Theoretical Projects Involving Soft
Materials.
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.
Dendritic and random networks
polymers in solution and under random layered 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.