Polymer and
Complex Fluids at the
Colorado School of Mines
Research Themes
Core Capabilities
Characterization
Synthesis
Professors Wu and Dorgan lead the theory and simulation efforts, which serve both to suggest new experimental directions as well as support ongoing experiments. We have used liquid-state and field theoretical statistical mechanical approaches to equilibrium structure in polymers, statistical microhydrodynamic approaches for non-equilibrium interactions in colloids and polymers, and coupled network approaches for assembled structures of macromolecules. Our simulation efforts include molecular dynamics, a variety of traditional and novel Monte Carlo methods (e.g., kinetic, Pakula, cluster algorithms, dense Gibbs ensemble), and Brownian dynamics.