Alexey Lyulin

Dr Alexey Lyulin performs Multiscale Simulations of Polymer Dynamics at the Soft Matter and Biological Physics research group. The emphasis in his research is on atomic-scale modeling of macromolecules, including glasses, dendrimers, polymer nanocomposites and thin polymer films. But the main focus is - of course - on polymer dynamics and mechanics. The fundamental insight generated by the multiscale computer simulations of Lyulin and his co-workers will help in developing new materials with improved ultimate properties. They apply their multi-scale computational approach for the study of Glass transition and mechanical properties of amorphous polymers in a bulk and in thin films; Stability and toxicity of complexes of charged dendrimers and hyperbranched polymers with applications in linear polyelectrolytes and drugs for biomedical applications; Non-newtonian rheology of linear and hyperbranched polymers in hydrodynamic flows; andMicrostructure and macromechanics of polymer nanocomposites. The Lyulin group aims at developing a long-standing research program in Eindhoven for multi-scale  computer simulations (from macro scale to nanoscale, in time and space) of polymer dynamics and mechanics.

By performing multiscale simulations I want to bring physical reality to the real-life phenomenology of polymers and solve important practical problems.”