the foulger group

tiger_paw The Foulger Research Group was formed in 1999 when Dr. Stephen Foulger took a position as an assistant professor in what was then the School of Textiles, Fiber, and Polymer Science (STFPS) at Clemson University. In those early days, the group was housed in the Sirrine Hall Laboratories on campus, but in 2005, moved out to the Advanced Materials Research Laboratories (AMRL) after their construction. AMRL is an 111,000 square foot laboratory that houses a range of state-of-the-art equipment and is located in the Clemson University Advanced Materials Center, an innovative campus and technology park located in Anderson, SC, approximately eight miles from campus. Around the same period, the Department of Ceramic Engineering and STFPS joined to become the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. As of 2008, Dr. Foulger was promoted to the rank of professor and became the Gregg-Graniteville Endowed Chair. In 2012, Professor Foulger received a joint appointment in the Department of Bioengineering in recognition of the multitude of efforts being pursued in his group that focus on bio-related science and technologies.


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news: article on cascaded electrochemical memristors

The Foulger Group has recently disseminated a scholarly article that explores the intricacies of cascaded electrochemical memristors. These memristors were manufactured using vapor phase polymerization and screen printing, employing poly(4-(6-hexyl)-4H-dithieno[3,2-b:2′,3′-d]pyrrole) (p6DTP) as the principal material. The devices have been successfully deployed in circuits based on elementary algebra and Boolean algebra.

news: benjamin grant successfully defends his PhD thesis / november 16, 2022

On November 16, 2022, Benjamin Grant successfully defended his PhD thesis in the Department of Materials Science entitled "Design, Fabrication and Characterization of Conjugated Polymeric Electrochemical Memristors as Neuromorphic/Integrated Circuits". Benjamin has a B.S. from Clemson University.

news: eric zhang successfully defends his PhD thesis / april 5, 2022

On April 5, 2022, Eric Zhang successfully defended his PhD thesis in the Department of Materials Science entitled "Synthesis of scintillating refractory nanophosphors for biomedical applications". Eric has a B.S. from Rutgers University.

news: 15th annual materials and optics poster competition (MRS/Optica) / april 28, 2022 - clemson, sc

The MRS/Optica (formally OSA) Materials and Optics Poster Competition was held for the fifteenth year on April 28, 2022 at the state-of-the-art Watt Family Innovation Center housed on Clemson University's main campus. This competition serves as the primary showcase of materials and optics research being performed at Clemson University and surrounding universities. Each year sees more posters, visitors, and judges.

news: random pic of the group at ACS 257th national meeting in orlando, florida

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Here are some random pictures of the The Foulger Group at the 257th American Chemical Society National Meeting in Orlando, Florida.

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news: using polymers to mimic biological synapses

The Foulger group has been active in developing non-conjugated polymers for use as synaptic mimics and recently published an article in Advanced Electronic Materials on a carbazole derivatized n‐alkyl methacrylate polymeric memristor which acts as a flexible synaptic substitute. A biological synapse is a junction between two nerve cells and consists of a tiny gap across which electrical impulses pass by diffusion of a neurotransmitter and are the basis for cognitive responses in living creatures. The group's aim is to develop polymeric equivalents that can be printed in "physical" neural networks.

news: original paper on hydrogel encapsulation crystalline colloidal arrays (CCA) sees increase in citations

The original Langmuir publication (Langmuir 2001, 17, 19, 6023-6026) on the technique developed in the Foulger Group back in 2001 for the hydrogel encapsulation of crystalline colloidal arrays (CCA) has received a number of recent citations. These photonic crystals have seen a surge in interest from the scientific community, such as this recent publication in ACS Nano that is based on our prior work.

news: dynamic emission tuning of X‐ray radioluminescent crystalline colloidal arrays: coupling the optical stop band with sequential Förster resonance energy transfers

The Foulger Group recently published an article that presented a general strategy for the preparation of a fully organic X‐ray radioluminescent colloidal platform that can be tailored to emit anywhere in the visible spectrum through a judicious choice in donor/acceptor pairing and multiple sequential Förster resonance energy transfers (FRETs). The article can be found at Advanced Optical Materials.

news: mini-review on fluorescence imaging in cancer cells using dye-doped nanoparticles

The Foulger group recently published an article that attempts to summarize some of the biggest gains in using dye-doped particles in imaging of cancer cells. Fluorescence imaging has gained increased attention over the past two decades as a viable means to detect a variety of cancers. Fluorescence imaging has the potential to provide physicians with high resolution images with enhanced contrast, which will allow them to be able to better diagnose and treat patients with cancer.

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