Material Measurement Laboratory / Materials Science and Engineering Division

Polymers and Complex Fluids Group

The Polymers and Complex Fluids Group develops measurement methods, models, data, standards, and science for soft materials, such as multi-phase fluids, gels, and composites, and their constituent components, such as polymeric molecules, nanoparticles, colloids, and fibers.

Projects and Programs

Fluid Suspensions & Emulsions

We are trying to help take colloidal rheology understanding beyond uniformly charged spheres to particles with more complex interactions, through new...
FRET of Nano-cellulose in PE

Sustainable Composites

The objective of this project is the develop of tools to measure the fundamental structure-processing and structure -property relations associated with...
Renewable Project

Renewable Polymers

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

Contact

  • Kathryn L. Beers, Group Leader

    100 Bureau Drive, M/S 8542
    Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8542

    301-975-2113 Telephone
    301-975-4924 Facsimile