Michael Rubinstein | Scholars@Duke

Michael Rubinstein
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

The research of the Rubinstein group is in the field of polymer theory and computer simulations. The unique properties of polymeric systems are due to the size, topology and interactions of the molecules they are made of. Our goal is to understand the properties of various polymeric systems and to design new systems with even more interesting and useful properties.

Our approach is based upon building and solving simple molecular models of different polymeric systems. The models we develop are simple enough to be solved either analytically or numerically, but contain the main features leading to unique properties of real polymers. Computer simulations of our models serve as an important bridge between analytical calculations and experiments.

Current Research Interests

Polymer theory and computer simulations

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Pratt School of Engineering 2018
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2018
Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018
Professor of Physics, Physics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018

Contact Information

3377 Fciemas Building, Box 90300, Durham, NC 27708
3377 Fciemas Building, Box 90300, Durham, NC 27708
michael.rubinstein@duke.edu (919) 660-5365
Rubinstein Lab

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Harvard University 1983
Duke Appointment History
- Adjunct Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Pratt School of Engineering 2017 - 2018
Recognition
In the News
- SEP 21, 2017
  
  Michael Rubinstein: A Collaborative Approach to Soft-Matter Engineering and Science
Research
Selected Grants
- Engineering Technologies to Determine Causal Relationships Between Chromatin Structure and Gene Regulation awarded by National Science Foundation 2018 - 2022
- Center for the Chemistry of Molecularly Optimized Networks awarded by National Science Foundation 2018 - 2021
- Development of Novel Mycolytic Therapies for Lung Disease, Project 1: Mechanism of action of mucolytics in improving mucus clearance in lung disease awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 2018 - 2019
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Button, B, Goodell, HP, Atieh, E, Chen, Y-C, Williams, R, Shenoy, S, Lackey, E, Shenkute, NT, Cai, L-H, Dennis, RG, Boucher, RC, and Rubinstein, M. "Roles of mucus adhesion and cohesion in cough clearance." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115, no. 49 (December 2018): 12501-12506. Full Text
  - Zhou, J, Wang, Y, Menard, LD, Panyukov, S, Rubinstein, M, and Ramsey, JM. "Enhanced nanochannel translocation and localization of genomic DNA molecules using three-dimensional nanofunnels." Nature Communications 8, no. 1 (December 2017). Full Text
  - Peters, BL, Pike, DQ, Rubinstein, M, and Grest, GS. "Polymers at Liquid/Vapor Interface." Acs Macro Letters 6, no. 11 (November 21, 2017): 1191-1195. Full Text
  - Wagner, CE, Turner, BS, Rubinstein, M, McKinley, GH, and Ribbeck, K. "A Rheological Study of the Association and Dynamics of MUC5AC Gels." Biomacromolecules 18, no. 11 (November 13, 2017): 3654-3664. Full Text
  - Simon, JR, Carroll, NJ, Rubinstein, M, Chilkoti, A, and López, GP. "Programming molecular self-assembly of intrinsically disordered proteins containing sequences of low complexity." Nature Chemistry 9, no. 6 (June 2017): 509-515. Full Text
  - Jacobson, DR, McIntosh, DB, Stevens, MJ, Rubinstein, M, and Saleh, OA. "Single-stranded nucleic acid elasticity arises from internal electrostatic tension." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, no. 20 (May 16, 2017): 5095-5100. Full Text
  - Gonzalez, MA, Simon, JR, Ghoorchian, A, Scholl, Z, Lin, S, Rubinstein, M, Marszalek, P, Chilkoti, A, López, GP, and Zhao, X. "Strong, Tough, Stretchable, and Self-Adhesive Hydrogels from Intrinsically Unstructured Proteins." Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) 29, no. 10 (March 2017). Full Text
  - Ge, T, Kalathi, JT, Halverson, JD, Grest, GS, and Rubinstein, M. "Nanoparticle Motion in Entangled Melts of Linear and Nonconcatenated Ring Polymers." Macromolecules 50, no. 4 (February 28, 2017): 1749-1754. Full Text
  - Baeza, GP, Dessi, C, Costanzo, S, Zhao, D, Gong, S, Alegria, A, Colby, RH, Rubinstein, M, Vlassopoulos, D, and Kumar, SK. "Network dynamics in nanofilled polymers." Nature Communications 7, no. 1 (December 2016). Full Text
  - Paturej, J, Sheiko, SS, Panyukov, S, and Rubinstein, M. "Molecular structure of bottlebrush polymers in melts." Science Advances 2, no. 11 (November 2016): e1601478-e1601478. Full Text
  - Pandiyarajan, CK, Rubinstein, M, and Genzer, J. "Surface-Anchored Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Orthogonal Gradient Networks." Macromolecules 49, no. 14 (July 26, 2016): 5076-5083. Full Text
