Recent and Current Research Activities

Structure-process-property relations in polymer blends
Computational modeling of multicomponent melts and mixing
Extrusion and properties of very highly multilayered films (1000s to 10,000s of layers)
Chaotic advection/mixing to create novel polymer blends and composites
Creation of electrically conducting plastics with particle and fiber additives
Nanoscale polymer blends
Nanocomposites
Functional plastic materials
Plastics recycling
Permeation in barrier films and membranes
Blend morphological changes during extrusion processes
Fundamental studies of chaotic advection and chaotic mixing
Modeling of non-Newtonian flows
Computational heat transfer modeling
Solidification of structured melts
Convective heat and mass transfer, transport phenomena