2026 Adhesion Society Annual Meeting Final Program
GENERAL INFORMATION
Final Program Content
Executive
Registration/Information Hours
Registration Booth, Second Level
Sunday, February 8 Noon – 5:00 p.m.
Monday, February 9 7:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Tuesday, February 11 7:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
President Nick Shephard
Dow Chemical Company
Immediate Past President
Joelle Frechette
University of California, Berkeley
Vice President
Kevin Turner
University of Pennsylvania
Secretary
Katharine Jensen
Williams College
Treasurer Chris Campbell 3M Company
Editor
Andrew Croll
North Dakota State University
Please recycle this program when done.
Members at Large
Anne Dussaud, Momentive
Jonathan Pham, University of Cincinnati
Megan Valentine, University of California, Santa Barbara
Bioadhesion Division Chair
Mark Kozlowski U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Structural Adhesives Division Chair
Arit Das, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Soft Adhesives Division Chair
Evan Breedlove, 3M Company
Home Office Manager/Onsite Contact
Malinda Armstrong, CMP, Adhesion Society
2026 Program Chairs
Christopher So, Naval Research Laboratory (Chair)
Michael Bartlett, Virginia Tech (Co-Chair)
Harborside Ballroom, River Street Level (Sunday during Presidents Reception) Scarbrough Ballroom Foyer, Lobby Level (Monday-Tuesday)
Current Exhibitors
(Available Sunday through Tuesday)
Sunday, February 8
Monday, February 9
Noon to 5:00 p.m.
Daily Program Schedule
Registration
Registration Booth, Second Level
1:30 to 4:45 p.m. 2026 Award for Excellence in Adhesion Science Symposium
sponsored by:
Honoring Kathryn J. Wahl, US Naval Research Laboratory
Session Chair: Jonathan Wilker, Purdue University
Regency Ballroom, Second Level
1:30 p.m. Introductory Remarks
Nick Shephard, Dow & Jonathan Wilker, Purdue University
1:40 p.m. The Decade-long Search for Mechanisms Underpinning Barnacle Cyprid Adhesion: What Have We Learnt?
Nick Aldred, Essex University
2:20 p.m. Interfaces in Motion: In Situ Studies of Adhesion and Friction
Angela Pitenis, University of California Santa Barbara
3:00 p.m. AWARD PRESENTATION: Tackling Sticky and Slippery Situations – In situ Approaches to Understanding Complex Phenomena in Dynamic Buried Interfaces
Kathryn Wahl, US Naval Research Laboratory & 2026 Award of Excellence Recipient
4:00 p.m. BREAK
4:15 p.m. Brushrooms: Surface Properties and Applications of Grafted Liquid-like Polymer Chains
5:00 – 6:15 p.m.
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Kevin Golovin, University of Toronto & 2025 Early Career Scientist Award Recipient
Business Meeting
Regency Ballroom, Second Level
Presidents Reception & Exhibition
Harborside Ballroom, River Street Level
Please take a moment to welcome our exhibitors during the reception.
• ASI Magazine • Psylotech Inc
7:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration
Registration Booth, Second Level
7:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Exhibition
Scarbrough Ballroom Foyer, Lobby Level
Please take a moment to welcome our exhibitors.
• ASI Magazine • Psylotech Inc
7:00 – 7:45 a.m. Networking Continental Breakfast
Regency Ballroom, Second Level
8:00 – 8:45 a.m. Tapping into the Diversity of Marine Invertebrates to Design Bio-inspired Underwater Adhesives PLENARY
Patrick Flammang, Université de Mons
Regency Ballroom, Second Level
Monday AM
Session
9:00 to 9:25 a.m.
Bio-sourced Adhesives and Bio-degradation
Scarbrough Ballroom One, Lobby Level
Session Chairs: Nick Aldred, University of Essex & Jonathan Wilker, Purdue University
Fatigue/Durability of Structural Adhesives
Scarbrough Ballroom Two, Lobby Level
Session Chairs: Edoardo Nicoli, Dow Chemical Company & Arit Das, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
9:25 to 9:50 a.m.
