{"476401":{"#nid":"476401","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Risteen presents abstract at MRS fall meeting","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBailey Risteen, one of RBI\u2019s Paper Science Engineering students, was invited to present her abstract during the recent Materials Research Society (MRS) fall meeting in Boston.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFounded in 1973, MRS consists of more than 16,000\u0026nbsp;members from the United States\u2014as well as nearly 80 other countries and emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to materials research, encouraging communication and technical information exchange across various fields of science.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERisteen was one of three students from the Reichmanis Research Group, headed by Brook Byers Professor Elsa Reichmanis, ChBE, presenting posters during the conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer abstract, entitled \u201cRenewable Biomaterials to Encapsulate and Align Synthetic Semiconducting Polymers,\u201d focuses on the challenges in the delivery of semiconducting polymers to the paper substrate when producing flexible electronics. Risteen said she chose to conduct research in the area of organic electronics because she was intrigued by the open-ended challenge of bringing the desirable properties of polymers to conventional silicon-based devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe field requires a certain level of ingenuity to beat out current technology and think of new applications. It is also highly interdisciplinary and involves principles of mass and charge transport, polymer physics, thermodynamics, and organic chemistry, all of which I have taken as part of my Chemical Engineering undergraduate and graduate curriculum,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFlexible electronics in particular interested me because they can be used as control and monitoring tools in a variety of crucial industries such as health care, environmental quality, national security, and systems integrity.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERisteen said during her time as a graduate student she hopes to engineer an improved processing method for polymer-based electronic devices in order to advance technology for these societally beneficial applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead Risteen\u2019s complete abstract \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rbi.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/Risteen%20MRS%20abstract.pdf\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"PSE student focuses research on organic electronics"}],"uid":"28159","created_gmt":"2015-12-07 10:49:22","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:12","author":"Kelly Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-12-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-12-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"423761":{"id":"423761","type":"image","title":"Risteen, Bailey","body":null,"created":"1449254319","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:38:39","changed":"1475895162","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:42","alt":"Risteen, Bailey","file":{"fid":"202733","name":"baileyristeen.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/baileyristeen_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/baileyristeen_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":133907,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/baileyristeen_0.jpg?itok=QQPcL5xf"}}},"media_ids":["423761"],"groups":[{"id":"217141","name":"Georgia Tech Materials Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"97311","name":"abstract"},{"id":"1692","name":"materials"},{"id":"1693","name":"MRS"},{"id":"5917","name":"organic electronics"},{"id":"145451","name":"PSE"},{"id":"93811","name":"RBI"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"},{"id":"39491","name":"Renewable Bioproducts"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kelly.smith@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}