  - Lebedeva, NV, Sanders, SN, Ina, M, Zhushma, AP, Olson, SD, Rubinstein, M, and Sheiko, SS. "Multicore expandable microbubbles: Controlling density and expansion temperature." Polymer 90 (May 2016): 45-52. Full Text
  - Leuty, GM, Tsige, M, Grest, GS, and Rubinstein, M. "Tension Amplification in Tethered Layers of Bottle-Brush Polymers." Macromolecules 49, no. 5 (March 8, 2016): 1950-1960. Full Text
  - Daniel, WFM, Burdyńska, J, Vatankhah-Varnoosfaderani, M, Matyjaszewski, K, Paturej, J, Rubinstein, M, Dobrynin, AV, and Sheiko, SS. "Solvent-free, supersoft and superelastic bottlebrush melts and networks." Nature Materials 15, no. 2 (February 2016): 183-189. Full Text
  - Ge, T, Panyukov, S, and Rubinstein, M. "Self-Similar Conformations and Dynamics in Entangled Melts and Solutions of Nonconcatenated Ring Polymers." Macromolecules 49, no. 2 (January 26, 2016): 708-722. Full Text
  - Li, Y, Sarıyer, OS, Ramachandran, A, Panyukov, S, Rubinstein, M, and Kumacheva, E. "Universal behavior of hydrogels confined to narrow capillaries." Scientific Reports 5, no. 1 (December 2015). Full Text
  - Bharti, B, Fameau, A-L, Rubinstein, M, and Velev, OD. "Nanocapillarity-mediated magnetic assembly of nanoparticles into ultraflexible filaments and reconfigurable networks." Nature Materials 14, no. 11 (November 2015): 1104-1109. Full Text
  - Cai, L-H, Kodger, TE, Guerra, RE, Pegoraro, AF, Rubinstein, M, and Weitz, DA. "Soft Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Elastomers from Architecture-Driven Entanglement Free Design." Advanced Materials 27, no. 35 (September 2015): 5132-5140. Full Text
  - Anderson, WH, Coakley, RD, Button, B, Henderson, AG, Zeman, KL, Alexis, NE, Peden, DB, Lazarowski, ER, Davis, CW, Bailey, S, Fuller, F, Almond, M, Qaqish, B, Bordonali, E, Rubinstein, M, Bennett, WD, Kesimer, M, and Boucher, RC. "The Relationship of Mucus Concentration (Hydration) to Mucus Osmotic Pressure and Transport in Chronic Bronchitis." American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 192, no. 2 (July 15, 2015): 182-190. Full Text
  - Hassouneh, W, Zhulina, EB, Chilkoti, A, and Rubinstein, M. "Elastin-like Polypeptide Diblock Copolymers Self-Assemble into Weak Micelles." Macromolecules 48, no. 12 (June 11, 2015): 4183-4195. Full Text
  - Ge, T, and Rubinstein, M. "Strong Selective Adsorption of Polymers." Macromolecules 48, no. 11 (June 9, 2015): 3788-3801. Full Text
  - Hegde, M, Samulski, ET, Rubinstein, M, and Dingemans, TJ. "The role of crystallinity in SWCNT–polyetherimide nanocomposites." Composites Science and Technology 110 (April 2015): 176-187. Full Text
  - Lang, M, Rubinstein, M, and Sommer, J-U. "Conformations of a Long Polymer in a Melt of Shorter Chains: Generalizations of the Flory Theorem." Acs Macro Letters 4, no. 2 (February 17, 2015): 177-181. Full Text
  - Cai, L-H, Panyukov, S, and Rubinstein, M. "Hopping Diffusion of Nanoparticles in Polymer Matrices." Macromolecules 48, no. 3 (February 10, 2015): 847-862. Full Text
  - Kalathi, JT, Kumar, SK, Rubinstein, M, and Grest, GS. "Rouse Mode Analysis of Chain Relaxation in Homopolymer Melts." Macromolecules 47, no. 19 (October 14, 2014): 6925-6931. Full Text
  - Zhulina, EB, and Rubinstein, M. "Lubrication by Polyelectrolyte Brushes." Macromolecules 47, no. 16 (August 26, 2014): 5825-5838. Full Text
  - Hegde, M, Lafont, U, Norder, B, Samulski, ET, Rubinstein, M, and Dingemans, TJ. "SWCNT induced crystallization in amorphous and semi-crystalline poly(etherimide)s: Morphology and thermo-mechanical properties." Polymer 55, no. 16 (August 2014): 3746-3757. Full Text
  - Hemp, ST, Smith, AE, Bunyard, WC, Rubinstein, MH, and Long, TE. "RAFT polymerization of temperature- and salt-responsive block copolymers as reversible hydrogels." Polymer 55, no. 10 (May 2014): 2325-2331. Full Text
  - Liu, K, Lukach, A, Sugikawa, K, Chung, S, Vickery, J, Therien-Aubin, H, Yang, B, Rubinstein, M, and Kumacheva, E. "Copolymerization of Metal Nanoparticles: A Route to Colloidal Plasmonic Copolymers." Angewandte Chemie International Edition 53, no. 10 (March 3, 2014): 2648-2653. Full Text
  - Klinkova, A, Therien-Aubin, H, Choueiri, RM, Rubinstein, M, and Kumacheva, E. "Colloidal analogs of molecular chain stoppers." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110, no. 47 (November 19, 2013): 18775-18779. Full Text
  - Pasquino, R, Vasilakopoulos, TC, Jeong, YC, Lee, H, Rogers, S, Sakellariou, G, Allgaier, J, Takano, A, Brás, AR, Chang, T, Gooßen, S, Pyckhout-Hintzen, W, Wischnewski, A, Hadjichristidis, N, Richter, D, Rubinstein, M, and Vlassopoulos, D. "Viscosity of Ring Polymer Melts." Acs Macro Letters 2, no. 10 (October 15, 2013): 874-878. Full Text
