Mechanics for Material Design

Buche MR, Silberstein MN, Grutzik SJ. On freely-jointed chain models with extensible links, Physical Review E, in press

Bosnjak N, Tepermeister M, Silberstein MN. Modeling coupled electrochemical and mechanical behavior of soft ionic materials and ionotronic devices, JMPS, in press

Tepermeister M, Bosnjak N, Dai J, Zhang X, Kielar S, Wang Z, Tian Z, Suntivich J, Silberstein MN. Soft Ionics: Governing Physics and State of Technologies, Frontiers in Physics, 2022, 10, 890845

Srivasta S, Kumar RS, Selva D, Silberstein MN. Examining the Impact of Asymmetry in Lattice-Based Mechanical Metamaterials. Mechanics of Materials, 2022, 172, 104386 code

Zhang X, Crisci R, Finlay JA, Cai H, Clare AS, Chen Z, Silberstein MN. Enabling Tunable Hydrophilicity of PDMS via Metal-ligand Coordinated Dynamic Networks, Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2022, 2200430

Buche MR, Silberstein MN. Chain breaking in the statistical mechanical constitutive theory of polymer networks, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2021, 156, 104593

Jayathilaka OB, Molley TG, Haung Y, Islam MS, Buche MR, Silberstein MN, Kruzic JJ, Kilian KA. Force-mediated molecule release from double network hydrogels, ChemComm, in press

Li S, Bai H, Liu Z, Zhang X, Huang C, Weisner LW, Silberstein MN, Shepherd RF Digital light processing of liquid crystal elastomers for self-sensing artificial muscles, Science Advances, 2021, 7 (30), eabg3677

Rosenbloom SI, Yang SJ, Tsakeredes NJ, Fors BP, Silberstein MN. Microstructural evolution of polyurea under hydrostatic pressure, Polymer, 2021, 227, 123845    Supporting Info

Raiter P, Vidavsky Y, Silberstein MN. Can Polyelectrolyte Mechanical Properties Be Directly Modulated By an Electric Field? A Molecular Dynamics Study, Adv Funct Matl, 2020, 31, p.2006969.      Supporting Info

Zhang X, Vidavsky Y, Aharonovich S,Yang SJ, Buche MR, Diesendruck CE, Silberstein MN. Bridging experiments and theory: isolating the effects of metal–ligand interactions on viscoelasticity of reversible polymer networks, Soft Matter, 2020, 16, p.8591-8601

Buche MR, Silberstein MN. Statistical mechanical constitutive theory of polymer networks: The inextricable links between distribution, behavior, and ensemble, Physical Review E, 2020, 102, p.012591

Lipinski BM, Morris LS, Silberstein MS, Coates GW. Isotactic Poly(propylene oxide): A Photodegradable Polymer with Strain Hardening Properties. JACS, 2020, 142, p.6800-6806.

Vidavsky Y, Buche MR, Sparrow ZM, Zhang X, Yang SJ, DiStasio RA, Silberstein MN. Tuning the Mechanical Properties of Metallopolymers via Ligand Interactions: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study, Macromolecules, 2020, 2020, 53, p.2021-2030. Supporting Information

Rosenbloom SI, Gentekos DT, Silberstein MN, Fors BP. Tailor-made thermoplastic elastomers: customizable materials via modulation of molecular weight distributions, Chemical Science, 2020,11, 1361-1367

Farajollahi S, Dennis PB, Crosby MG, Slocik JM, Pelton AT, Hampton CM, Drummy LF, Yang SJ, Silberstein MN, Gupta MK, Naik RR. Disulfide crosslinked hydrogels made from the Hydra stinging cell protein Minicollagen-1, Frontiers in Chemistry, 2019, 7: 950

Vidavsky Y, Yang SJ, Abel BA, Agami I, Diesendruck CE, Coates GW, Silberstein MN. Enabling Room Temperature Mechanochromic Activation in a Glassy Polymer: Synthesis and Characterization of Spiropyran Polycarbonate, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019.    Supporting Info.

Galant O, Bae S, Silberstein MN, Diesendruck CE. Highly Stretchable Polymers: Mechanical Properties Improvement by Balancing Intra- and Intermolecular Interactions, Advanced Functional Materials, 2019.     main codes    analysis tools

Chen N, Silberstein MN. A micromechanics-based damage model for non-woven fiber networks. IJSS. 2019, 160:18-31  codes

Bae S, Galant O, Diesendruck CE, Silberstein MN. The Effect of Intrachain Cross-Linking on the Thermomechanical Behavior of Bulk Polymers Assembled Solely from Single Chain Polymer Nanoparticles, Macromolecules, 2018, 51:7160-7168. Supporting Information.

Vidavsky Y, Bae S, Silberstein MN. Modulating Metallopolymer Mechanical Properties by Controlling Metal Ligand Crosslinking, Journal of Polymer Science Part C: Polymer Chemistry, 2018, 56:1117–1122.

