STEPHEN Z. D. CHENG Member, National Academy of Engineering of the United States of America Robert C. Musson Professor of Polym

STEPHEN Z. D. CHENG

Member, National Academy of Engineering of the United States of America Robert C. Musson Professor of Polymer Science Trustees Professor of Polymer Science Dean, College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, 44325-3909 Tel: (330) 972-6931 Fax: (330) 972-8626 E-mail: [email protected]

EDUCATION

 1977 Diploma Mathematics, East China Normal University, Shanghai  1981 M.S. Polymer Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai  1985 Ph.D. Chemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York (Major Professor: Dr. Bernhard Wunderlich)

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

 1985-87 Research Associate and Postdoctoral Fellow, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute  1987-91 Assistant Professor of Polymer Science, The University of Akron  1991-95 Associate Professor of Polymer Science, The University of Akron  1995-98 Professor of Polymer Science, The University of Akron  1998- Trustees Professor of Polymer Science, The University of Akron  2001-05 Chairman, Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron  2001- Robert C. Musson Trustees Professor of Polymer Science, The University of Akron  2001- Cheung Kong Scholar Professor, Peking University, China  2007- Dean, College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron

RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS

 1987- Faculty Research Associate, Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science, The University of Akron  1988- Faculty Research Associate, Institute of Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron

ACADEMIC, INDUSTRIAL AND GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ADMINISTRATIONS

 1994-97 Project Director, Thin Film Optics, The Science and Technology Center for Advanced Liquid Crystalline Optical Materials (ALCOM), National Science Foundation  1996-99 Associate Director, Center for Molecular and Microstructure of Composites (CMMC), National Science Foundation, Ohio State and Industries  1997 Chairman, Ad-hoc Advisory Panel for the Polymer Program of the Division of Materials Research at National Science Foundation, A Number of Panel Members for Various Review Committees of National Science Foundation Since Then.  1998 Panel Member, Technology Vision 2020 Materials Technology Roadmap Workshop  1998 Participating Member for Interdisciplinary Macromolecular Science and Engineering, A Workshop Co-Sponsored by National Science Foundation and Department of Energy  1998-01 Panel Member for Materials Science and Engineering, under National Research Council Board on Assessment of NIST Programs  2000- Oversees Assessor of Chinese Academy of Science, China  2000-06 Member, American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund Advisory Board  2002-08 Co-Director, Collaborative Center for Polymer Photonics  2006 Member, APS Polymer Physics Prize Selection Committee, American Physical Society  2007 Co-Organizer for the Workshop on Research and Education Opportunities in Interdisciplinary, and Globally Leading Polymer Science and Engineering, Sponsored by National Science Foundation 2

 2008- Member, The Board of Trustees, PolymerOhio  2008- Member, The Board of Trustees, Ohio Polymer Strategic Council  2008-10 Co-Chair, Transition Committee for Center of Biomaterials and Medicine, Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron  2010- Member, Leadership Team, Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron  2011- Director, Center for Polymers and Advanced Functional Materials, Ohio Center of Excellence  2011- Member, The Board of Trustees of Donghua University, Shanghai, China  2012 Member, Assessment of Fundamental Research Efforts at ExxonMobil's Corporate Strategic Research Laboratories  2012 Member, ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry Selection Committee, American Chemical Society

HONORARY, ADVISORY, ADJUNCT, GUEST AND VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS

 1998- Honorary Professor, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China  2003- Honorary Professor, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China  2006- Honorary Professor, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China  2009- Honorary Professor, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China  2009- Honorary Professor, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China  2010- Honorary Professor, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

 1995- Advisory Professor, Donghua University, Shanghai, China  1996- Advisory Professor, Fudan University, Shanghai, China  1996- Advisory Professor, Hebei University of Technology, China  1997- Advisory Professor, South China University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou, China  2010- Advisory Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Wuhan, China

 1994- Adjunct Professor, Guangzhou Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China  1994- Adjunct Professor, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China  2006 Adjunct Professor, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan  2007 Adjunct Professor, Central Michigan University, the United States

 1997- Guest Professor, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China  1997- Guest Professor, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China  1997- Guest Professor, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China  2001- Guest Professor, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China  2002- Guest Professor, Kuming University of Science and Technology, Kuming, China  2007- Guest Professor, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China  2010- Guest Professor, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China

 1994 Visiting Professor, Science University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan  1999, 01 Visiting Professor, Institute Charles Sadiron, CNRS, Strasbourg, France  2001 Visiting Professor, University of Mons, Mons, Belgium  2009- Visiting Professor, Soochow University, Suzhou, China

MEMBERS OF ACADEMIC STEERING COMMITTEES

 1994-2000 Member, Academic Steering Committee of the Open Laboratory of Polymer Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China  2000- Member, Academic Steering Committee of the National Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China  1995- Member, Academic Steering Committee of the National Key Laboratory of Chemical Fiber Structure Modification, Donghua University, China  2003-09 Member, International Visiting Committee of the Joint Laboratory of Polymer Science and Materials, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 3

 2004- Chairman, Academic Steering Committee of the Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics, Peking University, China  2006- Member, Academic Advisor Board of Multidisciplinary Research Center, Shantou University, China  2006- Member, Advisory Committee of College of Science, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan  2007 Member, Advisory Board of the Green Building Material Center, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

 American Association for the Advancement of Science (elected Fellow, 2006)  The American Physical Society, Division of Polymer Physics (elected Fellow, 1994)  The American Chemical Society, Polymer Chemistry Division, Polymer Materials Science and Engineering Division  The North American Thermal Analysis Society (elected Fellow 1993)  The International Confederation for Thermal Analysis  The Society of Plastics Engineers  Material Research Society  International Liquid Crystal Society

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cheng’s research interests center on the condensed states in polymers, liquid crystals, surfactants and micelles, and focuses on the interactions, responses, dynamics, and structures of materials on varying length and time scales in which the material itself embodies the technology. His research activities include investigations of transition thermodynamics and kinetics in metastable states, ordered structures and morphologies, surface and interface structures in electronic and optical materials and advanced functional materials.

RESEARCH GROUP AND SUPPORTS

 21 Full-Time Ph.D. Students, 2 Postdoctoral Fellows and 2 Visiting Professors  As a Major Professor of 17 M.S. and 70 Ph.D. Students Graduated and 55 postdocotral fellows and visitng scientists since 1989 (see the List of Graduate Students)  Over $30 M for Research and Instrumentation Funding and New Faculty Member Positions Supported by the Government Agencies and Industries Since October 1987

COURSE TEACHING

 General Chemistry for Honorable Students (1986 Fall Semester at RPI)  Polymer Physical Chemistry I (Team Teaching, Core Course, Annually, since 1987)  Polymer Physics II (Team Teaching, Core Course, Annually, since 1989)  Polymer Crystal Structure, Morphology and Defects (Special Topic, Biannually, since 1988)  Phases and Phase Transitions in Polymers (Special Topic, Biannually, since 1988)  Thermal Analysis of Polymer Materials (Special Topic, Biannually, since 1989)  Polymer Fibers (Sheared Special Topic, Biannually, 1991-2000)  Short Courses of Polymer Physics and Material Science (Fudan University, China 1993; SRIM, Malaysia 1993; Science University of Tokyo, Japan 1994; 3M Company, USA 1995, 2002; Chinese Academy of Science, China 1996, 1997; Taiwan, 1998, 2004; Hoechst-Celanese, USA 1998; Switzerland, 1998; Strasbourg, France 1999; Akron, USA 2000; Peking University, China, 2000-12)

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

 Presidential Young Investigator Award, the National Science Foundation and White House (1991)  Fellow, The North American Thermal Analysis Society (1993)  American Chemical Society Akron Section Award (1994)  Fellow, The American Physical Society (1994) 4

 John H. Dillon Medal, The American Physical Society (1995)  Distinguished Corporate Inventors Award, American Society of Patent Holders, the National Inventors Hall of Fame (1995 and 1998)  Goodyear Corporate Inventor Award, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company (1998)  Mettler-Toledo Award, The North American Thermal Analysis Society (1999)  The Cheung-Kong Scholar, Ministry of Education, China (2000)  TA-Instrument Award, International Confederation for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (2004)  Cooperative Research Award, Division of Polymer Materials Science and Engineering, American Chemical Society (2005)  Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2006)  The Epistar Lectureship Professor, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan (2006)  Visiting Distinguished Professor, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan (2007)  The Turner Alfrey Visiting Lecture Professor, Michigan Molecular Institute and Michigan State Universities (2007)  Member, National Academy of Engineering of the United States of America (2008)  Member, National Academy of Inventors (2011)  Honorary Fellow, Chinese Chemical Society (2011)  Fellow, Division of Polymer Materials Science and Engineering, American Chemical Society (2012)  Polymer Physics Prize, The American Physical Society (2013)

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON

 Certificate of Appreciation of Outstanding Achievement, The University of Akron Board of Trustees (1992 and 1994)  Outstanding Researcher Award, The University of Akron (1997)  Trustees Professor of Polymer Science, The University of Akron (1998-)  GenCorp Signature University Award (1999)  Robert C. Musson Professor of Polymer Science, The University of Akron (2001-)  Omnova Signature University Award (2001, 2004)  The University of Akron and Research Foundation Inventor Wall of Fame (2006)  Sherpa Certificate for Outstanding Contributions, Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron (2010)

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

 2002- Senior Editor, Polymer  1999- Editor of the Americas, Polymer  1995-98 Executive Editor, Journal of Macromolecular Science, Physics  1999- Associate Editor-in-Chief, Chinese Journal of Polymer Science  1990-04 Member, the Advisory Board, Polymer International Journal  1992-02 Member, the Editorial Board, Journal of Macromolecular Science, Review of Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics  1992- Member, the Editorial Board, Thermochemica Acta  1992-97 Member, the Editorial Advisory Board, Trends in Polymer Science  1994- Member, the Editorial Board, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics (Die Makromolekulare Chemie)  1994- Member, the Editorial Board, Macromolecular Rapid Communications  1995- Member, the Editorial Board, Journal of Polymer Research (Taiwan)  1995-05 Member, the Editorial Board, International Journal of Polymer Analysis and Characterization  1996-98 Member, the Editorial Advisory Board, Macromolecules  1998- Member, the Editorial Advisory Board, Polymer  1999- Member, the Editorial Board, Journal of Macromolecular Science, Physics  2000- Member, the Editorial Board, Journal of Polymer Science, B, Polymer Physics  2002- Member, the Editorial Board, Chinese Journal of Applied Chemistry  2008- Member, the Editorial Board, Journal of Applied Polymer Science 5

 2010- Member, the Editorial Board, Technology and Innovation – Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors  2012 Member, the Editorial Board, Acta Polymerica Sinica

 1992 Guest Editor, a Special Issue in Polymer Engineering and Science Honoring Professor Bernhard Wunderlich's 60th Birthday  1994 Guest Editor, Polymer International for the IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, MacroAkron  1996 Co-Editor, “Liquid-Crystalline Polymer Systems: Technological Advances” American Chemical Society Symposium Series Vol. 632  1997 Guest Editor, a Special Issue in Polymer: “Metastable States and Metastability in Polymers”  1999 Guest Editor, a Special Issue in Polymer Honoring Professor R. K. Eby's 70th Birthday  2002 Volume Editor, “Handbook of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Volume 3, Applications to Polymers and Plastics” Elsevier Science  2003 Guest Editor, a Special Issue in Chinese Journal of Polymer Science: Advances in Polymer Physics  2004 Co-Editor, “Contemporary Topics In Advanced Polymer Science And Technology”, Peking University Press

ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES

 Division of Polymer Physics, American Physical Society, Member of Fellowship Committee (1999), Member of Membership Committee (2000-02), Member of Selection Committee for the Polymer Physics Prize (2006).  The North American Thermal Analysis Society, Member of Executive Council (1991-93, 1994-96), Awards Vice-Chairman (1991-92), Awards Chairman (1992-93), Session and Symposium Chairman (1988, 1989, 1992, 1993), Technical Program Vice-Chairman (1992), Program Chairman (1993), Meeting Vice-Chairman (1994), Meeting Chairman (1995).  Member of Education Committee, International Confederation for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (1996- 02).  Member of Awards Committee, Society of Plastics Engineers (1991-94).  Member of the Organization Committee, International Polymer Physics Symposium Honoring Professor John D. Hoffman's 70th Birthday, Washington D. C., May 1993.  Symposium Co-Chairman, Recent Advances in Liquid Crystal Polymers, Polymer Materials Science and Engineering Division, American Chemical Society, Anaheim, March 1995.  Member of the Organization Committee, First Conference of Worldwide Young Chinese Chemists, Beijing, China, August 1995.  Symposium Co-Chairman, X-ray Diffraction in Polymers, Pittsburgh X-ray Conference, Akron, November 1995.  Member of Organization Committee, International Liquid Crystal Conference, Kent, June 1996.  Symposium Organizer, Metastability and Critical Phenomenon in Phase Behaviors of Polymers, Material Research Society, San Francisco, April 1997.  Co-Chairman, International Symposium of Polymer Physics, Guilin, November 1997, Yellow Mountain, September 2000, Qingdao, July 2002, Dali, July 2004, China.  Vice-Chairman, International Advisory Board, Second World Chinese Symposium of Applied Chemistry, Changchun, China, August 1998.  Co-Chairman, International Polymer Physics Symposium Honoring Professor R. K. Eby's 70th Birthday, Akron, Ohio, May 1999.  Member of Academic Steering Committee, International Polymer Physics Workshop, Shanghai, China, August 1999.  Co-Chairman, Xiangshan Science Conference, Beijing, China, January 2001.  Member of the Organization Committee, Stony Brook Symposium of Complex Matter Honoring Professor Benjamin Chu’s 70th Birthday, Stony Brook, New York, December 2001.  Member of International Advisory Committee, IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, Beijing, July 2002.  Member of Advisory and Academic Committee, International Conference on Advanced Fiber Materials, Shanghai, September 2002.  Chairman, Elsevier Editors’ Conference, Sonoma, California, April 2003. 6

 Member of International Advisory Committee, Advances in Petrochemicals and Polymers in the New Millennium, Bangkok, Thailand, July 2003.  Member of International Advisory Committee, 8th Pacific Polymer Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, November 2003.  Member of Advisory Committee, 3rd East Asia Polymer Conference, Chengdu, June 2004.  Member of Program Committee, Great Lake Photonic Symposium, June 2004, June 2006.  Symposium Co-Organizer, Polymer in Solid State, IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, Paris, July 2004.  Member of Academic Committee, International Conference on Advanced Fibers and Polymer Materials, Shanghai, October 2005, October 2007, October 2009, August 2011.  Symposium Organizer, Polymer materials for microelectronic and photonic applications, 9th Pacific Polymer Conference, Maui, December 2005.  Executive Co-Chair, Eastern Forum on Science and Technology: Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Shanghai Municipal Government, Chinese Academy of Science and Chinese Academy of Engineering, Shanghai, May 2006.  Member of International Advisory Committee, 4th East Asia Polymer Conference, Tianjin, May 2006.  Member of International Advisory Committee, International Symposium of Polymer Physics, Suzhou, June 2006; Xiamen, June 2008, Jinan, June 2010, Chengdu, June 2012.  Member of International Advisory Committee, Hangzhou International Polymer Forum, Hangzhou, May, 2007.  Member of Organizing Committee, the Second Strategic IUPAC Polymer Symposium, New York, June 2007.  Member of International Advisory Committee Advances in Petrochemicals and Polymers, Bangkok, Thailand, July 2007.  Symposium Co-Organizer, Fiftieth Anniversary of Polymer Single Crystals - A look back, current discoveries, and future opportunities, American Chemical Society Meeting, Boston, August 2007.  Member of International Advisory Board, The 9th International Symposium on Polymers for Advanced Technologies, Shanghai, China, October 2007.  Member of International Advisory Committee, 5th East Asia Polymer Conference, Shanghai, China, June 2008.  Co-Chair, Frontier Polymer Science, Mainz, Germany, June 2009, Lion, France, May 2011.  Member of International Advisory Committee, International Symposia on Engineering Plastics, Dalian, China, August 2009.  Member of International Advisory Committee, International Discussion Meeting on Polymer Crystallization, Shanghai, China, August 2009, Beijing, China, August 2011.  Co-Chair, the Focus Group of Confined Polymer Crystallization, American Physical Society Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 2010.  Symposium Organizer, Energy, Optics, and Optoelectronics in International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) World Polymer Congress, Blacksburg, Virginia, June 2012.  Member of Academic Committee, Discussion Meeting on Chinese Liquid Crystal and Supramolecular Ordered Structures, Xiangtan, China, August 2012.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 The American Chemical Society and Related Meetings at New York (1986), Montreal (1987), Toronto (1988), Miami Beach (1989), Indianapolis (1991, Invited Speaker), San Francisco (1992, Invited Speaker), Washington D. C. (1992), Denver (1993, Invited Speaker), Chicago (1993, Invited Speaker), San Diego (1994), Anaheim (1995, Invited Speaker and Session Chair), Honolulu (1995, Invited Speaker and Session Chair), New Orleans (1996, Invited Speaker), Orlando (1996), San Francisco (1997, Invited Speaker), Las Vegas (1997, Invited Speaker), Boston (1998, Invited Speaker), New Orleans (1999, Invited Speaker), San Francisco (2000, Invited Speaker), Washington D. C. (2000), San Diego (2001), Chicago (2001), Orlando (2002, Invited Speaker and Session Chair), New York (2003, Invited Speaker), Philadelphia (2004, Invited Speaker), San Diego (2005, Corporate Research Award Speaker), Washington DC (2005, Invited Speaker), San Francisco (2006, Invited Speaker and Session Chair), Boston (2007, Invited Speaker and Symposium Co-Organizer), New Orleans (2008, Invited Speakers), Philadelphia (2008, Invited Speakers), Salt lake City (2009, Invited Speaker), Washington DC (2009, Invited Speaker), San Francisco (2010, Invited Speaker and Symposium Organizer), Denver (2011, Invited Speaker), San Diego (2012, Invited Speaker), Philadelphia (2012, Invited Speaker)  The American Physical Society Meeting at Detroit (1984), Baltimore (1985), Las Vegas (1986), New York (1987), New Orleans (1988), St. Louis (1989), Anaheim (1990), Cincinnati (1991), Indianapolis (1992), Seattle (1993), Pittsburgh (1994), San Jose (1995, John H. Dillon Award Speaker), St. Louis (1996), Kansas City 7

