Polymer solubility and precipitation kinetics with the Crystal16

  • Crystallization
  • 28 October 2025, Online

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The solubility of polymers is critical in many synthesis, purification, coating and self-assembly processes, and the control over polymer miscibility is fundamental to the design of novel materials across many applications. More interestingly, the kinetics of dissolution and precipitation, which are often neglected by theories, are crucial to the development and understanding of nearly all processes involving polymer solutions.

In this webinar we will discuss features of polymer dissolution and precipitation including upper critical solution temperature, lower critical solution temperature and kinetics and examine how the Crystal16 can improve our understanding of polymer/solvent phase behavior.

Date: Tuesday, 28 October 2025
Time: 4.00 pm CET | 11.00 am EDT | 8.00 am PDT |  20:30 IST
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Guest speaker

Blair Brettmann

Associate Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech

Dr. Brettmann received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at MIT. Following her Ph.D., she was a Senior Research Engineer at Saint-Gobain and a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. She was the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2021, the ACS PMSE Young Investigator award in 2020 and an IUPAC Young Observer in 2019. Her research focuses on linking molecular to micron scale phenomena to processing and multicomponent complex mixtures to enable rapid and science-driven formulation and product development.