Current Projects Ongoing in our Group

• Miscible and Immiscible Polymer Blends Containing a Liquid Crystalline Polymer
  (Funding: NSF CAREER Award and NSF-DMR 02 Award)
  
  
  
  
  

  
• Optimization and Control of Dispersions of Carbon Nanotubes in Polymer Matrices (Funding: DOE)
  
• Interfacial Modification of in Multi-component Polymer Systems (Funding: 3M)
  
• Multiply Bound Polymer Chains: A Novel Method to Control Polymer Interfaces (Funding: NSF- Collaborative Research in Chemistry Program)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Correlation of Polymeric Architecture to its Dynamics in Selective Surface Segragation

 

 

 

Above: Schematic of the phenomena of surface segregation
Below: Illustration of neutron reflectivity experiments to monitor the surface segregation of a copolymer to a biphasic interface

d-PS

d-PMMA + 10% P(S-co-MMA)

Silicon