2022 Award Winner
Mohammed Bin Rusayyis
Northwestern University
The PMSE Division is pleased to announce that Mohammed Bin Rusayyis is the winner of the 2022 Eastman Chemical Student Award in Applied Polymer Science. This award, sponsored by Eastman Chemical Company and administered by the PMSE Division, is given for the best paper presented at the Eastman Chemical Student Award Symposium as part of the PMSE program. The Eastman Chemical Student Award Symposium was held at the Spring 2022 National ACS Meeting.
Mr. Bin Rusayyis highlighted his outstanding Ph.D. research under the direction of his advisor, Professor John Torkelson, and presented the talk, “Reprocessable addition-type polymer networks with full crosslink density recovery and excellent elevated-temperature creep resistance.”
Mohammad Bin Rusayyis is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at Northwestern University. His Ph.D. research, under the supervision of Professor John Torkelson, addresses the long-standing issues associated with the recycling of cross-linked polymers and elastomers by employing simple dynamic covalent chemistries to develop sustainable material solutions. Prior to his graduate career, Mohammed worked at SABIC where he led various product development projects in addition to providing technical support to SABIC’s manufacturing sites. Mohammed received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland and his M.S. in Macromolecular Science & Engineering from Case Western Reserve University.
The Eastman Chemical Student Award Finalists
- Tuning fundamental properties in liquid crystalline elastomers for design of complex and reprogrammable actuation
Tayler Hebner, University of Colorado - Photopolymerized superwettable coatings enabled by dual-purpose ZnO for liquid/liquid separation
Chenxuan Li, Texas A&M University - Molecular design approach towards elastic and multifunctional polymer electronics
Yu Zheng, Stanford University - Infrared spectroscopy study of polymer gelation mechanism in inorganic salt hydrate
Kartik Kumar Rajagopalan, Texas A&M University - Reprocessable addition-type polymer networks with full crosslink density recovery and excellent elevated-temperature creep resistance
Mohammed Bin Rusayyis, Northwestern University (Winner) - Radical transfer polyolefin C–H functionalization towards upcycled ionomers
Jill Alty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology