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Larson Lab: Soft Matter Science and Engineering Drug Release Formulations Coatings Dispersal of oil spills Polymer processing Personal care products [email protected] http://www.engin.umich.edu/dept/cheme/people/larson.html Polymer dynamics Rheology Fluid Mechanics Biophysics Colloidal Dynamics Surfactant solutions Multiscale modeling and simulations Fundamentals: Applications: Recent Grant: Dow University Partnership Initiative Grant: 3 years, $900,000 on Modeling rheology and crystallization in mixtures of linear and long chain branched polyethylene, 2017-2020 Recent Award: Polymer Physics Prize of the American Physical Society, 2019

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Larson Lab: Soft Matter Science and Engineering

• Drug Release Formulations• Coatings• Dispersal of oil spills• Polymer processing• Personal care products

[email protected] http://www.engin.umich.edu/dept/cheme/people/larson.html

• Polymer dynamics • Rheology • Fluid Mechanics• Biophysics• Colloidal Dynamics• Surfactant solutions• Multiscale modeling and simulations

Fundamentals: Applications:

Recent Grant: Dow University Partnership Initiative Grant: 3 years, $900,000 on Modeling rheology and crystallization in mixtures of linear and long chain branched polyethylene, 2017-2020

Recent Award: Polymer Physics Prize of the American Physical Society, 2019

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Formation of Ring-Like structures in cellulosic excipient polymer used to suppress drug crystallization

Drug CrystallizationAdapted from Sachdeva et al., Int J. Pharm (2013) 441

Cellulosic polymer methylcellulose gel micrograph,from Lodge, et al. (ACS Macro Lett. 2015, 4, 538–542.)