Annual Meeting

IPRIME Annual Meeting

2025 IPRIME Annual Meeting | May 27-29, 2025
University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus

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What can you expect at the 2025 Annual Meeting? 

  • Circularity and Waste Reduction of Materials Workshop, organized by Professors Lynn Walker and Alon McCormick (May 27-28).
  • Program Reviews featuring talks from our programs' researchers (May 28-29).
  • Poster Session providing the opportunity to meet and have discussions with our researchers and with colleagues from other companies (May 28)

The IPRIME Annual Meeting is free to all member companies. If your company is considering membership, please contact IPRIME Faculty Director, Chris Ellison at [email protected] about attending as an IPRIME guest. All events will take place in Kenneth H. Keller Hall


Circularity and Waste Reduction of Materials Workshop:

Tuesday, May 27th from 1PM - 4PM and Wednesday, May 28 from 9AM to 11:45AM

  • Bioplastics Industry Growing Pains and Trends to Watch
    Presented by: Steve Davies, CEO, M-SPIRE

  • Product Circularity at Ecolab - A Chemical Company's Approach
    Presented by: Jessica Hancock, Ecolab

  • Bio-Based Materials in Structural Adhesive Development
    Prsented by: Dorian Sneddon, PPG

  • Leveraging Physical Phenomena and Material Characterization to Prove Efficacy of Vapor Phase Hydrogen Peroxide as a Sterilant Modality
    Presented by: Ioan Gisov, Medtronic

  • Adhesives on Material Circularity and Waste Reduction
    Presented by: Adam Pederson, HB Fuller

  • Sustainable Silicones Shaping the Future
    Presented by: Michael Molnar, Dow

  • Manufacturing Challenges for Circularity in the Built Industry
    Presented by Brett Sitter, Andersen Windows

  • New Twists on an Old Cycle: Agricultural Feedstock and Side Stream Valorization via Chemical and Bioprocessing
    Presented by: Jinping Dong, Cargill

  • Innovating for Circularity
    Presented by: Ann Meitz, 3M


Biomaterials and Pharmaceutical Materials Program Review: 

Wednesday, May 28 beginning at 1:30PM

  • Crystallization Inhibition in High Drug Loaded Amorphous Solid Dispersions
    Presented by: Ronald A. Siegel, Sichen Song

  • Biomaterials for Engineering Disease Models, Embryo Models, and Nanovesicles
    Presented by: Wei Shen

  • Tabletability Flip in Dry Granulated Systems
    Presented by: Ziljan Wang, Tianxiang Gao, Changquan Calvin Sun

  • A Biodegradable Epoxy Resin as Implantable Material and Surface Coating
    Presented by: Chun Wang

  • Implications of Excipient Phase Behavior on Protein Stability
    Presented by: Raj Suryanarayanan

  • Mechanical Characterization of Tissue-Engineered Vein Valve Leaflets
    Presented by: Luke Voce, Eric Yu, Tate Shannon, R.T. Tranquillo


Coating Process Fundamentals Program Review: 

Wednesday, May 28th beginning at 1:30PM and Thursday, May 29th beginning at 9AM

  • Scalable Additive Nanopatterning via Roll-toRoll Topographic Discontinuous Dewetting
    Presented by: Yidnek Donie (Francis, Frisbie & Ferry groups)

  • Roll-to-Roll Processing of Printed Electronic Circuits using SCALE
    Presented by: Jonathan Nguyen (Francis & Frisbie groups)

  • Droplet Evaporation on Mesas
    Presented by: Li-Hsuan Chang (Kumar group)

  • The Collapse of a Particle-laden Interface
    Presented by: Sungyon Lee

  • Maximum Spreading of Impacting Shear-Thinning and Shear-Thickening Drops
    Presented by: Anahita Mobaseri (Kumar & Cheng groups)

  • Die Design and Slot Coating Window of Thixotropic Particle Suspensions 
    Presented by: Marcio Carvalho

  • Coating of Shear-Thinning and Shear Thickening Liquids on Rotating Discrete Objects
    Presented by: Prateek Gupta (Kumar Group)

  • Dancing Plumes and a Wavy Interface: How Particles Shape Viscous Fingering
    Presented by: Parhan Pureslami (Lee group)