  - Abbaspourrad, A, Duncanson, WJ, Lebedeva, N, Kim, S-H, Zhushma, AP, Datta, SS, Dayton, PA, Sheiko, SS, Rubinstein, M, and Weitz, DA. "Microfluidic Fabrication of Stable Gas-Filled Microcapsules for Acoustic Contrast Enhancement." Langmuir 29, no. 40 (October 8, 2013): 12352-12357. Full Text
  - Stukalin, EB, Cai, L-H, Kumar, NA, Leibler, L, and Rubinstein, M. "Self-Healing of Unentangled Polymer Networks with Reversible Bonds." Macromolecules 46, no. 18 (September 24, 2013): 7525-7541. Full Text
  - Sheiko, SS, Zhou, J, Arnold, J, Neugebauer, D, Matyjaszewski, K, Tsitsilianis, C, Tsukruk, VV, Carrillo, J-MY, Dobrynin, AV, and Rubinstein, M. "Perfect mixing of immiscible macromolecules at fluid interfaces." Nature Materials 12, no. 8 (August 2013): 735-740. Full Text
  - Choueiri, RM, Klinkova, A, Thérien-Aubin, H, Rubinstein, M, and Kumacheva, E. "Structural Transitions in Nanoparticle Assemblies Governed by Competing Nanoscale Forces." Journal of the American Chemical Society 135, no. 28 (July 17, 2013): 10262-10265. Full Text
  - Hegde, M, Lafont, U, Norder, B, Picken, SJ, Samulski, ET, Rubinstein, M, and Dingemans, T. "SWCNT Induced Crystallization in an Amorphous All-Aromatic Poly(ether imide)." Macromolecules 46, no. 4 (February 26, 2013): 1492-1503. Full Text
  - Zhushma, A, Lebedeva, N, Sen, P, Rubinstein, M, Sheiko, SS, and Dayton, PA. "A system for acoustical and optical analysis of encapsulated microbubbles at ultrahigh hydrostatic pressures." Citation: Review of Scientific Instruments the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Review of Scientific Instruments 84 (2013). (Academic Article) Full Text
  - Button, B, Cai, L-H, Ehre, C, Kesimer, M, Hill, DB, Sheehan, JK, Boucher, RC, and Rubinstein, M. "A Periciliary Brush Promotes the Lung Health by Separating the Mucus Layer from Airway Epithelia." Science 337, no. 6097 (August 24, 2012): 937-941. Full Text
  - Rubinstein, M, and Papoian, GA. "Polyelectrolytes in biology and soft matter." Soft Matter 8, no. 36 (2012): 9265-9265. Full Text
  - Zhulina, EB, and Rubinstein, M. "Ionic strength dependence of polyelectrolyte brush thickness." Soft Matter 8, no. 36 (2012): 9376-9376. Full Text
  - Cai, L-H, Panyukov, S, and Rubinstein, M. "Mobility of Nonsticky Nanoparticles in Polymer Liquids." Macromolecules 44, no. 19 (October 11, 2011): 7853-7863. Full Text
  - Sheiko, SS, Panyukov, S, and Rubinstein, M. "Bond Tension in Tethered Macromolecules." Macromolecules 44, no. 11 (June 14, 2011): 4520-4529. Full Text
  - Zhuravlev, PI, Potoyan, DA, Rubinstein, M, and Papoian, GA. "Rigorous Calculation of Free Energy Difference Between Open and Closed States of Adenylate Kinase from Explicit Solvent Molecular Dynamics." Biophysical Journal 100, no. 3 (February 2011): 378a-378a. Full Text
  - Zhang, W, Lin, M, Winesett, A, Dhez, O, Kilcoyne, ALD, Ade, H, Rubinstein, M, Shafi, KVPM, Ulman, A, Gersappe, D, Tenne, R, Rafailovich, M, Sokolov, J, and Frisch, HL. "The use of functionalized nanoparticles as non-specific compatibilizers for polymer blends." Polymers for Advanced Technologies 22, no. 1 (January 2011): 65-71. Full Text
  - Dobrynin, AV, Carrillo, J-MY, and Rubinstein, M. "Chains Are More Flexible Under Tension." Macromolecules 43, no. 21 (November 9, 2010): 9181-9190. Full Text
  - Park, I, Shirvanyants, D, Nese, A, Matyjaszewski, K, Rubinstein, M, and Sheiko, SS. "Spontaneous and Specific Activation of Chemical Bonds in Macromolecular Fluids." Journal of the American Chemical Society 132, no. 35 (September 8, 2010): 12487-12491. Full Text
  - Zhuravlev, PI, Wu, S, Potoyan, DA, Rubinstein, M, and Papoian, GA. "Computing free energies of protein conformations from explicit solvent simulations." Methods 52, no. 1 (September 2010): 115-121. Full Text
  - Liu, K, Nie, Z, Zhao, N, Li, W, Rubinstein, M, and Kumacheva, E. "Step-Growth Polymerization of Inorganic Nanoparticles." Science 329, no. 5988 (July 9, 2010): 197-200. Full Text
  - Panyukov, S, Zhulina, EB, Sheiko, SS, Randall, GC, Brock, J, and Rubinstein, M. "Tension Amplification in Molecular Brushes in Solutions and on Substrates†." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 113, no. 12 (March 26, 2009): 3750-3768. Full Text
  - Hinczewski, M, Schlagberger, X, Rubinstein, M, Krichevsky, O, and Netz, RR. "End-Monomer Dynamics in Semiflexible Polymers." Macromolecules 42, no. 3 (February 10, 2009): 860-875. Full Text
  - Kapnistos, M, Lang, M, Vlassopoulos, D, Pyckhout-Hintzen, W, Richter, D, Cho, D, Chang, T, and Rubinstein, M. "Unexpected power-law stress relaxation of entangled ring polymers." Nature Materials 7, no. 12 (December 2008): 997-1002. Full Text
  - LaRue, I, Adam, M, Zhulina, EB, Rubinstein, M, Pitsikalis, M, Hadjichristidis, N, Ivanov, DA, Gearba, RI, Anokhin, DV, and Sheiko, SS. "Effect of the Soluble Block Size on Spherical Diblock Copolymer Micelles." Macromolecules 41, no. 17 (September 9, 2008): 6555-6563. Full Text
