Paper Publications

• [181] S. Y. Liu, J. V. M. Weaver, S. P. Armes* “Synthesis of pH-Responsive Shell Cross-Linked Micelles and Their Use as Nanoreactors for the Preparation of Gold Nanoparticles” Langmuir 2002, 18, 8350-8357. (Highly Cited Papers, as of Nov 2012, Rated by Essential Science Indicators, ISI Web of Knowledge)
• [182] S. Y. Liu, L. T. Weng, C. M. Chan,* L. Lin, M. Jiang “Surface Characterization of Poly(styrene-co-p-hexafluorohydroxyisopropyl-a-methyl styrene)/Poly(4-vinyl pyridine) Blends Spanning the Immiscibility-Miscibility-Complexation Transition by XPS, ToF-SIMS and AFM” Macromolecules 2002, 35, 5623-5629.
• [183] S. Y. Liu,* J. V. M. Weaver, Y. Tang, N. C. Billingham, S. P. Armes,* K. Tribe “Synthesis of Shell Cross-Linked Micelles with pH-Responsive Cores Using ABC Triblock Copolymers” Macromolecules 2002, 35, 6121-6131. (Highly Cited Papers, as of Nov 2012, Rated by Essential Science Indicators, ISI Web of Knowledge)
• [184] S. Y. Liu, S. P. Armes* “Polymeric Surfactants for the New Millennium: A pH-Responsive, Zwitterionic, Schizophrenic Diblock Copolymer” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2002, 41, 1413-1416; Angew. Chem. 2002, 114, 1471-1474. (Selected as VIP paper) (Highly Cited Papers, as of Nov 2012, Rated by Essential Science Indicators, ISI Web of Knowledge)
• [185] S. Y. Liu, S. P. Armes* “Synthesis and Aqueous Solution Behavior of a pH-Responsive Schizophrenic Diblock Copolymer” Langmuir 2003, 19, 4432-4438.
• [186] S. Y. Liu, Y. I. González, E. W. Kaler* “Structural Fixation of Spontaneous Vesicles in Aqueous Mixtures of Polymerizable Anionic and Cationic Surfactants” Langmuir, 2003, 19, 10732-10738.
• [187] S. Y. Liu,* L. T. Weng, C. M. Chan, M. Jiang “Surface Quantitative Characterization of Poly(styrene-co-4-vinyl phenol)/Poly(styrene-co-4-vinyl pyridine) Blends with Controlled Hydrogen Bonding Interactions” Polymer 2004, 45, 4945-4952.
• [188] S. Y. Liu,* L. T. Weng, C. M. Chan, M. Jiang “Combined XPS and ToF-SIMS Surface Quantitative Analysis of Polymer Blends with Varying Mixing Thermodynamics” Anal. Chem. 2004, 76, 5165-5171.
• [189] S. Y. Liu,* Q. Cai, H. Zhu, M. Jiang “Miscibility-complexation behavior and surface characterization of modified phenoxy resin/poly(butyl methacrylate-co-4-vinyl pyridine) blends” Chem. J. Chin. Univ. 2005, 26, 1149-1155.
• [190] S. Y. Liu,* C. M. Chan, L. T. Weng, M. Jiang “Surface Segregation in Polymer Blends and Interpolymer Complexes with Increasing Hydrogen Bonding Interactions” J. Polym. Sci., Polym. Phys. Ed. 2005, 43, 1924-1930.
• [191] S. Z. Luo, J. Xu, Y. F. Zhang, S. Y. Liu,* C. Wu “Double Hydrophilic Block Copolymer Monolayer-Protected Hybrid Gold Nanoparticles and their Shell Cross-Linking” J. Phys. Chem. B. 2005, 109, 22159-22166.
• [192] S. Y. Liu, Y. I. González, D. Danino, E. W. Kaler* “Polymerization of Worm-like Micelles Induced by Hydrotropic Salt” Macromolecules 2005, 38, 2482-2491.
• [193] Z. Y. Zhu, S. P. Armes, S. Y. Liu* “pH-Induced Micellization Kinetics of ABC Triblock Copolymers Measured by Stopped-Flow Light Scattering” Macromolecules 2005, 38, 9803-9812.
• [194] Y. F. Zhang, S. Z. Luo, S. Y. Liu* “Fabrication of Hybrid Nanoparticles with Thermoresponsive Coronas via a Self-Assembling Approach” Macromolecules 2005, 38, 9813-9820. (Most-Accessed Articles in Macromolecules during Oct-Dec 2005)
• [195] Z. S. Ge, S. Z. Luo, S. Y. Liu* “Syntheses and Self-Assembly of Poly(benzyl ether)-b-poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Dendritic-Linear Diblock Copolymers” J. Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym. Chem. 2006, 44, 1357-1371.