April 25, 2024: Nazanin Sadeghi wins best poster award at the Covestro poster session held at the University of Akron. Congratulations Nazanin!
March 3, 2024: Nazanin, Harsh, and Hrishikesh present their research at American Physical Society (APS) March meeting in Minneapolis.
February 26, 2024: Rakan Alrashdan wins composite materials research award, sponsored by Owens Corning, at Polymer Initiative of Northeast Ohio Conference (PiNO) at Case Western Reserve University. Congratulations Rakan!
February 26, 2024: Harry, Hrishikesh, and Rakan present their research at Polymer Initiative of Northeast Ohio Conference (PiNO) at Case Western Reserve University.
November 16, 2023: Rakan Alrashdan joins our group as a Ph.D. students. Welcome Rakan!
October 20, 2023: Rakan wins the best poster presentation, which was based on his undergraduate research work in our lab, at American Physical Society-Eastern Great Lakes Section (APS EGLS) Fall Meeting.
October 20, 2023: Harsh, Nazanin, and Hrishikesh present their research at the American Physical Society-Eastern Great Lakes Section (APS EGLS) Fall Meeting,.
August 21, 2023: Harry Kojo Yankah joins our group. Welcome Harry!
August 17, 2023: Dr. Khabaz gave an invited talk at ACS Fall 2023 Meeting in San Francisco.
August 1, 2023: Dr. Khabaz gave an invited talk on the dynamical heterogeneities of soft particle glasses at the International Congress of Rheology in Athens, Greece.
May 26, 2023: Dr. Khabaz gave a Keynote talk at the Polymer Processing Society meeting in St Gallen, Switzerland.
May 14, 2023: Dr. Khabaz receives the Paris-Sciences Chair Award and presents an invited talk at ESPCI Paris.
March 8, 2023: Harsh presented his results on the effect of network defects on the microscopic dynamics of vitrimer at APS 2023.
February 1, 2023: Harsh won the Eastman Travel Award from the University of Akron. Congratulations!
March 7, 2023: Dr. Khabaz gave an invited talk on the microscopic dynamics of vitrimers at APS 2023.
February 8, 2023: Rakan joins our group as an undergraduate researcher. Rakan will work on the rheology of soft particle glasses. Welcome to group Rakan!
January 10, 2023: Our project entitled “Unfolding the elementary building blocks of dynamics and rheology of soft glassy materials” is funded by NSF.
December 10, 2022: Daria successfully defended her PhD dissertation and graduated. Congratulations Daria!
December 14, 2022: Daria’s paper entitled “A Molecular Dynamics Study on the Tribological Performance of Imidazolium− Based Ionic Liquids Mixed with Oil in Comparison to Pure Liquids” is published in Fluids.
November 27, 2022: Our collaborative paper with Prof. Leipzig’s group is published in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering.
August 30, 2022: Alessandro’s paper entitled “Microscopic dynamics and viscoelasticity of vitrimers” is published in Macromolecules. Congratulations Alessandro!
August 5, 2022 : Congratulations to Juhyeong for successfully finishing her REU program.
July 7, 2022 : Congratulations to Alessandro for successfully defending his thesis.
June 6, 2022 : Juhyeong joined the group as REU student. Welcome!
May 13, 2022: Daria won the “Best Poster Award” on Polymer Appreciation Day, School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, University of Akron. Congratulations!
May, 1, 2022: Our collaborative project entitled “Graduate traineeship on advances in materials science using machine learning” is funded by NSF.
March 15, 2022: Daria won the General Travel Award from the University of Akron. Congratulations!
March 15, 2022: Alessandro won the Dean Stephen Z.D. Cheng Award from the University of Akron. Congratulations!
March 8, 2022: Alessandro’s paper: ”Rheology of Styrene–Butadiene Rubber: Bridging the Gap between Timescales of Atomistically -Detailed Molecular Simulations and Experiments” is published in the ACS Applied Polymer Materials. Congratulations!
January 5, 2022: Dr. Khabaz receives the Joliot-Curie Faculty Award from ESPCI Paris.
November 15, 2021: Nazanin joined our group as Ph.D. Student. Welcome!
November 15, 2021: Harsh joined our group as Ph.D. Student. Welcome!
October 28, 2021: Alessandro won the Eastman Travel Award from the University of Akron. Congratulations!
August 21, 2021: Alessandro’s paper: “Effect of bond exchange rate on dynamics and mechanics of vitrimers” is published in the Journal of Polymer Science. Congratulations!
July 21, 2021: The recent collaboration between Daria Lazarenko, Fardin Khabaz, Adegbola Balogun, and Rajesh Khare at Texas Tech: “Extending the timescale of molecular simulations by using time-temperature superposition: rheology of ionic liquids” is published in Soft Matter. Congratulations to everyone!
June 8, 2021: Seungyun joined our group as an undergraduate student. Welcome!
May 27, 2021: Daria’s paper: “Thermodynamics and Rheology of Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquid–Oil Mixtures: A Molecular Simulation Study” is published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B.
May 25, 2021: Alessandro was awarded the Axalta Scholarship from the Powder Coating Institute (PCI). Congratulations!
March 18, 2021: Daria presented her talk titled: “Bulk and interfacial thermodynamics and dynamics of ionic liquids-oil mixtures: A molecular dynamics simulation study” at the 2021 APS March Meeting.
March 16, 2021: Alessandro presented his talk titled: “Rheology of Vitrimers: A Hybrid Molecular Dynamics-Monte Carlo Simulation Study” at the 2021 APS March Meeting.
March 1, 2021: The Reducing Embodied-Energy And Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Institute invested $43 million in selecting 24 new projects. One of these projects (Supramolecular Interfacial Reinforcement for Manufacture Utilizing Mixed Secondary Plastic Feedstock) is a University of Akron multi-lab collaboration (including the Khabaz Research Group).
December 22, 2020: Alessandro was awarded 1st Place at the Poster Competition Award of the 2020 International Congress on Rheology (ICR). Congratulations!
November 19, 2020: Alessandro presented his talk titled: “Rheology of Covalent Adaptive Networks Using a New Computational Technique” at the 2020 AIChE annual meeting.
August 4, 2020: Alessandro was awarded the SPE Foundation Automotive & Composites Division ACCE Scholarship. Congratulations!
July 22, 2020: Alessandro Perego was awarded the SPE Foundation Irv Poston Detroit Section Scholarship. Congratulations!
July 10, 2020: Our group was awarded $7,000 from the R C Firestone Research Fellowship!
July 9, 2020: Dr. Khabaz presented his invited talk “Particle dynamics predicts shear rheology of soft particle glasses” at the virtual symposium on “Physics of Dense Suspensions” organized by the Society of Rheology.
May 12, 2020: Alessandro was awarded the ACS Rubber Division Student Chapter Scholarship for 2020. Congratulations!
May 7, 2020: Dr. Khabaz’s book chapter: “Thermal conductivity of polymer nanocomposites: applications of molecular dynamics simulations” was published in the book Thermal Behaviour and Applications of Carbon-Based Nanomaterials.
March 5, 2020: Dr. Khabaz’s papers “Particle dynamics predicts shear rheology of soft particle glasses” and “Excess entropy scaling for soft particle glasses” got published in the special issue of the Journal of Rheology on the Physics of Dense Suspensions.
February 15, 2020: Daria joined our group as Ph.D. Student. Welcome!
July 1, 2019: Alessandro joined our group as Ph.D. Student. Welcome!