  - Nie, Z, Fava, D, Rubinstein, M, and Kumacheva, E. "“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 130, no. 11 (March 2008): 3683-3689. Full Text
  - Shirvanyants, D, Panyukov, S, Liao, Q, and Rubinstein, M. "Long-Range Correlations in a Polymer Chain Due to Its Connectivity." Macromolecules 41, no. 4 (February 2008): 1475-1485. Full Text
  - Shusharina, NP, and Rubinstein, M. "Concentration Regimes in Solutions of Polyelectrolyte Stars." Macromolecules 41, no. 1 (January 2008): 203-217. Full Text
  - Xu, H, Sun, FC, Shirvanyants, DG, Rubinstein, M, Shabratov, D, Beers, KL, Matyjaszewski, K, and Sheiko, SS. "Molecular Pressure Sensors." Advanced Materials 19, no. 19 (October 5, 2007): 2930-2934. Full Text
  - Liao, Q, Carrillo, J-MY, Dobrynin, AV, and Rubinstein, M. "Rouse Dynamics of Polyelectrolyte Solutions: Molecular Dynamics Study." Macromolecules 40, no. 21 (October 2007): 7671-7679. Full Text
  - Sun, FC, Dobrynin, AV, Shirvanyants, D, Lee, H-I, Matyjaszewski, K, Rubinstein, GJ, Rubinstein, M, and Sheiko, SS. "Flory theorem for structurally asymmetric mixtures." Physical Review Letters 99, no. 13 (September 24, 2007): 137801-null. Full Text
  - Nie, Z, Fava, D, Kumacheva, E, Zou, S, Walker, GC, and Rubinstein, M. "Self-assembly of metal–polymer analogues of amphiphilic triblock copolymers." Nature Materials 6, no. 8 (August 2007): 609-614. Full Text
  - Matsui, H, Wagner, VE, Hill, DB, Schwab, UE, Rogers, TD, Button, B, Taylor, RM, Superfine, R, Rubinstein, M, Iglewski, BH, and Boucher, RC. "A physical linkage between cystic fibrosis airway surface dehydration and Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103, no. 48 (November 28, 2006): 18131-18136. Full Text
  - Wang, Z, and Rubinstein, M. "Regimes of Conformational Transitions of a Diblock Polyampholyte." Macromolecules 39, no. 17 (August 2006): 5897-5912. Full Text
  - Guo, J, André, P, Adam, M, Panyukov, S, Rubinstein, M, and DeSimone, JM. "Solution Properties of a Fluorinated Alkyl Methacrylate Polymer in Carbon Dioxide." Macromolecules 39, no. 9 (May 2006): 3427-3434. Full Text
  - Liao, Q, Dobrynin, AV, and Rubinstein, M. "Counterion-Correlation-Induced Attraction and Necklace Formation in Polyelectrolyte Solutions: Theory and Simulations." Macromolecules 39, no. 5 (March 2006): 1920-1938. Full Text
  - Sheiko, SS, Sun, FC, Randall, A, Shirvanyants, D, Rubinstein, M, Lee, H-I, and Matyjaszewski, K. "Adsorption-induced scission of carbon–carbon bonds." Nature 440, no. 7081 (March 2006): 191-194. Full Text
  - LaRue, I, Adam, M, Pitsikalis, M, Hadjichristidis, N, Rubinstein, M, and Sheiko, SS. "Reversible Morphological Transitions of Polystyrene-b-polyisoprene Micelles." Macromolecules 39, no. 1 (January 2006): 309-314. Full Text
  - Xu, H, Sheiko, SS, Shirvanyants, D, Rubinstein, M, Beers, KL, and Matyjaszewski, K. "Flow-Enhanced Epitaxial Ordering of Brush-Like Macromolecules on Graphite." Langmuir 22, no. 3 (January 2006): 1254-1259. Full Text
  - DOBRYNIN, A, and RUBINSTEIN, M. "Theory of polyelectrolytes in solutions and at surfaces." Progress in Polymer Science 30, no. 11 (November 2005): 1049-1118. Full Text
  - Shusharina, NP, Zhulina, EB, Dobrynin, AV, and Rubinstein, M. "Scaling Theory of Diblock Polyampholyte Solutions." Macromolecules 38, no. 21 (October 2005): 8870-8881. Full Text
  - Zhulina, EB, Adam, M, LaRue, I, Sheiko, SS, and Rubinstein, M. "Diblock Copolymer Micelles in a Dilute Solution." Macromolecules 38, no. 12 (June 2005): 5330-5351. Full Text
  - Panyukov, S, and Rubinstein, M. "Explanation of Anomalous Scaling of Swollen Entangled Chains." Macromolecules 38, no. 8 (April 2005): 3511-3514. Full Text
  - André, P, Folk, SL, Adam, M, Rubinstein, M, and DeSimone, JM. "Light Scattering Study of Polydimethyl Siloxane in Liquid and Supercritical Carbon Dioxide†." The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 108, no. 45 (November 2004): 9901-9907. Full Text
  - Dobrynin, AV, Colby, RH, and Rubinstein, M. "Polyampholytes." Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics 42, no. 19 (October 1, 2004): 3513-3538. Full Text
  - LaRue, I, Adam, M, da Silva, M, Sheiko, SS, and Rubinstein, M. "Wormlike Micelles of Block Copolymers: Measuring the Linear Density by AFM and Light Scattering." Macromolecules 37, no. 13 (June 2004): 5002-5005. Full Text
  - Granick, S, and Rubinstein, M. "Polymers: A Multitude of Macromolecules”." Nature Materials 3 (2004): 586-587. (Academic Article)
  - Graham, RS, Likhtman, AE, McLeish, TCB, and Milner, ST. "Microscopic theory of linear, entangled polymer chains under rapid deformation including chain stretch and convective constraint release." Journal of Rheology 47, no. 5 (September 2003): 1171-1200. Full Text
