Mark Matsen

Mark Matsen holds a joint position as a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Dr. Matsen's research focuses on theory and simulations involving the self-assembly of nanostructured polymers, such as block copolymers, liquid-crystalline polymers, polyelectrolytes and polymeric brushes. While he continues to build on his reputation for self-consistent field theory (SCFT), Professor Matsen is currently developing the next generation of theoretical techniques, specifically field-theoretic simulations (FTS).

• Molecular self-assembly in polymeric systems

• Block copolymers

• Polymeric brushes

• Self-consistent field theory

• Lattice polymer simulations

• Field-theoretic simulations

• Biomaterials and Polymers

• 1992, Doctorate Physics, University of Guelph, Canada

• 1987, Bachelor's Mathematical Physics, Simon Fraser, Canada

• 2008, Fellow, American Physical Society

• Editor, Physics Review Letters

• Editor, European Physical Journal E: Soft Matter

• Jointly appointed, Department of Chemical Engineering

• Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology

• CHE 620 - Applied Engineering Mathematics
  • Taught in 2023, 2024
• PHYS 115 - Mechanics
  • Taught in 2020, 2023
• PHYS 263 - Classical Mechanics and Special Relativity
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2025

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Blaber, S and Mahmoudi, P and Spencer, RKW and Matsen, MW, Effect of chain stiffness on the entropic segregation of chain ends to the surface of a polymer melt, The Journal of chemical physics, 150(1), 2019

• T. M. Beardsley and M. W. Matsen, Calibration of the Flory-Huggins interaction parameter in field-theoretic simulations. J. Chem. Phys. 150, 174902 (2019) (Accepted in 2019)

• Blaber, Steven and Abukhdeir, Nasser and Matsen, Mark, Backfolding Transitions in a Liquid Crystalline Polymer Brush, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 2019

• Sunday, Daniel F and Chang, Alice B and Liman, Christopher D and Gann, Eliot and Delongchamp, Dean M and Thomsen, Lars and Matsen, Mark W and Grubbs, Robert H and Soles, Christopher L, Self-Assembly of ABC Bottlebrush Triblock Terpolymers with Evidence for Looped Backbone Conformations, Macromolecules, 51(18), 2018, 7178 - 7185

• Mahmoudi, P and Forrest, WSR and Beardsley, TM and Matsen, MW, Testing the universality of entropic segregation at polymer surfaces, Macromolecules, 51(3), 2018, 1242 - 1247