Manivannan MS and Silberstein MN. Theoretical framework and design of mechanochemically augmented polymer composites, Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2018, 19:27-38. Codes

An D, Chiu A, Flanders J, Song W, Shou D, Lu Y, Grunnet LG, Winkel L, Ingvorsen C, Christophersen NC, Fels J, Sand FW, Yewel J, Ling Q, Pardo Y, Luo D, Silberstein MN, Fan J, Ma M. Designing a retrievable and scalable cell encapsulation device for potential treatment of type 1 diabetes, PNAS, 2018, 115:E262-E272.

Chen N, Silberstein MN. Determination of Bond Strengths in Non-woven Fabrics: A Combined Experimental and Computational Approach. Experimental Mechanics. 2017, 1-13.

Mac Murray BC, Futran CC, Lee J, O’Brien KW, Amirimoghadam A, Mosadegh B, Silberstein MN, Min JK, Shepherd RF. Compliant Buckled Foam Actuators and Application to Patient-Specific Direct Cardiac Compression Devices, Soft Robotics. 2018, 5:99-108.

Galant O, Bae S, Wang, F, Levy A, Silberstein MN, Diesendruck CE. Mechanical and Thermomechanical Characterization of Glassy Thermoplastics with Intrachain Cross-Links, Macromolecules, 2017. 50:6415–6420.

Bae S, Galant O, Diesendruck CE, Silberstein MN. Tailoring Single Chain Polymer Nanoparticle Thermo-Mechanical Behavior by Cross-link Density, Soft Matter, 2017, 13:2808-2816. Supporting Information. Cross-linking codes.

Chen N, Koker MKA, Uzun S, Silberstein MN. In-situ X-ray study of the deformation mechanisms of non-woven polypropylene, IJSS, 2016:97-98;200-208.

Lee J, Silberstein MN, Abdeen AA, Kim SY, Kilian KA. Mechanochemical Functionalization of Disulfide Linked Hydrogels, Mat Horizons, 2016:3;447-451 .

Van Meerbeek IM, Mac Murray BC, Kim JW, Robinson SS, Zou PX, Silberstein MN, Shepherd RF. Morphing Metal and Elastomer Bicontinuous Foams for Reversible Stiffness, Shape Memory, and Self-Healing Soft Machines, Adv Mat, 2016:28;2801-2806.

Sundaram M, Silberstein MN.Computational Investigation of Shear Driven Mechanophore Activation at Interfaces, EML, 2016:8;6-12  code

Kim JW, Jung Y, Coates GC, Silberstein MN. Mechano-Activation of Spiropyran Covalently Linked PMMA: Effect of Temperature, Strain Rate and Deformation Mode, Macromolecules, 2015:48;1335-1342.

Jones EJ, Silberstein MN, White SR, Sottos NR. In Situ Measurements of Strains in Composite Battery Electrodes During Electrochemical Cycling, Exp Mechanics, 2014:54;971-985.

Min KM, Silberstein MN, Aluru NR. Crosslinking PMMA: Molecular Dynamics Investigation of the Shear Response, J Polymer Science Part B:Polym Phys, 2014:52,444-449.

Silberstein MN, Cremar LD, Beiermann BA, Kramer SB, Martinez TD, White SR, Sottos NR. Modeling Mechanophore Activation within a Viscous Rubbery Network, JMPS, 2014:63;141-153.

Silberstein MN, Min K, Cremar LD,  Degen CM, Martinez TD, Aluru NR, White SR, Sottos NR. Modeling Mechanophore Activation within a Crosslinked Glassy Matrix, J Applied Phys 2013:114;023504 1-9.

Lee CK, Beiermann BA, Silberstein MN, Wang J, Moore JS, Sottos NR, Braun PV. Exploiting Force Sensitive Spiropyrans as Molecular Level Probes, Macromolecules 2013:46;3746-3752.

Liu DS, Ashcraft JN, Mannarino MM, Silberstein MN, Arugn AA, Rutledge GC, Boyce MC, Hammond PT. Spray Layer-By-Layer Electrospun Composite Proton Exchange Membranes, Adv Func Mat 2012: 10.1002/adfm.201202892.

Diesendruck CE, Steinberg BD, Sugai N, Silberstein MN, Sottos NR, White SR, Braun PV, Moore JS. Proton-Coupled Mechanochemical Transduction: A Mechanogenerated Acid, JACS 2012:134;12446-12449.

Silberstein MN, Pai CL, Rutledge GC, Boyce MC. Elastic-Plastic Behavior of Non-Woven Fibrous Mats, JMPS 2012:60;295-318.

Silberstein MN, Boyce MC. Hygro-Thermal Mechanical Behavior of Nafion During Constrained Swelling, J Pwr Sources 2011:196;3452-3460.

Silberstein MN, Pillai PV, Boyce MC. Biaxial Elastic-Viscoplastic Behavior of Nafion Membranes, Polymer 2011:52;529-539.

Silberstein MN, Boyce MC. Constitutive Modeling of the Rate, Temperature, and Hydration Dependent Deformation Response of Nafion to Monotonic and Cyclic Loading, J Pwr Sources 2010:195;5692-5706.