is a link to the paper.
Nov 2020
Graduate student Jonathan Nguyen joins the group and will be coadvised by Prof. Dan Frisbie. His research topic is printed electronics Welcome to the group Jonathan!
Sept 2020
The National Science Foundation supports a collaborative research project with Profs. Frisbie and Kumar on printed electronics.
Thomas Rohlader and Lauren Frank begin undergraduate research projects supported by UROP.
May 2020
"Cavity filling with shear-thinning liquids," appears online in Physical Review Fluids. JyungTing Wu, co-advised by Satish Kumar, is lead author. The work also involved collaboration with Marcio Carvalho.
January 2020
“Inkjet-Printed, Self-Aligned Organic Schottky Diodes on Imprinted Plastic Substrates,” appears online in Flexible and Printed Electronics. The paper's lead author is Motao Cao. This is collaborative work with Dan Frisbie, Motao's co-advisor.
December 2019
“Adhesion Strength of Block Copolymer Toughened Epoxy on Aluminum,” appears online in ACS Applied Polymer Science. The paper's lead author is Vincent Pang. This is collaborative work with Frank Bates, Vincent's co-advisor, as well as Guy Joly and Zach Thompson from 3M.
November 2019
"Delaying Breakup and Avoiding Air Entrainment in Curtain Coating using a Two-Layer Liquid Structure," appears online in Chemical Engineering Science. The paper's lead author is Alireza Karim. This work is collaborative with Marcio Carvalho (PUC Rio) and Saswati Pujari (Dow Chemical).
Graduate student Annie Moorhead joins the group for her research in coating stress and microstructure development. Welcome to the group Annie!
October 2019
Jyun Ting Wu, Ph.D. candidate in Chemical Engineering successfully defends his thesis titled "Transfer and Filling of Non-Newtonian Liquids in Printing and Coating Processes". He is co-advised by Prof. Satish Kumar. Congratulations JyunTing!
Guest Scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, Surya Singaraju and Gabriel Cadilha Marques join the printed electronics group working in collaboration with Prof. Daniel Frisbie. Welcome on board!
September 2019
"Near-IR sintering of conductive silver nanoparticle ink with in situ resistance measurement," appears online in Journal of Coatings Technology and Research. The paper's lead author is David Keller (B.Mat.SE. 2019). David spent two summers as an undergraduate researcher in the group, working with Krystopher Jochem and Wieslaw Suszynski, and is now at Seagate.
August 2019
Motao Cao defends her PhD thesis, Self-aligned, Capillarity-assisted Lithography for Electronics (SCALE), a New Strategy for Printed Electronics! Congratulations, Motao! Motao is now at Micron.
July 2019
Krystopher Jochem recieves an Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from CEMS!
June 2019
Dan Johnson begins an undergraduate research project. Welcome Dan!
Prof. Francis gives two presentations at the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Meeting in Tampa, FL
May 2019
The group gives seven presentations and seven posters at the IPRIME Annual Meeting.
Coating Process Fundamentals Short Course educates over 60 industry scientists and engineers in the three-day intensive course.
Collaborative paper with the Kumar group, "Capillary Flow with Evaporation in Open Rectangular Microchannels," (Panayiotis Kolliopoulos lead author) appears online in Langmuir.
Noah Holzman defends his M.S. Thesis, 3D Printing and Mechanical Performance of Silicone Elastomers! Congratulations Noah!
April 2019
Prof. Francis is named a College of Science and Engineering (CSE) Distinguished Professor.
January 2019
First year graduate students Matt Hausladen (co-advised by Chris Ellison), Xiaochen Ma (co-advised by Dan Frisbie) and Venkatesh Paidi (co-advised by Dan Frisbie) join the research group. Welcome Matt, Xiaochen and Venkatesh!
A collaborative paper, "Combined dip-coating/spin-coating depositions on ceramic honeycomb monoliths for structured catalysts preparation," (Riccardo Balzaroti, a former visiting graduate student researcher) appears online in Catalysis Today.
