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Plastics processing, including extrusion, injection molding, and novel processing techniques; nanomanufacturing with polymers; 3D printing

Polymer colloids, soft matter, stimuli-responsive polymers, emulsion polymerization and water-based polymer coatings, inks and adhesives. Photoresist polymers for nanolithography, nanofluidic devices & microcapsules & hybrid nanoparticles for nanomedicine, biomedical devices, drug delivery devices and biosensors.

Additive Manufacturing, Controlled Release, Polyelectrolyte Processing, Finite Element Analysis, Cell-Material Interactions, Interfacial Phenomena

Processes: Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing, Foaming, Injection Molding Materials: Multifunctional Polymer Nanocomposites, Bio-Based Polymers, and Composites, Advanced Polymeric Foams

New polymeric materials, additives, fillers, economic evaluations, elastomers, & rheology

Computer-aided engineering, computer-aided manufacturing, process control, injection molding, part design, mold design, finite element analysis

Plastics product and process design, process simulation, instrumentation, and control

Organic Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, Polymer Science, Materials Science, Nanoscience & Technology, Opto-electronic devices, Photophysical characterization

Rubber technology, thermoplastic elastomers, design, properties and processing of elastomers, nano materials.

Sustainable approaches to polymers, additives and multifunctional materials, structure-property-utility relationships of plastics and elastomers. Polymers and additives from renewable resources. Thermal & morphological characterization of materials, prototyping and scalable manufacture of flexible electronic products.

Renewable polymers, Plastics processing, nanocomposites, organic photovoltaics and electronics, rheology, scattering

Bio-inspired surface science and engineering; Roll-to-Roll processing for functional polymeric surface; High-rate manufacturing of polymer nanocomposites