Previous Projects — Formation of Polymer Membranes

As a postdoc at UCSB with Glenn Fredrickson, I worked on developing a code framework capable of modeling the dynamics of polymer materials using statistical field theory. We were specifically interested in the formation of polymer membranes, and the interacting phenomena of phase separation, coarsening, arrest and fluid flow that give rise to their complex microstructures.

Selected Presentations

• Dynamics of Inhomogeneous Polymeric Fluids. Complex Fluids Design Consortium Meeting in Santa Barbara, CA. February 3, 2017. slides

• A multi-fluid model of membrane formation by phase-inversion. Society of Rheology Annual Meeting in Tampa, FL. February 13, 2017. slides

Selected Publications

• A multi-fluid model for microstructure formation in polymer membranes. D. R. Tree, K. T. Delaney, H. D. Ceniceros, T. Iwama and G. H. Fredrickson. Soft Matter. 13, 3013–3030 (2017). html, preprint