November 2018
"Open-channel microfluidic diodes based on two-tier junctions" (Woo Jin Hyun lead author) appears online in Applied Physics Letters and is featured on the cover!
"Self-Aligned Inkjet Printing of Resistors and Low-Pass Resistor–Capacitor Filters on Roll-to-Roll Imprinted Plastics with Resistances Ranging from 10 to 106 Ω" (Motao Cao lead author) appears online in Flexible and Printed Electronics.
"High-Resolution, High-Aspect-Ratio Printed and Plated Metal Conductors Utilizing Roll-to-Roll Microscale UV Imprinting with Prototype Imprinting Stamps" (Krystopher Jochem lead author) appears online in Industrial Engineering and Chemistry Research and is featured on the cover!
"Effect of rheological properties of shear thinning liquids on curtain stability" (Alireza Karim lead author) appears online in Journal of NonNewtonian Fluid Mechanics.
June 2018
Noah Holzman and Krystopher Jochem recieved Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards from CEMS.
May 2018
Motao Cao and Krystopher Jochem won Poster Awards for their poster presentations at the IPRIME Annual Meeting on May 29th and 30th.
Coating Process Fundamentals Short Course educates 70 industry scientists and engineers in the three-day intensive course on May 22-24.
"Capillary Coatings: Flow and Drying Dynamics in Open Microchannels" (Robert K. Lade Jr lead author) appears online in Langmuir.
First year graduate student Chengjian Zhang (co-advised by Uwe Kortshagen) joins the research group.
February 2018
Yan Wu successfully defended her PhD thesis, 'Drying and Cracking Behavior of Aqueous Particulate Coatings' on February 27th, 2018. Yan was advised by Professor Lorraine Francis, and is now working at 3M - Shanghai.
October 2017
"Effect of viscosity on liquid curtain stability" (Alireza Mohammad Karim lead author) appears online in AIChE Journal.
May 2017
Robert Lade successfully defended his PhD thesis, 'Flow and Drying Dynamics in Gravity- and Capillary-Driven Coating Processes' on May 26, 2017. Bob was advised by Professors Lorraine Francis and Chris Macosko and is now working for Intel.
March 2017
"Dynamics of Capillary-Driven Flow in 3D Printed Open Microchannels" (Robert Lade lead author) appears online in Langmuir.
March 2016
"Toughening Glass Poly(lactide) with Block Copolymer Micelles" (Tuoqi Li lead author) appears online in ACS Macroletters and is highlighted as an ACS Editor' Choice!
January 2016
Prof. Francis's new textbook, Materials Processing A Unified Approach to Processing Metals, Ceramics and Polymers, is available from Elsevier/Academic Press. Link
December 2016
First year graduate students, Krystopher Jochem (co-advised by Dan Frisbie) and Jyung Ting Wu (co-advised by Satish Kumar), join the research group.
March 2016
Prof. Francis gives an invited presentation, "Use of Capillary Flow to Create Flexible and Embedded Electronics," at the 2015 Composites at Lake Louise Conference in Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada.
September 2015
"Wettability Contrast Gravure Printing (Heng Zhang lead author) appears online in Advanced Materials.
"All-printed, Foldable Organic Thin-Film Transistors on Glassine Paper" (Woo Jin Hyun lead author) appears online in Advanced Materials.
September 2015
Alireza M. Karim starts a post-doctoral project on curtain coating. Alireza will be working with Wieslaw in the Coating Process and Visualization lab to set up experiments and he willl be co-advised by Prof. Marcio Carvalho in PUC-Rio, Brazil.
August 2015
"A Self-Aligned Strategy for Printed Electronics: Exploiting Capillary Flow on Microstructured Plastic Surfaces" (Ankit Mahajan and Woo Jin Hyun lead authors) appears online in Advanced Electronic Materials: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aelm.201500137
Bob Lade presents a poster, "Capillary-Driven Flow in Open Microchannels Printed with Fused Deposition Modeling," at the 2015 International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium in Austin, Texas
July 2015
Form 1 Stereolithography 3D Printer arrives! It is housed in the Valspar Materials Science and Engineering Undergraduate Lab
June 2015
"Screen Printing of Highly Loaded Silver Inks on Plastic Substrates Using Silicon Stencils," (Woo Jin Hyun lead author) appears online in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5b02487
New summer undergraduate researchers, Eowyn Lucas, Erik Hippchen and Isaac Borrego, join the group!
