Richard A. Vaia

Research.com Recognitions

• 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For aerospace applications of polymeric nanomaterials and for technical leadership in materials for national defense applications.
• 2012 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society

Overview

Best Publications

• Synthesis and properties of two-dimensional nanostructures by direct intercalation of polymer melts in layered silicates

  Richard A. Vaia;Hope Ishii;Emmanuel P. Giannelis

  1828
  Citations

• Polymer Melt Intercalation in Organically-Modified Layered Silicates: Model Predictions and Experiment

  Richard A. Vaia;Emmanuel P. Giannelis

  1516
  Citations

• Thermal Degradation Chemistry of Alkyl Quaternary Ammonium Montmorillonite

  Wei Xie;Zongming Gao;Wei-Ping Pan, ,†;Doug Hunter

  1326
  Citations

• Interlayer Structure and Molecular Environment of Alkylammonium Layered Silicates

  Richard A. Vaia;Rachel K. Teukolsky;Emmanuel P. Giannelis

  1296
  Citations

• Lattice Model of Polymer Melt Intercalation in Organically-Modified Layered Silicates

  Richard A. Vaia;Emmanuel P. Giannelis

  1284
  Citations

• REMOTELY ACTUATED POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES-STRESS-RECOVERY OF CARBON-NANOTUBE-FILLED THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS

  H. Koerner;G. Price;N. Pearce;M. Alexander

  1212
  Citations

• Accurate Simulation of Surfaces and Interfaces of Face-Centered Cubic Metals Using 12−6 and 9−6 Lennard-Jones Potentials

  Hendrik Heinz;R. A. Vaia;B. L. Farmer;R. R. Naik

  1195
  Citations

• New polymer electrolyte nanocomposites: Melt intercalation of poly(ethylene oxide) in mica‐type silicates

  Richard A. Vaia;S. Vasudevan;Wlodzimierz Krawiec;Lawrence G. Scanlon

  995
  Citations

• Kinetics of polymer melt intercalation

  Richard A. Vaia;Klaus D. Jandt;Edward J. Kramer;Emmanuel P. Giannelis

  994
  Citations

• Microstructural Evolution of Melt Intercalated Polymer−Organically Modified Layered Silicates Nanocomposites

  Richard A. Vaia;Klaus D. Jandt;Edward J. Kramer;Emmanuel P. Giannelis

  803
  Citations

• Polymer/layered silicate nanocomposites as high performance ablative materials

  Richard A Vaia;Gary Price;Patrick N Ruth;Hieu T Nguyen

  674
  Citations

• 50th Anniversary Perspective: Are Polymer Nanocomposites Practical for Applications?

  Sanat K. Kumar;Brian C. Benicewicz;Richard A. Vaia;Karen I. Winey

  646
  Citations

• Synthesis, Structure, and Properties of PBO/SWNT Composites &

  Satish Kumar;Thuy D. Dang;Fred E. Arnold;Arup R. Bhattacharyya

  632
  Citations

• Generation of electrospun fibers of nylon 6 and nylon 6-montmorillonite nanocomposite

  Hao Fong;Weidong Liu;Chyi-Shan Wang;Richard A. Vaia

  577
  Citations

• Polymer Nanocomposites: Status and Opportunities

  Richard A. Vaia;Emmanuel P. Giannelis

  558
  Citations

• A high frequency photodriven polymer oscillator

  Timothy J. White;Timothy J. White;Nelson V. Tabiryan;Svetlana V. Serak;Uladzimir A. Hrozhyk

  503
  Citations

• Relaxations of confined chains in polymer nanocomposites: Glass transition properties of poly(ethylene oxide) intercalated in montmorillonite

  Richard A. Vaia;Bryan B. Sauer;Oliver K. Tse;Emmanuel P. Giannelis

  486
  Citations

• Thermal Stability of Quaternary Phosphonium Modified Montmorillonites

  Wei Xie;Rongcai Xie;Wei-Ping Pan;Doug Hunter

  478
  Citations

• Thermal characterization of organically modified montmorillonite

  Wei Xie;Zongming Gao;Kunlei Liu;Wei-Ping Pan

  473
  Citations

• Deformation–morphology correlations in electrically conductive carbon nanotube—thermoplastic polyurethane nanocomposites

  Hilmar Koerner;Weidong Liu;Max Alexander;Peter Mirau

  459
  Citations

• Polymer Nanocomposites

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  186
  Citations