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Mr. Nelaka Govinna becomes Dr. Nelaka Govinna!

Congratulations are in order to Nelaka Govinna who successfully defended his PhD thesis on July 24! Nelaka joined the Cebe Research Group in the spring of 2016 and for the past three and a half years has worked tirelessly on his projects. His thesis focused mainly on the applications and fundamental properties of  the polymer

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Polymers for Advanced Technology class of 2019 wraps up!

Another year and another Polymers for Advanced Technology internship is over. This year we had 4 interns all from Rochester Institute of Technology, majoring in Laboratory Science Technology, and Biochemistry. All 4 worked exceptionally hard to characterize a family of zwitterionic polymers provided to them by our collaborators over in the Department of Chemical and

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Senior thesis hat trick: Miriam, Eduardo, and Jonathan successfully defend their senior theses!

Congratulations to Jonathan Minoff, Miriam Salcedo, and Eduardo Barrera for succesfully defending their senior thesis projects! For the past 2 semesters all three have been working on research projects in order to be awarded a bachelor’s degree with honors, and boy did they work hard. Jonathan’s project focused on measuring the dielectric properties of poly(vinylidene

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Cebe Research Group welcomes new members!

This spring semester the Cebe Research Group is excited to be joined by Isadora “Izzy” Shamah and Emily DeWolf. Izzy and Emily are both sophomores in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department. They will be working on projects related to electrospinning poly-caprolactone (PCL) this semester. With the addition of Emily and Izzy the total number

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Work on thermal properties of electrospun PVDF blended with fluorinated copolymer accepted for publication!

The work carried out by Nelaka Govinna investigating the thermal and structural properties of electrospun nanofibers of poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) blended with a highly fluorinated copolymer was accepted to the Journal of Polymer Science, Part B. Physics. This publication is the culmination of a research collaboration with the Asatekin group of the Tufts University Chemical

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