2024
- Dr. Beckingham has been elected as second vice-chair of the American Institute Of Chemical Engineering (AIChE)’s Materials Engineering and Science Division.
2023
- Dr. Beckingham has been declared as director of Auburn’s Centre for Polymers and Advanced Composites effective Jan 1. (https://eng.auburn.edu/news/2023/01/beckingham-cpac-director)
- Congrats to Yi Hung Lin for achieving first place in the poster competition at NAMS 2023.
- Congrats to Yorae Noh for joining as an Assistant Professor in the School of Packaging (SoP) at Michigan State University (MSU). She worked as a post-doc at Beckingham lab.
2022
Antara Mazumder from Beckingham Lab Group member has been awarded NSF supplementary internship funding for membranes work at Lawrence Berkley National Lab (LBNL). The news link: https://eng.auburn.edu/news/2022/10/chemical-grad-student-nsf-intern-supplement
2020
November 2020
The Webinar Dr. Beckingham held with Oxford Instruments “Expert Insight: Low-field NMR of polymer materials: An introduction to characterizing multicomponent polymer systems” is now available for On Demand viewing here.
October 2020
Dr. Beckingham made two virtual visits this month to Mississippi giving talks to the School of Polymer Science and Engineering at U. Southern Mississippi and the Chemical Engineering department at Mississippi State. Lots of great membrane and polymer research conversations!
October 2020
Congrats to Vinita on her paper acceptance to ACS Applied Polymer Materials on SLA 3D printing self-healing composites with our collaborators Dr. Celestine and Dr. Lauren Beckingham! Great work!
Shinde, V.V.; Celestine, A.D.; Beckingham, L.E.; Beckingham, B.S. “Stereolithography 3D printing of microcapsule catalyst-based self-healing composites” ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2020. [doi]
September 2020
Congrats to Bree and well as our collaborators Dr. Jing Lin and Prof. Zhihua Jiang on our paper acceptance to Polymer! Keep ’em coming!
Dobyns, B.M.; Kim, J.M.; Li, J.; Jiang, Z.; Beckingham, B.S. “Multicomponent transport of alcohols in Nafion 117 measured by in situ ATR FTIR spectroscopy” Polymer, 2020. [doi]
September 2020
Congrats to Luca, Bree, and Rong on their paper being accepted to Journal of Membrane Science! Great work in a great journal!
Kim, J.M.; Dobyns, B.M.; Zhao, R.; Beckingham, B.S. “Multicomponent transport of methanol and sodium acetate in a series of PEGDA-AMPS cation exchange membranes” Journal of Membrane Science, 2020. [doi]
July 2020
Dr. Beckingham (and all the group’s hard work on membrane transport) has been awarded through a Dept. of Energy Early Career Award! Very excited about this new 5 year/$750k project towards Transport of complex mixtures in ion-containing polymer membranes. New graduate student positions soon available in the group!
July 2020
Our collaborative proposal with the other Dr. (Lauren) Beckingham on 3D printing of reactive porous media to enhance understanding of porosity-permeability evolution has been funded by NSF! Time to leverage polymer printing expertise to enable new investigations of mineral reactions and flow in porous media!
July 2020
And the group’s second PhD has been Minted. Breanna Dobyns successfully defended her dissertation on Investigation of Multicomponent Transport Phenomena in Nafion 117 and Crosslinked Polyether-based Membranes via In Situ ATR FTIR Spectroscopy
Great work Bree!
July 2020
Congrats to Bree and Luca on their paper being accepted and making the COVER of European Polymer Journal! Group’s first cover!! Well done.
Dobyns, B.M.; Kim, J.M.; Beckingham, B.S. “Multicomponent transport of methanol and sodium acetate in poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate membranes of varied fractional free volume” European Polymer Journal, 2020. [doi]
June 2020
First group PhD! Dr. Michael Minkler has been minted after successfully defending his dissertation (via Zoom…) on Synthesis and Characterization of Copolymers: Tuning Material Properties of Polythiophenes and Epoxy-Thiol Polymer Networks, and Application of Low- Field NMR Spectroscopy to Multicomponent Polymer Systems
Great work Michael and good luck at Milliken!
