Dr. Madhubhashini Maddumaarachchi

Senior Lecturer
B.Sc. (Kelaniya), Ph.D. (Oklahoma State, USA)

Division:
Polymer Science and Technology

Undergraduate Teaching:
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• PST 101 2.0 Introduction to Polymers
• PST 303 1.0 Polymer Coating and Paint Industry
• CHE 483 1.0 Polymer Blends and Composites
• CHE 484 1.0 Polymer Coating and Paint Industry

Research interest :  

• Polymer synthesis and characterization
• Polymer composites preparation and characterization
• Dynamics of polymers at interfaces
• Structure and dynamics in surfactant systems

Selected Publications:

1. Madhubhashini Maddumaarachchi and Frank D. Blum, “Thermal analysis and FT-IR studies of adsorbed poly(ethylene-stat-vinyl acetate) on silica”. J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 2014, 52 (10), 727-736.

2. Tan Zhang, Gu Xu, Zhe-Fei Li, Oren Regev, Madhubhashini Maddumaarachchi, and Frank D. Blum, “PS/CTAB/silica composites from room temperature polymerization of high internal phase emulsion gels”. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2015, 451, 161-169.

3. Madhubhashini Maddumaarachchi and Frank D. Blum, “Dynamics of methyl methacrylate segments in homo- and copolymers on silica”, American Chemical Society National Meeting, Dallas, TX, March 2014.

4. Madhubhashini Maddumaarachchi, Yohan L. Mathota Arachchige, Tan Zhang, and Frank D. Blum, “Dynamics of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide in bulk and on silica by solid-state deuterium NMR spectroscopy”, American Chemical Society Midwest Regional Meeting, St. Joseph, MO, October 2015.

Web : http://scholar.sjp.ac.lk/madhu

Email Address : madhubh@sjp.ac.lk

Telephone Numbers : Office: +94 112 758467, Mobile: +94 777210277

Room : GL040