Amit Bhattacharya Accepts A New Position At Clemson University
The FaCT EFRC Team would like to congratulate Dr. Amit Bhattacharya on his new position at Clemson University!

The FaCT EFRC Team would like to congratulate Dr. Amit Bhattacharya on his new position at Clemson University!

The FaCT EFRC Team would like to congratulate Debjyoti Bhattacharya for his completed internship at Dow! [View LinkedIn Post]

The 2025 Breakthroughs in Polymers (BIP) Forum is a new initiative that the American Chemical society Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Division (PMSE) is organizing on Monday, August 18, 2025. The RUBB and BMGT division are partners in this effort. The BIP Forum aims to advance professional development of early career polymer scientists and engineers and to enhance interactions

Members of the FaCT EFRC Team attended the EFRC PI Meeting in Bethesda, MD, from August 11-12, 2025. Amit Bhattacharya, Lauren Shephard, and Jiyoung Ock participated in the Team Science Contest at the event. Dr. Catalin Gainaru and Dr. Chelsea “Xi” Chen gave technical presentations on research from their work with the FaCT EFRC. Autumn

The FaCT EFRC would like to congratulate Avanish Bharadwaj on their completed internship at Oak Ridge National Lab! [View Full LinkedIn Post]

The FaCT team gathered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to hold its 3rd Annual All Hands Meeting of the FaCT EFRC in May of 2025. The group discussed the research that was performed throughout the project and discussed plans for the renewal of the FaCT EFRC. Poster Session The poster session was held on May

Dr. Tomonori Saito, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named as one of the Battelle Distinguished Inventors in recognition of being granted 14 or more United States patents. Tomonori Saito, distinguished R&D staff member in the Chemical Sciences Division. The 2023 Battelle Inventor of the Year, Saito received ORNL’s Research Accomplishment, Outstanding Scholarly Output and

Congratulations to Dr Raphaële Clément, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States for being selected as the recipient of the 2024 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship. The Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship is an annual award, established in 2010, which honours early-career scientists who have made a significant contribution to the fields of materials chemistry. This year we

Dr. Valentino Cooper and Dr. Susan Sinnott attended the 2024 Science Summit for Energy Earthshot Innovation on September 4-5th. During this meeting. they presented the research summary for the FaCT EFRC and networked with other PI’s to seek potential collaborative opportunities.

Ralph Colby, Jodie Lutkenhaus, Alexei Sokolov, Xi Chen, and Hongwei Li attended the Polymer Physics Gordon Research Conference in South Hadley, Massachusetts in July of 2024.
