Primary Recipient

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Amount

$440,000.00

Award Date

6/05/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

TECHNICAL SUMMARY The ability of flow fields to strongly perturb molecular-scale structure in polymers has profound scientific and technological consequences. The nonlinear rheology of polymers is directly attributed to stretching and alignment of polyme