  - Dobrynin, AV, and Rubinstein, M. "Effect of Short-Range Interactions on Polyelectrolyte Adsorption at Charged Surfaces†." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 107, no. 32 (August 2003): 8260-8269. Full Text
  - Liao, Q, Dobrynin, AV, and Rubinstein, M. "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Polyelectrolyte Solutions: Osmotic Coefficient and Counterion Condensation." Macromolecules 36, no. 9 (May 2003): 3399-3410. Full Text
  - Liao, Q, Dobrynin, AV, and Rubinstein, M. "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Polyelectrolyte Solutions: Nonuniform Stretching of Chains and Scaling Behavior." Macromolecules 36, no. 9 (May 2003): 3386-3398. Full Text
  - Withers, IM, Dobrynin, AV, Berkowitz, ML, and Rubinstein, M. "Monte Carlo simulation of homopolymer chains. I. Second virial coefficient Microscopic theory of the dynamics of polymeric liquids: General formulation of a mode–mode-coupling approach Polymer reference interaction site model theory: New molecular closures for phase separating fluids and alloys Monte Carlo simulation of homopolymer chains. I. Second virial coefficient." The Journal of Chemical Physics Journal of Chemical Physics the Journal of Chemical Physics Ii the Journal of Chemical Physics the Journal of Chemical Physics the Journal of Chemical Physics Journal of Chemical Physics 118 (2003): 1067-134105. (Academic Article) Full Text
  - McAllister, K, Sazani, P, Adam, M, Cho, MJ, Rubinstein, M, Samulski, RJ, and DeSimone, JM. "Polymeric Nanogels Produced via Inverse Microemulsion Polymerization as Potential Gene and Antisense Delivery Agents." Journal of the American Chemical Society 124, no. 51 (December 2002): 15198-15207. Full Text
  - Rubinstein, M, and Panyukov, S. "Elasticity of Polymer Networks." Macromolecules 35, no. 17 (August 2002): 6670-6686. Full Text
  - Semenov, AN, and Rubinstein, M. "Dynamics of Entangled Associating Polymers with Large Aggregates." Macromolecules 35, no. 12 (June 2002): 4821-4837. Full Text
  - Dobrynin, AV, and Rubinstein, M. "Adsorption of Hydrophobic Polyelectrolytes at Oppositely Charged Surfaces." Macromolecules 35, no. 7 (March 2002): 2754-2768. Full Text
  - Zhulina, EB, Dobrynin, AV, and Rubinstein, M. "Adsorption Isotherms of Polyampholytes at Charged Spherical Particles†." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 105, no. 37 (September 2001): 8917-8930. Full Text
  - Dobrynin, AV, Deshkovski, A, and Rubinstein, M. "Adsorption of Polyelectrolytes at Oppositely Charged Surfaces." Macromolecules 34, no. 10 (May 2001): 3421-3436. Full Text
  - Zhulina, E, Dobrynin, AV, and Rubinstein, M. "Adsorption of a polyampholyte on a charged spherical particle." The European Physical Journal E 5, no. 1 (May 2001): 41-49. Full Text
  - Dobrynin, AV, and Rubinstein, M. "Counterion Condensation and Phase Separation in Solutions of Hydrophobic Polyelectrolytes." Macromolecules 34, no. 6 (March 2001): 1964-1972. Full Text
  - Rubinstein, M, and Semenov, AN. "Dynamics of Entangled Solutions of Associating Polymers." Macromolecules 34, no. 4 (February 2001): 1058-1068. Full Text
  - Dobrynin, AV, Zhulina, EB, and Rubinstein, M. "Structure of Adsorbed Polyampholyte Layers at Charged Objects." Macromolecules 34, no. 3 (January 2001): 627-639. Full Text
  - Zhulina, E, Dobrynin, AV, and Rubinstein, M. "Adsorption of a polyampholyte on a charged spherical particle." European Physical Journal E (2001). (Academic Article) Full Text
  - Dobrynin, AV, and Rubinstein, M. "Hydrophobically Modified Polyelectrolytes in Dilute Salt-Free Solutions." Macromolecules 33, no. 21 (October 2000): 8097-8105. Full Text
  - Léonardi, F, Majesté, J-C, Allal, A, and Marin, G. "Rheological models based on the double reptation mixing rule: The effects of a polydisperse environment." Journal of Rheology 44, no. 4 (July 2000): 675-692. Full Text
  - Dobrynin, AV, Deshkovski, A, and Rubinstein, M. "Adsorption of Polyelectrolytes at an Oppositely Charged Surface." (2000). (Academic Article)
  - Dobrynin, AV, Obukhov, SP, and Rubinstein, M. "Long-Range Multichain Adsorption of Polyampholytes on a Charged Surface." Macromolecules 32, no. 17 (August 1999): 5689-5700. Full Text
  - Dobrynin, AV, and Rubinstein, M. "Hydrophobic Polyelectrolytes." Macromolecules 32, no. 3 (February 1999): 915-922. Full Text
  - Buhler, E, Dobrynin, AV, DeSimone, JM, and Rubinstein, M. "Light-Scattering Study of Diblock Copolymers in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide: CO2Density-Induced Micellization Transition." Macromolecules 31, no. 21 (October 1998): 7347-7355. Full Text
  - Rubinstein, M, and Semenov, AN. "Thermoreversible Gelation in Solutions of Associating Polymers. 2. Linear Dynamics." Macromolecules 31, no. 4 (February 1998): 1386-1397. Full Text
  - Semenov, AN, and Rubinstein, M. "Thermoreversible Gelation in Solutions of Associative Polymers. 1. Statics." Macromolecules 31, no. 4 (February 1998): 1373-1385. Full Text
