Publications

09/2002-09/2003

 1.      Xie, Wei; Xie, Rongcai; Pan, Wei-Ping; Hunter, Doug; Koene, Bryan; Tan, Loon-Seng; Vaia, Richard. “Thermal Stability of Quaternary Phosphonium Modified Montmorillonites. Chemistry of Materials”, 14(11), 4837-4845 (2002).

2.      Vaia, Richard A.; Liu, Weidong. “X-ray powder diffraction of polymer/layered silicate nanocomposites: model and practice”, Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics, 40(15), 1590-1600 (2002).

3.      Gu, Jin; Xu, Sengen; Yu, Leepo C. “A model of cross-bridge attachment to actin in the A×M×ATP state based on X-ray diffraction from permeabilized rabbit psoas muscle”, Biophysical Journal, 82(4), 2123-2133 (2002).

4.      Xu, S.; Gu, J.; Melvin, G.; Yu, L. C. “Structural characterization of weakly attached cross-bridges in the A×M×ATP state in permeabilized rabbit psoas muscle”, Biophysical Journal, 82(4), 2111-2122 (2002).

5.      Matsuba, Go; Shimizu, Katsumi; Wang, Howard; Wang, Zhigang; Han, Charles C.  “Correlation between phase separation and crystallization in poly(ethylene-co-hexene) and poly(ethylene-co-octene).”, Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering, 87, 317-318 (2002). 

6.      Wang, Howard; Shimizu, Katsumi; Kim, Hongdoo; Hobbie, Erik K.; Wang, Zhi-Gang; Han, Charles C. “Competing growth kinetics in simultaneously crystallizing and phase-separating polymer blends”, Journal of Chemical Physics, 116(16), 7311-7315 (2002). 

7.      Bansil, R.; Nie, H.; Li, Y.; Liao, G.; Ludwig, K.; Steinhart, M.; Konak, C.; Lal, J. “Structure and ordering kinetics of micelles in triblock copolymer solutions in selective solvents”, Macromolecular Symposia, 190(Scattering Methods for the Investigation of Polymers), 161-172 (2002). 

8.      Bansil, Rama; Nie, Huifen; Konak, Cestmir; Helmstedt, Martin; Lal, Jyotsana, “Structure and dynamics of solutions of a polystyrene-polybutadiene pentablock copolymer in a styrene-selective solvent”, Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics,  40(24),  2807-2816 (2002). 

9.      Thurman, Derek W.; Ballester, Lucia Fernandez; Oberhauser, James P.; Seki, Motohiro; Kornfield, Julia A. “Transient structure formation during shear-induced crystallization of isotactic polypropylenes”, Polymer Preprints (American Chemical Society, Division of Polymer Chemistry), 43(1), 211-212 (2002).

10.  Wu, Jing; Schultz, Jerold M. “Calculation of mesophase percentage of polymer fibers from 2D wide-angle X-ray scattering patterns”, Polymer, 43(25), 6695-6700 (2002).

11.  Weng, Xin; Li, Christopher Y.; Jin, Shi; Zhang, Dong; Zhang, John Z.; Bai, Feng; Harris, Frank W.; Cheng, Stephen Z. D.; Lotz, Bernard. “Helical Twist Senses, Liquid Crystalline Behavior, Crystal Microtwins, and Rotation Twins in a Polyester Containing Main-Chain Molecular Asymmetry and Effects of the Number of Methylene Units in the Backbones on the Phase Structures and Morphologies of Its Homologues”, Macromolecules, 35(26), 9678-9686 (2002).

12.  Cheng, Stephen Z. D.; Li, Christopher Y. “Structure and formation of polymer single crystal textures”, Materials Science Forum,  408-412 (Pt. 1, Textures of Materials), 25-37 (2002).

13.  Landis, Forrest A.; Moore, Robert B.; Page, Kirt A.; Han, Charles C.  “SAXS analysis of the thermal relaxation behavior of oriented perfluorosulfonate ionomer membranes”, Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering, 87, 121-122 (2002).

