Thomas Witten
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- PhD Physics Princeton University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thomas Witten is an American theoretical physicist working in the field of soft matter physics. Biography Witten received his doctorate in physics in 1971 from the University of California, San Diego. He is currently the Homer J. Livingston Professor in the James Franck Institute at the University of Chicago. He is known in particular for his work on diffusion-limited aggregation, crumpled sheets and coffee rings. His current research interests include polymers, complex fluids and granular materials. He cowrote the "Structured Fluids: Polymers, Colloids, Surfactants" together with Philip Pincus.
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Published Works
- Capillary flow as the cause of ring stains from dried liquid drops (1997) (4940)
- Diffusion-limited aggregation, a kinetic critical phenomenon (1981) (3526)
- Connection between polymer molecular weight, density, chain dimensions, and melt viscoelastic properties (1994) (1295)
- Diffusion-limited aggregation (1983) (1130)
- Theory of the grafted polymer brush (1988) (932)
- Kinetically driven self assembly of highly ordered nanoparticle monolayers (2006) (922)
- Force Fluctuations in Bead Packs (1995) (631)
- Long-range correlations in smoke-particle aggregates (1979) (603)
- Stress focusing in elastic sheets (2007) (310)
- Effects of compression on the vibrational modes of marginally jammed solids. (2005) (268)
- Geometric origin of excess low-frequency vibrational modes in weakly connected amorphous solids (2004) (266)
- Scaling Properties of Stretching Ridges in a Crumpled Elastic Sheet (1995) (253)
- Colloid stabilization by long grafted polymers (1986) (252)
- A parabolic density profile for grafted polymers (1988) (245)
- Effects of polydispersity in the end-grafted polymer brush (1989) (225)
- Structure of many arm star polymers: a molecular dynamics simulation (1987) (185)
- Reinforcement of rubber by fractal aggregates (1993) (149)
- Glass transition of dense fluids of hard and compressible spheres. (2009) (146)
- Wrinkle to fold transition: influence of the substrate response (2013) (140)
- Stress relaxation in the lamellar copolymer mesophase (1990) (139)
- Cross-linking in shear-thickening ionomers (1985) (137)
- Crumpling a thin sheet. (2001) (130)
- Stress propagation through frictionless granular material. (1998) (127)
- Properties of ridges in elastic membranes (1996) (118)
- Polymers grafted to a convex surface (1991) (112)
- Tenuous Structures from Disorderly Growth Processes (1986) (110)
- The enhancement of peripheral glucose utilization by glucagon. (1955) (107)
- Macrocrystal Ordering in Star Polymer Solutions (1986) (104)
- Mesoscopic self‐assembly of gold islands on diblock‐copolymer films (1994) (104)
- Compression induced folding of a sheet: an integrable system. (2011) (94)
- Liquid behavior of cross-linked actin bundles (2017) (91)
- Compressing nearly hard sphere fluids increases glass fragility (2008) (89)
- Bending moduli of polymeric surfactant interfaces (1988) (88)
- Bridging attraction by telechelic polymers (1992) (85)
- Diffusion-limited aggregation at multiple growth sites (1983) (85)
- Relaxation of self-entangled many-arm star polymers (1989) (84)
- Space-filling constraint on transport in random aggregates (1984) (83)
- Causality bound on the density of aggregates (1984) (77)
- Equilibrium surface orientation of lamellae (1993) (75)
- Friction in granular flows (1990) (74)
- Asymptotic Shape of a Fullerene Ball (1993) (72)
- Droplet Elasticity in Weakly Compressed Emulsions (1993) (72)
- Stress Condensation in Crushed Elastic Manifolds (1996) (70)
- Structured Fluids: Polymers, Colloids, Surfactants (2004) (64)
- Structure and viscosity of interpenetrating polyelectrolyte chains (1987) (61)
- Lateral stress relaxation and collapse in lipid monolayers. (2008) (61)