(1997), Los Angeles (1998), Atlanta (1999), Minneapolis (2000, Invited Speaker), Seattle (2001, Session Chair), Indianapolis (2002), Austin (2003, Invited Speaker), Montreal (2004), Los Angeles (2005), Baltimore (2006, Invited Speaker), Denver (2007), New Orleans (2008), Pittsburgh (2009), Portland (Co-Chair of focus group), Dallas (2011), Boston (2012, Invited Speaker)  Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystal Polymers (1986, 1988, 1990, 1992 Discussion Leader, 1995), Polymer Physics (1988, 1998 Invited Speaker, 2002 Discussion Leader, 2012 Discussion Leader), Polymers (1991 Invited Speaker, 2009 Invited Speaker) in New England, Polymer Composites (1992 Invited Speaker, 1994)  International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Macromolecular Symposia and Other Symposia Related to Polymer Science at Amherst (IUPAC Macro1982), Montreal (IUPAC Macro1991), Akron (IUPAC Macro1994, Session Chairman), Taipei (1994, Invited Speaker and Session Chairman), Osaka (1996, Invited Speaker and Session Chairman), Beijing (IUPAC Macro2002, Invited Speaker and Session Chairman), Paris (IUPAC Macro2004, Symposium Co-Chairman), Taipei (IUPAC Macro2008, Plenary Lecturer), Blacksburg (IUPAC Macro2012, Symposium Chairman)  National and International Material Research Society Meeting at San Francisco (1997, Symposium organizer), Boston (2004, Invited Speaker), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2009, invited Speaker).  Conference on Thermal Analysis at Cincinnati (1986), Lake Buena Vista (1988), San Diego (1989), Boston (1990), Minneapolis (1991), Atlanta (1992, Invited Speaker), Denver (1993), Toronto (1994), San Francisco (1995), Philadelphia (1996), Cleveland (1998), Savannah (1999, Mettler Toledo Award Speaker and Invited Speaker), Orlando (2000, Invited Speaker), St. Louis (2001), Pittsburgh (2002), Williamsburg (2004, Symposium Chair)  Denver X-ray Conference (1994, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2007 Invited Speakers), American Crystallographic Association Meeting (1995, 2000 Invited Speaker)  Other Professional Conference: NSF Workshop on American and Russian Polymer Young Investigators at Washington D.C. (1992); NATO Workshop on Polymer Crystallization at Mons, Belgium (1992 Invited Speaker and Session Chairman); The Royal Society (London) Discussion Meeting, London, England (1993, 2002 Invited Speaker); The Polymer Processing Society Conference (1994 Kyoto, Japan, Invited Keynote Speaker, 2000 Shanghai, China, Invited Plenary Speaker, 2002 Taiwan, Invited Keynote Speaker and Symposium Chairman); Annual Conference of the Society of Plastic Engineers at Dallas (1990, Invited Speaker and Session Chair), Montreal (1991, Invited Speaker), New Orleans (1993, Invited Speaker), San Francisco (1994, Invited Speaker), Boston (1995), Indianapolis (1996, Invited Speaker); International Polymer Physics Symposium (1995, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 Invited Speakers); The Conference of Worldwide Young Chinese Chemists (1995, 1997 Invited Speakers), Pacific Polymer Conference (1995 Kauai, Invited Speaker and Session Chair, 1999, Guangzhou, Invited Plenary Speaker, 2000, Honolulu, Invited Speakers, 2003 Thailand, Keynote Speaker, 2011 Juju Iceland, Invited Speaker, 2013 Kaohsiung, Invited Speaker), China National Polymer Science Symposium (1997 Invited Plenary Speaker, 2005, 2007 Invited Speakers, 2009 Invited Plenary Speaker, 2011 Invited Speaker), UK Royal Society of Chemistry and Institute of Physics, Polymer 98 (1998, Invited Keynote Speaker), Japan Fiber Society Annual Meeting (1999, Invited Keynote Speaker)

 Lectures at Universities, Industrial Research and Development Centers, National Laboratories, Professional Conferences in the United States and Abroad in Belgium (1992, 2001, 2004), Brazil (2009), Canada (1988, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2005), China (1992-2012), England (1993, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2006), France (1997, 1999, 2001, 2003-05, 2007, 2011), Germany (1997, 1999, 2003, 2005), Italy (2000, 2004), Japan (1993, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2007), Korea (1995, 2000, 2002, 2011), Malaysia (1993), The Netherlands (1998, 2001, 2012), Switzerland (1992, 1998), Taiwan (1994, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2006-12), Thailand (2003). Total of about 900 (more than 600 Invited Lectures), See the Lists of Invited Lectures and Paper Presentations.

PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS

 More than 430 articles published in refereed research journals and book chapters. See the list of publication  One book published in 2008 titled “Phase Transitions in Polymers: The Role of Metastable States”  The H-index: 57 (ISI). The total number of citations: > 10,500 (ISI). The number of citations in publications: > 100/year since 1991, > 200/year since 1995; > 400/year since 1999; > 500/year since 2003; > 600/year since 2005; > 800/year since 2009 8

 Ten US and world patents and applications issued regarding aromatic polyimide negative birefringent retardation films in liquid crystal display applications, high performance aromatic polyimide fibers, half- wavelength optical plates, polyimide alignment layers, and compensation layers having oblique optical axis. Among them, five patents have been licensed by industries.

CONSULTANTSHIPS

 Chevron-Phillips Petroleum Company, Bartlesville, Oklahoma (1988-2007)  Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio (1989-91)  Foster-Miller Incorporated, Waltham, Massachusetts (1995-97)  Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois and Mountain View, California (1995-99)  3M, Science Laboratory, St. Paul, Minnesota (2000-)  British Petroleum/Amoco Chemical Company (2001-04)  Nanofilms Company (2003-05)  Alcoa SCI (2007)

COMPANY VISITS AND CONSULTANTS

 Hercules Incorporated, Wilmington, Delaware (1987, 1988, 1989, 1991)  Dow Chemical Company, Freeport, Texas; Midland, Michigan (1989, 1991, 2007)  The Shell Development Company, Houston, Texas (1989)  Exxon Chemical Company, Baytown, Texas (1991, 1992)  GenCorp Company, Akron, Ohio (1991)  Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, Tennessee (1991, 2004, 2005)  Du Pont Company, Experimental Station, Wilmington, Delaware (1991, 1992, 1995, 2003)  Advanced Cardiovascular System Inc., Santa Clara, California (1992)  3M Company, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota (1992, 1993, 1995, 2000, 2002-06), Austin, Texas (1995)  Fina Oil and Chemical Company, Deer Park, Texas (1992)  ICI Glidden Company, Strongsville, Ohio (1993)  Optical Imaging System, Detroit, Michigan (1993, 1997)  Seiko Instrument Inc. Japan (1993, 1994)  Standards and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia, Malaysia (1993)  Petronas of Malaysia, Malaysia (1993)  Toray Research Center Incorporated, Sonoyama, Japan (1994, 1996)  Research Center, Polyplastics Company, LTD., Shizuoka, Japan (1994)  Union Chemical Laboratories, Shinchu, Taiwan (1994, 1998, 2001)  Hante Incorporated, Dallas, Texas (1994)  Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio (1994, 2007)  Akzo Chemical Company, Dobbs Ferry, New York (1994, 1995, 1996)  Xerox Corporation, Research and Technology Center, Webster, New York (1995)  Raychem Corporation, Research and Development, Menlo Park, California (1995)  Samsung Cheil Industries Research Center, Korea (1995, 2000， 2011)  LG Chemical Research Center, Korea (1995)  Cheil Synthetics Research Center, Korea (1995, 2000)  NOK Incorporated, Tsukuba, Japan (1996)  Nippon Shokubai Co. Ltd, Tokyo, Japan (1996)  Toyobo Company, Japan (1996, 1998)  Wesley-Jessen Company, Chicago, Illinois (1996)  British Petroleum Chemical Company, France (1997, 2000)  Dow Corning Corporation, Midland, Michigan (1997, 2007)  Hoechst-Celanese, Charlotte, North Carolina (1998)  British Petroleum Chemical Company, Sunbury, UK (1998)  Lightwave Microsystems, San Jose, California (1998, 2000, 2001)  Kimberly-Clark, Roswell, Georgia (1999) 9

 Aristech Chemical, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2000)  Ashland Chemical Company, Dublin, Ohio (2002)  British Petroleum/Solvy Chemical Company, Brussels, Belgium (2002)  British Petroleum Chemical Company, Maplesville, Illinois (2003)  Kosa Chemical Company, Spartanburg, South Carolina (2003-07)  Nanofilms Company, Independence, Ohio (2003-06)  Alcoa SCI (2007)  ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (2007, 2012)

PUBLICATIONS OF STEPHEN Z. D. CHENG

1. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Fanting Li, The process and mechanism of fiber fracture. Journal of ECIT, 6, 109 (in Chinese), 1980.

2. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Rangquan Wu and Fanting Li, Conformation of the flexible polymer chain, the diffusion process and functional integrals. Journal of ECIT, 7, 27 (in Chinese), 1981.

3. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Rangquan Wu, Mathematical models of macromolecular conformations in the form of random flight and freely rotating. Science Communications, 20, 10 (in Chinese), 1981.

4. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Rangquan Wu, A. stochastic study of excluded-volume effect in macromolecules. Science Communication, 26, 12 (in English), 1981.

5. Rangquan Wu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Chenxun Wu, Mathematical model of macromolecular conformations and their application. Scientia Sinica, 35(B), 1 (in Chinese), 1986; 29(B), 897 (in English), 1986.

6. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, Molecular segregation and nucleation of poly(ethylene oxide) crystallized from the melt. 1. Calorimetric study. Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Physics Ed., 24, 577-594, 1986.

7. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, Molecular segregation and nucleation of poly(ethylene oxide) crystallized from the melt. 2. Kinetic study. Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Physics Ed., 24, 595-617, 1986.

8. Janusz Grebowicz, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, Kinetics of transitions involving condis crystals. Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Physics Ed., 24, 675-685, 1986.

9. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Stephanie Lim, Lawrence H. Judovits and Bernhard Wunderlich, Heat capacities of high melting polymers containing phenylene groups. Polymer, 28, 10-22, 1987.

10. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, Heat capacities and entropies of liquid high-melting- point polymers containing phenylene groups (PEEK, PC, and PET). Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Physics Ed., 24, 1755-1765, 1986.

11. Bernhard Wunderlich and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal analysis of linear macromolecules. Gazzetta Chimica Italiana, 116, 345-354, 1986.

12. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, M.-Y. Cao and Bernhard Wunderlich, Glass transition and melting behavior of poly(oxy-1,4-phenyleneoxy-1,4-phenylenecarbonyl-1,4-phenylene). Macromolecules, 19, 1868-1876, 1986.

13. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, Comments on “The heat capacity of polyoxymethylene as a function of crystallinity”. Polymer Bulletin, 15, 445-447, 1986.

14. Zongquan Wu, Dann L. Veronica, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, Fast DSC applied to the crystallization of polypropylene. Journal of Thermal Analysis, 34, 105-114, 1988.

15. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, Glass transition and melting behavior of poly(oxy-2,6- Dimethyl-1,4-phenylene). Macromolecules, 20, 1630-1637, 1987.

16. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Zongquan Wu and Bernhard Wunderlich, Glass transition and melting behavior of poly(thio-1,4-phenylene). Macromolecules, 20, 2802-2810, 1987.

17. Haishan Bu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, Study of skeletal vibrations used to compute heat capacities of solid macromolecules. Journal of Physical Chemistry, 91, 4179-4188, 1987.

18. Bernhard Wunderlich and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The thermal analysis of PEEK. Thermochemica Acta, 119, 231-232, 1987.

19. Haishan Bu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, A new etching method for the electron microscopy of semicrystalline poly(ethylene oxide). Polymer Bulletin, 17, 567-571, 1987.

20. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, Glass transition and melting behavior of poly(ethylene- 2,6-naphthalene dicarboxylate). Macromolecules, 21, 789-797, 1988.

21. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Haishan Bu and Bernhard Wunderlich, Molecular segregation and nucleation of poly(ethylene Oxide) crystallized from the melt. 3. Morphological study. Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Physics Ed., 26, 1947-1964, 1988.

22. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Haishan Bu and Bernhard Wunderlich, Double lamellae of low-molecular-mass fractions of poly(ethylene oxide) crystallized from the melt. Polymer, 29, 579-583, 1988.

23. Haishan Bu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, Addendum to the thermal properties of polypropylene. Die Makromolekulare Chemie, Rapid Communication, 9, 75-77, 1988.

24. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Robert Pan and Bernhard Wunderlich, Thermal analysis of poly(butylene terephthalate) for heat capacity, rigid-amorphous content, and transition behavior. Die Makromolekulare Chemie, 189, 2443-2458, 1988.

25. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Robert Pan, Haishan Bu and Bernhard Wunderlich, Thermodynamic properties in the liquid state of high melting polymers containing phenylene and naphthylene groups. Die Makromolekulare Chemie, 189, 1579-1594, 1988.

26. Donald W. Noid, George A. Pfeffer, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, Computer simulation of the melting process in linear macromolecules. Macromolecules, 21, 3482-3485, 1988.

27. Haishan Bu, W. Aycock, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, Heat capacities of various solid linear macromolecules. Polymer, 29, 1485-1494, 1988.

28. Haishan Bu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, New etching method for poly(ethylene oxide). Polymer, 29, 1603-1607, 1988.

29. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Donald W. Noid and Bernhard Wunderlich, Molecular segregation and nucleation of Poly(ethylene oxide) crystallized from the melt. 4. Computer modeling. Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Physics Ed., 27, 1149-1160, 1989.

30. Bernhard Wunderlich, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and K. Loufakis, Thermodynamic properties. Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering, Vol. 16, pp.767-807, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1989.

31. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, Thermal analysis of thermoplastic polymers. Thermochemica Acta, 134, 161-166, 1988.

32. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Kinetics of mesophase transitions in thermotropic copolyesters. 1. Calorimetric study. Macromolecules, 21, 2475-2484, 1988.

33. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, Modification of the Avrami treatment of crystallization to account for nucleus and interface. Macromolecules, 21, 3327-3328, 1988.

34. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, A study of molecular nucleation of low molecular mass poly(ethylene oxide) from the melt. Macromolecules, 22, 1866-1873, 1989.

35. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, James J. Janimak, K. Shridhar and Frank W. Harris, Liquid-crystalline poly(azomethine)s. 1. Thermodynamic properties. Polymer, 30, 494-503, 1989. 12

36. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal characterization of macromolecules. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Applied Polymer Symposium, 43, 315-371, 1989.

37. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, James J. Janimak, Anqiu Zhang, Jiayu Guan and Ang-Ling Chu, A study on the correlation between rigid and oriented amorphous fractions in uniaxially drawn poly(ethylene-2,6- naphthalene dicarboxylate). Polymer Bulletin, 20, 449-453, 1988.

38. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, James J. Janimak, Anqiu Zhang and Zhenglong Zhou, Kinetics of mesophase transitions of thermotropic copolyesters. 2. Two transition processes. Macromolecules, 22, 4240-4246, 1989.

39. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thein Kyu and Frank W. Harris, Structure formation of semicrystalline polyimides and related molecular composites. Proceeding of Society of Plastics Engineers, Brookfield Connecticut, 48, 484-486, 1990.

40. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Daniel P. Heberer, H.-S. Lien and Frank W. Harris, Glass transitions and crystal melting in semicrystalline polyimides. Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Physics Ed., 28, 655-674, 1990.

41. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Jianhua Chen and James J. Janimak, Crystal growth of intermediate-molecular- mass poly(ethylene oxide) fractions from the melt. Polymer, 31, 1018-1024, 1990.

42. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Jeffrey S. Barley and Paul A Giusti, Spherulite formation in poly(ethylene oxide) mixtures. Polymer, 31, 845-849, 1990.

43. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, James J. Janimak, Anqiu Zhang and H. N. Cheng, Regime transitions in fractions of isotactic polypropylene. Macromolecules, 23, 298-303, 1990.

44. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, James J. Janimak, Tim M. Lipinski, K. Shridhar, Xiaoyan Huang and Frank W. Harris, Liquid-crystalline poly(azomethine)s: 2. Structural formation kinetics. Polymer, 31, 1122-1129, 1990.

45. James J. Janimak and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization behavior of low molecular mass isotactic polypropylene fractions. Polymer Bulletin, 22, 95-101, 1989.

46. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anqiu Zhang, Ronald L. Johnson, Zongquan Wu and Hak Hung Wu, Kinetics of mesophase transitions in thermotropic copolyesters. 3. Poly[(phenyl-p-phenylene terephthalate)-co-(1- phenylethyl-p-phenylene terephthalate)] copolyester. Macromolecules, 23, 1196-1202, 1990.

47. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Zongquan Wu, Anqiu Zhang, Ronald L. Johnson and Hak Hung Wu, Unit-cell size change of the thermotropic copolyester-TPA/PHQ/PEHQ under different annealing conditions. Polymer, 31, 1763-1767, 1990.

48. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Jeffrey S. Barley, and Ernst D. von Meerwall, Self-diffusion of poly(ethylene oxide) fractions and its influence on the crystalline texture. Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Physics Ed., 29, 515-525, 1991.

49. Zongquan Wu, Anqiu Zhang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Bing Huang and Baojun Qian, Changes in crystal structure parameters and thermal mechanical properties of poly(p-phenylene terephthalamide) fibers under different annealing conditions. Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Physics Ed., 28, 2565-2583, 1990.

50. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anqiu Zhang and Jianhua Chen, Existence of a transient nonintegral folding lamellar crystal in a low molecular mass poly(ethylene oxide) fraction crystallized from the melt. Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Letters Ed., 28, 233-239, 1990.

51. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Ronald L. Johnson, Structure formation mechanism of mesophase transitions in thermoplastic copolyesters. Proceeding of Society of Plastics Engineers, Brookfield Connecticut, 49, 1088-1092, 1991.

52. Daniel P. Heberer, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Jeffrey S. Barley, and Frank W. Harris, Crystallization and morphology of semicrystalline polyimides. Proceeding of Society of plastics Engineers, Brookfield Connecticut, 49, 1546-1549, 1991.

53. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anqiu Zhang, Jianhua Chen and Daniel P. Heberer, Nonintegral and integral folding crystal growth in low-molecular-mass poly(ethylene oxide) fractions. 1. Isothermal lamellar thickening and thinning. Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Physics Ed., 29, 287-297, 1991.

54. Bobby G. Sumpter, Donald W. Noid, Bernhard Wunderlich and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Molecular dynamics study of melting of a crystalline polyethylene molecule: Effect of chain folding. Macromolecules, 23, 4671- 4677, 1990.

55. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Jianhua Chen, Anqiu Zhang and Daniel P. Heberer, Nonintegral and integral folding crystal growth in low-molecular-mass poly(ethylene oxide) fractions. 2. End group effect: .-methoxy- poly(ethylene oxide). Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Physics Ed., 29, 299-310, 1991.

56. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Jianhua Chen, Nonintegral and Integral folding crystal growth in low molecular mass poly(ethylene oxide) fractions. 3. Linear crystal growth rates and crystal morphology. Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Physics Ed., 29, 311-327, 1991.

57. Bobby G. Sumpter, Donald W. Noid, Bernhard Wunderlich and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Computer simulations of structural and dynamical properties of polymers in the solid state. Prentice Hall Advanced Reference Series, Polymer Science and Engineering, R. J. Roe Ed., pp. 311-330, 1990.

58. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, James J. Janimak, Anqiu Zhang and Eric T. Hsieh, Isotacticity effect on crystallization and melting in polypropylene fractions. 1. Crystalline structure and thermodynamic property changes. Polymer, 32, 648-655, 1991.

59. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Ronald L. Johnson, Zongquan Wu and Hak Hung Wu, Kinetics of mesophase transitions in thermotropic copolyesters. 4. Pendant side group effect. Macromolecules, 24, 150-157, 1991.

60. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Michael A. Yandrasits and Virgil Percec, Phase behavior in a thermotropic polyether involving rod-like mesogenic groups based on conformational isomerism. Polymer, 32, 1284-1292, 1991.

61. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Daniel P. Heberer, James J. Janimak, Shawn H.-S. Lien, and Frank W. Harris, Structure and thermal history dependent enthalpy relaxation at the glass transition of semicrystalline polyimides. Polymer, 32, 2053-2059, 1991.

62. James J. Janimak, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Paul A. Giusti and Eric T. Hsieh, Isotacticity effect on crystallization and melting in polypropylene fractions. 2. Linear crystal growth rate and morphology study. Macromolecules, 24, 2253-2260, 1991.

63. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Sung-Koo Lee, Jeffrey S. Barley, Steven L. C. Hsu and Frank W. Harris, Gel/sol and liquid-crystalline transitions in solution of a rigid-rod polyimide. Macromolecules, 24, 1883-1889, 1991.

64. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Zongquan Wu, Mark Eashoo, Steven L. C. Hsu and Frank W. Harris, A high- performance aromatic polyimide fiber. 1. Structure, properties and mechanical-history dependence. Polymer, 32, 1803-1810, 1991.

65. Daniel P. Heberer, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Jeffrey S. Barley, Shawn H.-S. Lien, Robert G. Bryant and Frank W. Harris, Crystallization and morphology of semicrystalline polyimide. Macromolecules, 24, 1890- 1898, 1991. 14

66. James J. Janimak, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anqiu Zhang and Eric T. Hsieh, Isotacticity effect on crystallization and melting in polypropylene fractions. 3. Overall crystallization and melting behavior. Polymer, 33, 728-735, 1992.

67. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Zongquan Wu, Mark Eashoo, Steven L. C. Hsu and Frank W. Harris, High modulus polymers. Polymer News, 16, 49-50, 1991.

68. James J. Janimak and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization studies in isotactic polypropylene fractions. Journal of Polymer Engineering, 10, 21-69, 1991.

69. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Polyimide fibers, aromatic. International Encyclopedia of Composites, VCH Publishers, Vol. 6, pp. 293-309, New York, 1991.

70. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anqiu Zhang, Jeffrey S. Barley, Jianhua Chen, Anton Habenschuss and Paul R. Zschack, Isothermal thickening and thinning processes in low molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide) fractions. 1. From nonintegral-folding to integral-folding chain crystal transitions. Macromolecules, 24, 3937-3944, 1991.

71. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Jianhua Chen, Anqiu Zhang, Jeffrey S. Barley, Anton Habenschuss and Paul R. Zschack, Isothermal thickening and thinning processes in low molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide) fractions crystallized from the melt. 2. Crystals involving more than one fold. Polymer, 33, 1140-1149, 1992.

72. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Jianhua Chen and Daniel P. Heberer, Extended chain crystal growth of low molecular mass poly(ethylene oxide) and ,-methoxy-poly(ethylene oxide) fractions near their melting temperatures. Polymer, 33, 1429-1436, 1992.

73. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Fred E. Arnold, Jr., Anqiu Zhang, Steven L. C. Hsu and Frank W. Harris, Organo- soluble segmented rigid-rod polyimide films. 1. Structure formation. Macromolecules,24, 5856-5862, 1991.

74. David M. Bodily, Theodore Davidson, Michael Jaffe, R. Bruce Prime, George Czornyj, Umesh Gaur, Suk Fai Lau and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Dr. Bernhard Wunderlich: An innovative educator and pioneer in the physical chemistry of polymers. Polymer Engineering and Science, 32(17), 1177-1187, 1992.

75. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Xiaoxin Wu, Anqiu Zhang and Michael A. Meador, Thermal properties, phase transitions, and morphology of a conjugated polymer. Polymer Engineering and Science, 32(17), 1325- 1332, 1992.

76. Frank W. Harris, Steven L. C. Hsu, Chul Joo Lee, Fred E. Arnold, Jr. and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Organo- soluble segmented rigid-rod polyimides: synthesis and properties. MRS Meeting Proceeding, High Temperature Polymers in Microelectronics, Vol. 227, 3-9, 1991.

77. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Fred E. Arnold, Jr., Sung-Koo Lee, Mark Eashoo, Steven L. C. Hsu, Chul Joo Lee and Frank W. Harris, Rigid-rod and segmented rigid-rod polyimides: Gel/sol and liquid crystalline transitions, fibers and films. MRS Meeting Proceeding, High Temperature Polymers in Microelectronics, Vol. 227, 137-145, 1991.

78. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Jianhua Chen, Jeffrey S. Barley, Anqiu Zhang, Anton Habenschuss and Paul R. Zschack, Isothermal thickening and thinning processes in low molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide) fractions. 3. Molecular weight dependence. Macromolecules, 25, 1453-1460, 1992.

79. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Martin L. Mittleman, James J. Janimak, Dexing Shen, Tammy M. Chalmers, Shawn Hsun-Shan Lien, Chung C. Tso, Patricia A. Gabori and Frank W. Harris, Crystal structure, crystallization kinetics and morphology of a new polyimide. Polymer International, 29, 201-208, 1992.

80. Michael A. Yandrasits, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anqiu Zhang, Jinlong Cheng, Bernhard Wunderlich and Virgil Percec, Mesophase behavior in thermotropic polyethers based on the semiflexible mesogen, 1-(4- hydroxyphenyl)-2-(2-methyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)ethane. Macromolecules, 25, 2112-2121, 1992.

81. Tomohiro Fukai, Jen-Chang Yang, Thein Kyu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Sung-Koo Lee, Steven L.-C. Hsu and Frank W. Harris, Miscibility studies of polyimide/poly(ether imide) molecular composites. Polymer, 33, 3621-3626, 1992.

82. Fred E. Arnold, Jr., Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Steven L. C. Hsu, Chul Joo Lee, Frank W. Harris and Suk-Fai Lau, Organo-soluble, segmented rigid-rod polyimide films. 2. Properties for microelectronic applications. Polymer, 33, 5179-5185, 1992.

83. Jinlong Cheng, Yiming Jin, Bernhard Wunderlich, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Michael A. Yandrasits, Anqiu Zhang and Virgil Percec, Solid state 13C NMR studies of molecular motion in MBPE-9 and MBPE-5. Macromolecules, 25, 5991-5999, 1992.

84. Sung-Koo Lee, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Zongquan Wu, Chul Joo Lee, Frank W. Harris, Thein Kyu and Jen- Chang Yang, Molecular weight and concentration effects on gel/sol transitions in a segmented rigid- rid polyimide solution. Polymer International, 30, 115-122, 1993.

85. Virgil Percec, M. Zuber, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Anqiu Zhang, Liquid-crystalline polyethers based on conformational isomerism. 22. Hexagonal columnar mesophase in polyethers and copolyethers based on 1,4-bis[2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethyl] benzene 1,2-bis(4-hydroxy-phenyl) ethane and 1,9-dibromononane. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2, 407-414, 1992.

86. Fred E. Arnold, Jr., Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Thermomechanical analysis of a segmented rigid-rod polyimide film. Thermochemica Acta, 212, 189-195, 1992.

87. Fred E. Arnold, Jr., Katie R. Bruno, Dexing Shen, Mark Eashoo, Chul Joo Lee, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The origin of  relaxations in segmented rigid-rod polyimide and copolyimide films. Polymer Engineering and Science, 33, 1373-1380, 1993.

88. Ricardo Pardey, Anqiu Zhang, Patricia A. Gabori, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Jerry Adduci, John V. Facinelli and Robert W. Lenz, Monotropic liquid crystal behavior in two poly(ester imides) with even and odd flexible spacers. Macromolecules, 25, 5060-5068, 1992.

89. Tammy M. Chalmers, Anqiu Zhang, Dexing Shen, Shawn H.-S. Lien, Chung C. Tso, Patricia A. Gabori, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal properties of a tough, new semicrystalline polyimide. Polymer International, 31, 261-268, 1993.

90. Fred E. Arnold, Jr., Dexing Shen, Chul Joo Lee, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Harward W. Starkweather, Jr., Organo-soluble segmented rigid-rod polyimide films. 3. Effect of copolymer composition on thermal expansivity and on relaxation processes. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 3, 183-190, 1993.

91. Ronald L. Johnson and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Kinetics of mesophase transitions in thermotropic copolyesters. 5. A copolyester containing TPA/PHQ/HBA. Macromolecules, 26, 94-101, 1993.

92. Mark Eashoo, Dexing Shen, Zongquan Wu, Chul Joo Lee, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High-performance aromatic polyimide fibers. 2. Thermal mechanical and dynamic properties. Polymer, 34, 3209-3215, 1993.

93. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, James J. Janimak and Jonahira Rodriguez, Crystalline structure of polypropylene homo- and copolymers. In “Polypropylene: Structure, Blends and Composites”, Vol. 1, J. Karger-Kocsis Ed., Chapmen & Hall, London, UK, pp. 31-55, 1994.

94. Fred E. Arnold, Jr., Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal dynamic relaxation and enthalpy distribution of an aromatic polyimide film: 6FDA-PFMB. Thermochemica Acta, 226, 15-25, 1993. 16

95. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Jianhua Chen, Scott S. Wu, Anqiu Zhang, Michael A. Yandrasits, Qizhuo Zhuo, Roderic P. Quirk, Anton Habenschuss and Paul R. Zschack, Nonintegral and integral folding crystal growth in low molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide) fractions. In "Crystallization of Polymers", M. Dosiere Ed., NATO Series-C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 405, pp. 51-62, 1993.

96. Fred E. Arnold, Jr., Dexing Shen, Chul Joo Lee, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Suk-Fai Lau, Organo-soluble segmented rigid-rod polyimide films. 4. Anisotropic structure and properties. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 3, 353-360, 1993.

97. Ricardo Pardey, Dexing Shen, Patricia A. Gabori, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Jerry Adduci, John V. Facinelli and Robert W. Lenz, Ordered structures in a series of liquid crystalline poly(ester Imides). Macromolecules, 26, 3687-3697, 1993.

98. Jianhua Chen, Anqiu Zhang, Michael A. Yandrasits, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Virgil Percec, Crystal structure and mesophase morphology of MBPE polyethers containing odd-numbered methylene spacers. Die Makromolekulare Chemie, 194, 3135-3148, 1993.

99. Frank W. Harris, Byung H. Ahn and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Synthesis of polybenzimidazoles via aromatic nucleophilic substitution reactions of self-polymerizable (A-B) monomers. Polymer, 34, 3083-3095, 1993.

100. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Scott S. Wu, Jianhua Chen, Qizhuo Zhuo, Roderic P. Quirk, Ernst D. von Meerwall, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Anton Habenschuss and Paul R. Zschack, Isothermal thickening and thinning processes in low molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide) fractions crystallized from the melt. 4. End group dependence. Macromolecules, 26, 5105-5117, 1993.

101. Frank W. Harris, Fred E. Arnold, Jr., Mark Eashoo, Steven L.-C. Hsu, Chul Joo Lee, Dexing Shen, Anqiu Zhang and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Fluorine containing high-performance polyimides: synthesis, properties and applications. Proceeding of the Society of Plastics Engineers, Brookfield Connecticut, 51, 1318-1320, 1993.

102. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Fred E. Arnold, Jr., Fuming Li and Frank W. Harris, Recent advances in aromatic polyimide films for microelectronic and optical applications. Trends in Polymer Science, 1, 243-247, 1993.

103. Michael A. Yandrasits, Anqiu Zhang, Katie Bruno, Yeocheol Yoon, K. Shridhar, Yuhwey Chuang, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Liquid crystalline poly(enamine ketone)s formed through hydrogen bonding. Polymer International, 33, 71-77, 1994.

104. Frank W. Harris, Hsun-Shen Lien, Patricia A. Gabori, Yiding Zhang, Tammy M. Chalmers, Anqiu Zhang, Dexing Shen and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, A new semicrystalline, thermoplastic polyimide for carbon fiber- reinforced composites. Composite Structures, 27, 17-23, 1994.

105. Jonahira Rodriguez-Arnold, Anqiu Zhang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Andrew J. Lovinger, Eric T. Hsieh, Peter Chu, Tim W. Johnson, Kevin G. Honnell, Rolf G. Geerts, S. J. Palackal, Gil R. Hawley and M. Bruce Welch, Crystallization, melting and morphology of syndiotactic polypropylene fractions. 1. Thermodynamic properties, overall crystallization and melting. Polymer, 35, 1884-1895, 1994.

106. Fred E. Arnold, Jr., Dexing Shen, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Organo-soluble segmented rigid-rod polyimide films. 5. effect of orientation. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 4, 105-111, 1994.

107. Jiang Liu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Frank W. Harris, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Kenncorwin H. Gardner, Crystal structure, morphology and phase transitions in aromatic polyimide oligomers. 1. Poly(4,4'-oxydiphenylene pyromellitimide). Macromolecules, 27, 989-996, 1994.

108. Thein Kyu, Jen-Chang Yang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Steven L.-C. Hsu and Frank W. Harris, Structure evolution and kinetics of thermoreversible gelation in a rigid-rod polyimide/m-cresol system. Macromolecules, 27, 1861-1868, 1994. 17

109. Mark Eashoo, Zongquan Wu, Anqiu Zhang, Dexing Shen, Cecilia Tse, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Kenncorwin H. Gardner and Benjamin S. Hsiao, High performance aromatic polyimide fibers. 3. A polyimide synthesized from 3,3',4,4'-Biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydride and 2,2’-dimethyl-4,4'- diaminobiphenyl. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 195, 2207-2225, 1994.

110. Fred E. Arnold, Jr., Dexing Shen, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Organo-soluble segmented rigid-rod polyimide films: Anisotropic structure and properties. Proceeding of the Society of Plastics Engineers, Brookfield Connecticut, 52, 2124-2129, 1994.

111. Rong-Ming Ho, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Kenncorwin H. Gardner, Crystal morphology and phase identification in poly(aryl ether ketone)s and their copolymers. 1. Polymorphism in PEKK. Macromolecules, 27, 2136-2140, 1994.

112. Virgil Percec, Peiwei Chu, Goran Ungar, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Yeocheol Yoon, Liquid-crystalline polyethers based on conformational isomerism, thermotropic polyethers based on a mesogenic group containing rigid and flexible units: 1-(4'-hydroxybiphenyl-2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)propane. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 4, 719-727, 1994.

113. Bryan P. Livengood, Tammy M. Chalmers, Yi Gu, Yi-Ding Zhang, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, A new high-performance thermoplastic polyimide and its fiber-reinforced composites. Thermochemica Acta, 243, 115-127, 1994.

114. Ricardo Pardey, Scott S. Wu, Jianhua Chen, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Andrew Keller, Jerry Aducci, John V. Facinelli and Robert W. Lenz, Liquid crystalline transition and crystallization kinetics in poly(ester imide)s. Macromolecules, 27, 5794-5802, 1994.

115. Jiang Liu, Doyun Kim, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystal structure, morphology and phase transitions in aromatic polyimide oligomers. 2. Poly(1,4-phenylene-oxy-1,4-phenylene-oxy-1,4- phenylene pyromellitimide). Polymer, 35, 4048-4056, 1994.

116. Dexing Shen, Zongquan Wu, Jiang Liu, Lixiao Wang, Songkug Lee, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, John Blackwell, Tzongming Wu and Sergei Chvalum, High-performance aromatic polyimide fibers. 4. A copolymer fiber containing BPDA/OTOL/PPD (100/70/30). Polymers and Polymer Composites, 2, 149-157, 1994.

117. Steven F. Hubbard, Kenneth D. Singer, Fuming Li, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Nonlinear optical studies of a fluorinated poled polyimide guest-host system. Applied Physics Letter, 65(3), 265-267, 1994.

118. Benjamin S. Hsiao, Kenncorwin H. Gardner and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization of poly(aryl ether ketone ketone) copolymer containing terephthalate/isophthalate moieties. Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Physics Ed., 32, 2585-2594, 1994.

119. Jiang Liu, Doyun Kim, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystal structure, morphology, and phase transitions in aromatic polyimide oligomers. 3. Poly(1,4-phenyleneoxy-1,3-phenylene- pyromellitimide). Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Physics Ed., 32, 2705-2713, 1994.

120. Rong-Ming Ho, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Howard P. Fisher, Ronold K. Eby, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Kenncorwin H. Gardner, Crystal morphology and phase identification in poly(aryl ether ketone)s and their copolymers. 2. Poly(oxy-1,4-phenylenecarbonyl-1,3-phenylenecabonyl-1,4-phenylene). Macromolecules, 27, 5787-5793, 1994.

121. Frank W. Harris, Kathy C. Chuang, Shell Ann X. Huang, James J. Janimak and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Aromatic poly(pyidinium Salt)s: Synthesis and structure of organo-soluble, rigid-rod poly(pyridinium tetrafluoroborate)s. Polymer, 35, 4940-4948, 1994.

122. Jonahira Rodriguez-Arnold, Zhengzheng Bu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Eric T. Hsieh, Tim W. Johnson, Rolf G. Geerts, S. J. Palackal, Gil R. Hawley and M. Bruce Welch, Crystallization, melting and morphology of syndiotactic polypropylene fractions. 2. Linear crystal growth rates and crystal morphology. Polymer, 35, 5194-5201, 1994.

123. Michael A. Yandrasits, Jianhua Chen, Fred E. Arnold, Jr., Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Virgil Percec, Crystallization behavior of polyethers containing odd Numbers of methylene spacers from the isotropic and liquid crystalline states. Polymer for Advanced Technologies, 5, 775-784, 1994.

124. Yiming Jin, Jinlong Cheng, Bernhard Wunderlich, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Michael A. Yandrasits, Thermodynamic functions of thermotropic polyethers based on the flexible mesogen 1-(4-hydroxy-phenyl)- 2-(2-methyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)ethane. Polymer for Advanced Technologies, 5, 785-795, 1994.

125. Fuming Li, Kye-Hyum Kim, Joseph J. Kulig, Edward P. Savitski, William J. Brittain, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Steven F. Hubbard and Kenneth D. Singer, A high-temperature aromatic polyimide film displaying non-linear optical second-harmonic generation based on the approach of the poled guest-host system. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 5, 253-259, 1995.

126. Jonahira Rodriguez-Arnold, Zhengzheng Bu and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystal structure, morphology and phase transitions in syndiotactic polypropylene. Journal of Macromolecular Science, Review of Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, C35, 117-154, 1995.

127. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Tammy M. Chalmers, Yi Gu, Yeocheol Yoon, Frank W. Harris, Jinlong Cheng, Matilda Fone and Jack L. Koenig, Relaxation processes and molecular motion in a new semicrystalline polyimide. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 196, 1439-1451, 1995.

128. Jianhua Chen, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Scott S. Wu, Bernard Lotz and Jean-Claude Wittmann, Polymer decoration study in chain folding behavior of solution-grown poly(ethylene oxide) crystals. Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Physics Ed., 33, 1851-1855, 1995.

129. Tzong-Ming Wu, Sergei Chvalun, John Blackwell, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Zongquan Wu and Frank W. Harris, X-ray analysis and molecular modeling of the structure of aromatic copolyimides. Polymer, 36, 2123-2131, 1995.

130. Rong-Ming Ho, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Kenncorwin H. Gardner, Crystal morphology and phase identification in poly(aryl ether ketone)s and their copolymers. 3. Polymorphism in a polymer having alternating teraphthalic acid and isophthalic acid isomers. Macromolecules, 28, 1938- 1945, 1995.

131. Jae-Young Park, Doyum Kim, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase structure, morphology and phase boundary diagram in an aromatic polyimide (BPDA-PFMB)/m-cresol system. Polymer International, 37, 207-214, 1995.

132. Tzong-Ming Wu, Sergei N. Chvalun, John Blackwell, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Zongquan Wu and Frank W. Harris, Effect of draw ratio on the structure of aromatic copolyimide fibers having random monomer sequence. Acta Polymerica, 46, 261-266, 1995.

133. Fang-Chyou Chiu, Mimi Keating and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Molecular segmental segregation Effect on the melting behavior and morphology of linear low density polyethylene. Proceeding of the Society of Plastics Engineers, Brookfield Connecticut, 53, 1503-1507, 1995.

134. Bryan P. Livengood, Fu-le Lin, Chin-Chang Shen, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Mechanical and rheological properties of nylon 6/aromatic polyimide triblock copolymers as molecular composites. Proceeding of the Society of Plastics Engineers, Brookfield Connecticut, 53, 3109-3113, 1995.

135. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Yeocheol Yoon, Anqiu Zhang, Edward P. Savitski, Jae-Young Park, Virgil Percec and Peihwei Chu, Mesophase involving highly ordered smectic phases in a polyether. Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 16, 533-542, 1995. 19

136. Rong-Ming Ho, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Kenncorwin H. Gardner, Crystal morphology and phase identification in poly(aryl ether ketone)s and their copolymers. 4. Morphological observations in PEKK with all p-phenylene linkages. Macromolecules, 28, 8855-8861, 1995.

137. Masao Tomikawa, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Edward Galentier, Photoreaction of soluble rigid-rod polyimides. Journal Photopolymer Science and Technology, 8, 325-334, 1995.

138. Benjamin S. Hsiao, Rong-Ming Ho and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Time-resolved synchrotron X-ray study of crystalline phase transition in poly(aryl ether ketone ketone) containing alternated terephthalic/isophthalic moieties. Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Physics Ed., 33, 2439-2447, 1995.

139. Frank W. Harris, Bryan P. Livengood, Hong Ding, Fu-Le Lin and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Mechanical reinforcement and thermal transition behaviors in nylon 6-b-polyimide-b-nylon 6 triblock copolymers. Thermochemica Acta, 272, 157-169, 1996.

140. Yeocheol Yoon, An-Qiu Zhang, Rong-Ming Ho, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Virgil Percec and Peiwei Chu, Phase identification in a series of liquid crystalline TPP polyethers and copolyethers having highly ordered mesophase structures. 1. Phase diagrams of odd-numbered polyethers. Macromolecules, 29, 294-305, 1996.

141. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Rong-Ming Ho, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Kenncorwin H. Gardner, Polymorphism and crystal structure identification in poly(aryl ether ketone ketone)s. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 197, 185-213, 1996.

142. Benjamin S. Hsiao, John A. Kreuz and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystalline homopolyimides and copolyimides derived from 3,3-4,4-biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydride/1,3-bis(4-aminophenoxy) benzene/1,12-Dodecanediamine. 2. Crystallization, melting, and morphology. Macromolecules, 29, 135- 142, 1996.

143. Zongquan Wu, Anqiu Zhang, Dexing Shen, Mark Leland, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The crystal dtructures and thermal shrinkage properties of aromatic polyimide fibers. Journal of Thermal Analysis, 42, 719-732, 1996.

144. Young Ho Kim, Bong Seok Moon, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymerization, structure and thermal properties of ODPA-DMB polyimide fibers. Journal of Thermal Analysis, 46, 921-934, 1996.

145. Jiang Liu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Phillip H. Geil, Morphology and crystal structure in single crystals of poly(p-phenylene terephthalamide) prepared by melt polymerization. Polymer, 37, 1413-1430, 1996.

146. Yeocheol Yoon, Rong-Ming Ho, Bong-Seok Moon, Doyun Kim, Kevin W. McCreight, Fuming Li, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Virgil Percec and Peiwei Chu, Mesophase identifications in a series of liquid crystalline TPP polyethers and copolyethers having highly ordered mesophase structures 2. Phase diagrams of even-numbered polyethers. Macromolecules, 29, 3421-3431, 1996.

147. Zongquan Wu, Yeocheol Yoon, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Kathy C. Chuang, The study of thermal and thermo-oxidative stability of high performance polymer fibers. Proceeding of the Society of Plastics Engineers, Brookfield Connecticut, 54, 3038-3041, 1996.

148. Weihan Li, Zongquan Wu, Hao Jiang, Mark Eashoo, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High- performance aromatic polyimide fibers. 5. Compressive properties of BPDA-DMB fiber. Journal of Material Science, 31, 4423-4431, 1996.

149. Thien Kyu, Jen-Chang Yang, Chungsea Shen, Mazidah Mustafa, Cohul Joo Lee, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Miscibility, structure and property of poly(biphenyl dianhydride perfluoromethyl benzidine)/poly(ether imide) molecular composites. In “Liquid-Crystalline Polymer Systems Technological Advances”, ACS Symposium Series, Vol. 632, pp. 39-53, 1996.

150. Yeocheol Yoon, Rong-Ming Ho, Edward P. Savitski, Fuming Li, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Virgil Percec and Peiwei Chu, Identifications of the Liquid crystalline phases and phase transformations in a series of polyethers having highly ordered mesophase structures. In “Liquid-Crystalline Polymer Systems Technological Advances”, ACS Symposium Book Series, Vol. 632, pp. 358-371, 1996.

151. Rong-Ming Ho, Yeocheol Yoon, Mark Leland, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Dengke Yang, Virgil Percec and Peiwei Chu, Phase identification in a series of liquid crystalline TPP polyethers and copolyethers having highly ordered mesophase structures. 3. Thin film surface-induced ordering structure and morphology on TPP(n=7). Macromolecules, 29, 4528-4535, 1996.

152. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Rong-Ming Ho and Benjamin S. Hsiao, Poly(aryl ether ketone)s and copolymers: Synthesis, structure, morphology and properties. in Polymer Materials Encyclopedia, CRC Press: New York; Vol. 7, pp. 5533-5544, 1996.

153. Yeocheol Yoon, Rong-Ming Ho, Fuming Li, Bong-Seok Moon, Jae-Young Park, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Virgil Percec and Peiwei Chu, Thermodynamic transition properties of highly ordered smectic phases in a series of main-chain liquid crystalline polyethers. Journal of Thermal Analysis, 47, 957-973, 1996.

154. Frank W. Harris, Sheng-Hsien Lin, Fuming Li and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Organo-soluble polyimides: Synthesis and polymerization of 2,2’-disubstituted-4,4,5,5-biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydrides. Polymer, 37, 5049-5057, 1996.

155. Zhengzheng Bu, Yeocheol Yoon, Rong-Ming Ho, Wensheng Zhou, Ittipol Jangchud, R. K. Eby, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Eric T. Hsieh, Tim W. Johnson, Rolf G. Geerts, Syriac J. Palackal, Gil R. Hawley and M. Bruce Welch, Crystallization, melting, and morphology of syndiotactic polypropylene fractions. 3. Lamellar single crystals and chain folding. Macromolecules, 29, 6575-6581, 1996.

156. Young Ho Kim, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystal structure and mechanical properties of ODPA-DMB polyimide fibers. Thermochimica Acta, 282/283, 411-423, 1996.

157. Fuming Li, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polyimide films as negative birefringence compensators for normally white twisted nematic liquid crystal displays. Polymer, 37, 5321-5325, 1996.

158. Seung-Wook Lee, Erqiang Chen, Anqiu Zhang, Bong-Seok Moon, San-Kug Lee, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Ernst D. von Meerwall, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Ravi Verma and Jerome Lando, Isothermal thickening and thinning processes in low molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide) fractions crystallized from the melt. 5. Effect of chain defects. Macromolecules, 29, 8816-8823, 1996.

159. Masao Tomikawa, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Edward Galentier, Synthesis and photo- induced solution properties of new rigid-rod polyimides, Reactional and Functional Polymers, 30, 101- 107, 1996.

160. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Fuming Li, Edward P. Savitski and Frank W. Harris, Molecular design of aromatic polyimide films as uniaxial negative birefringent optical compensators in liquid crystalline displays. Trends in Polymer Science, 5, 51-58, 1997.

161. Qiang Fu, Fang-Chyou Chiu, Kevin W. McCreight, Mingming Guo, Wen W. Tseng, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Mimi Y. Keating, Eric T. Hsieh and Paul J. Deshauviers, Effects of phase-separated melt on crystallization behavior and morphology in short chain branched metallocene polyethylenes. Journal of Macromolecular Science, Physics, B36, 41-60, 1997.

162. Fuming Li, Kye-Hyun Kim, Edward P. Savitski, Jyh-Chien Chen, Yeocheol Yoon, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Linear optical anisotropy of aromatic polyimide films and its applications as negative birefringence compensators in liquid crystal displays. In “Photonic and Optoelectronic Polymers”, ACS Symposium Series, Vol. 672, pp. 1-14, 1997.

163. Rong-Ming Ho, Yeocheol Yoon, Mark Leland, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Virgil Percec and Peiwei Chu, Phase identification in a series of liquid crystalline TPP polyethers and copolyethers having highly ordered mesophase structures. 4. Phase structures and order evolution in TPP(n=12) thin film. Macromolecules, 30, 3349-3353, 1997.

164. Fuming Li, Kye-Hyum Kim, Edward P. Savitski, Jyh-Chien Chen, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Molecular weight and film thickness effects on linear optical anisotropy of 6FDA-PFMB polyimides. Polymer, 38, 3223-3227, 1997.

165. Yeocheol Yoon, Rong-Ming Ho, Fuming Li, Mark Leland, Jae-Young Park, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Virgil Percec and Peihwei Chu, Existence of highly ordered smectic structures in a series of main-chain liquid- crystalline polyethers. Progresses in Polymer Science, 22, 765-794, 1997.

166. Weihan Li, Zongquan Wu, Mark E. Leland, Jae-Young Park, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High performance aromatic polyimide fibers. 6. Structure and morphology changes in compressed BPDA- DMB fibers. Journal of Macromolecular Science, Physics, B36, 315-333, 1997.

167. Hyun Yim, Hong Wu, Anqiu Zhang, Mark D. Foster, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Ultrathin polyimide films from preformed polymers. Langmuir, 13, 3202-3205, 1997.

168. Jinglong Cheng, Yeocheol Yoon, Rong-Ming Ho, Mark Leland, Mingming Guo, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Virgil Percec and Peiwei Chu, Phase identification in a series of liquid crystalline TPP polyethers and copolyethers having highly ordered mesophase structures. 5. Solid state 13C NMR characterization of motion and conformations of methylene and mesogen groups in different mesophases of TPP(n=12 and 15). Macromolecules, 30, 4688-4694, 1997.

169. Qiang Fu, Bryan P. Livengood, Ching-Chang Shen, Fu-le Lin, Weihan Li, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Benjamin S. Hisao, Solvent induced phase separation in a nylon 6-b-polyimide-b-nylon 6 triblock copolymer. Journal of Polymer Research, 4, 1-7, 1997.

170. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Fuming Li and Andrew Keller, Metastability and critical phenomenon in polymer phase transition behavior. In “Polymers and Organic Solids”, Lianghe Shi and Daoben Zhu Eds. pp. 1- 24, 1997.

171. Rong-Ming Ho, Paul Honigfort, Hsien-Ming Lin, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Kenncorwin H. Gardner, Crystal morphological observation in thin films of poly(aryl ether ketone ketone) having a meta-linkage. Polymer, 38, 5051-5058, 1997.

172. Fang-Chyou Chiu, Qiang Fu, Mark Leland, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Eric T. Hsieh, Chung C. Tso and Benjamin S. Hsiao, Melt crystallization and crystal morphology of two low molecular weight linear polyethylene fractions. Journal of Macromolecular Science, Physics, B36, 553-567, 1997.

173. Hans R. Kricheldorf, Volker Linzer, Mark Leland and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Layer structures 5. Influence of the spacer length on the smectic phase of poly(esterimide)s derived from ,-alkane bis(trimellitimides) and 4,4-dihydroxybiphenyl. Macromolecules, 30, 4828-4836, 1997.

174. Frank W. Harris, Yoshimitsu Sakaguchi, Mitsuhiro Shibata and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Organo-soluble polyimides: Synthesis and characterization of polyimides containing phenylated p-biphenyl and p- terphenyl units. High Performance Polymers, 9, 251-261, 1997.

175. Mark Leland, Zongquan Wu, Mukesh Chhajer, Rong-Ming Ho, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Andrew Keller and Hans R. Kricheldorf, Anomalous orientation behavior in a series of copoly(ester imide)s observed by wide- Angle x-ray diffraction. Macromolecules, 30, 5249-5254, 1997.

176. Simon Chi Man Kwan, Chi Wu, Fuming Li, Edward P. Savitski, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D.Cheng, Laser light scattering studies of soluble high performance fluorine-containing polyimides synthesized from 2,2-bis(3,4-dicarboxyphenyl)-hexafluoropropane dianhydride and 2,2-(trifuoromethyl)-4,4- bihexyldiamine. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 198, 3605-3614, 1997. 22

177. Eric T. Hsich, Chung C. Tso, Jim D. Byers, Timothy W. Johnson, Qiang Fu and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Inter-molecular structural homogeneity of metallocene polyethylene copolymers. Journal of Macromolecular Science, Physics, B36, 615-628, 1997.

178. Jason J. Ge, Anqiu Zhang, Kevin W. McCreight, Rong-Ming Ho, Shy-Yeu Wang, Xiaoming Jin, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase structures, transition behaviors, and surface alignment in polymers containing rigid-rod like backbones with flexible side chains. 1. Monotropic phase behavior in a main- chain/side-chain liquid crystalline polyester. Macromolecules, 30, 6498-6506, 1997.

179. Edward P. Savitski, Fuming Li, Sheng-Hsien Lin, Kevin W. McCreight, William Wu, Elaine Hsieh, Roland F. Rapold, Mark E. Leland, Donald MacIntyre, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Simon Chi Man Kwan and Chi Wu, Investigation of the solution behavior in organo soluble aromatic polyimides. International Journal of Polymer Analysis and Characterization, 4, 153-172, 1997.

180. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Fuming Li, The role of metastability and critical phenomenon in polymer phases and phase transition behaviors. In “Frontier of Polymer Researches in Oversea Chinese Scientists”, Tianbai He and Hanjie Wu Eds. pp. 51-69 (in Chinese) 1997.

181. Frank W. Harris, Fuming Li, Sheng-Hsien Lin, Jyh-Chien Chen and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, New organo- soluble polyimides for optical, microelectronic and fiber applications. Macromolecular Symposium, 122, 33-38, 1997.

182. Mark E. Leland, Zongquan Wu, Rong-Ming Ho, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Hans R. Kricheldorf, Phase transitions involving molecular reorientation in a series of copoly(ester imide)s. Macromolecules, 31, 22- 29, 1998.

183. Yen Wei, Danliang Jin, Tianzhong Ding, Wei-Heng Shih, Qinghua Liu, Stephen Z.D. Cheng and Qiang Fu, A non-surfactant templating route to mesoporous silica materials. Advanced Materials, 3, 313-315, 1998.

184. Virgil Percec, D. Schlueter, G. Ungar, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Anqiu Zhang, Hierarchical control of internal superstructure, diameter, and stability of supramolecular and macromolecular columns generated from tapered monodendritic building blocks. Macromolecules, 31, 1745-1762, 1998.

185. Qiang Fu, Bryan P. Livengood, Ching-Chang Shen, Fu-le Lin, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Fengji Yeh, Crystallization and phase behaviors in nylon 6/aromatic polyimide triblock copolymers. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 199, 1107-1118, 1998.

186. Coleen Pugh, J. Shao, Jason J. Ge and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Correlation of model compounds and laterally attached side-chain liquid crystalline polynorbornenes with an 11-carbon spacer. Macromolecules, 31, 1779-1790, 1998.

187. Andrew Keller and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastability in polymer phase transitions. Polymer, 39, 4461-4487, 1998.

188. H. Yim, Mark D. Foster, Kevin W. McCreight, Xiaoming Jin, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Structural study of monolayers of alkyl side chain substituted polyimides. Polymer, 39, 4675-4678, 1998.

189. Sheng-Hsien Lin, Fuming Li, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Organo-soluble polyimides: Synthesis and polymerization of 2,2'-bis(trifluoromethyl)-4,4',5,5'-biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydride. Macromolecules, 31, 2080-2086, 1998.

190. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Andrew Keller, The role of metastable states in polymer phase transitions: Concepts, principles and experimental observations. Annual Review of Materials Science, 28, 533-562, 1998.

191. Shan Ju Zhang, Decai Yang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng X. B. Zhang, Zong-Wen Wu and R. Yosomiya, Novel poly(aryl ether ketone)s exhibiting liquid crystallinity. Acta Polymerica, 49, 198-200, 1998.

192. Jason J. Ge, Anqiu Zhang, Kevin W. McCreight, Shy-Yeu Wang, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase structures, transition behaviors, and surface alignment in polymers containing a rigid rod like backbone with flexible side chains. 2. Phase transformation kinetics in a main-chain/side-chain liquid crystalline polyester. Macromolecules, 31, 4093-4101, 1998.

193. Virgil Percec, C.-H. Ahn, W.-D. Cho, Alex M. Jamisson, J. Kim, T. Leman, M. Schmidt, M. Gerle, Martin Moller, S. A. Prokhorova, S. S. Sheiko, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anqiu Zhang, G. Ungar and D. J. P. Yeardley, Visualizable cylindrical macromolecules with controlled stiffness from backbones containing libraries of self-assembling dendritic side groups. Journal of American Chemistry Society, 120, 8619-8631, 1998.

194. Coleen Pugh, Jin-Young Bae, Jayesh Dharia, Jason J. Ge and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Induction of smectic layering in nematic liquid crystals using immiscible components. 2. Laterally attached side-chain liquid crystalline poly(norbornene)s and their low-molecular-mass analogous with hydrocarbon/oligodimethyl- siloxane dubstituents. Macromolecules, 31, 5188-5200, 1998.

195. Jason J. Ge, Gi Xue, Fuming Li, Kevin W. McCreight, Shy-Yeu Wang, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Y. R. Shen and Xiaowei Zhuang, Surface studies of polyimide thin films via surface-enhanced Raman scattering and second harmonic generation. Macromolecular Rapid Communication, 19, 619-623, 1998.

196. Jason J. Ge, Paul S. Honigfort, Rong-Ming Ho, Shy-Yeu Wang, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase structures, transition behaviors and surface alignment in polymers containing rigid rod-like backbones with flexible side chains. 3. The even-odd effect on phase transitions in combined liquid crystal polyesters. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 200, 31-43, 1999.

197. Frank W. Harris, Fuming Li and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Novel organo-soluble fluorinated polyimides for optical, microelectronic and fiber applications. In “Fluoropolymers: Synthesis and Properties”, Vol. 2, Properties, Plenum Publishing, pp. 351-370, 1999.

198. Lei Zhu, Fang-Chyou Chiu, Qiang Fu, Roderic P. Quirk and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Physical constants of poly(ethylene). In Polymer Handbook, J. Brandrup, E. H. Immergut and Eric Grullce Eds., John Wiley & Son, V9 - V19, 1999.

199. Feng Bai, Fuming Li, Bret H. Calhoun, Roderic P. Quirk and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Physical constants of poly(Propylene). In Polymer Handbook, J. Brandrup, E. H. Immergut and Eric Grullce Eds., John Wiley & Son, V21- V30, 1999.

200. Christopher Y. Li, Donghang Yan, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Feng Bai, Tianbai He, Lang-Chy Chien, Frank W. Harris and Bernard Lotz, Double-twisted helical lamellar crystals in a synthetic main-chain chiral polyester similar to biological polymers. Macromolecules, 32, 524-527, 1999.

201. Fuming Li, Liyan Huang, Yi Shi, Xigao Jin, Zongquan Wu, Zhihao Shen, Cathy Chung, Richard E. Lyon, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal degradation mechanism and thermal mechanical properties of two high-performance aromatic polyimide fibers. Journal of Macromolecular Science, Physics, B38, 107-122, 1999.

202. Erqiang Chen, Seung-Wook Lee, Anqiu Zhang, Bong-Suk Moon, Paul S. Honigfort, Ian Mann, Hsein- Ming Lin, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Fengjji Yeh, Isothermal thickening and thinning processes in low molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide) fractions crystallized from the melt. 6.Configurational defects in molecules. Polymer, 40, 4543-4551, 1999.