Mechanical Analysis of Soy Protein Adhesive Films by Digital Image Correlation
Z. Humberto Melgarejo, University of WisconsinMadison
9:50 to 10:15 a.m.
10:15 to 10:45 a.m.
10:45 to 11:10 a.m.
Bio-Based Thermosetting Polymers for Hybrid Composites as Sustainable Binders for Additive Manufacturing Applications
Wathsala Amadoru Jayawardana, Georgia Southern University
KEYNOTE
Protein Adhesives for Wood Products: Impact of Protein Structure on Bond Performance
Chris Hunt, USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory
Tailorable Nanoparticle-based Crosslinks in Polymer Networks
Materials Chemistry for Tactile Perception: Creating Shapes through Frictional Anisotropy and Reducing Clutter
Gels, Elastomers, & Hybrids: Dynamic Materials
Scarbrough Ballroom Five, Lobby Level
Session Chairs: Chris Campbell, 3M Company & Caroline Szczepanski, Michigan State University
Immiscible Polydimethylsiloxane and Polybutadiene Vitrimer Blends
Ralm Ricarte, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
Charles Dhong, University of Delaware KEYNOTE
Fracture and Cutting of a Collagenous Membrane
Shelby Hutchens, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Slippery When Charged or Adhesive Hydrogels
Rosa Maria Espinosa-Marzal, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Topological Entanglement for Chemistry and Packing-Independent Cohesion and Adhesion of Granular Hydrogels
Ashka Patel, Stanford University
Dual-Interface Relative Adhesion Control in Transfer Printing
Aoyi Luo, Syracuse University
Improving Energy Dissipation in Metamaterial Structures by Separating Adhesive Interfaces During Dynamic Impact
Serena Birnbaum, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Induction-assisted Spin Heat Technology of Stable Nanoceramics for Polymer Composite Processing
Vivek Arjunan Vasantha, Nanyang Technological University
Fatigue Resistant Bioadhesives
Jianyu Li, McGill University
Investigating the Vulnerability of Corneal Endothelial Cells to Contact Adhesion
Alex McMullen, University of Rochester
Complex Coacervate Tissue Adhesives –Improved Cytocompatibility by Altering Cation Chemistry and Ionic Strength
Ayla Kwant, University of Groningen
Biomechanical and Dose-Dependent Recovery of GAG Depleted Cartilage Ex Vivo with a Synthetic Polyelectrolyte, Polystyrene Sulfonate
Qurat-ul-Ain Bhatti, University of Delaware
Kinetic Control of Polymer Network Topology
Junsoo Kim, Northwestern University
Formulation-property Relationships at the Surfaces of Slide-ring Hydrogels
Andrew Rhode, University of California, Santa Barbara
Investigation of Adhesion and Friction on PDMS and PDMS-based Nanocomposites at Nanoscale Using AFM
Masoumeh Nazem Salimi, North Dakota State University
UV Curable Silicones
Junying Liu, Dow Silicones Corporation
1:30 to 2:15 p.m.
Tuesday PM Sessions
CAREER PANEL – Regency Ballroom, Second Level • Chair: Michael Bartlett, Virginia Tech
Sustainability & Adhesion II
Scarbrough Ballroom One, Lobby Level
Session Chair: Nadia Nikolova, University of Illinois Chicago
2:30 to 2:55 p.m.
2:55 to 3:20 p.m.
Vulcanization-Free Rubber Composites with Enhanced Reprocessability and Mechanical Robustness via Dynamic Crosslinking
Sargun Singh Rohewal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Debonding and Washability of Soft Adhesives
Joelle Frechette, University of California - Berkeley
Flow Induced Crystallization of Immiscible Polymer Blends
3:20 to 3:45 p.m.
3:45 to 4:10 p.m.
4:10 to 4:35 p.m.
Naomi Deneke, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Adhesives in Transportation, Electric Vehicles and E-mobility
Scarbrough Ballroom Two, Lobby Level
Session Chairs: James Puthussery, Bostik & Alex Arzoumanidis, Psylotech, Inc.
