Publications and Preprints

From Georgia Tech

• "Tunability of the adhesion of water drops on a superhydrophobic paper surface via selective plasma etching"
  B Balu, JS Kim, V Breedveld and DW Hess
  Submitted (2008).
• "Dynamics of unentangled cyclic and linear poly(oxyethylene) melts"
  S Nam, J Leisen, V Breedveld and HW Beckham
  Submitted (2008).
• "Microrheological study of polyelectrolyte collapse and reexpansion in the presence of multivalent counterions"
  J-S Jan and V Breedveld
  Macromolecules, 41 (17), 6517-6522 (2008). PDF
• "Complementary hydrogen bonded thermoreversible polymer networks with tunable properties"
  KP Nair, V Breedveld and M Weck
  Macromolecules, 41 (10), 3429-3438 (2008). PDF
• "Fabrication of 'roll-off' and 'sticky' superhydrophobic cellulose surfaces via plasma processing"
  B Balu, V Breedveld and DW Hess
  Langmuir, 24 (9), 4785-4790 (2008). PDF
• "Phase behavior in highly concentrated assemblies of microgels with soft repulsive interaction potentials"
  AN St. John, V Breedveld and LA Lyon
  Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 111 (27), 7796-7801 (2007). PDF
• "Crystallization behavior of soft attractive colloidal particles"
  Z Meng, J Cho, S Debord, V Breedveld and LA Lyon
  Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 111 (25), 6992-6997 (2007). PDF
• "Hydrogel formation in amphiphilic triblock copolypeptides"
  AP Nowak, J Sato, V Breedveld and TJ Deming,
  Supramolecular Chemistry, 18 (5), 423-427 (2006). PDF
• "A reversible pH responsive switch for peptide fibril self-assembly"
  Y Zimenkov, SN Dublin, R Ni, RS Tu, V Breedveld, RP Apkarian and VP Conticello,
  Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128, 6770-6771 (2006). PDF (Supporting Information)
• "In-situ monitoring of mechanical properties during photopolymerization with particle tracking microrheology"
  RP Slopek, H McKinley, CL Henderson and V Breedveld,
  Polymer 47, 2263-2268 (2006). PDF
• "Transient rheology of solvent-responsive complex fluids by integrating microfluidics and microrheology"
  J Sato and V Breedveld,
  Journal of Rheology 50 (1), 1-19 (2006). PDF
  (Selected for Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology 13 (2), 2006)
• "Evaporation blocker for cone-plate rheometry of volatile samples"
  J Sato and V Breedveld,
  Applied Rheology 15 (6), 390-397 (2005). PDF
• "Micro-rheological detection of protein unfolding"
  RS Tu and V Breedveld,
  Physical Review E 72, 041914 (2005). PDF
• "Reversible hydrogels from self-assembling genetically engineered protein block copolymers"
  C Xu, V Breedveld and J Kopecek,
  Biomacromolecules 6 (3), 1739-1749 (2005). PDF
• "Rheology of block copolypeptide solutions: hydrogels with tunable properties"
  V Breedveld, AP Nowak, J Sato, TJ Deming and DJ Pine,
  Macromolecules 37 (10), 3943-3953 (2004). PDF

  From UC Santa Barbara (Postdoctoral work of Victor Breedveld)

• "Unusual salt stability in highly charged diblock copolypeptide hydrogels"
  AP Nowak, V Breedveld, DJ Pine and TJ Deming,
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125 (50), 15666-15670 (2003). PDF (Supporting Information)
• "Microrheology as a tool for high-throughput screening"
  V Breedveld and DJ Pine,
  Journal of Materials Science 38 (22), 4461-4470 (2003). PDF
• "Shear-induced diffusion in dilute suspensions of charged colloids"
  V Breedveld and AJ Levine,
  Soft Materials 1(2), 235-244 (2003). PDF
• "Rapidly recovering hydrogel scaffolds from self-assembling diblock copolypeptide amphiphiles"
  AP Nowak, V Breedveld, L Pakstis, B Ozbas, DJ Pine, D Pochan and TJ Deming,
  Nature 417, 424-428 (2002). PDF

  From the University of Twente (Ph.D. and M.Sc. work of Victor Breedveld)

• "Measurement of the full shear-induced self-diffusion tensor of noncolloidal suspensions"
  V Breedveld, D van den Ende, M Bosscher, RJJ Jongschaap and J Mellema,
  Journal of Chemical Physics 116(23), 10529-10535 (2002). PDF
• "Shear-induced diffusion and rheology of non-colloidal suspensions: timescales and particle displacements"
  V Breedveld, D van den Ende, RJJ Jongschaap and J Mellema,
  Journal of Chemical Physics 114(13), 5923-5936 (2001). PDF
• "Measuring shear-induced self-diffusion in a counterrotating geometry"
  V Breedveld, D van den Ende, M Bosscher, RJJ Jongschaap and J Mellema,
  Physical Review E 63, 021403 (2001). PDF
• "Evaluation of instability criterion for bidisperse sedimentation"
  PM Biesheuvel, H Verweij and V Breedveld,
  AIChE Journal 47, 45-52 (2001). PDF
• "Micro-divers to study sedimentation in polydisperse concentrated colloidal suspensions"
  PM Biesheuvel, H Verweij and V Breedveld,
  AIChE Journal 47, 1969-1977 (2001). PDF
• "Graded membrane supports produced by centrigugal casting of a slightly polydisperse suspension"
  PM Biesheuvel, V Breedveld, AP Higler and H Verweij,
  Chemical Engineering Science 56, 3517-3525 (2001). PDF
• "The measurement of the shear-induced particle and fluid tracer-diffusivities in concentrated suspensions by a novel method"
  V Breedveld, D van den Ende, A Tripathi and A Acrivos,
  Journal of Fluid Mechanics 375, 297-318 (1998). PDF
• "Linear viscoelastic behavior of aggregated colloidal dispersions"
  W Wolthers, D van den Ende, V Breedveld, MHG Duits, A Potanin, RHW Wientjes and J Mellema,
  Physical Review 56, 5726-5733 (1997). PDF