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Materials Science

D-Index
65
Citations
19107
World Ranking
5535
National Ranking
1440

Chemistry

D-Index
60
Citations
16704
World Ranking
9562
National Ranking
2689

Scott T. Milner publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Scott T. Milner sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 244 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Scott T. Milner D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Scott T. Milner sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For elucidating the interplay of structure and stress in polymer brushes, polymer fluids and layered fluids

Overview

Scott T. Milner is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a significant focus on subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, Materials Chemistry, and Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes.

Their work addresses multiple scientific topics, including:

  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies
  • Polymer Crystallization and Properties
  • Conducting Polymers and Applications
  • Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques
  • Electrostatics and Colloid Interactions

Scott T. Milner has published extensively, with frequent appearances in several scientific journals. The venues with the highest number of their publications include:

  • Macromolecules
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Molecular Systems Design & Engineering
  • Journal of Membrane Science
  • Soft Matter

Some notable papers by Milner include:

  • "Unified Entanglement Scaling for Flexible, Semiflexible, and Stiff Polymer Melts and Solutions", 2020, Macromolecules
  • "Tuning polymer-backbone coplanarity and conformational order to achieve high-performance printed all-polymer solar cells", 2024, Nature Communications
  • "Negative Dielectric Constant of Water at a Metal Interface", 2023, Physical Review Letters
  • "Simulation Study of Entanglement in Semiflexible Polymer Melts and Solutions", 2020, Macromolecules
  • "Molecular dynamics simulation based design of biomimetic membrane with artificial water channels", 2021, Journal of Membrane Science

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Ritwick Kali
  • Enrique D. Gomez
  • Michael J. Janik
  • Puja Agarwala
  • Sai Vineeth Bobbili

In 2003, Scott T. Milner was awarded the Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) with a citation recognizing contributions to elucidating the interplay of structure and stress in polymer brushes, polymer fluids, and layered fluids.

Best Publications

  • Theory of the grafted polymer brush

    Scott Thomas Milner;T. A. Witten;M. E. Cates

  • Polymer Brushes

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  • Dynamical fluctuations of droplet microemulsions and vesicles

    Scott Thomas Milner;S. A. Safran

  • Packing Length Influence in Linear Polymer Melts on the Entanglement, Critical, and Reptation Molecular Weights

    Lewis J. Fetters;David J. Lohse;Scott T. Milner;William W. Graessley

  • A parabolic density profile for grafted polymers

    Scott Thomas Milner;T. A. Witten;M. E. Cates

  • Microscopic theory of linear, entangled polymer chains under rapid deformation including chain stretch and convective constraint release

    Richard S. Graham;Alexei E. Likhtman;Tom C. B. McLeish;Scott T. Milner

  • REPTATION AND CONTOUR-LENGTH FLUCTUATIONS IN MELTS OF LINEAR POLYMERS

    S. T. Milner;T. C. B. McLeish

  • Parameter-free theory for stress relaxation in star polymer melts

    S. T. Milner;T. C. B. McLeish

  • Effects of Polydispersity in the End-Grafted Polymer Brush

    S. T. Milner;T. A. Witten;M. E. Cates

  • Chain Architecture and Asymmetry in Copolymer Microphases

    Scott Thomas Milner

  • Well-Defined, Model Long Chain Branched Polyethylene. 2. Melt Rheological Behavior

    D. J. Lohse;S. T. Milner;L. J. Fetters;L. J. Fetters;M. Xenidou

  • Self-assembling amphiphilic systems

    Gerhard Gompper;Michael Schick;Scott Milner

  • Role of shear in the isotropic-to-lamellar transition.

    M. E. Cates;Scott Thomas Milner

  • Dynamical theory of concentration fluctuations in polymer solutions under shear.

    Scott T. Milner

  • Multicritical phenomena and microphase ordering in random block copolymers melts

    Glenn H. Fredrickson;Scott T. Milner;Ludwik Leibler

  • Random Surface Model for the L3-Phase of Dilute Surfactant Solutions

    M. E. Cates;D. Roux;D. Andelman;D. Andelman;D. Andelman;S. T. Milner

  • Compressing polymer brushes: a quantitative comparison of theory and experiment

    Scott Thomas Milner

  • Entangled dynamics and melt flow of branched polymers

    Tom C B McLeish;Scott Thomas Milner

  • Shape and size fluctuations of microemulsion droplets: The role of cosurfactant.

    B. Farago;D. Richter;J. S. Huang;S. A. Safran

  • Nonergodicity and light scattering from polymer gels

    J. Z. Xue;J. Z. Xue;D. J. Pine;Scott Thomas Milner;X. L. Wu

  • How copolymers promote mixing of immiscible homopolymers

    Scott T. Milner;Haowen Xi

  • Polymers grafted to a convex surface

    R. C. Ball;J. F. Marko;S. T. Milner;T. A. Witten

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom McLeish
Tom McLeish University of York
Ralph H. Colby
Ralph H. Colby Pennsylvania State University
Michael E. Cates
Michael E. Cates University of Cambridge
Michael J. Janik
Michael J. Janik Pennsylvania State University
Lewis J. Fetters
Lewis J. Fetters Cornell University
Samuel A. Safran
Samuel A. Safran Weizmann Institute of Science
Glenn H. Fredrickson
Glenn H. Fredrickson University of California, Santa Barbara
David Andelman
David Andelman Tel Aviv University
David J. Lohse
David J. Lohse ExxonMobil (United States)
Kristen A. Fichthorn
Kristen A. Fichthorn Pennsylvania State University

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