International Postdoctoral Fellows: Mechanisms Controlling Miniemulsion Polymerization

9401958 MILLER该奖项是国际青年研究员和博士后研究员计划的一部分，它使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外公认的卓越研究中心进行三到十二个月的研究。该计划的奖励为联合研究提供了机会，并利用独特或互补的设施、专业知识和国外的实验条件。该奖项将支持里海大学的Christopher M. Miller博士与悉尼大学的Robert G. Gilbert教授进行为期六个月的博士后研究访问。他们的项目将应用悉尼大学和里海大学团队的互补知识和实验技术，以了解控制聚合物形成过程的基础科学，以及在微乳液体系中产生的聚合物的性质。该项目将把悉尼小组报告的新发现建立在已经存在的微乳液动力学模型中。这些结果将是计算机代码，其预测应该与Miller在其博士研究期间编写的典型微乳液聚合的广泛数据一致。该项目将利用悉尼小组可用的Y射线分解弛豫设施进行若干实验。从这些实验中得到的更多的理解应该为未来这些过程的创新设计铺平道路。＊＊＊

9401958 MILLER This award is under the International Junior Investigator and Postdoctoral Fellows Program, which enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twelve months of research abroad at research centers of proven excellence. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad. This award will support a six-month postdoctoral research visit by Dr. Christopher M. Miller of Lehigh University to work with Professor Robert G. Gilbert at the University of Sydney. Their project will apply complementary knowledge and experimental techniques of the Sydney University and Lehigh University groups to understand the fundamental science of processes governing polymer formation, and properties of the resulting polymer in miniemulsion systems. The project will build into already existing models for miniemulsion kinetics the new discoveries that have been reported by the Sydney group. An outcome of these will be computer codes whose predictions should be consistent with the extensive data for archetypical miniemulsion polymerizations compiled by Miller during his doctoral research. The project will make use of the Y radiolysis relaxation facilities available to the Sydney group to carry out several experiments. The increased understanding derived from these experiments should pave the way for innovative design of these processes in the future. ***