2025 December Mikey Swart received the competitive FURI Fellowship. Congratulations!
2025 November New group photo alert before the Holiday season 🙂 Main photo on the cover page. A few B-cut photos…
2025 November Maren Thompson successfully delivers her thesis talk on colloidal crystal engineering via kinetic pathways using polymers. Congratulations!
2025 November Prof. Seo with Prof. Jovan Kamcev at the University of Michigan session the AIChE 8A – Excellence in Grad Polymers Session at the annual AIChE meeting in Boston. Congratulations to all the students across the nation! We also thank our sponsors, Tosoh and Brewer Science, for their generous donations.
2025 October Prof. Seo delivers a lecture on stimuli-responsive polymer nanocomposites in the Emerging Leaders in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry session at the 2025 ACS Western Regional Meeting, San Jose, CA.
2025 August Prof. Seo presented an invited talk about the group’s photochemical polymerization work in the Symposium for The Herman F. Mark Polymer Chemistry Award in Honor of Craig J. Hawker, at the ACS Fall Meeting in Washington D.C.
2025 July Prof. Seo with Prof. Long (ASU), Prof. Bortner (Virginia Tech), Prof. Winey (UPenn), Prof. Dadmun (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), and Dr. Dillingham (Brighton Science) delivered a two-day virtual short course on Introduction to Polymer Characterization: Molecular Architecture, Morphology, and Thermomechanical Response on the Golden Gate Polymer Forum.
2025 June Thaly Calvo attended the 2025 Polymers Gordon Research Conference in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
2025 April/May Prof. Seo gave invited lectures at exciting locations: Polymers and Soft Matter Program at MIT, Boston University, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences Theme Science Seminar Harnessing Complex Macromolecular Conformations at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and DuPont!
2025 March ASU hosted the 2025 ACS National Graduate Research Polymer Conference in Tempe, AZ!
2024 December Prof. Seo gave invited seminars in the Department of Chemistry and Nanoscience, Ewha Womans University and Korea Institute of Science and Technology in Seoul, Korea.
2024 December Ending 2024 with a fun group outing at the spooky Escape Room in downtown Tempe. And yes, we escaped!
2024 December Thaly Gonzalez received 2024 School of Molecular Sciences Outstanding Graduate Student Merit Award for her recent contributions to the chemical literature. She is on a roll – congratulations!
2024 December Our undergraduate researchers, Justin Dao and Maren Thomson, and master student Mihir Patel received the FURI and MORE fellowships for 2025 Spring semester, respectively. Way to go!
2024 December Prof. Lind and Prof. Seo received CAPS Fellowship to perform high-throughput research to develop alcohol-selective pervaporation polymer membranes based on natural fatty acids for large-scale biofuel recovery. The research will be performed at the NSF BioPACIFIC MIP at UCSB in 2025.
2024 November The Seo Group has been awarded an ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Grant to systematically investigate how the multivalency of nanoparticle-based bonds influences dynamics of non-crosslinked polymer networks.
2024 October Jeff passed his comprehensive exam. Congratulations!
2024 October The project on Photoswitching Chemistries for Multimaterial 3D Printing has been selected for funding by NSF SHAP3D IUCRC. The fund will be used to develop orthogonal photochemistries for polymerization of distinct polymer networks.
2024 September Jeff and Ryan’s work on polymer nanocomposites with tailorable nanoparticle-based bonds is online in Macromolecules! They did such a cool work on studying how the interfacial binding events can be tuned to influence bulk mechanical properties even at a very low concentration of nanoparticles.
2024 September Three new students join our group. Welcome Gina, Maren, and Justin!
2024 September The Seo Lab is honored to be selected as a recipient of the prestigious DOE ECRP award! We will use the grant to develop dynamic polymer networks engineered by nanotechnology. https://science.osti.gov/early-career, Biodesign news, Fulton Engineering news
2024 August Prof. Seo delivered an invited talk about water tolerant cationic living polymerization in the symposium titled Pushing the Limits of Macromolecular Architecture at 2024 ACS Fall Meeting in Denver.
