Theoretical
Projects Involving Soft Materials.
Following projects require use of Statistical
Mechanics, Stochastic Processes and Mathematical Methods.
Complex
Fluids: Polymer melts and concentrated solutions.
Molecular
models for polymer dynamics for the complex polymer topologies and polydispersed polymeric systems.
Polymer
blends: Modeling of the physical properties like glass transition temperature
and their viscoelastic behavior.
Dynamics
of dendritic and random networks polymers in solution
and under random flows.
Stretch
dynamics of branched polyampholytes.
Artificial
Muscles based on nematic polymers and gels.
Polymers
adsorbed and grafted at interface.
These classes of problems are also of interest in materials and their modeling
involves concepts of Statistical Mechanics, Mathematical and Computational
Methods.