- 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).
- 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..
- 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).
- 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).
- S. Y. Liu, S. P. Armes* “Synthesis and Aqueous Solution Behavior of a pH-Responsive Schizophrenic Diblock Copolymer” Langmuir 2003, 19, 4432-4438..
- 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..
- 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..
- 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..
- 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..
- 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..