Publications

2019

Huang, Q., J. Ahn, D. Parisi, T. Chang, O. Hassager, S. Panyukov, M. Rubinstein, and D. Vlassopoulos. “Unexpected Stretching of Entangled Ring Macromolecules.” Physical Review Letters 122, no. 20 (May 2019): 208001. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.122.208001.

Wang, S., S. Panyukov, M. Rubinstein, and S. L. Craig. “Quantitative Adjustment to the Molecular Energy Parameter in the Lake-Thomas Theory of Polymer Fracture Energy.” Macromolecules 52, no. 7 (April 9, 2019): 2772–77. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.8b02341.

Galati, Elizabeth, Huachen Tao, Moritz Tebbe, Rija Ansari, Michael Rubinstein, Ekaterina B. Zhulina, and Eugenia Kumacheva. “Helicoidal Patterning of Nanorods with Polymer Ligands.” Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English) 58, no. 10 (March 2019): 3123–27. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201812887.

Ge, Ting, and Michael Rubinstein. “Mobility of Polymer-Tethered Nanoparticles in Unentangled Polymer Melts.” Macromolecules 52, no. 4 (February 2019): 1536–45. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.8b02138.

2018

Button, Brian, Henry P. Goodell, Eyad Atieh, Yu-Cheng Chen, Robert Williams, Siddharth Shenoy, Elijah Lackey, et al. “Roles of mucus adhesion and cohesion in cough clearance.” Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 115, no. 49 (December 4, 2018): 12501–6. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1811787115.

Rubinstein, Michael, Qi Liao, and Sergey Panyukov. “Structure of Liquid Coacervates formed by Oppositely Charged Polyelectrolytes.” Macromolecules 51, no. 23 (December 2018): 9572–88. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.8b02059.

Shi, Ran, Tao Lin Sun, Feng Luo, Tasuku Nakajima, Takayuki Kurokawa, Yue Zhen Bin, Michael Rubinstein, and Jian Ping Gong. “Elastic-Plastic Transformation of Polyelectrolyte Complex Hydrogels from Chitosan and Sodium Hyaluronate.” Macromolecules 51, no. 21 (November 2018): 8887–98. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01658.

Ge, Ting, Gary S. Grest, and Michael Rubinstein. “Nanorheology of Entangled Polymer Melts.” Physical Review Letters, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.057801.

2017

“Discussion of paper by S. Arora, A. Shabbir, O. Hassager, C. Ligoure, L. Ramos, entitled ‘Brittle fracture of polymer transient networks'.” Journal of Rheology 61, no. 6 (November 2017): 1277–78. https://doi.org/10.1122/1.5008878.

Zhou, Jinsheng, Yanqian Wang, Laurent D. Menard, Sergey Panyukov, Michael Rubinstein, and J. Michael Ramsey. “Enhanced nanochannel translocation and localization of genomic DNA molecules using three-dimensional nanofunnels.” Nature Communications, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00951-4.

Wagner, Caroline E., Bradley S. Turner, Michael Rubinstein, Gareth H. McKinley, and Katharina Ribbeck. “A Rheological Study of the Association and Dynamics of MUC5AC Gels.” Biomacromolecules, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.7b00809.

Gonzalez, Mark A., Joseph R. Simon, Ali Ghoorchian, Zachary Scholl, Shaoting Lin, Michael Rubinstein, Piotr Marszalek, Ashutosh Chilkoti, Gabriel P. López, and Xuanhe Zhao. “Strong, Tough, Stretchable, and Self-Adhesive Hydrogels from Intrinsically Unstructured Proteins.” Advanced Materials, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201604743.

Jacobson, David R., Dustin B. McIntosh, Mark J. Stevens, Michael Rubinstein, and Omar A. Saleh. “Single-stranded nucleic acid elasticity arises from internal electrostatic tension.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1701132114.

Simon, Joseph R., Nick J. Carroll, Michael Rubinstein, Ashutosh Chilkoti, and Gabriel P. López. “Programming molecular self-assembly of intrinsically disordered proteins containing sequences of low complexity.” Nature Chemistry, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2715.

Everaers, Ralf, Alexander Y. Grosberg, Michael Rubinstein, and Angelo Rosa. “Flory theory of randomly branched polymers.” Soft Matter, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6SM02756C.

Ge, Ting, Jagannathan T. Kalathi, Jonathan D. Halverson, Gary S. Grest, and Michael Rubinstein. “Nanoparticle Motion in Entangled Melts of Linear and Nonconcatenated Ring Polymers.” Macromolecules, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.6b02632.

Peters, Brandon L., Darin Q. Pike, Michael Rubinstein, and Gary S. Grest. “Polymers at Liquid/Vapor Interface.” ACS Macro Letters, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.7b00466.

2016

Shenoy, S. K., D. B. Subramani, S. H. Donaldson, D. B. Hill, M. Rubinstein, R. C. Boucher, and B. Button. “ROLE OF CF-RELATED INCREASES IN MUCUS CONCENTRATION AND MUC5AC MUCIN EXPRESSION IN THE FAILURE OF COUGH-MEDIATED CLEARANCE.” In PEDIATRIC PULMONOLOGY, 51:251–251. WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2016.

Lopez, Gabriel, Joseph Simon, Nick Carroll, Michael Rubinstein, and Ashutosh Chilkoti. “Programming molecular self-assembly of intrinsically disordered proteins.” In ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Vol. 251. AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 2016.

Ge, Ting, Sergey Panyukov, and Michael Rubinstein. “Self-Similar Conformations and Dynamics in Entangled Melts and Solutions of Nonconcatenated Ring Polymers.” Macromolecules, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.5b02319.

Paturej, Jaros law, Sergei S. Sheiko, Sergey Panyukov, and Michael Rubinstein. “Molecular structure of Bottlebrush polymers in melts.” Science Advances, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1601478.

Leuty, Gary M., Mesfin Tsige, Gary S. Grest, and Michael Rubinstein. “Tension Amplification in Tethered Layers of Bottle-Brush Polymers.” Macromolecules, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.5b02305.

Pandiyarajan, C. K., Michael Rubinstein, and Jan Genzer. “Surface-Anchored Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Orthogonal Gradient Networks.” Macromolecules, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01048.

Lebedeva, Natalia V., Samuel N. Sanders, Maria Ina, Aleksandr P. Zhushma, Sean D. Olson, Michael Rubinstein, and Sergei S. Sheiko. “Multicore expandable microbubbles: Controlling density and expansion temperature.” Polymer (United Kingdom), 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2016.02.050.

Baeza, Guilhem P., Claudia Dessi, Salvatore Costanzo, Dan Zhao, Shushan Gong, Angel Alegria, Ralph H. Colby, Michael Rubinstein, Dimitris Vlassopoulos, and Sanat K. Kumar. “Network dynamics in nanofilled polymers.” Nature Communications, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11368.