Primary Recipient

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Amount

$380,000.00

Award Date

6/03/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

The mechanical properties of polymers in confined domains are examined from a novel combination of nanoscale indentation experiments and theory. The work will be directly applied to thin polymer films and then extended to model polymer nanocomposites. The