L. Catherine Brinson

Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Appointments and Affiliations

• Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Contact Information

• Office Location: 3379 Fciemas Building, Duke Campus, Durham, NC 27708
• Office Phone: (919) 660-5310
• Email Address: cate.brinson@duke.edu
• Websites:
  • Brinson Lab

Education

• Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 1990
• M.S. California Institute of Technology, 1986

Research Interests

Study of advanced material systems and developing new methods to characterize and to model material behavior. Her lab’s research objective is to characterize and model advanced materials systems, at scales spanning the range of molecular interactions, micromechanical and macroscopic behavior.

Courses Taught

• BME 526: Elasticity (GE, BB)
• CEE 521: Elasticity (GE, BB)

In the News

• Catherine Brinson: Finding Hard Answers for Soft Matter (Aug 25, 2017)

Representative Publications

• Zhang, M; Cui, Z; Catherine Brinson, L, Mechanical properties of hard-soft block copolymers calculated from coarse-grained molecular dynamics models, Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, vol 56 no. 23 (2018), pp. 1552-1566 [10.1002/polb.24742] [abs].
• Zhang, M; Cui, Z; Catherine Brinson, L, Mechanical properties of hard-soft block copolymers calculated from coarse-grained molecular dynamics models, Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, vol 56 no. 23 (2018), pp. 1552-1566 [10.1002/polb.24742] [abs].
• Song, J; Kahraman, R; Collinson, DW; Xia, W; Brinson, LC; Keten, S, Temperature effects on the nanoindentation characterization of stiffness gradients in confined polymers., Soft Matter (2018) [10.1039/c8sm01539b] [abs].
• Kolluru, PV; Eaton, MD; Collinson, DW; Cheng, X; Delgado, DE; Shull, KR; Brinson, LC, AFM-based Dynamic Scanning Indentation (DSI) Method for Fast, High-resolution Spatial Mapping of Local Viscoelastic Properties in Soft Materials, Macromolecules, vol 51 no. 21 (2018), pp. 8964-8978 [10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01426] [abs].
• Zhao, H; Wang, Y; Lin, A; Hu, B; Yan, R; McCusker, J; Chen, W; McGuinness, DL; Schadler, L; Brinson, LC, NanoMine schema: An extensible data representation for polymer nanocomposites, Apl Materials, vol 6 no. 11 (2018), pp. 111108-111108 [10.1063/1.5046839] [abs].