University of Massachusetts Amherst ~ Polymer Science and Engineering Department
Bradley H.I.P. Materials Group
Harnessing Interfacial Phenomena to Develop New Soft Materials
Principal Investigator
Laura Bradley
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2011
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Southern California, 2015
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Graduate Students
Robert Enright
A.B. Chemistry, Ripon College, 2017
Joined group: Fall 2017
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Research: mechanics and wrinkling of thin films; initiated chemical vapor deposition
Heather S.C. Hamilton
B.S. Chemistry 2017, B.S. Social Work 2007, University of West Florida
Joined group: Fall 2017
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Research: heterogeneous polymerization for multiphasic polymer particles; process-morphology relationships in multiphasic particle fabrication
Myounguk Kim
B.S. Chemistry, Yonsei University, 2015 (South Korea)
M.S. Biomaterials Engineering, Seoul National University, 2017 (South Korea)
Joined group: Fall 2020
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Research: iCVD of functional polymer coatings
Alex McGlasson
B.S., M.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 2019
Joined group: Fall 2019
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Research: synthesis, fabrication, and application of active colloids; engineering applications of colloids
Nolan Miller
B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Purdue University, 2020
Joined group: Fall 2020
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Research: Functional mesoscale building blocks (co-advised with Al Crosby)
Eva Morgenthaler
B.S. Biomedical Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, 2019
Joined group: Fall 2019
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Research: synthesis of biodegradable and biocompatible anisotropic particles; biomedical applications of anisotropic particles; colloid-based polymer therapeutics (co-advised with Todd Emrick)
Xiaoshuang (June) Wei
B.S. Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, Zhejiang University, 2016
Joined group: Fall 2017
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Research: chemical vapor deposition; polymer self-assembly at anisotropic fluid interfaces
Undergraduate Students
Sam Marsden
Chemical Engineering, Class of 2021
Joined group: Spring 2018
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Research: synthesis of active colloids; computational modeling of particle phase interactions
Nicholas Sbalbi
Chemical Engineering, Class of 2022
Joined group: Spring 2019
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Research: synthesis and application of anisotropic particles; self-assembly of colloids
Group Alumni
Cornelia Meissner, visiting student from the University of Mainz, winter 2019; currently a PSE student working with Crosby and Emrick
Teresa Wang, UMass Amherst Undergraduate, Chemical Engineering, 2019
Ochuwa Oyageshio, UMass Amherst Undergraduate, Chemical Engineering, 2019