| • May 2016: | Congratulations to Amit and Roy for passing their qualifying exams! |
| • May 2016: | Supramolecular Block Copolymer Photovoltaics through Ureido-Pyrimidinone Hydrogen Bonding Interactions RSC Advances,in press |
| • May 2016: | Layered 2D perovskite solar cells with 11.2 % efficiency, superior crystallinity and environmental stability Nature,in press |
| • February 2016: | Preparation of liquid crystal elastomers and liquid crystal elastomer nanocomposites in JoVE |
| • January 2016: | Synthesis of bottlebrush polymers based on poly(dimethylsiloxane) for surface active additives in Polymer |
| • November 2015: | Molecular Origin of Photovoltaic Performance in Donor-block-Acceptor All-Conjugated Block Copolymers, in Macromolecules |
| • August 2015: | Highly Flexible Self-Assembled V2O5 Cathodes Enabled by Conducting Diblock Copolymers, in Scientific Reports |
| • August 2015: | 4th Texas Soft Matter Meeting at Rice on August 21 |
| • August 2015: | Conjugated block copolymer additives stabilize bicontinuous microemulsion phases, in ACS Macro. Lett. |
| • August 2015: | Linking group influences performance of block copolymer photovoltaics, front cover in Adv. Funct. Mater. |
| • July 2015: | Brenda and Annum’s work featured in the HISD news blog |
| • June 2015: | Rafael Presents to High School Students in the Schlumberger Energy Explorations Academy |
| • June 2015: | Verduzco laboratory participates in and helps organize the 28th International Symposium on Polymer Analysis and Characterization |
| • June 2015: | Hojin and Stacy present at Rice Unviersity’s Biomaterials Day |
| • May 2015: | Rafael gives an invited talk at the 2015 CFN User’s Meeting at Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| • May 2015: | Yen-Hao, Aditya, and Kendall receive their PhD diplomas. Congrats! |
| • April 2015: | Rafael presents an invited talk at the 3rd annual Grubb’s Symposium in Ningbo, China. |
| • March 2015: | Pine Yang joins the group as a postdoctoral associate. Welcome! |
| • March 2015: | Rafael gives an invited talk at the 2015 APS March Meeting. See slides from Rafael’s 2015 APS presentation here. |
| • March 2015: | “Shape-Shifting Liquid Crystals” in Science |
| • March 2015: | Yen-Hao Lin successfully defends his thesis – congrats! |
| • February 2015: | Structure, Function, Self-Assembly, and Applications of Bottlebrush Copolymers” in Chem. Soc. Rev. |
| • February 2015: | Publication in Science |
| • January 2015: | Undergraduate researcher Hojin Kim featured by Rice Engineering. |
| • December 2014: | Rafael presents in invited talk at the GCC Light-Driven Processes workshop. |
| • December 2014: | Publication in the Journal of Materials Research |
| • December 2014: | Rafael presents in invited talk at the 2014 ACS Macromex conference. |
| • November 2014: | Two PhD students join the group – Tracy and Zhiqi. Welcome! |
| • October 2014: | Hadi successfully defends his thesis – congrats! |
| • October 2014: | Verduzcolab work featured in the 58th Annual ACS PRF Report on Research. |
| • September 2014: | Manuscript on bottlebrush/linear blends accepted for publication in Macromolecules. |
| • June 2014: | Rafael presents an invited talk at the National Graduate Research Polymer Conference in Baton Rouge, LA. |
| • June 2014: | Rafael presents an invited talk at the 30th international Polymers Processing Society meeting in Cleveland, OH. |
| • June 2014: | Congratulations to Aditya for successfully defending his PhD thesis! Aditya will join BP as a research scientist. |
| • June 2014: | Congratulations to Kendall for successfully defending his PhD thesis! |
| • May 2014: | Congratulations to Dr. Xianyu Li for her graduation with a PhD and for being the first student from the Verduzcogroup to earn a PhD! Xianyu will take on a position as a polymer chemist at Envia Systems |
| • May 2014: | Rafael presents at the 2014 CNM/APS/EMS user meeting |
| • May 2014: | Verduzcolab welcomes 4 undergraduate summer researchers. |
| • May 2014: | Kendall’s paper accepted for publicaiton in J. Polym. Sci. B Polym. Phys. |
| • April 2014: | Xianyu successfully defends her thesis. Congratulations! |
| • April 2014: | Publication in Advanced Energy Materials |
| • March 2014: | Yen-Hao’s work on lamellar ordering in conjugated block copolymers accepted for publication in Soft Matter. |
