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2020

S. Cheng and Sokolov, A. P., “Correlation between the temperature evolution of the interfacial region and the growing dynamic cooperativity length scale”, Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 152, no. 9, p. 094904, 2020.

M. Razavi, Cheng, S., Huang, D., Zhang, S., and Wang, S. - Q., “Crazing and yielding in glassy polymers of high molecular weight.”, Polymer, vol. 197, p. 122445, 2020.

J. Yang, Melton, M., Sun, R., and Cheng, S., “Decoupling the polymer dynamics and the nanoparticle network dynamics of polymer nanocomposites through dielectric spectroscopy and rheology”, Macromolecules, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 302-311, 2020.

D. Gilmer, Han, L., Hong, E., Siddel, D., Kisliuk, A., Cheng, S., Brunermer, D., Elliott, A., and Saito, T., “An in-situ crosslinking binder for binder jet additive manufacturing.”, Additive Manufacturing, vol. 35, p. 101341, 2020.

V. Bocharova, Jayakody, N., Yang, J., Sacci, R. L., Yang, W., Cheng, S., Doughty, B., Greenbaum, S., Jeong, S. Pyo, Popov, I., Zhao, S., Gainaru, C., and Wojnarowska, Z., “Modulation of Cation Diffusion by Reversible Supramolecular Assemblies in Ionic Liquid-Based Nanocomposites.”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, vol. 12, no. 28, pp. 31842-31851, 2020.

R. Sun, Melton, M., Zuo, X., and Cheng, S., “Nonmonotonic Strain Rate Dependence on the Strain Hardening of Polymer Nanocomposites”, ACS Macro Letters, vol. 9, pp. 1224-1229, 2020.

I. Popov and Sokolov, A. P., “Strong Reduction in Amplitude of the Interfacial Segmental Dynamics in Polymer Nanocomposites”, Macromolecules, vol. 53, no. 10, pp. 4126-4135, 2020.

2018

K. Misichronis, Wang, W., Cheng, S., Wang, Y., Shrestha, U., Dadmun, M., Mays, J., and Saito, T., “Design, synthesis, and characterization of lightly sulfonated multigraft acrylate-based copolymer superelastomers”, RSC Advances, vol. 8, no. 10, pp. 5090-5098, 2018.

B. Carroll, Bocharova, V., Carrillo, J. - M., Kisliuk, A. M., Cheng, S., Yamamoto, U., Schweizer, K. S., Sumpter, B. G., and Sokolov, A. P., “Diffusion of sticky nanoparticles in a polymer melt: Crossover from suppressed to enhanced transport”, Macromolecules, vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 2268-2275, 2018.

K. Xing, Tress, M., Cao, P., Cheng, S., Saito, T., ,, and Sokolov, A. P., “Hydrogen-bond strength changes network dynamics in associating telechelic pdms”, Soft Matter, vol. 14, no. 7, pp. 1235-1246, 2018.

K. Xing, Tress, M., Cao, P. - F., Fan, F., Cheng, S., Saito, T., and Sokolov, A. P., “The Role of Chain-End Association Lifetime in Segmental and Chain Dynamics of Telechelic Polymers”, Macromolecules, vol. 51, no. 21, 2018.

X. Meng, Bocharova, V., Tekinalp, H., Cheng, S., Kisliuk, A., Sokolov, A. P., Kunc, V., Peter, W. H., and Ozcan, S., “Toughening of nanocelluose/pla composites via bio-epoxy interaction: Mechanistic study”, Materials & Design , vol. 139, no. Supplement C, pp. 188-197, 2018.

2017

W. Lu, Wang, Y., Wang, W., Cheng, S., Zhu, J., Xu, Y., Hong, K., Kang, N. G., and Mays, J., “All acrylic-based thermoplastic elastomers with high upper service temperature and superior mechanical properties”, Polymer Chemistry, vol. 8, pp. 5741-5748, 2017.

B. Carroll, Cheng, S., and Sokolov, A. P., “Analyzing the interfacial layer properties in polymer nanocomposites by broadband dielectric spectroscopy”, Macromolecules, vol. 50, no. 16, pp. 6149-6163, 2017.

S. Cheng, Carrillo, J. - M. Y., Carroll, B., Martin, H., Cao, P. - F., Dadmun, M. D., Sumpter, B. G., Novikov, V. N., Schweizer, K. S., and Sokolov, A. P., “Big Effect of Small Nanoparticles: A Shift in Paradigm for Polymer Nanocomposites”, ACS Nano, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 752-759, 2017.

S. Cheng, Lu, Y., Liu, G., and Wang, S. - Q., “Correction: Finite cohesion due to chain entanglement in polymer melts”, Soft Matter, vol. 13, no. 29, pp. 5084-5084, 2017.

Z. Wojnarowska, Feng, H., Fu, Y., Cheng, S., Carroll, B., Kumar, R., Novikov, V. N., Kisliuk, A. M., Saito, T., Kang, N. G., Mays, J. W., Sokolov, A. P., and Bocharova, V., “Effect of chain rigidity on the decoupling of ion motion from segmental relaxation in polymerized ionic liquids: Ambient and elevated pressure studies”, Macromolecules, vol. 50, no. 17, pp. 6710-6721, 2017.

