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Polymers

Synthetic and natural polymers which play an essential and ubiquitous role in everyday life have seen the dawn of a new era in recent years, due to the ability to tune their functionality for use in a wide range of electronic applications, their formability and recyclability permitting use for a multitude of structural applications, and their inert response necessary for use in the health and medical industry. We have one of the largest polymer research portfolios amongst MSE programs in the US, with strengths in topologically-complex, functional, nanostructured, and shape-memory and bio-polymers, conjugated oligomers, supra-molecular and block-copolymers, as well as negative Poisson’s ratio polymers and nematic liquid crystals. Faculty research in polymers is focused on all aspects of synthesis, processing, recycling, characterizing, testing, modeling and computing, for advancing the understanding of process/structure/property relations needed for performance-specific design with polymers.

The faculty listed below, have identified Polymers as one of their primary research areas based on material form.

Faisal Alamgir
Associate Professor
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Blair Brettmann
Assistant Professor
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Rosario Gerhardt
Goizueta Foundation Faculty Chair, Professor
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Karl Jacob
Professor
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Seung Soon Jang
Associate Professor
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Sundaresan Jayaraman
Kolon Professor
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Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar
Professor
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Zhiqun Lin
Professor
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Mark Losego
Assistant Professor
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David McDowell
Carter N. Paden Jr. Distinguished Chair in Metals Processing, Regents' Professor, Executive Director, Georgia Tech Institute for Materials
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Valeria Milam Dec 201
Valeria Milam
Associate Professor
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Christopher Muhlstein
Associate Director MPRL and Associate Professor
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Rampi Ramprasad
Michael E. Tennenbaum Family Chair , Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Energy Sustainability
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Mary Realff
Associate Professor & Assoc. Chair for Undergrad Programs
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John Reynolds
Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
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Paul Russo
Professor, Hightower Chair in Biopolymers
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Meisha Shofner
Associate Professor, Interim Executive Director of Renewable Bioproducts Institute
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Mohan Srinivasarao
Professor
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Vladimir Tsukruk
Regents' Professor
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Youjiang Wang
Professor
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C. P. Wong
Regents' Professor & Smithgall Institute Endowed Chair
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Donggang Yao
Professor
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Gleb Yushin - 2018
Gleb Yushin
Professor
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