TSUFI PREM consists two Research Thrust Areas:
Thrust I: Low-dimensional (NFs and films) polymeric materials synthesis and characterization Highlights:
1. Establishment of design rules for polymeric microparticle synthesis with electrospray technique to control particle sizes, size distribution, porosity, surface morphology, and core-shell structures.
2. Development of versatile electrospinning deposition technique to control fiber size, uniformity, and orientations to achieve structure-by-design and function-by-design, i.e., individual fibers, parallel fibers, in 3D.
Thrust II:
1. Perform molecular modeling of polymer nanocomposites to obtain structure-composition-property relationship relating mechanical and piezoelectric properties with polymer and dopant concentrations and structures
2. Structural and material design for a tensegrity based sensor using polymer nanocomposite which can simultaneously achieve high sensitivity and high stretchability


TSUFI PREM
TSUFI PREM is a seed partnership between Tennessee State University (TSU), Fisk University, and the Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (TSU-Fisk-Illinois, or TSUFI), funded through the NSF PREM program.