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Inverse Design of Structural Colours in Polymeric Films with Crystallization-Induced Reversible Thermochromism

December 8, 2025

Dong Yang, Heyi Liang*, Chengjie Zhang, Peipei Shao, Qin Li, Yun Huang, Yi Dan, Cheng Zeng, Rui-Tao Wen, Long Jiang*, Ming Xiao* Nature Commun., 2025, 16(1), 10040.

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Bottlebrushes and Combs with Bimodal Distribution of the Side Chains: Diagram of States and Scattering Function

February 8, 2021

Haley Starvaggi, Yuan Tian, Heyi Liang, Andrey V. Dobrynin* Macromolecules 2021, 54 (4), 1818–1828

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Bottlebrush Bridge between Soft Gels and Firm Tissues

January 22, 2020

Andrew N. Keith, Mohammad Vatankhah-Varnosfaderani, Charles Clair, Farahnaz Fahimipour, Erfan Dashtimoghadam, Abdelaziz Lallam, Michael Sztucki, Dimitri A. Ivanov*, Heyi Liang, Andrey V. Dobrynin*, Sergei S. Sheiko* ACS Cent. Sci. 2020, 6 (3), 413–419

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Strain-Adaptive Self-Assembled Networks of Linear-Bottlebrush-Linear Copolymers

November 4, 2019

Heyi Liang, Zilu Wang, Andrey V. Dobrynin Macromolecules 2019, 52 (22), 8617–8624

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Brush-Like Polymers and Entanglements: From Linear Chains to Filaments

September 26, 2019

Heyi Liang, Gary S. Grest, Andrey V. Dobrynin* ACS Macro Lett. 2019, 8 (10), 1328–1333

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Scattering from Melts of Combs and Bottlebrushes: Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Theoretical Study

July 17, 2019

Heyi Liang, Zilu Wang, Andrey V. Dobrynin* Macromolecules 2019, 52 (15), 5555–5562

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Nonlinear Elasticity and Swelling of Comb and Bottlebrush Networks

June 28, 2019

Michael Jacobs, Heyi Liang, Erfan Dashtimoghadam, Benjamin J. Morgan, Sergei S. Sheiko*, Andrey V. Dobrynin* Macromolecules 2019, 52 (14), 5095–5101

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Comb and Bottlebrush Graft Copolymers in a Melt

May 16, 2019

Heyi Liang, Zilu Wang, Sergei S. Sheiko, Andrey V. Dobrynin* Macromolecules 2019, 52 (10), 3942–3950

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Strained Bottlebrushes in Super-Soft Physical Networks

April 23, 2019

Charles Clair, Abdelaziz Lallam, Martin Rosenthal, Michael Sztucki, Mohammad Vatankhah-Varnosfaderani, Andrew N. Keith, Yidan Cong, Heyi Liang, Andrey V. Dobrynin, Sergei S. Sheiko, Dimitri A. Ivanov* ACS Macro Lett. 2019, 8 (5), 530–534

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Universality of the Entanglement Plateau Modulus of Comb and Bottlebrush Polymer Melts

December 3, 2018

Heyi Liang#, Benjamin J. Morgan#, Guojun Xie#, Michael R. Martinez, Ekaterina B. Zhulina, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Sergei S. Sheiko*, Andrey V. Dobrynin* Macromolecules 2018, 51 (23), 10028–10039

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