Kornfield Laboratorypolymer physics, rheology, biomedical materials
Publications
Shear-Enhanced Crystallization
- "Shear-Enhanced Crystallization in Isotactic Polypropylene. 2. Analysis of the Formation of the Oriented 'Skin'", submitted to Polymer (with G. Kumaraswamy, R. K.Verma, A. M. Issaian, P. Wang, F. Yeh, B. S. Hsiao, and R. H. Olley).
- "Shear-Enhanced Crystallization in Isotactic Polypropylene. 1. Correspondence between in Situ Rheo-Optics and ex Situ Structure Determination", Macromolecules 32, 7537 (1999), (with G. Kumaraswamy, and A. M. Issaian).
- "Novel flow apparatus for investigating shear-enhanced crystallization and structure development in semicrystalline polymers", Rev. Sci. Instrum. 70, 2097 (1999), (G. Kumaraswamy and R. K. Verma).
- "Self-assembled liquid-crystalline gels designed from the bottom up", Nature Materials 3, 177 (2004) (with M. D. Kempe, N. R. Scruggs, R. Verduzco, and J. Lal)
- "Shear alignment behavior of nematic solutions induced by ultralong side-group liquid crystal polymers" Physical Review LettersKempe MD, Kornfield,JA 90 (11): art. no. 115501 MAR 21 2003
- "Perdeuterated cyanobiphenyl liquid crystals for infrared applications"Journal of Applied Physics Wu ST, Wang QH, Kempe MD, Kornfield JA 92 (12): 7146-7148 DEC 15 2002
- "Dynamics and Shear Orientation Behavior of a Main-Chain Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Polymer", Macromolecules 32, 5581 (1999), (with W.-J. Zhou, V. M. Ugaz, W. R. Burghardt, D. R. Link, and N. A. Clark).
- "Effect of Mesophase Order and Molecular Weight on the Dynamics of Nematic and Smectic Side-Group Liquid-Crystalline Polymers," Macromolecules 28, 3521 (1995), (with S. F. Rubin, R. M. Kannan and C. Boeffel ).
- "Rheology of Side-Group Liquid-Crystalline Polymers: Effect of Isotropic-Nematic Transition and Evidence of Flow Alignment," Macromolecules 26, 2050 (1993) (with R. M. Kannan, N. Schwenk and C. Boeffel).
- "Pathways to Macroscale Order in Nanostructured Block Copolymers," Science 277, 1248 (1997), (with Z.-R. Chen, S. D. Smith, J. T. Grothaus and M. M. Satkowski).
- "Dynamics of Shear-Induced Alignment of a Lamellar Diblock: A Rheo-optical, Electron Microscopy, and X-ray Scattering Study," Macromolecules 30, 7096 (1997), (with Z.-R. Chen, A. Issaian, S. D. Smith, J. T. Grothaus and M. M. Satkowski).
- "Dynamics of Shear Alignment in a Lamellar Diblock Copolymer: Interplay of Frequency, Strain Amplitude and Temperature," Macromolecules 29, 875 (1996), (withV. K. Gupta, R. Krishnamoorti, Z.-R. Chen, S. D. Smith, M. Satkowski and J. Grothaus).
- "Evolution of Microstructure and Viscoelasticity During Flow Alignment of a Lamellar Diblock Copolymer," Macromolecules 27, 1177 (1994) (with R. M. Kannan).
Molecular Orientation and Dynamics
- "Component Dynamics in Miscible Polymer Blends: A Two-Dimensional Deuteron NMR Investigation," Macromolecules 27, 964 (1994) (with G.-C. Chung and S. D. Smith).
- "Dynamics of Each Component in Miscible Blends of Polyisoprene and Polyvinylethylene," Rheol. Acta 33, 332 (1994) (with B. H. Arendt, R. M. Kannan, M. Zewail, and S. D. Smith).
- "Controlling Molecular Order in 'Hairy-Rod' LB Films: A Polarization-Modulation Microscopy Study," Science 265, 940 (1994) (with V. Gupta, A. Ferencz and G. Wegner).
- "Polarization-Modulation Laser-Scanning Microscopy (PM-LSM): A Powerful Tool to Image Molecular Orientation and Order," Rev. Sci. Instr. 65, 2823 (1994) (with V. Gupta).
- "Modeling Ring-Chain Equilibria in Ring-Opening Polymerization of Cycloolefins," Macromolecules 28, 2147 (1995), (with Z.-R. Chen, J. P. Claverie and R. H. Grubbs).