Grunlan Research
TUNABLE NANOPARTICLE MICROSTRUCTURES



Reversible Reaction
Aggregated
high conductivity
low viscosity
high permeability
Exfoliated
high strength
low permeability
high transparency
SEGREGATED NETWORKS IN POLYMERS


High conductivity with low nanoparticle concentration
LAYER-BY-LAYER ASSEMBLY OF THIN FILMS


Films < 1mm thick with high conductivity and/or low permeability relative to thick composites
Grunlan Group News
Charlene Dvoracek wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.Congratulations Charlene (posted: 04/01/08)
Grunlan amongst the Texas A&M Engineering faculty to receive Army contract for ballistics facility. (posted: 8/31/07)
Grunlan wins prestigious NSF CAREER Award for nanomaterials research. (posted: 4/16/07)
Grunlan wins 3M Nontenured Faculty Grant for work on multifunctional thin films. (posted: 4/16/07)
Grunlan Group work featured on cover of latest issue of Macromolecular Materials and Engineering (Vol. 291, No. 9, p.1035). This paper discusses the combination of carbon nanotubes with latex to enhance polymer mechanical behavior at very low concentration. (posted: 2/01/07)
Grunlan Group work to control carbon nanotube microstructure with pH-responsive polymers featured in Nature Materials (Vol. 5, p. 433). (posted: 2/01/07)