| • March 2014: | Hadi’s review article on polymer-coated nanoparticles for enhanced oil recovery accepted for publication in J. Appl. Polym. Phys. |
| • February 2014: | Hadi’s paper on the use of sodium polyacrylate for EOR has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Colloid and Surface Science. |
| • February 2014: | Stacy’s work featured in the NIST FY2013 annual report |
| • January 2014: | Verduzcolab awarded NSF CAREER grant to study all-conjugated block copolymers. |
| • January 2014: | Verduzcolab and Jacot lab receive funding from the American Heart Association to investigate cell sheets on dynamic liquid crystal elastomer surfaces. |
| • December 2013: | Verduzco Laboratory presents two papers at the fall MRS meeting in Boston. |
| • November 2013: | Aditya’s paper on reconfigurable LCEs is accepted for publication in Soft Matter. |
| • November 2013: | Bridget receives a fellowship to attend the Emerging Researchers National Conference in Washington, DC. Congrats! |
| • November 2013: | Verduzco labortory presents two papers at the 2013 AIChE Annual Meeting |
| • October 2013: | Hadi’s paper on competitive adsorption of polyelectrolytes accepted for publication in Coll. Surf. A |
| • October 2013: | Kendall’s paper on all-conjugated block copolymers thought click coupling accepted for publication in J. Poly. Sci. A Polym. Chem. |
| • October 2013: | Rafael participiates in the Sally Ride Scioence Festival at Rice |
| • October 2013: | Aditya’s work on surface wrinkling received the “Best Fundamental Paper” prize from the South Texas Section of AIChE. |
| • September 2013: | Aditya receives the Best Poster Award form the 7th International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference |
| • August 2013: | Connie Shen joins the group – Welcome! |
| • August 2013: | Rafael visits Dulles High School to talk to freshmen entering the DHS Math and Science Academy. |
| • August 2013: | Stacy, Aditya, Xianyu, and Scarlet present their work at the second bi-annual Texas Soft Matter Meeting |
| • August 2013: | Stacy’s paper on neutron scattering analysis of bottlebrush polymers accepted for publication in Macromolecules. |
| • July 2013: | Verduzco and Lutkenhaus groups awarded NSF funding for investigating block copolymers for energy storage. |
| • July 2013: | Rafael presents work on all-conjugated block copolymers at Los Alamos National Laboratory CINT. |
| • June 2013: | Rafael presents work on bottlebrush polymers at SUNY Stony Brook Materials Science and Engineering. |
| • June 2013: | The Verduzco laboratory welcomes four undergraduate summer researchers for the summer: Bridget, Scarlet (Qiqi), Daniel, and Leslie |
| • May 2013: | Manuscript accepted for publication in Nano Letters . |
| • May 2013: | Jorge and Luqing pass their graduate qualifying exams. Congrats! |
| • May 2013: | Verduzcolab received funding from the NSF (CBET) to investigate block copolymer additives for improved morphology and performance of bulk heterojunction OPVs |
| • May 2013: | Aditya’s work on LCE dynamic stiffening featured in Rice News and Futurity. |
| • May 2013: | Hadi presents his work on polyacrylate sacrificial agents at the 2013 OCS and Gulf Coast SPE student paper contest. |
| • May 2013: | Stacy receives a first place Outstanding Graduate Research Presentation Award by the organizers of the ACS POLY Symposium on the “Bottom-up design of the next generation of biomaterials” |
| • April 2013: | Yen-Hao’s work is chosen for the Excellence in Graduate Research Symposium at the 2013 Spring ACS meeting and for the Sci-Mix poster session. |
| • April 2013: | Verduzcolab presents five papers at the 2013 Spring ACS Meeting in New Orleand, LA. |
| • April 2013: | Verduzcolab presents two papers at the 2013 Spring MRS Meeting in San Francisco, CA. |
| • March 2013: | Verduzcolab presents two papers at the American Physical Society March Meeting in Baltimore, MD |
| • March 2013: | Aditya’s article on self-stiffening in LCEs is accepted for publication in Nature Communications. |
| • March 2013: | Kendall’s paper on all-conjugated block copolymers is accepted for publication in Macromolecules. |
| • March 2013: | Verduzco Lab goes to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo!. |
