Congratulations to Hansini and Javad on receiving the following awards from our School:
Hansini: The Maria D. Ellul and Jeffery L. Sain Endowed Fellowship in the School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering
Javad: The Irja and Aleksander Piirma Fellowship in Polymer Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2024<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Welcome to Haoliu Chen and Qishun Xu to the team<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Welcome to Johan Fernando and Charles Cordts to the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2022<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Welcome to Farzad Toiserkani to the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Welcome to Javad Tamnanloo and Everen Wegner to the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Congratulations to 2022 graduate Nityanshu Kumar!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Congratulations to Zijun Lu on successfully defending his PhD thesis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Congratulations to 2019 graduates Zhe Zhao and Kun Qian!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2018<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Congratulations to 2018 graduates Selemon Bekele and Saeed Akbari!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The following appeared in external news<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Work titled \u201cSurface Enrichment Driven by Polymer Topology\u201d – by a team of researchers in UKZN\u2019s School of Chemistry and Physics has been published in the American Physical Society\u2019s Physical Review, denoting its significance to the scientific community working in the fields of polymer and biological physics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr Giuseppe Pellicane, Professor Genene T. Mola and their PhD student, Ms Mireille Megnidio-Tchoukouegno, who led the research, collaborated with the University of Akron in Ohio, home to the research center with the largest programme in polymer science in the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n 2025 Our Fall 2025 group meeting will be on Mondays in GDYR #304 starting from 3 PM. Here is the order of presentation: Congratulations to Hansini and Javad on receiving the following awards from our School:Hansini: The Maria D. Ellul and Jeffery L. Sain Endowed Fellowship in the School of Polymer Science and Polymer EngineeringJavad: The Irja and Aleksander Piirma Fellowship in Polymer Science 2024 Welcome to Haoliu Chen and Qishun Xu to the team Welcome to Johan Fernando and Charles Cordts to the team. 2022 Welcome to Farzad Toiserkani to the team. Welcome to Javad Tamnanloo and Everen Wegner to the team. Congratulations toRead More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2262,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","author-mtsige-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","post-363","page","type-page","status-publish"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mtsige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mtsige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mtsige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mtsige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mtsige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mtsige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2654,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mtsige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/363\/revisions\/2654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mtsige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mtsige\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1214\/2018\/12\/Physics-Researchers-Work-Featured-in-Physical-Review_UKZN.jpg\")
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