Mike Roland

Section Head
Naval Research Lab
Chemistry Division
code 6105
Washington, DC
USA 20375
Email: roland@nrl.navy.mil

Biographical Sketch: Mike Roland received a B.S. from Grove City College and a Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University, both in chemistry. He is a Senior Scientist for soft matter physics and head of the Polymer Physics Section at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. From 1991 to 1999 he was technical editor of Rubber Chemistry & Technology and authored Viscoelastic Behavior of Rubbery Materials, published in 2011 by Oxford University Press. He resides with his wife Carol in Waldorf, MD; they have three children and seven grandchildren.

Papers:
Local, Global, and Particle Dynamics in Polypropylene Glycol / Silica Nanocomposites Dynamics and Thermodynamics Along the Melting Line