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Overview

Sergei S. Sheiko is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with a special emphasis on organic chemistry, polymers and plastics, surfaces, coatings and films, biomaterials, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's work spans a variety of main topics, including polymer surface interaction studies, advanced polymer synthesis and characterization, hydrogels' synthesis, properties, and applications, biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties, force microscopy techniques and applications, advanced materials and mechanics, and polymer composites and self-healing.

Sergei S. Sheiko has contributed to numerous publications, frequently appearing in venues such as UNC Libraries, Macromolecules, ACS Central Science, ACS Macro Letters, and ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Injectable bottlebrush hydrogels with tissue-mimetic mechanical properties, 2022, published in Science Advances
  • Bottlebrush Bridge between Soft Gels and Firm Tissues, 2020, published in ACS Central Science
  • C-H Functionalization of Polyolefins to Access Reprocessable Polyolefin Thermosets, 2023, published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Boosting the Strength and Toughness of Polymer Blends via Ligand-Modulated MOFs, 2024, published in Advanced Science
  • Forensics of polymer networks, 2023, published in Nature Materials

The scientist often collaborates with a set of frequent co-authors, including Dimitri A. Ivanov, Erfan Dashtimoghadam, Andrey V. Dobrynin, Foad Vashahi, and Andrew N. Keith.

Best Publications

  • Cylindrical molecular brushes: Synthesis, characterization, and properties

    Sergei S. Sheiko;Brent S. Sumerlin;Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

  • Controlling polymer shape through the self-assembly of dendritic side-groups

    V. Percec;C.-H. Ahn;G. Ungar;D. J. P. Yeardley

  • The Synthesis of Densely Grafted Copolymers by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

    Kathryn L. Beers;Scott G. Gaynor;Krzysztof Matyjaszewski;Sergei S. Sheiko

  • Stimuli-responsive molecular brushes

    Hyung il Lee;Joanna Pietrasik;Sergei S. Sheiko;Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

  • Weak Hydrogen Bonding Enables Hard, Strong, Tough, and Elastic Hydrogels

    Xiaobo Hu;Mohammad Vatankhah-Varnoosfaderani;Jing Zhou;Qiaoxi Li

  • Solvent-free, supersoft and superelastic bottlebrush melts and networks

    William F. M. Daniel;Joanna Burdyńska;Mohammad Vatankhah-Varnoosfaderani;Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

  • Substrate‐induced lateral micro‐phase separation of a diblock copolymer

    Joachim P. Spatz;Sergei Sheiko;Martin Möller

  • Synthesis of Molecular Brushes with Block Copolymer Side Chains Using Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

    Hans G. Börner;Kathryn Beers;Krzysztof Matyjaszewski;Sergei S. Sheiko

  • Chameleon-like elastomers with molecularly encoded strain-adaptive stiffening and coloration

    Mohammad Vatankhah-Varnosfaderani;Andrew N. Keith;Yidan Cong;Heyi Liang

  • Visualization of macromolecules--a first step to manipulation and controlled response.

    Sergei S. Sheiko;Martin Möller

  • Adsorption-induced scission of carbon–carbon bonds

    Sergei S. Sheiko;Frank C. Sun;Adrian Randall;David Shirvanyants

  • VISUALIZABLE CYLINDRICAL MACROMOLECULES WITH CONTROLLED STIFFNESS FROM BACKBONES CONTAINING LIBRARIES OF SELF-ASSEMBLING DENDRITIC SIDE GROUPS

    V. Percec;C.-H. Ahn;W.-D. Cho;A. M. Jamieson

  • Mimicking biological stress–strain behaviour with synthetic elastomers

    Mohammad Vatankhah-Varnosfaderani;William F. M. Daniel;Matthew H. Everhart;Ashish A. Pandya

  • Densely-Grafted and Double-Grafted PEO Brushes via ATRP. A Route to Soft Elastomers

    Dorota Neugebauer;Ying Zhang;Tadeusz Pakula;Sergei S. Sheiko

  • Diblock copolymer micelles in a dilute solution

    Ekaterina B. Zhulina;Mireile Adam;Isaac LaRue;Sergei S. Sheiko

  • Main Chain Conformation and Anomalous Elution Behavior of Cylindrical Brushes As Revealed by GPC/MALLS, Light Scattering, and SFM‡

    Markus Gerle;Markus Gerle;Karl Fischer;Sebastian Roos;Axel H. E. Müller

  • Molecular Bottlebrushes as Novel Materials.

    Guojun Xie;Michael R. Martinez;Mateusz Olszewski;Sergei S. Sheiko

  • Molecular structure of bottlebrush polymers in melts.

    Jarosław Paturej;Jarosław Paturej;Jarosław Paturej;Sergei S. Sheiko;Sergey Panyukov;Michael Rubinstein

  • Thermo-sensitive polymers in medicine: A review

    Payam Zarrintaj;Payam Zarrintaj;Maryam Jouyandeh;Mohammad Reza Ganjali;Behzad Shirkavand Hadavand

  • Ion-Stabilized Block Copolymer Micelles: Film Formation and Intermicellar Interaction

    Joachim P. Spatz;Sergei Sheiko;Martin Möller

  • Effect of Initiation Conditions on the Uniformity of Three-Arm Star Molecular Brushes

    Krzysztof Matyjaszewski;Shuhui Qin;Jamie R. Boyce;David Shirvanyants

Frequent Co-Authors

Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski Carnegie Mellon University
Andrey V. Dobrynin
Andrey V. Dobrynin University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Martin Möller
Martin Möller RWTH Aachen University
Michael Rubinstein
Michael Rubinstein Duke University
Kathryn L. Beers
Kathryn L. Beers National Institute of Standards and Technology
Hans G. Börner
Hans G. Börner Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Ekaterina B. Zhulina
Ekaterina B. Zhulina ITMO University
Dimitri A. Ivanov
Dimitri A. Ivanov Acteurs, Ressources et Territoires dans le Développement
Alexei R. Khokhlov
Alexei R. Khokhlov Lomonosov Moscow State University
Joachim P. Spatz
Joachim P. Spatz Max Planck Society

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