Macromolecular Science and Engineering
May 09, 2024
Hatsuo Ishida has spent nearly 50 years as a faculty member at APP. 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…
April 03, 2024
The Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at APP 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…
June 27, 2023
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…
January 09, 2023
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…
March 31, 2022
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 APP.) APP…
February 01, 2021
Emeritus Professor Jack Koenig, a founding faculty member of APP’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,…
December 11, 2020
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…
November 16, 2020
$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 APP will investigate ways to improve how common plastics are recycled, an effort supported…
October 01, 2020
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 APP researchers teamed up with the U.S. Army and a trio of industry partners to…
September 02, 2020
Members of the APP 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…