203. Yoan Kim, Mingming Guo, Lei Zhu, Doyun Kim, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Transimidization in thermoplastic polyimides. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 17, 171-184, 1999.

204. Fuming Li, Shane Fang, Jason J. Ge, Paul S. Honigfort, Chi-Chian Chen, Frank W. Harris, and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Diamine architecture effects on glass transitions, relaxation processes and other material properties in organo-soluble aromatic polyimide films. Polymer, 40, 4571-4583, 1999.

205. Ruqing Zheng, Erqiang Chen, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Fengchao Xie, Donghang Yan, Tianbai He, Virgil Percec, Peihwei Chu and Goran Ungar, Phase identification in a series of liquid crystalline TPP polyethers and copolyethers having highly ordered mesophase structures. 6. Structure changes from smectic to columnar phases in a series of copolyethers containing odd and even numbers of methylene units in equal molar composition. Macromolecules, 32, 3574-3582, 1999.

206. Fuming Li, Jason J. Ge, Paul S. Honigfort, Shane Feng, Jyh-Chien Chen, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Dianhydride architectural effects on the relaxation behaviors and thermal and optical properties of organo-soluble aromatic polyimide films. Polymer, 40, 4987-5002, 1999.

207. Liyan Huang, Yi Shi, Xigao Jin, Zongquian Wu, Fuming Li, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal degradation of organo-soluble polyimides. Science in China Series B-Chemistry, 42, 316-325, 1999.

208. Feng Bai, Liang-Chy Chien, Christopher Y. Li, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Rolfe Petschek, Synthesis and characterization of isoregic chiral smectic polyesters. Chemistry of Materials, 11, 1666-1671, 1999.

209. Darrin Pochan, Eric K. Lin, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Wen-Li Wu, Thermal expansion and glass transition behavior of the polymer films with and without a free surface via neutron reflectometry. MRS Meeting Proceeding, Dynamics in Small Confining Systems IV, Editors: J. M. Drake, G. S. Grest, J. Klafter, R. Kopelman, Vol. 543, 543-547, 1999.

210. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Lei Zhu, Christopher Y. Li, Paul S. Honigfort and Andrew Keller, Size effect of metastable states on semicrystalline polymer structures and morphologies. Thermochemica Acta, 332, 105- 113, 1999.

211. Simon Chi Man Kwan, Chi Wu, Fuming Li, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Laser light- scattering studies of soluble high performance fluorine-containing polyimides. Polymer Engineering and Science, 39, 586-593, 1999.

212. Liyan Huang, Yi Shi, Xigao Jin, Zongquian Wu, Fuming Li, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal degradation of poly(p-phenylene benzobisthiazole) and poly(p-phenylene benzobisoxazole). Acta Polymerica Sinica, (3) 338-345, 1999.

213. Er-Qiang Chen, Gi Xue, Shi Jin, Seung-Wook Lee, Ian K. Mann, Bon-Suk Moon, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Defect orientation on the chain folded surfaces of two-arm poly(ethylene oxide) lamellar crystals. Macromolecular Rapid Communication, 20, 431-434, 1999.

214. Kevin W. McCreight, Jason J. Ge, Mingming Guo, Ian K. Mann, Fuming Li, Zhihao Shen, Xiaoming Jin, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase structures and transition behaviors in polymers containing rigid rod like backbones with flexible side chains. 4. Methylene side-chain effects on structure and molecular motion in a series of polyimides. Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Physics Ed., 37, 1633- 1646, 1999.

215. Lei Zhu, Yan Chen, Anqiu Zhang, Bret H. Calhoun, Moonseok Chun, Roderic P. Quirk, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Fengji Yeh and Takaji Hashimoto, Phase structures and morphologies determined by competitions among self-organization, crystallization, and vitrification in a disordered poly(ethylene oxide)-b-polystyrene diblock copolymer. Physical Review B, 60, 10022-10031, 1999.

216. Jinlong Cheng, Wei Chen, Ricardo Pardey, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, and Bernhard Wunderlich, A solid-state 13C-NMR study of the mesophases of PEIM-9 (poly(4,4-phthaloimidobenzoylnonamethylene- oxyxarbonyl)). Polymers for Advanced Technologies, 10, 501-512, 1999.

217. Ruqing Zheng, Erqiang Chen, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Fengchao Xie, Donghang Yan, Tianbai He, Virgil Percec, Peihwei Chu and Goran Ungar, Phase identification in a series of liquid crystalline TPP polyethers 25

and copolyethers having highly ordered mesophase structures. 7. Phase structures in a series of copolyethers containing odd and even numbers of methylene units at different compositions. Macromolecules, 32, 6981-6988, 1999.

218. Christopher Y. Li, Donghang Yan, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Feng Bai, Jason J. Ge, Bret H. Calhoun, Tianbai He, Lang-Chy Chien, Frank W. Harris and Bernard Lotz, Helical single-lamellar crystals thermotropically formed in a synthetic non racemic chiral main-chain polyester. Physical Review B, 60, 12675-12680, 1999.

219. Erqiang Chen, Seung-Wook Lee, Anqiu Zhang, Bong-Suk Moon, Ian Mann, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Fengjji Yeh, Ernst D. von Meerwall and David T. Grubb, Isothermal thickening and thinning processes in low molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide) fractions crystallized from the melt. 8. Molecular shape dependence on crystallization, melting and annealing. Macromolecules, 32, 4784-4793, 1999.

220. Christopher Y. Li, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Jason J. Ge, Feng Bai, John Z. Zhang, Frank W. Harris, Lang-Chy Chien, Donghang Yan, Tianbai He and Bernard Lotz, Double twist in helical polymer “soft” crystals (featured by Physical Forces of APS). Physical Review Letter, 83, 4558-4561, 1999.

221. Susheng Tan, Aihua Su, Jun Luo, Enle Zhou and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Effect of physical aging on the microstructure and the crystallization of amorphous poly(aryl ether ether ketone ketone) (PEEKK). Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 200, 2487-2493, 1999.

222. Shanjin Li, Bin-Lin Hsu, Fuming Li, Christopher Y. Li, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, A study of polyimide thermoplastics used as tougheners in epoxy resins: Structure, property and solubility relationships. Thermochimica Acta, 340-341, 221-229, 1999.

223. Erqiang Chen, Seung-Wook Lee, Anqiu Zhang, Bong-Suk Moon, Ian Mann, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Fengjji Yeh and Ernst D. von Meerwall, Isothermal thickening and thinning processes in low molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide) fractions crystallized from the melt. 7. Effects of molecular configurational defects on crystallization, melting, and annealing. In “Scattering from Polymers: Characterization by X-rays, Neutrons and Lights”, America Chemical Society Symposium Book Series, Vol. 739, Washington DC; Chapter 8, pp. 118-139, 2000.

224. Shell Ann X. Huang, Kathy C. Chuang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Aromatic poly(pyidinium salt)s: 2. Synthesis and properties of organo-soluble, rigid-rod poly(pyridinium triflate)s. Polymer, 41, 5001-5009, 2000.

225. Christopher Y. Li, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Jason J Ge, Feng Bai, John Z. Zhang, Ian K. Mann, Lang-Chy Chien, Frank W. Harris and Bernard Lotz, Molecular orientations in flat-elongated and helical lamellar crystals of a main-chain nonracemic chiral polyester. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 122, 72- 79, 2000.

226. Mingming Guo, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Roderic P. Quirk, Variable temperature, Solid state 13C NMR study of linear low-density Polyethylene. In “Olefin Polymerization, Emerging Frontiers”, America Chemical Society Symposium Book Series, Vol. 749, Washington DC; Chapter 11, pp. 163-176, 2000.

227. Zongquan Wu, Fuming Li, Liyan Huang, Yi Shi, Xigao Jin, Shane Fang, Kathy Chuang, Richard E. Lyon, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The thermal degradation mechanism and thermal mechanical properties of two high performance heterocyclic polymer fibers. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 59, 361-373, 2000.

228. Fang-Chyou Chiu, Qiang Wang, Qiang Fu, Paul S. Honigfort, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Fengji Yeh, Mimi Y. Keating, Eric T. Hsieh and Chong Tso, Structural and morphological inhomogeneity of short-chain branched polyethylenes in multiple-step crystallization. Journal of Macromolecular Science, Physics, B39(3), 317-331, 2000.

229. Bin Zhao, William J. Brittain, Wensheng Zhou and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Nanopatterned films formed by treatment of PS-b-PMMA brushes with selective solvents. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 122, 2407-2408, 2000.

230. Jason J. Ge, Mingming Guo, Zhanhui Zhang, Paul S. Honigfort, Ian K. Mann, Shyh-Yeu Wang, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase structures, transition behaviors and surface alignment in polymers containing rigid-rod like backbones with flexible side chains. 5. Solid state 13C NMR studies of molecular motions in PEFBPs(n=10 and 11). Macromolecules, 33, 3983-3992, 2000.

231. V. M. Neverov, Sergei N. Chvalun, John Blackwell, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structural features of molecular composites based on polyimide and nylon 6. Vysokomolekulyarnye Soefineniya Seriya A & Seriya B, 42, 450-461, 2000.

232. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Christopher Y. Li, Bret H. Calhoun, Lei Zhu and Wensheng Zhou, Thermal analysis: The next two decades. Thermochemica Acta, 335, 59-68, 2000.

233. Ruqing Zheng, Erqiang Chen, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Fengchao Xie, Donghang Yan, Tianbai He, Virgil Percec, Peihwei Chu and Goran Ungar, Phase identification in a series of liquid crystalline TPP polyethers and copolyethers having highly ordered mesophase structures. 8. Phases and structural evolution in a series of copolyethers having odd-number methylene units in both comonomers. Macromolecules, 33, 5159-5168, 2000.

234. Jason J. Ge, John Z. Zhang, Wensheng Zhou, Si Jin, Christopher Y. Li, Shy-Yeu Wang, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase structures, transition behaviors and surface alignment in polymers containing rigid-rod-like backbones with flexible side chains. 6. Novel band structures in a combined main-chain/side- chain liquid crystalline polyester: from liquid crystal to crystalline states. Journal of Materials Science, 35, 5215-5223, 2000.

235. Lei Zhu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Bret H. Calhoun, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Edwin L. Thomas, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Fengji Yeh, and Bernard Lotz, Crystallization temperature-dependant crystal orientations within nano-scale confined lamellae of a self-assembled crystalline-amorphous diblock copolymer. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 122, 5957-5967, 2000.

236. Huilin Tu, Xinhua Wan, Yuxiang Liu, Xiaofang Chen, Dong Zhang, Qi-Feng Zhou, Jason J. Ge, Zhihao Shen, Shi Jin and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Supra-molecular structure induced mesophase behavior using specifically designed non-mesogenic templates. Macromolecules, 33, 6315-6320, 2000.

237. Christopher Y. Li, Bojie Wang and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, X-ray analyses in polymers. In Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry, R. A. Meyers Ed., John Wiley & Son, pp. 8105-8124, 2000.

238. Lei Zhu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Bret H. Calhoun, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Fengji Yeh, Molecular and supra-molecular ordering in nano-confined environments. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 18, 287-300, 2000.

239. Wensheng Zhou, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Sirina Putthanarat, Ronald K. Eby, Darrell H. Reneker Bernard Lotz, Sergei Magonov, Eric T. Hsieh, Rolf G. Geerts, Syriac J. Palackal, Gil R. Hawley and M. Bruce Welch, Crystallization, melting and morphology of syndiotactic polypropylene fractions. 4. In-situ lamellar Single crystal growth and melting in different sectors. Macromolecules, 33, 6861-6868, 2000.

240. Christopher Y. Li, Jason J. Ge, Feng Bai, John Z. Zhang, Liang-Chy Chien, Frank W. Harris, Berhard Lotz and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase transformations in a chiral main-chain liquid crystalline polyester involving double-twisted helical crystals. Polymer, 41, 8953-8960, 2000.

241. T. J. Hu, C. Q. Wang, Fuming Li, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Chi Wu, Scalings of fluorine- containing polyimides in cyclopentanone. Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Physics Ed., 38, 2077- 2080, 2000.

242. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Christopher Y. Li and Lei Zhu, Commentary on polymer crystallization: Selection rules in different length scales of a nucleation process. European Physics Journal E: Soft Matter, 3, 195- 197, 2000.

243. Bin Zhao, William J. Brittain, Wensheng Zhou and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, AFM study of tethered polystyrene-b-poly(methyl methacrylate) and polystyrene-b-poly(methyl acrylate) brushes on flat silicate Substrates. Macromolecules, 33, 8821-8827, 2000.

244. Gue-Hyun Kim, Coleen Pugh and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, A new route to stabilize smectic C phase in a series of lateral attached side-chain liquid crystalline polynorbornenes with one carbon spacer. Macromolecules, 33, 8983-8991, 2000.

245. Benjamin Y. Tang, Jason J. Ge, Anqiu Zhang, Peihwei Chu, Bret Calhoun, Huabin Wang, Zhihao Shen, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Liquid crystalline and monotropic phase behaviors of 2,3,6,7,10,11-hexa(4-octyloxybenzoyloxy)triphenylene discotic molecules. Chemistry of Materials, 13, 78- 86, 2001.

246. Fengchao Xie, Zhijun Hu, Jieping Liu, Xiaoniu Yang, Donghang Yan, Tianbai He, Ruqing Zheng, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Virgil Percec, Electrostatic-field-induced chain alignment of liquid crystalline Copolyether TPP Thin Films. Polymer, 42, 4039-4044, 2001.

247. Yongli Mi, Jian Wang, Yan Zhang, Erqiang Chen and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, A method of preparing single- chain particles of water-soluble polymers. Polymer, 42, 4533-4535, 2001.

248. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Fuming Li, Christopher Y. Li, Kevin W. McCreight, Yeocheol Yoon and Frank W. Harris, Fibers from liquid crystalline polymers. In “Structure and Properties of Polymer Fibers”, David R. Salem and M. V. Sussman Eds., Hanser, New York, Chapter 7, pp. 247-295, 2001.

249. Lei Zhu, Bret H. Calhoun, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Edwin L. Thomas, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Fengji Yeh, and Bernard Lotz, Initial-stage growth controlled crystal orientations within nanoscale confined lamellae of a self-assembled crystalline-amorphous diblock copolymer. Macromolecules, 34, 1244-1251, 2001.

250. Christopher Y. Li, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Xin Weng, Jason J. Ge, Feng Bai, John Z. Zhang, Bret H. Calhoun, Frank W. Harris, Lang-Chy Chien and Bernard Lotz, Left or right, it’s a matter of one methylene unit. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 123, 2462-2463, 2001.

251. Qingxin Zhang, Zhishen Mo, Hongfang Zhang, Siyang Liu and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystal transitions of nylon 11 under drawing and annealing. Polymer, 42, 5543-5547, 2001.

252. Fengchao Xie, Zhijun Hu, Jieping Liu, Donghang Yan, Tianbai He, Christopher Y, Li, Ruqing Zheng, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Virgil Percec, Molecular and supra-molecular deformations in a liquid crystalline copolyether thin films under electrostatic field. Macromolecular Rapid Communication, 22, 396-400, 2001.

253. Xiao-ning Liu, Gi Xue, Yun Lu, Jun Zhang, Fen-ting Li, Chen-chen Xue and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Chemically deposited silver films used as a SERS-active over-coating layer for polymer films. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 19, 265-268, 2001.

254. Jason J. Ge, Gi Xue, Christopher Y. Li, Ian K. Man, Wenshen Zhou, Shyh-Yeu Wang, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Seok-Choel Hong, Xiaowei Zhuang and Y. R. Shen, Rubbing-induced molecular orientation on an alignment surface of the aromatic polyimide containing cyanobiphenyl side chains. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 123, 5768-5776, 2001.

255. Christopher Y. Li, Jason J. Ge; Feng Bai, John Z. Zhang, Bret H. Calhoun, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Liang-Chy Chien, Bernard Lotz and H. Douglas Keith, Early-stage formation of helical single crystals and their confined growth in thin film. Macromolecules, 34, 3634-3641, 2001.

256. Lei Zhu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Bret H. Calhoun, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Edwin L. Thomas, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Fengji Yeh, and Bernard Lotz, Phase structures and morphologies determined by self- organization, vitrification, and crystallization: Confined crystallization in an ordered lamellar phase of PEO-b-PS diblock copolymers. Polymer, 42, 5829-5839, 2001.

257. Er-Qiang Chen, Xing Weng, Anqiu Zhang, Ian Mann, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Richard Stein, Benjamin S. Hsiao, and Fengji Yeh, Primary nucleation in polymer crystallization. Macromolecular Rapid Communication, 22, 611-615, 2001.

258. Joseph M. Deitzel, Bojie Wang, Ping Huang, L. Lawrency Chapoy and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase transitions and structures of poly(ethylene-co-chlorotrifluoroethylene). Chinese Journal of Applied Chemistry, 18, 301-209, 2001.

259. Bojie Wang, Christopher Y. Li, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phillip H. Geil, Janusz Grebowicz and Rong-Ming Ho, Poly(trimethylene teraphthalate) crystal structure and morphology in different length scales. Polymer, 42, 7171-7180, 2001.

260. Lei Zhu, Ping, Huang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Edwin L. Thomas, Bernard Lotz, Jean-Claude Wittmann, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Fengji Yeh and Lizhi Liu, Dislocation-controlled perforated layer phase in a PEO-b-PS diblock copolymer. Physical Review Letter, 86, 6030-6033, 2001.

261. Junyan Yang, G. Sidoti, Jiang Liu, Phillips H. Geil, Christopher Y. Li and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Morphology and crystal structure of CTFMP and bulk polymerized poly(trimethylene terephthalate). Polymer, 42, 7181-7195, 2001.

262. Seok-Cheol Hong, Masahito Oh, Xiaowei Zhuang, Y. R. Shen, Jason J. Ge, Frank W. Harris, and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Orientations of side chains and adsorbed liquid crystal molecules on a rubbed polyimide surface studied by optical second harmonic generation. Physical Review E, 63, 051706-1-051706-7, 2001.

263. Zhi-Gang Wang, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Srivatsan Srinivas, Gary M. Brown, Andy Tsou, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Richard S Stein, Phase transformation in quenched mesomorphic isotactic polypropylene. Polymer, 42, 7561-7566, 2001.

264. Lei Zhu, Brion R. Mimnaugh, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Qiurk, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Edwin L. Thomas, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Fengji Yeh, Lizhi Liu and Bernard Lotz, Hard and soft confinement effects on PEO crystallization in cylinder-forming PEO-b-PS/PS blends. Polymer, 42, 9121-9131, 2001.

265. Ping Huang, Lei Zhu, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Qiurk, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Edwin L. Thomas, Bernard Lotz, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Fengji Yeh, Lizhi Liu, Crystal orientation changes within a nano-scale confined cylindrical environment of a self-assembled poly(ethylene oxide)-b-polystyrene/polystyrene blend. Macromolecules, 34, 6649-6657, 2001.

266. Sanjay Rastogi, D. La Camera, F.van der Burgt, A. Terry, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymorphism in syndiotactic polypropylene: thermodynamic stable regions for Form I and Form II in pressure-temperature phase diagram. Macromolecules, 34, 7730-7736, 2001.

267. Gue-Hyun Kim, Shi Jin, Coleen Pugh and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Effect of numbers of carbon spacers on phase structures and transition behaviors in a series of laterally attached side chain liquid crystalline polynorbornenes. Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Physics Ed., 39, 3029-3037, 2001.

268. Christopher Y. Li and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer single crystals: formation and structure. In Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology, pp. 7487-7491, Third edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2001.

