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Material Measurement Laboratory / Materials Science and Engineering Division

Polymers and Complex Fluids Group

Projects/Programs

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Carbon Nanotube Reference Materials

Completed
Single-wall carbon nanotubes are an important class of carbon nanomaterials with significant potential for commercial applications. The National Institute of

Fluid Suspensions and Emulsions

Ongoing
The purpose of this project is to create rheological measurement methods and tools, focused on using minimal fluid volumes, to measure local flow dynamics and

Macromolecular Architectures

Ongoing
There is always a degree of uncertainty surrounding measurements of polymeric materials, especially complex mixtures with varying distributions in chemistry

Micro-rheometry

Completed
Our goal is to develop and promote the adoption of small-volume rheological methods for complex fluids including bio-fluids, suspensions and polymers, where

Nanoparticle Assembly in Complex Fluids

Completed
Develop measurement methods that quantify the interdependent stability, transport, and redox properties of nanomaterials in biophysical multicomponent complex

Nanoscale Thermal Properties

Completed
Our goal is to develop measurement techniques to characterize the changes in thermal transport and thermal transition temperatures in polymeric and hybrid

Nanotube Metrology

Completed
Nanotube metrology improvement is a significant effort in the Particles, Tubes and Colloids project dedicated to improving the measurement methods for, and

Particles, Tubes, and Colloids

Ongoing
The goal of the Particles, Tubes and Colloids (PTC) project is to develop measurement methods and technologies to enable and improve commerce of dispersed

Polymer Analytics

Ongoing
The Polymer Analytics project was established with the goal of accelerating the discovery of new polymer physics through the development of datasets, methods

Polymer Formulations

Completed
Our goal is to develop combinatorial and high-throughput measurement approaches for rapid characterization of the structure and phase behavior of multicomponent

Protein rheology measurements

Ongoing
Therapeutic protein solutions are highly concentrated during manufacturing purification processes and in finished dosage. At such concentrations, the fluid

Renewable Polymers

Completed
Economic growth, such as that experienced in developed countries over the last century, cannot continue into the next century nor spread to less developed