2024

Local dynamics and failure of inhomogeneous polymer networks

Z. Ye, H. Zhang, R. A. Riggleman. Soft Matter (2024)

Effects of Associative Interactions on the Phase Behavior of Complex Coacervates

Z. M. Jedlinska, R. A. Riggleman. Macromolecules (2024)

Predicting failure locations in model end-linked polymer networks

H. Zhang, R. A. Riggleman. Phys. Rev. Materials (2024)

Nonmonotonic polymer translocation kinetics through nanopores under changing surface–polymer interactions

N. Manohar, R. A. Riggleman, D. Lee, K. J. Stebe. J. Chem. Phys. (2024)

Capillary filling dynamics of polymer melts in a bicontinuous nanoporous scaffold

W. Kong, A. Neuman, A. C. Zhang, D. Lee, R. A. Riggleman, R. J. Composto. J. Chem. Phys. (2024)

2023

Identifying microscopic factors that influence ductility in disordered solids

H. Xiao, G. Zhang, E. Yang, R. Ivancic, S. Ridout, R. A. Riggleman, D. J. Durian, A. J. Liu. PNAS (2023)

Understanding Creep Suppression Mechanisms in Polymer Nanocomposites through Machine Learning

E. Yang, J. F. Pressly, B. Natarajan, R. Colby, K. I. Winey, R. A. Riggleman. Soft Matter (2023)

MATILDA.FT, A mesoscale simulation package for inhomogeneous soft matter

Z. M. Jedlinska, C. Tabedzki, C. Gillespie, N. Hess, A. Yang, R. A. Riggleman. J. Chem. Phys. (2023)

Experimental observations of fractal landscape dynamics in a dense emulsion

C. Rodríguez-Cruz, M. Molaei, A. Thirumalaiswamy, K. Feitosa, V. N. Manoharan, S. Sivarajan, D. H. Reich, R. A. Riggleman, J. C. Crocker. Soft Matter (2023)

The effect of monomer polarizability on the stability and salt partitioning in model coacervates

Z. M. Jedlinska, R. A. Riggleman. Soft Matter (2023)

Exploring the relationship between softness and excess entropy in glass-forming systems

I. R. Graham, P. E. Arratia, R. A. Riggleman. J. Chem. Phys. (2023)

Bicontinuous interfacially jammed emulsion gels with nearly uniform sub-micrometer domains via regulated co-solvent removal

T. Wang, R. A. Riggleman, D. Lee, K. J. Stebe. Mater. Horiz. (2023)

Increases in Miscibility of a Binary Polymer Blend Confined within a Nanoparticle Packing

A. Neuman, S. Zhang, D. Lee, R. A. Riggleman. Macromolecules (2023)

2022

Failure and Mechanical Properties of Glassy Diblock Copolymer Thin Films

T. Zhang, N. Wang, R. A. Riggleman. Macromolecules (2022)

Exploring canyons in glassy energy landscapes using metadynamics

A. Thirumalaiswamy, R. A. Riggleman, J. C. Crocker. PNAS (2022)

Structuro-elasto-plasticity model for large deformation of disordered solids

G. Zhang, H. Xiao, E. Yang, R. J. S. Ivancic, S. A. Ridout, R. A. Riggleman, D. J. Durian, A. J. Liu. Phys. Rev. Research (2022)

Percolation of co-continuous domains in tapered copolymer networks

H. Zhang, R. A. Riggleman. Mol. Syst. Des. Eng. (2022)

Decoupling the Impact of Entanglements and Mobility on the Failure Properties of Ultrathin Polymer Films

R. K. Bay, T. Zhang, S. Shimomura, M. Ilton, K. Tanaka, R. A. Riggleman, A. J. Crosby. Macromolecules (2022)

The Role of Intra-molecular Relaxations on the Structure and Stability of vapor-Deposited Glasses

A. Zhang, A. Moore, H. Zhao, S. Govind, S. E. Wolf, Y. Jin, P. Walsh, R. A. Riggleman, Z. Fakhraai. J. Chem. Phys. (2022)

