Opening

Our group will officially start in January 2026 and is actively looking for enthusiastic Ph.D., M.S., and undergraduate students!

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Surface and Interfacial Tension of Graft Polymer Melts

October 17, 2018

Michael Jacobs, Heyi Liang, Brandon Pugnet, Andrey V. Dobrynin* Langmuir 2018, 34 (43), 12974–12981

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Chameleon-like Elastomers with Molecularly Encoded Strain-Adaptive Stiffening and Coloration

March 30, 2018

Mohammad Vatankhah-Varnosfaderani, Andrew N. Keith#, Yidan Cong#, Heyi Liang#, Martin Rosenthal, Michael Sztucki, Charles Clair, Sergei Magonov, Dimitri A. Ivanov, Andrey V. Dobrynin*, Sergei S. Sheiko* Science 2018, 359 (6383), 1509–1513

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Supersoft and Hyperelastic Polymer Networks with Brushlike Strands

January 11, 2018

Heyi Liang, Sergei S. Sheiko, Andrey V. Dobrynin* Macromolecules 2018, 51 (2), 638–645

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Mimicking Biological Stress–Strain Behaviour with Synthetic Elastomers

September 4, 2017

Mohammad Vatankhah-Varnosfaderani, William F. M. Daniel, Matthew H. Everhart, Ashish A. Pandya, Heyi Liang, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Andrey V. Dobrynin*, Sergei S. Sheiko* Nature 2017, 549 (7673), 497–501.

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Combs and Bottlebrushes in a Melt

April 11, 2017

Heyi Liang, Zhen Cao, Zilu Wang, Sergei S. Sheiko, Andrey V. Dobrynin* Macromolecules 2017, 50 (8), 3430–3437

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