Program Description
- Learn about the field of advanced polymer materials to make a sustainable, equitable impact on global quality of life.
- Develop advanced polymer composites for improved quality of life through application in prosthetics, robotics, and wearable devices.
- Study new methods of upcycling poly (vinyl chloride) (PVC) to generate new methods of reusing and upcycling waste polymers.
- 3D print polymerizable ionic liquids and probe the impact of fundamental structure-processing-property relationships of printed structures.
- Biomanufacture human organoid extracellular matrix hydrogels and characterize the critical parameters for the growth of cells, creation of hydrogels, and application as tissue scaffolds.
Program Contact
- Dr. Amanda Koh, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, askoh@eng.ua.edu
Apply Online By: Friday, March 1st
