Year

Awardee

Affiliation

Citation

1999

Jeffrey S. Meth

DuPont

Quantitative Characterization of Automotive Coating Interlayer Adhesion

2000

Costantino Creton

Laboratoire PCSM – ESPCI

Correlation Between Interfacial Width And Fracture Toughness In Glassy Polymers

2001

Maurice Brogly

CNRS – ICSI

Silicon Release Coatings/PSA Adhesive Modulation.  How PDMS Based Network Composition and Structure Influence Nanoscale Properties of the Interface

2002

Wulff Possart

The Saarland University

Thermodynamic Data of Adhesion Phenomena Calculated with Molecular Modeling Methods

2003

Aric Ophahl

UCLA at Berkley

Characterizing the Surface Configuration and Morphology of Polyolefin Copolymers and Blends by SFG Vibrational Spectroscopy and AFM

2004

Etinne Barthel

CNRS/Saint Gobain

Elastic Contact to Layered Substrate:  The Adhesive Case

2005

John Walz

Yale University

Investigation of the Force Oscillation Between a Particle and Surface in the Presence of a Nonadsorbing Material

2006

Tian Tang

Lehigh University

Thermal Fluctuations Limit the Cohesive Strength of Compliant Solids

2007

Richard P. Wool

University of Delaware

Polymer-Solid Interface Connectivity and Adhesion:  Design of a Bio-based Pressure Sensitive Adhesive

2008

Alfred Crosby

University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Responsive Polymer Surfaces