E.M. Sevick's Publications
J.C. Reid, E.M. Sevick, and D.J. Evans
A Unified Description of Two New Theorems in Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics: The Fluctuation Theorem and the Work Relation
Europhysics Letters 72, to appear in December 2005.
G.M. Wang, D.M. Carberry, J.C. Reid, E.M. Sevick, and D.J. Evans
Demonstration of the steady-state fluctuation theorem from a single trajectory
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 17, S3239-3244, 2005.
G.M. Wang, J.C. Reid, D.M. Carberry, D.R.M. Williams, E.M. Sevick, and D.J. Evans
Experimental Study of the Fluctuation Theorem in a Non-Equilibrium Steady State,
Physical Review E 71, 046162:1-11, 2005.
D.M. Carberry, S.R. Williams, G.M. Wang, E.M. Sevick and D.J. Evans
The Kawasaki Identity and the Fluctuation Theorem,
J.Chem.Phys. 121, 8179-8182, 2004.
J.C. Reid, D.M. Carberry, G.M. Wang, E.M. Sevick, D.J. Searles, and D.J. Evans
Reversibility in nonequilibrium trajectories of an optically trapped particle,
Physical Review E 70, 01611:1-9, 2004.
D.M. Carberry, J.C. Reid, G.M. Wang, E.M. Sevick, D.J. Searles, and D.J. Evans
Fluctuations and Irreversibility: An Experimental Demonstration of a Second-Law-Like Theorem Using a Colloidal Particle Held in an Optical Trap,
Physical Review Letters 92(14), 140601-140604, 2004.
G.M. Wang, E.M. Sevick, Emil Mittag, Debra J. Searles, and Denis J. Evans
Experimental Demonstration of Violations of the Second Law of Thermodynamics for Small Systems and Short Time Scales
Physical Review Letters 89(5), 050601-50604, 2002.
B.J. Haupt, T.J. Senden and E.M. Sevick
Experimental Evidence of the Rayleigh Instability in Single Polymer
Chains
Langmuir18,2174-2182, 2002.
E.M. Sevick and D.R.M. Williams
Long-lived states in electrophoresis: collision of a polymer chain
with two or more obstacles
Europhysics Letters56, 529-535, 2001.
J. Ennis and E.M. Sevick,
The Compression and Escape of Copolymers of Adsorbing and Non-adsorbing
Blocks
Macromolecules34, 1908-1916, 2001.
E.M. Sevick
Compression and Escape of a Star Polymer
Macromolecules33, 5743-5746, 2000.
J. Ennis, E.M. Sevick, and D.R.M. Williams
Compression of a Polymer Chain by a Small Obstacle: The Effect of Fluctuations
on the Escape Transition
Phys.Rev.E. 60, 6906-6918, 1999.
E.M. Sevick and D.R.M. Williams
A Polymer End-Tethered to a Potential Stripe: A Simple Example of an
Escape Transition
Macromolecules32, 6841-6846, 1999.
B.J. Haupt, J. Ennis, and E.M. Sevick
The Detachment of a Polymer Chain from a Weakly-Adsorbing Surface Using
an AFM Tip
Langmuir 15, 3886-3892, 1999.
E.M. Sevick and D.R.M. Williams
Polymers Grafted onto Strongly Adsorbing Surfaces in Poor Solvents:
Stretching, Fission, Phase Separation and Globular Micelles in 2D
Phys.Rev.Lett. 82, 2701-2704, 1999.
P.M. Saville and E.M. Sevick
Collision of a Field-Driven Polymer with a Finite-Sized Obstacle: A
Brownian Dynamics Simulation
Macromolecules32, 892-899, 1999.
P.M. Saville and E.M. Sevick
Linear Self-Assembled Systems and the Effect of Capping Defects
Langmuir 14, 3137-3139, 1998.
E.M. Sevick
Compression-Induced Phase Transitions in Water-Soluble Polymer Brushes:
The n-Cluster Model
Macromolecules 31, 3361-3367, 1998.
M.C. Guffond, D.R.M. Williams, and E.M. Sevick
End-Tethered Polymer Chains under AFM Tips: Compression and Escape
in Theta Solvents
Langmuir
13, 5691-5696, 1997.