June 2020
The group is now NSF Funded! Excited to start a new project on Cooperative Transport in Ion-Conducting Membranes funded by CBET!
May 2020
Congrats to Luca and Sneha for their paper being accepted to Macromolecules!
Kim, J.M.; Chakrapani, S.B.; Beckingham, B.S. “Tuning Compositional Drift in the Anionic Copolymerization of Styrene and Isoprene” Macromolecules, 2020. [doi]
March 2020
Covid-19. Lab shutdown…
March 2020
Congratulations Tina for her publication in AU Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship! [Link]
2019
September 2019
Congratulations Sneha for her new job at Adhesives R&D (Henkel, MI)!
Febuary 2019
Please check our Instagram! [Link]
January 2019
Congratulations to Sneha and Michael for their paper publication!
2018
August 2018
The annual Beckingham’s group BBQ was a thriving affair this year with both Drs. Beckingham groups and Dr. Montgomery’s group.
Congrats to Jihyuk on being featured by AU Undergraduate Research.
July 2018
Dr. Beckingham led an Auburn Engineering Jr. TIGER camp of rising 10th and 11th graders introducing chemical engineering and doing hands-on activities related to material synthesis and membrane processes.
June 2018
Dr. Beckingham was a part of a team awarded $255,000 aimed at ‘Development of an Alabama CO2Utilization and Storage Center at Auburn University’. Congrats to collaborators Dr. L. Beckingham (PI), Dr. Militec and Dr. Schindler from Civil Eng.; Dr. Adamczyk, Dr. Carrero, and Dr. Oh from Chemical Eng; and Dr. King, Dr. Lee and Dr. Uddin from Geosciences. Press release here.
Shatori Meadows (Tuskegee U.) successfully defended her Ph.D. Congrats Dr. Meadows and best of luck with your new position at Intel.
Bryan, Bree, and Luca traveled to Lexington, KY for 27th Annual Meeting of the North American
Membrane Society (NAMS), where Bree presented on “Complex Solute Transport through a Cation Exchange Membrane Via in Situ ATR FTIR Spectroscopy” and Luca presented on “Transport Behavior of Block Copolymer Membranes: Diffusion Cell and Pervaporation Performance”.
May 2018
Jihyuk Kim leaves the group for the summer for a REU experience with Dr. Arthi Jayaraman’s group at U. Delaware. Good luck!
April 2018
Dr. Beckingham, Dr. David and a group of graduate and undergraduate students visited Moore’s Mill elementary to discuss Chemical engineering and hands-on activities with three 3rd grade classes.
Congrats to Alisa Mobley and Claudia Hu on receiving Undergraduate Research Fellowships! They’ll be working on block copolymer synthesis and paramagnetic polymers respectively in the fall for their fellowship research.
Congrats to Jihyuk Kim for a Goldwater Honorable Mention.
Dr. Michael Pope visited for Dept. Seminar discussing his work on graphene. A great visit with an old friend from Princeton.
March 2018
Dr. Beckingham and collaborator Dr. Celestine (Aerospace Egg) were awarded $70,000 by the Auburn Intramural Grants program for their work on ‘Additive Manufacturing of Self-healing composites’.
Bryan and Michael traveled to Los Angeles for the APS March meeting where Michael presented on “Variation of Thermal and Optoelectronic Properties Through Compositional Control of Thiophene-Containing Statistical Copolymers”.
Michael, Bree Luca, Vinita, and Jihyuk presented their work at the Auburn This is Research Symposium.
February 2018
The group participates in Auburn’s E-day giving demonstrations on polymer swelling (Michael) and interfacial polymerization of Nylon (Bree).
