David Bucknall Associate Professor School of Polymers, Textiles and Fiber Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0535 Office:  MRDC, Room 4503 Phone: 404.894.2535 david.bucknall@ptfe.gatech.edu David Bucknall is an associate professor in the School of Polymers, Textiles and Fiber Engineering and holds a joint appointment with the School of Materials Science and Engineering. Professor Bucknall has broad research interests in polymer physics and physical chemistry of polymers and biomaterials. Before joining Georgia Tech he held positions most recently at the University of Oxford (1999-2004) and before that at the UK national ISIS Neutron Facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (1992-1999). At the ISIS Neutron Facility he was in the Large Scale Structures group and responsible for the neutron reflectivity instrument CRISP. During this period he collaborated with a number of international groups on aspects of polymers, biomaterials and magnetism. At the University of Oxford, he was a lecturer in the Department of Materials (Polymers and Biomaterials Group). Professor Bucknall received the King Memorial Medal for Physical Chemistry, Nottingham . Research Interests Polymer interfaces and surfaces Functionalised polymers Polymer molecular architecture Polyrotaxanes, self-assembling structures Neutron scattering and reflectivity Thin films Polymer soft lithography and nanopatterning Field effects on polymers Polymer-plasticiser diffusion and other diffusion processes Biomolecular layers at surfaces Industrial ink jet (digital) printing Fluid wetting behaviour Microfluidics Click here for additional information on his research and interest.