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April 14, 2025: Rakan Alrashdan wins Industrial Viability Research Award, sponsored by Parker Hannifin, at the Polymer Initiative of Northeast Ohio Conference (PiNO).\u00a0 Congratulations Rakan!\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

April 14, 2025: Nazanin Sadeghi wins Machine Learning and Computation Research Award, sponsored by Bridgestone, at the Polymer Initiative of Northeast Ohio Conference (PiNO).\u00a0 <\/span>Congratulations Nazanin!\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

April 14, 2025: Nazanin, Rakan, and Harry attend the Polymer Initiative of Northeast Ohio Conference (PiNO) at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

October 27, 2024: Dr. Khabaz gives a talk at American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AiChE) annual conference in San Diego, California.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

October 19, 2024: Nazanin, Harsh, and Rakan present their research at the Society of Rheology annual conference in Austin, Texas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

April 25, 2024: Nazanin Sadeghi wins best poster award at the Covestro poster session held at the University of Akron. Congratulations Nazanin!\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

March\u00a0 3, 2024: Nazanin, Harsh, and Hrishikesh present their research at American Physical Society (APS) March meeting in Minneapolis.<\/span><\/p>\n

February\u00a0 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!<\/span><\/p>\n

February\u00a0 26, 2024: Harry, Hrishikesh, and Rakan present their research at Polymer Initiative of Northeast Ohio Conference (PiNO) at Case Western Reserve University. <\/span><\/p>\n

November 16, 2023: Rakan Alrashdan joins our group as a Ph.D. student. Welcome Rakan!<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

October 20, 2023: Harsh, Nazanin, and Hrishikesh present their research at the American Physical Society-Eastern Great Lakes Section (APS EGLS) Fall Meeting,.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

August 21, 2023: Harry Kojo Yankah joins our group. Welcome Harry!<\/span><\/p>\n

August 17, 2023: Dr. Khabaz gave an invited talk at ACS Fall 2023 Meeting in San Francisco.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

May 26, 2023: Dr. Khabaz gave a Keynote talk at the Polymer Processing Society meeting in St Gallen, Switzerland.<\/span><\/p>\n

May 14, 2023: Dr. Khabaz receives the Paris-Sciences Chair Award and presents an invited talk at ESPCI Paris.<\/span><\/p>\n

March 8, 2023: Harsh presented his results on the effect of network defects on the microscopic dynamics of vitrimer at APS 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

February 1, 2023: Harsh won the Eastman Travel Award from the University of Akron. Congratulations!<\/span><\/p>\n

March 7, 2023: Dr. Khabaz gave an invited talk on the microscopic dynamics of vitrimers at APS 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

February 8, 2023: Rakan joins our group as an undergraduate researcher. \u00a0Rakan will work on the rheology of soft particle glasses. \u00a0Welcome to group Rakan!<\/span><\/p>\n

January 10, 2023: Our project entitled “Unfolding the elementary building blocks of dynamics and rheology of soft glassy materials” is funded by NSF.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

December 10, 2022: Daria successfully defended her PhD dissertation and graduated.\u00a0 Congratulations Daria!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

December 14, 2022: Daria’s paper entitled “A Molecular Dynamics Study on the Tribological Performance of Imidazolium\u2212 Based Ionic Liquids Mixed with Oil in Comparison to Pure Liquids<\/a>” \u00a0is published in Fluids. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

November 27, 2022: Our collaborative paper with Prof. Leipzig’s group is published in\u00a0Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

August 30, 2022: Alessandro’s paper entitled “Microscopic dynamics and viscoelasticity of vitrimers<\/a>” is published in Macromolecules. \u00a0Congratulations Alessandro!<\/span><\/p>\n

August 5, 2022 : Congratulations to Juhyeong for successfully finishing her REU program.<\/span><\/p>\n

July 7, 2022 : Congratulations to Alessandro for successfully defending his thesis.<\/span><\/p>\n

June 6, 2022 : Juhyeong joined the group as REU student. Welcome!<\/span><\/p>\n

May 13, 2022: Daria won the \u201cBest Poster Award\u201d on Polymer Appreciation Day, School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, University of Akron. Congratulations!<\/span><\/p>\n

May, 1, 2022: Our collaborative project entitled “Graduate traineeship on advances in materials science using machine learning” is funded by NSF.<\/span><\/p>\n

March 15, 2022: Daria won the General Travel Award from the University of Akron. Congratulations!<\/span><\/p>\n

March 15, 2022: Alessandro won the Dean Stephen Z.D. Cheng Award from the University of Akron. Congratulations!<\/span><\/p>\n

