4/12/24 At 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!
3/22/24 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!
2/9/2024 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!
12/10/2023 Soham Sanghvi has been selected to participate in the MORE Research Program. Congratulations!
10/22/2023 Prof. Seo has been invited to present about precisely tunable self-healing polymer nanocomposites at the Symposium on Stimuli-Responsive Materials, Windsor, CA.
6/1/2023 Prof. Seo is one of the 35 recipients of the ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award.
May 2023 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.
4/20/2023 Jeff Yu has been recognized as an Outstanding Teaching Assistant at the SEMTE’s 2023 Celebration of Excellence. Congratulations!
4/19/2023 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.
1/12/2023 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.
12/14/2022 Kade Hawkins has been selected to participate in the MORE Research Program. Congratulations!
12/4/2022 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.
9/22/2022 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