Henley gate at night.
Credit: Tony Mastres

 Upcoming Events

Dec
10

CPOS Seminar: "Achieving Visible Light Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers on III- Nitrides"

Speaker: Arturo Juan, Graduate Student Researcher, Steven DenBaars Group, Materials Department, 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: Structure, Thermodynamic, and Thermomechanical Characteristics of Semiconducting Polymers: Nomenclature, Property Conundrums, and Applications

Speaker: Distinguished Professor Harald W. Ade - Department of Physics and Organic and Carbon Electronics Laboratories (ORaCEL),  North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NCBiomolecular Science and Engineering

CPOS Seminar: Design and Tribological Characterization of Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogels

Speaker: Allison Chau, 5th yr graduate student, Materials Department, UCSB, Pitenis Group

CPOS Seminar - Electrochemical Detection of Insulators and Biomolecules

Speaker: Julia Chung, Graduate Student Researcher - Biomolecular Science and Engineering,  UC Santa Barbara, Sepunaru & Plaxco Group

 

CPOS Seminar: From molecules to functional materials via supramolecular self-assembly

Speaker: Dr. Lydia Sosa Vargas,  French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, France

CPOS Seminar: Advancements in Low-Temperature Processable Perovskite Solar Cells: Expanding the Substrate Landscape

Speaker: Dr. Ahra Yi,  CPOS-Nguyen Group, Pusan National University (PNU), Republic of Korea

CPOS Seminar: Exploring the potential of plastic electronics in microwave applications

Speaker: Giorgio E. Bonacchini, PhD – Printed and Molecular Electronics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

CPOS Seminar:"Ion-mediated polymer assemblies with tunable structures"

Speaker: KSENIIA KARNAUKH, Graduate Research Student, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Barbara 

May 24th, 2023 

CPOS Seminar:Controlled Synthesis of Degradable Diels–Alder Polymers Using Single-Component Cyclopentadiene Derivatives

Speaker: Thi M. Tran , PhD Student, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCSB

CPOS Seminar: Investigating the Interplay between Applied Potential and Precision of Particle Sizing in Single-Entity Blocking Electrochemistry

Speaker: Eric Liu , PhD Student, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCSB

CPOS Seminar: Donor Acceptor Stenhouse Adducts for deep, white light photo-mechanical response of liquid crystal elastomers

Speaker: Jesus Guillen Campos , PhD Student, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCSB