Ryan M. Van Horn

Associate Professor
AEC 229
(610) 330-5820
vanhorrm@lafayette.edu

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Polymer Science, University of Akron
  • B.S., Chemical Engineering, Lafayette College

Teaching Areas

  • Experimental Design and Analysis
  • Unit Operations
  • Materials Science and Engineering

Research Interests

  • Physical characterization and structure-property relationships of polymeric materials
  • Thermodynamics of materials: phase behavior in tertiary, binary, and single-component systems

Selected Publications

Undergraduate authors are denoted with an asterisk:

  • White, J.M.*; Jurczyk, J.*; Van Horn, R.M. “Physical Structure Contributions in pH Degradation of PEO-b-PCL Films” Polym. Degrad. Stab., 2021, 183, 109468
  • Tower, C.W.*; Allen, K.*; Carandang, A.*; Van Horn, R.M. “Solubility Considerations in Relative Block Crystallization and Morphology of PEO-b-PCL Films” Polymer Crystallization, 2020
  • Van Horn, R.M.; Steffen, M.R.*; O’Connor, D.* “Recent Progress in Block Copolymer Crystallization” Polymer Crystallization, 2018, 1, e10039 Special Issue: Advances in Polymer Crystallization, Part 2
  • Brigham, N*.; Nardi, C.*; Carandang, A.*; Allen, K.*; Van Horn, R.M. “Manipulation of Crystallization Sequence in PEO-b-PCL Films Using Solvent Interactions” Macromolecules 2017, 50, 8996