Program in Polymer Science and Technology
Faculty
Faculty directly active in the academic administration of the program:
Professor Darrell J. Irvine | Lab Website
PPST Program Director
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
(617) 452-4174, djirvine@mit.edu
Biomaterials surfaces, Tissue engineering/complex materials, Polymer-biopolymer nanosystems, Bioengineering of the immune system
Professor Alfredo Alexander-Katz | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
(617) 452-2238, aalexand@mit.edu
Polymer physics, drug-delivery, self-assembly, adhesion, driven systems
Professor Daniel Blankschtein | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-4594, dblank@mit.edu
Statistical mechanics, thermodynamics and physical chemistry of complex fluids and micellar solutions
Professor Robert E. Cohen | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-3777, recohen@mit.edu
Physics and chemistry of polymers; polymer surfaces/interfaces; Structure-property relationships
Professor Patrick S. Doyle | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-4534, pdoyle@mit.edu
Microrheology, Biophysics, Microfluidics Separations, Polymer Physics, Transport Phenomena
Professor Karen K. Gleason | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-5066, kkg@mit.edu
Chemical Vapor Deposition, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Professor Linda G. Griffith | Lab Website
DIVISION OF BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-0013, griff@mit.edu
Biomedical and Biochemical Engineering
Professor Paula T. Hammond | Video Profile | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 258-7577, hammond@mit.edu
Macromolecular Design and Synthesis, Functionalized Polymers, Optical Properties of Polymers, Liquid Crystalline Polymeric Materials
Professor Jeremiah A. Johnson | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
(617) 253-1819, jaj2109@mit.edu
Drug-delivery, Hydrogels, Biopolymers, Nanoparticles, Semiconducting polymers, Organometallic polymers, Photoactive polymers
Professor Gareth McKinley | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 258-0754, gareth@mit.edu
Non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, polymer processing, viscoelasticity, flow stability, extensional rheology & filament stretching
Professor Bradley D. Olsen | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 715-4548, bdolsen@mit.edu
Block copolymers, Soft condensed matter physics, Protein-based materials, Bioelectronics
Professor Christine Ortiz | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
(617) 452-3084, cortiz@mit.edu
Macromolecular systems, nanomechanics, structure-property relationships, biomimetic materials design
Professor Katharina Ribbeck | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 715-4575, ribbeck@mit.edu
Physiological transport, mucus barriers, biofilms, pathogen/host interactions
Professor Michael F. Rubner | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
(617) 253-4477, rubner@mit.edu
Polymers with Novel Electrical, optical, and magnetic properties; self-assembled monolayers
Professor Gregory C. Rutledge | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-0171, rutledge@mit.edu
Polymer Physics, Thermodynamics of bulk polymers molecular modeling
Professor Hadley D. Sikes | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-5224, sikes@mit.edu
Functional polymeric materials, Macromolecular design, Clinical diagnostics
Professor Timothy Swager | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
(617) 253-4423, tswager@mit.edu
Synthesis and characterization of electronically and optically active polymers and polymer sensory materials
Professor Krystyn J. Van Vliet | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
(617) 253-3315, krystyn@mit.edu
Mechanically coupled material systems, mechanical properties of nanoscale polymer films, chemomechanical coupling in living cells
Professor Ioannis Yannas | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING/DMSE
(617) 253-4469, yannas@mit.edu
Biodegradable polymeric templates for organ regeneration; design and clinical testing of artificial skin
PPST FACULTY AFFILIATES
faculty associated with the program:
Professor Robert C. Armstrong
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-4581, rca@mit.edu
Polymers fluid mechanics, rheology, polymer processing, kinetic theory and rheology, applied mathematics
Professor George B. Benedek
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
(617) 253-4828, gbb@mit.edu
Self-association and phase transitions in solutions of biological and synthetic macromolecules
Professor Mary C. Boyce
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-2342, mcboyce@mit.edu
Mechanical behavior of solids; solid phase forming of polymers
Professor Robert S. Langer
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-3107, rlanger@mit.edu
Polymeric, controlled drug delivery systems
Professor Keith A. Nelson
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
(617) 253-1423, kanelson@mit.edu
Femtosecond-millisecond time resolved spectroscopy of polymers and other viscoelastic media
Professor ChoKyun Rha
BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING LABORATORY
(617) 253-3493, ckrha@mit.edu
Rheology of Biopolymers; structure-property-function relationship in biopolymers
Professor David K. Roylance
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
(617) 253-3309, roylance@mit.edu
Physics and mechanics of polymer deformation and fracture; environmental resistance of polymers
Professor Richard R. Schrock
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
(617) 253-1596, rrs@mit.edu
Ring-opening metathesis polymerization, block copolymers, and semiconductor clusters