  • Evaporating Multicomponent Thin Liquid Films
    Presented by: Rayan Barry (Kumar group)

  • Vertical Concentration Gradients of Soluble Surfactant in the Rupture of Thin Liquid Films
    Presented by: Shu Yang (Dutcher & Kumar groups)

  • Droplet Sizes in Coalescence Filtration 
    Presented by: Zak Kujala (Lee group)

  • Stability of Aqueous Films for Fluorine-free Firefighting Foams
    Presented by: Pragnya Chatterjee (Dutcher & Zasadzinski groups)

  • Special Presentation: Progress and Prospects of Coating Flow Analysis
    Presented by: Takeaki Tsuda, Hirano Tecseed


Data Driven Discovery & Design Program Review

Wednesday, May 28 beginning at 1:30PM

  • Predicting and optimizing adsorption processes with high-throughput simulations and machine learning
    Presented by: Ilja Siepmann

  • Benchmarking Generative AI for Inorganic Materials Discovery
    Presented by: Nathan J. Szymanski and Christopher J. Bartel

  • Synergistic Copolymer Blending Yields Improved Polymer Formulations for High Performance pDNA Delivery
    Presented by: Michael C. Leyden, Felipe Oviedo, Sonashree Saxena, Ramya Kumar, Ngoc Le, and Theresa M. Reineke

  • Topology-Driven Discovery of Multi-Scale Dynamics in Particulate Gels
    Presented by: Alexander Smith and Prodromos Daoutidis

  • Design of Microgrids with Ammonia-Based Energy Storage via Bayesian Optimization
    Presented by: Baiwen Kong, Qi Zhang, and Prodromos Daoutidis 


Microstructured Polymers Program Review

Wednesday, May 28th beginning at 1:30PM and Thursday, May 29th beginning at 9AM

  • Chemical Recycling of Polycaprolactones and Polyurethanes Via Reactive Depolymerization
    Presented by: Anubhav Sarmah

  • Block Copolymer Molecular Design to Overcome Practical Challenges in Recycling Polyolefin Blends
    Presented by: Shuquan Cui

  • Recyclable Crosslinked Polyethylene (PEX) Combining Metathesis, Transesterification, and Hydrogenation
    Presented by: Maren Kuenen

  • Compatibilization of Immiscible Polymers Using Graft Multiblock Copolymers
    Presented by: Ashutosh Nehete

  • Tuning High-Speed Adhesive Fracture Energies of Silicone Release Coatings
    Presented by: Deepti Kannan

  • Permeability-Strength Tradeoff in Nanoporous Polyethylene Membranes Derived from Etchable Triblock Polymer Precursors
    Presented by: Brenden Hoehn

  • Self-Assembly of Frustrated ABC Bottlebrush Block Terpolymers
    Presented by: Subrata Santra

  • Polymer Upcycling by Catalytic Hydrogenolysis: The Role of Side-Chain Branching
    Presented by: Zach Gdowski

  • Enhancing PLA Degradability with Trace Strong Acid Generators
    Presented by: Jinsol Yook

  • Synthesis and Characterization of Diverse Water-Soluble Cellulosics
    Presented by: Nathan Rackstraw

  • Designing Polymer Excipients for Enhancing Solubilization of Amorphous Solid Dispersion Formulations
    Presented by: Kaylee Barr

  • Fusion Kinetics in Block Copolymer Micelles
    Presented by: Ali Sattari

  • Synergistic Polymer Blending for Improved Nucleic Acid Delivery
    Presented by: Michael Leyden

  • Fiber Absorbents for Fluorinated Water Contaminants
    Presented by: Josh Goetze


Nanostructural Materials & Processes Program Review

Wednesday, May 28th beginning at 1:30PM and Thursday, May 29th beginning at 9AM

  • Engineered Nanomaterials for PFAS Phytoremediation
    Presented by: Christy Haynes (Riley Lewis, Cheng-Hsin Huang, and Suman Lata)

  • Interfacial Morphology Characterization of Lung Surfactant on Curved Surfaces using Microtensiometer
    Presented by: Ziwen He (Zachary McAllister, Oi Lam Ko, Soyoon Yoon, Joseph Zasadzinski)

