FURTHER COMMUNITY. MORE CONNECTIONS. LVC’s professors are focused on your success. They’ll challenge you in the classroom and connect you with fieldwork, internships, research, and resources that will prepare you for the success that comes next.
Dr. Elizabeth Sterner, chemistry “My student researchers and I make materials that display useful and surprising behaviors. I have three main project lines, all of which focus on controlling molecular structure, polymer structure, and polymer processing to achieve new material properties. The first project is working on rubber composites that could be used for puncture-resistant and inherently antimicrobial surgical gloves and gowning. The second project seeks to generate new impact-resistant plastics by engineering the way the polymer chains can vibrate on the molecular level. The third is designing all-solid-state rubbers that are super-soft (easy to stretch) and super-tough (hard to break) at the same time, with an eye toward applications in soft robotics and wearable sensors.”
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