Congratulations to Zitan Huang of Penn State University on successfully defending his thesis on August 4, 2026. His thesis, titled “Polyelectrolytes for Energy Storage Applications,”
The Neutron Scattering Society of America (NSSA) has awarded the 2026 Clifford G. Shull Prize to Takeshi Egami, a UT-ORNL distinguished scientist and professor at
Congratulations to Lauren Shepard of Penn State University on successfully defending her thesis on June 12, 2026. Her thesis, titled “First-Principles and Molecular Simulation Insights
Congratulations to Debjyoti Bhattacharya! He was an honoree at Penn State’s annual Materials Visualization Competition in April, where his illustration, “Chaos to Conduction,” placed first
Congratulations to Debjyoti Bhattacharya, a recent recipient of Penn State’s Drs. Weiming Huang and Zi-Kui Liu Materials Genome Graduate Award. [View Article]
Congratulations to Dr. Jodie Lutkenhaus for being selected for the Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Awards for 2026, by Texas A&M College of Engineering.
Congratulations to Dr. Gangli Wang for being selected for the Outstanding Faculty Award (Tenure Track), College of Arts and Sciences, 2025 by the Georgia State
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,
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
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.
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
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
Jodie L. Lutkenhaus is a Professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University. She was born in Bedford, TX, then moved
Susan Sinnott, professor and head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State, will deliver the John F. McMahon Memorial Lecture at
Dr. Raphaële Clément is an Assistant Professor in the Materials Department at the University of California Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2016
UCSB Materials Professor Raphaële Clément has been awarded the 2023 Materials Today Rising Star Award and the ISE Prize for Electrochemical Materials Science. The MT energy
Tomonori Saito, a distinguished innovator in the field of polymer science and senior R&D staff member at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was honored as
The purpose of the ACS Global Outstanding Graduate Student and Mentor Award is to disseminate globally the latest knowledge of polymer research and to recognize