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SUMMARY:IMX Seminar Series - Polymers\, Particles and Printing: Architecti
 ng Soft Matter for Energy Management
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Emily Pentzer\, Texas A&M University\, USA\nThe Pentzer 
 group uses fundamental polymer chemistry and emulsions to prepare composit
 e structures and establish structure-function-application relationships. E
 mulsions are biphasic systems in which droplets of one liquid (e.g.\, an o
 il) are dispersed in a continuous phase of another (e.g.\, water). These p
 hase-separated systems provide an ideal platform for the synthesis of comp
 osites of disparate materials\, including liquid-filled capsules\, highly 
 porous polymers coated with inorganic particles\, and feedstocks for 3D pr
 inting. The Pentzer group developed 2D particles as surfactants for differ
 ent fluid-fluid interfaces\, including oil-water\, oil-oil\, and ionic liq
 uid-oil\, and combines the high interfacial area with simple polymerizatio
 n approachs to fabricate hybrid structures.\nThis presentation will descri
 be the production of capsules with core of ionic liquid or phase change ma
 terial and their use in CO2 uptake and thermal energy management\, respect
 ively. Additionally\, the presentation will detail the integration of reac
 tive bonds into the capsule shell to support capsule fusion upon printing\
 , and the use of transition metal carbide nanosheets (i.e.\, MXenes) as su
 rfactants to produce composite films for electromagnetic interference shie
 lding.\n\nBio: Emily Pentzer is an Associate Professor in the department o
 f chemistry and the department of materials science and engineering at Tex
 as A&M University. She received a BS in chemistry from Butler University (
 2005) and PhD in chemistry from Northwestern University (2010)\, where her
  thesis focused on preparing and polymerizing unsaturated lactones and lac
 tams. She then worked with Professor Todd Emrick in the Polymer Science an
 d Engineering Department at UMass Amherst where she focused on the synthes
 is and assembly of electronically active materials for organic photovoltai
 cs. In 2013\, Dr. Pentzer started her independent career as an assistant p
 rofessor of chemistry at Case Western Reserve University and she moved to 
 Texas A&M in 2019.\nThe Pentzer Lab’s research centers on developing new
  polymeric materials and assemblies as a route to understand structure-pro
 perty-application relationships and access functions not possible with cur
 rent state-of-the-art systems. Her group works on the encapsulation of “
 active” liquids and gases\, designing and synthesizing new polymer chemi
 stries\, and developing feedstocks for additive manufacturing to produce m
 ultifunctional materials\, and these materials have applications in therma
 l energy management\, electrochemical energy storage\, and carbon capture.
 \nDr. Pentzer regularly participates in events aimed at professional devel
 opment of students and post-docs and facilitating their transition to vibr
 ant STEM careers. She has received several awards including the NSF CAREER
  award (2016)\, PMSE Young Investigator Award (2017)\, CWRU Faculty Divers
 ity Excellence Award (2019)\, ACS WCC Rising Star Award (2021)\, and was n
 amed a Texas A&M Presidential Impact Fellow (2021) and finalist for the Bl
 avatnik Award in physical sciences and engineering (2022). She served as a
 n Associate Editor for Polymer Chemistry from 2015-2023 and served as Alte
 rnate Councilor for the Polymer Division (POLY) of the American Chemical S
 ociety from 2020-2022. She currently serves as the inaugural Editor in Chi
 ef of RSC Applied Polymers (2023-present).
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