January 2022
- Abigail Linhart and Candice Halbert join the Kilbey Group
June 2021
- Ariel Scott and Diana Lopez join the group through the Summer SMaRT Program
May 2021
- Sina Sabury passed his Ph.D Dissertation Defense
Jan 2021
- Mike leads successful ORI Seed Initiative focused AM of FM
Dec 2020
- Elizabeth and Will pass their ORP defenses.
Aug 2020
- Graham begins TT faculty position in the Chemistry Department at Kennesaw State University.
July 2020
- Dani completes requirements for candidacy
June 2020
- Nia completes requirements for candidacy
November 2019
- Bishal Upadhyay joins the group
April 2019
- Elizabeth and Will complete requirements for candidacy
March 2019
- Dayton defends his Ph.D. dissertation – accepts NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at AFRL
February 2019
- Sina wins Chancellor Award for Extraordinary Professional Promise
November 2018
- Nia Parker and Dani Chun join the group
July 2018
- Rachel defense
November 2017
- Will and Elizabeth join the group
March 2017
- Graham defends his Ph.D. dissertation. Makes transition to postdoctoral appointment with Prof. John Reynolds at Georgia Tech.
August 2017
- Bethany Aden is starting her position with the Cellulose Esters Process Chemistry Group at Eastman Chemical Company. Congratulations!
- Bethany Graduated with her Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry
June 2017
- Kamlesh Bornani started a Postdoctoral Research position with Professor Penumadu at the University of Tennessee.
- Graham Collier started a Postdoctoral Research position with Professor John Reynolds at Georgia Institute of Technology.
- Bethany Aden successfully presented and defended her dissertation on the “Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactive Modification of 2-Vinyl-4,4,-dimethyl Azlactone Polymers”.
May 2017
- Kamlesh Bornani and Graham Collier graduated with their Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry.
August 2017
- Bethany Aden is starting her position with the Cellulose Esters Process Chemistry Group at Eastman Chemical Company. Congratulations!
- Bethany Graduated with her Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry
June 2017
- Kamlesh Bornani started a Postdoctoral Research position with Professor Penumadu at the University of Tennessee.
- Graham Collier started a Postdoctoral Research position with Professor John Reynolds at Georgia Institute of Technology.
- Bethany Aden successfully presented and defended her dissertation on the “Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactive Modification of 2-Vinyl-4,4,-dimethyl Azlactone Polymers”.
May 2017
- Kamlesh Bornani and Graham Collier graduated with their Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry.
April 2017
- Bethany Aden presented her research “In Situ Functionalization of Azlactone-based Polymer Brushes” at the 2017 Spring ACS meeting in San Francisco, CA.
- Bethany Aden was awarded the Burchfield Burridge Warner Fellowship in Polymer Chemistry.
- Dr. Kilbey honored with the Thomas and Ruth Clark Award for Excellence in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Dr. Kilbey selected as Outstanding Faculty Mentor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
March 2017
- Graham Collier successfully presented and defended his dissertation titled “Design-Structure-Property Relationships of Purine-Based Copolymers and Chromophores”. Congrats Graham!
January 2017
- Bethany Aden’s paper on reactive modification of PVDMA brushes was published in ACS Macromolecules. Congrats Bethany!
- Zach Seibers is off to Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher. Congratulations Zach!
December 2016
- Bethany Aden successfully presented and defended her original research proposal. Congrats Bethany!
November 2016
- Kamlesh Bornani successfully presented and defended his dissertation on “Impact of Macromolecular Design on Self-Assembly Properties of Block Copolymers: Effect of Tunable Chain Flexibility and Chain Topology “. Congrats Kamlesh!
October 2016
- Zach Seibers successfully presented and defended his dissertation on “Strategies for Controlling Bulk Heterojunction Morphology in Organic Solar Cells”. Congrats Zach!
- Natalie Czarnecki joins the group. Welcome Natalie!
August 2016
- Graham Collier successfully presented and defended his original research proposal. Congrats Graham!
- Graham Collier gave a talk on polypurines at the 2016 Fall ACS meeting in Philadelphia, PA.
June 2016
- Zach Seibers’ work on bulk heterojunction additives was published in ACS Nano. Congrats Zach!
- Graham, Kamlesh, and Zach presented their research at the 12th National Graduate Research Polymer Conference in Akron, Ohio.
May 2016
- Graham Collier’s paper on main chain purine-based copolymers was published in ACS Macro Letters. Congrats Graham!
April 2016
- Dr. Kilbey was announced as the Ziegler Professor.
- Bethany Aden was selected for the 2016 Eastman Chemical Fellowship in Polymer Characterization.
- Kilbey group welcomes Sina Sarbury.
- Mike named 2016 Outstanding Teacher in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering.
- Dayton, Kamlesh, and Rachel presented their research work at UT/VT Workshop.
- Evan Boone won honorable mention for his poster at the UT EURēCA poster session. Congrats Evan!
- Dayton Street successfully defended and passed his candidacy research proposal (CRP)
March 2016
- Zach Siebers gave a talk at the 2016 Spring ACS meeting in San Diego, CA
January 2016
- Kamlesh Bornani successfully presented and defended his ORP. Congratulations!
December 2015
- Jesse Davis successfully defended his dissertation. Congrats Jesse!
- Kamlesh Bornani gave a talk at 2015 PacifiChem Conference in Honolulu, HI.
March 2015
- Graham Collier and Rachel Ramirez successfully defended and passed their CRPs. Congratulations!
January 2014
- Jiadi Hou joins the Kilbey group.Welcome Jiadi!
December 2013
- Graham Collier and Rachel Ramirez join the group .
- Mike Kochemba heading to Eastman Chemical. Congratulations Mike!
November 2013
- Mike Kochemba successfully defended his thesis.
- Prof. Kilbey elected Vice Chair of AIChE’s Materials Science and Engineering Division.
October 2013
- Congratulations on Zach Siebers from the CIRE program passing his qualifying exam on October 4th.
September 2013
- Kamlesh , Jesse and Wang gave talks at the 2013 Fall National ACS Meeting in Indianapolis, IN.
August 2013
- Mike and Suk-kyun’s paper on P3HT bottlebrushes is one of ACS Macro Letters most-downloaded articles for the month.
June 2013
- Zach Dyer and Deandra Peoples join the group.
May 2013
- Congratulations Zach Seibers on presenting a winning poster at the TN-SCORE retreat!
May 2013
- Congratulations to Mike Kochemba for passing his ORP exam!
April 2012
- Congratulations to Dr. Chaitra V. Deodhar for passing her dissertation defense.
- Mike Kilbey and Mike Kochemba attended the 245th ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, LA where Mike Kochemba presented his research on surface modification of CdSe NPs using end-functionalized poly(3-hexylthiophenes).
March 2013
- Congratulations to Jesse Davis and Kamlesh Bornani for passing their candidacy exams!