Publications written by our Research Groupscp
R. Prabhakar, E.M. Sevick, and D.R.M. Williams
Coarse-graining intramolecular hydrodynamic interactions in dilute solutions of flexible polymers,
Physical Review E 76, 011809:1-12 (2007).
D.M. Carberry, M.A.B. Baker, G.M. Wang, E.M. Sevick, and D.J. Evans
An optical trap experiment to demonstrate Fluctuation Theorems in viscoelastic media,
Journal of Applied Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics 9, S204-S214 (2007).
J.C. Reid, E.M. Sevick, and Denis J. Evans
A unified Description of two theorems in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics: the fluctuation theorem and the work relation,
Europhysics Letters 72, 0726, (2005).
G.M. Wang, D.M. Carberry, J.C. Reid, E.M. Sevick, and Denis J. Evans
Demonstration of the steady-state fluctuation theorem from a single trajectory,
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 17, S3239, (2005).
G.M. Wang, J.C. Reid, D.M. Carberry, D.R.M. Williams, E.M. Sevick, and Denis J. Evans
Experimental study of the fluctuation theorem in a nonequilibrium steady state,
Physical Review E 71, 046142, (2005).
D.M. Carberry, S.R. Williams, G.M. Wang, E.M. Sevick, and Denis J. Evans
The Kawasaki Identity and the Fluctuation Theorem,
Journal of Chemical Physics 121, 8179, (2004).
J.C. Reid, D.M. Carberry, G.M. Wang, E.M. Sevick, D.J. Searles, and Denis J. Evans
Reversibility in nonequilibrium trajectories of an optically trapped particle,
Physical Review E 70, 016111, (2004).
D.M. Carberry, J.C. Reid, G.M. Wang, E.M. Sevick, D.J. Searles, and Denis 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, (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, (2002).
B.J. Haupt, T.J. Senden and E.M. Sevick
Experimental Evidence of the Rayleigh Instability in Single Polymer Chains
Langmuir 18, 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 Letters 56, 529-535, (2001).
J. Ennis and E.M. Sevick,
The Compression and Escape of Copolymers of Adsorbing and Non-adsorbing Blocks
Macromolecules 34, 1908-1916, (2001).
E.M. Sevick
Compression and Escape of a Star Polymer
Macromolecules 33, 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
Physical Review 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
Macromolecules 32, 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
Physical Review Letters 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
Macromolecules 32, 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 Aspects 129/130, 387-396, (1997).
E.M. Sevick and D.R.M. Williams
Anomalous Height Increases upon Bending for an Alexander-deGennes Polymer Brush
Journal Chemical Physics 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
Physical Review Letters 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. Shutte
MRS Symposium Vol. 385, p. 213-230, (1996).