Riccardo Balzarotti, a visiting graduate student from Politecnico di Milano, begins a 6 month research visit
May 2015
Ryo Katayama, Asahi Kasei, beings his IPRIME industrial fellow project
Coating Process Fundamentals Short Course educates 75 scientists and engineers in the three-day intensive course.
"Formation of Copper Zinc Tin Sulfide Thin Films from Colloidal Nanocrystal Dispersions via Aerosol Jet Printing and Compaction" (Bryce Williams lead author) appears online in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021.acsami.5b02484
"Sag in Drying Coatings: Prediction and Real Time Measurement with Particle Tracking" (Robert Lade lead author) appears online in Progress in Organic Coatings:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.porgcoat.2015.04.005
Tuoqi Li receives CEMS Excellence in Teaching Assistance Award (link).
Yuyang Du, Robert Lade, Tuoqi Li, and Yan Wu receive Outstanding Teaching Assistance Awards from CEMS (link).
April 2015
Bryce Williams presents a poster ("Intense Pulsed Light Annealing of Copper Zinc Tin Sulfide Nanocrystal Coatings") at the MRS Meeting in San Francisco.
July 2014
"Effect of Block Copolymer and Core Composition on Toughening Epoxies," appears online in Polymer:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016.2014.06.016
June 2014
Austin Musliner, Ben Hacker, Nate Wilson and Monique Cook begin summer undergraduate research projects.
New Hitachi SU 8230 High Resolution Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope is installed in the Characterization Facility.
May 2014
Coating Process Fundamentals Short Course educates 60 scientists and engineers in the three-day intensive course..
Group research is presented at the IPRIME annual meeting.
Collaborative paper with the Aydil group "Microstructure Evolution and Crystal Growth in Cu2ZnSnS4 Thin Films Formed by Annealing Colloidal Nanocrystal Coatings," appears online in Chemistry of Materials: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cm500791a
"Microstructure and Performance of Block Copolymer Modified Epoxy Coatings," appears online in Progress in Organic Coatings: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.porgcoat.2014.03.015
Kyle Price and Ankit Mahajan receive TA awards.
Ankit Mahajan is awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Minnesota Graduate School.
April 2014
Collaborative paper with Hersam group at Northwestern "Gravure printing of graphene for large-area flexible electronics," appears online in Advanced Materials:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201401052
Collin Holgate receives a scholarship from the Minnesota Section of ASM.
Simon Mundingder, visiting undergraduate researcher from University of Munster, begins his project on dynamic mechanical analysis.
Professor Francis gives a keynote presentation at Hewlett Packet Open Fair on Drying and Curing in Barcelona.
Kyle Price gives a presentation at the American Coatings Conference and wins the American Coatings Award for his collaborative paper with Arkema.
March 2014
Dr. David Castro of Ecolab begins IPRIME Industrial Fellow project on drying and rheology.
The Coating Process Fundamentals Program of IPRIME announces the workshop for the IPRIME Annual Meeting: Coating and Printing with Paints, Inks and Particulate Suspensions.
February 2014
Complete information on the Coating Process Fundamentals Short Course is available online: http://www.cce.umn.edu/Coating-Process-Fundamentals-Course/index.html
January 2014
Two new graduate students join the group! Motao Cao, co-advised by Dan Frisbie, will be working on printed electronics, and Yuyang Du, co-advised by Alon McCormick, will be researching advanced curing methods and materials.
The Coating Process Fundamentals Program of IPRIME sponsors a successful workshop on 3D Printing.
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/itcomm/iprime/2013/09/3d_printing_and_additive_manuf.html
Prof. Francis gives an invited talk at H.B. Fuller.
