People
Rodney D. Priestley
Principal Investigator
2009 - Present Assistant Professor
4/2008 - 6/2009 NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, ESPCI
9/2003 - 4/2008 Ph.D., Northwestern University
9/1998 - 5/2003 B.S., Texas Tech University
Research Interest: Glass Formation and Glassy Behavior; Polymer Dynamics Under Confinement; Adaptive and Hybrid Materials; Nanoparticles; MAPLE of Amorphous and Electrically-Active Polymers
Yunlong Guo, Ph.D.
Associate Research Scholar
2009 Ph.D., University of Louisville
2003 M.S., Tsinghua University
2000 B.S., Tsinghua University
Main Research Areas: MAPLE Processing, Glassy Dynamics of Confined Polymer
Rui Liu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
2010 Ph.D., University of California - Riverside
2005 M.S., Tongji University
2002 B.S., Tongji University
Main Research Areas: Nanoparticles, Hybrid Materials, Responsive Polymer
Colin Neikirk
4th Year Graduate Student - Chemical and Biological Engineering
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2009
Main Research Areas: Adaptive Materials, Hybrid Materials
Chuan Zhang
4th Year Graduate Student - Chemical and Biological Engineering
B.S. Chemistry, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 2009
Main Research Areas: Colloidal Nanoparticle Preparation, Glassy Dynamics of Confined Polymers, MAPLE
Kimberly Shepard
3rd Year Graduate Student - Chemical and Biological Engineering
B.S. and M.S. Chemical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2010
Main Research Areas: MAPLE of Amorphous Polymers and Hyperquenched Glasses
Hyuncheol Jeong
1st Year Graduate Student - Chemical and Biological Engineering
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, 2012
Main Research Areas: Laser Processing (MAPLE of Glassy Polymers)
Mary Burroughs
1st Year Graduate Student - Chemical and Biological Engineering
B.S. Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, 2012
Main Research Areas: Dynamics of Confined Polymers