269. Mukesh Chhajer, Erqiang Chen and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Self-diffusion coefficients of flexible linear polymers with local inhomogeneities at the center of each chain. Journal of Macromolecular Science, Physics, B40, 615-624, 2001.

270. Lei Zhu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Edwin L. Thomas, Bernard Lotz, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Fengji Yeh and Lizhi Liu, Nano-caged confinement on polymer crystallization in a PEO-b-PS diblock copolymer having hexagonal perfforated layers. Advanced Materials, 14, 31-34, 2002.

271. Benjamin S. Hsiao, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Charles C. Han and Qi Wu, Tribute: Benjamin Chu, Macromolecules, 35, 585-586, 2002.

272. Jr-Jeng Ruan, Jason J. Ge, An-qiu Zhang, Shi Jin, Shyh-Yeu Wang, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymorphous structures and their phase relationships in a main-chain/side-chain liquid crystalline polyester. Macromolecules, 35, 736-745, 2002.

273. B. Ullrich, R. Schroeder, H. Sakai, Anqiu Zhang, and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Two-photon excited green photoluminescence of oriented thin film CdS formed by laser ablation. Applied Physical Letter, 80, 356- 358, 2002.

274. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer physics in “AIP Physics Desk Reference”, The Third Edition, E. Richard Cohen, David R. Lide and George L. Trigg eds., Chapter 22, pp. 656-692, Springier, 2002.

275. Lei Zhu, Ping Huang, William Y. Chen, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Edwin L. Thomas, Bernard Lotz, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Fengji Yeh, and Lizhi Liu, Nano-scale tailored crystalline morphology in confined hexagonally perforated layers of a self-assembled PS-b-PEO diblock copolymer. Macromolecules, 35, 3553-3562, 2002.

276. John-Shin Deng, Luk Li, Dennis Stephens, Youqin Tian, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Effect of -radiation on a polyanhydride implant containing gentamicin sulfate. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 232, 1-10, 2002.

277. Zhen Liu, Lei Zhu, Wensheng Zhou, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Vigil Percec and Goran Ungar, Phase behaviors, molecular and supra-molecular structural identifications of a liquid crystalline second generation monodendron (featured by Heart Cut of ACS). Chemistry of Materials, 14, 2384-2392, 2002.

278. Feiyue Lin, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Aromatic poly(pyridinium salt)s. Part 3. Photo- reduction in amide solvents. Polymer, 43, 3421-3430, 2002.

279. Alexander J. Jing, Orawan Taikum, Christopher Y. Li, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase transition behaviors involving the formation of metastable monotropic phases. Polymer, 43, 3431-3440, 2002.

280. Christopher Y. Li and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Semicrystalline polymers. Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology, Wiley & Son, 2002.

281. Stephen G. Boyer, William J. Brittain, Xin Weng and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Synthesis, characterization and properties of ABA triblock copolymer brushes of styrene and methyl acrylate prepared by atomic transfer radical polymerization. Macromolecules, 35, 4960-4967, 2002.

282. Hong-Xiang Teng, Ti Shi, Xi-Gao Jin and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Semi-quantitative characterization of segment distribution in LLDPE based on thermal segregation. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 20, 347-352, 2002.

283. Christopher Y. Li, Shi Jin, Xin Weng, Jason J. Ge, Dong Zhang, Feng Bai, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Donghang Yan, Tianbai He, Bernard Lotz, Liang-Chy Chien, Liquid crystalline phases, microtwining in crystals and helical chirality transformations in a non-racemic chiral polyester. Macromolecules, 35, 5475-5482, 2002.

284. Andrew J. Lovinger, Frank Bates, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Freddy Khoury, Bernard Lotz, Jeffrey Kobostein, Tom Russell, Edwin L. Thomas, Tribute: H. Douglas Keith. Macromolecules, 35, 7527-7528, 2002.

285. Shi Jin, Shuxin Cong, Gi Xue, Huiming Xiong, Bart Mansdorf and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anisotropic polythiophene films with high conductivity and mechanical property via a new electro-chemical synthesis. Advanced Materials, 14, 1492-1496, 2002.

286. Dongshan Zhou, Liang Li, Gi Xue, Jason J. Ge, Chenchen Xue, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Molecular orientation and relaxation on a surface of a thin film of polymeric liquid crystalline. Langmuir, 18, 4559- 4561, 2002.

287. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Christopher Y. Li, Structure and formation of polymer single crystal textures. Materials Science Forum: Texture of Materials, 408, 25-38, 2002.

288. Zhen Liu, Lei Zhu, Wensheng Zhou, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Virgil Percec and Goran Ungar, Interrelationships of nanometer and sub-nanometer structures in a hyper-branched liquid crystalline polynorbornene. Macromolecules, 35, 9426-9433 2002.

289. Yubiao Liu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Xin Weng, and Jun Hu, Preparing and stabilizing colloidal nanoparticles with a helical synthetic polymer. Langmuir, 18, 10500-10502, 2002.

290. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Shi Jin, Crystallization and melting of metastable crystalline polymers. In “Handbook of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Volume 3, Applications to Polymers and Plastics”, S. Z. D. Cheng, Ed., Chapter 5, pp. 167-195, Elsevier Science, 2002.

291. Xin Weng, Christopher Y. Li, Shi Jin, John Z. Zhang, Dong Zhang, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernard Lotz, Helical senses, liquid crystalline behavior, crystal rotational twinning in a main-chain polyester with molecular asymmetry and odd-even effects on its analogs. Macromolecules, 35, 9678-9686, 2002.

292. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernard Lotz, Nucleation and crystallization control in polymers: structural and morphological probes on different length and time scales. Philosophical Transactions A, Mathematical, Physical & Engineering Sciences, Royal Society London, 361, 517-537, 2003.

293. Zongquan Wu, Anqiu Zhang, Simona Percec, Shi Jin, Alexander J. Jing, Jason J. Ge and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structure and properties of melt-spun high acrylonitrile copolymer fibers via continuous zone- drawing and zone-annealing processes. Thermochemica Acta, 361, 87-96, 2003.

294. Jason J. Ge, Bruce F. Li, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Novel polyimide wide viewing angle compensation films for Liquid Crystal Displays. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 21, 223-230, 2003.

295. Lei Zhu, Ping Huang, William Y. Chen, Xin Weng, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Tony Senador, Montgomery T. Shaw, Edwin L. Thomas, Bernard Lotz, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Fengji Yeh and Lizhi Liu, “Plastic deformation” mechanism of a shear-induced metastable hexagonally perforated layer phase in a polystyrene-b-poly(ethylene oxide) diblock copolymer. Macromolecules, 36, 3180-3188, 2003.

296. Roderic R. Quirk, Fenxia Liu, Lei Zhu and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anionic polymerization of cyclohexa-1,3- diene in cyclohexane with high stereoregularity and the formation of crystalline poly(cyclohexa-1,3-diene). Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 204, 755-761, 2003.

297. Benjamin Y. Tang, Alexander J. Jing, Christopher Y. Li, Jason J. Ge, Zhihao Shen, Huabin Wang, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of polymorphous metastability in crystal formation kinetics of 2,3,6,7,10,11-hexa(4-octyloxybenzoyloxy)-triphenylene discotic molecules. Crystal Growth and Design, 3, 375-382, 2003.

298. Er-Qiang Chen, Mark D. Foster, Yongli Mi, Wen-Li Wu and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Glass transition behavior of polystyrene blocks in collapsed dry micelles of a PS-b-PDMS diblock copolymer. Chemistry of Materials, 15, 2129-2135, 2003.

299. Xiao-Ying Yin, Chun Ye, Xun Ma, Er-Qiang Chen, Xiao-Feng Duan, Xiao-Ying Qi, Xin-Hua Wan, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Qi-Feng Zhou, Manipulating supramolecular self-assembly via tailoring pendant group size of linear vinyl polymers. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 125, 6854-6855, 2003.

300. Jason J. Ge, Seok-Choel Hong, Benjamin Y. Tang, Christopher Y. Li, Dong Zhang, Frank W. Harris, Denke Yang, Y. R. Shen and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Assembly of photo-polymerizable discotic molecules into a retardation film with an oblique optical axis at an aligned polyimide layer Surface. Advanced Functional Materials, 13, 718-725, 2003.

301. Er-Qiang Chen, Alexander J. Jing, Xing Weng, Ping Huang, Seoung-Wook Lee, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Fengji Yeh, In-situ observation of low molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide) crystal melting and recrystallization. Polymer, 44, 6051-6058, 2003.

302. Wensheng Zhou, Xin Weng, Shi Jin, Sanjay Rastogi, Andrew J. Lovinger, Bernard Lotz and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Chain orientation and defects in lamellar single crystals of syndiotactic polypropylene fractions. Macromolecules, 36, 9485-9491, 2003.

303. Chenchen Xue, Shi Jin, Xing Weng, Jason J. Ge, Zhihao Shen, Hong Shen, Matthew J. Graham, Kwang- Un Jeong, Huabing Wang, Dong Zhang, Mingming Guo, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Christopher Li and Lei Zhu, Self-assembled supra-molecular structures via hydrogen bonding and aromatic/aliphatic nano-phase separation in a symmetric tapered bisamide. Chemistry of Materials, 16, 1014-1025, 2004.

304. Lu Sun, Lei Zhu, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Chenchen Xue, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Carlos A. Avila-Orta, Igors Sics and Marie E. Cantino, Comparison of crystallization kinetics in various nano-confined geometries. Polymer, 45, 2931-2939, 2004.

305. Ping Huang, Lei Zhu, Ya Guo, Qing Ge, Alexander J. Jing, William Y. Chen, Roderic P. Quirk, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Edwin L. Thomas, Bernard Lotz, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Avila-Orta A. Carlos and Igors Sics, Confinement size effect on orientation changes of poly(ethylene oxide) crystals in poly(ethylene oxide)- block-polystyrene diblock copolymers. Macromolecules, 37, 3689-3698, 2004.

306. Frank S. Bates, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Andrew J. Lovinger, H. Douglas Keith - Obituaries. Physics Today, 57, 106, 2004.

307. Shanju Zhang, Luxiang Fu, Jian Zhang, Jingjiang Liu, Decai Yang, Jason J. Ge, Christopher Y. Li and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Ordering-induced micro-bands in thin films of a main-chain liquid crystalline chloro- poly(aryl ether ketone). Polymer, 45, 3967-3972, 2004.

308. Christopher Y. Li, Shi Jin, Xin Weng, Dong Zhang, Feng Bai, John Z. Zhang, Frank W. Harris, Liang-Chy Chien, Bernard Lotz, and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer helical self-assembly: from asymmetric chemistry to asymmetric physics. In “Contemporary Topics in Advanced Polymer Science and Technology”, Qi-Feng Zhou and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Eds., Peking University Press, pp. 12-26, 2004.

309. Erqiang Chen, Xiao-Ying Yin, Chun Ye, Hai-Liang Zhang, Yun Huang, Xin-Hua Wan, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Qi-Feng Zhou, Phase structures and transitions of liquid crystalline polymers based on 2- vinylterephthalic acid. In “Contemporary Topics in Advanced Polymer Science and Technology”, Qi-Feng Zhou and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Eds., Peking University Press, pp. 56-72, 2004.

310. William Y. Chen, Joseph X. Zheng, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Christopher Y. Li, Ping Huang, Lei Zhu, Huiming Xiong, Qing Ge, Rodric P. Quirk, Bernard Lotz, Lingfeng Deng, Chi Wu and Edwin L. Thomas, The onset of tethered chain overcrowding. Physical Review Letter, 93, 028301-1-4, 2004.

311. William Y. Chen, Christopher Y. Li, Joseph X. Zheng, Lie Zhu, Ping Huang, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Bernard Lotz, Lingfeng Deng, Chi Wu, Edwin L. Thomas and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, “Chemical shielded” poly(ethylene oxide) single crystal growth and construction of channel-wire arrays with chemical and geometric recognitions. Macromolecules, 37, 5292-5299, 2004.

312. Shi Jin, Yuguo Ma, Steven Zimmerman and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, A novel ABC stacking supramolecular discotic columnar structure constructed via hydrogen bonded hexamers. Chemistry of Materials, 16, 2975- 2977, 2004.

313. Chun Ye, Hai-Liang Zhang, Yun Huang, Er-Qiang Chen, Yonglai Lu, Deyan Shen, Xin-Hua Wan, Zhihao Shen, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, and Qi-Feng Zhou, Molecular weight dependence of phase structures and transitions of mesogen-Jacketed liquid crystalline polymers based on 2-vinylterephthalic acid. Macromolecules, 37, 7188-7196, 2004.

314. Jie Hu, Dong Zhang, Shi Jin, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Synthesis and properties of planar electron-deficient liquid crystalline bisphenazines. Chemistry of Materials, 16, 4912-4915, 2004.

315. Jason J. Ge, Haoqing Hou, Qing Li, Matthew J. Graham, Andreas Greiner, Darrell H. Reneker, Frank W. Harris, and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Assembly of well-aligned multi-walled carbon nanotubes in confined polyacrylonitrile environments: electrospun composite nanofiber sheets. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 125, 15754-15761, 2004.

316. Bernard Lotz and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, A critical assessment of evidence in favor of unbalanced surface stress as the mechanical origin of twisting and scrolling in polymer crystals. Polymer, 46, 577-610, 2005.

317. Haoqing Hou, Jason J. Ge, Hun Zeng, Qing Li, Darrell H. Reneker, Andreas Greiner and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Electrospun polyacrylonitrile nanofibers containing high concentration of well-aligned mult-iwall carbon nanotubes. Chemistry of Materials, 17, 967-973, 2005.

318. Lei Zhu, L. Sun, J. Miao, L. Cui, L. Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Chenchen Xue, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Carlos Avila-Orta, Igors Sics and M. E. Cantino, Epitaxial phase transformation between cylindrical and double gyroid mesophases. Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 856E, BB2.3.1-BB2.3.6, 2005.

319. Zhihao Shen, Alexander J. Jing, Shi Jin, Huabin Wang, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Ordered structural evolution and relaxation behaviors of a series microphase separated “hairy-rod” polyimides with multiple alkyl side chains. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 23, 171-186, 2005.

320. Kwang-Un Jeong, Shi Jin, Jason J. Ge, Brian S. Knapp, Matthew J. Graham, Jrjeng Ruan, Mingming Guo, Huiming Xiong, Frank W. Harris, and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase structures and self-assembled helical supra-structures via hydrogen bonding in a series of achiral 4-biphenyl carboxylic acid compounds. Chemistry of Materials, 17, 2852-2865, 2005.

321. Chun Ye, Guoqiang Xu, Zhen-Qiang Yu, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Hai-Ling Peng, Jee Hwan Jang, Zhong-Fan Liu, Kwang-Un Jeong, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Er-Qiang Chen, Ben Zhong Tang, Frustrated molecular packing in highly ordered smectic phase of side-chain liquid crystalline polymer with rigid polyacetylene backbone. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 126, 7668-7669, 2005.

322. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernard Lotz, Enthalpic and entropic origins of nucleation barriers during polymer crystallization: the Hoffman-Lauritzen theory and beyond. Polymer, 46, 8662-8681, 2005.

323. Jason J. Ge, Dong Zhang, Qing Li, Haoqing Hou, Matthew J. Graham, Liming Dai, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng. Multi-walled carbon nanotubes with chemically grafted polyetherimides. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 127, 9984 -9985, 2005.

324. Kwang-Un Jeong, Brian S. Knapp, Jason J. Ge, Shi Jin, Matthew J. Graham, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structures and phase transformations of a series of asymmetric bent main-chain liquid crystalline polyesters. Macromolecules, 38, 8333-8344, 2005.

325. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Design and engineering of polymer/macromolecular structures on the 2 - 100 nm length scale: A personal view on structural research. Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Physics Edition, 43, 3361-3364, 2005. 33

326. Kwang-Un Jeong, Jason J. Ge, Shi Jin, Brian S. Knapp, Matthew J. Graham, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The origin of self-assembled helical supra-molecular structures in achiral C6 4-biphenyl carboxylic acid compounds. Chemistry of Materials, 18, 680-690, 2006.

327. Joseph X. Zheng, Huiming Xiong, William Y. Chen, Kyungmin Lee, Ryan M. Van Horn, Roderic P. Quirk, Bernard Lotz, Edwin L. Thomas, An-Chang Shi, and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Onsets of tethered chain overcrowding and highly stretched brush regime via crystalline-amorphous diblock copolymers. Macromolecules, 39, 641-650, 2006.

328. Bernard Lotz and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Comments on: “A critical assessment of unbalanced surface stresses: Some complementary considerations”, by DC Bassett. Polymer, 47, 3267-3270, 2006.

329. Hong Shen, Kwang-Un Jeong, Matthew J. Graham, Siwei Leng, Joseph X. Zheng, Huabing Wang, Mingming Guo, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Self-assembled columnar phase structures in a series of symmetric tapered bisamides. Soft Matters, 2, 232-242, 2006.

330. Panya Sunintaboon, Jin Man Ho, Pei Li, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Formation of nanostructured materials via coalescence of amphiphilic hollow particles. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 127, 2168-2169, 2006.

331. Kwang-Un Jeong, Brian S. Knapp, Jason J. Ge, Matthew J. Graham, Yingfneg Tu, Siwei Leng, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structures and phase transformations of odd-numbered asymmetric main- chain liquid crystalline polyesters. Polymer, 47, 3351-3362, 2006.

332. Hong Shen, Kwang-Un Jeong, Matthew J. Graham, Huabin Wang, Bernard Lotz, Haoqing Hou, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Alkyl tail length dependence on structures in a series of symmetrically tapered bisamides exhibiting self-assembled supramolecular columnar phases. Journal of Macromolecular Science, Physics, 45, 215-229, 2006.

333. Jrjeng Ruan, Shi Jin, Jason J. Ge, Kwang-Un Jeong, Matthew J. Graham, Dong Zhang, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Side-chain effects on ordered supramolecular molecular structures in a series of aromatic polyimides with liquid crystalline side chains. Polymer, 47, 4182-4193, 2006.

334. Coleen Pugh, Pukun Zhu, Guehyun Kim, Joseph X. Zheng, Michael J. Rubal and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Synthesis of laterally attached side-chain liquid crystalline polynorbornenes with high mesogen density by ring-opening metathesis polymerization. Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Chemistry Edition, 44, 4076-4087, 2006.

335. Seok-Ho Hwang, Charles N. Moorefield, Kwang-Un Jeong, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Pingshan Wang, Kishore K. Kotta and George R. Newkome, Dendron-tethered and templated CdS quantum dots on single wall carbon nanotubles. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128, 7505-7509, 2006.

336. Ping Huang, Ya Guo, Roderic P. Quirk, Jrjeng Ruan, Bernard Lotz, Edwin L. Thomas, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Carlos A. Avila-Orta, Igors Sics and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Comparison of poly(ethylene oxide) crystal orientations and crystallization behaviors in two-dimensionally nano-confined cylinders constructed by a poly(ethylene oxide)-block-polystyrene diblock copolymer and a blend of poly(ethylene oxide)-block- polystyrene and polystyrene. Polymer, 47, 5457-5466, 2006.

337. Prachur Bhargava, Joseph X. Zheng, Roderic P. Quirk, Pei Li, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Self-assembled polystyrene-block-poly(ethylene oxide) micelle morphologies in solutions. Macromolecules, 39, 4880-4888, 2006.

338. Seok-Ho Hwang, Charles N. Moorefield, Pingshan Wang, Kwang-Un Jeong, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Kishore K. Kotta, and George R. Newkome, Construction of CdS quantum dots via a regioselective dendritic functionalized cellulose template. Chemical Communications, 3495-3497, 2006.