December 2013
"Facile Method for Fabricating Flexible Substrates with Embedded, Printed Silver Lines," a new paper in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, is available online: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1021/am403569f
November 2013
Woo Jin Hyun joins the research effort in printed electronics! Woo Jin is coadvised by Dan Frisbie.
Prof. Francis gives a seminar in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan.
October 2013
"Magnetic Microrheology of Block Copolymer Solutions," a new paper in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces is available online: http://www.doi.org/10.1021/am403569f
Kumar Varoon Agrawal (co-advised by Michael Tsapatsis) defends his thesis, “Dispersible Exfoliated Zeolite Nanosheets and Their Application in High Performance Zeolite Membrane".
Collaborative paper with Bates group entitled, "Cavitation in Block Copolymer Modified Epoxy Revealed by In Situ Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering," is available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/mz4004419
September 2013
3D Printer donated from Stratasys arrives! The printer will be used for experiments in MatS 4221 and will eventually be housed the new Materials Science and Engineering Undergraduate Lab
Kyle Prices presents a paper at the European Coating Symposium in Belgium
August 2013
Paper entitled, "A Raman spectroscopic method to find binder distribution in electrodes during drying" is available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11998-013-9509-z
July 2013
Kumar Varoon Agrawal wins the 2013 AIChE Separations Division Graduate Student Research Award
Drop on demand system donated by Boston Scientific is up and running
Dr. Jenny Zhu, Stratasys, begins an IPRIME Industrial Fellow project
July 2013
Julia Chen begins an undergraduate research project
June 2013
David Barton, Collin Holgate and Stephanie Kong join the group as summer undergraduate researchers
May 2013
The Coating Process Fundamentals Short Course was held May 21-23; 64 participants joined this intensive 3-day course on the fundamentals of liquid applied coatings. The next course will be in May 20-22, 2014.
Paper entitled, "Optimization of Aerosol Jet Printing for High-Resolution, High-Aspect-Ratio Silver Lines" is available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/am400606y
Coating Process Fundamentals Short Course at capacity, begins on May 21.
March 2013
Prof. Francis gives an invited technical focus lecture at CoatingsTech Conference in Chicago
December 2012
Bob Lade, Yan Wu and Wanlu Zhang join the group as PhD candidates
Paper entitled, "Process limits in two-layer reverse roll transfer" is available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11998-012-9444-4
November 2012
Paper entitled,”Effects of Freezing and Thawing on the Microstructure of Latex Paints“ is available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2012.10.008
Prof. Francis takes part in the BASF Insights Conference in Ludwigshafen, Germany.
September 2012
Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Ankit Mahajan, Kyle Price and Prof. Francis present their research at the 16th International Coating Science and Technology Symposium in Atlanta, GA.
Dr. Sooman Lim begins his post-doc research with Profs. Frisbie and Francis. Sooman joins the growing effort in printed electronics.
A team from the University of Minnesota is awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for a new cryogenic SEM. More information can be found here.
August 2012
Dr. Michael Heizner begins his post-doc research with Profs. Bates and Francis. Mike will be exploring block copolymer additions to epoxies.
July 2012
Paper entitled "Drying and cracking of soft latex coatings" is available online from the Journal of Coatings Technology and Research website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11998-012-9425-7
Paper on the drying of a latex coating in a walled substrates is accepted to Langmuir: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la302317r
June 2012
Paper about coating of open cell foams is accepted into Industrial Engineering and Chemistry Research: http:/dx.doi.org/10.1021/ie300266p
Nick Ryan begins a summer research project
Derek Huang and David Fischer begin summer research projects
May 2012
The IPRIME Annual Meeting draws to a close, over 500 people attended workshops, presentations and posters! http:/www.iprime.umn.edu
Daniel Griese, visiting graduate student from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, begins a 6 month diploma thesis project.
The Coating Process Fundamentals Short Course concludes. Fifty nine industrial scientists and engineers attended the annual three day long event. http:/research.cems.umn.edu/cpfp/shortcourse.php