Research interests

• Polymer Chemistry
• Vat photopolymerization
• Multimaterial design
• Automated, high throughput materials advancement
• Additive manufacturing

Current position(s)

Staff Scientist

Career path

Primary Investigator: Automated High Throughput Screening of Increased Ionic Conductivity Polymer Electrolytes, FY22 LDRD LW

Primary Investigator: Studying-Polymers-On a-Chip (SPOC) aging and lifetime sciences, FY23

Co-investigator: Quantitative Phase Imaging for Volumetric Additive Manufacturing, FY23 LDRD FS

LLNL-Lead: FY24 ACT Grant “Vat Photopolymerization of Functional Materials for Next Generation Components”

Highlights

https://www.llnl.gov/news/three-lab-postdocs-selected-attend-71st-annual-lindau-nobel-laureate-meeting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCYMLy0iLwM

https://www.llnl.gov/news/new-materials-help-expand-volumetric-3d-printing

https://www.llnl.gov/news/llnl-korea-institute-science-technology-collaborate

https://livermorelabfoundation.org/2021/07/23/2021-high-school-summer-stem-workshop-showcase-event/

https://www.aegisdentalnetwork.com/idt/2020/06/multimaterial-printing-on-the-horizon

https://accelerate.uoregon.edu/bioe-career-workshop-series-2023

https://womenin3dprinting.com/johanna-schwartz/

https://simons-rock.edu/news/johanna-schwartz-3d-printing.php

Subject Matter Expertise

• volumetric additive manufacturing,
• polymer chemistry
• materials characterization
• composite and multimaterial polymerization chemistries

PhD, Organic Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2019

MA, Organic Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, 2018

BA, Chemistry and Biology, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA, 2014

Selected publications

Schwartz, J. J., Porcincula, D. H., Cook, C. C., Fong, E. J., & Shusteff, M. Volumetric additive manufacturing of shape memory polymers. Polym. Chem., 13(13), 1813 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1039/D1PY01723C

Schwartz, J. J. Additive manufacturing: Frameworks for chemical understanding and advancement in vat photopolymerization. MRS bulletin, 47(6), 628 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118950623.app1

Cook, C. C., Fong, E. J., Schwartz, J. J., Porcincula, D. H., Kaczmarek, A. C., Oakdale, J. S., ... & Shusteff, M. Highly tunable thiol‐ene photoresins for volumetric additive manufacturing. Adv. Mater., 32(47), 2003376 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202003376

Schwartz, J. J., et al. Reduced strain mechanochemical activation onset in microstructured materials. Polym. Chem. 11(6), 1122 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1039/c9py01875a

Schwartz, J. J., Boydston, A. J. Multimaterial actinic spatial control 3D and 4D printing. Nat Commun 10, 791 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08639-7

For a full list, see: Google Scholar | ORCID

Patents

Schwartz, J. J., Wood, M., Ye, J. Jaycox, A. W., Zhong, X., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2022. High Throughput Materials Screening. U.S. Patent Application 17/932,723.

Schwartz, J. J., Mukherjee, S., Baluyot, E. 2022. Systems and methods for microwave additive manufacturing. U.S. Patent Application, 18/075,947.

Boydston, A. J., Schwartz, J. J., Thrasher, C. J., Becker, T., Ganter, M. A., and Storti, D. W. Vat photopolymerization additive manufacturing of multi-material parts. U.S. Patent 11,518,087, issued December 6, 2022.

• LLNL Representative and National Finalist – National Laboratory Accelerator, 2022
• UC Presidential Nobel Laureate Meeting Fellow, 2022
• ACS PMSE Future Faculty Scholar, 2020
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2015 – 2020
• ACS Eastman Chemical Award Finalist, Fall 2018
• UW Amazon Catalyst Grant, 2017
• Lloyd E. and Florence M. West Endowed Fellowship in Chemistry, 2016 – 2017
• Alvin Kwiram/ CCR Endowed Fellowship, 2014 – 2015