Effect of Graft Length and Matrix Molecular Weight on String Assembly of Aligned Nanoplates in a Lamellar Diblock Copolymer

C. Tabedzki, N. M. Krook, C. B. Murray, R. J. Composto, R. A. Riggleman. Macromolecules (2022)

Predicting the unobserved. A statistical mechanics framework for non-equilibrium material response with quantified uncertainty

S. Huang, I. R. Graham, R. A. Riggleman, P. E. Arratio, S. Fitzgerald, C. Reina. J. Mech. Phys. Solids (2022)

Role of Local Structure in the Enhanced Dynamics of Deformed Glasses

E. Yang, R. A. Riggleman. Phys. Rev. Lett. (2022)

Fracture of model end-linked networks

C. W. Barney, Z. Ye, I. Sacligil, K. R. McLeod, H. Zhang, G. N. Tew, R. A. Riggleman, A. J. Crosby. PNAS (2022)

2021

Thickness-Dependent Mechanical Failure in Thin Films of Glassy Polymer Bidisperse Blends

T. Zhang, R. A. Riggleman. Macromolecules (2021)

Lewis Adduct-Induced Phase Transitions in Polymer/Solvent Mixtures

T. Hilaire, Y. Xu, W. Mei, R. A. Riggleman, R. Hickey. ACS Polym. Au (2021)

Load-bearing entanglements in polymer glasses

C. Bukowski, T. Zhang, R. A. Riggleman, A. J. Crosby. Sci. Adv. (2021)

Investigating Nanoparticle Organization in Polymer Matrices during Reaction-Induced Phase Transitions and Material Processing

J. A. LaNasa, A. Neuman, R. A. Riggleman, R. J. Hickey. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (2021)

Effect of surface properties and polymer chain length on polymer adsorption in solution

E. Y. Lin, A. L. Frischknecht, K. I. Winey, R. A. Riggleman. J. Chem. Phys. (2021)

Chain and Segmental Dynamics in Polymer–Nanoparticle Composites with High Nanoparticle Loading

E. Y. Lin, A. L. Frischknecht, R. A. Riggleman. Macromolecules (2021)

Polymer-Infiltrated Nanoparticle Films Using Capillarity-Based Techniques: Toward Multifunctional Coatings and Membranes

R. B. Venkatesh, N. Manohar, Y. Qiang, H. Wang, H. H. Tran, B. Q. Kim, A. Neuman, T. Ren, Z. Fakhraai, R. A. Riggleman, K. J. Stebe, K. Turner, D. Lee. Annu. Rev. Chem. Biomol. Eng. (2021)

Coarse-Grained Modeling of Polymer Nanocomposites: Field-Theoretic Simulations [Book Chapter]

J. Koski, H. Chao, C. Tabedzki, R. A. Riggleman. Theory and Modeling of Polymer Nanocomposites (2021)

2020

Conformation and dynamics of ring polymers under symmetric thin film confinement

T. Zhang, K. I. Winey, R. A. Riggleman. J. Chem. Phys. (2020)

Dynamic phase transitions in freestanding polymer thin films

R. J. S. Ivancic, R. A. Riggleman. PNAS (2020)

Polymer Conformations and Diffusion through a Monolayer of Confining Nanoparticles

E. J. Bailey, R. A. Riggleman, K. I. Winey. Macromolecules (2020)

Molecular View of Cavitation in Model-Solvated Polymer Networks

Z. Ye, R. A. Riggleman. Macromolecules (2020)

Cavitation in Soft Matter

C. W. Barney, C. E. Dougan, K. R. McLeod, A. Kazemi-Moridani, Y. Zheng, Z. Ye, S. Tiwari, I. Sacligil, R. A. Riggleman, S. Cai, J. Le, S. R. Peyton, G. N. Tew, A. J. Crosby. PNAS (2020)

Origin of Mechanical Enhancement in Polymer Nanoparticle (NP) Composites with Ultrahigh NP Loading

