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Mission:

Established twenty-five years ago the Polymer Research Group (PRG) is part of the Materials-Science Program and is committed to work on research problems of interest to both industry and academia.
We solve problems using basic scientific and engineering principles, rather than empiricism.
We are focused on the synthesis of single and multiphase polymers with an interest in characterizing both their micro and macro properties.
We are dedicated to communicate results in a form easily used by R&D professionals through journal articles, conferences, and interactive computer software.
We provide advanced education and training to engineers and scientists from industry through several of workshops and shortcourses.
We develop our own equipment when no commercial instrument is available.
 

 

NEWS!

Next Workshop Offering: Core-Shell Latex Particles: Fundamental Aspects of Morphology Control. June 2-5th, 2008.

Dr. John Tsavalas joined the Polymer Research Group in January of 2007. The prior five years John was a Senior Research Scientist at The Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan (USA).
Dr. Weihua "Marshall" Ming joined the Nanostructured Polymers Research Center in October of 2007. The prior seven years Marshall was an Assistant Professor (UD) in Polymer Chemistry & Coatings Technology at Eindhoven Technical University in The Netherlands.
UNHLATEXTM KMORPH v5.0 has been released to our Industrial Consortium members. New latex synthesis modeling capabilities now include input flexibility for multiple independent staged feed streams to be able to better simulate more practical industrial recipes, independent reaction temperature profiling, calculation of and accounting for residual initiator in seed latex, and the effective Tg of seed (ter)-polymer now accounting for hydroplasticization of polar comprising components. Model output now includes degree of chain branching, grafting, and gel formation; significantly more accurate full molecular weight distribution determination; polymerization kinetics including retardation effect due to chain transfer to polymer; and of course images of the resultant composite particle morphology.

 

Take a guided tour of our UNHLATEX software  

 

Web page managed by John Tsavalas. The site is currently under major revision - for confirmation of details, please contact us directly. Last update 12/11/07 .

 

Email : john.tsavalas@unh.edu