Rachel A. Segalman
Department of Chemical Engineering
201D Gilman Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1462
Phone: (510) 642-7998
Fax: (510) 642-4778
segalman@uclink.berkeley.edu

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, December 2002
University of California, Santa Barbara
Advisor: Professor Edward J. Kramer
Thesis: Controlling Long Range Order in Block Copolymer Thin Films

B.S. Chemical Engineering, May 1998
Graduated with Highest Honors
The University of Texas at Austin

APPOINTMENT

Spring 2004

Charles Wilke Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, and Faculty Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories Materials Science Division

12/2002-12/2003

Postdoctoral Fellow, Ecole Européenne de Chimie, Polymères et Matériaux (ECPM) une composante de l'Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France;
Mentor: Professor Georges Hadziioannou

9/1998-12/2002

University of California, Santa Barbara

Graduate student research and teaching assistant

8/1997-7/1998

The University of Texas at Austin- Undergraduate Research Assistant: under guidance of Professor Peter Green

Summers 1992-97

Sandia National Laboratories Research Intern:

Advanced Materials Lab with Joe Cesarano

AWARDS

2007

 

2007

 

2007

 

2007

 

2006, 2007, 2008

 

2005

2004

2002

MDV Innovators Award

 

TR35:  Technology Review’s Top Innovators Under 35

 

NAE: Frontiers of Engineering Invitee

 

Hellman Young Faculty Award

 

3M Untenured Faculty Award

 

NSF CAREER Award

Intel Young Faculty Seed Award

Chateaubriand Postdoctoral Fellowship

2001

MRS Graduate Student Award Finalist

2001

Corning Fellowship

2001

Poster Prize at MRL Workshop on Advanced Materials (with EPFL Lausanne/ ETH Zurich/UCSB/Weizmann)

2001

Executive Vice Chancellor Fellowship

1998

National Science Foundation Fellowship

1998

University of California Regents Fellowship

PUBLICATIONS

"Square Grains in Asymmetric Rod-Coil Block Copolymers,"  B.D. Olsen, M.F. Toney, R.A. Segalman, Langmuir, 2008.

"Probing the Chemistry of Molecular Heterojunctions Using Thermoelectricity,"  K. Baheti, J.A. Malen, P. Doak, P. Reddy, S-Y Jang, T.D. Tilley, A. Majumdar, R.A. Segalman,  Nano Lett; 2008; 8(2); 715-719.

"Crystalline Structure in Thin Films of DEH-PPV Homopolymer and PPV-b-PI Rod-Coil Block Copolymers,"  B.D. Olsen, D. Alcazar, V. Krikorian, M.F. Toney, E.L. Thomas, R.A. Segalman, Macromolecules; 2008; 41(1); 58-66.   

Hierarchical Nanostructure Control in Rod-Coil Block Copolymers with Magnetic Fields.” Y. Tao, H. Zohar, B.D. Olsen, and R.A. Segalman, Nano Lett.; 2007; 7(9); 2742-2746.

Non-Lamellar Phases in Asymmetric Rod-Coil Block Copolymers,” B.D. Olsen and R.A. Segalman, Macromolecules; 2007; 40(19); 6922-6929.

 “Domain Size Control in Self-Assembling Rod-Coil Block Copolymer and Homopolymer Blends,” Y. Tao, B.D. Olsen, V. Ganesan and R.A. Segalman, Macromolecules; 2007; 40(9); 3320-3327.

 “Thin Film Structure of Symmetric Rod-Coil Block Copolymers.” B.D. Olsen , X. Li, J. Wang and R.A. Segalman, Macromolecules; 2007; 40(9); 3287-3295.

Thermoelectricity in Molecular Junctions,” P. Reddy, S.Y. Jang, R.A. Segalman and A. Majumdar, Science; 2007; 315: 1568-1571.

Analysis of Order Formation in Block Copolymer Thin Films using Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering,” J. Virgili, Y. Tao, J.B. Kortright, N.P. Balsara and R.A. Segalman, Macromolecules; 2007; 40(6); 2092-2099.

Room temperature thermal conductance of alkanedithiol self-assembled monolayers,” R. Wang, R.A. Segalman, and A. Majumdar, Applied Physics Letters; 2006; 89.

"Phase Transitions in Asymmetric Rod-Coil Block Copolymers,” B.D. Olsen, R. A. Segalman, Macromolecules; 2006; 39; 7078-7083.

Interpretation of Stochastic Events in Single Molecule Conductance Measurements,” P. Reddy, S.Y. Jang, A. Majumdar, R.A. Segalman, Nanoletters; 2006; 6; 2362-2367.

Higher order liquid crystallinity in low polydispersity poly(phenylene vinylenes),” B.D. Olsen, S.Y. Jang, J. Luning, and R. A. Segalman, Macromolecules; 2006; 39(13); 4469-4479.

