Professor Mark Matsen and Professor Gregory Rutledge
Accurate Calibration of the Flory-Huggins C Parameter
Professor Mark Matsen
Departments of Chemical Engineering, Physics & Astronomy
University of Waterloo
Mark Matsen obtained his PhD on lyotropic liquid crystals from the University of Guelph (Canada) in 1987. His research interests switched to the theory of block copolymers during postdoc positions at the University of Washington with Michael Schick and then the University of Minnesota with Frank Bates. He then took a faculty position at the University of Reading (UK), first in the Physics Dept (1996-2005) and then in the Mathematics Dept (2005-2013). Matsen is now a faculty member at the University of Waterloo (Canada) jointly in the Chemical Engineering and Physics & Astronomy Depts, where he continues to research block copolymers and polymer melts.
Multiscale Simulation of Flow-Induced Crystallization in Polymers
Professor Gregory Rutledge
Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gregory C. Rutledge is the Lammot du Pont Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT. He served as Director of the Program in Polymer Science and Technology and Executive Officer in Chemical Engineering. He is a Fellow of AIChE, APS, and PMSE Division of ACS. He received the AIChE Braskem Award, Fiber Society Founders Award, Morton Distinguished Visiting Professorship (University of Akron), and Thinker-in-Residence (Deakin University). His research entails the molecular engineering of soft matter, with publications on process-structure-property relationships for polymers and the fabrication, properties and applications of ultrafine fibers. Prof. Rutledge is an editor for the Journal of Materials Science.