International Research Fellowship Program: Suspensions in Polymer Melts: Effect of Particle Surface Treatment on Shear Flow Behavior and Aggregate Formation

国际研究奖学金计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行三到二十四个月的研究。该计划的奖项提供了联合研究的机会，以及使用国外独特或互补的设施、专业知识和实验条件的机会。该奖项将支持David L.Green博士与Jan Mewis博士在比利时鲁汶的Katholieke University Siteit合作18个月的研究奖学金。这项关于形状和大小定义良好的颗粒分散体的研究将提供有关颗粒间相互作用如何影响聚合物熔体中的浓缩颗粒分散体聚集的基本信息。鲁汶流变学小组是复杂流体中流动-流变学-结构关系的领导者。

0301939GreenThe International Research Fellowship Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twenty-four months of research abroad. 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 an eighteen month research fellowship by Dr. David L. Green to work with Dr. Jan Mewis at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in Leuven, Belgium.This study of dispersions of particles with well-defined shape and size will provide fundamental information about how interparticle interactions influence aggregation in concentrated particulate dispersions in polymer melts.The Leuven rheology group is a leader in flow-rheology-structure relationships in complex fluids.