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  • 2008 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal contributions to the development and implementation of the selfconsistent field theory for blockcopolymer materials and polymeric brushes

Overview

Mark W. Matsen is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada and conducts research primarily in the field of Materials Science. Their work focuses on several subfields including Materials Chemistry, Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Condensed Matter Physics, Organic Chemistry, and Polymers and Plastics.

The research contributions of Mark W. Matsen cover multiple topics with an emphasis on Block Copolymer Self-Assembly, Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies, and Theoretical and Computational Physics. Additional areas include Material Dynamics and Properties, Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization, Machine Learning in Materials Science, and Surfactants and Colloidal Systems.

Frequent coauthors with whom Mark W. Matsen collaborates include James D. Willis, T. M. Beardsley, Russell K. W. Spencer, Bart Vorselaars, and Jaeup U. Kim.

Most publications by Mark W. Matsen appear in the following journals:

  • Macromolecules
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Polymers
  • Physical Review Materials

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Mark W. Matsen are:

  • "Field theoretic approach for block polymer melts: SCFT and FTS" (2020), The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • "Field-Theoretic Simulations for Block Copolymer Melts Using the Partial Saddle-Point Approximation" (2021), Polymers

Other relevant related works in the collection, though not authored by Matsen but reflecting the broader research landscape, include:

  • "Simple and Accurate Calibration of the Flory-Huggins Interaction Parameter" (2020), Macromolecules
  • "Instability of the Microemulsion Channel in Block Copolymer-Homopolymer Blends" (2020), Physical Review Letters
  • "Coexistence of Polymeric Microemulsion with Homopolymer-Rich Phases" (2021), Macromolecules

Mark W. Matsen received the honor of Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2008, recognized for contributions related to the development and implementation of self-consistent field theory applied to block copolymer materials and polymeric brushes.

Best Publications

  • Unifying Weak- and Strong-Segregation Block Copolymer Theories

    M. W. Matsen;F. S. Bates

  • Stable and unstable phases of a diblock copolymer melt

    M. W. Matsen;M. Schick

  • The standard Gaussian model for block copolymer melts

    M W Matsen

  • Predicting the Mesophases of Copolymer-Nanoparticle Composites

    Russell B. Thompson;Valeriy V. Ginzburg;Mark W. Matsen;Anna C. Balazs

  • Origins of Complex Self-Assembly in Block Copolymers

    M. W. Matsen;F. S. Bates

  • Block copolymer microstructures in the intermediate-segregation regime

    M. W. Matsen;M. W. Matsen;Frank S Bates

  • Phase Behavior of Block Copolymer/Homopolymer Blends

    M. W. Matsen

  • Thin films of block copolymer

    M. W. Matsen

  • Effect of Architecture on the Phase Behavior of AB-Type Block Copolymer Melts

    M. W. Matsen

  • Equilibrium behavior of symmetric ABA triblock copolymer melts

    Mark W. Matsen;R. B. Thompson

  • Block Copolymer-Directed Assembly of Nanoparticles: Forming Mesoscopically Ordered Hybrid Materials

    Russell B. Thompson;Valeriy V. Ginzburg;Mark W. Matsen;Anna C. Balazs

  • Stabilizing new morphologies by blending homopolymer with block copolymer.

    M. W. Matsen

  • Conformationally asymmetric block copolymers

    M. W. Matsen;F. S. Bates

  • Core-shell gyroid morphology in a poly(isoprene-block-styrene-block- dimethylsiloxane) triblock copolymer

    T. A. Shefelbine;M. E. Vigild;M. W. Matsen;D. A. Hajduk

  • Gyroid versus double-diamond in ABC triblock copolymer melts

    M. W. Matsen

  • Microphase Separation in Starblock Copolymer Melts

    M. W. Matsen;M. Schick

  • Bottlebrush Block Polymers: Quantitative Theory and Experiments.

    Samuel J. Dalsin;Thomas G. Rions-Maehren;Marissa D. Beam;Frank S. Bates

  • Liquid-crystalline behavior of rod-coil diblock copolymers

    M. W. Matsen;C. Barrett

  • Polydispersity-Induced Macrophase Separation in Diblock Copolymer Melts

    Mark W. Matsen

  • Fast and accurate SCFT calculations for periodic block-copolymer morphologies using the spectral method with Anderson mixing

    Mark William Matsen

  • Self-assembly of block copolymers

    Mark W Matsen;Michael Schick

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank S. Bates
Frank S. Bates University of Minnesota
Michael Schick
Michael Schick University of Washington
Colin Booth
Colin Booth University of Manchester
Ian W. Hamley
Ian W. Hamley University of Reading
Robert H. Grubbs
Robert H. Grubbs California Institute of Technology
Marc A. Hillmyer
Marc A. Hillmyer University of Minnesota
Anthony J. Ryan
Anthony J. Ryan University of Sheffield
Dean M. DeLongchamp
Dean M. DeLongchamp National Institute of Standards and Technology
An-Chang Shi
An-Chang Shi McMaster University
Wim Bras
Wim Bras Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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