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Chinedum Osuji Eduardo D. Glandt Presidential Professor Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Address: 220 South 33rd Street, Towne 346, Philadelphia PA 19104 Phone: +1-215-573-3608; Email: [email protected] Professional Preparation • Cornell University, U.S.A. Materials Science & Engineering B.S. 1996 • M.I.T., U.S.A Materials Science & Engineering Ph.D. 2003 • Harvard University, U.S.A Applied Physics Postdoc 2005 –2007 Appointments 7/2018-present Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania 2012-6/2018 Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Yale University 2007-2012 Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Yale University 2006-2007 Research Scientist, Chemical Engineering, Yale University 2002-2005 Senior Research Scientist, Surface Logix Inc., Brighton MA Research Interests Polymer Science and Soft Matter : Structure, dynamics and functional properties of soft materials and complex fluids. Self-assembly of soft materials and nano-structures. Processing polymers to create functional materials and structures. Pattern formation in soft matter by novel application of external fields such as chemical surface forces, magnetic fields and periodic pressure gradients. Scattering methods to study structure and properties of soft matter. Rheological investigation of dynamics in complex fluids. HONORS/AWARDS • 2019 Nano Research Young Investigator Award • 2018 Fellow of the American Physical Society • 2018 Racheff Lecturer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign • 2016 Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Mentor Award • 2016 YSEA Award for Advancement of Basic and Applied Science • 2015 Hendrick C. Van Ness Award • 2015 American Physical Society John H. Dillon Medal • Lange Lectureship, Materials Department, UCSB, Feb. 2013 • 2015 National Academy of Engineering/von Humboldt Frontiers of Engineering Speaker • Polymer Physics Gordon Research Conference, Invited Speaker, July 2014 • Polymers Gordon Research Conference, Invited Speaker, June 2013 • Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 2012 • 3M Nontenured Faculty Award, 2012 • ACS PMSE Young Investigator Symposium Speaker, Aug. 2012 • AIChE Emerging Areas in Polymer Science Speaker, Oct 2012 • Dow Distinguished Lectureship, UCSB Materials Research Lab, Feb. 2011 • Macromolecular Materials Gordon Research Conference Invited Speaker, Ventura CA, Jan. 2011 • Yale Science and Engineering Association “Advancement of Basic Science” Award, 2016 • Yale College Arthur Greer Memorial Prize 2010 • National Science Foundation CAREER award, 2008. • American Physical Society – 2001 Padden Award Finalist • Omnova Polymer Science Award – MIT 2000 1 PUBLICATIONS 123. “Shaping and Locomotion of Soft Robots using Filament Actuators made from Liquid Crystal Elastomer-Carbon Nanotube Composites.” J. Liu, Y. Gao, H. Wang, R. Poling-Skutvik, C. O. Osuji, S. Yang. Accepted. Advanced Intelligent Systems (2020). doi: 122. “Green Manufacturing of Sensors for Soft Systems using Self-Coagulating Conductive Pickering Emulsions.” S. Y. Kim, Y. Choo, R. A. Bilodeau, M. C. Yuen, G. Kaufman, D. S. Shah, C. O. Osuji, R. Kramer-Bottiglio. In Revision. Science Robotics (2020). doi: 121. “Electrospray Deposition Tool: Creating Compositionally Gradient Libraries of Nanomaterials.” K. Toth, K. Yager, C. O. Osuji, G. Doerk. Review of Scientific Instruments 91, 013701 (2020). doi: 10.1063/1.5129625 120. “Aligned Morphologies in Near-Edge Regions of Block Copolymer Thin Films.” M. Basutkar, P. W. Majewski, G. Doerk, K. Toth, C. O. Osuji, A. Karim, K. Yager. Macromolecules (2019). doi: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01703 119. Precise nanofiltration in a fouling-resistant self-assembled membrane with water-continuous transport pathways. X. Feng, Q. Imran, Y. Zhang, L. Sixdenier, X. Lu, G. Kaufman, U. Gabinet, K. Kawabata, M. Elimelech, C. O. Osuji. Science Advances, 5 (8), eaav9308 (2019). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav9308 118. “Single crystal texture by directed molecular self-assembly along dual axes.” X. Feng, K. Kawabata, M. G. Cowan, G. E. Dwulet, K. Toth, L. Sixdenier, A. Haji-Akbari, R. D. Noble, M. Elimelech, D. L. Gin, C. O. Osuji. Nature Materials (2019). doi:10.1038/s41563-019-0389-1 117. “Optical materials and metamaterials from nanostructured soft matter.” U. R. Gabinet, C. O. Osuji. Nano Research 12 (9), 2172–2183(2019) doi: 10.1007/s12274-019-2437-1 116. “The Effects of Magnetic Field Alignment on Lithium Ion Transport in a Polymer Electrolyte Membrane with Lamellar Morphology.” P. W. Majewski, M. Gopinadhan, C. O. Osuji. Polymers 2019, 11 (5), 887; doi:10.3390/polym11050887 115. “Tuning the permselectivity of polymeric desalination membranes via control of polymer crystallite size.” X. Lu, X. Feng, Y. Yang, J. J. Wei Cheng, C. Liu, M. Gopinadhan, C. O. Osuji, J. Ma, M. Elimelech. Nature