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18823
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2001 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For outstanding contributions to the theory of polymers, biopolymers, colloids, and complex fluids
  • 1975 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1964 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • 1958 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Philip Pincus is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research spans several areas within Physics and Astronomy, focusing on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist has contributed to multiple topics including:

  • Electrostatics and Colloid Interactions
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies
  • Quantum, Superfluid, Helium Dynamics
  • Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates
  • Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research

Recent papers authored by Philip Pincus include:

  • Scaling perspectives of underscreening in concentrated electrolyte solutions, 2023, Soft Matter
  • Flexible, charged biopolymers in monovalent and mixed-valence salt: Regimes of anomalous electrostatic stiffening and of salt insensitivity, 2021, Physical review. E
  • Scaling Perspectives of Underscreening in Concentrated Electrolyte Solutions, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • BPS2025 - Controlling coacervation through tension in condensate model, 2025, Biophysical Journal
  • 60+ Years of Meandering in Condensed Matter Physics, 2025, Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Philip Pincus include:

  • S. A. Safran
  • Mark J. Stevens
  • Omar A. Saleh
  • Sarah Innes-Gold
  • David R. Jacobson

The main venues for publication include:

  • Soft Matter
  • Physical review. E
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

Philip Pincus has been recognized with several fellowships over the years:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1958
  • Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1964
  • Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1975
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 2001 - Citation for outstanding contributions to the theory of polymers, biopolymers, colloids, and complex fluids
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2011

Best Publications

  • Colloid stabilization with grafted polyelectrolytes

    Philip Pincus

  • Charge renormalization, osmotic pressure, and bulk modulus of colloidal crystals: Theory

    S. Alexander;S. Alexander;P. M. Chaikin;P. Grant;G. J. Morales

  • Remarks on polyelectrolyte conformation

    P.G. De Gennes;P. Pincus;R.M. Velasco;F. Brochard

  • Pair correlations in a ferromagnetic colloid

    P. G. de Gennes;P. A. Pincus

  • Excluded Volume Effects and Stretched Polymer Chains

    P. Pincus

  • DNA‐Inspired Electrostatics

    William M. Gelbart;Robijn F. Bruinsma;Philip A. Pincus;V. Adrian Parsegian

  • Dynamics of fluctuations and spinodal decomposition in polymer blends. II

    P. Pincus

  • Long-Range Forces in Heterogeneous Fluid Membranes

    M. Goulian;R. Bruinsma;R. Bruinsma;P. Pincus

  • Colloid stabilization by long grafted polymers

    T. A. Witten;P. A. Pincus

  • Theory of spontaneous vesicle formation in surfactant mixtures.

    S. A. Safran;P. Pincus;David Andelman

  • Nuclear relaxation in a nematic liquid crystal

    P Pincus

  • Dynamics of Semiflexible Polymers in Solution

    D. W. Schaefer;J. F. Joanny;P. Pincus

  • Membrane-induced interactions between inclusions

    N. Dan;P. Pincus;S. A. Safran

  • Counterion-Condensation-Induced Collapse of Highly Charged Polyelectrolytes

    H. Schiessel;P. Pincus

  • Stability and Phase Behavior of Mixed Surfactant Vesicles

    S. A. Safran;P. A. Pincus;David Andelman;F. C. MacKintosh

  • Stress relaxation in the lamellar copolymer mesophase

    T. A. Witten;L. Leibler;P. A. Pincus

  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Modes in Magnetic Material. I. Theory

    P. G. de Gennes;P. A. Pincus;F. Hartmann-Boutron;J. M. Winter

  • Lubrication forces between surfaces bearing polymer brushes

    Jacob Klein;Yoichiro Kamiyama;Hisae Yoshizawa;Jacob N. Israelachvili

  • Cylindrical microemulsions: a polymer-like phase ?

    S.A. Safran;L.A. Turkevich;P. Pincus

  • A theoretical basis for viscoelastic relaxation of elastomers in the long-time limit

    John G. Curro;Philip Pincus

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel A. Safran
Samuel A. Safran Weizmann Institute of Science
Matthew Tirrell
Matthew Tirrell University of Chicago
P. G. de Gennes
P. G. de Gennes Institute Curie
Jacob Klein
Jacob Klein Weizmann Institute of Science
David Andelman
David Andelman Tel Aviv University
Glenn H. Fredrickson
Glenn H. Fredrickson University of California, Santa Barbara
Paul Chaikin
Paul Chaikin New York University
Fred C. MacKintosh
Fred C. MacKintosh Rice University
Lewis J. Fetters
Lewis J. Fetters Cornell University
Cyrus R. Safinya
Cyrus R. Safinya University of California, Santa Barbara

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