Color coding:
Yellow: primarily synthesis activities,
Green: primarily analytical activities,
Blue: primarily computational activities
| 1.1. | REU students in the Matson group will work on synthesis of polysaccharide-containing block copolymers for use in compatibilizing sustainable polymer blends. |
| 1.2. | In the Edgar lab, REU students will synthesize, characterize, and run structure-property studies on novel polysaccharide derivatives, prepared by new and selective chemistries, for diverse applications including drug delivery, sustainable plastics, treatment of injuries, foods, and other high-performance, sustainable applications. |
| 1.3. | REU students in the Moore group will cast thin films of glycopolymer/biopolymer blends at various compositions and study their phase behavior using small-angle laser light scattering and phase contrast optical microscopy. |
| 1.4. | REU students in the Deshmukh group will employ multi-scale modeling integrated machine learning methods to develop coarse-grained models of glycopolymers, which will be used to study their rheological properties. |
| 2.1. | REU students in the Roman lab will study glycomaterials in solution- and gel-states using methods such as viscometry, rheometry, and spectroscopy for potential biomedical, food, and consumer applications. |
| 2.2. | REU students in the Crawford group will develop and test new protocols for the advanced quantum mechanical simulations of the vibrational spectra of chiral molecules in solution. |
| 2.3. | REU students in the Lemkul group will perform molecular dynamics simulations of polysaccharides and glycopeptides using the Drude polarizable force field. |
| 3.1. | REU students in the Schulz lab will synthesize and characterize glycopolymers using well-controlled polymerizations, enabling discovery of precise structure-property relationships in new types of glycomaterials for biomedical, food, and agricultural applications. |
| 3.2. | REU students in the Esker group will prepare glycopolymer surfaces and measure protein and enzyme interactions with these surfaces using surface plasmon resonance. |
| 3.3. | REU students in the Welborn group will work on molecular dynamics simulations of monosaccharides in water with the AMOEBA polarizable force field. |
| 4.1. | REU students in the Helm Laboratory will use mass spectrometry-based techniques to characterize glycomaterials. |
| 4.2. | REU students in the Brown group will perform molecular dynamics simulations of glycopeptides and membrane interaction. |