| Illustration from our paper on "Biological and man-made self cleaning surfaces" is featured on the cover of the August 2008 issue of the MRS Bulletin. The original images was taken by Saskia. | |
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| Our paper "Surface-bound soft matter gradients" is published as a Feature Article with a cover illustration in Langmuir. The Mar 18th, 2008 issue of Langmuir features on its cover an illustration from research conducted in the Genzer group. |  |
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| Our work on preparing random copolymers with tailored monomer sequence distribution has been featured in: | |
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Materials Today (10/2007) |
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| Our work on "waves of self-assembly" has been featured in several press releases: | |
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National Institute of Standards and Technology (6/2007) NCSU COE (7/2007) Cesky dialog (10/2007) |
NCSU (8/2007) Academic Bulletin (Czech Academy of Sciences) (8/2007) NSLS at BNL (11/2007) |
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| Our work on "waves of self-assembly" is listed on the cover of the 19th of June, 2007 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. |  |
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| Our work is featured with a cover illustration in Macromolecular Rapid Comminucations. The May 2, 2006 issue features on its cover an illustration from research conducted in collaboration between the Genzer group, the Rojas group (Wood and Paper Science, NCSU) and the Szleifer group (Chemistry, Purdue University). Experimental work for the project was conducted by NC State graduate students Young Jhon, Rajendra Bhat and Changwoo Jeong. |  |
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| Our work "Soft matter with hard skin: From skin wrinkles to templating and material characterization" has been featured in several press releases: | |
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Chemical Science (4/2006) |
NCSU (4/2006) |
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| Our paper "Soft matter with hard skin: From skin wrinkles to templating and material characterization" is featured with a cover illustration in Soft Matter. The April 7th, 2006 issue features on its cover an illustration pertaining to a review article by Jan Genzer and Jan Groenewold. |  |
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| Our work is featured with a cover illustration in Advanced Materials. The Decmber 5, 2005 issue contains our article titled “Controlling Cell Adhesion Using Surface-Grafted Polymer Gradient Assemblies” by Rajendra R. Bhat, a recent PhD student, our collaborators from Becton Dickinson Technologies Bryce N. Chaney, Jon Rowley, and Aandrea Liebmann-Vinson, and Jan Genzer. |  |
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| The Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department has moved to a new building on NCSU's Centennial Campus. We are now located in the Engineering Building 1 on 911 Partners Way. See new driving directions. Here are a few pictures. |
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| Dr. Genzer is selected to receive the 2005 John H. Dillon Medal of the American Physical Society. This is a great honor for the entire group as well as all our collaborators. |
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| Our work is featured with a cover illustration in Macromolecular Theory & Simulations. The April 14, 2004 issue contains our article titled “Monte Carlo Simulations of Copolymer Adsorption at Planar Chemically Patterned Surfaces: Effect of Interfacial Interaction” by James J. Semler, a recent PhD student, and Jan Genzer. |  |
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| Dr. Genzer has been appointed Adjunt Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), in association with the Ugelstad Laboratory at NTNU. |
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| Our work is featured with a cover illustration in Advanced Materials. The September 16 issue contains our article titled “Fabricating two-dimensional molecular gradients via asymmetric deformation of uniformly-coated elastomer sheets” by Jan Genzer and Kirill Efimenko, senior research associate in the Department of Chemical Engineering at NC State; and Daniel A. Fischer of the Material Science and Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD. |  |
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| In its April 14th, 2003 issue, C&E News published an article highlighting a symposium on polymer brushes that was held during this year's ACS meeting in New Orleans, LA. The work on combinatorial polymer brushes done in our group by Tao Wu and Michael Tomlinson has also been featured in this article. You can follow this link to find a copy of the C&E New article. |
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| Our work is featured with a cover illustration in Applied Physics Letters. The January 13 issue contains our article titled “Combinatorial near-edge x-ray absorption fine structure: Simultaneous determination of molecular orientation and bond concentration on chemically heterogeneous surfaces” by Jan Genzer; Daniel A. Fischer of the Material Science and Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD.; and Kirill Efimenko, senior research associate in the Department of Chemical Engineering at NC State. |  |
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| Jan Genzer was interviewd by Kathy Clabby from the local newspaper News&Observer on topics related to nantechnology. Clabby's article outlines several initiatives in nanotechnology that are currently under way at NCSU, Duke Univerisity, and the UNC CHapel Hill. A copy of the original article can be found here. An additional copy is available at the SmallTimes server. |
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| Our work is featured with cover illustrations in two journals: Langmuir: The American Chemical Society Journal of Surfaces and Colloids and Macromolecular Theory and Simulations. The June 28 issue of Macromolecular Theory and Simulations contains Genzer’s article titled “Copolymer Adsorption on Planar Chemically Heterogeneous Substrates: The Interplay between the Monomer Sequence Distribution and Interaction Energies.” The cover illustration for the July 23 issue of Langmuir accompanies an article entitled “Fabricating planar nanoparticle assemblies with number density gradients” by Rajendra R. Bhat, Daniel A. Fischer, and Jan Genzer. |  |  |
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| Two graduate students from our group participated in the Richard D. Gilbert Award Symposium for Students in Polymer Science. Tao Wu was the winner of the oral presentations with is talk on "Multivariant study of the mushroom-to-brush crossover in surface grafted polymers". Jim Semler won the poster contest with his poster on the "Design and interfacial activity of random-blocky copolymers with controlled sequence distributions". Congratulations to both Tao and Jim! |
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| CHE Junior, David Erel, working in the Genzer lab has been selected as a co-winner of the 11th Annual NC State University Undergraduate Research Symposium in Engineering section for his work on “Design and interfacial activity of random-blocky copolymers with controlled sequence distributions”. David also recently presented his work at the Spring meeting of the Materials Research Society, where he was one of 40 students selected to receive the Materials Research Society's prestigious 2002 Undergraduate Materials Research Initiative (UMRI) award. Congratulations, David! |
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| Jan Genzer received the 2002 Faculty Research Award of the North Carolina State University Chapter of Sigma Xi. |
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| Rajendra R. Bhat won the poster contest at the CHE Schoeneborn compeitition with his poster "Preparing 'gradients of nanoparticles' with controlled number density". Congratulations, Rajendra! |
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| Jan Genzer has been awarded a 2001 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. Here is the official NCSU annoucement. |
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| We have received an award from the National Science Foundation for studies of polymer-based nanostructured materials! The official announcement about this award can be found on the NC State University College of Engineering News page. Here is an additional copy of the announcement. |
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