News
April 20th, 2021
Dr. Joshua Sangoro received a Professional Promise in Research and Creative Achievement Award from UTK!
April 8th, 2021
Thomas Kinsey passed his dissertation defense! Congratulations, Dr. Kinsey.
March 16th, 2021
Matthew Harris had an article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America!
February 16th, 2021
Dr. Emmanuel Mapesa authored an article published in Macromolecules.
December 24th, 2020
Thomas Kinsey had an article published in Macromolecules.
December 14th, 2020
Dr. Emmanuel Mapesa had an article published in Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
December 14th, 2020
Bryce Hansen and Stephanie Spittle's review article was published in Chemical Reviews!
September 4th, 2020
Thomas Kinsey's article was published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces!
June 26th, 2020
Dr. Emmanuel Mapesa had a paper published in Macromolecules!
June 8th, 2020
Jonathan Coote passed his disseration proposal defense!
March 27th, 2020
Jonathan Coote authored a paper published in ACS Macro Letters!
January 24th, 2020
Thomas Kinsey successfully defended his disseration proposal!
October 25th, 2019
Thomas Kinsey had an invited article published in The European Physical Journal E!
September 27th, 2019
Dr. Tyler Cosby had an article published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
July 29-30th, 2019
Dr. Sangoro and Stephanie Spittle attended the 2019 Energy Frontiers Research Center Principal Investigators' Meeting in Washington, D.C.
July 7-12th, 2019
Thomas Kinsey, Jonathan Coote, and Stephanie Spittle hosted three high school seniors in HITES12 program. The students' poster presentation won 3rd place at the HITES12 Engineering Design Showcase.
June, 2019
Dr. Sangoro is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Congratulations!
April 26th, 2019
Dr. Sangoro gave a talk at the College of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Akron.
April 16th, 2019
Dr. Sangoro gave a talk at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Tennessee Technological University.
April 11th, 2019
Dr. Sangoro received the 2019 Tickle College of Engineering Professional Promise in Research Award. Congratulations!
April 10th, 2019
Dr. Sangoro received the 2019 Tom and Ruth Clark Excellence in Chemical Engineering Award. Congratulations!
April 10th, 2019
Jonathan Coote received the 2019 Exceptional Progress Award for Outstanding 3rd year graduate student. Congratulations, Jonathan!
March 27th-28th, 2019
Stephanie Spittle, Dr. Emmanuel Mapesa, and Dr. Joshua Sangoro attended the "All Hands" Meeting for the Breakthrough Electrolytes for Energy Storage project funded by the Department of Energy EFRC.
March 4-8th, 2019
Stephanie Spittle, Kaitlin Glynn, Thomas Kinsey, Jonathan Coote, Matthew Harris, Dr. Emmanuel Mapesa, and Dr. Joshua Sangoro attended and presented posters or gave oral talks at the APS March Meeting.
January 3rd, 2019
Dr. Emmanuel Mapesa authored an article published in Macromolecules!
December 18, 2019
Dr. Maximilian Heres had an article published in Macromolecules.
November 7, 2018
Tyler Cosby successfully defended his PhD dissertation! Congratulations, Dr. Cosby!
August 12-17, 2018
Dr. Sangoro, Tyler Cosby, Emmanuel Mapesa, Matthew Harris, and Stephanie Spittle attended the Gordon Research Conference in Newry, Maine, where they all presented posters. Tyler won the Best Poster Award!
July 26, 2018
Maximilian Heres passed his PhD dissertation defense! Congratulations, Max.
July 13, 2018
Thomas Kinsey authored an article published in Macromolecules!
April 11, 2018
Kaitlin Glynn was awarded first place in the CBE undergraduate research poster competition.
April 11, 2018
Tyler Cosby was awarded the Jim and Sändra McKinley Outstanding Graduate Student Award.
April 26, 2018
Matthew Harris has an article published in Macromolecules.
Link to ArticleApril 2018
Dr. Joshua Sangoro was chosen for a NSF CAREER award.
LinkMarch 27, 2018
Tyler Cosby published an article in Physical Review Letters.
Link to ArticleMarch 5-9, 2018
Dr. Joshua Sangoro chaired a session and gave two talks at the APS March Meeting in Los Angeles, CA.
APS MeetingMarch 2018
Maximilian Heres was a coauthor on an article published in JOM.
Link to ArticleFebruary 2018
Tyler Cosby had an article published in The Journal of Chemical Physics.
Link to ArticleJanuary 8, 2018
Maximilian Heres was a coauthor on an article published in Nature Communications.
Link to ArticleDecember 2017
Tyler Cosby had an article published in The Journal of Chemical Physics.
Link to ArticleOctober 1-5, 2017
Dr. Joshua Sangoro gave an invited talk and Thomas Kinsey, Maximilian Heres, and Tyler Cosby contributed posters at the 232nd meeting of the Electrochemical Society in National Harbor, MD.
ECS MeetingSeptember 27, 2017
Dr. Joshua Sangoro gave an invited lecture titled, "Ion transport and dynamics in ionic liquids: insights from broadband dielectric spectroscopy" as part of Virginia Tech's Macromolecules Innovation Institute, Solvay Seminar Series in Macromolecular Science and Engineering in Blacksburg, VA.
