Publications
Ionic strength dependence of polyelectrolyte brush thickness." Soft Matter (2012): 9376.
"A Periciliary Brush Promotes the Lung Health by Separating the Mucus Layer from Airway Epithelia." Science China. Life Sciences (2012): 937-941.
"Polyelectrolytes in biology and soft matter." Soft Matter (2012): 9265.
"2037-Pos Board B23 Mechanism of Flexibility Control for ATP Access of Hepatitis C Virus NS3 Helicase Computational Investigation of the Effect of Ions on the Secondary Struc- ture of Small Peptides." Biophysj 100 (2011): 378a.
"Bond tension in tethered macromolecules." Macromolecules (2011): 4520-4529.
"Mobility of nonsticky nanoparticles in polymer liquids." Macromolecules (2011): 7853-7863.
"The use of functionalized nanoparticles as non-specific compatibilizers for polymer blends." Polymers for Advanced Technologies (2011): 65-71.
"Chains Are More Flexible Under Tension." Macromolecules (2010): 9181-9190.
"Computing free energies of protein conformations from explicit solvent simulations." Methods (San Diego, Calif.) (2010): 115-121.
"Polymer physics: The ugly duckling story: Will polymer physics ever become a part of proper physics?" In Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, 2548-2551. 2010.
"Spontaneous and specific activation of chemical bonds in macromolecular fluids." Journal of the American Chemical Society (2010): 12487-12491.
"Step-Growth Polymerization of Inorganic Nanoparticles." Science China. Life Sciences 329, no. 5988 (2010): 197-200.
"Amplification of tension in branched macromolecules." Physical Review Letters (2009).
"End-monomer dynamics in semiflexible polymers." Macromolecules (2009): 860-875.
"Tension amplification in molecular brushes in solutions and on substrates." Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2009): 3750-3768.
"Concentration regimes in solutions of polyelectrolyte stars." Macromolecules (2008): 203-217.
"Effect of the soluble block size on spherical diblock copolymer micelles." Macromolecules (2008): 6555-6563.
"Long-range correlations in a polymer chain due to its connectivity." Macromolecules (2008): 1475-1485.
"PH-induced release of polyanions from multilayer films." Physical Review Letters (2008).
""Supramolecular" assembly of gold nanorods end-terminated with polymer "pom-poms": Effect of pom-pom structure on the association modes." Journal of the American Chemical Society (2008): 3683-3689.
"Unexpected power-law stress relaxation of entangled ring polymers." Nature Materials (2008): 997-1002.
"Flory theorem for structurally asymmetric mixtures." Physical Review Letters (2007).
"Molecular pressure sensors." Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) (2007): 2930-2934.
"Rouse dynamics of polyelectrolyte solutions: Molecular dynamics study." Macromolecules (2007): 7671-7679.
"Self-assembly of metal-polymer analogues of amphiphilic triblock copolymers." Nature Materials (2007): 609-614.
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