Dilip Gersappe
Professor
Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering
Stony Brook University
United States of America
Biography
Dilip Gersappe is Professor of the Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering. He has done his Ph.D.(1992) from Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, USA and B.Tech.(1987) from Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.
Research Interest
He investigates the behavior of self-assembling polymeric and biopolymeric systems, and is developing theories for the properties of polymer blends and the behavior of polymers at surfaces and interfaces. In recent work, Gersappe has used mean field theories to determine the effect of confinement on the properties of thin film polymer blends. In other work, he has used molecular dynamics simulations to isolate the molecular mechanisms of failure in polymeric adhesives. Currently, he is developing parallel molecular dynamics techniques to study the strengthening mechanisms in polymer nanocomposites and to investigate the factors that control the permeability of polymeric membranes.
