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Scott Milner
Scott Milner
Joyce Chair and Professor of Chemical Engineering
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
120 Fenske Building
814-863-9355
stm9@psu.edu
http://fenske.che.psu.edu/faculty/milner/index.htm
Research Interests:
• Polymer dynamics (including stress relaxation in unlinked ring melts, simulating polymer motion in shear flow, polymer droplet spreading, and DNA elasticity).
• Glassy systems (including Tg shifts in polymer thin films, mobility in dense fluids, and force chains in jammed colloids).
• Ordering and crystallization (including rotator phases in alkanes, crystal nucleation in polyethylene, and flow-induced crystallization).
• Polymer entanglement (including the topological origin of the tube, noninvasive methods to "see" the tube in simulations, and response of the tube to interfaces and strain).
Journal Articles and Publications:
• [117] M. P. Howard and S. T. Milner, "Numerical simulations for Rouse model in flow." Phys. Rev. E 84:051804, 2011.
• [116] W. Bisbee, J. Qin, and S. T. Milner. Finding the tube with isoconfigurational averaging. Macromolecules 44:8972—8980, 2011.
• [115] J. Qin and S. T. Milner. Counting polymer knots to find the entanglement length. Soft Matter 7:10676—10693, 2011.
• [114] S. T. Milner. Polymer crystal-melt interfaces and nucleation in polyethylene. Soft Matter, 7:2909—2917, 2011.
• [113] S. T. Milner and N. Wentzel. Twist solitons in ordered phases of n-alkanes. Soft Matter, 7:7477, 2011.
• [112] N. Wentzel and S. T. Milner. Simulation of multiple ordered phases in C23 n-alkane. Journal of Chemical Physics, 134:224504, 2011.
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