Gene Mazenko
Professor
Physics
James Franck Institute
United States of America
Biography
We are currently interested in the nature of defect structures in pattern-forming systems and how those structures form naturally under experimental circumstances. Our guides are the recent experiments on microphase-separating diblock copolymer systems. Such systems grow a layered or striped phase and are fundamentally important as prototypical two-dimensional ordering systems and building blocks on the nanoscale. Previously, we developed numerical techniques for looking at the nature of kinetic models intended to describe systems of this type. We are currently interested in the nature of defect structures in pattern-forming systems and how those structures form naturally under experimental circumstances. Our guides are the recent experiments on microphase-separating diblock copolymer systems. Such systems grow a layered or striped phase and are fundamentally important as prototypical two-dimensional ordering systems and building blocks on the nanoscale. Previously, we developed numerical techniques for looking at the nature of kinetic models intended to describe systems of this type.
Research Interest
Physics