Contact Information Email: Click to Mail Phone: (805) 893-3141 Fax: (805) 893-8124 Office Location: 1030 Engineering I Address: Matthew Tirrell, Office of the Dean, College of Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5130 USA Lab Phone: (805) 893-7941

Assistant Information Name: Sandy Morris Email: Click to Mail Phone: (805) 893-7789 Fax: (805) 893-8124

Web Pages Research Group Home Page

Course Pages ChE 1A Intro. To Chemical Engineering (Engineering and the Scientific Method) ChE 120A Transport Processes INT 94CS An Engineer's View of the Cell (Freshman Seminars)

Education & Honors

BS: B.S. Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University 1973

PhD: Ph.D. Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts 1977

Honors: 2002 Turner Alfrey Lectures, Michigan Molecular Institute
2004 Chemcon Distinguished Speaker, AIChE/IIChE
2004 W.N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering California Institute of Technology
2005 ICI Distinguished Lectures, University of Alberta
2005 Le Prix Dedale de la Societe Francaise d'Adhesion
2005 NSF Engineering Distinguished Lecture

Research

Tirrell's research is focused on the manipulation and measurement of surface properties of polymers, bringing microscopic measurements of intermolecular forces to bear on polymer surface problems, and new insight into polymer technology particularly in the area of surface modification with amphiphilic polymers and bimolecular materials. He has done research at the ?cole Sup?rieure de Physique et Chimie in Paris, the Australian National University in Canberra, and Bell Laboratories

Publications

Online Publication List

"Bottom-up Design of Biomimetic Assemblies", R. Tu and M. Tirrell, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 56 , 1537-1563 (2004).
Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com

"Adhesion and Friction of Polymer Surfaces I: the effect of chain ends", N. Chen, N. Maeda, M. Tirrell and J. Israelachvili, Macromlecules, 38, 3491- 3503 (2005).
Link: http://pubs.acs.org/journals/mamobx/

"Polymerized Vesicles Containing Molecular Recognition Sites", M. Biesalski, R. Tu and M. Tirrell, Langmuir, 21, 5663-5666 (2005).
Link: http://pubs.acs.org/journals/langd5/

"Adsorption Mechanisms of Charge, Amphiphilic Diblock Copolymers:
The Role of Micellization and Surface Affinity", R. Toomey and M.
Tirrell, Macromolecules, 38, 5137-5143 (2005).
Link: http://pubs.acs.org/journals/mamobx/

"Modular Materials by Self-Assembly", M. Tirrell, AIChE Journal, 51, 2386-2390 (2005).
Link: http://www.aiche.org/aichejournal/