University of Houston 08/2006 - present
Ph.D. candidate in Chemical Engineering, GPA: 3.42 / 4.0
Thesis advisor: Dr. Ramanan Krishnamoorti
Expected graduation: December 2010.

University of Oklahoma 08/2004 - 07/2006
M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, GPA: 3.68 / 4.0
Thesis: Single walled carbon nanotubes /polymer lattices: synthesis and properties
Thesis advisor: Dr. Brian P. Grady

Hochiminh city University of Technology, Vietnam 09/1997 - 11/2002
B.Sc. in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
Major: Materials / Polymer Materials, GPA: 3.28 / 4.0
Senior thesis: Optimize reaction between epoxydized soybean oil and methacrylic acid to modify vinyl ester resin.

My research focus on understanding the role of nanoparticle - polymer interaction and nanoparticle effective dimension on immiscible polymer blends. Depending on the relative interaction between the nanoparticles and each polymer in the blends, the particles can reside at the interface or exclusively within one phase. Differences in particle interaction, location significantly alter the blend behaviors, especially viscoelastic properties. The (an)isotropic property of particles does not only affect the way the particle interact with each polymers, but also is expected to cause different effects, especially at the interface.