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Degradation of Block Copolymer Films Confined in Elastic Media: Molecular Dynamics Simulations

October 22, 2020

Ryan Sayko, Zilu Wang, Heyi Liang, Matthew L. Becker, Andrey V. Dobrynin* Macromolecules 2020, 53 (21), 9460–9469

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Degradation of Films of Block Copolymers: Molecular Dynamics Simulations

February 6, 2020

Ryan Sayko, Zilu Wang, Heyi Liang, Matthew L. Becker, Andrey V. Dobrynin* Macromolecules 2020, 53 (4), 1270–1280

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Elastocapillarity and Rolling Dynamics of Solid Nanoparticles on Soft Elastic Substrates

January 30, 2020

Yuan Tian, Heyi Liang, Andrey V. Dobrynin* Soft Matter 2020, 16 (9), 2230–2237

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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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Electrical Conductivity of Graphene–Polymer Composite Foams: A Computational Study

September 25, 2019

Zilu Wang, Yuan Tian, Heyi Liang, Douglas H. Adamson, Andrey V. Dobrynin* Macromolecules 2019, 52 (19), 7379–7385

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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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Gluing Interfaces with Soft Nanoparticles

May 24, 2019

Ryan Sayko, Zhen Cao, Heyi Liang, Andrey V. Dobrynin* Langmuir 2019, 35 (22), 7277–7284

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