P. Lin, Xu, Q., Cheng, S., Li, X., Zhao, Z., Sun, S., Peng, C., Joy, A., and Wang, S. - Q., “Effects of molecular weight reduction on brittle–ductile transition and elastic yielding due to noninvasive γ irradiation on polymer glasses”, Macromolecules, vol. 50, no. 6, pp. 2447-2455, 2017.

S. Cheng, Carroll, B., Bocharova, V., Carrillo, J. - M., Sumpter, B. G., and Sokolov, A. P., “Focus: Structure and dynamics of the interfacial layer in polymer nanocomposites with attractive interactions”, J. Chem. Phys, vol. 146, no. 20, p. 203201, 2017.

S. Cheng, Carroll, B., Lu, W., Fan, F., Carrillo, J. M., Martin, H., Holt, A. P., Kang, N. G., Bocharova, V., Mays, J. W., Sumpter, B. G., Dadmun, M., and Sokolov, A. P., “Interfacial properties of polymer nanocomposites: Role of chain rigidity and dynamic heterogeneity length scale”, Macromolecules, vol. 50, no. 6, pp. 2397-2406, 2017.

A. P. Holt, Bocharova, V., Cheng, S., Kisliuk, A. M., Ehlers, G., Mamontov, E., Novikov, V. N., and Sokolov, A. P., “Interplay between local dynamics and mechanical reinforcement in glassy polymer nanocomposites”, Physical Review Materials, vol. 1, no. 6, p. 062601, 2017.

C. R. Bilchak, Buenning, E., Asai, M., Zhang, K., Durning, C. J., Kumar, S. K., Huang, Y., Benicewicz, B. C., Gidley, D. W., Cheng, S., Sokolov, A. P., Minelli, M., and Doghieri, F., “Polymer-grafted nanoparticle membranes with controllable free volume”, Macromolecules, vol. 50, no. 18, pp. 7111-7120, 2017.

P. F. Cao, Li, B., Hong, T., Xing, K., Voylov, D. N., Cheng, S., Yin, P., Kisliuk, A., Mahurin, S. M., Sokolov, A. P., and Saito, T., “Robust and elastic polymer membranes with tunable properties for gas separation”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, vol. 9, no. 31, pp. 26483-26491, 2017.

R. E. Ruther, Sun, C. N., Holliday, A., Cheng, S., Delnick, F. M., Zawodzinski, T. A., and Nanda, J., “Stable electrolyte for high voltage electrochemical double-layer capacitors”, J. Electrochem. Soc., vol. 164, no. 2, pp. A277-A283, 2017.

P. F. Cao, Wojnarowska, Z., Hong, T., Carroll, B., Li, B., Feng, H., Parsons, L., Wang, W., Lokitz, B. S., Cheng, S., Bocharova, V., Sokolov, A. P., and Saito, T., “A star-shaped single lithium-ion conducting copolymer by grafting a poss nanoparticle”, Polymer, vol. 124, pp. 117-127, 2017.

D. N. Voylov, Holt, A. P., Doughty, B., Bocharova, V., Meyer, H. M., Cheng, S., Martin, H., Dadmun, M., Kisliuk, A., and Sokolov, A. P., “Unraveling the molecular weight dependence of interfacial interactions in poly(2-vinylpyridine)/silica nanocomposites”, ACS Macro Letters, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 68-72, 2017.

2016

A. P. Holt, Bocharova, V., Cheng, S., Kisliuk, A. M., White, B. T., Saito, T., Uhrig, D., Mahalik, J. P., Kumar, R., Imel, A. E., Etampawala, T., Martin, H., Sikes, N., Sumpter, B. G., Dadmun, M. D., and Sokolov, A. P., “Controlling interfacial dynamics: Covalent bonding versus physical adsorption in polymer nanocomposites”, ACS Nano, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 6843-6852, 2016.

S. - Q. Wang and Cheng, S., “Experiments-inspired molecular modeling of yielding and failure of polymer glasses under large deformation”, in Polymer Glasses, 2016, pp. 395-424.

S. Cheng, Lu, Y., Liu, G., and Wang, S. - Q., “Finite cohesion due to chain entanglement in polymer melts”, Soft Matter, vol. 12, no. 14, pp. 3340-3351, 2016.

S. Cheng, Holt, A. P., Wang, H., Fan, F., Bocharova, V., Martin, H., Etampawala, T., White, B. T., Saito, T., Kang, N. G., Dadmun, M. D., Mays, J. W., and Sokolov, A. P., “Unexpected molecular weight effect in polymer nanocomposites”, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 116, no. 3, p. 038302, 2016.

S. Cheng, Bocharova, V., Belianinov, A., Xiong, S., Kisliuk, A. M., Somnath, S., Holt, A. P., Ovchinnikova, O., Jesse, S., Martin, H., Etampawala, T., Dadmun, M. D., and Sokolov, A. P., “Unraveling the Mechanism of Nanoscale Mechanical Reinforcement in Glassy Polymer Nanocomposites”, Nano Letters, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 3630-3637, 2016.