E. Y. Lin, A. L. Frischknecht, R. A. Riggleman. Macromol (2020)

2019

Effect of Polymer-Nanoparticle Interactions on Solvent-driven Infiltration of Polymer (SIP) into Nanoparticle Packings: a Molecular Dynamics Study

R. Bh. Venkatesh, T. Zhang, N. Manohar, K. J. Stebe, R. A. Riggleman, D. Lee. MSDE (2019)

Experiments and Simulations Probing Local Domain Bulge and String Assembly of Aligned Nanoplates in a Lamellar Diblock Copolymer

N. M. Krook, C. Tabedzki [co-first author], K. C. Elbert, K. G. Yager, C. B. Murrray, R. A. Riggleman, R. J. Composto. Macromolecules (2019)

Equilibrium Field Theoretic Study of Nanoparticle Interactions in Diblock Copolymer Melts

B. J. Lindsay, R. J. Composto, R. A. Riggleman. JPCB (2019)

Increased Polymer Diffusivity in Thin-Film Confinement

J. F. Pressly, R. A. Riggleman, K. I. Winey. Macromolecules (2019)

Distinguishing failure modes in oligomeric polymer nanopillars

E. Y. Lin, R. A. Riggleman. Soft Matter (2019)

Phase Behavior of Grafted Polymer Nanocomposites from Field-Based Simulations

J. Koski, N. M. Krook [co-first author], J. Ford, Y. Yahata, K. Ohno, C. B. Murray, A. L. Frischknecht, R. J. Composto, R. A. Riggleman. Macromolecules (2019)

Identifying structural signatures of shear banding in model polymer nanopillars

R. J. S. Ivancic, R. A. Riggleman. Soft Mat. (2019)

Effects of microstructure formation on the stability of vapor-desposited glasses

A. Moore, G. Huang, S. Wolf, P. J. Walsh, Z. Fakhraai, R. A. Riggleman. PNAS (2019)

Polymer Conformations and Dynamics under Confinement with Two Length Scales

T. Zhang, K. I. Winey, R. A. Riggleman. Macro. (2019)

Critical Contact Angle to Induce Capillary Rise of Polymers in Nanopores Does Not Depend on Chain Length

D. J. Ring, R. A. Riggleman, D. Lee. ACS Macro. Lett. (2019)

2018

Polymer Diffusion Is Fastest at Intermediate Levels of Cylindrical Confinement

J. Pressly, R. A. Riggleman, K. I. Winey. Macro. (2018)

Effect of substrate interactions on the glass transition and length-scale of correlated dynamics in ultra-thin molecular glass films

Y. Zhang, C. N. Woods, M. Alvarez, Y. Jin, R. A. Riggleman, Z. Fakhraai. J. Chem. Phys. (2018)

Emerging investigators in materials science 2017-2018

F. W. DelRio, R. A. Riggleman. Mater. Res. Express (2018)

2017

Field-Theoretic Simulations of the Distribution of Nanorods in Diblock Copolymer Thin Films

H. Chao, B. J. Lindsay, R. A. Riggleman. J Phys Chem B (2017)

Structure-property relationships from universal signatures of plasticity in disordered solids

E. D. Cubuk, R. J. S. Ivancic, S. S. Schoenholz, D. J. Strickland, A. Basu, Z. S. Davidson, J. Fontaine, J. L. Hor, Y.-R. Huang, Y. Jiang, N. C. Keim, K. D. Koshigan, J. A. Lefever, T. Liu, X.-G. Ma, D. J. Magagnosc, E. Morrow, C. P. Ortiz, J. M. Rieser, A. Shavit, T. Still, Y. Xu, Y. Zhang, K. N. Nordstrom, P. E. Arratia, R. W. Carpick, D. J. Durian, Z. Fakhraai, D. J. Jerolmack, D. Lee, J. Li, R. A. Riggleman, K. T. Turner, A. G. Yodh, D. S. Gianola, A. J. Liu. Science (2017)