| • February 2013: | Rafael meets with students in the Science and Math Academy at John Foster Dulles High School, located in his hometown of Sugar Land, TX |
| • January 2013: | Stacy is awarded an IBB travel grant to attend the upcoming ACS meeting in New Orleans |
| • December 2012: | The group is awarded a 2012 John S. Dunn Collaborative Research Award along with the Jacot group at Texas Children’s hospital and Prof. Iki Adachi at the Baylor College of Medicine. See a press release on this award here. |
| • December 2012: | Yen-Hao’s work featured on the cover of Polymer Chemistry |
| • December 2012: | Dana, Jim, Sarah, David, and Qiqi complete their semester research projects. Thanks for your hard work! |
| • November 2012: | Jorge Mok and Luqing Qi join the group. Welcome! |
| • November 2012: | Rafael elected to join the CNMS Executive Commitee |
| • November 2012: | Verduzcolab presents two papers at the 2012 AIChE Annual Meeting |
| • October 2012: | Bridget completes her particitation in the DHS funded Community-College STEM research program |
| • October 2012: | Yen-Hao’s work on all-conjugated block copolymers published in Polymer Chemistry |
| • October 2012: | Xianyu wins prize in Chinese-American Chemical Society Poster Competition |
| • September 2012: | Xianyu Awarded Kobayashi Fellowship! |
| • August 2012: | Kendall Smith named Dean’s TA for CHBE 470. |
| • August 2012: | Bridget, Charlie, David, and Sarah wrap up their summer research projects. |
| • August 2012: | Xianyu’s paper on bottlebrush polymers accepted for publication in Macromolecules |
| • July 2012: | Yen-Hao’s work with supramolecular conjugated polymers accepted for publication in Macromolecules |
| • June 2012: | Dr. Yu Zhu’s work on graphene oxide nanoribbons accepted for publication in JACS |
| • June 2012: | Verduzco laboratory receives funding from the ACS Petroleum Research Fund |
| • June 2012: | Charlie Chirino and Bridget Stewart join the group as summer undergraduate researchers. Welcome! |
| • May 2012: | Aditya’s work with surface wrinkling in liquid crystal elastomers accepted for publication in Soft Matter. link |
| • May 2012: | Jim, Chloe, and Data complete their undergraduate research projects. Thanks for all your hard work! |
| • April 2012: | Prof. Verduzco gives seminar at Lamar University Department of Chemical Engineering seminar series. |
| • April 2012: | Congratulations for Stacy for being awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship! |
| • March 2012: | Rafael becomes a member of the Gulf Coast Consortia. |
| • February 2012: | The group travels to the APS meeting in Boston to present 3 talks and 2 posters. |
| • January 2012: | Shell Center for Sustainability provides 1-year funding to study block copolymer photovoltaics. |
| • January 2012: | Dana and David join the research group |
| • December 2011: | Chloe completes her fall semester research project. Thanks for all of your hard work! |
| • October 2011: | Rafael presents work on conjugated polymers for solar cells at AIChE |
| • September 2011: | Chloe and Jim join the group. Welcome! |
| • August 2011: | Gulsum, Charlie, and Li complete their summer research terms. Farewell! |
| • August 2011: | Aditya successfully defends his thesis proposal |
| • June 2011: | Kendall successfully defends his thesis proposal |
| • June 2011: | Yen-Hao successfully defends his thesis proposal |
| • June 2011: | Publication in Phys Rev E |
| • June 2011: | Li, Charlie, and Gulsum join the group for the summer. Welcome! |
| • May 2011: | Xianyu successfully completes her thesis proposal. Congrats! |
| • May 2011: | Stacy Passes her qualifier exams. Congrats! |
| • May 2011: | Li receives Brown Undergraduate Fellowship |
| • April 2011: | Publication in J Phys Chem C |
| • March 2011: | Group travels to APS meeting in Dallas |
| • January 2011: | Publication in Macromolecules |
| • December 2010: | Stacy joins the group |
| • November 2010: | Publication in J Mater Chem |
| • October 2010: | George completes his postdoc. Thanks and Farewell! |
| • October 2010: | USRE program hilighted on Rice At Large |
| • October 2010: | Adit and Yichen report their work via Rice Connexions |
| • September 2010: | Amanda completes summer USRE program |
| • August 2010: | Verduzco and Ajayan receive support from the IBB at Rice |
| • July 2010: | Rafael is awarded funding from the Welch Foundation |