2015

T. Hong, Niu, Z., Hu, X., Gmernicki, K., Cheng, S., Fan, F., Johnson, J. C., Hong, E., Mahurin, S., Jiang, D., Long, B., Mays, J. W., Sokolov, A. P., and Saito, T., “Effect of cross-link density on carbon dioxide separation in polydimethylsiloxane-norbornene membranes”, ChemSusChem, vol. 8, no. 21, pp. 3595-3604 (Front Cover), 2015.

V. Bocharova, Sharp, D., Jones, A., Cheng, S., Griffin, P. J., Agapov, A. L., Voylov, D., Wang, Y., Kisliuk, A., Melman, A., and Sokolov, A. P., “Enzyme induced formation of monodisperse hydrogel nanoparticles tunable in size”, Chem. Mater., vol. 27, no. 7, pp. 2557-2565, 2015.

J. Liu, Lin, P., Cheng, S., Wang, W., Mays, J. W., and Wang, S. - Q., “Polystyrene glasses under compression: Ductile and brittle responses”, ACS Macro Letters, vol. 4, no. 10, pp. 1072-1076, 2015.

S. Cheng, Mirigian, S., Carrillo, J. M., Bocharova, V., Sumpter, B. G., Schweizer, K. S., and Sokolov, A. P., “Revealing spatially heterogeneous relaxation in a model nanocomposite”, J. Chem. Phys, vol. 143, no. 19, p. 194704, 2015.

J. Scavuzzo, Tomita, S., Cheng, S., Liu, H., Gao, M., Kennedy, J. P., Sakurai, S., Cheng, S. Z. D., and Jia, L., “Supramolecular elastomers: Self-assembling star–blocks of soft polyisobutylene and hard oligo(β-alanine) segments”, Macromolecules, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 1077-1086, 2015.

J. M. Carrillo, Cheng, S., Kumar, R., Goswami, M., Sokolov, A. P., and Sumpter, B. G., “Untangling the effects of chain rigidity on the structure and dynamics of strongly adsorbed polymer melts”, Macromolecules, vol. 48, no. 12, pp. 4207-4219, 2015.

2014

S. Cheng and Wang, S. Q., “Elastic yielding after cold drawing of ductile polymer glasses”, Macromolecules, vol. 47, no. 11, pp. 3661-3671, 2014.

S. Q. Wang, Liu, G., Cheng, S., Boukany, P. E., Wang, Y., and Li, X., “Letter to the editor: Sufficiently entangled polymers do show shear strain localization at high enough weissenberg numbers”, Journal of Rheology, vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 1059-1069, 2014.

S. Q. Wang, Cheng, S., Lin, P., and Li, X., “A phenomenological molecular model for yielding and brittle-ductile transition of polymer glasses”, J. Chem. Phys, vol. 141, no. 9, p. 094905, 2014.

P. Lin, Cheng, S., and Wang, S. Q., “Strain hardening during uniaxial compression of polymer glasses ”, ACS Macro Letters, vol. 3, no. 8, pp. 784-787, 2014.

2013

S. Cheng, Johnson, L., and Wang, S. Q., “Crazing and strain localization of polycarbonate glass in creep”, Polymer, vol. 54, no. 13, pp. 3363-3369, 2013.

S. Cheng and Wang, S. Q., “Elastic yielding in cold drawn polymer glasses well below the glass transition temperature ”, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 110, no. 6, p. 065506, 2013.

G. Liu, Ma, H., Lee, H., Xu, H., Cheng, S., Sun, H., Chang, T., Quirk, R. P., and Wang, S. Q., “Long-chain branched polymers to prolong homogeneous stretching and to resist melt breakup”, Polymer, vol. 54, no. 24, pp. 6608-6616, 2013.

S. Q. Wang, Wang, Y., Cheng, S., Li, X., Zhu, X., and Sun, H., “New experiments for improved theoretical description of nonlinear rheology of entangled polymers”, Macromolecules, vol. 46, no. 8, pp. 3147-3159, 2013.

G. Liu, Cheng, S., Lee, H., Ma, H., Xu, H., Chang, T., Quirk, R. P., and Wang, S. Q., “Strain hardening in startup shear of long-chain branched polymer solutions”, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 111, no. 6, p. 068302, 2013.

2012

G. D. Zartman, Cheng, S., Li, X., Lin, F., Becker, M. L., and Wang, S. Q., “How melt-stretching affects mechanical behavior of polymer glasses”, Macromolecules, vol. 45, no. 16, pp. 6719-6732, 2012.

S. Cheng and Wang, S. Q., “Is shear banding a metastable property of well-entangled polymer solutions?”, J. Rheol., vol. 56, no. 6, pp. 1413-1428, 2012.

2011

Y. Wang, Cheng, S., and Wang, S. Q., “Basic characteristics of uniaxial extension rheology: Comparing monodisperse and bidisperse polymer melts”, J. Rheol., vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 1247-1270, 2011.