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This award is sponsored by Mettler Toledo, awarded annually since 1968. This prestigious award recognizes distinguished achievement in the field of thermal analysis, including but not restricted differential thermal methods, thermogravimetry, rheology, and effluent gas analysis.

Brian Grady was announced as the 2025 winner of the North American Thermal Analysis Society Award for Outstanding Achievement (aka "the Mettler”) during the recent annual meeting in Dearborn, MI.  This award represents the highest honor bestowed by the Society.

We kick off our Autumn Semester Seminar Series with Professor Steven Crossley @OUCrossley from the University of Oklahoma @OU_CBME! Stop by for ☕️ &🍪 starting 11:00 am!

Brian Grady, our faculty in chemical engineering and the director of the Institute for Applied Surfactant Research, explained how dish soap works the best in this interview @wirecutter nytimes.com/wirecutter/rev…

Yesterday we had a retirement celebration party for our staff member Madena McGinnis, who has dedicated her service to this department for many years as our coordinator for undergraduate studies. Congratulations!

On Monday we celebrated Daniel's @resasco Lifetime Achievement Award during the OU VPRP's @OUResearch annual award ceremony. Introduced by our colleague Lance Lobban & award presented by interim VPRP Carol Silva. Congratulations!

Today we are happy to have Professor Michael Tsapatsis @JHU_ChemBE to give the 49th Annual Harry G Fair Memorial Lecture and excited to learn the progress of ZIF materials in gas separation and microelectronic applications.

Mason Rhue, working with Dr. Grady, just received a poster award from the 40th international conference of the polymer processing society (PPS-40) held in Auckland, New Zealand. Congratulations👍👍👍

This was a great opportunity to share the motivation behind the FASTER project and the future plans and potential impact of this project. linkedin.com/posts/faster-e…

Our latest PhD graduate, Matthew Webb, will join the membrane research team in Air Products, St. Louis (MO). Matt embodies the concept itself of excellence:

Klier, Razavi et al. report that the optimization of Albumin nanosphere synthesis makes glucose viable as an alternative crosslinker and results in colloidally stable particles, despite their surface degradation upon aging. @OU_CBME @OUResearch Read more: doi.org/10.1039/D4NR04…

Mason Rhue, a graduate student in Brian Grady's group, won the student presentation competition at the Texas Society for Microscopy meeting last Friday. Congratulations!

I am very fortunate and grateful to receive the PECASE award. Many thanks to @NSF, and the amazing students, mentors, and colleagues I have the privilege to work with! @OUResearch @resasco @OUAISES ou.edu/news/articles/…

Spring 2025 SCBME Seminar Series

Steven Crossley @OUCrossley has been awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers through NSF. This award is the highest honor bestowed by the federal government to outstanding early career research achievements. mailchi.mp/ou/nations-top…

The six finalists will each give presentations at a special symposium at the Fall National Meeting of the American Chemical Society which will be held in Denver, Colorado. Congratulations, Hesham!👏👏👏

Hesham Aboukeila, a @OU_CBME graduate student co-advised by Drs. Grady & Klier, was chosen as one of six finalists for the Eastman Chemical Student Award in Applied Polymer Science, by the Polymeric Materials and Science Division of the American Chemical Society @AmerChemSociety

Mason Rhue, a @OU_CBME graduate student advised by Dr. Grady, was awarded the Timpano Award for the best student presentation by the OK Microscopy Society.  As part of this award he attended the 2024 National meeting of the Microscopy Society of America and gave two presentations

Check our latest JMS paper out! lnkd.in/g4-h69Cx Lucas Condes shows us how to make highly selective membranes capable of sorbing significant amounts of condensable gases (and thus exhibiting high permeability) without exhibiting any plasticization up to 50 atm at least.

We are happy to announce a brand-new OU-ND Collaborative Project: Beyond fluorine: molecular-level understanding of the effect of bromination and chlorination on polymer membrane transport property and long-term stability lnkd.in/gd9BgcEc Stay tuned!