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Processing Pathways Decide Polymer Properties at the Molecular Level by Chandran, Sivasurender, Baschnagel, Jörg, Cangialosi, Daniele, Fukao, Koji, Glynos, Emmanouil, Janssen, Liesbeth M. C, Müller, Marcus, Muthukumar, Murugappan, Steiner, Ullrich, Xu, Jun, Napolitano, Simone, Reiter, Günter

“…Conditions of rapid processing often drive polymers to adopt nonequilibrium molecular conformations, which, in turn, can give rise to structural, dynamical,…”
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Controlling Polymer Crystallization Kinetics by Sample History by Poudel, Purushottam, Chandran, Sivasurender, Majumder, Sumit, Reiter, Günter

“…In this paper systematic changes in the isothermal crystallization kinetics (at Tc = 200 °C) of nonequilibrated isotactic polystyrene films, generated through…”
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Electric Field Driven Reversible Spinodal Dewetting of Thin Liquid Films on Slippery Surfaces by Bhatt, Bidisha, Gupta, Shivam, Sumathi, Vasudevan, Chandran, Sivasurender, Khare, Krishnacharya

“…The stability of thin liquid films on a surface depends on the excess free energy of the system involving various short‐range and long‐range interactions. When…”
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Time Allowed for Equilibration Quantifies the Preparation Induced Nonequilibrium Behavior of Polymer Films by Chandran, Sivasurender, Handa, Rishab, Kchaou, Marwa, Al Akhrass, Samer, Semenov, Alexander N, Reiter, Günter

“…Performance and properties of materials may strongly depend on processing conditions. This is particularly so for polymers, which often have relaxation times…”
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Pattern Formation in Evaporating Polymer SolutionsInterplay between Dewetting and Decomposition by Mahawar, Pankaj, Praveena, M., Bhuyan, Shreyanil, Pillai, Dipin S., Chandran, Sivasurender

“…Pattern formation during solution evaporation is common in several industrial settings and involves a complex interplay of multiple processes, including…”
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Deciphering the influence of NaCl on social behaviour of Bacillus subtilis by Murugan, Prem Anand, Sahu, Muktesh Kumar, Gupta, Manish Kumar, Sankar, T Sabari, Chandran, Sivasurender, Matheshwaran, Saravanan

“…Various environmental signals, such as temperature, pH, nutrient levels, salt content and the presence of other microorganisms, can influence biofilm's…”
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Harnessing Polar Interactions Tunes the Stability of Ultrathin Polymer Solution Films by Bhuyan, Shreyanil, Chandran, Sivasurender, Pillai, Dipin S.

“…The stability of ultrathin (<100 nm) polymer films is essential in applications like protective coatings. On the contrary, their instability may actually be…”
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Fast Processing Affects the Relaxation of Polymers: The Slow Arrhenius Process Can Probe Stress at the Molecular Level by Thoms, Erik, Wang, Kai, Chandran, Sivasurender, Napolitano, Simone

“…Polymer materials are commonly processed at rates higher than those at which their molecules spontaneously reach equilibrium conditions. The resulting…”
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Transient Cooperative Processes in Dewetting Polymer Melts by Chandran, Sivasurender, Reiter, Günter

“…We compare the high velocity dewetting behavior, at elevated temperatures, of atactic polystyrene (aPS) and isotactic polystyrene (iPS) films, with the zero…”
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Microscopic Dynamics of Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation and Domain Coarsening in a Protein Solution Revealed by X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy by Girelli, Anita, Rahmann, Hendrik, Begam, Nafisa, Ragulskaya, Anastasia, Reiser, Mario, Chandran, Sivasurender, Westermeier, Fabian, Sprung, Michael, Zhang, Fajun, Gutt, Christian, Schreiber, Frank

“…While the interplay between liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) and glass formation in biological systems is highly relevant for their structure formation…”
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Segmental Rearrangements Relax Stresses in Nonequilibrated Polymer Films by Chandran, Sivasurender, Reiter, Günter

“…We probed the relaxation of preparation-induced residual stresses in nonequilibrated polymer films through dewetting experiments. While we observed fast…”
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Kinetics of Network Formation and Heterogeneous Dynamics of an Egg White Gel Revealed by Coherent X-Ray Scattering by Begam, Nafisa, Ragulskaya, Anastasia, Girelli, Anita, Rahmann, Hendrik, Chandran, Sivasurender, Westermeier, Fabian, Reiser, Mario, Sprung, Michael, Zhang, Fajun, Gutt, Christian, Schreiber, Frank

“…The kinetics of heat-induced gelation and the microscopic dynamics of a hen egg white gel are probed using x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy along with…”
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Formation of Needle-like Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Crystals from Metastable Solutions by Wu, Tianyu, Pfohl, Thomas, Chandran, Sivasurender, Sommer, Michael, Reiter, Günter

“…We investigated the formation of crystalline structures of conjugated poly­(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) from supersaturated solutions. To this end, we induced…”
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Confinement enhances dispersion in nanoparticle–polymer blend films by Chandran, Sivasurender, Begam, Nafisa, Padmanabhan, Venkat, Basu, J.K.

“…Polymer nanocomposites constitute an important class of materials whose properties depend on the state of dispersion of the nanoparticles in the polymer…”
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Primary Nucleation in Metastable Solutions of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) by Wu, Tianyu, Chandran, Sivasurender, Zhang, Yao, Zheng, Tianze, Pfohl, Thomas, Xu, Jun, Reiter, Günter

“…Because of its smallness and low probability of formation, the determination of the size of the critical primary nucleus represents a great challenge in…”
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Formation of Periodically Modulated Polymer Crystals by Poudel, Purushottam, Majumder, Sumit, Chandran, Sivasurender, Zhang, Hui, Reiter, Günter

“…We report novel morphologies with periodic height modulations of isotactic polystyrene (iPS) crystals, resulting from alternating stacks of correlated…”
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Harnessing density to control the duration of intermittent Lévy walks in bacterial turbulence by Gautam, Dhananjay, Meena, Hemlata, Matheshwaran, Saravanan, Chandran, Sivasurender

“…Dense bacterial suspensions display collective motion exhibiting coherent flow structures reminiscent of turbulent flows. However, in contrast to inertial…”
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Anomalous Viscosity Reduction and Hydrodynamic Interactions of Polymeric Nanocolloids in Polymers by Begam, Nafisa, Chandran, Sivasurender, Sprung, M., Basu, J. K.

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Dewetting Rheology for Determining Viscoelastic Properties of Nonequilibrated Thin Polymer Films by Mulama, Austine A, Chandran, Sivasurender, Roumpos, Konstantinos, Oduor, Andrew O, Reiter, Günter

“…We performed systematic dewetting experiments on isotactic poly­(para-methylstyrene) (iPpMS) films to explore the temperature dependence of the viscoelastic…”
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Coherent X-ray scattering reveals nature of dynamical transitions in nanoparticle–polymer suspensions by Chandran, Sivasurender, Begam, N., Sprung, M., Basu, J.K.

“…We report the microrheological behavior and dynamics of the suspensions of polystyrene-grafted gold nanoparticles (PGNPs) mixed with linear polystyrene (PS) as…”
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