339. Ying Wang, Joseph X. Zheng, William J. Brittain and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Switchable thin film surface prepared via a simple “grafting-to” method using a polystyrene-b-poly(2-vinylpyridine) copolymer. Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Chemistry Edition, 44, 5608-5617, 2006.

340. Chenchen Xue, Mary Ann B. Meador, Lei Zhu, Jason J. Ge, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Sirina Putthanarat, R. K. Eby, Ameesh Khalfan, George D. Bennett, and Steve G. Greenbaum, Morphology of PI-PEO block copolymers for lithium batteries. Polymer, 47, 6149-6155, 2006.

341. Dunshen Zhu, X. X. Shou, Yi-Xin Liu, Erqiang Chen, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, AFM-tip-induced crystallization of poly(ethylene oxide) melt droplets. Acta Polymeric Sinica, 4, 553-556, 2006.

342. W. Wade Adams, Barry L. Farmer and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Ronald K. Eby – Obituary, Polymer, 47, 6925-2926, 2006.

343. Prachur Bhargava, Joseph X. Zheng, Roderic P. Quirk and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Self-assembled worm-like cylinder network of polystyrene-block-poly(ethylene oxide) micelles in solution. Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Physics Edition, 44, 3605-3611, 2006.

344. Daniel Alcazar, Annette Thierry, Patrick Schultz, Akiyoshi Kawaguchi, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernard Lotz, Determination of the extent of lateral spread and second nucleation density in polymer single crystal growth. Macromolecules, 39, 9120-9131, 2006.

345. Kwang-Un Jeong, Dengke Yang, Matthew J. Graham, Yingfneg Tu, Shiao-Wei Kuo, Brian S. Knapp, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Construction of chiral propeller architectures from achiral molecules. Advanced Materials, 18, 3229-3232, 2006.

346. Dunshen Zhu, Liu Yixin Liu, Erqiang Chen, Li Ming Li, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Pseudo-dewetting behavior of low molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide) melts on mica surface. Acta Polymerica Sinica, 9, 1125- 1128, 2006.

347. Kwang-Un Jeong, Alexander J. Jing, Bart Monsdorf, Matthew J. Graham, Yingfeng Tu, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase structures and transition behaviors of triphenylene discotic liquid crystal. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 25, 57-71, 2007.

348. Ping Huang, Joseph X. Zheng, Siwei Leng, Ryan Van Horn, Ming-Siao Hsiao, Kwang-Un Jeong, Ya Guo, Roderic P. Quirk, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Bernard Lotz, Edwin L. Thomas, Benjamin Hsiao, Poly(ethylene oxide) crystal orientation changes in an inversed cylindrical morphology constructed by a poly(ehtlyene oxide)-block-polystyrene diblock copolymer. Macromolecules, 40, 526-534, 2007.

349. Kwang-Un Jeong, Alexander J. Jing, Bart Monsdorf, Matthew J. Graham, Yingfeng Tu, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Self-assembly of chemical linked rod-disc mesogenic liquid crystals. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 111, 767-777, 2007.

350. Prachur Bhargava, Yingfeng Tu, Joseph X. Zheng, Roderic P. Quirk and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Temperature-induced reversible micelle morphological changes of polystyrene-block-poly(ethylene oxide) micelles in solution. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 129, 1113-1121, 2007.

351. Pao-Hsiang Tung, Shiao-Wei Kuo, Kwang-Un Jeong, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Chih-Feng Huang, Feng-Chih Chang, Formation of honeycomb structures and superhydrophobic surfaces by casting a block copolymer from selective solvent mixtures. Macromolecular Rapid Communication, 28, 271-275, 2007.

352. David Huabin Wang, Zhihao Shen, Mingming Guo, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Synthesis and properties of polyimides containing multiple alkyl side chains. Macromolecules, 40, 899-900, 2007.

353. Dun-Shen Zhu, Er-Qiang Chen, Ming Li, Yi-Xin Liu, Chao Chen, You-Hai Sun, An-Chang Shi, and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystal growth mechanism changes in pseudo-dewetted poly(ethylene oxide) thin layers. Macromolecules, 40, 1570-1578, 2007.

354. David Huabin Wang, Zhihao Shen, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Synthesis of stretchable polyetherimides containing multiple alkyl side chains. Polymer, 48, 2572-2584, 2007.

355. Kwang-Un Jeong, Alexander J. Jing, Bart Mansdorf, Matthew J. Graham, Dengke Yang, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Biaxial molecular arrangement of rod-disc molecule under an electric field. Chemistry of Materials, 19, 2921-2923, 2007.

356. Huiming Xiong, Joseph X. Zheng, Ryan M. Van Horn, Kwang-Un Jeong, Roderic P. Quirk, Bernard Lotz, Edwin L. Thomas, William J. Brittain and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, A novel approach in the study of tethered diblock copolymer surface morphology and its tethering density dependence. Polymer, 48, 3732-3738, 2007.

357. Tae Joon Cho, Carol D. Shreiner, Seok-Ho Hwang, Charles N. Moorefield, Brandy Courneya, Luis A. Godinez, Juan Manriquez, Kwang-Un Jeong, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and George R. Newkome, “5,10,15,20- Tetrakis[4’(terpyridinyl)phenyl]prophyrin and its Ru(II) complexes: Synthesis, phoptovoltaic properties, self-assembled morphology. Chemical Communication, 4456-4458, 2007.

358. Shi Jin, Kwang-Un Jeong, Yingfeng Tu, Matthew J. Graham, Jing Wang, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng Structure of macroscopic smectic monodomains and its soft-confinements of chiral smectic phases on crystallization in a main-chain non-racemic liquid crystalline polyester. Macromolecules, 40, 2450-2450, 2007.

359. Jouliana M. El Khoury, Daniela Caruntu, Charles J. O' Connor, Kwang-Un Jeong, Stephen Z. D. Cheng , Jun Hu, Poly(allylamine) stabilized iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles. Journal of Nanoparticule Research 9, 959-964, 2007.

360. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer crystals downsized. Nature, 448, 1006-1007, 2007.

361. Deng-Ke Yang, Kwang-Un Jeong and Stephen Z. D. Cheng. Structure of liquid crystal droplets with chiral propeller texture. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 112, 1358-1166, 2008.

362. Wen-Bin Zhang, Yingfeng Tu, Rajesh Ranjan, Ryan M. Van Horn, Siwei Leng, Jing Wang, Michael J. Polce, Chrys Wesdemiotis, Roderic P. Quirk, George R. Newkome and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, “Clicking” Fullerene with Polymers: Synthesis of [60]Fullerene End-capped Polystyrene (highlighted by "Noteworthy Chemistry ", a news weekly published electronically by the American Chemical Society). Macromolecules, 41, 515-517, 2008.

363. Pingshan Wang, Charles N. Moorefield, Kwang-Un Jeong, Seok-Ho Hwang, Sinan Li, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, George R. Newkome, Dendrimer-metallomacrocycle composites: Nanofiber formation by multi-ion pairing. Advanced Materials, 20, 1381-1385, 2008.

364. Xiaoli Zhou, Shin-Woong Kang, Satyendra Kumar, Rahul R. Kulkami, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Quan Li, Self-assembly of porphyrin and fullerene supramolecular complex into highly ordered nanostructure by simple thermal annealing. Materials of Chemistry, 20, 3551-3553, 2008.

365. Ming-Siao Hsiao, William Y. Chen, Joseph X. Zheng, Ryan M. Von Horn, Roderic P. Quirk, Dimitri A. Ivanov, Edwin L. Thomas, Bernard Lotz and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Poly(ethylene oxide) crystallization within defect-free one-dimensional nanoscale confinement. Macromolecules, 41, 4794-4801, 2008.

366. David H. Wang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris. Synthesis and characterization of aromatic polyesters containing multiple n-alkyl side chains. Polymer, 49, 3020-3028, 2008.

367. Bernard Lotz and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer crystallization processes, as seen from the growth front’s perspective. Polymer Journal (Japan), 40, 891-899, 2008.

368. Xuan-Bo Liu, Yong-Feng Zhao, Er-Qiang Chen, Chun Ye, Zhi-Hao Shen, Xing-He Fan, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, and Qi-Feng Zhou, Lamella-to-lamella transition and effect of coil-stretching on crystallization in a rod-coil diblock copolymer containing poly(ε-caprolactone). Macromolecules, 41, 5223-5229, 2008. 36

369. Ming-Siao Hsiao, Joseph X. Zheng, Siwei Leng, Ryan M. Van Horn, Roderic P. Quirk, Edwin L. Thomas, Hsin-Lung Chen, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Lixia Rong, Bernard Lotz, and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystal orientation change and its origin in one-dimensional nano-confinement constructed by polystyrene-block- poly(ethylene oxide) single crystal mats. Macromolecules, 41, 8114-8123, 2008.

370. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase transitions in polymers: The role of metastable states. pp. 324, Elsevier: Amsterdam 2008.

371. Ryan M. Van Horn and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization in polymer thin films: Morphology and Growth in Series in Soft Condensed Matter - Volume 1, Polymer Thin Films, Chapter 7, pp. 163-193, Ophelia K. C. Tsui and Thomas P. Russell Eds., World Scientific: New Jersey, 2008.

372. Shujun Wang, Changjiang Wu, Ryan M. Van Horn, Matthew J. Graham, Charles C. Han, Erqiang Chen and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Liquid-liquid phase separation in a polyethylene blend monitored by crystallization kinetics and crystal-decorated phase morphologies. Polymer, 50, 1025-1033, 2009.

373. Christopher K. Ober, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Paul T. Hammond, Muth Muthukumar, Elsa Reichmanis, Karan L. Wooley and Timothy P. Loge, Perspective. Macromolecules, 42, 465-471, 2009.

374. Xiang Yu, Qiuming Wang, Jui-Chen Yang, Idit Buch, Chung-Jung Tsai, Buyong Ma, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Ruth Nussinov and Jie Zheng, Mutational analysis and allosteric effects in the HIV-1 capsid protein carboxyl-terminal dimerization domain. Biomacromolecules, 10, 390-399, 2009.

375. Kwang-Un Jeong, Ji-Hyun Jang, Cheong Yang Koh, Matthew J. Graham, Kwang-Yong Jin, Soo-Jin Park, Changwoon Nah, Myong-Hoon Lee, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Edwin L. Thomas, Colour-tunable spiral photonic actuators. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 19, 1956-1959, 2009.

376. Kwang-Yong Jin, S.-K. Park, Ji-Hyun Jang, Cheong Yang Koh, Matthew J. Graham, Soo-Jin Park, Changwoon Nah, Myong-Hoon Lee, Stephen Z. D Cheng, Edwin L. Thomas, and Kwang-Un Jeong, Spiral photonic actuator. Active Polymers Book Series, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 1190, 205-210, 2009.

377. Siwei Leng, Brigitte Wex, Li Hsin Chan, Matthew J. Graham, Shi Jin, Alexander J. Jing, Kwang-Un Jeong, Ryan M. Van Horn, Bin Sun, Meifang Zhu, Bilal Kaafarani and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase transitions and structures of novel pyrenes potentially useful in photovoltaic applications. Journal of Phyiscal Chemistry B, 113, 5403-5411, 2009.

378. Fu-Yuan Tzeng, Ming-Champ Lin, Jheng-Yuan Wu, Jing-Chung Kuo, Jing-Cherng Tsai, Ming-Siao Hsiao, Hsin-Lung Chen and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Stereoregular diblock copolymers of syndiotactic polypropylene and polyesters: syntheses and self-assembled nanostructures. Macromolecules, 42, 3073- 3085, 2009.

379. Li Jia, Pang, Yi, Cai, Jiafang, Matthew J. Graham and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Synthesis and electrochemical properties of a new class of boron-Containing n-type conjugated polymers. Synthetic Matals, 159, 1443- 1449, 2009.

380. Yan Cao, Ryan Van Horn, Chi-chun Tsai, Xinfei Yu, Kuang-Un Jeong, Bojie Wang, Finizia Auriemma, Cauldo De Rosa, Bernard Lotz and Stephen Z. D. Cheng. Epitaxial dominated crystalline morphologies of the  Phase in isotactic polypropylene. Macromolecules, 42, 4758-4768, 2009.

381. Lei Wang, Se-Hyun Lee, Young-Jin Kim, Soo-Jin Park, Shiao-Wei Kuo, Ryan M. Van Horn, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Myong-Hoon Lee and Kwang-Un Jeong, Self-assembled columnar structures of swallow-shaped asymmetric tetrathiafulvalene-based molecule. Chemistry of Materials, 16, 3838-3847, 2009.

382. Wen-Bin Zhang, Bin Sun, Hui Li, Jonathan Janoski, David Dabney, Chrys Wesdemiotis, Roderic P. Quirk and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Synthesis of in-chain functionalized polystyrene-block-poly(dimethyl siloxane) 37

diblock copolymers by anionic polymerization and hydrosilation using dimethyl-[4-(1-phenyl-vinyl)- phenyl]-silane. Macromolecules, 42, 7258-7262, 2009.

383. Yingfeng Tu, Matthew J. Graham, Ryan M. Van Horn, Erqiang Chen, Xinhe Fan, Xiaofang Chen Qifeng Zhou, Xinhua Wan, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng. Controlled organization of self-assembled rod-coil block copolymer micelles. Polymer, 50, 5170-5174, 2009.

384. Cheng Hao Lee, Kin Man Ho, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Pei Li, Formation of nanostructured materials using inexpensive hollow particles of amphiphilic graft copolymers as building blocks: 1. insight into the mechanism of nanotube formation. Soft Matter, 5, 4914-4921, 2009.

385. Ming-Siao Hsiao, Joseph X. Zheng, Ryan M. Van Horn, Roderic P. Quirk, Edwin L. Thomas, Hsin-Lung Chen, Bernard Lotz and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Poly(ethylene oxide) crystal orientation change under one- dimensional nanoscale confinement: Effects of confined dimension and reduced tethering density. Macromolecules, 42, 8343-8352, 2009.

386. Siwei Leng, Alexander J. Jing, Li Hsin Chan, Jie Hu, Rasha M. Moustafa, Ryan M. Van Horn, Matthew J. Graham, Bin Sun, Meifang Zhu, Kwang-Un Jeong, Bilal Kaafarani, Wen-Bin Zhang, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, From crystals to columnar liquid crystal phases: Moleculcar design, synthesis and phase structure characterization of a series of novel pyrenes potentially useful in photovoltaic applications. Soft Matters, 6, 100-112, 2010.

387. Xiang Yu, Jui-Chen Yang, Qiuming Wang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Shohei Koide, Idit Buch, Ruth Nussinov and Jie Zheng, Inttrinsic twisting and bending properties of soluble -sheet-rich self-assembles: Implication for amyloid structures. Biophysical Journal, 98, 27-36, 2010.

388. Shuguang Yang, Xinfei Yu, Lian Wang, Yingfeng Tu, Joseph X. Zheng, Junting Xu, Ryan M. Van Horn and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Hydrogen-bonding driven complexation of polystyrene-block-poly(ethylene oxide) micelles with poly(carboxylic acid). Macromolecules, 43, 3018-3026, 2010.

389. Shanju Zhang, Wei Lin, Xinfei Yu, Ching-Ping Wong, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and David G. Bucknall, Surface induced polymer crystallization in high volume fraction aligned carbon nanotube-polymer composites. Macromolecule Chemistry and Physics, 211, 1003-1011, 2010.

390. Xiangkui Ren, Bin Sun, Chi-Chun Tsi, Siwei Leng, Yingfeng Tu, Rahul R. Kulkarni, Zhuang Kang, Meifang Zhu, Wen-Bin Zhang and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Design, synthesize and crystal structure of perylene diimide-polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane conjugated molecules. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 114, 4802-4810, 2010.

391. Chi-Chun Tsai, Wen-Bin Zhang, Chien-Lung Wang, Ryan M. Van Horn, Jing Huang, Yongming Chen, Mingming Guo, and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Evidence in formation of site-selective inclusion complexation between β-cyclodextrin and poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(propylene oxide)-block-poly(ethylene oxide) triblock copolymers. Journal of Chemical Physics, 132, 204903-1-9, 2010.

392. Shaohui Lin, Xinfei Yu, Yingfeng Tu, Hongyu Xu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Li Jia, Poly(-alanoid-block- -alanine)s: Synthesis via cobalt-catalyzed carbonylative polymerization and self-assembly. Chemical Communication, 46, 4273-4275, 2010.

393. Jun Ho Jung, Eun Kyoung Song, Kyung Su Ha, Mina Chae, So-Eun Kim, Seul-Ki Park, Yan Cao, Soo-Jin Park, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Kwang-Un Jeong, and Seung Hee Lee, Molecular frustration of chemically linked rod-disc liquid crystal under an electric field. Chemistry of Materials, 17, 4798-4805, 2010.

394. Jing Wang, Christopher Li, Shi Jin, Xin Weng, Ryan M. Van Horn, Matthew J. Graham, Wen-Bin Zhang, Kwang-Un Jeong, Frank W. Harris, Bernard Lotz and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Helical crystal assemblies in non-racemic chiral liquid crystalline polymers: Where chemistry and physics meet. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 49, 11936-11947, 2010.

395. Ryan M. Van Horn, Joseph X. Zheng, Hao-Jan Sun, Ming-Siao Hsiao, Wen-Bin Zhang, Xue-Hui Dong, Junting Xu, Edwin L. Thomas, Bernard Lotz, and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Solution crystallization behavior of crystalline-crystalline diblock copolymers of poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(e-caprolactone). Macromolecules, 43, 6113-6119, 2010.

396. Chi-Chun Tsai, Siwei Leng, Kwang-Un Jeong, Ryan M. Van Horn, Chien-Lung Wang, Wen-Bin Zhang, Matthew J. Graham, Jin Huang, Rong-Ming Ho, Yongming Chen, Bernard Lotz, and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Supramolecular structure of β-cyclodextrin and poly(ethylene-oxide)-block-poly(propylene oxide)-block- poly(ethylene oxide) inclusion complexes. Macromolecules, 43, 9454–9461, 2010.

397. Xinfei Yu, Sheng Zhong, Xiaopeng Li, Yingfeng Tu, Shuguang Yang, Ryan M. Van Horn, Chaoying Ni, Darrin J. Pochan, Roderic P. Quirk, Chrys Wesdemiotis, Wen-Bin Zhang and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, A giant surfactant of polystyrene-(carboxylic acid-functionalized polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane) amphiphiles with highly stretched polystyrene tails in micellar assemblies. Journal of American Chemical Society, 132, 16741-16744, 2010.

398. Ian Mann, Xinfei Yu, Ryan M. Van Horn, Jason J. Ge, MatthewJ.Graham, Wen-Bin Zhang, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, What are the differences of polymer surface relaxation from the bulk? Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 29, 81-86, 2011.

399. Guoliang Zhang, Yan Cao, Liuxin Jin, Ping Zheng, Ryan M. Van Horn, Bernard Lotz, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Wei Wang, Crystal growth pattern changes in low molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide) ultrathin films. Polymer, 52, 1133-1140, 2011.

400. Wen-Bin Zhang, Yiwen Li, Xiaopeng Li, Xuehui Dong, Xinfei Yu, Chrys Wesdemiotis, Roderic P. Quirk and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Synthesis of shape amphiphiles based on functional polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane end-capped poly(L-lactic acid) with diverse head surface chemistry. Macromolecules, 44, 2589-2596, 2011.