2024 August Prof. Seo delivered a lecture titled “Expanding the Chemistry Toolbox for Vat Photopolymerization” at 2024 Additive Manufacturing of Soft Materials Gordon Conference.
2024 June Thaly and Kade’s work on water-tolerant, rapid cationic RAFT polymerization has been featured as a journal cover in Journal of Polymer Science.
2024 May The BK Kim group at Ewha Womans University in Korea and the Seo group receive a collaborative grant from the National Research Foundation of Korea. The team is excited to explore this new area of research of using electrochemistry to develop analytical tool for macromolecules!
2024 April At the Biodesign Fusion 2024, Jeff Yu received the Einstein Award for Best Use of Physical Principles and Thaly Gonzalez Calvo received the Marie Curie Award for Best Use of Chemistry. Congratulations!
2024 March Jeff Yu received the 2024 Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Award at the ACS Spring Meeting. This award is organized by the ACS POLY division to recognize outstanding graduate students in polymer science and engineering. Great work!
2024 March Thaly Gonzalez Calvo has been selected as the recipient of the George U. Yuen Memorial Award in School of Molecular Sciences. This award is given to a student demonstrating exceptional dedication and performance in teaching and research. Congratulations, a well-deserved award!
2024 February SM3 visits UCSB to plan future collaborations. The two-day meeting was full of exciting scientific discussions on materials research and future directions for our centers. Awesome start to something exciting for SM3 and NSF BioPACIFIC MIP/UCSB. Thanks for hosting us! My students and I also took a photo with my postdoc advisor Craig Hawker. Read more: https://biopacificmip.org/news/all/2024/biopacific-mip-proud-host-asus-sm3-center-2-day-collaboration-workshop
2023 December Soham Sanghvi has been selected to participate in the MORE Research Program. Congratulations!
2023 October Prof. Seo has been invited to present about precisely tunable self-healing polymer nanocomposites at the Symposium on Stimuli-Responsive Materials, Windsor, CA.
2023 June Prof. Seo is one of the 35 recipients of the ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award.
2023 May The Seo group has been funded with the Long group to work on the project Sustainable Engineering Polymers Designed for On-Demand Depolymerization in collaboration with DOE-Sandia National Laboratories.
2023 April Jeff Yu has been recognized as an Outstanding Teaching Assistant at the SEMTE’s 2023 Celebration of Excellence. Congratulations!
2023 April Thaly Gonzalez Calvo was selected for the 2023 BioPACIFIC Materials Innovation Platform Summer School! She will visit UCSB for a week to learn more about scalable production of bio-derived building blocks and polymers.
2023 January Prof. Seo has been selected to participate in the Engineering for One Planet Fellowship Program, which comprises a dedicated group of faculty members that demonstrate passion for both Sustainability and Excellence in Education.
2022 December Kade Hawkins has been selected to participate in the MORE Research Program. Congratulations!
2022 December E. Seo, Lind, Perreault, and Green Labs receive seed funding from LightWorks® in the Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation.
An interdisciplinary team, Eileen Seo (Center for Sustainable Macromolecular Materials and Manufacturing), Mary Laura Lind (Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors), Matthew Green (Center for Negative Carbon Emissions, Center for Sustainable Macromolecular Materials and Manufacturing) from the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport & Energy and François Perreault from the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, teamed up to improve the recovery of bioalcohols from biofermentation broths by exploring the new polymer design to replace less selective PDMS for membrane processes.
2022 September SM3 Team wins $500,000 from the NIST TIPC Grant Program.
ASU is one of the five universities to receive a $500,000 award from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the the Training for Improving Plastics Circularity (TIPC) Grant Program. Our team at ASU (Tim Long, Eileen Seo, Kailong Jin, Ren Xie, Matthew Green, Kevin Dooley, Jay Oswald, Chris Muhich) and Virginia Tech (Jennifer Russell) now has the opportunity to shape a unique curriculum for sustainable macromolecular materials and manufacturing and create cross-cutting research tools across our programs. Read
2022 September Talking about sustainability to K-5 students at ASU Prep Digital. Prof. Seo and Jose Sintas, a graduate student in the Long group, talked about plastics and sustainability to 300 elementary school students. We had a great time answering all the questions from these students!