  - Long, D, Dobrynin, AV, Rubinstein, M, and Ajdari, A. "Electrophoresis of polyampholytes." The Journal of Chemical Physics 108, no. 3 (January 15, 1998): 1234-1244. Full Text
  - Semenov, AN, and Rubinstein, M. "Dynamics of strongly entangled polymer systems: activated reptation." The European Physical Journal B 1, no. 1 (January 1998): 87-94. Full Text
  - Cooper, AI, Londono, JD, Wignall, G, McClain, JB, Samulski, ET, Lin, JS, Dobrynin, A, Rubinstein, M, Burke, ALC, Fréchet, JMJ, and DeSimone, JM. "Extraction of a hydrophilic compound from water into liquid CO2 using dendritic surfactants." Nature 389, no. 6649 (September 1997): 368-371. Full Text
  - Bowman, WA, Rubinstein, M, and Tan, JS. "Polyelectrolyte−Gelatin Complexation: Light-Scattering Study." Macromolecules 30, no. 11 (June 1997): 3262-3270. Full Text
  - Obukhov, S, Kobzev, D, Perchak, D, and Rubinstein, M. "Topologically Induced Glass Transition in Freely Rotating Rods." Journal De Physique I 7, no. 4 (April 1997): 563-568. Full Text
  - Rubinstein, M, and Dobrynin, AV. "Solutions of Associative Polymers Associative Polymers View project Wetting and Adhesion in Soft Matter View project." (1997). (Academic Article)
  - Boris, D, and Rubinstein, M. "A Self-Consistent Mean Field Model of a Starburst Dendrimer: Dense Core vs Dense Shell." Macromolecules 29, no. 22 (January 1996): 7251-7260. Full Text
  - Dobrynin, AV, Rubinstein, M, and Obukhov, SP. "Cascade of Transitions of Polyelectrolytes in Poor Solvents." Macromolecules 29, no. 8 (January 1996): 2974-2979. Full Text
  - Lee, N, Obukhov, S, and Rubinstein, M. "Deterministic model of DNA gel electrophoresis Deterministic model of DNA gel electrophoresis in strong electric fields." Electrophoresis 17 (1996): 1011-1017. (Academic Article)
  - Panyukov, S, and Rubinstein, M. "Stress-Induced Ordering in Microphase-Separated Multicomponent Networks." Macromolecules 29, no. 25 (January 1996): 8220-8230. Full Text
  - Rubinstein, M, Colby, RH, Dobrynin, AV, and Joanny, J-F. "Elastic Modulus and Equilibrium Swelling of Polyelectrolyte Gels." Macromolecules 29, no. 1 (January 1996): 398-406. Full Text
  - Dobrynin, AV, Colby, RH, and Rubinstein, M. "Scaling Theory of Polyelectrolyte Solutions." Macromolecules 28 (1995): 1859-1871. (Academic Article)
  - Dobrynin, AV, and Rubinstein, M. "Flory Theory of a Polyampholyte Chain." Phys. Ii (France) 5 (1995): 677-677. (Academic Article)
  - Turner, MS, Rubinstein, M, and Marques, CM. "Surface-Induced Lamellar Ordering in a Hexagonal Phase of Diblock Copolymers." Macromolecules 27, no. 18 (August 1994): 4986-4992. Full Text
  - Joanny, J-F, Johner, A, and Rubinstein, M. "Loop statistics in adsorbed polymer solutions." Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 86 (July 1994): 133-136. Full Text
  - Obukhov, SP, Rubinstein, M, and Colby, RH. "Network Modulus and Superelasticity." Macromolecules 27, no. 12 (June 1994): 3191-3198. Full Text
  - Adjari, A, Brochard-Wyart, F, de Gennes, P-G, Leibler, L, Viovy, J-L, and Rubinstein, M. "Slippage of an entangled polymer melt on a grafted surface." Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications 204, no. 1-4 (March 1994): 17-39. Full Text
  - Brochard-Wyart, F, Ajdari, A, Leibler, L, Rubinstein, M, and Louis ViovyW, J. "Dynamics of Stars and Linear Chains Dissolved in a Polymer Melt." Macromolecules 27 (1994): 803-808. (Academic Article)
  - Colby, R, Rubinstein, M, Daoud, M, and Daoud Hydrodynamics, M. "Hydrodynamics of polymer solutions via two-parameter scaling." Journal De Physique Ii, Edp Sciences 4 (1994): 1299-1310. (Academic Article) Full Text
  - Rubinstein, M, and Colby, RH. "Elastic Modulus and Equilibrium Swelling of Near-Critical Gels." Macromolecules 27 (1994): 3184-3190. (Academic Article)
  - Colby, RH, Gillmor, JR, and Rubinstein, M. "Dynamics of near-critical polymer gels." Physical Review E 48, no. 5 (November 1993): 3712-3716. Full Text
  - Ichael Rubinstein, M, and Obukhov, SP. "Memory Effects in Entangled Polymer Melts." 71 (1993). (Academic Article)
  - Johner, A, Joanny, J-F, and Rubinstein, M. "Chain Statistics in Adsorbed Polymer Solutions." Europhysics 22 (1993): 591-596. (Academic Article)
  - Leibler, L, Rubinstein, M, Colby, R, and Colby, RH. "Dynamics of telechelic ionomers. Can polymers diffuse large distances without relaxing stress ?." J. Phyi. /I H Ancr 3 (1993): 1581-1590. (Academic Article) Full Text
  - Obukhov, S, and Rubinstein, M. "Scaling of megabase DNA undergoing gel electrophoresis." Journal De Physique Ii, Edp Sciences 3 (1993). (Academic Article) Full Text
  - Rubinstein, M, Ajdari, A, Leibler, L, Brochard-Wyart, F, and Gennes, PGD. "Slippage between a rubber and a grafted solid." C. R. Acad. Sci. (Paris) 316, Ser. Ii, (1993): 317-320. (Academic Article)
