Summary
NONTECHNICAL Summary This award supports computational research and education to advance understanding of physical polymer aging, the process where the configuration of atoms relaxes over time leading to changes the properties of polymers. Polymers are long chain molecules made of several repeating units. When these chains are tangled and randomly arranged without any order, the polymer is said to be ‘amorphous’. Below the glass transition temperature (the point at which the polymer changes from soft and flexible to hard and glass-like), amorphous polymers are widely used in applications rang
