Distinguished Lecturer Professor Christopher Bowman

Students and faculty members from Chemical Engineering and Chemistry were treated to a fascinating presentation by Professor Christopher Bowman from the University of Colorado Boulder. During his talk, Prof. Bowman shared some of his latest research on the use of photopolymerization to generate highly crosslinked covalent adaptable networks enabling glassy materials to deform as elastomers do, while retaining their new shape as thermosets would, thus merging in a single material the opposite mechanical properties expected from elastomers and thermosets.