14.  Chisholm, Bret J.; Moore, Robert B.; Barber, Grant; Khouri, Farid; Hempstead, Anne; Larsen, Michael; Olson, Eric; Kelley, Jim; Balch, Gary; Caraher, Joel. “Nanocomposites Derived from Sulfonated Poly(butylene terephthalate)”, Macromolecules, 35(14), 5508-5516 (2002).

15.  Li, Christopher Y.; Jin, Shi; Weng, Xin; Ge, Jason J.; Zhang, Dong; Bai, Feng; Harris, Frank W.; Cheng, Stephen Z. D.; Yan, Donghang; He, Tianbai; Lotz, Bernard; Chien, Liang-Chy. “Liquid Crystalline Phases, Microtwinning in Crystals and Helical Chirality Transformations in a Main-Chain Chiral Liquid Crystalline Polyester”, Macromolecules, 35(14),  5475-5482 (2002). 

16.  Ha, Yung-Hoon; Thomas, Edwin L. “Deformation Behavior of a Roll-Cast Layered-Silicate/Lamellar Triblock Copolymer Nanocomposite”,  Macromolecules , 35(11), 4419-4428 (2002). 

17.  Avgeropoulos, Apostolos; Dair, Benita J.; Thomas, Edwin L.; Hadjichristidis, Nikos. “Swelling behavior of ordered miktoarm star block copolymer-homopolymer blends.” Polymer, 43(11), 3257-3266 (2002).

18.  Park, Cheolmin; McAlvin, John E.; Fraser, Cassandra L.; Thomas, Edwin L. “Iron Cluster and Microstructure Formation in Metal-Centered Star Block Copolymers: Amphiphilic Iron Tris(bipyridine)-Centered Polyoxazolines”, Chemistry of Materials 14(3), 1225-1230 (2002).

19.  Villar, Marcelo A.; Rueda, Daniel R.; Ania, Fernando; Thomas, Edwin L. “Study of oriented block copolymers films obtained by roll-casting”, Polymer, 43(19), 5139-5145 (2002).

20.  Shigeyuki Toki, Igors Sics, Shaofeng Ran, Lizui Liu and Benjamin S. Hsiao, “New Insights into Structural Developments in Natural Rubber during Uniaxial Deformation by In-Situ Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction”, Macromolecules, 35(17), 6578-6584 (2002).

21.  R. H. Somani, L. Yang, I. Sics, B. S. Hsiao, N. Pogodina, H. H. Winter, P. Agarwal, H. Fruitwala, A. Tsou, “Orientation-Induced Crystallization in Isotactic Polypropylene Melt by Step-Shear Deformation”, Macromolecular Symposia, 185, 105-117 (2002).

22.  Bruce X. Fu, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Gavin Chen, Jack Zhou, Ilya Koyfman, Dennis Jamiolkowski and Edward Dormier, “Structure and Property Studies of Biodegradable Poly(glycolide-co-lactide) Fiber during Processing and In Vitro Degradation”, Polymer, 43(20), 5527-5534 (2002).

23.  N. S. Murthy, Z. G. Wang, M. K. Akkapeddi and B. S. Hsiao, “Isothermal Crystallization Kinetics of Polyamide-6 Blends and Copolymers Using Simultaneous Small- and Wide-Angle X-ray Measurements”, Polymer, 43(18), 4905-4913 (2002).

24.  M. Gelfer, H. H. Song, L. Liu, C. Avila, L. Yang, M. Si, B. S. Hsiao, B. Chu, M. Rafailovich and A. Tsou, “Manipulating the Microstructure and Rheology in Polymer-Organoclay Composites”, Polymer Engineering and Science, 42(9), 1841-1852 (2002).

25.  Wenhua Zhang, B. Fu, Y. Seo, E. Schrag, B. Hsiao, Patrick Mather,, Nan-Loh Yang, Dayi Xu, Harald Ade, Miriam Rafalovich and Jonathan Sokolov, "The Effect of Random Copolymer of Methyl Methacrylate with Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane in Compatibilization of Polystyrene and Poly(methyl methacrylate) Blend" Macromolecules, 35(21) 8029-8038 (2002).