- Mechanical stability of tenuous objects (1984) (60)
- Polymer adsorption on colloidal particles (1984) (58)
- Growing interface in diffusion-limited aggregation (1983) (57)
- Polymers grafted to convex surfaces: a variational approach (1994) (53)
- Forces between mica surfaces across hydrocarbon liquids: effects of branching and polydispersity (1989) (53)
- Glucagon treatment of insulin reactions. (1958) (51)
- Self-folding origami at any energy scale (2017) (50)
- Anomalous strength of membranes with elastic ridges. (2001) (49)
- Renormalized field theory of polymer solutions. I. Scaling laws (1977) (47)
- Shear of Telechelic Brushes (1999) (47)
- Topography and instability of monolayers near domain boundaries. (2001) (47)
- Diffusion-controlled aggregation in the continuum approximation (1984) (46)
- Associating polymers and shear thickening (1988) (46)
- Gas-chromatographic-mass-spectrometric determination of urinary acid profiles of normal young adults on a controlled diet. (1973) (44)
- Studies on the kinetics of glucose utilization. (1956) (43)
- Simple cubic structure in copolymer mesophases (1989) (43)
- Density of states and the velocity autocorrelation function derived from quench studies (1981) (42)
- Correlations in Grafted Polymer Layers (1992) (41)
- Chain conformation and solubility of associating polymers (1986) (41)
- Self-organizing motors divide active liquid droplets (2018) (40)
- Diffusion near absorbing fractals: Harmonic measure exponents for polymers. (1987) (40)
- Unstable topography of biphasic surfactant monolayers (2000) (40)
- Two critical ratios in polymer solutions (1978) (39)
- End-confined polymers: corrections to the Newtonian limit (1989) (38)
- Insights from Soft Condensed Matter (1999) (38)
- Theory of size distribution of associating polymer aggregates. I. Spherical aggregates (1987) (38)
- Microscopic folds and macroscopic jerks in compressed lipid monolayers. (2006) (38)
- Fluctuations and Persistence Length of Charged Flexible Polymers (1995) (36)
- Spatial monomer distribution for a flexible polymer in a good solvent (1981) (36)
- Particle aggregation versus cluster aggregation in high dimensions (1984) (34)
- Crescent singularities in crumpled sheets. (2004) (31)
- Concentration dependence of static and dynamic properties for polymeric stars in a good solvent (1991) (31)
- Geometrical frustration yields fiber formation in self-assembly (2017) (31)
- Singularities, structures, and scaling in deformed m-dimensional elastic manifolds. (2001) (30)
- Robust propagation direction of stresses in a minimal granular packing (2001) (30)
- Phase separation in branched polymer solutions (1983) (28)
- Limitations on the smooth confinement of an unstretchable manifold (2000) (28)
- Renormalized field theory of polymer solutions : extension to general polydispersity (1980) (27)
- Screening, Hyperuniformity, and Instability in the Sedimentation of Irregular Objects. (2016) (26)
- Lifetime Effects of Positronium in Powders (1976) (26)
- Robust fadeout profile of an evaporation stain (2009) (25)
- The interpenetration of two chain polymers in a good solvent (1982) (24)
- Characteristic angles in the wetting of an angular region: deposit growth. (2003) (24)
- Surface charge relaxation and the pearling instability of charged surfactant tubes. (2004) (24)
- Synchrotron X-ray studies of rapidly evolving morphology of self-assembled nanoparticle films under lateral compression. (2013) (23)
- Chloride Enhances Fluoride Mobility in Anion Exchange Membrane/Polycationic Systems (2014) (23)
- Adsorption of End-Functionalized Polymers on Colloidal Spheres (1993) (23)
- Confined multilamellae prefer cylindrical morphology (2005) (22)
- Polymer Solutions: A Geometric Introduction (1998) (22)
- A review of shaped colloidal particles in fluids: anisotropy and chirality (2020) (21)
- Branched polymer approach to the structure of lattice animals and percolation clusters (1984) (21)
