The July 31 issue of Science contains back-to-back articles from IPrime researchers. In the first article, the Tsapatsis group (NMP) reports a method to eliminate defects from porous zeolite membranes that have applications in the filtration and separation of small molecules [1]. In the second article, the Norris group (NMP & REM), in collaboration with the Oh group from Electrical and Computer Engineering, describes a simple technique to create ultrasmooth patterned metals for applications in plasmonics and metamaterials [2].
[1] J. Choi, H.-K. Jeong, M. A. Snyder, J. A. Stoeger, R. I. Masel, M. Tsapatsis, Science 325, 590 (2009). (link)
[2] P. Nagpal, N. C. Lindquist, S.-H. Oh, D. J. Norris, Science 325, 594 (2009).
Please join us in congratulating Distinguished McKnight University and Lloyd H. Reyerson Professor Timothy P. Lodge on being selected to receive the ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry.
IPrime welcomes our newest Industrial Fellow Eric Morrison from long-time member company ECOLAB. Eric will work part-time on a research project of mutual interest with Professor Alon McCormick of the Nanostructural Materials and Processes (NMP) Program while continuing to work at Ecolab. Since the inception of the Industrial Fellows IPrime program, over 127 IPrime Industrial Fellows from 34 companies have participated in this program.
Based in Japan, JFE Steel Corporation manufactures a variety of iron and steel products that it supplies to manufacturers of cars, electrical appliances, and shipbuilders, etc., all over the world.
Annual reviews of the IPrime Partnership's research occured May 26 - May 28, 2009 on the University of Minnesota's Minneapolis campus.
View Presentations from the 2009 Annual Meeting
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IPrime welcomes new industrial fellows from member companies: General Mills (Katya Barragan-Perez), Donaldson Company (Joe Block), and newest member company SKC (Charlie Yang). Since the inception of the Industrial Fellows IPrime program, over 125 IPrime Industrial Fellows from 33 companies have participated in this program.
The IPrime partnership expands to South Korea with SKC, the eco-friendly, and leading propylene oxide (PO) and polyester film producer in Korea. SKC's new PO plant in Ulsan successfully started the world’s first commercial production of PO based on hydrogen peroxide propylene oxide (HPPO) process.
Three IPrime workshops in January, 2009 were well-attended, in spite of bitter cold weather. More workshop details including some presentations from the Polymer Adhesion workshop are online.
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