26.  Rajesh H. Somani, Ling Yang, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Pawan Agarwal, Hitesh Fruitwala, Andy H. Tsou, “Shear-Induced Precursor Structures in Isotactic Polypropylene Melt by In-Situ Rheo-SAXS and –WAXD Studies”, Macromolecules, 35(24), 9096-9104 (2002).

27.  Shaofeng Ran, Dufei Fang, Xinhua Zong, Christian Burger, Benjamin Chu, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Kazuyuki Yabuki, Yoshihiko Teramoto and Philip M. Cunniff, “A Synchrotron WAXD Study on the Early Stages of Coagulation Process during PBO Fiber Spinning”, Macromolecules, 35(27), 9851-9853 (2002).

28.  Shaofeng Ran, Zhigang Wang, Christian Burger, Benjamin Chu and Benjamin S. Hsiao, “Mesophase as Precursor for Strain-Induced Crystallization in Amorphous Poly(ethylene terephthalate) Film”, Macromolecules, 35(27), 10102-10107 (2002).

29.  Lizhi Liu, Quan Wan, Tianbo Liu, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Benjamin Chu, “Salt-Induced Polymer Gelation and Formation of Nanocrystals in Polymer Salt Complexes”, Langmuir, 18(26), 10402-10406 (2002).

30.  Jaedong Cho, Stephen Baratian, Jangsoon Kim, Fengji Yeh, Benjamin S. Hsiao and James Runt, “Crystallization and Structure Formation of Poly(L-lactide-co-meso-lactide) Random Copolymers: A Time-Resolved Wide- and Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Study”, Polymer, 44(3), 711-717 (2002).

31.  Toki, Shigeyuki; Sics, Igors; Ran, Shaofeng; Liu, Lizhi; Hsiao, Benjamin S..  “Structural Developments in Natural and Synthetic Poly-isoprene Rubbers during Uniaxial Deformation by In-situ Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction.” Technical Papers - American Chemical Society, Rubber Division, 1488-1503 (2002).

32.  Dai, Patrick S.; Cebe, Peggy; Capel, Malcolm. “Thermal analysis and X-ray scattering study of metallocene isotactic polypropylene prepared by partial melting”, Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics, 40(15), 1644-1660 (2002). 

33.  Opdahl, Aric; Phillips, Roger A.; Somorjai, Gabor A. “Surface Segregation of Methyl Side Branches Monitored by Sum Frequency Generation (SFG) Vibrational Spectroscopy for a Series of Random Poly(ethylene-co-propylene) Copolymers” Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 106(20), 5212-5220 (2002).

34.  Opdahl, Aric; Phillips, Roger A.; Somorjai, Gabor A. “Effect of Bulk Miscibility on the Surface Composition of Polypropylene/Poly(ethylene-co-propylene) Blends”, Macromolecules, 35(11), 4387-4396 (2002). 

35.  Thanomkiat, Pakin; Supaphol, Pitt; Phillips, Roger A. “Influence of different molecular characteristics of syndiotactic polypropylene on equilibrium melting temperature and crystallization behavior”, Annual Technical Conference - Society of Plastics Engineers, 61st(Vol. 2), 1967-1970 (2003).

36.  Dean, Derrick; Abdalla, Mohamed O.; Ganguli, Sabyasachi; Jose, Moncy; Campbell, Sandi; Gillman, Jeffrey; Awad, Walid H.; Vaia, Richard. “High temperature thermoset nanocomposites” International SAMPE Symposium and Exhibition,  48 (Advancing Materials in the Global Economy - Applications, Emerging Markets and Evolving Technologies, Book 2), 2572-2584 (2003).

37.  Xu, S.; Offer, G.; Gu, J.; White, H. D.; Yu, L. C. “Temperature and Ligand Dependence of Conformation and Helical Order in Myosin Filaments [Erratum for Volume 42, Number 2, January 21, 2003, pages 390-401.]”  Biochemistry, 42(8), 2492 (2003).

38.  Xu, S.; Offer, G.; Gu, J.; White, H. D.; Yu, L. C “Temperature and Ligand Dependence of Conformation and Helical Order in Myosin Filaments” Biochemistry, 42(2), 390-401 (2003). 

