[3] In 1996, Winter was awarded the Bingham Medal in recognition of his contributions to experimental rheology, as well as rheometry of gels and polymer melts.
From 2009 to 2012, he served as director of the Fluid Dynamics Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF), after which he returned to UMass.
It promotes the engineering of two-dimensional materials such as clay, graphene, zeolite, as generated by the exfoliation of precursors with layered structure.
In a series of papers, Winter and his co-worker Fancois Chambon characterized the time-evolving rheology of polymers during gelation.
This behavior makes it easy to uniquely identify the gel point during both chemical and physical gelation processes.
The findings also had technological impact, supporting the commercial development of gels as adhesives, sealants, toners, and biological materials.
The BSW relation provides a convenient starting condition for exploring polymer systems of more diverse molecular architecture.
For generating biaxial extension in small samples, Winter invented the technique of lubricated squeeze flow and studied it jointly with Christopher Macosko.
[14] Winter, along with Miriam Siebenbürger and Matthias Ballauff, discovered rheological scaling laws that govern the glass transition.