  - Rubinstein, M, and Obukhov, SP. "Power-Law-Like Stress Relaxation of Block Copolymers: Disentanglement Regimes." Macromolecules 26 (1993): 1740-1750. (Academic Article)
  - Witten, T, Rubinstein, M, and Colby, R. "Reinforcement of rubber by fractal aggregates." Journal De Physique Ii Edp Sciences 3 (1993): 367-383. (Academic Article) Full Text
  - Colby, RH, Rubinstein, M, Gillmor, JR, and Mourey, TH. "Scaling properties of branched polyesters. 2. Static scaling above the gel point." Macromolecules 25, no. 26 (December 1992): 7180-7187. Full Text
  - Rubinstein, M, Ajdari, A, Bastide, J, and Leibler, L. "Comments on fluctuations of cross-links in gels." Makromolekulare Chemie. Macromolecular Symposia 62, no. 1 (September 1992): 61-73. Full Text
  - Mourey, TH, Turner, SR, Rubinstein, M, Frechet, JMJ, Hawker, CJ, and Wooley, KL. "Unique behavior of dendritic macromolecules: intrinsic viscosity of polyether dendrimers." Macromolecules 25, no. 9 (April 1992): 2401-2406. Full Text
  - Colby, RH, Rubinstein, M, and Viovy, JL. "Chain entanglement in polymer melts and solutions." Macromolecules 25, no. 2 (March 1992): 996-998. Full Text
  - Leibler, L, Rubinstein, M, and Colby, RH. "Dynamics of reversible networks." Macromolecules 24, no. 16 (August 1991): 4701-4707. Full Text
  - Viovy, JL, Rubinstein, M, and Colby, RH. "Constraint release in polymer melts: tube reorganization versus tube dilation." Macromolecules 24, no. 12 (June 1991): 3587-3596. Full Text
  - Obukhov, SP, and Rubinstein, M. "Reply to the Comment on "Topological Glass Transition in Entangled Flux State"." Phy. Rev. Lett. 66 (1991): 2279-2279. (Academic Article)
  - Obukhov, SP, and Rubinstein, M. "Universality of the Irreversibility Line." Physical Phenomena at High Magnetic Fields (1991). (Academic Article)
  - Obukhov, S, and Rubinstein, M. "Topological glass transition in entangled flux state." Physical Review Letters 65, no. 10 (September 1990): 1279-1282. Full Text
  - Cates, ME, McLeish, TCB, and Rubinstein, M. "’Living trees’: dynamics at a reversible classical gel point." J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 2 (1990): 749-754. (Academic Article)
  - Colby, RH, and Rubinstein, M. "Two-Parameter Scaling for Polymers in Solvents." Macromolecules 23 (1990): 2753-2757. (Academic Article)
  - Rubinstein, M, Zurek, S, Mcleish, TCB, and Ball, RC. "Relaxation of entangled polymers at the classical gel point." Journal De Physique 51 (1990): 757-775. (Academic Article) Full Text
  - Wang, XR, Shapir, Y, and Rubinstein, M. "Kinetic renormalization group approach to diffusion limited aggregation." Physics Letters A 138, no. 6-7 (July 1989): 274-278. Full Text
  - Wang, XR, Shapir, Y, and Rubinstein, M. "Improved kinetic renormalisation group approach to diffusion-limited aggregation." Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 22, no. 11 (June 7, 1989): L507-L512. Full Text
  - Patton, EV, Wesson, JA, Rubinstein, M, Wilson, JC, and Oppenheimer, LE. "Scaling Properties of Branched Polyesters." Macromolecules 22 (1989): 1946-1959. (Academic Article)
  - Rubinstein, M. "Repton Model of Entangled Polymers." New Trends in Physics and Physical Chemistry of Polymers (1989): 455-469. (Academic Article)
  - Rubinstein, M, and Colby, RH. "Self‐consistent theory of polydisperse entangled polymers: Linear viscoelasticity of binary blends." The Journal of Chemical Physics 89, no. 8 (October 15, 1988): 5291-5306. Full Text
  - Rubinstein, M, Helfand, E, and Pearson, DS. "Theory of polydispersity effects of polymer rheology: binary distribution of molecular weights." Macromolecules 20, no. 4 (July 1987): 822-829. Full Text
  - Azbel, MY, and Rubinstein, M. "One-dimensional random Ising ferromagnets and antiferromagnets." Physical Review B 28, no. 7 (October 1983): 3793-3798. Full Text
  - Rubinstein, M, and Azbel, MY. "Boundary resistance and "pseudolocalization" in one-dimensional periodic systems." Physical Review B 27, no. 10 (May 1983): 6484-6486. Full Text
  - Rubinstein, M, Shraiman, B, and Nelson, DR. "Two-Dimensional XY Magnets with Random Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interactions." Phys. Rev. B 27 (1983): 1800-1811. (Academic Article)
  - Nelson, DR, Rubinstein, M, and Spaepen, F. "Order in two-dimensional binary random arrays." Philosophical Magazine A 46, no. 1 (July 1982): 105-126. Full Text
  - Rubinstein, M, and Nelson, DR. "Order and Deterministic Chaos in Hard Disk Arrays." Phys. Rev. B 26 (1982): 6254-6275. (Academic Article)
  - Manning, GS. "Limiting Laws and Counterion Condensation in Polyelectrolyte Solutions I. Colligative Properties." The Journal of Chemical Physics 51, no. 3 (August 1969): 924-933. Full Text
  - Azbel, MY, and Rubinstein, M. "Resistance and phase diagram of quasiperiodic systems(Published online)." Physical Review B 27, no. 10: 6530-6533. Full Text
