S. Michael Kilbey, II, Ph.D.

Research Interests: Polymer Surface Engineering

Professor Kilbey’s research activities focus primarily on using ultrathin polymer films to tailor interfacial properties.  His group is concerned with assembly-structure-property relationships of polymeric materials confined to the solid-fluid interface, and a variety of techniques that probe molecular level structure are used routinely.  Polymer layers that straddle phase boundaries and, therefore, mediate interactions across interfaces are made by self-assembly of macromolecular amphiphiles and surface-initiated polymerizations.  Most recently the group has been involved in synthesizing and studying stimuli-responsive layers comprised of multi-component and biopolymer systems.

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