August 16, 2017
Dr. Joshua Sangoro was a coauthor on an article published in ACS Macro Letters
Link to ArticleAugust 1-4, 2017
Tyler Cosby and Maximilian Heres contributed posters to the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences' Joint Nanoscience and Neutron Scattering User Meeting in Oak Ridge, TN.
User MeetingJuly 17, 2017
Congratulations to Tyler Cosby for the publication of his article "Dynamic-Mechanical and Dielectric Evidence of Long-Lived Mesoscale Organization in Ionic Liquids" in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
Link to ArticleJune 5-7, 2017
Maximilian Heres gave an invited talk and Thomas Kinsey and Tyler Cosby contributed posters at the Southeast Polymer Forum in Blacksburg, VA.
May 11, 2017
Congratulations to Zachariah Vicars on his graduation from UT with Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering! We wish Zachariah luck in his new position as a PhD student at the University of Pennylvania!
March 13-17, 2017
Dr. Joshua Sangoro gave a contributed talk and Maximilian Heres, Tyler Cosby, Thomas Kinsey, Matthew Harris, and Zachariah Vicars contributed poster presentations at the American Physical Society's Annual March Meeting in New Orleans, LA.
APS March Meeting 2017September 22, 2016
Dr. Joshua Sangoro gave an invited talk for the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ.
Stevens InstituteSeptember 16, 2016
Tyler Cosby gave an invited talk titled, "Proton Transport in Imidazoles: Unraveling the Role of Supramolecular Structure" at BDS 2016 in Pisa, Italy.
BDS 2016September 9, 2016
Congratulations to Max Heres for his paper "Probing Nanoscale Ion Dynamics in Ultrathin Films of Polymerized Ionic Liquids by Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy" being published in ACS Macro Letters!
ACS Macro LettersAugust 14-19, 2016
Dr. Joshua Sangoro gave an invited talk titled, "Charge Transport and Dynamics in Molecular and Polymerized Ionic Liquids" at the 2016 Gordon Research Conference for Ionic Liquids in Newry, ME.
GRCAugust 11, 2016
Dr. Joshua Sangoro gave an invited talk at the CNMS 2016 user meeting in Oak Ridge, TN.
CNMSAugust 10-11, 2016
The Soft Materials Group attended the 2016 CNMS Conference. Congratulations to Tyler Cosby for being named a finalist for Best Student Poster Award.
CNMSJuly 10-15, 2016
The Soft Materials Group hosted a HITES12 group.
HITES PageJune 2, 2016
Dr. Joshua Sangoro was invited to present at the 229th Electrochemical Society meeting in San Diego, California.
229th ECS MeetingApril 18, 2016
Dr. Joshua Sangoro, Maximilian Heres, Matthew Harris, and Thomas Kinsey presented at the 2016 UT&VT Polymer Workshop in Knoxville, TN.
Polymer WorkshopMarch 18, 2016
Congratulations to Zachariah Vicars for winning a top presenter award at the 2016 APS March meeting in Baltimore, MD!
APSMarch 18, 2016
Tyler Cosby, Maximilian Heres, Matthew Harris, Thomas Kinsey, Lauren Foote, and Zachariah Vicars presented posters at the 2016 APS March meeting in Baltimore, MD!
APSMarch 18, 2016
Dr. Joshua Sangoro gave a talk titled, "Charge transport and structural dynamics in nanoscale confined ionic liquids: role of the dimensionality of confinement" at the 2016 APS March meeting in Baltimore, MD!
APSSeptember 18, 2015
Congratulations to Tyler Cosby for his new paper entitled "Proton Transport in Imidazoles: Unraveling the Role of Supramolecular Structure" published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
PaperSeptember 2, 2015
Congratulations to Tyler Cosby and Max Heres on receiving 2nd place and honorable mention, respectively, for their posters at the 2015 Center for Nanophase Materials Science User Meeting at Oak Ridge National Laboratory!
Link to Event ORNLMay 13, 2015
Tyler Cosby presented a poster at PolyChar23 in Lincoln, NE!
PolyChar23May 12, 2015
Dr. Joshua Sangoro gave a talk titled, "Charge Transport and Structural Dynamics in Polymerized Ionic Liquids," at PolyChar23 in Lincoln, NE!
PolyChar23May 1, 2015
Welcome to our new group members, undergraduate researchers Zachariah Vicars and John Dooley!
April 15, 2014
Logan Terheggen participated in the undergraduate research competition, EUReCA, at UT where he placed third in the college of engineering and recieved the bronze award from the Office of Research and Engagement. Congratulations, Logan!
EUReCA 2015April 2, 2014
Congratulations to Logan Terheggen for placing first in the CBE department undergraduate research competition!
March 5, 2015
Maximilian Heres, Tyler Cosby, and Logan Terheggen presented posters at the 2015 APS March meeting in San Antonio, TX!
APSMarch 4, 2015
Dr. Joshua Sangoro gave a talk titled, "Structure-morphology-property relationships in polymerized ionic liquids," at the 2015 APS March meeting in San Antonio, TX!
APSJanuary 12, 2014
Welcome to our new group member, undergraduate researcher Carolina Araujo!
August 22, 2014
Welcome to our new group member, Ph.D. student Maximilian Heres!
