Esmaeil Narimissa is Technion Assist. Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology. He received his BEng from Monash University, and his PhD in Chemical Engineering from RMIT University, Australia (2014).  Dr Narimissa began his Postdoctoral Fellowship in the field of Polymer Physics/Engineering in 2014 at Technical University of Berlin under the supervision of the distinguished Professor Manfred H. Wagner, where they developed a set of novel constitutive equations in Polymer Rheology; i.e. Hierarchical Multi-mode Molecular Stress Function (HMMSF) model, to predict the shear and extensional flow behaviours of Linear and Long-Chain Branched (LCB) polymer melts. His research findings have been published in top Fluid Mechanics and Polymer journals: Journal of Rheology, Rheologica Acta, Polymer etc. His current research is on the study of fracture in extensional flow of well-characterised polymers with different architecture, and polydispersity, as well as the fabrication and rheological quantification of self-exfoliating nanocomposites.

• Rheological Modelling of Polymeric Melts Through Constitutive Equations; 

• Fabrication and Rheological Characterization of Self-Exfoliating Polymer Nanocomposites; 

• Study of Failure in Polymeric Melts Under Uniaxial Extensional Deformation; 

• Processing and Characterization of Well-Dispersed Polymer Nanocomposites.

Papers

Wagner M.H., Narimissa E., and Huang Q., On the Origin of Brittle Fracture of Entangled Polymer Solutions and Melts. Journal of Rheology, 62(1), 221-233 (2018). doi: /10.1122/1.4995497      

Narimissa E. and Wagner M.H., A Hierarchical Multi-Mode Molecular Stress Function Model for Linear Polymer Melts in Extensional Flows. Journal of Rheology, 60, 4 (2016). doi: 10.1122/1.4953442         

Narimissa E. and Wagner M.H., From Linear Viscoelasticity to Elongational Flow of Polydisperse Polymer Melts: the Hierarchical Multi-mode Molecular Stress Function Model. Polymer, (2016). 

doi: 10.1016/j.polymer.2016.06.005     

Narimissa E. and Wagner M.H., A Hierarchical Multi-Mode MSF Model for Long-Chain Branched Polymer Melts Part III: Shear Flows. Rheological Acta, (2016). doi: 10.1007/s00397-016-0939-2    

Narimissa E., Rolón-Garrido V.H., and Wagner M.H., A Hierarchical Multi-Mode MSF Model for Long-Chain Branched Polymer Melts Part II: Multiaxial Extensional Flows. Rheological Acta, 55, 327-333 (2016). doi: 10.1007/s00397-016-0922-y     

Narimissa E., Rolón-Garrido V.H., and Wagner M.H., A Hierarchical Multi-Mode MSF Model for Long-Chain Branched Polymer Melts Part I: Elongational Flow. Rheologica Acta, 54, 9-10 (2015). doi: 10.1007/s00397-015-0879-2

Wagner M.H., Narimissa E., and Rolón-Garrido V.H., From Melt to Solution: Scaling Relations for Concentrated Polystyrene Solutions. Journal of Rheology, 59, 4 (2015). doi: 10.1122/1.4922795    

Narimissa, E., Gupta R., Kao N., Nguyen D.A. and S.N. Bhattacharya: Extensional Rheological Analysis of Biodegradable Polylactide-Nanographite Platelet Composites via Constitutive Equation Modelling, Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, (2014). doi: 10.1002/mame.201300382

Narimissa, E., Rahman A., Gupta R., Kao N. and Bhattacharya S.N.: Anomalous Normal Stress Behaviour for Polymer Nanocomposites and Liquid Crystalline Polymer Composites, Polymer Engineering and Science, (2013). doi: 10.1002/pen.23675

Narimissa E., Gupta R., Kao N., Choi H. J., Jollands M., Bhattacharya S. N.: Melt Rheological Investigation of Polylactide-Nanographite Platelets Biopolymer Composites. Polymer Engineering and Science, 54, 1 (2013). doi: 10.1002/pen.23550