- Shape and symmetry of a fluid-supported elastic sheet. (2013) (20)
- Family of exponents for Laplace's equation near a polymer. (1986) (20)
- Phase Separation of Grafted Copolymers (1994) (18)
- The polymer mat: Arrested rebound of a compressed polymer layer (2002) (18)
- Relaxation in bead-jump polymer simulations (1990) (18)
- Quenched Degrees of Freedom in Symmetric Diblock Copolymer Thin Films (1997) (18)
- Microscopic wrinkles on supported surfactant monolayers. (2007) (18)
- Local-field effects on inelastic electron scattering (1975) (17)
- Interactions in mixtures of colloid and polymer (1990) (17)
- Characteristic angles in the wetting of an angular region: Surface shape (2000) (17)
- The thermodynamic scaling function of a polymer solution (1981) (16)
- Water uptake profile in a model ion-exchange membrane: conditions for water-rich channels. (2015) (15)
- Architecture-controlled interaction between associating polymers (1992) (14)
- Confined disclinations: exterior versus material constraints in developable thin elastic sheets. (2014) (14)
- Use of pertechnetate clearance in the study of gastric physiology. (1972) (14)
- Reaction of Lymphocytes with Purified Protein Derivative Conjugated with Fluorescein (1963) (13)
- Gas-chromatographic-mass-spectrometric determination of urinary acid profiles of normal young adults. II. The effect of ethanol. (1973) (13)
- Hydrodynamic interactions between two forced objects of arbitrary shape. II. Relative translation. (2015) (13)
- Ion mixing, hydration, and transport in aqueous ionic systems. (2015) (12)
- Wilhelmy plate artifacts in elastic monolayers. (2010) (12)
- Entropic orientational forces between surfaces in anisotropic liquids (1989) (12)
- Deposit growth in the wetting of an angular region with uniform evaporation. (2004) (11)
- Simulations of Induced Orientation in Stretched Polymer Melts (1995) (11)
- Polymers in Curved Boxes (1996) (11)
- Short‐distance monomer correlations in a self‐repelling polymer chain (1982) (11)
- Multiple coiling of an elastic sheet in a tube (2008) (10)
- Spontaneous curvature cancellation in forced thin sheets. (2005) (10)
- Hydrodynamic Interactions between Two Forced Objects of Arbitrary Shape: I Effect on Alignment (2015) (10)
- How soft matter correlates: three examples (2005) (10)
- End-grafted polymer melt with nematic interaction (1992) (10)
- Cyclic annealing as an iterated random map. (2019) (10)
- Two-Component Grafted Polymer Layers (1989) (9)
- Self-Organizing Arrays of Size Scalable Nanoparticle Rings. (2016) (8)
- Compounds in neutron-star crusts (1974) (8)
- Full alignment of colloidal objects by programed forcing. (2012) (8)
- Comparison of light scattering of colloidal dispersions with direct force measurements between analogous macroscopic surfaces (1990) (8)
- Chiral sedimentation of extended objects in viscous media. (2008) (7)
- Approximate degeneracies of zone boundary phonons in alkali halide crystals (1981) (7)
- Argand diagrams of dielectric response (1975) (7)
- Optimal real-space renormalisation (1981) (7)
- Shapeable sheet without plastic deformation. (2015) (7)
- Inducing and Measuring Bridging in Telechelic Polymer Brushes (1996) (7)
- Spontaneous free-boundary structure in crumpled membranes. (2008) (7)
- Trapping of vibrational energy in crumpled sheets. (2001) (6)
- Compensation of Gaussian curvature in developable cones is local. (2009) (6)
- Instability of infinitesimal wrinkles against folding (2010) (5)
- Spreading of block copolymer films and domain alignment at moving terrace steps. (2003) (5)
- Evaluation of portacaval shunt patency with the differential glucose tolerance test. (1963) (5)
- Scale-Invariant Diffusive Growth (1986) (4)
- Singular electrostatic energy of nanoparticle clusters. (2010) (4)
- Orientational ordering of colloidal dispersions by application of time-dependent external forces. (2013) (4)
