Beaucage Research Group

**CLASSES (Web Texts, All Exams/Assignments, Labs, Lab Data, Click Name)**
Morphology of Complex Materials	Polymer Characterization Lab	Polymer Processing and Lab
Nano-Powders	X-ray Diffraction and Lab	Polymer Properties (Statics)
Introduction to Polymer Science	Mechanics of Materials	Polymer Physics (Dynamics)
Polymer Analysis	Small-Angle Scattering of X-rays and Neutrons (In Development)	Polymer Morphology
	Materials and Energy Balances ChE 364
Senior Project Proposal (1 Credit)	Introduction to Chemical and Materials Engineering (1 Credit) CME 101, CME 100	Ryan Breese Modeling of Polymer Processes

**RESEARCH**

in situ Flame Studies.pdf, *Nature Materials*
Silica Premixed Flame SAXS and TEM, J. Appl. Phys.

Unified Function Paper 1 (Generic Scattering Law).pdf
Applied to Mass Fractal Systems.pdf
Determination of Branch Content in Polymers
and Aggregates (9/2004).pdf
Long Chain Branching in Polyolefins (2009)
Short Chain Branching in Polyolefins (2008)

Unified applied to Scaling Transition at Persistence Length.pdf
**Polydispersity Index, s_g and s from scattering.pdf**

**Unified and Correlated Systems (Correlation Peaks using Born-Green Approximation)**

IGOR program and manual for Unified/Max. Entropy/Other Data Analysis in SAS
by Jan Ilavsky at UNICAT, APS, Argonne National Laboratory USA (*****)

Equilibrium Swollen Gel Theory, ESG Experimental
Nanostructured Oxide Powders Aero-Sol-Gel Reactor (ASG) Chem. of Mat.: cm9703482.pdf Langmuir: SAXS for Silica/Titania.pdf Foresight Applications.pdf JNPR Paper (in press).pdf Carbon Filled Polyethylene Graduate Student: Doug Kohls	Aerosols: In Situ Studies of Nucleation and Growth of Nanomaterials on the Micro to Millisecond Scales Nature Materials: In Situ Flame Studies.pdf Graduate Students: Nikhil Agashe, Doug Kohls ETHZ: Rainer Jossen, Hendrik Kammler	Polymer Physics Recent Summary: Chain Scaling (9/2004) Theory: Equilibrium Swollen Networks.pdf Macromolecules: Scaling in Blends.pdf Macromolecules Persistence in Polymers.pdf JPS, PPed Non-Woven Polymer Analogues Graduate Student: Amit Kulkarni
*Sol-Gel Research* Graduate Student: Doug Kohls	Scattering Theory Connectivity, minimum, and mass fractal dimension and branch fraction/aggregate polydispersity from scattering.pdf Derivation of Unified Function.pdf Unified for Linear Mass-Fractals.pdf Graduate Student: Amit Kulkarni	Semi-Crystalline Polymers and Orientation Studies Recent Summary of Orientation Studies (9/2004) Ryan Breese Review of Mechanics/Orientation Bafna, Beaucage, Mirabella.pdf Scattering Theory for 3D Orientation Studies Graduate Student involved in this work: Rryan Beese, Ayush Bafna, Harshad Chavan, Amit Kulkarni