  - Azbel, MY, and Rubinstein, M. "Phase Correlations in One-Dimensional Disordered Systems(Published online)." Physical Review Letters 51, no. 9: 836-839. Full Text
  - Choueiri, RM, Galati, E, Thérien-Aubin, H, Klinkova, A, Larin, EM, Querejeta-Fernández, A, Han, L, Xin, HL, Gang, O, Zhulina, EB, Rubinstein, M, and Kumacheva, E. "Surface patterning of nanoparticles with polymer patches(Published online)." Nature 538, no. 7623: 79-83. Full Text
  - Deshkovski, A, Obukhov, S, and Rubinstein, M. "Counterion Phase Transitions in Dilute Polyelectrolyte Solutions(Published online)." Physical Review Letters 86, no. 11: 2341-2344. Full Text
  - Du, R, Grosberg, AY, Tanaka, T, and Rubinstein, M. "Unexpected Scenario of Glass Transition in Polymer Globules: An Exactly Enumerable Model(Published online)." Physical Review Letters 84, no. 11: 2417-2420. Full Text
  - Everaers, R, Grosberg, AY, Rubinstein, M, and Rosa, A. "Flory theory of randomly branched polymers(Published online)." Soft Matter 13, no. 6: 1223-1234. Full Text
  - Ge, T, Grest, GS, and Rubinstein, M. "Nanorheology of Entangled Polymer Melts(Published online)." Physical Review Letters 120, no. 5. Full Text
  - Kalathi, JT, Kumar, SK, Rubinstein, M, and Grest, GS. "Rouse mode analysis of chain relaxation in polymer nanocomposites(Published online)." Soft Matter 11, no. 20: 4123-4132. Full Text
  - Kharlampieva, E, Ankner, JF, Rubinstein, M, and Sukhishvili, SA. "pH-Induced Release of Polyanions from Multilayer Films(Published online)." Physical Review Letters 100, no. 12. Full Text
  - Liu, AJ, Grest, GS, Marchetti, MC, Grason, GM, Robbins, MO, Fredrickson, GH, Rubinstein, M, and Olvera de la Cruz, M. "Opportunities in theoretical and computational polymeric materials and soft matter(Published online)." Soft Matter 11, no. 12: 2326-2332. Full Text
  - Obukhov, SP, Rubinstein, M, and Duke, T. "Dynamics of a Ring Polymer in a Gel(Published online)." Physical Review Letters 73, no. 9: 1263-1266. Full Text
  - Panyukov, SV, Sheiko, SS, and Rubinstein, M. "Amplification of Tension in Branched Macromolecules(Published online)." Physical Review Letters 102, no. 14. Full Text
  - Rubinstein, M, Colby, RH, and Dobrynin, AV. "Dynamics of Semidilute Polyelectrolyte Solutions(Published online)." Physical Review Letters 73, no. 20: 2776-2779. Full Text
  - Rubinstein, M, Leibler, L, and Bastide, J. "Giant fluctuations of crosslink positions in gels(Published online)." Physical Review Letters 68, no. 3: 405-407. Full Text
  - Rubinstein, M, and Panyukov, S. "Nonaffine Deformation and Elasticity of Polymer Networks." . (Academic Article)
  - Rubinstein, M. "Dynamics of Ring Polymers in the Presence of Fixed Obstacles(Published online)." Physical Review Letters 57, no. 24: 3023-3026. Full Text
  - Rubinstein, M. "Discretized model of entangled-polymer dynamics(Published online)." Physical Review Letters 59, no. 17: 1946-1949. Full Text
  - Wang, XR, Shapir, Y, and Rubinstein, M. "Analysis of multiscaling structure in diffusion-limited aggregation: A kinetic renormalization-group approach(Published online)." Physical Review A 39, no. 11: 5974-5984. Full Text
  - Xu, H, Shirvanyants, D, Beers, K, Matyjaszewski, K, Rubinstein, M, and Sheiko, SS. "Molecular Motion in a Spreading Precursor Film(Published online)." Physical Review Letters 93, no. 20. Full Text
  - Xu, H, Shirvanyants, D, Beers, KL, Matyjaszewski, K, Dobrynin, AV, Rubinstein, M, and Sheiko, SS. "Molecular Visualization of Conformation-Triggered Flow Instability(Published online)." Physical Review Letters 94, no. 23. Full Text
  - Zheng, X, Rafailovich, MH, Sokolov, J, Strzhemechny, Y, Schwarz, SA, Sauer, BB, and Rubinstein, M. "Long-Range Effects on Polymer Diffusion Induced by a Bounding Interface(Published online)." Physical Review Letters 79, no. 2: 241-244. Full Text
  - Zheng, X, Sauer, BB, Van Alsten, JG, Schwarz, SA, Rafailovich, MH, Sokolov, J, and Rubinstein, M. "Reptation Dynamics of a Polymer Melt near an Attractive Solid Interface(Published online)." Physical Review Letters 74, no. 3: 407-410. Full Text
- Book Sections
  - Rubinstein, M. "Theoretical Challenges in Polymer Dynamics." In Theoretical Challenges in the Dynamics of Complex Fluids, edited by McLeish, T, 21-51.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
- Other Articles
  - Rubinstein, M, and Dobrynin, AV. "Associations leading to formation of reversible networks and gels." Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science 4, no. 1 (February 1999): 83-87. Full Text
- Conference Papers
  - Rubinstein, M. "Polymer physics-The ugly duckling story: Will polymer physics ever become a part of “proper” physics?." : Wiley, December 15, 2010. Full Text
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