L. Catherine Brinson

Sharon C. and Harold L. Yoh, III Professor

Appointments and Affiliations

• Sharon C. and Harold L. Yoh, III Professor
• Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
• Chair of 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)
• ME 591: Research Independent Study in Mechanical Engineering or Material Science

In the News

• Duke Adds 21 Faculty to Distinguished Faculty Rank (May 7, 2019)
• Catherine Brinson: Finding Hard Answers for Soft Matter (Aug 25, 2017)

Representative Publications

• Li, X; Zhang, M; Wang, Y; Prasad, A; Chen, W; Schadler, L; Brinson, LC, Rethinking interphase representations for modeling viscoelastic properties for polymer nanocomposites, Materialia, vol 6 (2019) [10.1016/j.mtla.2019.100277] [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, vol 15 no. 3 (2019), pp. 359-370 [10.1039/c8sm01539b] [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].
• 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) [10.1063/1.5046839] [abs].