Save the dates for the future seminars:

• Understanding and Exploiting Viscoelasticity for Tyre Performance: From DMA to Non-Destructive Characterization

May 11, 2026 at 10 a.m., CET – Andrea Genovese (Assistant Professor – University of Naples Federico II – CEO & Founder – VESevo Smart Technologies)

Participate via the link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/32847009496421?p=OBqR1svSsVONUS9hNk

ID riunione: 328 470 094 964 21

Passcode: fZ9Mq6ZL

Past seminars:

• Mixing of polymers. Basic concepts and application examples

9 April 2025 – Paolo Lomellini (AIM (Associazione Italiana Macromolecole) – SIR (Società Italiana Reologia))

• 23 April 2025, 18:00 CET – Kendra Erk, Purdue University (USA)
  Mechanical Responses of Thermally Induced Parabolic Focal Conic Defects in Concentrated Lamellar Surfactants

• Large Amplitude Oscillatory Extension (LAOE) of polymer solutions

December 11th, 2024 at 10:00 CET – Simon Haward, OIST

• Bubble dynamics and foam rheology in confined geometries

January 15th, 2025 at 18:00 CET – Sibani Lisa Biswal (Rice University)

• Applications of nonlinear polymer viscoelasticity in rubber industry

19 February 2025, 18:00 CET – Christian Coppola, Versalis (Italy)

• Emergent Topological Interactions Drive Novel Thermodynamics and Rheology in Ring/Linear Polymer Blends

19 March 2025, 17:00 CET – Thomas O’Connor, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)