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Michael Rubinstein

Michael Rubinstein

Aleksandar S. Vesic Distinguished Professor
Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
michael.rubinstein@duke.edu
Box 90300, Durham, NC 27708
3377 CIEMAS Building, Box 90300, Durham, NC 27708

Featured Works

Unexpected Stretching of Entangled Ring Macromolecules.

Journal article Physical review letters · May 2019 Featured Publication In the melt state at equilibrium, entangled nonconcatenated ring macromolecules adapt more compact conformations compared to their linear analogs and do not form an entanglement network. We show here that, when subjected to uniaxial stretching, they exhibi ... Full text Cite

Quantitative Adjustment to the Molecular Energy Parameter in the Lake-Thomas Theory of Polymer Fracture Energy

Journal article Macromolecules · April 9, 2019 Featured Publication We present a conceptual framework for adding molecular details of chain extension and force-coupled bond dissociation to the Lake-Thomas model of tear energy in rubbery crack propagation. Incorporating data reported from single-molecule force spectroscopy ... Full text Cite

Helicoidal Patterning of Nanorods with Polymer Ligands.

Journal article Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · March 2019 Featured Publication Chiral packing of ligands on the surface of nanoparticles (NPs) is of fundamental and practical importance, as it determines how NPs interact with each other and with the molecular world. Herein, for gold nanorods (NRs) capped with end-grafted nonchiral po ... Full text Cite