"Structure and Thermodynamics of Weakly Segregated Rod-Coil Block Copolymers," B.D. Olsen and R.A. Segalman, Macromolecules; 2005; 38(24), 10127 - 10137.

"Patterning with Block Copolymer Thin Films,” R.A. Segalman, Materials Science and Engineering Reports R: Reviews; 2005; 48(6); 191-226.

"Solar Cells Based on Diblock Copolymers: A PPV donor block and a fullerene derivatized acceptor block,” R. A. Segalman, C. Brochon, G. Hadziioannou, (Book Chapter in Organic Photovoltaics by Sun and Sariciftci, Marcel-Dekker) 2005.

"Grain Structure in Block Copolymer Thin Films Studied by Guided Wave Depolarized Light Scattering", Garetz, B. A.; Newstein, M. C.; Wilbur, J. D.; Patel, A. J.; Durkee, D. A.; Segalman, R. A.; Liddle, J. A.; Balsara, N. P.; Macromolecules; 2005; 38(10); 4282-4288.

"Polymer Diffusion in Semicrystalline Polymers Using Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy,” R. A. Segalman, S. Lustig, E. J. Kramer, Macromolecules; 2004; 37(7); 2613-2617.

"Edge Effects on the Order and Melting of a 2D Array of Block Copolymer Spheres,” R. A. Segalman, A. Hexemer, E. J. Kramer, Physical Review Letters 2003; 91(19); 196101.

Effects of Lateral Confinement on Order in Spherical Domain Block Copolymer Thin Films,” R. A. Segalman, A. Hexemer, E. J. Kramer, Macromolecules, 2003; 36(18); 6831-6839.

Topographic Templating of Islands and Holes in Highly Asymmetric Block Copolymer Films,” R. A. Segalman, K. E. Schaeffer, G. H. Fredrickson, E. J. Kramer, S. Magonov; Macromolecules; 2003; 36(12); 4498-4506.

Ordering and Melting of Block Copolymer Spherical Domains in 2 and 3 Dimensions,” R.A. Segalman, A. Hexemer, R. C. Hayward, E. J. Kramer, Macromolecules; 2003; 36(9); 3272-3288.

Graphoepitaxy of Asymmetric Diblock Copolymers," R.A. Segalman, H. Yokoyama, E.J. Kramer, Advanced Materials 2001, 13, 1152.

Dynamics of Rims and the Onset of Spinodal Dewetting at Liquid/Liquid Interfaces.” R. A. Segalman, P. F. Green, Macromolecules; 1999; 32(3); 801-807.

Robocasting: Rapid Prototyping of Ceramic Slurries.” J. Cesarano, R. A. Segalman, P. Calvert P, Ceramic Industry April 1998; 94-102.

INVITED TALKS

Coming Soon:  Gordon Conference on Electronic Processes in Organic Materials; UMass Amherst Polymer Science and Engineering; Princeton University; Materials Research Society, March 2008; American Chemical Society (2), April 2008; American Physical Society, March 2008.

 

Georgia Institute of Technology, Dept of Chemical Engineering, February 2008.

 

University of North Carolina, Dept of Chemistry, December 2007.

 

California Institute of Technology, Dept of Chemical Engineering, November 2007.

 

Cornell University, Materials Science and Engineering, October 2007.

 

General Electric, Global Research, October 2007.

 

American Chemical Society, August 2007.

 

American Crystallographic Association, July 2007

 

3M Untenured Faculty Award Symposium Invited Lecture, June 2007

 

MIT Division of Chemical Engineering, May 2007

 

MIT Division of Materials Science and Engineering, April 2007

 

American Chemical Society Spring Meeting 2007:  PMSE Session: Nanostructures from Block Copolymers and Supramolecular Polymers

 

Dow Chemical Catalysis Group, March 2007

 

Arizona State University Department of Chemical Engineering February 2007

 

Taiwan US International Conference on Soft Materials

 

American Chemical Society Fall Meeting 2006: PMSE Symposium on Block Copolymer Nanostructures

 

Gordon Conference on Polymer Physics invited talk July 2006

 

Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), (February 2006)

 

Materials Research Outreach Symposium, UC Santa Barbara (January 2006)

China-US NSF Workshop on International Materials Research (Beijing, May 2005)

National Taiwan University Dept of Chemical Engineering (May 2005)

Keynote: AIChE Northern California Regional Conference (March 2005)

Indo-US NSF Workshop on Advanced Materials and International Collaboration (December 2004)

University of California, Santa Barbara Materials Research Laboratory (November 2004)

IBM Almaden Research Center, Almaden,Ca (September 2004)

Edfest – Symposium to Celebrate the 65th Birthday of Ed Kramer (August 2004)

Golden Gate Polymer Forum, San Francisco, Ca (June 2004)

