December 10 | Day 1

9:00 am – 9:05 am—Workshop Introduction and Welcome

9:05 am – 10:00 am—Ultra-High Molecular Weight Water-Soluble Polymers
Speaker: Brent Sumerlin, University of Florida

10:00 am – 10:20 am—Amphiphilic Fluorous Materials for Catalysis and Encapsulation: From Micelles to Complex Macromolecular Architectures
Speaker: Valentin Rodionov, Case Western Reserve University

10:20 am – 10:40 am—Solubility and Stability Design Considerations in Multimonomeric Polyelectrolytes for Gene Delivery
Speaker:  Jeffrey Ting, Nanite, Inc.

10:40 am – 11:00 am—Aqueous Self-assembly of Amphiphilic Block Copolypeptoids Caged Nanostructured Materials
Speaker: Hailemariam Gebru, Bio & Emerging Technology Institute

11:00 am – 12:00 pm—Discussion on Problem-Solving Against Key Problems
What are the main problems with producing water soluble polymers?
How do we integrate sustainability into the design?
If the polymer is meant to degrade, how do we incorporate stability?