Category: Elastomers and Networks
Structure–Property Relationships of Responsive Doubly-Threaded Slide-Ring Polycatenane Networks
September 17, 2025Guancen Liu#, Jongwon Oh#, Yuan Tian#, Jerald E. Hertzog, Heyi Liang, Benjamin W. Rawe, Natsumi Nitta, Charlie A. Lindberg, Hojin Kim, Juan J. de Pablo*, Stuart J. Rowan* Chem. Sci. 2025, Advance Article
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Micrometer-Scale Poly (Ethylene Glycol) with Enhanced Mechanical Performance
May 12, 2025Letian Zheng#, Heyi Liang#, Jin Tang, Qiang Zheng, Fang Chen, Lian Wang, Qi Li* Nat. Commun. 2025, 16 (1), 4391
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Mechanical Performance of Copper‐Nanocluster‐Polymer Nanolattices
March 29, 2024Jin Tang#, Heyi Liang#, An Ren, Liang Ma, Wei Hao, Yuqing Yao, Letian Zheng, Hanying Li, Qi Li*# Adv. Mater. 2024, 36 (26), 2400080
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Theory and Simulations of Hybrid Networks
August 6, 2021Michael Jacobs, Heyi Liang, Andrey V. Dobrynin* Macromolecules 2021, 54 (16), 7337–7346
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Strain-Adaptive Self-Assembled Networks of Linear-Bottlebrush-Linear Copolymers
November 4, 2019Heyi Liang, Zilu Wang, Andrey V. Dobrynin Macromolecules 2019, 52 (22), 8617–8624
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Nonlinear Elasticity and Swelling of Comb and Bottlebrush Networks
June 28, 2019Michael Jacobs, Heyi Liang, Erfan Dashtimoghadam, Benjamin J. Morgan, Sergei S. Sheiko*, Andrey V. Dobrynin* Macromolecules 2019, 52 (14), 5095–5101
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Strained Bottlebrushes in Super-Soft Physical Networks
April 23, 2019Charles 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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Chameleon-like Elastomers with Molecularly Encoded Strain-Adaptive Stiffening and Coloration
March 30, 2018Mohammad 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, 2018Heyi Liang, Sergei S. Sheiko, Andrey V. Dobrynin* Macromolecules 2018, 51 (2), 638–645
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Surface Stress and Surface Tension in Polymeric Networks
January 4, 2018Heyi Liang, Zhen Cao, Zilu Wang, Andrey V. Dobrynin* ACS Macro Lett. 2018, 7 (1), 116–121
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