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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2015 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering contributions to the understanding of conjugated, polypeptoid, and ioncontaining polymers and copolymers
  • 2012 - John H. Dillon Medal, American Physical Society For fundamental and technological contributions to the field of polymer science and engineering, especially in the area of rod-coil block copolymers.
  • 2009 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • 2007 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Rachel A. Segalman is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research spans primarily within the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, encompassing 127 and 105 publications respectively. The subfields of study they have contributed to include Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Surfaces, Coatings and Films.

Their work focuses on various topics related to polymers and materials, particularly in areas involving conducting polymers and their applications, advanced battery materials and technologies, fuel cells and related materials, organic electronics and photovoltaics, polymer surface interaction studies, and advanced polymer synthesis and characterization.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Rachel A. Segalman include Craig J. Hawker, Raphaële J. Clément, Michael L. Chabinyc, Seamus D. Jones, and Glenn H. Fredrickson.

The researcher has published extensively in several scientific journals. The most frequent venues of publication are:

  • Macromolecules
  • ACS Macro Letters
  • Chemistry of Materials
  • Journal of Materials Research/Pratt's Guide to Venture Capital Sources
  • ACS Applied Polymer Materials

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Design of Polymeric Zwitterionic Solid Electrolytes with Superionic Lithium Transport" (2022, ACS Central Science)
  • "Where Biology and Traditional Polymers Meet: The Potential of Associating Sequence-Defined Polymers for Materials Science" (2021, JACS Au)
  • "The Role of Backbone Polarity on Aggregation and Conduction of Ions in Polymer Electrolytes" (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • "Dihexyl-Substituted Poly(3,4-Propylenedioxythiophene) as a Dual Ionic and Electronic Conductive Cathode Binder for Lithium-Ion Batteries" (2020, Chemistry of Materials)
  • "Chain Stiffness of Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymers in Solution" (2022, Macromolecules)

Rachel A. Segalman has received several awards recognizing their contributions, including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2015, awarded for pioneering contributions to the understanding of conjugated, polypeptoid, and ion-containing polymers and copolymers
  • John H. Dillon Medal, American Physical Society in 2012, for fundamental and technological contributions to polymer science and engineering, especially in rod-coil block copolymers
  • Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2009
  • Hellman Fellow in 2007

Best Publications

  • Patterning with block copolymer thin films

    Rachel A. Segalman

  • Organic thermoelectric materials for energy harvesting and temperature control

    Boris Russ;Anne Glaudell;Jeffrey J. Urban;Michael L. Chabinyc

  • Thermoelectricity in Molecular Junctions

    Pramod Reddy;Sung Yeon Jang;Sung Yeon Jang;Rachel A. Segalman;Rachel A. Segalman;Arun Majumdar;Arun Majumdar

  • Graphoepitaxy of Spherical Domain Block Copolymer Films

    R.A. Segalman;H. Yokoyama;E.J. Kramer

  • Controlling inelastic light scattering quantum pathways in graphene

    Chi-Fan Chen;Cheol-Hwan Park;Bryan W. Boudouris;Bryan W. Boudouris;Jason Horng

  • Water-processable polymer-nanocrystal hybrids for thermoelectrics.

    Kevin C. See;Joseph P. Feser;Cynthia E. Chen;Arun Majumdar;Arun Majumdar;Arun Majumdar

  • Block Copolymers for Organic Optoelectronics

    Rachel A. Segalman;Rachel A. Segalman;Bryan McCulloch;Saar Kirmayer;Jeffrey J. Urban

  • Self-assembly of rod–coil block copolymers

    Bradley D. Olsen;Bradley D. Olsen;Rachel A. Segalman;Rachel A. Segalman

  • Thermal Conductivity of High-Modulus Polymer Fibers

    Xiaojia Wang;Victor Ho;Rachel A. Segalman;David G. Cahill

  • Probing the chemistry of molecular heterojunctions using thermoelectricity.

    Kanhayalal Baheti;Jonathan A. Malen;Peter Doak;Pramod Reddy

  • Thermal Conductivity and Elastic Constants of PEDOT:PSS with High Electrical Conductivity

    Jun Liu;Xiaojia Wang;Dongyao Li;Nelson E. Coates

  • Enhanced thermopower in PbSe nanocrystal quantum dot superlattices.

    Robert Y. Wang;Joseph P. Feser;Jong Soo Lee;Dmitri V. Talapin

  • Identifying the length dependence of orbital alignment and contact coupling in molecular heterojunctions.

    Jonathan A. Malen;Peter Doak;Kanhayalal Baheti;T. Don Tilley

  • Effect of Interfacial Properties on Polymer–Nanocrystal Thermoelectric Transport

    Nelson E. Coates;Shannon K. Yee;Bryan McCulloch;Kevin C. See

  • Self-Assembly and Transport Limitations in Confined Nafion Films

    Miguel A. Modestino;Miguel A. Modestino;Devproshad K. Paul;Shudipto Dishari;Stephanie A. Petrina

  • Polymer Chain Shape of Poly(3-alkylthiophenes) in Solution Using Small-Angle Neutron Scattering

    Bryan McCulloch;Bryan McCulloch;Victor Ho;Megan Hoarfrost;Chris Stanley

  • Molecular solar thermal (MOST) energy storage and release system

    Kasper Moth-Poulsen;Dušan Ćoso;Karl Börjesson;Nikolai Vinokurov

  • Power Factor Enhancement in Solution‐Processed Organic n‐Type Thermoelectrics Through Molecular Design

    Boris Russ;Maxwell J. Robb;Fulvio G. Brunetti;P. Levi Miller

  • Room temperature thermal conductance of alkanedithiol self-assembled monolayers

    Robert Y. Wang;Rachel A. Segalman;Rachel A. Segalman;Arun Majumdar;Arun Majumdar

  • Thermoelectric power factor optimization in PEDOT:PSS tellurium nanowire hybrid composites

    Shannon K. Yee;Shannon K. Yee;Nelson E. Coates;Nelson E. Coates;Arun Majumdar;Jeffrey J. Urban

  • Ordering and Melting of Block Copolymer Spherical Domains in 2 and 3 Dimensions

    Rachel A. Segalman;Alexander Hexemer;Ryan C. Hayward;Edward J. Kramer

  • Controlling Inelastic Light Scattering Quantum Pathways in Graphene

    Jason Horng;Chi-Fan Chen;Cheol-Hwan Park;Bryan W. Boudouris

Frequent Co-Authors

Arun Majumdar
Arun Majumdar Stanford University
Jeffrey J. Urban
Jeffrey J. Urban Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Michael L. Chabinyc
Michael L. Chabinyc University of California, Santa Barbara
Ronald N. Zuckermann
Ronald N. Zuckermann Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Guillermo C. Bazan
Guillermo C. Bazan National University of Singapore
Glenn H. Fredrickson
Glenn H. Fredrickson University of California, Santa Barbara
Nitash P. Balsara
Nitash P. Balsara University of California, Berkeley
T. Don Tilley
T. Don Tilley University of California, Berkeley
Craig J. Hawker
Craig J. Hawker University of California, Santa Barbara

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