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The Puskas Group has moved to the Ohio State University! Professor Puskas will be leading the biomaterial and biopolymer engineering program at the Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering (FABE). The program will be losely related to Ohio State’s Discovery Themes Initiative (www.discovery.osu.edu) and Sustainable and Resilient Economy (SRE) program (www.discovery.osu/SRE) and plans to make global impact. The group will be part of the Materials Development Working Group of the Sustainable and Resilient Economy Discovery Theme.(Web:
si.osu.edu; Social media: @OhioStSustain).

Focus areas:

  • Natural Rubber Biosynthesis

  • Biomimetic Polymerizations, Natural Living Carbocationic Polymerization, Model Architectures for Natural Rubber

  • Green(er) Biomaterials, Polyisobutylene (PIB)-based Biomaterials, Enzyme-catalyzed Polymer Functionalization, PEG, Solventless (liquid PDMS, PIB), Surface Modification, Probing the Polymer/Bio Interface, Green dendrimers for drug delivery

  • Greener Living/controlled polymerizations, Controlled lniMer-type Polymerizations, CIMP Controlled Garbocationic IM Polymerization, CRIMP Controlled Radical I M Polymerization, Model architectures

  • Integration of Polymer-based Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment with Breast Reconstruction.

News

  1. International Elastomer Conference 2024

    Sep 14, 2024

    The Principal Investigator of the TARDISS ERC, Professor Puskas, was given a free exhibition booth at the 2024 International Elastomer Conference, which offered an exquisite opportunity to connect with potential new partners of this ERC. Additionally, Professor Puskas, Professor Shah, Professor McKenna, and Josh Knights introduced TARDISS in a one-hour-long presentation in Theater One of the conference.

  2. Kickoff meeting of the TARDISS ERC

    Sep 11, 2024

    The TARDISS project was launched on September 1, and the Kickoff meeting of the project has already taken place on the Wooster campus of The Ohio State University. To ensure that everyone can join, the meeting was hybrid and could be joined online and in person. The meeting was attended by the deans of two colleges (College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences - Cathann A. Kress; College of Engineering - Ayanna Howard). Two associate deans and the Chair of FABE, Scott Shearer, attended the meeting in person.

  3. Footwear Made of Natural Rubber

    Sep 8, 2024

    Natural rubber is an extremely versatile polymer with applications in many industrial fields. As demonstrated by the photo attached to this news article, it can be used as a raw material for manufacturing footwear, such as shoes or sandals. The TARDISS ERC (see the announcement posted on Aug 21 in this news feed) will help proliferate domestically produced natural rubber in the elastomer industry.

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