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Stuart Rowan

Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
Verified email at uchicago.edu
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Current international research into cellulose nanofibres and nanocomposites

…, NE Marcovich, JR Capadona, SJ Rowan… - Journal of materials …, 2010 - Springer
This paper provides an overview of recent progress made in the area of cellulose nanofibre-based
nanocomposites. An introduction into the methods used to isolate cellulose …

Dynamic covalent chemistry

SJ Rowan, SJ Cantrill, GRL Cousins… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
… This intermediate can then undergo an irreversible ring contraction as a result of an S- to
N-acyl transfer, thus providing the driving force for the zip reaction which results in the end-to-…

Using the dynamic bond to access macroscopically responsive structurally dynamic polymers

RJ Wojtecki, MA Meador, SJ Rowan - Nature materials, 2011 - nature.com
… 4c) to access room-temperature healable materials (after pressing two cut pieces of a film
together for 10 s they could not be physically separated), although no mechanical data on …

The Einstein Telescope: A third-generation gravitational wave observatory

…, F Ricci, F Richard, A Rocchi, S Rowan… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
… ,20], even though LISA’s observation of stellar mass black holes … This compares well with
LISA’s sensitivity of GW ∼ 10−11 … Although ET’s sensitivity is a few orders of magnitude poorer …

Sensitivity studies for third-generation gravitational wave observatories

…, F Ricci, F Richard, A Rocchi, S Rowan… - … and Quantum gravity, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Advanced gravitational wave detectors, currently under construction, are expected to directly
observe gravitational wave signals of astrophysical origin. The Einstein Telescope (ET), a …

Optically healable supramolecular polymers

…, AJ Duncan, FL Beyer, GL Fiore, SJ Rowan… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
… We thank S. Dellinger for the design and the fabrication of a device to introduce well-defined
defects and Kraton Performance Polymers Inc for the donation of the hydroxyl-terminated …

Stimuli-responsive polymer nanocomposites inspired by the sea cucumber dermis

…, K Shanmuganathan, DJ Tyler, SJ Rowan… - science, 2008 - science.org
… S7) shows that a reduction of E′ s alone cannot account for a significant reduction of E′.
Figure 2A also reveals that even after correcting X r for water uptake, the percolation model …

A healable supramolecular polymer blend based on aromatic π− π stacking and hydrogen-bonding interactions

…, ME Mackay, IW Hamley, SJ Rowan - Journal of the …, 2010 - ACS Publications
… extrapolated value of η 0 greater than 3.5 × 10 13 Pa s. The material appears to be an
extremely viscous liquid, with a relaxation time in excess of 10 10 s (∼300 years) at 30 C. We note …

The third generation of gravitational wave observatories and their science reach

…, F Ricci, F Richard, A Rocchi, S Rowan… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Large gravitational wave interferometric detectors, like Virgo and LIGO, demonstrated the
capability to reach their design sensitivity, but to transform these machines into an effective …

The GEO 600 gravitational wave detector

…, DI Robertson, NA Robertson, S Rowan… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
… The rms length changes of the modecleaners in time intervals of 10 s is below 1 µm
which allows a lock acquisition of the modecleaners within typically 10 s. Until now the …