CAPRI Symposium

             Each spring, CAPRI hosts its annual symposium in the Kent Hale Smith Engineering and Science Building on CASE campus.  CAPRI attendees primarily include scientists from a number of industries.  The symposium consists of oral presentations in the morning, student poster session in the afternoon, facilities tour and a dinner social in the evening.  Please send Prof. Hiltner an e-mail for CAPRI Annual Booklet or to join our  mailing list for future CAPRI events.

2004 CAPRI Program

Speaker

Presentation

Akshay Kamdar

(PhD candidate)

Isothermal Crystallization Kinetics and Morphology of New Polypropylenes and Propylene/Ethylene (P/E) Copolymers

Jiong Yu
(PhD candidate)

Interrelationship between Fatigue and Creep Fracture in Polyethylene

Yi Jin
(PhD candidate)

Nanodroplets Produced from Nanolayers with Novel Crystallization Behavior

Richard Liu
(PhD candidate)

 Interphase Materials by Forced-Assembly of Glassy Polymers

Yushan Hu
(PhD candidate)

 Oxygen Barrier Enhancement of PET by Blending with an Aromatic Polyamide

Elizabeth Christenson
(PhD candidate)

 Oxidative Biodegradation of Poly(carbonate urethane) and Poly(ether urethane)

2003 CAPRI Program