Henley gate at night.
Credit: Tony Mastres

 Upcoming Events

Dec
03

CPOS Seminar: "The Role of Charge-based Interactions on Water and Polymer Dynamics"

Speaker: Harrison Landfield, Postdoctoral Researcher / Segalman and Shell Groups / Department of Chemical Engineering / UCSB

Location: HYBRID (Zoom / In-person: 2520D PSBN (CPOS Conference Room) | 9:00am
Jan
29

A Symposium Celebrating Nobel Laureate Alan Heeger's 90th Birthday

Thursday, January 29th, 2026 / Corwin Pavilion/ University of California, Santa Barbara

Organizers: Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, Fred Wudl, Craig Hawker

Corwin Pavilion/ University of California, Santa Barbara | 9:00am
Jan
30

The Heeger Symposium on Organic Semiconductors and Electronics (HSOSE)

Friday, January 30th, 2026 / 1605 Elings Hall / University of California, Santa Barbara

Organizers: Thuc-Quyen Nguyen,  Grace Han,  Huiqiong Zhou, Junghwa Seo

1605 Elings Hall / University of California, Santa Barbara | 9:00am

 Events Archive

CPOS Seminar: Optical detection systems using various optical probes

Speaker: Prof. Yun Kyung Jung, School of Biomedical Engineering, Inje University, Republic of Korea / Visiting Professor - Center for Polymers and Organic Solids, UCSB / Nguyen Group

CPOS Seminar: Functional Motifs for Self-reporting and Stimuli-responsive Materials

Speaker: Livius F. Muff, Ph.D., Department of Materials, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; C. M. Bates, C. J.

CPOS Seminar: Reversible and size-controlled assembly of reflectin proteins using a charged azobenzene photoswitch

Speaker: Cassidy Tobin, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Chemical Engineering, Read de Alaniz Group, UCSanta Barbara 

CPOS-COPE WORKSHOP ON FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

The workshop will be held in person in Elings Hall with the opportunity for discussion and networking. The workshop will also include a poster session with poster awards.

Thursday, April 18th - Friday, April 19th, 2024 / Elings Hall, CNSI-1605

CPOS Seminar: Investigating Confined Thermodynamics of Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation using Electrochemistry

Speaker: Nick Watkins, PhD - Elings Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Sepunaru Group, UC Santa Barbara

CPOS Seminar: Dopant Distributions in Semicrystalline Conjugated Polymers from Resonant Scattering

Speaker: Phong Nguyen, PhD, Department of Chemical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara

CPOS Seminar: Chemical Recycling of Polyethylene by Tandem Catalytic Conversion to Propylene

Speaker: Garrett Strong, Graduate Student Researcher, Chemical Engineering, UCSB, Scott Lab

CPOS Seminar:Understanding the correlation between energy-state mismatching and open-circuit voltage loss in bulk heterojunction solar cells

Speaker: Professor Sung Heum Park - Department of Physics, Pukyong National University, Republic of Korea

CPOS Seminar: Theory of Sequenced Supramolecular Polymers

Speaker: Christopher Balzer, Postdoctoral Researcher, Fredrickson Group, Materials Research Lab, UCSB

CPOS Seminar: Polymeric Diazirines as Efficient Cross-linking Agents

Speaker:  Mizhi Xu, Postdoctoral Researcher, Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara; Craig J. Hawker Group