Principal Investigator Paula Hammond
Project Website http://web.mit.edu/hammond/lab/
The research and educational program emphasized the use of molecular aspects in the study and development of new materials and processes. Its basis is the molecular design and synthesis of self-assembling polymeric systems, and the understanding and use of secondary interactions to guide their assembly at surfaces as well as in the bulk and solution state.
In 1994 Dr. Hammond was awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemistry while performing postdoctoral research in the Harvard University Chemistry Department as a member of the Whitesides research group. In 2000, Professor Hammond was awarded the Junior Bose Faculty Award, and the GenCorp Signature University Award. She has also received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award, the EPA Early Career Award, the DuPont Young Faculty Award, and the 3M Innovation Fund Award. Dr. Hammond was one of a group of key faculty members involved in the planning and writing of the proposal for the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN) at MIT.