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SUMMARY:ChE 2025 Fall Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kevin Dorfman\, PhD\nDistinguished McKnight University
  Professor Head\, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science\, University 
 of Minnesota\n\nBiosketch:\n\nKevin Dorfman is presently a Distinguished M
 cKnight University Professor and Head of the Department of Chemical Engine
 ering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. His research i
 nterests lie primarily in polymer physics\, where he is especially well kn
 own for his work on applications of self-consistent field theory to block 
 copolymer self-assembly and integrated experimental and computational rese
 arch into DNA confinement in nanochannels. His research has been recognize
 d by numerous awards\, most notably the Colburn Award of the AIChE and a P
 ackard Fellowship\, and he is an Associate Editor for the ACS journal Macr
 omolecules. Prior to joining the University of Minnesota as an Assistant P
 rofessor in 2006\, Prof. Dorfman was a postdoctoral fellow at Institut Cur
 ie (Paris\, France) working with Jean-Louis Viovy from 2002-2005. He recei
 ved his MS (2001) and PhD (2002) in chemical engineering from MIT\, under 
 the supervision of Howard Brenner\, and received his BS in chemical engine
 ering from Penn State in 1999. \n\nTalk Title: Network phases in block pol
 ymers\n\n\nAbstract:\nThis presentation will explore our recent computatio
 nal research self-assembled network phases in block copolymers\, which can
  serve as templates for creating metallic metamaterials. In the first part
  of the presentation\, I will describe routes to produce single-gyroid pha
 ses\, chiral network with three-fold connectors. While single gyroid is me
 tastable in simple AB diblock copolymers\, blends of linear diblock polyme
 rs and neat melts of nonlinear copolymer architectures expose stability wi
 ndows for alternating gyroid and single gyroid\, respectively\, in experim
 entally accessible systems. The second part of the presentation will discu
 ss a new principle\, known as boundary frustration\, that guides terminati
 on plane selection between two non-preferential surfaces. Finally\, I will
  describe a new approach known as “generative SCFT” that leverages gen
 erative adversarial networks to learn from self-consistent field theory (S
 CFT) solution trajectories to propose new initial guesses for subsequent S
 CFT calculations. This approach not only identified all known block polyme
 r network phases\, but also uncovered a vast library of candidate network 
 phases. \n\n
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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