  • Predictive Modeling of Emulsion Stability via Hierarchical Machine Learning Based on Emulsion Type
    Presented by: Michal Roguski (Sijie Fu, Brooke Cochran, Christopher Stone, Matthew Barker, Sumanth Jamadagni, Eric Johnson, Robert Tilton, Newell Washburn, Lynn Walker)

  • Novel Microfluidic Approaches to Characterize Coalescence in Complex Solutions
    Presented by: Cari Dutcher (Musarrat Makhnun, Rana Bachnak)

  • First Functional Line Tension Values on Gel Phase Monolayers Rationalize and Help Predict Monolayer Morphology 
    Presented by: Zachary McAllister (Cain Valtierrez-Gaytan, Alex Smith, Bjorn Solberg, Aidan Dosch, Joseph Barakat, Benjamin L. Stottrup, Joseph Zasadzinski)

  • Developments in Micro- to Nano-IR Microscopy for Industrial Clients and Collaborators
    Presented by: Greg Haugstad

  • Microplastics in Circular Organic Waste Management: Composting and Anaerobic Digestion
    Presented by: R. Lee Penn (Melissa Maurer-Jones, Chan Lan Chun, Eric Sangsaas, Naba Kalita, William Merrill)

  • A Millifluidic Screening Approach for Efficient Characterization of Fluid Properties in Multicomponent Systems
    Presented by: Olivia Haider (David Mullaney, Blake J. Bleier, Lynn Walker)

  • Adsorb, Resist, Persist: Surfactants at the Foam Front
    Presented by: Meenal Rathi (Joseph Zasadzinski, Cari Dutcher)

  • Microneedle-based Ion-selective Sensors for Continuous Measurements of Biomarkers
    Presented by: Andreas Stein (Philippe Bühlmann, Sarah L. Swisher, Yevedzo Chipangura, Vilma S.M. Brandao, Maria Komal, Vivek James, Fairja Farjana

  • CuS Core-Shell Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for Enhanced Soybean Plant Cultivation
    Presented by: Rima Jamous (Beza Tuga, Chaoyi Deng, Zhengyi Tang, Wilanyi R Alvarez Reyes, Andrea Ligocki, Qinag Cui, Jason White, Christy Haynes)

  • Droplet-based Microfluidic Tool to Quantify Viscosity of Concentrating Protein Solutions
    Presented by: Lynn Walker (Deyu Yang, Maryam Daviran, Kelly M. Schultz)


Optoelectronics and Metamaterials

Wednesday, May 28 beginning at 1:30PM

  • Tunable 3D Optical Metamaterials through Templated Block Copolymer Self-Assembly
    Presented by: Emily K. McGuinness, Benjamin R. Magruder, Kevin D. Dorfman, Christopher J. Ellison, Vivian E. Ferry

  • Engineering Chiral Organic Nanostructures via Oblique Angle Deposition and its Application in Circularly Polarized OLEDs
    Presented by:  Siliang He, Yicheng Liu, Lafe Purvis, Russell J. Holmes

  • Industrially Relevant OLED Optimization for Low Color Shift Displays 
    Presented by: Maya Ramamurthy, Abhinav Kapur, Evgeny Pakhomenko, Siliang He,  Kyle W. Hershey, Gijun Seo, Ying Zheng, Russell J. Holmes, and Vivian E. Ferry

  • Exploiting Exciton-photon Coupling for Enhanced Control in Photonic Devices
    Presented by: Yicheng Liu, Russell J. Holmes 

  • Moderate vacuum vapor processing of diverse perovskite chemistries
    Presented by: Emma C. Pettit, Wan-Ju Hsu, Russell J. Holmes

  • Semiconductor-Quality Pyrite FeS2 from Minnesota Iron Range Resources
    Presented by: Yeon Lee, Chris Leighton

  • Quantum Dot Luminescent Solar Concentrators in Agrivoltaic Systems
    Presented by: Kristine Q. Loh, Nathan J. Eylands, Uwe R. Kortshagen, Vivian E. Ferry Kristine Loh, Uwe Kortshagen, Vivian E. Ferry 

  • Conductivity vs Charge Density in Polymer Semiconductors
    Presented by: Jiazhen Xu, C. Daniel Frisbie


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