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Glenn Frederickson

Professor
Materials and Chemical Engineering
ghf@mrl.ucsb.edu
Tel. (805) 893-8308
Fax. (805) 893-8797

Director,
Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials
3031 MRL Bldg
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Research Interests

Professor Fredrickson is generally interested in applications of statistical mechanics to condensed phase systems. He has worked on cooperative relaxation phenomena in supercooled liquids and theories of the glass transition. He has also contributed to the theory of electronic excitation transport for probing macromolecular structure and dynamics, and to the theory of heat, mass, and momentum transport in heterogeneous media. In recent years, his group has been concerned with a variety of topics in polymer physics and macromolecular science and engineering. These include theoretical studies of:

• Branched polymer thermodynamics, including polyolefin phase behavior
• Microphase separation in block, graft, and random copolymers, and their blends
• Interfacial and surface thermodynamics of alloys containing random and block copolymers
• Pattern formation and nonequilibrium phase transitions in polymer solutions and melts under flow
• Diffusion-controlled reactions in complex fluid media
• Reactive blending processes
• Solution templating processes
• Fracture and practical toughness of block copolymer materials
• Field-theoretic computer simulation methods for the study of polymers and complex fluids.

Besides these primarily theoretical investigations, Professor Fredrickson's group has strong interactions with the experimental groups of Professors Kramer, Pine, Leal, and Chmelka at UCSB, as well as with leading experimental and theoretical groups in polymers and complex fluids throughout the world.