John M. Torkelson

Research.com Recognitions

• 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 1999 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For imaginative and successful applications of flourescence spectroscopy to polymer physics issues ranging from free volume to free radical polymerization

Overview

Best Publications

• The distribution of glass-transition temperatures in nanoscopically confined glass formers

  Christopher John Ellison;John M. Torkelson

  1398
  Citations

• Structural Relaxation of Polymer Glasses at Surfaces, Interfaces, and In Between

  Rodney D. Priestley;Christopher John Ellison;Linda J. Broadbelt;John M. Torkelson

  872
  Citations

• Spin coating of thin and ultrathin polymer films

  David B. Hall;Patrick Underhill;John M. Torkelson

  867
  Citations

• Model polymer nanocomposites provide an understanding of confinement effects in real nanocomposites.

  Perla Rittigstein;Rodney D. Priestley;Linda J. Broadbelt;John M. Torkelson

  798
  Citations

• Crumpled graphene nanosheets as highly effective barrier property enhancers.

  Owen C. Compton;Soyoung Kim;Cynthia Pierre;John M. Torkelson

  553
  Citations

• Polymer-nanoparticle interfacial interactions in polymer nanocomposites: Confinement effects on glass transition temperature and suppression of physical aging

  Perla Rittigstein;John M. Torkelson

  514
  Citations

• On measuring the distribution of local free volume in glassy polymers by photochromic and fluorescence techniques

  John G. Victor;John M. Torkelson

  466
  Citations

• Impacts of polystyrene molecular weight and modification to the repeat unit structure on the glass transition-nanoconfinement effect and the cooperativity length scale

  Christopher John Ellison;Manish K. Mundra;John M. Torkelson

  405
  Citations

• Polymer−Graphite Nanocomposites: Effective Dispersion and Major Property Enhancement via Solid-State Shear Pulverization

  Katsuyuki Wakabayashi;Cynthia Pierre;Dmitriy A. Dikin;Rodney S. Ruoff

  391
  Citations

• Vitrimers Designed Both To Strongly Suppress Creep and To Recover Original Cross-Link Density after Reprocessing: Quantitative Theory and Experiments

  Lingqiao Li;Xi Chen;Kailong Jin;John M. Torkelson

  386
  Citations

• Eliminating the Enhanced Mobility at the Free Surface of Polystyrene: Fluorescence Studies of the Glass Transition Temperature in Thin Bilayer Films of Immiscible Polymers

  Connie B. Roth;Katie L. McNerny;Wolter F. Jager;John M. Torkelson

  287
  Citations

• Reprocessable polyhydroxyurethane networks exhibiting full property recovery and concurrent associative and dissociative dynamic chemistry: Via transcarbamoylation and reversible cyclic carbonate aminolysis

  Xi Chen;Lingqiao Li;Kailong Jin;John M. Torkelson

  252
  Citations

• Confinement and processing effects on glass transition temperature and physical aging in ultrathin polymer films: novel fluorescence measurements.

  C.J. Ellison;S.D. Kim;D.B. Hall;J.M. Torkelson

  249
  Citations

• Uniquely Broad Glass Transition Temperatures of Gradient Copolymers Relative to Random and Block Copolymers Containing Repulsive Comonomers

  Jungki Kim;Michelle M. Mok;Robert W. Sandoval;Dong Jin Woo;Dong Jin Woo

  237
  Citations

• Orientation and second-harmonic generation in doped polystyrene and poly(methyl methacrylate) films

  Hilary L. Hampsch;Jian Yang;George K. Wong;John M. Torkelson

  236
  Citations

• Photocurable bioresorbable adhesives as functional interfaces between flexible bioelectronic devices and soft biological tissues.

  Quansan Yang;Tong Wei;Rose T. Yin;Mingzheng Wu

  222
  Citations

• Rotational reorientation dynamics of disperse red 1 in polystyrene: α ‐relaxation dynamics probed by second harmonic generation and dielectric relaxation

  Ali Dhinojwala;George K. Wong;John M. Torkelson

  219
  Citations

• Dopant Orientation Dynamics in Doped Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Amorphous Polymers. 1. Effects of Temperature Above and Below Tg in Corona-Poled Films

  Hilary L. Hampsch;Jian Yang;George K. Wong;John M. Torkelson

  213
  Citations

• Reprocessable Polymer Networks via Thiourethane Dynamic Chemistry: Recovery of Cross-link Density after Recycling and Proof-of-Principle Solvolysis Leading to Monomer Recovery

  Lingqiao Li;Xi Chen;John M. Torkelson

  200
  Citations

• Sensing the glass transition in thin and ultrathin polymer films via fluorescence probes and labels

  Christopher John Ellison;John M. Torkelson

  198
  Citations

• Dramatic reduction of the effect of nanoconfinement on the glass transition of polymer films via addition of small-molecule diluent

  Christopher John Ellison;Robert L. Ruszkowski;Nathaniel J. Fredin;John M. Torkelson

  191
  Citations

• The roles of phase separation mechanism and coarsening in the formation of poly(methyl methacrylate) asymmetric membranes

  Fu Jya Tsai;John M. Torkelson

  185
  Citations