Fredrickson Group, April 2011 (Left to right): Sean Paradiso, Hassei Takahashi, Kate Barteau
Jeffrey Gopez, Nate Lynd, Glenn Fredrickson, Debra Audus, Su-Mi Hur, Zoltan Mester,
Mike Villet, Nabil Laachi, and Kris Delaney.
Overview
The Fredrickson group conducts a broad range of research activities in theoretical and computational polymer science, many of these aimed at understanding self-assembling polymers and complex fluids, and especially block copolymer systems. A computational tool that is unique to the group is the "Field-Theoretic Simulation" technique, which is a numerical procedure for simulating statistical field theory models of complex polymer formulations. The group also maintains strong interactions with experimental teams in academia and industry throughout the world.