2026 Scott T. Milner: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	65	5537	5354	1442	1349	244	19107
Chemistry	60	9564	8659	2690	2215	221	16704

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Materials Science

5537

5354

1442

1349

244

19107

Chemistry

9564

8659

2690

2215

221

16704

Materials Science

D-Index

Citations

19107

World Ranking

5537

National Ranking

1442

Chemistry

D-Index

Citations

16704

World Ranking

9564

National Ranking

2690

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

1942
Citations
Polymer Brushes

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720
Citations
Dynamical fluctuations of droplet microemulsions and vesicles

Scott Thomas Milner;S. A. Safran

712
Citations
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

587
Citations
A parabolic density profile for grafted polymers

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

578
Citations
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

561
Citations
REPTATION AND CONTOUR-LENGTH FLUCTUATIONS IN MELTS OF LINEAR POLYMERS

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

558
Citations
Parameter-free theory for stress relaxation in star polymer melts

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

536
Citations
Effects of Polydispersity in the End-Grafted Polymer Brush

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

466
Citations
Chain Architecture and Asymmetry in Copolymer Microphases

Scott Thomas Milner

433
Citations
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

421
Citations
Self-assembling amphiphilic systems

Gerhard Gompper;Michael Schick;Scott Milner

373
Citations
Role of shear in the isotropic-to-lamellar transition.

M. E. Cates;Scott Thomas Milner

311
Citations
Dynamical theory of concentration fluctuations in polymer solutions under shear.

Scott T. Milner

308
Citations
Multicritical phenomena and microphase ordering in random block copolymers melts

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

286
Citations
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

241
Citations
Compressing polymer brushes: a quantitative comparison of theory and experiment

Scott Thomas Milner

232
Citations
Entangled dynamics and melt flow of branched polymers

Tom C B McLeish;Scott Thomas Milner

228
Citations
Shape and size fluctuations of microemulsion droplets: The role of cosurfactant.

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

217
Citations
Nonergodicity and light scattering from polymer gels

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

212
Citations
How copolymers promote mixing of immiscible homopolymers

Scott T. Milner;Haowen Xi

211
Citations
Polymers grafted to a convex surface

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

208
Citations