Plasma-Assisted Coating for Structural Adhesive Bonding of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Components
Mary Gilliam, General Motors
Tailored Glycolysis of Nylon 6 to Enable Upcycling into High-Strength Structural Adhesives
Tomonori Saito, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
KEYNOTE
Fine Polyetherimide Particles for Highly Flexible Carbon Fiber Thermoplastic Composite Towpregs
Michael Bortner, Virginia Tech
4:35 to 5:00 p.m.
Advancing Sustainability in Adhesive and Sealant Formulations through Recycled Material Integration
Raymond Quiroz, PPG Industries
Debonding Methods for Electric Vehicles Battery Packs
Vasco Rodrigues, INEGI
Plasma-Driven Adhesion: An Overview of Enhanced Bonding in Metals and Polymers
Daphne Pappas, Plasmatreat USA
Organismal and Biomimetic Adhesives
Scarbrough Ballroom Three, Lobby Level
Session Chair: Binbin Ying, MIT & Jing Yan, Yale University
Catecholamine Adhesives for Multifunctional Polymeric Coatings
Caroline Harms, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
In Situ Rheological Monitoring of Protein Amyloid Fibrillation and Mechanical Adhesion
Maëva Almeida, ESPCI Paris
KEYNOTE
A Sticky Situation: On the Phase Transitions and Adhesive Behavior of Disordered Proteins From Tick Cement Cone
Siddharth Deshpande, Wageningen University
Vibrio Cholerae Adhesin-derived Peptide Mediates Strong Pull-off Forces in Aqueous High Ionic Strength Environments
Sixin Zhai, University of California, Merced
5:00 to 5:30 p.m.
5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
From Variability to Reliability: Why Surface Preparation Requires Measurement
Lauren Ratliff, Brighton Science
Environmental Salts Impact Vibrio Cholerae-derived Peptide Adhesion Performance on Mica and Gold Substrates
Diego Jaramillo Pinto, University of California, Merced
Women’s Networking Reception – Plimsoll, Lobby Level • Chair: Gabriela Moreira Lana, University of
Young Researcher Networking Reception – Plimsoll, Lobby Level • Chairs: Ella Williams, Virginia Tech,
Reversible, Smart, or Switchable Materials: Electroadhesion
Scarbrough Ballroom Four, Lobby Level
Session Chairs: Michael Wilson, Psylotech, Inc. & Ella Williams, Virginia Tech
Analysis of Environmental Effects Influencing the Performance of Electrically Debondable Adhesives
Philip-Marc Barnewitz, University of the Bundeswehr Munich
Electro-Priming Enables Universal Electroadhesion: A Way to Stick Any Two Soft Materials by Applying a Low Electric Field
Morine Nader, University of Maryland College Park
Pressure Sensitive Electro-Responsive Adhesives based on Ion-containing Bottlebrush Elastomers
Hao Dong, University of California, Santa Barbara
Failure Mechanics in Soft Materials
Scarbrough Ballroom Five, Lobby Level
Session Chairs: Evan Breedlove, 3M Company & Srividhya Sridhar, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
KEYNOTE
Nucleation and Propagation of Fracture in Elastomers: The When, The Where, and The Why
Oscar Lopez-Pamies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Roughness-dependent Scaling of the Contact Area and Separation Gap with Pressure for Glassy Polymers
Shubhendu Kumar, University of Akron
Modeling the Molecular Mechanisms of Yield and Fracture in Self-assembled Tetrablock Polymer Membranes
Thomas O’Connor, Carnegie Mellon University
Gels, Elastomers, & Hybrids: Materials
and Mechanics
Regency Ballroom, Second Level
Session Chairs: Christopher Barney, University of Akron & Junying Liu, Dow Chemical
Use of Poly(glycerol sebacate) as an Alternative to Poly(dimethylsiloxane) as a Platform for Making Microfluidic Channel
Yasmeena Ashraf, IIT Kanpur
Network Design of Electrical Tissue Adhesives for Merging HumanMachine Interface
Shaoting Lin, Michigan State University
Interpretation of Phase Separated Morphology in Silicone Pressure
Sensitive Adhesive
Kwanho Chang, Momentive Performance Materials
Mechanics of Electroadhesive Interfaces
Kevin Turner, University of Pennsylvania
Load-parallel Cracking in Confined Thin Layers of Soft Material
Aditya Kumar, Georgia Institute of Technology
Experimental Observation of Different Instabilities When Stretching and Twisting Rubber Rods
Christopher Barney, University of Akron
Electroadhesion of Metals to Gels: How Does it Work?