University of Ulm, Dept. of Ablueied Physics (Winter 2003)

PHASE (PHysics and Ablueications of SEmiconductors), Strasbourg, France (Summer 2003)

l'Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI), Paris, France (Spring 2003)

Laboratoire de Dynamique des Fluides Complexes, Strasbourg, France (Spring 2003)

University of California, Berkeley (spring 2002)·

California Institute of Technology (spring 2002)·

University of Wisconsin (spring 2002)·

Northwestern University (spring 2002)·

University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (spring 2002)·

University of Minnesota (spring 2002)·

University of Delaware (spring 2002)·

North Carolina State University (spring 2002)·

Rice University (spring 2002)·

University of Houston (spring 2002)·

University of Twente, Netherlands (August 2001)·

California State University, Long Beach (September 2000)

Coming Soon:  Fall 2007 ACS, Cornell Materials Science and Engineering, GE Corporate Research,  UNC Chapel Hill, Spring 2008 ACS, Spring 2008 MRS

Selected

PRESENTATIONS

“Equilibrium Self-Assembly of Rod-Coil Block Copolymer Thin Films,” B.D. Olsen, R. A. Segalman, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 2005.

"Self-Assembly of Conjugated Block Copolymers for Optoelectronic Ablue ications," B.D. Olsen, Y. Tao, R. A. Segalman, American Physical Society March Meeting, Los Angeles, California, March 2005.

"Nanopatterning of Conjugated Block Copolymers,” B. D. Olsen, Y. Tao, C. Brochon, G. Hadziioannou, R. A. Seglaman, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, November 2004.

“Rod-Coil Block Copolymers for Organic Electronics,” B.D. Olsen, Y. Tao, R.A. Segalman, Polymer Physics Gordon Conference, New London, CN, August 2004.

“Self-Assembled Semiconducting Block Copolymers for Efficient Photonic Devices,” R. A. Segalman, C. Brochon, G. Hadziioannou, American Physical Society March Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 2004.

Self Assembled Photovoltaic Devices from Donor-Acceptor Semiconducting Block Copolymers, R.A. Segalman, B. de Boer, K. v.d. Wetering, C. Brochon, G. Hadziioannou, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 2003.

Edge Effects on the Order and Melting of a 2D Array of Block Copolymer Spheres,

R. A. Segalman, A. Hexemer, and E. J. Kramer, American Physical Society Meeting (DPOLY), Austin, TX, March 2003.

Melting of Spherical Block Copolymer Microdomains in Two-Dimensions,” R. A. Segalman, A. Hexemer, R. C. Hayward, E. J. Kramer, Polymer Physics Gordon Conference, Newport, RI, August 2002.· “

The Thermodynamics of Epitaxial Ordering of Arrays of Block Copolymer Spherical Domains,” R. A. Segalman, A. Hexemer, E. J. Kramer, American Physical Society Meeting (DPOLY), Indianapolis, IN, March 2002 (APS Bull. 2002, 47(2), 900).

Growth and Patterning of Islands and Holes in Spherical Domain Diblock Copolymer Thin Films,” R. A. Segalman, S. Magonov, E. J. Kramer,, Materials Research Society Meeting, Boston, Ma, November 2001.· “

Effects of Geometry on Topographically Controlled Order in Diblock Copolymers,” R. A. Segalman, G. H. Fredrickson, E. J. Kramer, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Reno, Nevada, November 2001· “

Order of Block Copolymer Films on Topological Patterns as Observed by Scanning Force Microscopy,” R. A. Segalman, G. H. Fredrickson, E. J. Kramer, International Conference on Scanning Probe Microscopy of Polymers, Weingarten, Germany, 2001.· “

Effects of Lateral Confinement on Ordering in Asymmetric Block Copolymers,” R. A. Segalman, G. H. Fredrickson, E. J. Kramer, MRL Workshop on Advanced Materials with EPFL Lausanne, ETH Zurich, UCSB, and the Weizmann Institute, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2001.· “

Effects of Topographical Confinement on the Long Range Order of Asymmetric Diblock Copolymer Films.” R.A. Segalman, G.H. Fredrickson, E.J. Kramer, American Physical Society Meeting (DPOLY), Seattle, WA, March 2001 (APS Bull. 2001, 46(1),1000).

Topographical Control of Order in Asymmetric Diblock Copolymers.” R.A. Segalman, H.Yokoyama, E.J. Kramer, Materials Research Society Meeting, Boston, Ma, November 2000· “

Long Range Order in of Asymmetric Diblock Copolymer Thin Films, R. A. Segalman, E.J. Kramer, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, Ca, November 2000· “

Controlling the Long Range Ordering of Block Copolymer Micelle Films.” R.A. Segalman, H.Y. Yokoyama, E.J. Kramer, American Physical Society Meeting (DPOLY), Minneapolis, Mn, March 2000.