Materials Symposium

Date of event:May 5, 2025
Time of event:9am - 5pm
Location:
Whitaker 303

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May 5 2025 | 9am - 5pm

I-FMD encourages you to attend our 2025 Materials Symposium - this year's theme is "Sustainability in energy, materials, and chemicals." This full day event will focus on bringing experts in materials science from industry and academia to discuss the cutting-edge of materials research and how their work relates to the broad sustainability challenges facing society. The event will also feature a poster session by faculty and graduate students for networking, information exchange, and developing collaborations.

Overview schedule of events (Note that this schedule is subject to change - All events are in Whitaker 303 unless otherwise noted)

8:00 am	Check-In
9:00 am	Welcome and Introductions
9:20 am	Ryan Lively (Georgia Tech University) - Two keys for successful direct air capture: Adsorbent Contactors and Degradation (Keynote)
10:00 am	Katie Herbert (University of Delaware) - Transforming plastics innovation: Leveraging multi-disciplinary teams to shift the paradigm for the plastics lifecycle
10:25 am	Christian Hutter and Dawn Kentner (BBraun)
10:55 am	Networking Break
11:05 am	Alexa Dembek (DuPont) - Innovating for a Sustainable Future \| A DuPont Perspective (Keynote)
11:45 am	Elizabeth Biddinger (City College of New York) - Impact of Ionic Liquids at Electrified Interfaces
12:10 pm	Yan Wang (Corning)
12:35 pm	Lunch (HST Room L185)
1:30 pm	Poster Session (Whitaker Lobby)
2:30 pm	Amy Marschilok (Stony Brook University) - Energy storage materials: Progress and opportunities from the molecular to the mesoscale (Keynote)
3:10 pm	Michele Sarazen (Princeton University) - Reaction and deactivation mechanisms of MOF catalysts
3:35 pm	Dharik Mallapragada (New York University) - Systems perspective on electrification-based decarbonization of the chemical industry
4:00 pm	Preeta Datta (Evonik North America) - Collaborations across the value chain - How Evonik is enabling the Circular Economy
4:30 pm	Announcement of Winners of Poster Session and Closing Remarks