Publications
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Y. Chai, T. Salez, J. D. McGraw, M. Benzaquen, K. Dalnoki-Veress, E. Raphaël, and J. A. Forrest, A Direct Quantitative Measure of Surface Mobility in a Glassy Polymer, Science, 343 (6174), 994-999, 2014
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Y. Chai, A. Lukito, Y. Jiang, P. D. Ashby, T. P. Russell, Fine-tuning the packing density of nanoparticles through ionic strength, Nano Letters, 17 (10), 6453-6457, 2017
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Y. Chai, A. N. Raegen, S. Zhu, J. A. Forrest, Crystallization of low molecular weight atactic polystyrene, Soft Matter, 14 (33), 6883-6891, 2018
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Y. Chai, J. A. Forrest, Using Atomic Force Microscopy to probe crystallization in atactic polystyrenes, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 219 (3), 1700466, 2018
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P. Gu#, Y. Chai#, H. Hou, G. Xie, Y. Jiang, Q. Xu, F. Liu, P. D. Ashby, J. Lu, T. P. Russell, Stabilizing Liquids Using Interfacial Supramolecular Polymerization. Angew. Chemie. 131, 12240–12244, 2019.
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Y. Chai, T. Salez, J. A. Forrest, Using Mw dependence of surface dynamics of glassy polymers to probe the length scale of free surface mobility, Macromolecules 53 (3), 1084-1089, 2020
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Y. Chai, J. Hasnain, K. Bahl, D. L, P. Geissler, P. Y. Kim, Y. Jiang, P. Gu, S. Li, D. Lei, B. A. Helms, T. P. Russell, P. D. Ashby. Science Advances, 6(48) eabb8675, 2020
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T. P. Russell and Y. Chai, Putting the Squeeze on Polymers: A Perspective on Polymer Thin Films and Interfaces, Macromolecules, 50 (12), 4597–4609, 2017
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X. Liu, N. Kent, A. Ceballos, R. Streubel, Y. Jiang, Y. Chai, P. Y. Kim, J. Forth, F. Hellman, S. Shi, D. Wang, B. A. Helms, P. D. Ashby, P. Fischer, T. P. Russell, Reconfigurable ferromagnetic liquid droplets, Science, 365 (6450), 264-267, 2019
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G. Xie, J. Forth, Y. Chai, P. D. Ashby, B. A. Helms, T. P. Russell, Compartmentalized, All-Aqueous Flow-Through-Coordinated Reaction Systems, Chem, 2019
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W. Feng, Y. Chai, J. Forth, P. D. Ashby, T. P. Russell, B. A. Helms, Harnessing liquid-in-liquid printing and micropatterned substrates to fabricate 3-dimensional all-liquid fluidic devices, Nature Communications, 10 (1), 1095, 2019
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P. Y. Kim, Y. Gao, Y. Chai, P. D. Ashby, A. E. Ribbe, D. A. Hoagland, T. P. Russell, Assessing Pair Interaction Potentials of Nanoparticles on Liquid Interfaces, ACS Nano, 13 (3), 3075-3082, 2019
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Z. Zhang, Y. Jiang, C. Huang, Y. Chai, E. Goldfine, F. Liu, W. Feng, J. Forth, T. E. Williams, P. D. Ashby, T. P. Russell, B. A. Helms, Guiding kinetic trajectories between jammed and unjammed states in 2D colloidal nanocrystal-polymer assemblies with zwitterionic ligands, Science Advances, 4(8), eaap8045, 2018
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C. Huang, Y. Chai, Y. Jiang, J. Forth, P. D. Ashby, M. M. Arras, K. Hong, G. S. Smith, P. Yin, T. P. Russell, The Interfacial Assembly of Polyoxometalate Nanoparticle Surfactants, Nano Letters, 18(4), 2525-2529, 2018
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I. McKenzie, Y. Chai, D. L. Cortie, J. A. Forrest, D. Fujimoto, V. L. Karner, R. F. Kiefl, C. P. Levy, W. A. MacFarlane, R. M. McFadden, G. D. Morris, M. R. Pearson, S. Zhu, Direct measurements of the temperature, depth and processing dependence of phenyl ring dynamics in polystyrene thin films by β-detected NMR, Soft Matter, 14, 7324-7334, 2018
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R. Li, Y. Chai, Y. Jiang, P. D Ashby, A. Toor, T. P. Russell, Carboxylated Fullerene at the Oil/Water Interface, ACS applied materials & interfaces, 9 (39), 34389-34395, 2017
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S. Zhu, Y. Chai, J. A. Forrest, Evaporative purification to produce highly monodisperse polymers: Application to polystyrene for n= 3–13 and quantification of Tg from oligomer to polymer, Physical Review Materials, 1 (2), 025605, 2017
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F. -Y. Lin, W. S. R. Forrest, C. R. Daley, Y. Chai, J. A. Forrest, Measuring the solubility of solids in non-solvents: case of polystyrene in alkanes, European Physical Journal E, 39 (10), 99, 2016.
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F. -Y. Lin, C. Daley, J. Flannery, S. Zhang, Y. Chai, J. A. Forrest, Nanoporous polystyrene prepared via the selective removal of the low Mw component in polystyrene blends, Polymer Journal, 48, 983-990, 2016.
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D. Qi, C. R. Daley, Y. Chai, J. A. Forrest, Molecular weight dependence of near surface dynamical mechanical properties of polymers, Soft Matter, 9 (37), 8958-8964, 2013.