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Nancy R. Sottos

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Donald B. Willett Professor of Engineering, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Office 210 Materials Science and Engineering Building

Telephone 217-333-1041 Fax 217-244-0181

Mail Address Department of Materials Science and Engineering
1304 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801

n-sottos@illinois.edu    Sottos research group page

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For a complete list of Prof. Sottos’ articles: http://sottosgroup.beckman.uiuc.edu/j_pubs.html

Keller, M.K., White, S.R., and Sottos, N.R., A self-healing poly(dimethyl siloxane) elastomer, Adv. Func. Materials 17, 2399-2404 (2007).

Toohey, K.S., Sottos, N.R., Lewis, J.A., Moore, J.S., and White, S.R., Self-healing materials with microvascular networks, Nature Materials, 6, 581-585 (2007) .

Hickenboth, C.R., Moore, J.S., White, S.R., Sottos, N.R., and Wilson, S.R.  Biasing Reaction Pathways with Mechanical Force, Nature, 446, 423-427 (2007).

Jones, A. S., Rule, J.D., Moore, J.S., Sottos, N.R. and White, S.R., Life extension of self-healing polymers with rapidly growing fatigue cracks. Special Issue of Self-Healing Polymers and Composites,  J. Royal Society: Interface4, 395-403 (2007).

Berfield, T. A., R.J. Ong, D.A. Payne and N.R. Sottos. Residual stress effects on piezoelectric response of sol-gel derived lead zirconate titanate thin films, J. Applied Physics,101, 024102 (2007).

Berfield, T.A., Patel, J.K., Shimmin, R.G., Braun, P.V., Lambros, J., and Sottos, N.R., Micro- and Nanoscale Deformation Measurement of Surface and Internal Planes via Digital Image Correlation, Experimental Mechanics 47, 51–62 (2007).

Keller, M.W. and Sottos, N.R., Mechanical Properties of Microcapsules Used in a Self-Healing Polymer, Experimental Mechanics 46, 725-733  (2006).

Berfield,T.A., Patel,J.K., Shimmin, R.G., Braun, P.V., Sottos, N.R. and Lambros, J., Fluorescent image correlation for nanoscale deformation measurements, Small 2 (5), 631-635 (2006).

Jones, A.S., White, S.R., Sottos, N.R., Rule, J.D., and Moore, J.S., Catalyst Morphology and Dissolution Kinetics for Self-Healing Polymers, Chemistry of Materials 18 (5), 1312-1317 (2006).

S. Cho, H. M. Andersson, S.R. White, N.R. Sottos, P. Braun, Environmentally stable polydimethysiloxane-based self-healing of polymers,  Advanced Materials 18 (8) 997-1000 (2006).

Brown, E.N., White, S.R. and Sottos, N.R., Retardation and repair of fatigue cracks in a microcapsule toughened epoxy composite—Part II: In situ self-healing. Composite Science and Technology, Special Anniversary Issue, 65, 2474-2480 (2005).

Ong, R., Sottos, N.R., and Payne D.A., Residual Stress and Thickness Effects for Integrated PZT Thin Films, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 88, 2839-2847 (2005).

Hendrickx, J., Geubelle, P.H. and Sottos, N.R. A spectral scheme for the simulation of dynamic mode 3 delamination of thin films, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 72, 1866-1891 (2005).

Wang, J., Sottos, N.R., Weaver, R.L. Tensile and mixed-mode strength of a thin film-substrate interface under laser induced pulsed loading. Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 52, 999-1022 (2004).

Lian, L. and Sottos, N.R. Stress effects in sol-gel derived ferroelectric thin films, J. of Applied Physics, 95, 629-634 (2004).

Brown, E.N., Kessler, M.R., Sottos, N.R. and White, S.R. In situ poly(urea-formaldehyde) microencapsulation of dicyclopentadiene, J. Microencapsulation, 20, 719-730 (2003).

Brown, E., Sottos, N.R., and White, S.R. Fracture testing of a self-healing polymer composite, Experimental Mechanics, 42, 372-379 (2002).

Wang, J. Weaver, R.L. and Sottos, N.R. A parametric study of laser induced thin film spallation. Experimental Mechanics, 42, 74-83 (2002).

White, S.R., Sottos, N.R., Geubelle, Moore, J.S., Kessler, M.R., Sriram, S.R., Brown, E.N.and Viswanathan, S., Autonomic healing of polymer composites, Nature, 409, 794-797 (2001).