Polymers are of increasing importance in our discipline.
My research aims for both a fundamental and pragmatic understanding of their static and dynamic properties. Thermodynamics, statistical and both classical is made use of to provide means to account for properties of one-phase multicomponent polymers, that are equivalent to solutions. The glass-transition is the primary thermomechanical transition of polymers, dividing two distinctly different regimes of thermal and mechanical behavior. Many other aspects of this and other solution theory problems remain, including currently the extension of this to non-random solutions. Separately, theory is being extended by pragmatic means to include the viscosity of solutions.