Scholars and publications that influenced me
Kevin Kendall (University of Birmingham), Manoj K. Chaudhury (Lehigh University), Kenneth R. Shull (Northwestern University), Costantino Creton (ESPCI Paris), Alan N. Gent (University of Akron), Steven Abbott (Steven Abbott TCNF Ltd.), Zhigang Suo (Harvard), and Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (Collège de France) have immensely influenced how I think about adhesion science and soft materials in general. For students and professionals who wish to enhance their understanding of how adhesives and coatings behave and how they should be designed and tested, the articles below will serve as reliable references.
Since transitioning into industry, my interests have expanded beyond fundamental science to encompass technology trends, market dynamics, economics, finance, and management. This has enabled me to integrate scientific insights with practical decision-making. My areas of focus include, but are not limited to, reshoring, energy, HVAC, data center, electrification, and sustainable chemistries.
Kevin Kendall (University of Birmingham), Manoj K. Chaudhury (Lehigh University), Kenneth R. Shull (Northwestern University), Costantino Creton (ESPCI Paris), Alan N. Gent (University of Akron), Steven Abbott (Steven Abbott TCNF Ltd.), Zhigang Suo (Harvard), and Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (Collège de France) have immensely influenced how I think about adhesion science and soft materials in general. For students and professionals who wish to enhance their understanding of how adhesives and coatings behave and how they should be designed and tested, the articles below will serve as reliable references.
Since transitioning into industry, my interests have expanded beyond fundamental science to encompass technology trends, market dynamics, economics, finance, and management. This has enabled me to integrate scientific insights with practical decision-making. My areas of focus include, but are not limited to, reshoring, energy, HVAC, data center, electrification, and sustainable chemistries.
- Adhesion of viscoelastic materials to rigid substrates, A. N. Gent and R. P. Petrich, Proc. Roy. Soc. A., 1969 (WLF relation)
- Effect of Wetting Liquids on the Strength of Adhesion of Viscoelastic Materials, A. N. Gent and J. Schultz, J. Adhes., 1972 (Factorized adhesion energy into equilibrium and irreversible processes)
- Thin-film peeling-the elastic term, K. Kendall, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 1975 (Role of an elastic deformation term on adhesion)
- Control of Cracks by Interfaces in Composites, K. Kendall, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A, 1975 (Elastic variation enhances adhesion)
- Fracture mechanics and the adherence of viscoelastic bodies, D. Maugis and M. Barquins, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 1978 (Validated the velocity dependence of the energy loss term across various loading geometries)
- The peeling of flexible laminates, A. J. Kinloch, C. C. Lau, and J. G. Williams, International Journal of Fracture, 1994 (Detailed factors for determining the adhesion energy in peel mode)
- Effect of interfacial slippage on viscoelastic adhesion, B. Zhang Newby and M. K. Chaudhury, Langmuir, 1997 (Friction matters in peel release of adhesive from coating)
- Effects of Methylation and Neutralization of Carboxylated Poly(n-butyl acrylate) on the Interfacial and Bulk Contributions to Adhesion, D. Ahn and K. R. Shull, Langmuir, 1998 (The effect of surface chemistry and bulk rheology on adhesion)
- Axisymmetric adhesion tests of soft materials, K. R. Shull, D. Ahn, W-L. Chen, C. M. Flanigan, and A. J. Crosby, Macromol. Chem. Phys., 1998 (Review/experimental paper on details of interfacial contributions to overall adhesion performance from the revised JKR approach that considers finite size effects)
- On Stickiness, C. Gay and L. Leibler, Physics Today, 1999 (A short yet insightful 5-page essay on the complexity of adhesion)
- Contact mechanics and the adhesion of soft solids, K. R. Shull, Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep., 2002 (More comprehensive review paper based on #9 above)
- Adhesion between a Viscoelastic Material and a Solid Surface, F. Saulnier, T. Ondarçuhu, A. Aradian, and E. Raphaël, Macromolecules, 2004 (Multiple time and length scales within the peel process)
- Soft and hard adhesion, J. Y. Chung and M. K. Chaudhury, J. Adhes., 2005 (Pull off an object from thin and thick elastomeric coatings)
- Fracture and adhesion of soft materials: a review, C. Creton and M. Ciccotti, Rep. Prog. Phys., 2016 (Best review paper that provides a framework for thinking about designing and understanding elastomers, gels, and PSAs from the polymer engineering perspectives)
- Low-interfacial toughness materials for effective large-scale deicing, K. Golovin, A. Dhyani, M. D. Thouless, and A. Tuteja, Science, 2019 (Distinct role of coatings' strength and toughness on ice adhesion)
- Soft Materials by Design: Unconventional Polymer Networks Give Extreme Properties, X. Zhao, X. Chen, H. Yuk, S. Lin, and G. Parada, Chemical Reviews, 2021 (Must-read review paper for an aspiring soft matter engineer who wishes to adopt a framework for designing gels, elastomers, and adhesives)