Surface relaxation in amorphous polystyrene films via molecular simulations and beta-NMR measurements (collaboration with MacFarlane/ Kiefl groups)
Nanoscale phononics and thermal transport in carbon nanotubes (collaboration with Nojeh group)
Statistical physics of driven amorphous materials
Macromolecular engineering of morphology and thermal transport in organic solids
Amorphous metal oxide coatings with low mechanical loss
Selected Publications
J. Rottler, M.O. Robbins. Shear yielding of amorphous glassy solids: Effect of temperature and strain rate. Phys. Rev. E 68, 011507 (2003).
M. Greenwood, N. Provatas, J. Rottler. Free energy functionals for efficient phase field crystal modelling of structural phase transformations. Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 045702 (2010).
A. Nicolas, J.-L. Barrat, J. Rottler. Effect of inertia on the steady state shear rheology of amorphous solids. Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 058303 (2016).
J. Rottler and M. Müller, Kinetic Pathways of Block Copolymer Directed Self-Assembly: Insights from Efficient Continuum Modeling, ACS Nano 14, 13986 (2020).
A. J. Parker and J. Rottler, Nonlinear Mechanics of Triblock Copolymer Elastomers: From Molecular Simulations to Network Models, ACS Macro Letters 6, 786 (2017).
