{"607177":{"#nid":"607177","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Ph.D. Students Shine in Polymer Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ngrpc18.umn.edu\/\u0022\u003E2018 National Graduate Research Polymer Conference\u003C\/a\u003E (NGRPC18) recognized three Georgia Tech Ph.D. students for outstanding presentations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EAditi Khirbat \u0026ndash; top oral presentation\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EBrian Schmatz \u0026ndash; runner-up oral presentation\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EYoung Jun Yoon \u0026ndash; top poster presentation\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHeld in the Twin Cities campus of the University of Minnesota on June 10-12, the conference aims to facilitate interactions between graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and industry representatives.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/people\/aditi-khirbat\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAditi Khirbat\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E is a second-year Ph.D. student in the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE). She is a member of the research group of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/people\/natalie-stingelin\u0022\u003ENatalie Stingelin\u003C\/a\u003E. Organic functional materials are a major research area for Stingelin. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the Stingelin lab, Khirbat studies polymer blends for organic electronics applications, including photovoltaics. Her work includes processing, characterizing, and developing structure-property relations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKhirbat\u0026rsquo;s award-winning oral presentation at NGRPC18 described how various properties of polymer blends can be manipulated by controlled blending and processing. \u0026ldquo;I hope to obtain insights in the correlation of structure, optics, and device characteristics of these multicomponent systems,\u0026rdquo; Khirbat says. Ultimately, the goal is to improve the performance of devices made with polymer blends.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen he attended NGRPC18,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ww2.chemistry.gatech.edu\/reynolds\/node\/13\u0022\u003EBrian Schmatz\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E was a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and a member of the research group of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ww2.chemistry.gatech.edu\/reynolds\/node\/12\u0022\u003EJohn Reynolds\u003C\/a\u003E. Reynolds\u0026rsquo; research revolves around conducting and electroactive polymers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the Reynolds lab, Schmatz\u0026nbsp; has prepared\u0026nbsp;and characterized\u0026nbsp;electroactive conjugated polymers. These materials may be used in various printed-electronics applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor his runner-up oral presentation at NGRPC18, Schmatz talked about his work on ways to print conjugated polymers from aqueous solutions. The goal is to enable scalable and environmentally benign processing of electronic materials. Using the new method, Schmatz printed a transistor device using only environmentally benign solvents.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOn June 18, Schmatz successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, \u0026ldquo;Processing Components in \u0026pi;-Conjugated Polymers: Controlling Solubility, Morphology, and Functionality through Structural Design.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/people\/young-yoon\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYoung Jun Yoon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in MSE. He works with \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/people\/zhiqun-lin\u0022\u003EZhiqun Lin\u003C\/a\u003E, whose research focus is nanostructured functional materials.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUnder Lin\u0026rsquo;s direction, Yoon synthesizes and characterizes organic-inorganic hybrid materials for optoelectronics. Applications of these materials includes LEDs, lasers, and photodetectors. At NGRPC18, Yoon\u0026rsquo;s award-winning poster presentation described his work on a new way to prepare perovskite\u0026nbsp;quantum dots.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe method uses star-like block copolymers as nanoreactors. \u0026ldquo;Our polymer nanoreactors enable precise control over optical properties,\u0026rdquo; Yoon says. 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