Doctoral Student
Email: rwattana@seas.upenn.edu
220 S 33rd St
Towne 345
Philadelphia, PA, 19104
Bio
August 2016 – May 2020: B.S.(SHC) in Materials Science and Engineering with Polymer Science Minor, the Pennsylvania State University
September 2020 – Present: First-year Ph.D. student in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Current Research
Investigating the rheology of cellulose nanofibril suspensions in the Presence of Polymers.
Previous Research
August 2017 – May 2020: Conducted research on natural polysaccharides, which are cellulose, chitosan, and xanthan, in ionic liquids and the effect of urea addition on their rheological behaviors to improve their processing conditions under Professor Ralph Colby’s research group, the Pennsylvania State University
May 2017 – August 2017: Performed PBS thin films with the additions of micro- and nano-cellulose under Research University Network in Thailand, Chulalongkorn University