Stars,
Diamonds and the ABC's of Self Assembly
MIT
-Morris Cohen Professor of Materials
Science and Engineering
Director
- Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
at MIT
Thomas
Research Group
Background
Papers for Talk:
"Nanostructures
From Phase Separated Polymers" , Michael.
R. Bockstaller and Edwin L. Thomas
Topics
covered during this Seminar will include:
-
Self
Assembly into Periodic Patterns
-
The
Intermaterial Dividing Surface
-
Morphologies
by Symmetries
-
Novel
Microdomain Patterns:
Prof.
Edwin L. (Ned) Thomas' research interests include polymer physics and
engineering of the mechanical and optical properties of block copolymers,
liquid crystalline polymers, and hybrid organic-inorganic nanocomposites.
He served as Associate Head for the Department of Materials Science and
Engineering and as the Director in the Program in Polymer Science and
Technology at MIT. In 2000, he and others from MIT co-founded
OmniGuide Communications Inc., located in Cambridge. Prior to
joining MIT, he founded and served as Co-Director of the Institute for
Interface Science and was Head of the Department of Polymer Science and
Engineering at the University of Massachusetts. He earned his B.S.
in Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science from the University of
Massachusetts and his doctorate in Materials Science from Cornell
University. Professor Thomas is the recipient of the 1991 High Polymer
Physics Prize of the American Physical Society, the 1985 American Chemical
Society Creative Polymer Chemist Award, and was elected a Fellow of the
American Physical Society in 1986.
He
has also been a Visiting Professor/Senior Scientist at the Institut
Charles Sadron at the CNRS for Macromolecules in Strasbourg, France,
Visiting Professor in the Department of Physics at Bristol University, a
Bye Fellow at Robinson College, in the Department of Physics and Materials
Science at Cambridge University, a Visiting Professor in the Department of
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota,
the Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Institute for Macromolecular
Chemistry at the University of Freiburg, and as Assistant Professor in the
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University
of Minnesota. He has written an undergraduate textbook, "The
Structure of Materials" and coauthored approximately 300 papers and
is the holder of 5 patents.
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