Macromolecular Science and Engineering

Svetlana Morozova, assistant professor in the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, has been selected as a 2024 American Chemical Society (ACS), Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) Early Investigator. The award, given to 24 professors, government…

Hatsuo Ishida has spent nearly 50 years as a faculty member at Case Western Reserve University. In that time, he’s built a reputation as a global leader in the field of polymer science, having pioneered two groundbreaking discoveries that made monumental impacts on the study of polymer-based…

The Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University will host a technical symposium to honor the remarkable scientific contributions of CWRU’s esteemed Professor Hatsuo Ishida Friday, April 19, from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Mandel Community Studies…

Sometimes the best way to learn something new isn’t from a lecture, but from a hands-on approach. Graduate student Dillon Gagnon and others in the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, under the direction of Assistant Professor Svetlana Morozova, are using hands-on learning to…

It’s not everyday you walk into a classroom and see students using mixed-reality headsets to learn new concepts. Last semester, three classes in Case School of Engineering incorporated the HoloLens technology into their lesson plans, allowing students to learn in a new, highly visual and…

Svetlana Morozova, assistant professor of macromolecular science and engineering, focuses on understanding what happens when gels interact with surfaces (This is one of several stories about 2022 winners of the NSF CAREER award at Case Western Reserve University.) Case Western Reserve University…

Emeritus Professor Jack Koenig, a founding faculty member of Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering whose innovative use of modern spectroscopy revolutionized science's understanding of the characterization of polymer systems, passed away on Tuesday,…

Macromolecular science and engineering researchers Rajib Paul, Min Wang and Ajit Roy collaborated to publish novel research on transparent electronic and energy systems. In their article, titled “Transparent Graphene/BN-Graphene Stacked Nanofilms for Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution,” the…

$2.5 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to Case Western Reserve, industry partners part of $27 million effort to solve plastic recycling dilemma A team of researchers led by Case Western Reserve University will investigate ways to improve how common plastics are recycled, an effort supported…

Case Western Reserve and Polymer Plus partner with Army research lab to develop manufacturing approaches for cost-effective production of lightweight, high-performance polymeric materials Case Western Reserve University researchers teamed up with the U.S. Army and a trio of industry partners to…