January 2018
Bryan’s collaborative effort with Nate Lynd and Dan Miller on “Monitoring multicomponent transport using in situ ATR FTIR spectroscopy” has been published in the Journal of Membrane Science. Link here: doi
The group welcomes new Ph.D. students Vinita Shinde and Luca Kim to the group!!
2017
December, 2017
Chidera presents our collaborative work on wellbore cement sealants at the American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA.
Aug 26, 2017
The annual Beckingham’s group BBQ was a thriving affair this year with 25 people from both Drs. Beckingham groups and Dr. Montgomery’s group.
July 29 – August 3, 2017
Prof. Beckingham is attending the Summer School for Chemical Engineering Faculty organized by the American Society for Engineering. North Caroline State University.
June 2017
Congrats to Bree on being second author on Blaine Carter’s (LBNL) manuscript “Multicomponent transport of alcohols in an anion exchange membrane measured by in-situ ATR FTIR spectroscopy” published in Polymer. Paper available online here:[doi]
May 2017
Prof. Beckingham traveled to Boston, MA and gave a talk at the Oxford Instruments Benchtop NMR Workshop: Every Day Applications; “Evaluation of Copolymerization Kinetics and Copolymer Compositional Analysis with Low-field 1H NMR”
The group welcomes undergraduates Claudia Hu, Tucker Sparks, and Xinyu Hou to the group.
April 2017
Our collaborator at LBNL Daniel Miller presented on our efforts at the ACS meeting in San Francisco “Multicomponent transport in membranes for solar fuels devices.”
Congrats to Jihyuk and the rest of the CHENs for winning an Auburn Undergraduate Research Fellowship!
March 2017
Congrats to Alisa (right below) for winning the 100 Women Strong Study Abroad Award!
Congrats to Jihyuk for winning an Auburn MAKERS Scholarship!
Congrats to Michael and his ‘Honey Do’ team for placing 3rd in Auburn’s Tiger Cage Competition. News headline here.
The group traveled to New Orleans for the American Physical Society National Meeting where Michael presented his work on “Effect of Polyalkylthiophene Microstructure on Physical and Optoelectronic Properties” and Bree presented her work on “Determination of Neutral Solute Permeabilities and Membrane Selectivities through PPO/PAGE Copolymer Membranes via in situ ATR FTIR Spectroscopy.” Bryan chaired a focus session on the Architectural Design of Polymers.
February 2017
Congrats to Michael and his team for making the semi-finals of Auburn’s Tiger Cage. News headline here.
Prof. Beckingham traveled to the University of South Carolina and gave a seminar in Chemical Engineering on “In situ spectroscopic methods towards copolymerization kinetics and emergent transport in polymer membranes”
January 2017
The group welcomes sophomore Alisa Mobley to the group!
Congrats to Michael and his team for making the Round 1 of Alabama Launchpad.News headline here.
2016
December 2016
The group welcomes new graduate student Sneha Chakrapani to the group!
November 2016
Prof. Beckingham traveled to San Francisco for the AICHE national meeting where he presented on “Single polymerization determination of reactivity ratios via in situ spectroscopic techniques and a simple nonterminal model for chain copolymerization”.
October 2016
Bree presented a poster on her work “Quantitative in situ speciation of multicomponent transport through Nafion 117™ membranes” at the 4th Annual NanoBio Summit, 2016.
September 2016
Prof. Beckingham traveled to the National Academies Beckman center in Irvine, CA and participated in the 8th Annual National Academies of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium. See Auburn news release.
August 2016
The group welcomes sophomore Jihyuk Kim and junior Avery Bush to the group! Avery will be synthesizing substituted polythiophenes and correlating their chemical microstructure to their optoelectronic properties. Jihyuk will be assisting Bree on the characterization of membrane permeabilities with ATR FTIR spectroscopy.
