PTFE Research
Functional Polymers and Systems
Research Topics:
- Block copolymer templating of inorganic nanoparticles for tunable physical and chemical properties
- Carbon nanotube based electrochemical supercapacitors
- Demand activated toughening in garments
- Dendritic macromolecules as building blocks for organized assemblies at functionalized interfaces
- Development of non-traditional MEMS fabrication techniques for backplate and polymer fluidic actuator (ECE)
- Main-chain liquid crystalline polymers and elastomers as shape memory and auxetic (negative Poisson) materials
- Microtexturing of Si solar cells
- Nematic liquid crystals at polymer interfaces
- Scanning Probe Microscopy of polymeric interfaces
- Star and hyperbranched polymeric assemblies at interfaces
- Study of photonic crystals in biology; butterflies, beetles, and moths
- Super-hydrophobic surfaces by self-assembly
- Theoretical aspects and synthesis of shape memory polymers
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