Leader: Eric Baer

The world’s smallest polymer continuous micro-coextrusion system is being built which will extend the capabilities of CLiPS enabling nanolayering technology. Nanolayered polymeric systems are being designed with only a few grams of polymer enabling coextrusion of quantity limited development of high cost materials. New micro- and nanolayered systems are being used for fundamental studies of polymer-polymer interphase, nucleation of polymer nanodroplets, crystallization and phase transformation in confined spaces, aging of polymer nanolayers, and interfacial reactions by combining self-assembly with forced-assembly.

Some of the projects in Platform I include:

• Operation of the coextrusion process
• Miniaturization of the coextrusion process
• Producing gradient layer thickness films
• Vertical multilayered films

PLATFORM I - click on each picture for more information