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Richard A. Register

Richard A. Register

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Materials Science

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76
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19993
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National Ranking
927

Chemistry

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76
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society
  • 2001 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For insightful experiments relating morphology with properties in polymeric melts and solids, and particularly block copolymers containing crystallizable blocks

Overview

Richard A. Register is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and specializes in materials science with a focus on polymers and plastics.

Their research primarily addresses topics in polymer crystallization and properties, advanced polymer synthesis and characterization, and block copolymer self-assembly. Additional areas of study include polymer nanocomposites and properties, biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties, conducting polymers and applications, and synthetic organic chemistry methods.

Frequent co-authors working alongside Richard A. Register include Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Conor Doss, Natalie Stingelin, Tae-Lim Choi, and Craig J. Hawker.

Their work has been published extensively in venues such as the Journal of Polymer Science, Macromolecules, Polymer Crystallization, Chem, and JACS Au.

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Tapered Multiblock Star Copolymers: Synthesis, Selective Hydrogenation, and Properties" (2020, Macromolecules)
  • "Minimum Molecular Weight and Tie Molecule Content for Ductility in Polyethylenes of Varying Crystallinity" (2022, Macromolecules)
  • "Morphology and Structure-Property Relationships in Random Ionomers: Two Foundational Articles from Macromolecules" (2020, Macromolecules)
  • "A butadiene-derived semicrystalline polyolefin with two-tiered chemical recyclability" (2023, Chem)
  • "Evolution of Polymer Colloid Structure During Precipitation and Phase Separation" (2021, JACS Au)

Richard A. Register's contributions to materials science, especially in the subfields of polymers and plastics, organic chemistry, and materials chemistry, have been formally recognized through awards such as the Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2012) and the Fellow of the American Physical Society (2001). The latter specifically cited their insightful experiments relating morphology with properties in polymeric melts and solids, with particular focus on block copolymers containing crystallizable blocks.

Best Publications

  • Block copolymer lithography: Periodic arrays of ~1011 holes in 1 square centimeter

    Miri Park;Christopher Harrison;Paul M. Chaikin;Richard Alan Register

  • Modes of Crystallization in Block Copolymer Microdomains: Breakout, Templated, and Confined

    Yueh-Lin Loo;Richard A. Register;Anthony J. Ryan

  • Mechanisms of ordering in striped patterns

    Christopher Harrison;Douglas H. Adamson;Zhengdong Cheng;John M. Sebastian

  • Using Surface Active Random Copolymers To Control the Domain Orientation in Diblock Copolymer Thin Films

    E. Huang;T. P. Russell;C. Harrison;P. M. Chaikin

  • Macroscopic Orientation of Block Copolymer Cylinders in Single‐Layer Films by Shearing

    Dan E. Angelescu;Judith H. Waller;Douglas H. Adamson;Paru Deshpande

  • Polymer crystallization in 25-nm spheres

    Yueh Lin Loo;Richard Alan Register;Anthony J. Ryan

  • Polymer crystallization confined in one, two, or three dimensions

    Yueh Lin Loo;Richard Alan Register;Anthony J. Ryan;Gregory T. Dee

  • Flexible Piezoelectric PMN–PT Nanowire-Based Nanocomposite and Device

    Shiyou Xu;Yao Wen Yeh;Gerald Poirier;Michael C. McAlpine

  • Dense arrays of ordered GaAs nanostructures by selective area growth on substrates patterned by block copolymer lithography

    R. R. Li;P. D. Dapkus;M. E. Thompson;W. G. Jeong

  • Method of nanoscale patterning and products made thereby

    Christopher Harrison;Miri Park;Richard Register;Douglas Adamson

  • Efficient organic electroluminescent devices using single-layer doped polymer thin films with bipolar carrier transport abilities

    Chung-Chih Wu;J.C. Sturm;R.A. Register;Jing Tian

  • Nanolithographic templates from diblock copolymer thin films

    P. Mansky;C. K. Harrison;P. M. Chaikin;Richard Alan Register

  • Morphology of Semicrystalline Block Copolymers of Ethylene-(Ethylene-alt-propylene)

    Pratima Rangarajan;Richard Alan Register;Lewis J. Fetters

  • Large area dense nanoscale patterning of arbitrary surfaces

    Miri Park;Miri Park;P. M. Chaikin;Richard Alan Register;Douglas H. Adamson

  • Dynamics of pattern coarsening in a two-dimensional smectic system.

    Christopher Harrison;Zhengdong Cheng;Srinivasan Sethuraman;David A. Huse

  • Crystallization of Asymmetric Diblock Copolymers from Microphase-Separated Melts

    Daniel J. Quiram;Richard A. Register;Gary R. Marchand

  • Low-shear melt rheology of partially-neutralized ethylene-methacrylic acid ionomers

    Pierre Vanhoorne;Richard A. Register

  • Lithography with a mask of block copolymer microstructures

    Christopher Harrison;Miri Park;Paul M. Chaikin;Richard Alan Register

  • Chain Orientation in Block Copolymers Exhibiting Cylindrically Confined Crystallization

    Daniel J. Quiram;Richard A. Register;Gary R. Marchand;Douglas H. Adamson

  • Well-Ordered Microdomain Structures in Polydisperse Poly(styrene)−Poly(acrylic acid) Diblock Copolymers from Controlled Radical Polymerization

    D. Bendejacq;Virginie Ponsinet;M. Joanicot;Yueh Lin Loo

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Chaikin
Paul Chaikin New York University
Douglas H. Adamson
Douglas H. Adamson University of Connecticut
Stuart L. Cooper
Stuart L. Cooper The Ohio State University
Yueh-Lin Loo
Yueh-Lin Loo Princeton University
James C. Sturm
James C. Sturm Princeton University
Mark E. Thompson
Mark E. Thompson University of Southern California
Anthony J. Ryan
Anthony J. Ryan University of Sheffield
William W. Graessley
William W. Graessley Princeton University
Rodney D. Priestley
Rodney D. Priestley Princeton University

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