Jaime Grunlan

Texas A&M University, USA

Jaime Grunlan joined Texas A&M University as an Assistant Professor of mechanical engineering in July of 2004, after spending three years at the Avery Research Center in Pasadena, CA, as a Senior Research Engineer. He obtained the B.S. degree in chemistry, with polymers and coatings emphasis, from North Dakota State University and the Ph.D. degree in materials science and engineering from the University of Minnesota. While at Avery Dennison, Dr. Grunlan studied a variety of polymeric systems with unique transport, biological, and/or optical behavior. At Minnesota, he studied segregated network composites using polymer emulsions and a variety of conductive nanoparticles. His current research interests lie in both the development of multifunctional polymeric thin films (< 1 um) and the study of electrically and/or thermally conductive thick film polymer nanocomposites (> 10 um) nanocomposites. Dr. Grunlan has published over 25 peer-reviewed journal articles, a book chapter, and more than 5 patents issued/filed in the field of polymers and polymer nanocomposites. He has recently been granted a joint appointment in Chemical Engineering and serves on the Executive Committee for Texas A&M’s Materials Science and Engineering Program. Dr. Grunlan’s research on microstructural control of carbon nanotubes recently garnered him an NSF CAREER Award and his work with transparent conductive thin films was awarded a 3M Untenured Faculty Grant.

Biography Updated on 3 December 2007

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