Inverse design of grafted nanoparticles for targeted self-assembly

H. Chao, R. A. Riggleman. Mol Sys Des Eng (2017)

Comparison of Field-Theoretic Approaches in Predicting Polymer Nanocomposite Phase Behavior

J. Koski, R. C. Ferrier, N. M. Krook, H. Chao, R. J. Composto, A. L. Frischknecht, R. A. Riggleman. Macromolecules (2017)

Nanorod Mobility Influences Polymer Diffusion in Polymer Nanocomposites

C-C Lin, M. Cargnello, C. B. Murray, N. Clarke, K. I. Winey, R. A. Riggleman, R. J. Composto. ACS Macro Lett (2017)

Perspective: Outstanding theoretical questions in polymer-nanoparticle hybrids

S. K. Kumar, V. Ganesan, R. A. Riggleman. J Chem Phys (2017)

Grafted polymer chains suppress nanoparticle diffusion in athermal polymer melts

C-C Lin, P. J. Griffin, H. Chao, M. J. A. Hore, K. Ohno, N. Clarke, R. A. Riggleman, K. I. Winey, R. J. Composto. J Chem Phys (2017)

Field-theoretic simulations of block copolymer nanocomposites in a constant interfacial tension ensemble

J. Koski, R. A. Riggleman. J Chem Phys (2017)

Nanoporous Polymer-Infiltrated Nanoparticle Films with Uniform or Graded Porosity via Undersaturated Capillary Rise Infiltration

J. L. Hor, Y. Jiang, D. J. Ring, R. A. Riggleman, K. T. Turner, D. Lee. ACS Nano (2017)

Solvent vapor annealing in block copolymer nanocomposite films: a dynamic mean field approach

H. Chao, J. Koski, R. A. Riggleman. Soft Matter (2017)

2016

Long-range correlated dynamics in ultra-thin molecular glass films

Y. Zhang, E. C. Glor, M. Li, T. Liu, K. Wahid, W. Zhang, R. A. Riggleman, Z. Fakhraai. J Chem Phys (2016)

Understanding soft glassy materials using an energy landscape approach

H. J. Hwang, R. A. Riggleman, J. C. Crocker. Nat Mater (2016)

Isolating the Effect of Molecular Weight on Ion Transport of Non-Ionic Diblock Copolymer/Ionic Liquid Mixtures

S. Sharick, J. Koski, R. A. Riggleman, K. I. Winey. Macromolecules (2016)

Engineering the Assembly of Gold Nanorods in Polymer Matrices

R. C. Ferrier, J. Koski [co-first author], R. A. Riggleman, R. J. Composto. Macromolecules (2016)

Dispersion and alignment of nanorods in cylindrical block copolymer thin films

B. Rasin, H. Chao, G. Jiang, D. Wang, R. A. Riggleman, R. J. Composto. Soft Matter (2016)

Attraction of Nanoparticles to Tilt Grain Boundaries in Block Copolymers

J. Koski, B. Hagberg [co-first author], R. A. Riggleman. Macromol Chem Phys (2016)

2015

The dynamics of unentangled polymers during capillary rise infiltration into a nanoparticle packing

A. Shavit, R. A. Riggleman. Soft Matter (2015)

Local Polymer Dynamics and Diffusion in Cylindrical Nanoconfinement

W-S Tung, R. J. Composto, R. A. Riggleman, K. I. Winey. Macromolecules (2015)

Predicting the structure and interfacial activity of diblock brush, mixed brush, and Janus-grafted nanoparticles

J. Koski, H. Chao, R. A. Riggleman. Chem Comm (2015)

2014

Air-Liquid Interfacial Self-Assembly of Conjugated Block Copolymers into Ordered Nanowire Arrays

Ma. H. M. Cativo, D. K. Kim, R. A. Riggleman, K. G. Yager, S. S. Nonnenmann, H. Chao, D. A. Bonnell, C. T. Black, C. R. Kagan, S-J Park. ACS Nano (2014)