Group Members




Current Members

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Siao Fong Li

Research: Polyelectrolyte gel

Education:
  • Ph.D in Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • M.S. in Physics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  • B.S. in Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Email: siaofongli@umass.edu
Kuo Chen

Research: Dynamics of polyelectrolyte under confinement

Education:
  • Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry and Physics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science
  • B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Technology, Wuhan Institute of Technology
Email: kuochen@umass.edu


Xuhong Chen

Research: Vision physics

Education:
  • B.S. in Chemistry, Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen
Email: xuhongchen@mail.pse.umass.edu
Samuel Hoover

Research: Analytical and machine learning study of phase behavior of charged multicomponent polymers

Education:
  • B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Clarkson University
Email: samuelhoover@umass.edu
Website: samuelhoover.github.io
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/samuel-hoover


Zichen (Sherri) Jin

Research: Kinetics of polyelectrolytes

Education:
  • B.S. in Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Email: zjin@umass.edu
Minglun Li

Research: Thermodynamics and dynamics of polyelectrolyte gel

Education:
  • Postdoc, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
  • Ph.D. in Chemistry and Physics of Polymers, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science
  • B.S. in Polymer Materials and Engineering, Jilin University
Email: minglunli@umass.edu


Yeseul Lee

Research: Hydrogel device

Education:
  • B.S. in Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, Ewha Womans University, South Korea
Email: yeseullee@umass.edu
Cheng-Han Li

Research: Thermal conductivity

Education:
  • B.S. in Chemical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Email: chenghanli@umass.edu


Gyounglyul Jo

Research: Polymer translocation

Education:
  • M.S. in Polymer Engineering, Chonnam National University, South Korea
  • B.S. in Polymer Science and Engineering, Chonnam National University, South Korea
Email: gjo@umass.edu
Pranav Viswanathan

Research: Polyelectrolyte complexation

Education:
  • B.S. in Chemistry (expected 2024), University of Massachusetts Amherst
Email: pviswanathan@umass.edu



Alumni

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Shibananda Das
Yu-Lin (Cynthia) Wang
Khatcher O. Margossian
Tapas Singha
Sadhana Chalise
Di Jia
Uma Nudurupati
Kiran Subramaniam Iyer
Zachary Dell
Sabin Adhikari
Kateryna Khairulina
Ining Jou (Amy)
Prabhat Tripathi
Hamidreza Shojaei
Michael Leaf
Svetlana Morozova
Debasish Mondal
Harsh Katkar
Anand Rahalkar
Ning Ouyang
Byoung-Jin Jeon
Jyoti Prakash Mahalik
Awaneesh Singh
Mithun Kumar Mitra
Homin Shin
Deniz Elizabeth Civay
Alexander Eliseev
Sami Fakhouri
Jing Hua
Mark Kelly
Stephen Mirigian
Benjamin Mohr
Clay Pearson
Bo Peng
Yanbo Wang
Arnout Boelens
Buddhapriya Chakrabarti
Arindam Kundagrami
Ajay Panwar
Xinhang Xu
Nivaskumar Ramaswamy
Erica Saltzman
Rajeev Kumar
Chiu Tai Andrew Wong
Chris Forrey
Jessica L. McCoy
Abhijit Sarkar
Joe McNamara
Sonoko Kanai
Chung Yin Kong
B. Ashok
Bernhard Fischer
Kingshuk Ghosh
Mike Pollard
Chester Liu
Dirk Petera
Friedel vonGoeler
Jonathan Zissu
Lars Kielhorn
Lee Rockford
Vivek Prabhu
Paul Welch
Radu Mondescu
Yvonne Akpalu
Chilun Lee
Manoj Chellamuthu
Deniz Kaya
Ryan Murphy
Zhaoyang Ou
Joanna Pool
Jiafang Wang
Vladimir Belyi
Gustavo Carri
Shulan Liu
Sunil P. Singh
Gustavo Epalza-Sanchez