Laser work informs Shepard's study of polymer materials

By the Broadcast Center on April 23, 2015, noon
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Kimberly Shepard, a doctoral student in Princeton's Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, is studying the behavior of polymer glasses, materials that do not have a crystal structure. 

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