March 8, 2022: Alessandro’s paper: \u201dRheology of Styrene\u2013Butadiene Rubber: Bridging the Gap between Timescales of Atomistically -Detailed Molecular Simulations and Experiments\u201d is published in the ACS Applied Polymer Materials. Congratulations!<\/span><\/p>\n

January 5, 2022: Dr. Khabaz receives the Joliot-Curie Faculty Award from ESPCI Paris.<\/span><\/p>\n

November 15, 2021: Nazanin joined our group as Ph.D. Student. Welcome!<\/span><\/p>\n

November 15, 2021: Harsh joined our group as Ph.D. Student. Welcome!<\/span><\/p>\n

October 28, 2021: Alessandro won the Eastman Travel Award from the University of Akron. Congratulations!<\/span><\/p>\n

August 21, 2021: Alessandro’s paper: \u201cEffect of bond exchange rate on dynamics and mechanics of vitrimers\u201d is published in the Journal of Polymer Science. Congratulations!<\/span><\/p>\n

July 21, 2021: The recent collaboration between Daria Lazarenko, Fardin Khabaz, Adegbola Balogun, and Rajesh Khare at Texas Tech: \u201cExtending the timescale of molecular simulations by using time-temperature superposition: rheology of ionic liquids\u201d is published in Soft Matter. Congratulations to everyone!<\/span><\/p>\n

June 8, 2021: Seungyun joined our group as an undergraduate student. Welcome!<\/span><\/p>\n

May 27, 2021: Daria\u2019s paper: \u201cThermodynamics and Rheology of Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquid\u2013Oil Mixtures: A Molecular Simulation Study\u201d is published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B.<\/span><\/p>\n

May 25, 2021: Alessandro was awarded the Axalta Scholarship from the Powder Coating Institute (PCI). Congratulations!<\/span><\/p>\n

March 18, 2021: Daria presented her talk titled: \u201cBulk and interfacial thermodynamics and dynamics of ionic liquids-oil mixtures: A molecular dynamics simulation study\u201d at the 2021 APS March Meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n

March 16, 2021: Alessandro presented his talk titled: \u201cRheology of Vitrimers: A Hybrid Molecular Dynamics-Monte Carlo Simulation Study\u201d at the 2021 APS March Meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n

March 1, 2021: The Reducing Embodied-Energy And Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Institute invested $43 million in selecting 24 new projects.<\/a> One of these projects (Supramolecular<\/em> Interfacial Reinforcement for Manufacture Utilizing Mixed Secondary Plastic Feedstock<\/em>) is a University of Akron multi-lab collaboration (including the Khabaz Research Group).<\/span><\/p>\n

December 22, 2020: Alessandro was awarded 1st Place at the Poster Competition Award of the 2020 International Congress on Rheology (ICR). Congratulations!<\/span><\/p>\n

November 19, 2020: Alessandro presented his talk titled: \u201cRheology of Covalent Adaptive Networks Using a New Computational Technique\u201d at the 2020 AIChE annual meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n

August 4, 2020: Alessandro\u00a0 was awarded the SPE Foundation Automotive & Composites Division ACCE Scholarship. Congratulations!<\/span><\/p>\n

July 22, 2020: Alessandro Perego was awarded the SPE Foundation Irv Poston Detroit Section Scholarship. Congratulations!<\/span><\/p>\n

July 10, 2020: Our group was awarded $7,000 from the R C Firestone Research Fellowship!<\/span><\/p>\n

July 9, 2020: Dr. Khabaz presented his invited talk \u201cParticle dynamics predicts shear rheology of soft particle glasses\u201d at the virtual symposium on \u201cPhysics of Dense Suspensions\u201d organized by the Society of Rheology<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

May 12, 2020: Alessandro was awarded the ACS Rubber Division Student Chapter Scholarship for 2020. Congratulations!<\/span><\/p>\n

May 7, 2020: Dr. Khabaz\u2019s book chapter: \u201cThermal conductivity of polymer nanocomposites: applications of molecular dynamics simulations\u201d was published in the book Thermal Behaviour and Applications of Carbon-Based Nanomaterials.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

March 5, 2020: Dr. Khabaz\u2019s papers \u201cParticle dynamics predicts shear rheology of soft particle glasses\u201d and \u201cExcess entropy scaling for soft particle glasses\u201d got published in the special issue of the Journal of Rheology<\/em> on the Physics of Dense Suspensions.<\/span><\/p>\n

February 15, 2020: Daria joined our group as Ph.D. Student. Welcome!<\/span><\/p>\n

July 1, 2019: Alessandro joined our group as Ph.D. Student. Welcome!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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