- Predicting tensorial electrophoretic effects in asymmetric colloids. (2017) (4)
- Conserved linking in single- and double-stranded polymers (1999) (4)
- Criterion for noise-induced synchronization: Application to colloidal alignment. (2016) (4)
- Force focusing in confined fibres and sheets (2008) (3)
- Anomalously fast kinetics of lipid monolayer buckling. (2012) (3)
- Publisher Correction: Capillary flow as the cause of ring stains from dried liquid drops (2021) (3)
- Random Kinetic Aggregation (1985) (2)
- Nucleation and shape dynamics of model nematic tactoids around adhesive colloids. (2019) (2)
- Chiral motion in colloidal electrophoresis. (2019) (2)
- Heterogeneous polymers and self-organization (1990) (2)
- Accretion of anisotropically diffusing particles (1984) (2)
- Invited) Thin Robust Anion Exchange Membranes for Fuel Cell Applications (2014) (2)
- Raviv et al. respond (2002) (2)
- Microphase Separation of Grafted Copolymers on Curved Substrates: Layering Preempts Rippling (1992) (2)
- Designing Alkaline Exchange Membranes from Scratch (2011) (2)
- Sonoluminescence: Coupling to an applied magnetic field (1997) (2)
- Signal transmissibility in marginal granular materials (2016) (2)
- Of bagels and Burgers (2015) (2)
- Engineering single-polymer micelle shape using nonuniform spontaneous surface curvature. (2017) (2)
- Feasibility of large free-standing liquid films in space. (2006) (2)
- Excess semiannual variation in historical temperature records (2020) (2)
- Flow and diffusion near a fractal: Partial saturation phenomena. (1987) (2)
- Potassium in gastric juice. (1970) (2)
- Critical ratios in the excluded volume limit (1980) (1)
- Scientific interview (2010) (1)
- Gas-Chromatographic-Mass-Spectrometric Determination of UrinaryAcidProfilesof NormalYoung Adultson a ControlledDiet (1973) (1)
- The n = 0 Discovery (2009) (1)
- Universal Ratios of Characteristic Lengths in Semidilute Polymer Solutions (2002) (1)
- Reply to the Comment by J.N. Roux on “Robust propagation direction of stresses in a minimal granular packing” (2002) (1)
- Adapting the Teubner reciprocal relations for stokeslet objects (2019) (1)
- Progress towards Robust Anion Exchange Membranes for Fuel Cell Applications (2013) (1)
- Predicting inhomogeneous water absorption in an ionic diblock polymer membrane (2013) (1)
- Fundamental Studies of Alkaline Exchange Membranes towards Optimization in a Fuel Cell Environment (2013) (1)
- Complex Fluids. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings Held in Boston, Massachusetts on December 2-6, 1991. Volume 248 (1992) (1)
- Potassium in gastric juice. (1970) (1)
- Flow in Granular Materials: Self-Organized Non-Critical Behavior (1990) (1)
- Scaling in Colloid Aggregation (1991) (1)
- Self-folding origami at any energy scale The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2017) (0)
- Phase separation predicted to induce water-rich channels in fuel cell membranes (2015) (0)
- Abstract Submitted for the MAR16 Meeting of The American Physical Society Simulating Electrophoresis with Discrete Charge and Drag1 (2016) (0)
- Faceted wrinkling by contracting a curved boundary (2022) (0)
- Slimming down through frustration (2018) (0)
- SP-B Peptides: Synthesis, Structure, and Surface Activity (2005) (0)
- Local Daily Temperature Averaging Reveals Semiannual Climate Cycles (2020) (0)
- Anion Exchange Membranes with Tuned Ionic Conductivity (2014) (0)
- Chiral electrophoresis: a new steering wheel (2019) (0)
- X-Ray Diffraction Studies of Zwitterionic Associating Polymers (1989) (0)
- Topography of biphasic surfactant monolayers (2000) (0)
- Stress relaxation in diblock copolymers (2001) (0)
- 00006 Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Polysulfone-Based Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (2013) (0)
- Topography and instability of biphasic monolayers (2001) (0)
- Architecture-Controlled Solution Properties of Hydrophobically Associating Copolymers (1996) (0)