39.  Dai, Patrick S.; Cebe, Peggy; Capel, Malcolm; Alamo, Rufina G.; Mandelkern, Leo. “In situ wide- and small-angle x-ray scattering study of melting kinetics of isotactic poly(propylene)”, Macromolecules, 36(11), 4042-4050 (2003). 

40.  Michael Y. Gelfer, Hyun H. Song, Lizhi Liu, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Benjamin Chu, Miriam Rafailovich, M. Si and Vladimir Zaitsev, “Effects of Organoclays on Morphology, Thermal and Rheological Properties in Polystyrene and Poly(methylmethacrylate) Blends”, J. Polym. Sci. Poly. Phys, 41, 44–54 (2003).

41.  Mavroudis, Anastasios; Avgeropoulos, Apostolos; Hadjichristidis, Nikos; Thomas, Edwin L.; Lohse, David J. “Synthesis and Morphological Behavior of Model Linear and Miktoarm Star Copolymers of 2-Methyl-1,3-Pentadiene and Styrene” Chemistry of Materials  ,  15(10),  1976-1983 (2003).

42.  Bruce X. Fu, Michael Y. Gelfer, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Shawn Phillips, Brent Viers, Rusty Blanski and Patrick Ruth, “Physical Gelation of Ethylene-Propylene Copolymer Melts Induced by Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane (POSS) Incorporation”, Polymer, 44 (5), 1499-1506 (2003).

43.  Carlos A. Avila-Orta, Francisco J. Medellin-Rodriguez, Zhigang Wang, D. Navarro-Rodriguez, Fengji Yeh and Benjamin S. Hsiao, “On the Nature of Multiple Melting in Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) and Cyclohexylene Dimethylene (PET/CT) Copolymer”, Polymer, 44(5), 1527–1535 (2003).

44.  Azzurri, F.; Flores, A.; Alfonso, G. C.; Sics, I.; Hsiao, B. S.; Balta Calleja, F. J. “Polymorphism of isotactic polybutene-1 as revealed by microindentation hardness. Part II: correlations to microstructure”, Polymer, 44(5), 1641-1645 (2003).

45.  Lizhi Liu, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Xuan Fu, Shaofeng Ran, Shigeyuki Toki, Benjamin Chu, Andy H. Tsou and Pawan Agarwal, ”Structure Changes during Mechanical Deformation of Ethylene Based Semi-Crystalline Ethylene-Propylene Copolymer, Part I: SAXS Study”, Macromolecules, 36(6), 1920-1929 (2003).

46.  Fengji Yeh, Benjamin S. Hsiao Byran B. Sauer, Samuel Michel, Heinz W. Siesler, “Structure Studies of a Polyurethaneurea Elastomer under Deformation”, Macromolecules, 36(6), 1940-1954 (2003).

47.  Francisco J. Medellin-Rodríguez, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Benjamin Chu and Bruce X. Fu, ”Uniaxial Deformation Of Nylon 6-Clay Nanocomposites By In-Situ Synchrotron X-Ray Measurements”, J. Macromol. Sci. Phys., 42(1) 201-214 (2003).

48.  Shaofeng Ran and Benjamin S. Hsiao, Pawan Agarwal and Manika Varma-Nair “Structure and Morphology Development during Deformation of Propylene Based Ethylene-Propylene Copolymer and Its Blends with Isotactic Polypropylene”, Polymer, 44, 2385-2392 (2003).

49.  Zhu, Lei; Huang, Ping; Chen, William Y.; Weng, Xin; Cheng, Stephen Z. D.; Ge, Qing; Quirk, Roderic P.; Senador, Tony; Shaw, Montgomery T.; Thomas, Edwin L.; Lotz, Bernard; Hsiao, Benjamin S.; Yeh, Fengji; Liu, Lizhi. “"Plastic Deformation" Mechanism and Phase Transformation in a Shear-Induced Metastable Hexagonally Perforated Layer Phase of a Polystyrene-b-poly(ethylene oxide) Diblock Copolymer.” Macromolecules, 36(9), 3180-3188 (2003).