E.M. Sevick and D.R.M. Williams
Collision of a field-driven polymer with a post: implications
for electrophoresis in microlithographic arrays
In Statististical Mechanics in Physics and Biology (Ed. Deniz Wirtz
and Thomas C. Halsey) MRS Symposium Vol. 463, p.179-184, 1997.
E.M. Sevick and D.R.M. Williams
Grafted Rod-Coil Polymers: Turnip and Jellyfish Surface Micelles
Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicichemical and Engineering Aspects129/130,
387-396, 1997.
E.M. Sevick and D.R.M. Williams
Anomalous Height Increases upon Bending for an Alexander-deGennes Polymer
Brush
J.Chem.Phys. 105, 9334-9338, 1996.
E.M. Sevick
Shear Swelling of a Polymer Brush Grafted onto Convex and Concave Surfaces
Macromolecules 29, 6952-6958, 1996.
E.M. Sevick and D.R.M. Williams
Collision of a Field-Driven Polymer with a Post: Electrophoresis in
Microlithographic Arrays
Phys.Rev. Lett. 76, 2595-2598, 1996.
E.M. Sevick, F.A. Bruce and D.R.M. Williams
Polymer Brush-lined membranes for flow and filtration control
in Polymer/Inorganic Interfaces II, Ed. L.T. Drzal, R.L. Opila, N.A.
Peppas, and C. ShutteMRS Symposium Vol. 385 , p. 213-230, 1996.
E.M. Sevick and D.R.M. Williams
Coil-stretch transitions for grafted polymers in spatially varying
flows
Europhys.Lett. 31, 357-362, 1995.
E.M. Sevick and D.R.M. Williams
Porous membranes with grafted polymers: valves and sensors
in Matierals for Smart Systems, Ed. E.P. George, S. Takahashi, S. Trolier-McKinstry,
K. Ulchino, and M. Wun-Fogle, MRS Symposium Vol. 360, 1995.
E.M. Sevick and D.R.M. Williams
Pressure-sensitive microvalves made from polymer brushes
in Advances in Porous Materials, Ed. S. Komarneni, D.M. Smith,
and J.S. Beck, MRS Symposium Vol.361, 1995.
E.M. Sevick and D.R.M. Williams
Polymer brushes as Pressure-Sensitive Automated Microvalves
Macromolecules 27 5285-5290, 1994.
E.M. Sevick and D.R.M. Williams
Motion of a Polyelectrolyte Chain hooked on a Post
Phys. Rev. E 50, R3357-R3360, 1994.
E.M. Sevick, A.T. Bell, and D.N. Theodorou
A chain of states method for investigating infrequent event processes
occurring in multistate, multidimensional systems
J.Chem.Phys. 98, 3196-3212, 1993.
E.M. Sevick and R.C. Ball
Dilute heteroaggregation: A description of critical gelation using
a cluster-cluster aggregation model
J.Coll.Int.Sci.144, 561-570, 1991.
E.M. Sevick and P.A. Monson
Cluster integrals for square well particles: Application to percolation
J.Chem.Phys. 94, 3070-3082, 1991.
E.M. Sevick and R.C. Ball
Dilute heteroaggregation: A description of critical gelation using
a cluster-cluster aggregation model
in Kinetics of Phase Transformations , Ed. M. O. Thompson, M.J. Aziz,
G.B. Stephenson, Materials Research Society, Vol. 205, 1991.
E.M. Sevick, P.A. Monson, and J.M. Ottino
Morphology and transport in composite media using the Ising lattice
as a morphology description
Chem.Eng.Sci. 44, 21-32, 1989.
E.M. Sevick, P.A. Monson, and J.M. Ottino
Clustering and percolation of anisotropic particles: Perturbation theory
and Monte Carlo simulation
Phys.Rev. A 38, 5376-5383, 1988.
E.M. Sevick, P.A. Monson, and J.M. Ottino
Monte Carlo calculations of cluster statistics in continuum models
of composite morphology
J.Chem.Phys.
88, 1198-1206, 1988.