Macromolecular Science and Engineering

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…

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to participate in the inaugural Global Symposium on Janus Particles (GSJP) Oct. 1 – 2. Janus particles, named after the Roman god, are double-faced particles with faces of different chemistry and polarity. This duality gives…

Rigoberto Advincula, professor of macromolecular science and engineering, was appointed curator of the Advanced Materials Strategic Intelligence Briefing site of the World Economic Forum. Advincula helped create this site and the categories by which members of the World Economic Forum have used it…

Name: William “Bill” Lenart (CWRU ’13)Program: PhD in macromolecular science and engineering; focus on polymer physicsClass Year: 6th year William “Bill” Lenart turned rejection into an opportunity, and not just for himself—for all. After his National Science Foundation Graduate Research…

Gary Wnek, the Joseph F. Toot Jr. Professor of Engineering, has been named chair of the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering. A renowned polymer researcher with particular expertise in nanomaterials and medical polymers, Wnek has been instrumental in championing the incorporation…