50.  Bruce X. Fu, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Gavin Chen, Jack Zhou, Susan Lin, Jenny Yuan, Ilya Koyfman, Dennis D. Jamiolkowski, Edward Dormier, “A Study of Structure and Property Changes of Biodegradable Polyglycolide and Poly(glycolide-co-lactide) Fibers during Processing and In Vitro Degradation”, Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 21(2), 159-167 (2003).

51.  Shaofeng Ran, Dufei Fang, Shigeyuki Toki, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Benjamin Chu, “Combined Techniques of Raman Spectroscopy and Synchrotron X-ray for In-situ Studies of Polypropylene Fibers during Tensile Deformation”, Review of Scientific Instruments, 74(6), 3087-3092 (2003).

52.  Nogales, I. Sics, T. A. Ezquerra, Z. Denchev, F. J. Balta Calleja, B. S. Hsiao, “In-situ Simultaneous Small- and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering Study of Poly(ether ester) during Cold Drawing”, Macromolecules, 36(13),  4827-4832 (2003).

53.  Rajesh H. Somani, Ling Yang, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Roger Phillips and Hitesh Fruitwala, “Nature of Shear-Induced Primary Nuclei in Isotactic Polypropylene Melt”, J. Macro. Sci. Phys., B42(3 & 4),  515-531 (2003).

54.  Mariya, Shinzo; Murakami, Shozo; Noborisaka, Masatoshi; Poombradub, S.; Tosa, Shigeyuki; Hsiao, B. S..  “Elongation crystallization by natural rubber”, Kyoto Daigaku Nippon Kagaku Sen'i Kenkyusho Koenshu (written in Japanese) 60, 43-48, (2003).

55.  Shigeyuki Toki and Benjamin S. Hsiao, “On the Nature of Strain-Induced Structures in Natural and Synthetic Rubbers under Stretching”, Macromolecules, 36(16), 5915-5917 (2003).

56.  Xinhua Zong, Shaofeng Ran, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Benjamin Chu, “Control of Structure/Morphology and Property of Poly(glycolide-co-lactide) Nanofiber Membranes via Electrospinning and Post-treatments”, Polymer, 44(17), 4959-4967, (2003).

57.  Pawan K. Agarwal, Rajesh H. Somani, Weiqing Weng, Aspy Mehta, Ling Yang, Shaofeng Ran, Lizhi Liu, Benjamin S. Hsiao, “Shear-Induced Crystallization in Novel Long Chain Branched Polypropylene by in-situ Rheo-SAXS and –WAXD”, Macromolecules, 36(14),  5226-5235 (2003).

58.  Er-Qiang Chen, Alexander J. Jing, Xing Weng, Ping Huang, Seoung-Wook Lee, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Fengji Yeh, “In situ observation of low molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide) crystal melting, recrystallization” Polymer, 44(19), 6051-6058 (2003).

59.  Shigeyuki Toki, Igors Sics, Shaofeng Ran, Lizhi Liu and Benjamin S. Hsiao “Molecular Orientation and Structural Development in Vulcanized Polyisoprene Rubbers during Uniaxial Deformation by In-Situ Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction”, Polymer, 44(19), 6003-6011 (2003).

60.  Christian Burger, Shaofeng Ran, Dufei Fang, David Cookson, Kazuyuki Yabuki, Yoshihiko Teramoto, Philip M. Cunniff, P. James Viccaro, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Benjamin Chu, “Time-Resolved Structural Studies in Fiber Processing,” Macromol. Symp., 195, 297-302 (2003).

61.  Calhoun, Bret H.; Swanson, Jeremy; Behringer, Graham; Moore, Robert B. “Enhancement of poly (L-lactide) properties through nanocomposite formation”, Annual Technical Conference - Society of Plastics Engineers,  61st(Vol. 2),  1408-1412 (2003). 

62.  Wang, H.; Douglas, J. F.; Satija, S. K.; Composto, R. J.; Han, C. C. “Early-stage compositional segregation in polymer-blend films”, Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 67(6-1), 061801/1-061801/6 (2003). 

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