Jennifer S. Atchison Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

I am teaching engineering design and innovation and coordinating a large capstone Senior Design program.

Saarbruecken, Saarland, De

I am the lead engineer on an internal project to revitalize the tech transfer activities at the InnovationCenter-INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials. It is my responsibility to develop a patent portfolio and license technologies based on electrospinning conductive textiles for the next generation of flexible electronics. The project includes upscaling the electrospinning station to a pilot plant roll to roll system and developing spinning solutions that will result in conductive fibers. Project leader of a team to upscale electrospinnig to pilot roll-to-roll process. Supervisor of two Masters Students https://www.leibniz-inm.de/en/staff/dr-atchison-jennifer-2/

Saarbruecken, Saarland, De

I developed multiscale electrospun scaffolds for use in tissue engineering applications from biocompatible and biodegradable materials with tunable embedded microenvironments. Lead an international team of scientists and engineers develop a concept for a 6 M Euro research proposal under the new Horizon 2020 EU framework. I was the PI on the grant proposal. Our proposal received favorable reviews, however, was not funded.

Saarbruecken, Saarland, De

Designed and installed a multi-million dollar laboratory. I was responsible for writing all the specifications for the new equipment purchases, soliciting proposals from vendors and organizing the installation in the facilities. Developed techniques for electrospinning alkoxides for carbide derived carbons resulting in a research paper. Won a 100,000 euro grant start a new line of research in electrospinning biomaterials.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

Nanofibers, by virtue of their extremely large surface area to volume ratio, promise to be an excellent platform to explore interactions of small volumes of analytes with the nanofiber-nanoparticle composite. We have established the electrospinning parameters for poly (acrylic acid) (PAA), chitosan in formic acid, polyelectrolyte complexes, and composites of these with quantum dots. The composite fibers exhibited uniform fiber morphologies and the fluorescence peak of the quantum dot composites was unchanged. In fact, fluorescence micrographs of the composite fibers reveal luminescent fibers with evenly distributed fluorophores that manifest SNP intermittency correlated with small clusters and single SNPs suggesting excellent dispersion in the polyelectrolyte matrix. To explore the sensing applications of these nonwoven assemblies we exposed the mats to a range of pHs and changes in humidity. The mats exhibited recoverable fluorescence quenching when exposed to high humidity and demonstrated sensitivity to changes in pH. The major impacts of this work include: (1) Electrospinning PAA/quantum dot composites for the first time and establishing the optical properties of these fibers. (2) Evaluation of the optical properties of these fibers when exposed to a range of pH’s and humidity. (3) Electrospinning, for the first time, Chitosan/PAA complexed fibers with quantum dots. ((4) Demonstrating, for the first time, the ability to regulate energy transfer between donor quantum dots embedded in a nanofiber and surface bound acceptors.

Chandler, Arizona, Us

Evaluated solder joint reliability of photodiodes in advanced packaging including flip chip and ball grid array configurations.

Curriculum development and materials characterization to support the electronics manufacturing industry.

Phd, Materials Science And Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Materials Engineering