Irene Orueta Ortega, University of Maryland
Salicylhydroxamic Acid as an Electroresponsive and Switchable Adhesive Molecule
Bruce Lee, Michigan Technological University
Massachusetts Amherst
Sourav Paul, University of Delaware
Time-Dependent Fracture Resistance of Soft Adhesive Layers
Kate Childers, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Elucidating the Role of Solvent Viscosity in the Dynamics and Fracture of Soft Polymer Networks
Mehdi Vahdati, CNRS Institut Charles Sadron
Errors Matter When Measuring Poisson’s Ratio of Nearly Incompressible Elastomers
Robert Nedoluha, University of Akron
Modeling Gravity-induced Cohesive
Tension in Liquids
Abir Malakar, Virginia Tech
Wednesday, February 11
Underwater Adhesives and Testing
7:00 – 7:45 a.m. Breakfast on Your Own
8:00 – 8:45 a.m.
Mussel-Inspired Underwater-applied Protective Coatings for Jason Stieg & Eric Anderson, Mussel Polymers, Inc. Regency Ballroom, Second Level 1 2 3
Fracture Mechanics
Wed. AM
Session
Scarbrough Ballroom One, Lobby Level
Session Chairs: Bruce Lee, Michigan
Technological University & Charles Dhong, University of Delaware
Scarbrough Ballroom Two, Lobby Level
Session Chairs: Alex Arzoumanidis, Psylotech, Inc. & Nihal Kanbargi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
9:00 to 9:25 a.m.
9:25 to 9:50 a.m.
9:50 to 10:15 a.m.
10:15 to 10:45 a.m.
10:45 to 11:10 a.m.
Cephalopod Structural Proteins for Fast Underwater Adhesion
Abdon Pena-Francesch, University of Michigan
Tuning Aggregation for Enhanced Control Over Protein-based Underwater Adhesives
Zach Lamberty, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Mussel-inspired Catechol Functionalized Specialty Elastomers for Advanced Adhesive Applications; Based on Triple Dynamic Network
Tuhin Subhra Pal, Indian Institute of Technology
Fracture Behavior of Lattice Materials from Low to High Relative Density
Adam Taylor, University of Pennsylvania
Failure of Adhesive Bonding Studied by In-situ Tensile Testing by Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
Shin Horiuchi, AIST
Dilatation & Distortion in Mode I & II Fracture and 3D Failure Surfaces
Alex Arzoumanidis, Psylotech, Inc.
Failure Mechanics in Soft Materials II
Scarbrough Ballroom Three, Lobby Level
Session Chairs: Andrew Croll, North Dakota State University & Evan Breedlove, 3M Company
Effects of Tackifiers on Cavitation and Fibrillation of Acrylic PSA
Kosuke Takahashi, Hokkaido University, Japan
Utilizing Mechanophores to Quantify Stress in Elastomeric Cutting
Chelsea Davis, University of Delaware
Strength Surface Measurement in Pressure Sensitive Adhesives: Challenges and Insights
Evan Breedlove, 3M Company
11:10 to 11:35 a.m.
Developing Theory and Experiment to Design New Underwater Adhesives
Jonathan Wilker, Purdue University
From Misfolding to Materials: Protein Aggregation in Neurodegeneration and Underwater Adhesives
Elizabeth Yates, United States Naval Academy
11:35 to 11:50 a.m.
