Jeffrey Giacomin

Degree:

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, McGill University, Montréal, CANADA (1987)

Research Areas:

• explores the role played by rheology in polymer processing or in plastics manufacturing
• relation between polymer molecular structure and rheology
• experimental and theoretical investigations on die-lip build-up (die drool) in extrusion and on die line formation
• interpret the measured polymer hardness in terms of the Young's modulus
• explores processing elastohydrodynamics

Web site:

chemeng.queensu.ca/people/Faculty/JeffreyGiacomin/