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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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Rolling Dynamics of Nanoscale Elastic Shells Driven by Active Particles

November 1, 2018

Yuan Tian, Heyi Liang, Andrey V. Dobrynin* ACS Cent. Sci. 2018, 4 (11), 1537–1544

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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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From Graphene-like Sheet Stabilized Emulsions to Composite Polymeric Foams: Molecular Dynamics Simulations

September 14, 2018

Zilu Wang, Heyi Liang, Douglas H. Adamson, Andrey V. Dobrynin* Macromolecules 2018, 51 (18), 7360–7367

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Surface Stresses and a Force Balance at a Contact Line

May 30, 2018

Heyi Liang, Zhen Cao, Zilu Wang, Andrey V. Dobrynin* Langmuir 2018, 34 (25), 7497–7502

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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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Surface Stress and Surface Tension in Polymeric Networks

January 4, 2018

Heyi Liang, Zhen Cao, Zilu Wang, Andrey V. Dobrynin* ACS Macro Lett. 2018, 7 (1), 116–121

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