Polymer Characterization: Microscopic, Spectroscopic, Thermal, Mechanical and Nanoscale Characterization (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783111345369)

Daria Bukharina is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology under advisement of Professor Vladimir V. Tsukruk. She received bachelor's degree in chemistry from Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology in 2018. Her research interests lie in the area of bioinspired materials and nanocomposites engineering. Her current research is focused on the application of bioderived materials, polysaccharides, for advanced photonics and strongly relies on her skills in advanced characterization techniques. She received several awards among which are 2022 MRS Best Poster Award, 3M Graduate Fellowship 2023 POLY/PMSE Peer Nominated Graduate Student Award.

Paraskevi (Evi) Flouda is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology working with Professor Vladimir V. Tsukruk. In 2021, she received her Ph.D. from Texas A&M under the supervision of Professor Jodie J. Lutkenhaus and Professor Dimitris C. Lagoudas. Prior to this, she received her undergraduate diploma in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Ioannina, Greece and completed an internship at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. Her research focuses on polymer nanocomposites with unique morphologies and properties for energy storage applications. In addition, she has received several awards and was named a 2022 ACS PMSE Future Faculty Scholar.

Vladimir V. Tsukruk is a Regents Professor and Director of Microanalysis Center at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. He received MS degree in physics from the National University of Ukraine, PhD and DSc degrees in chemistry and polymer science from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He carried out post-doctoral research at the U. Marburg, Darmstadt TU and U. Akron. He has co-authored about 540 refereed articles in archival journals, which have been cited more than 39,000 times, authorized and edited five books, and has trained about 120 graduate students and post-docs. Currently, he serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of six professional journals and as an Executive Editor at ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. His research in the field of functional nanomaterials, surfaces and interfaces, directed assembly of synthetic/natural polymers, nanostructures, and bioinspired materials has been recognized by Fulbright Award, Regents Professorship, Sigma Chi Sustained Research Award, Outstanding Research Author Award, Humboldt Research Award, and the National Science Foundation Special Creativity Award, among others. He is an elected Fellow of American Physical Society, Materials Research Society, and American Chemical Society, and Fulbright Fellow.