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| Alon McCormick, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 S.E. Washington Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55455 |
| Multifunctional crosslinking polymerization kinetics are important in a wide variety of modern materials synthesis engineering problems. Two examples are: 1) sol/gel synthesis of ceramics and hybrid inorganic/organic materials, and 2) UV curing of glassy, impermeable acrylate coatings. In both of these examples, the three-dimensional molecular architecture formed by the polymerization reactions results from the balance of competing reaction pathways. It is important for a reaction model to predict the molecular architecture as well as the rate of material conversion. Monte Carlo simulations enable us to develop reaction models that do this, particularly when the model is compared with NMR and other spectroscopies. |
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ACS Award in Colloid and Surface Chemistry Symposium Honoring Clay Radke
Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry |