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Chinedum Osuji @cosuji.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Looking forward to the 2026 CBE Graduate Student Symposium, on October 16th. It's a fantastic day-long event engaging students, faculty and regional industry representatives, on Penn's campus. For more info and registration, go to cbegss.seas.upenn.edu @pennengineering.bsky.social

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Chinedum Osuji @cosuji.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

How do AI and Autonomous Experimentation accelerate materials research? How is that shaped by policy, and in turn, impacting future policy? Come to the 4th Penn SoftAE Symposium to learn more. May 1, 2026. Register here: soft-ae.seas.upenn.edu/softae-sympo... @pennengineering.bsky.social

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Chinedum Osuji @cosuji.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

That's a wrap on the 16th Grad Student Symposium in CBE@Penn [11.14.2025]. Great day of talks, posters, and networking among students, faculty, industry representatives and colleagues. Thanks to Lonza, Axalta and Arkema for generous sponsorship! @cbe-penn.bsky.social @pennengineering.bsky.social

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Chinedum Osuji @cosuji.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Folks doing research in polymer science - nominate your outstanding graduate students for the APS DPOLY Padden award. More information is available here: engage.aps.org/dpoly/honors... . Deadline for nomination is 5 PM ET 10/23. @cemilyd.bsky.social

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Prizes & Awards - Unit - DPOLY

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Chinedum Osuji @cosuji.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

The CBE Graduate Student Symposium (GSS) returns Nov. 14, 2025! Join us for a full day of research talks, poster sessions, and networking opportunities with experts across industry and academia–– led by our very own graduate students. @pennengineering.bsky.social

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Chinedum Osuji @cosuji.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Happy to see this in print - remarkably robust ion specific effects on the rheology of cellulose nanofibrils, in both intrinsic viscosity and elastic modulus. Great work by R. (Ning) Wattana and D. Park, supported by CEMB STC. doi.org/10.1039/D5SM...

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Ion specific effects on the rheology of cellulose nanofibrils in the presence of salts

Cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) are high-aspect-ratio semiflexible filaments that can modify the rheology of fluids in which they are suspended. This work addresses the role of ionic strength in the rheo...

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Chinedum Osuji @cosuji.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

3rd Annual SoftAE Symposium: Martin Seifrid from NCSU on "Data-Driven Organic Materials Lab". @pennengineering.bsky.social #softae

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Chinedum Osuji @cosuji.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

3rd Annual Soft-AE Symposium is underway, with Jie Xu from Argonne discussing autonomous experimentation, including on electronic polymers. @pennengineering.bsky.social

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Chinedum Osuji @cosuji.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Looking forward to the 3rd Annual Symposium (tomorrow, 5/2) on Autonomous Experimentation in Soft Materials & Science Policy, part of the Penn "Soft AE NRT". Great lineup of speakers.

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Chinedum Osuji @cosuji.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

CBE@Penn had the pleasure of hosting Victor Zavala for our department seminar. Great talk on using geometry (topology!), optimization and machine learning to transform data to decisions, in varied contexts. @pennengineering.bsky.social

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Chinedum Osuji @cosuji.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

It's that time of the semester/academic year, when things start happening at a furious pace. Big congrats to Chris Johnson, who defended his outstanding PhD thesis on ion transport in 1 nm-scale pores of self-assembled polymer membranes. @pennengineering.bsky.social

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Ryan Poling-Skutvik @rpslab.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Visiting @ucdavisengineering.bsky.social for the day! Looking forward to some good science discussions. Thanks to Tonya Kuhl and the rest of the CHE department for the seminar invitation.

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Chinedum Osuji @cosuji.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Chemical and biomolecular/biological engineers - do you have good suggestions for "casual reading" for undergrads entering the field? Stuff along the lines of "The Chemical Age" or "Four Laws That Drive the Universe", but particularly on the bio-side? I am assembling a short reading list. Thx!

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Chinedum Osuji @cosuji.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Last paper with my friend & collaborator Doug Gin who passed away in a tragic accident last year. We enjoyed working together on molecular design for nanoporous polymers. This work highlights morphology and hydration effects on anion transport. doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c14234

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The Effects of Morphology and Hydration on Anion Transport in Self-Assembled Nanoporous Membranes

Ordered nanoporous polymer membranes offer opportunities for systematically probing the mechanisms of ion transport under confinement and for realizing useful materials for electrochemical devices. He...

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Chinedum Osuji @cosuji.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Carbon capture and decarbonization right here in PA. Great article from the folks at Wilcox Lab/CEC Lab @pennengineering.bsky.social Rising Toward a Cleaner Future: Pennsylvania’s CCS Ladder for Industrial Decarbonization kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/commentary/b...

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Rising Toward a Cleaner Future: Pennsylvania’s CCS Ladder for Industrial Decarbonization - Kleinman Center for Energy Policy

Energy policy research from the University of Pennsylvania

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Chinedum Osuji @cosuji.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

A different type of "GPT", from my colleague Xue Sherry Gao on "minimal versatile genetic perturbation technology" (mvGPT) that "merges gene editing and gene expression control, making it easier to address complex genetic conditions." @pennengineering.bsky.social blog.seas.upenn.edu/a-new-era-in...

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A New Era in Genetic Engineering: Breakthroughs in Gene Editing and Expression Control with mvGPT - Penn Engineering Blog

Penn Engineers developed mvGPT, a tool that can simultaneously and independently edit multiple genes and regulate their expression.

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