The main goal of this proposal is to understand the fundamental mechanisms of electronic and thermal breakdowns in multilayer films (MLFs) and develop viable approaches to further enhance their breakdown strength and lifetime.

The vision of the proposed ERC is to establish a team of academic and industrial researchers to define, develop and deploy solutions to the most urgent problems associated with the global polymeric materials packaging industry.

There is a critical need to integrate computation modeling into nanomedical engineering approaches to provide a platform for the rational design of clinically effective nanomedicines. To address this need, the team will use computational modeling at the mesoscale to model and optimize blood floor and vascular wall adhesion of functionalized non-axisymmetric nanocarriers as a function of their size, shape, surface chemicstry and particle modulus.

Seeks to uncover and understand fundamental principles in polymer physics that will lead to simple materials that do not require strong external stimuli to elicit a strong response. Aims to investigate the impact of cononsolvency and n-clustering on the transport of polymeric nanoparticles through a single, strongly confining nanopore.

Aims to achieve fundamental understanding of the effect of induced dipolar interactions on electrostriction in elastomer/high k particle nanocomposites via an integrated theoretical simulation and experimental study. In theoretical simulation, our preliminary results indicate that the enhanced local field in the elastomer matrix, especially that between neighboring chained particles along the applied field direction, is responsible for the large electrostrictive effect.