Porosity Control of Freeze-dried Polyacrylamide Organogels:

Jeier Yang is senior at Purdue University majoring in materials science engineering with a minor in biotechnology. She began working under Professor Jeffrey P. Youngblood in the summer of 2015 and continued her research throughout the school year. Her research interests include synthesis of hydrogels and analyzing their mass transport mechanisms involved in drug release. Aside from her research, Yang has been a member of Purdue Solar Racing since her sophomore year and in 2014 was nominated vice president of operations. Jeffrey P. Youngblood began his collegiate studies at Louisiana State University, majoring in chemistry and physics. In 1996 Youngblood commenced his PhD studies at the University of Massachusetts– Amherst in the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering under the direction of Professor Thomas McCarthy. He performed postdoctoral work at Cornell’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering under Professor Christopher Ober. In 2003 Youngblood accepted a position in the School of Materials Engineering at Purdue University. Promoted to associate professor in 2009 and to professor in 2015, he uses his polymer expertise to investigate nanotechnology, surface science, advanced processing, and biomaterials. POROSITY CONTROL OF FREEZE-DRIED POLYACRYLAMIDE ORGANOGELS: Eff ects of Cryoprotectants and Eutectic Solvent Mixtures