{"680138":{"#nid":"680138","#data":{"type":"event","title":"BioE PhD Proposal Presentation- Jessica Bonsu","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvisors:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Martha Grover, \u003Cem\u003EChemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Carson Meredith,\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThesis Committee:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Hang Lu, \u003Cem\u003EChemical\u0026nbsp;and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Scott Danielsen, \u003Cem\u003EMaterials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Victor Fung, \u003Cem\u003EComputational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDATA-DRIVEN DESIGN OF POLYSACCHARIDE-BASED BARRIER FILMS\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe widespread use of non-degradable petroleum-based plastics in food packaging, favored for their cost-effectiveness and excellent mechanical and barrier properties, has led to severe environmental issues. Cellulose and chitin, the most abundant polysaccharides in nature, offer a promising sustainable alternative to conventional plastics. Their nanomaterials, characterized by high crystallinity and strong hydrogen bonding, enable excellent mechanical and barrier properties, making them ideal candidates for developing barrier films to substitute petroleum-based plastics. To create high-performance barrier films, it is essential to minimize the transport of moisture and oxygen through the film, ensuring the preservation of packaged goods\u0027 quality, while maintaining mechanical stability. Achieving this requires a deep understanding of the process-structure-property (PSP) relationships for these films to optimize their performance. Traditionally, the discovery and development of new materials has been a time-consuming and resource-intensive process, often relying on trial-and-error, also known as the Edisonian approach, to discover and design materials within a span of decades. However, as a growing field, materials informatics offers great potential for accelerating the process of developing high-performing sustainable materials. Therefore, this thesis proposal aims to leverage data-driven materials informatics approaches to model PSP relationships in polysaccharide-based barrier films. Machine learning and data science techniques will be applied on curated experimental data to develop PSP models that guide future experiments aimed at enhancing barrier film performance. To evaluate the practical applicability of the developed models, predicted high-performing barrier films will be fabricated and tested after exposure to environmental conditions commonly faced by packaging materials.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBioE PhD Proposal Presentation- \u0022Data-Driven design of Polysaccharide-based barrier films\u0022 -Jessica Bonsu\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022DATA-DRIVEN DESIGN OF POLYSACCHARIDE-BASED BARRIER FILMS\u0022"}],"uid":"27917","created_gmt":"2025-02-03 17:22:41","changed_gmt":"2025-02-03 17:23:59","author":"Laura Paige","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2025-02-14T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2025-02-14T14:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2025-02-14T14:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2025-02-14 17:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2025-02-14 19:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2025-02-14 19:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Ford ES\u0026T 1387","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"65448","name":"Bioengineering Graduate Program"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"172056","name":"go-BioE"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}