Jack F. Douglas

Research interests

Publications

• Quantitative relations between cooperative motion, emergent elasticity, and free volume in model glass-forming polymer materials

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1418654112

• Interfacial mobility scale determines the scale of collective motion and relaxation rate in polymer films

  Nature Communications · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5163

• β-Relaxation governs protein stability in sugar-glass matrices

  Soft Matter · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1039/c2sm06979b

• Modifying Fragility and Collective Motion in Polymer Melts with Nanoparticles

  Physical Review Letters · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.106.115702

• Current issues in research on structure–property relationships in polymer nanocomposites

  Polymer · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2010.04.074

• Anisotropic self-assembly of spherical polymer-grafted nanoparticles

  Nature Materials · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2404

• “Gel-like” Mechanical Reinforcement in Polymer Nanocomposite Melts

  Macromolecules · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ma902072d

• Interaction of Gold Nanoparticles with Common Human Blood Proteins

  ACS Nano · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1021/nn9011187

• The effect of nanoparticle shape on polymer‐nanocomposite rheology and tensile strength

  Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1002/polb.21176

• Growth and form of spherulites

  Physical Review E · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.72.011605

• Nanoparticle networks reduce the flammability of polymer nanocomposites

  Nature Materials · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1502

• A general mechanism of polycrystalline growth

  Nature Materials · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1190

• Flow-induced properties of nanotube-filled polymer materials

  Nature Materials · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1183

• Flammability properties of polymer nanocomposites with single-walled carbon nanotubes: effects of nanotube dispersion and concentration

  Polymer · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2004.10.087

• Thermal and flammability properties of polypropylene/carbon nanotube nanocomposites

  Polymer · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2004.03.088

• Origin of particle clustering in a simulated polymer nanocomposite and its impact on rheology

  The Journal of Chemical Physics · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1580099

• What Do We Learn from the Local Geometry of Glass-Forming Liquids?

  Physical Review Letters · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.89.125501

• The Critical Role of Solvent Evaporation on the Roughness of Spin-Cast Polymer Films

  Macromolecules · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ma001440d

• Model for the Viscosity of Particle Dispersions

  Journal of macromolecular science. Part C, Reviews in macromolecular chemistry and physics/Journal of macromolecular science. Reviews in macromolecular chemistry and physics · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1081/mc-100101428

• Phase-Separation-Induced Surface Patterns in Thin Polymer Blend Films

  Macromolecules · 1998 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ma970687g

• Stringlike Cooperative Motion in a Supercooled Liquid

  Physical Review Letters · 1998 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.80.2338

• Spinodal Dewetting of Thin Polymer Films

  Physical Review Letters · 1998 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.81.1251

• Aspects and applications of the random walk

  Journal of Statistical Physics · 1995 · https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02179402

• Geometrical percolation threshold of overlapping ellipsoids

  Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics · 1995 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.52.819

• Characterization of branching architecture through "universal" ratios of polymer solution properties

  Macromolecules · 1990 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ma00220a022

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