July 2016
Prof. Beckingham traveled to the Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA for the 2016 Gordon Research Conference on Polymer Physics. He presented the ongoing work in collaboration with Daniel Miller at LBNL on ATR FTIR spectroscopy for membrane permeability characterization which, excitingly, included new results from Bree!
March 2016
Prof. Beckingham attended and presented at the APS March meeting in Baltimore during spring break. B.S Beckingham and Daniel J. Miller “Quantitative monitoring of membrane permeation via in-situ ATR FT-IR spectroscopy” in the small molecule transport in polymers and polymer nanocomposite session. Gabriel Sanoja also presented his PIL work in the polymers for solar energy conversion session G. Sanoja, B. Popere, B. Beckingham, C. Evans, N. Lynd, and R. Segalman “Conductivity Scaling Relationships of Nanostructured Membranes based on Hydrated Protic Polymerized Ionic Liquids: Effect of Domain Spacing”
Gabriel Sanoja’s paper on PIL’s was published in Macromolecules. Gabriel E. Sanoja, Bhooshan C. Popere, Bryan S. Beckingham, Christopher M. Evans, Nathaniel A. Lynd, and Rachel A. Segalman “Structure–Conductivity Relationships of Block Copolymer Membranes Based on Hydrated Protic Polymerized Ionic Liquids: Effect of Domain Spacing. Macromolecules 2016, 49 (6), pp 2216–2223.[here]
January 2016
Bryan “touches down” as an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Auburn University!
The group (Bryan…) welcomes Bree and Michael as the first graduate students in the Beckingham group! Michael did his undergraduate work at U. Missouri and Bree at the University of South Alabama.
2015
October 2015
A film crew visited JCAP-North at Berkeley for new promotional photos and video for the renewal of our funding and our new building as JCAP 2.0 is kicking off. Included video of Bryan initiating the anionic copolymerization of two epoxides and Dan preparing a membrane for testing. Other highlights of the (now very small) Membrane group included Bryan and Dan setting up their new method for the examining of membrane permeabilities for single and multicomponent transport with in situ ATR FT-IR spectroscopy shown above.
September 2015
Bryan’s work deriving a new method for determining reactivity ratios for copolymerizatios from compositional drift data spanning the full range of conversion was published in Macromolecules. Beckingham, B.S.; Sanoja, G.E.; Lynd, N.A. “Simple and Accurate Determination of Reactivity Ratio Using a Nonterminal Model of Chain Copolymerization” Macromolecules, 2015, 48 (19), 6922-6930. [doi]
Emily Davidson work examining polythiophene block copolymers was published in the Journal of Polymer Science. Congrats Emily! Davidson, E. C., Beckingham, B. S., Ho, V. and Segalman, R. A. (2015), Confined crystallization in lamellae forming poly(3-(2′-ethyl)hexylthiophene) (P3EHT) block copolymers. J. Polym. Sci. Part B: Polym. Phys.. doi:10.1002/polb.23904. [doi]
July 2015
Bryan and Nate Lynd attended the International Symposium on Ionic Polymerization 2015 in Bordeaux, France. Nate gave an invited lecture and Bryan presented a poster on their work on “Single polymerization determination of reactivity ratios for ideal ionic and coordination copolymerizations using in situ spectroscopic techniques.”
June 2015
Bryan accepted a position on the faculty of the Chemical Engineering Dept. at Auburn University!! Very excited to begin this new chapter in January 2016!
March 2015
Bryan and Dan attended the national APS meeting in San Antonio.
Scott Himmelberger’s work looking at the effect of side chain on the properties of polythiophenes was published. Himmelberger, S.; Duong, D.T.; Northrup, J.E.; Rivnay, J.; Beckingham, B.S.; Koch, F.P.V.; Smith, P.; Stingelin, N.; Segalman, R.A.; Mannsfeld, S.C.B.; Salleo, A. “Role of Side-Chain Branching on Thin-film Structure and Electronic Properties of Polythiophenes” Advanced Functional Materials, 2015, 25, 2616-2624. [doi]