Symposium Agenda

ñ Innovation in Materials Science Symposium
Monday August 17, 2026

  • 8:30 – 9:20 Plenary Session, JSCBB A115, Butcher Auditorium
    • Prof. Stephanie Bryant, Presiding
    • 8:00 – 8:10 Introduction and Welcoming Remarks,Prof. Stephanie Bryant
    • 8:10 – 9:45 Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery technologies function, Clare Grey, Cambridge University
    • 8:45 – 9:20 TBD, Gregg Beckham, National Laboratory of the Rockies
  • 9:20 – 9:30 Break and Transition
  • 9:30 - 10:50 Parallel Sessions, JSCBB A115 and JSCBB A108
Parallel Sessions
  • JSCBB A115Materials-Based Start ups, TBD, Presider
    • 9:30 – 9:50 Tynt - Enabling the Intelligence for Glass, Tyler Hernandez, Tynt
    • 9:50 – 10:10 Parallax Volumetric Additive Manufacturing, Johnny Hergert, Manifest
    • 10:10 – 10:30 Prometheus Materials: From Concept to Commercialization, Wil Srubar, CU Professor and Prometheus
    • 10:30 – 10:50 Peter Hosbein,Mana Battery: Commercializing Materials Science Innovations in Sodium Batteries
  • JSCBB A108 Polymeric Materials, TBD, Presiding
    • 9:30 – 9:55 From foundational research to global standards: How NIST is enabling adoption of photopolymer additive manufacturing at scale, Callie Higgins, NIST
    • 9:55 – 10:10 Student/Postdoc Presentation
    • 10:10 – 10:35 Molecular Design Strategies for Mechanochemically Active Polymers, Prof. Max Robb
    • 10:35 – 10:50 Student/Postdoc presentation
  • 10:50 – 11:10 Break
  • 11:10 – 12:50 Parallel Sessions, JSCBB A115 and JSCBB A108
Parallel Sessions
  • JSCBB A115Polymeric and Other Materials, TBD, Presider
    • 11:10 – 11:35 Catalytic Chain Transfer Photopolymerization (CCTP^2): I gotta figure out how to make money on this thing. It’s simply too good, Prof. Brady Worrell, Denver University
    • 11:35 – 11:50 Student/Postdoc presentation
    • 11:50 – 12:15 Material innovations needed to achieve ultrahigh selectivity in practical nanoporous polymers, Prof. Cody Ritt, University of Colorado
    • 12:15 – 12:30Student/Postdoc presentation
    • 12:30 – 12:45 Student / Postdoc presentation
  • JSCBB A108 Biomaterials and Materials Characterization, TBD, Presiding
    • 11:10 – 11:35 Leveraging Fundamental Chemical Insights for Chemical Probe Development, Prof. Dylan Domaille, Colorado School of Mines
    • 11:35 – 11:50 Student / Postdoc presentation
    • 11:50 – 12:15 Preparing selective catalysts for fine chemicals production using self-assembled monolayers, Prof. Will Medlin, University of Colorado
    • 12:15 – 12:30 Student / Postdoc presentation
    • 12:30 – 12:45 Student / Postdoc presentation
  • 12:45 – 1:40 Lunch Break
  • 1:40 – 2:45 Parallel Sessions, JSCBB A115 and JSCBB A108
Parallel Sessions
  • JSCBB A115 Materials Development and Characterization, TBD, Presiding
    • 1:45 – 2:10 Anion Redox for Next-Generation Battery Cathodes, Prof. Kim See, University of Colorado
    • 2:10 – 2:25 Student / Postdoc presentation
    • 2:25– 2:50 Piezoelectric Biomaterials for Biomedical Devices: Design and Discovery through Unconventional 2D and 3D Printing, Prof. Jun Li, University of Colorado
  • JSCBB A108 Membrane and Other Materials, TBD, Presiding
    • 1:45 – 2:10 TBD, Prof. Virginia Ferguson
    • 2:05 – 2:25 Student / Postdoc presentation George
    • 2:25 – 2:50 TBD
  • 2:30 – 2:45 Break and Poster Setup
  • 2:45 - 4:00 Poster Session (Poster presenters with last names starting with A-K present from 3:00 – 3:45; Poster presenters with last names starting with L-Z present from 3:45 – 4:30)
  • 4:00 – 5:00 Plenary Session, JSCBB A115, TBD, Presiding
  • 4:00 – 4:30Low-Dose Non-Destructive Soft X-ray Imaging of Polymers and Nanomaterials, Prof. Margaret Murnane, University of Colorado
  • 4:30 – 5:00Chemically Recyclable Multiblock Polymers, Prof. Garret Miyake, Colorado State University