Alexei P Sokolov ORNL/UT Governor's Chair, Professor of Chemistry and Physics, Chemical Sciences Division Contact sokolovap@ornl.gov | 865.574.0569 All Publications Tuning the Mechanical and Dynamic Properties of Elastic Vitrimers by Tailoring the Substituents of Boronic Ester Well-Tunable, 3D-printable, and Fast Autonomous Self-Healing Elastomers Tough and recyclable carbon-fiber composites with exceptional interfacial adhesion via a tailored vitrimer-fiber interface Ductile adhesive elastomers with force-triggered ultra-high adhesion strength... Investigation of 3D printed lightweight hybrid composites via theoretical modeling and machine learning Exceptionally recyclable, extremely tough, vitrimer-like polydimethylsiloxane elastomers via rational network design... Puncture-resistant self-healing polymers with multi-cycle adhesion and rapid healability... Mechanisms Controlling the Energy Barrier for Ion Hopping in Polymer Electrolytes Boosting Piezoelectricity by 3D Printing PVDF-MoS2 Composite as a Conformal and High-Sensitivity Piezoelectric Sensor A Novel Dynamic Polymer Synthesis via Chlorinated Solvent Quenched Depolymerization Tuning the Properties of Nanocomposites by Trapping Them in Deep Metastable States Beyond Simple Dilution: Superior Conductivities from Cosolvation of Acetonitrile/LiTFSI Concentrated Solution with Acetone Surpassing the stiffness-extensibility trade-off of elastomers via mastering the hydrogen-bonding clusters... Single-Ion Conducting Polymer Nanoparticles as Functional Fillers for Solid Electrolytes in Lithium Metal Batteries... Design of tough adhesive from commodity thermoplastics through dynamic crosslinking... Glass-fiber-reinforced polymeric film as an efficient protecting layer for stable Li metal electrodes... Direct Structural Evidence for Interfacial Gradients in Asymmetric Polymer Nanocomposite Blends... Engineering the Interlayer Spacing by Pre-Intercalation for High Performance Supercapacitor MXene Electrodes in Room Temperat... Collective Nanoparticle Dynamics Associated with Bridging Network Formation in Model Polymer Nanocomposites... Improving Gas Selectivity in Membranes Using Polymer-Grafted Silica Nanoparticles Critical Role of the Interfacial Layer in Associating Polymers with Microphase Separation... Anomalously high elastic modulus of a poly(ethylene oxide)-based composite electrolyte... Turning Rubber into a Glass: Mechanical Reinforcement by Microphase Separation... Distilling nanoscale heterogeneity of amorphous silicon using tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) via multiresolution mani... Rational Polymer Design of Stretchable Poly(ionic liquid) Membranes for Dual Applications Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 … Next page ›› Last page Last » Key Links ORCID Organizations Physical Sciences Directorate Chemical Sciences Division Separations and Polymer Chemistry Section Soft Matter Group