- Bubble length affects bubble speed in a rough microfluidic channel (2010) (0)
- Defect formation and kinetics of atomic terrace merging. (2003) (0)
- Twisting constraints in conventional polymers (2000) (0)
- Non-dissipative shapable sheet (2014) (0)
- 1 Scientific interview (2011) (0)
- Fractal Structures in Condensed Matter (1984) (0)
- Publisher Correction: Capillary flow as the cause of ring stains from dried liquid drops (2021) (0)
- J un 2 01 5 A shapeable material without plastic deformation (2015) (0)
- Myotonia due to cold; a benign syndrome of myotonic contraction after exposure to cold manifesting a characteristic hereditary pattern. (1949) (0)
- Fractal Properties of “Disordered Surfaces” and The Termite Problem (1991) (0)
- L-675 Mechanical stability of tenuous objects (0)
- Generalized Crumpling: induced singularities in gently deformed elastic sheets (2008) (0)
- Chloride Enhances Fluoride Transport in Anion Exchange Membranes (2014) (0)
- Coffee Rings: Solute Deposits at the Contact Line of a Drying Sessile Drop (1996) (0)
- Ridge versus Cone Energy Scaling in Dimensions Above Three (2000) (0)
- Ionic Block Copolymers for Anion Exchange Membranes (2013) (0)
- Non-affine bending mode of thin cylindrical tubes (2016) (0)
- Geometric Singularities in Anastomotic Wall Stress and Perturbed Flow as Applied to Gastrointestinal Surgery (2019) (0)
- Why Myelins Form: Shape Instability of Flat Lamellae Due to Interlayer Repulsion (2005) (0)
- The polymer mat: stretched polymers via compression (2002) (0)
- Chain-reaction cascades in surfactant monolayer buckling (2004) (0)
- A theorem on the adiabatic scaling of classical orbits (1975) (0)
- Quaternary Phosphonium Based Hydroxide Exchange Membranes: Synthesis, MEA Performance, and Hydroxide Transport Studies (2010) (0)
- Interacting rigid polyelectrolytes (1994) (0)
- Letter: Cirrhosis and monamine oxidase inhibition. (1976) (0)
- Liquid behavior and motor-induced division of actin droplets: a theoretical model (2018) (0)
- Stochastic synchronization induced by noise. (2021) (0)
- Equjlubrium Topologies of Associatxng Polymers (1991) (0)
- Stress propagation in isotropic packs with anisotropic boundaries (2010) (0)
- 0 10 41 19 v 1 6 A pr 2 00 1 Anomalous strength of membranes with elastic ridges (2008) (0)
- Simple method for performing serial tests for occult blood in feces of outpatients. (1961) (0)
- Letter: Cirrhosis and monamine oxidase inhibition. (1976) (0)
- Modeling dividing actomyosin droplets as colloids in liquid crystal (2019) (0)
- EVALUATION OF YORTACAVAL SHUNT PATENCY WITH THE DIFFERENTIAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST (2010) (0)
- Letter: H2 receptor sites and gastric mucosal blood flow. (1975) (0)
- Highly-Ordered Monolayers in a Hurry: Non-Equilibrium Pathways to High-Quality Superlattices (2005) (0)
- Shape-designed single-polymer micelles: a proof-of-concept simulation (2016) (0)
- Simple method for performing serial tests for occult blood in feces of outpatients. (1961) (0)
- Irreducible diagrams in Landau-Ginzburg field theory (1981) (0)
- Characteristic Angles in the Wetting of a Wedge-shaped Region (2000) (0)
- Stress relaxation in heterogeneous polymers (2008) (0)
- Spatial extensions of the evaporative deposition patterns may be explained by the finite size of the solute particles. (2004) (0)
- Twist Memory in Single- and Double-Stranded Polymers (1999) (0)
- Plugs in rough capillary tubes: enhanced dependence of motion on plug length (2010) (0)
- Global and local structure in tethered chains (1992) (0)
- Seung-Nelson representation for singular thin sheets (2011) (0)
- Analytical model describes ion conduction in fuel cell membranes (2014) (0)
- Simulating Electrophoresis with Discrete Charge and Drag (2016) (0)
- Shape mismatch in self assembly leads to fiber-like aggregates (2016) (0)
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