Communications 10, 2347 (2019). doi:10.1038/s41467-019-10132-0 114. “Creating Aligned Nanopores by Magnetic Field Processing of Block Copolymer/Homopolymer Blends. Y. Rokhlenko, D. Moschovas, C. Miskaki, E. P. Chan, A. Avgeropoulos, C. O. Osuji. ACS Macro Letters 8 (3) 261-266 (2019). doi: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.9b00043 113. “Atomic Imprinting into Metallic Glasses.” R. Li, Z. Chen, A. Datye, G. Simon, J. Ketkaew, E. Kinser, Z. Liu, C. Zhou, O. Dagdeviren, S. Sohn, J. Singer, C. Osuji, J. Schroers, U. Schwarz. Communications Physics 1, 75 (2018). doi: 10.1038/s42005-018-0076-6 112. “3D Compatible Sacrificial Nanoimprint Lithography for Tuning the Wettability of Thermoplastic Materials.” M. Hasan, I. Shajahan, M. Gopinadhan, J. Ketkaew, A. Anesgart, C. Cho, S. Chopra, M. Higgins, S. Reyes, J. Schroers, C. O. Osuji, J. Singer. Journal of Micro and Nano-Manufacturing 6 (4), 041003 (2018). doi:10.1115/1.4041532 111. “Self-Assembly of an Ultrahigh-χ Block Copolymer with Versatile Etch Selectivity.” K. Azuma, J. Sun, Y. Choo, Y. Rokhlenko, J. H. Dwyer, B. Schweitzer, T. Hayakawa, C. O. Osuji, P. Gopalan. Macromolecules, 51 (16), 6460–6467 (2018). doi:10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01409 110. “Fabrication of a Desalination Membrane with Enhanced Microbial Resistance through Vertical Alignment of Graphene Oxide.” X. Lu, X. Feng, X. Zhang, M. N. Chukwu, C. O. Osuji, M. Elimelech. Environmental Science & Technology Letters 5 (10), pp 614–620 (2018). doi:10.1021/acs.estlett.8b00364 109. “Sub-10 nm Self-Assembly of Mesogen-Containing Grafted Macromonomers and Their Bottlebrush Polymers.” Y. Rokhlenko, K. Kawamoto, J. A. Johnson, C. O. Osuji. Macromolecules 51 (10), 3680–3690 (2018). doi:10.1021/acs.macromol.8b00261 108. “Janus Graft Block Copolymers: Design of Polymer Architecture for Independently Tuned Nanostructures and Polymer Properties.” Z. Guo, A. Le, X. Feng, Y. Choo, B. Liu, D. Wang, Z. 2 Wan, Y. Gu, J. Zhao, V. Li, C. O. Osuji, J. A. Johnson, M. Zhong. Angewandte Chemie 57 (28) 8493-8497 (2018). doi:10.1002/anie.201802844 107. “Facile protein immobilization using engineered surface active biofilm proteins.” D. Williams, G. Kaufman, H. Izadi, A. Gahm, S. Prophet, T. K. Vanderlick, C. O. Osuji, L. Regan. ACS Applied Nano Materials 1 (6), 2483–2488 (2018) 106. “Directed Assembly of Hybrid Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites.” S. Zhang, C. I. Pelligra, X. Feng, C. O. Osuji. Advanced Materials 1705794 (2018). doi:10.1002/adma.201705794. 105. “Pathway-engineering for Highly-aligned Block Copolymer Arrays.” Y. Choo, P. W. Majewski, M. Fukuto, C. O. Osuji, K. G. Yager. Nanoscale 10, 416-427 (2018). doi:10.1039/C7NR06069F 104. “Enhanced Antibacterial Activity Through the Controlled Alignment of Graphene Oxide Nanosheets.” X. Lu, X. Feng, J. R. Werber, C. Chu, I. Zucker, J-H. Kim, C. O. Osuji, M. Elimelech. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114 (46) E9793–E9801 (2017). doi:10.1073/pnas.1710996114 103. “Hexagonally Ordered Arrays of α-Helical Bundles Formed from Peptide-Dendron Hybrids.” D. A. Barkley,Y. Rokhlenko, J. E. Marine, R. David, D. Sahoo, M. D. Watson, T. Koga, C. O. Osuji, J. G. Rudick. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139 (44), 15977-15983 (2017). doi: 10.1021/jacs.7b09737. 102. “Photoresponsive and Magnetoresponsive Graphene Oxide Microcapsules Fabricated by Droplet Microfluidics.” G. Kaufman, K. A. Montejo, A. Michaut, P. W. Majewski, C. O. Osuji. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces doi: 10.1021/acsami.7b14448 (2017). 101. “Directing Block Copolymer Self-Assembly with Permanent Magnets: Photopatterning Microdomain Alignment and Generating Oriented Nanopores.” M. Gopinadhan, Y. Choo, L. H. Mahajan, G. Kaufman, D. Ndaya, Y. Rokhlenko, R. M. Kasi, C. O. Osuji. Molecular Systems Design & Engineering, In Press (2017) doi:10.1039/C7ME00070G. 100. Evaluating dispersant stabilization of colloidal suspensions from the scaling behavior of gel rheology and adsorption measurements. F. Khalkhal, A. Negi, J. Harrison, C. D. Stokes, D. L. Morgan, C. O. Osuji. Langmuir 34 (3), 1092–1099 (2018). doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b03343 99. “Flat Drops, Elastic Sheets and Microcapsules Formed by Interfacial Assembly of a Bacterial Biofilm Protein.” G. Kaufman, W. Liu, D. M. Williams, Y. Choo, M. Gopinadhan, N. Samudrala, E. Yan, L. Regan, C. O. Osuji. Langmuir (2017). doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b03226. 98. “Loss of Phospholipid Membrane Integrity Induced by Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials.” I. Zucker, J. R. Werber, Z. S. Fishman, S. M. Hashmi, U. R. Gabinet, X. Lu, C. O. Osuji, L. D. Pfefferle, M. Elimelech. Environmental Science & Technolgy Letters 4 (10), 404–409 (2017) . doi: 10.1021/acs.estlett.7b00358 97. “Controlling Orientational Order in Block Copolymers