11:50 a.m. to 12:05 p.m.
12:05 to 12:20 p.m.
Conformations and Sequence Determinants of an Adhesive Peptide
Derived from Vibrio Cholerae Biofilm
Jing Yan, Yale University
Fatigue Testing of Wet Adhesives
Michael Wilson, Psylotech, Inc.
Role of Soft Roughness on Underwater Adhesion
Shubham Mireja, University of Akron
Surface Tension and Laplace Pressure in Capillary Adhesion of Liquids
Md Sazzadul Alam Rahat, University of Cincinnati
Nucleation and Propagation of Fracture in Viscoelastic Elastomers: A Complete Phase-field Theory
Farhad Kamarei, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Unraveling Effects of Dispersity on Adhesion Strength at a Welded Polymer-polymer Interface: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Taofeek Tejuosho, University of Florida
The J-integral in Ice Adhesion
Kyle Messer, Dartmouth College
Molecular Origins of Toughening in Thermoplastic Elastomers with Strong Associative Bonds
William Ferguson, Carnegie Mellon University
Understanding Water in Protein-Based Hydrogel Adhesives
Christopher So, Naval Research Laboratory
Improved Maintenance of Waterborne Assets
Reversible, Smart, or Switchable Materials:
Biological & Bio-inspired
Scarbrough Ballroom Four, Lobby Level
Chairs: Session Chairs: Qihan Liu, University of Pittsburgh, Sargun Singh Rohewal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory & Animangsu Ghatak, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Controlling Underwater Adhesion through Octopus-Inspired Switchable Adhesives
TaeYoon Oh, Virginia Tech
Reversible and Detachable Adhesives via Dynamic Polymer Design
Tomonori Saito, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Tree-Frog-inspired Osmocapillary Adhesive Bonding to Diverse Substrates
Qihan Liu, University of Pittsburgh
Challenges in 3D Printing
Scarbrough Ballroom Five, Lobby Level
Session Chair: Arit Das, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Physics of Interfaces and
Debonding I
Regency Ballroom, Second Level
Session Chairs: Anupam Pandey, Syracuse University & Chao Chen, 3M Company
Electrothermal-assisted Additive
Manufacturing of Thermoset Nanocomposites with Enhanced Interfacial Adhesion
Anubhav Sarmah, Virginia Tech
Advanced Manufacturing of Composite Energetic Materials
Monique McClain, Purdue University
The Effects of Contact Ratio and Thermal Contact Resistance in Material Extrusion
Additive Manufacturing
Amy Peterson, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Enhancement of Adhesion Strength through Microvibrations: Modeling and Experiments
Antonio Papangelo, Polytechnic University of Bari
Theory And Practice of Self Bonding Silicone Elastomers
Nicholas Hampu, Dow
Elastic Energy Release Rate for a Viscoelastic Material Fracture and Delamination
Chao Chen, 3M Company
Pick-and-Place Grippers with Tunable Adhesion from Capped Soft Hollow Pillar Structure
Wanliang Shan, Syracuse University
KEYNOTE
Reversible and Strong Adhesion for Advanced Wound Care Applications
Shu Yang, University of Pennsylvania
Biomimetic Block Polycatechols Form Robust Wet Adhesives
Fahed Albreiki, University of California, Los Angeles
Highly Adhesive Glassy Gel
Baihang Chen, North Carolina State University
Hydrophilic – Oleophobic Surface Using Fluorocarbon Grafting on Hydrogels
Animangsu Ghatak, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Controllable Ductile Failure in 3D Printed Carbon Fiber-Filled PETG
Anna Keim, Purdue University
Rheology-Guided Processing of TLCP Composites for Wind Turbine Blade Manufacturing: Linking Adhesion, Morphology, and Performance
William Quintana, Virginia Tech
Effect of Dispersion on Rheology and 3D Printing of Chitosan-Graphene-Titanium Dioxide Composites
Haile Mistry, Virginia Tech
Multiaxial Characterization of Soft Polymers to Map a Failure Envelope