401. Kwang-Un Jeong, Ji-Hyun Jang, Kwang-Yong Jin, Young-Jin Kim, Changwoon Nah, Joong Hee Lee, Myong-Hoon Lee, Chien-Lung Wang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Edwin L. Thomas, Three-dimensional actuators transformed from programmed two-dimensional structures via bending, twisting, and folding mechanisms. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 21, 6824-6830, 2011.

402. Valeriy A. Luchnikov, Denis V. Anokhin, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Chien-Lung Wang, Georg Bar, and Dimitri A. Ivanov, Theory of X-ray reflection broadening for biaxial textures: from semicrystalline polymers exhibiting twisted lamellar growth to discotic liquid crystal. Journal of Applied Crystallography, 44, 540-544, 2011.

403. Yiwen Li, Wen-Bin Zhang, Xiaopeng Li, Jonathan Janoski, Xuehui Dong, Chrys Wesdemiotis, Roderic P. Quirk, and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anionic synthesis of mono- and heterotelechelic polystyrenes via thiolene “click chemistry” and hydrosilylation. Macromolecules, 44, 3328-3337, 2011.

404. Yan Cao, Ryan M. Van Horn, Hao-Jan Sun, Guoliang Zhang, Chien-Lung Wang, Kwang-Un Jeong, Finizia Auriemma, Claudio De Rosa, Bernard Lotz, and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Stem tilt in -form single crystals of isotactic polypropylene: a manifestation of conformational constraints set by minimized fold encumbrance. Macromolecules, 44, 3916-3923, 2011.

405. Chien-Lung Wang, Wen-Bin Zhang, Ryan M. Van Horn, Yingfeng Tu, Xiong Gong, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Yanming Sun, Minghong Tong, Junghwa Seo, Ben B.Y, Hsu and Alan J. Heeger, A porphyrin-fullerene dyad with a supramolecular “double-cable” structure as a novel electron acceptor for bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells. Advanced Materials, 23, 2951-2956, 2011.

406. Chien-Lung Wang, Wen-Bin Zhang, Chih-Hao Hsu, Hao-Jan Sun, Ryan M. Van Horn, Yingfeng Tu, Denis V. Anokhin, Dimitri A. Ivanov and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, A supramolecular structure with an alternating arrangement of donors and acceptors constructed by a trans-di-C60-substituted Zn porphryin derivative in the solid state. Soft Matter, 7, 6135-6143, 2011. 39

407． Hao-Jan Sun, Yingfeng Tu, Chien-Lung Wang, Ryan M. Van Horn, Chi-Chun Tsai, Matthew J. Graham, Bin Sun, Bernard Lotz, Wen-Bin Zhang and Stephen Z. D. Cheng.. Hierarchical structure and polymorphism of a sphere-cubic shape amphiphile based on polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane- [60]fullerene conjugate. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 37, 14240-14247, 2011.

408. Jin-Liang Wang, Xiaopeng Li, Xiaocun Lu, I-Fan Hsieh, Yan Cao, Charles N. Moorefield, Chrys Wesdemiotis, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and George R. Newkome, Stoichiometric self-assembly of shape- persistent 2D complexes: A facile route to symmetric supramacromolecular spoked wheel. Journal of American Chemical Society, 133, 11450-11453, 2011.

409. Wen-Bin Zhang, Jinlin He, Xuehui Dong, Chien-Lung Wang, Hui Li, Fuai Teng, Xiaopeng Li, Chrys Wesdemiotis, Roderic P. Quirk and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Improved Synthesis of Fullerynes by Fisher Esterification for Modular and Efficient Construction of Fullerene Polymers with High Fullerene Functionality. Polymer, 52, 4221-4226, 2011.

410. Yiwen Li, Wen-Bin Zhang, I-Fan Hsieh, Guoliang Zhang, Yan Cao, Xiaopeng Li, Chrys Wesdemiotis, Bernard Lotz, Huiming Xiong and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Breaking symmetry towards non-spherical Janus particles based on polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes: Molecular design, “click” synthesis, and hierarchical structure. Journal of American Chemical Society, 133, 10712-10715, 2011.

411. Huiming Xiong, Chun-Ku Chen, Kyungmin Lee, Ryan M. Van Horn, Zheng Liu, Bin Ren, Roderic P. Quirk, Edwin L. Thomas, Bernard Lotz, Rong-Ming Ho, Wen-Bin Zhang and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Scrolled polymer single crystals driven by unbalanced surface stresses: Rational design and experimental evidence. Macromolecules, 44, 7758-7766, 2011.

412. Wen-Bin Zhang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Michael J. Yaszemski, Polymer biomaterials: A history of use in musculoskeletal regenerative and reconstructive medicine. In 100+ Years of Plastics. Leo Baekeland and Beyond. Strom E. et al. Eds, Chapter 11, pp. 165-182, American Chemical Society Book Series, 2011.

413. Jui-Chen Yang, Chao Zhao, I-Fan Hsieh, Senthilram Subramanian, Lingyun Liu, Gang Cheng, Lingyan Li, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Jie Zheng, Strong resistance of poly (ethylene glycol) based L-tyrosine polyurethanes to protein adsorption and cell adhesion. Polymer International, 61, 616-621, 2012.

414. Guoliang Zhang, Xuemei Zhai, Zhenpeng Ma, Liuxin Jin, Ping Zheng, Wei Wang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernard Lotz, Morphology diagram of single-layer crystal patterns in supercooled poly(ethylene oxide) ultrathin films: Understanding macromolecular effect on crystal pattern formation and selection. ACS Macro Letter, 1, 217-221, 2012.

415. Xuehui Dong, Wen-Bin Zhang, Chien-Lung Wang, Bin Sun, Hui Li, Roderic P. Quirk and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Efficient construction of fullerene-containing polymers with versatile architectures and precise fullerene functionality. Polymer Chemistry, 3, 124-134, 2012.

416. Tingling Rao, Xuehui Dong, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Matthew L. Becker, High-fidelity fabrication of Au-polymer Janus nanoparticles using a solution template approach. Soft Matter, 8, 2965-2971, 2012.

417. Wen-Bin Zhang, Yingfeng Tu, Hao-Jan Sun, Kan Yue, Xiong Gong and Stephen Z.D. Cheng, Polymer solar cells with an inverted device configuration using polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane-[60]fullerene dyad as a novel electron acceptor. Chinese Science B, 55, 749-754, 2012.

418. Tingbin Yang, Ming Wang, Yan Cao, FeiHuang, Lin Huang, Junbiao Peng,Xiong Gong, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Yong Cao, Polymer solar cells with a low temperature-annealed sol-gel-derived MoOx film as a hole extraction layer. Advanced Energy Materials, 2, 523-527, 2012.

419. Hao-Jan Sun, Chien-Lung Wang, I-Fan Hsieh, Chih-Hao Hsu, Ryan M. Van Horn, Chi-Chun Tsai, Kwang- Un Jeong, Bernard Lotz and Stephen Z.D. Cheng, Phase behaviours and Janus hierarchical supramolecular structures based on asymmetric tapered bisamide. Soft Matter, 8, 4767-4779, 2012. 40

420. Xinfei Yu, Wen-Bin Zhang, Kan Yue, Xiaopeng Li, Hao Liu, Yu Xin, Chien-Lung Wang, Chrys Wesdemiotis and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecular shape amphiphiles based on polystyrene– hydrophilic [60]fullerene conjugates: Click synthesis, solution self-assembly, and phase behavior. Journal of American Chemical Society, 134, 7780-7787, 2012.

421. Chien-Lung Wang, Wen-Bin Zhang, Ryan M. Van Horn, Rahul R. Kulkarni, Hao-Jan Sun, Chain-Shu Hsu, Bernard Lotz, Xiong Gong and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, A supramolecular “double cable” structure with a 12944 helix in a columnar C60-porphyrin dyad and the implication in organic photovoltaics. Advanced Energy Materials, 2, xxx-xxx, 2012.

422. Lian Wang, Xinfei Yu, Shuguang Yang, Joseph X. Zheng, Ryan M. Van Horn, Wen-Bin Zhang, Junting Xu and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polystyrene-block-poly(ethylene oxide) Reverse Micelles and Their Temperature-Driven Morphological Transitions in Organic Solvents. Macromolecules, 45, 3634-3638, 2012.

423. Jinlin He, Kan Yue, Yuqing Liu, Xinfei Yu, Peihong Ni, Kevin Cavicchi, Roderic P. Quirk, Er-Qiang Chen, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Wen-Bin Zhang, Fluorinated Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsequioxane-Based Shape Amphiphiles: Molecular Design, Topological Variance, and Facile Synthesis. Polymer Chemistry, 3, 2112 - 2120, 2012.

424. I-Fan Hsieh, Hao-Jan Sun, Qiang Fu, Bernard Lotz, Kevin Cavicchi and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase phase formation and oscillation in polystyrene-block-polydimethylsiloxane thin film. Soft Matter, 8, 7937-7944, 2012.

425. Yiwen Li, Xuehui Dong, Kai Guo, Zhao Wang, Ziran Chen, Chrys Wesdemiotis, Roderic P. Quirk, Wen- Bin Zhang and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Synthesis of shape amphiphiles based on POSS tethered with two symmetric/asymmetric polymer tails via sequential “grafting-from” and thiol-ene “click” chemistry. ACS Macro Letter, 1, 834-839, 2012.

426. Maurice L. Wadley, I-Fan Hsieh, Kevin A. Cavicchi, Stephen Z.D. Cheng, Solvent dependence of the morphology of spin-coated thin films of poly(dimethylsiloxane)-rich polystyrene-block-poly(dimethylsiloxane) copolymers. Macromolecules, 45, 5538-5545, 2012.

427. Dae-Yoon Kim, Lei Wang, Yan Cao, Xinfei Yu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Shiao-Wei Kuo, Dae-Hyun Song, Seung Hee Lee, Myong-Hoon Lee, and Kwang-Un Jeong, Biaxial lamello-columnar liquid crystalline structure of a tetrathiafulvalene sanidic molecule. Journal of Materials Chemsitry, 22, 16382-16389, 2012.

428. Xilan Liu, Tingbin Yang, Hangxing Wang, I-Fan Hsieh, Xiong Gong and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Solution- processed near-infrared polymer photodetectors with an inverted device dtructure. Organic Electronics, xx, xxxx-xxxx, 2012.

429. Anthony Schultz, Yan Cao, Mingjun Huang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Xiaopen Li, Charles N. Moorefield, Chrys Wesdemiotis, and George R. Newkome, Stable, trinuclear Zn(II)- and Cd(II)-metallocycles: TWIM- MS, photophysical properties, and nanofiber formation. Dalton Transactions, 41, 11573-11575, 2012.

430. Kan Yue, Jinlin He, Chang Liu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Wen-Bin Zhang, Highly efficient syntheses of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane based shape amphiphiles via two sequential “click” reactions. Macromolecules, 45, xxxx-xxxx, 2012.

431. Wen-Bin Zhang, Jinlin He, Kan Yue, Chang Liu, Peihong Ni, Roderic P. Quirk and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Rapid and efficient anionic synthesis of well-defined eight-arm star polymers using octavinylPOSS and (polystyryl)lithium. Macromolecules, 45, xxxx-xxxx, 2012.

432. Xiong Gong, Tingbin Yang, Xinfei Yu, Hangxiong Wang, Xilan Liu, Chao Yi, He REn, Yali Yang, Steven Xiao, Alamgir Karim and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Fine-tuning of fluorinated thieno[3,4-b]thiophene copolymer for efficient polymer solar cells. Journal of American Chemical Society, to be submitted, 2012.

433. Kan Yue, Jinlin He, Chang Liu, Mingjun Huang, Xue-Hui Dong, Kai Guo, Peihong Ni, Chrys Wesdemiotis,1 Roderic P. Quirk, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Wen-Bin Zhang, Anionic synthesis of a “clickable” middle-chain azide-functionalized polystyrene and its application in shape amphiphiles. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 31, xxx-xxx, 2013.

434. Chien-Lung Wang, Wen-Bin Zhang, Xinfei Yu, Kan Yue, Hao-Jun Sun, Chih-Hao Hsu, Chain-Shu Hsu, Jojo Joseph, David A. Modarelli, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Facile Synthesis and Photophysical Properties of Sphere-Square Shape Amphiphiles Based on Porphyrin-[60]Fullerene Conjugates. Asian Chemistry, to be submitted, 2012.

435. Xinfei Yu, Kan Yue, I-Fan Hsieh, Yiwen Li, Xue-Hui Dong, Chang Liu, An-Chang Shi, George R. Newkome, Erqiang Chen, Wen-Bin Zhang and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Self-assembly of giant molecular shape amphiphiles as a new platform for engineering structures with sub 10 nm feature sizes. Science, to be submitted, 2012.

PATENTS OF STEPHEN Z. D. CHENG

1. Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Negative birefringent polyimide films for liquid crystal displays. US 5,344,916 (1994) and world wide.

2. Frank W. Harris, Cheng, Stephen Z. D. Process for preparing aromatic polyimide fibers. US 5,378,420 (1995).

3. Harris, Frank W.; Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Negative birefringent rigid rod polymer films. US 5,344,916. US 5,480,964 (1996) and world wide.

4. Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Negative birefringent rigid rod polymer films for liquid crystal displays. US 5,580,950 (1996) and world wide.

6. Frank W. Harris, Zongchuan Wu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Cut Resistant Polymeric Films, U.S. Patent 6,021,524 (2000).

7. Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Negative Birefringent Polyimide Films, European Patent 0 698 052, (2000).

8. Ken Purchase, Martin Mckenzie, Lili Huang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Frank W. Harris, Jason Jiaxin Ge, Dong Zhang, Waveplate and optical circuit formed from mesogen-containing polymer. US 6870978 (2005), 7,058,249 (2006), and world wide.

9. Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polyimides used as microelectronic coatings. US 7,074,493 (2006).

10. Frank W. Harris, Liming Sun, Dong Zhang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Poly(aryletherimides) for negative birefringent films for LCDs. US 7,820,253 (2010).

11. Matthew J. Graham, Shi Jin, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Photonic crystals, conjugated polymers suitable for photonic crystals, and a method for synthesizing conjugated polymers. US 8,257,493 (2012).

INVITED LECTURES OF STEPHEN Z. D. CHENG

1. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Theoretical calculation of macromolecular conformation in solution and special chemical fiber processing. Invited Lecture at the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Society Conference, Shanghai, June 1981.

2. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystals and crystallization of macromolecules. Invited Lecture at China Textile University, Shanghai, May 1984.

3. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal analysis of macromolecules. Invited Lecture at China Textile University, Shanghai, June 1984.

4. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer crystals and morphology. Invited Lecture at China Textile University, Shanghai, June 1984.

5. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Computer simulation of macromolecular motion and its thermal properties. Invited Lecture at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, November 1985.

6. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Experimental evidence of molecular nucleation in poly(ethylene oxide) fractions and solutions. Invited Lecture at Polytechnic University of New York, New York, October 1986.

7. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Computer simulation of macromolecular phase transitions. Invited Lecture at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, November 1986.

8. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The rigid amorphous fractions in thermoplastic materials of polymers. Invited Lecture at Research Center, Hercules Inc., Wilmington, Delaware, January 1987.

9. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Solid state of high melting polymers. Invited Lecture at Research Center, Phillips Petroleum Co., Bartlesville, Oklahoma, February 1988.

10. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Solid state physics of thermoplastics. Invited Lecture in the Department of Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, January 1988.

11. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Solid state physics of macromolecules. Invited Lecture at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, April 1988.

12. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Solid state physics of macromolecules. Invited Lecture at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, April 1988.

13. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal characterization of high melting polymers. Invited Lecture at the First International Symposium on Polymer Analysis and Characterization at University of Toronto, Canada, June 1988.

14. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers. Invited Lecture at Research Center, Hercules, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware, July 1988.

15. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, phase transitions in polymeric materials. Invited Lecture at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, November 1988.

16. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Solid state physics of macromolecules. Invited Lecture at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, December 1988.

17. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal analysis in liquid crystalline polymers. Invited Lecture at North Coast Thermal Analysis Society, Independence, Ohio, December 1988.

18. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, An overview of current research in solid state physics of macromolecules. Invited Lecture at R&D Center, Phillips Petroleum Co., Bartlesville, Oklahoma, December 1988.

19. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal characterization in liquid crystalline polymers. Invited Lecture at Great Lake Thermal Analysis Society, Detroit, Michigan, March 1989.

20. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers. Invited Lecture at Research Center, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, April 1989.

21. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Solid state characterization of thermoplastic polymers. Invited Lecture at Texas Polymer Center, Dow Chemical Co., Freeport, Texas, May 1989.

22. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Isotacticity influence on crystallization of polypropylene. Invited Lecture at Research Center, Phillips Petroleum Co., Bartlesville, Oklahoma, August 1989.

23. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal characterization of thermoplastic polymers. Invited Lecture at Thermal Analysis Forum of Delaware Valley, Wilmington, Delaware, October 1989.

24. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal mechanical behavior of preoxidation and carbonization processes in carbon fibers from precursor PAN fibers. Invited Lecture at Research Center, Hercules Inc., Wilmington, Delaware, October 1989.

25. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structural formation mechanism in thermotropic copolyesters. Invited Lecture at Department of Macromolecular Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, November 1989.

26. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Solid state characterization of engineering polymers. Invited Lecture at Niagara Frontier Thermal Analysis Society, Buffalo, New York, November 1989.

27. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Rigid amorphous fraction, an interface structure in semicrystalline polymers. Invited Lecture at Research Center, The Shell Development Co., Houston, Texas, November 1989.

28. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase behavior in thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers. Invited Lecture at Research Center, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, February 1990.

29. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Liquid crystalline polymers. Invited Lecture at NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, March 1990.

30. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, T. Kyu and Frank W. Harris, Advanced polyimide molecular composites. Invited Lecture at the Annual Technical Conference of the Society of Plastics Engineers, Dallas, Texas, May 1990.

31. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Fibers from liquid crystal polymers. Invited Lecture at Akron Polymer Conference, Akron, Ohio, May 1990.

32. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, High performance polyimide fibers. Invited Lecture at Specialty Polymers ‘90, Electro-Optic Polymers and Highly Ordered Fibers and Films. Baltimore, Maryland, August 1990.

33. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Liquid crystalline polymers. Invited Lecture at Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, October 1990.

34. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Nonintegral and integral folding crystal growth in low molecular mass poly(ethylene oxide) fractions. Invited Lecture at The University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 1990.

35. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Rigid-rod and segmented rigid-rod polyimides: Gel/sol and liquid crystal transitions, fibers and films. Invited Lecture at 4th Annual Analytical Science Symposium at Research Center, Hercules Inc., Wilmington, Delaware, January 1991.

36. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High performance polyimide and polyamide fibers. Invited Lecture at Dow Chemical Company, Research Center, Midland, Michigan, January 1991. 45

37. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High temperature polyimide composite resins. Invited Lecture at SAMPLE Local Society Meeting, Midland, Michigan, January 1991.

38. Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Steven L.-C. Hsu, Gel/sol and liquid crystalline transitions in solutions of rigid-rod polyimides. Invited Lecture at Academy of Science Centennial Symposia, Columbus, Ohio, April 1991.

39. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Gel/sol and liquid crystal transitions, fibers and films in rigid-rod and segmented rigid-rod polyimides. Invited Lecture at Material Research Society Meeting, Anaheim, California, April 1991.

40. Frank W. Harris, Steven L. C. Hsu and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Organo-soluble rigid-rod and segmented rigid-rod polyimides: synthesis and properties. Invited Lecture at Material Research Society Meeting, Anaheim, California, April 1991.

41. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Ronald L. Johnson, Thermotropic liquid crystal copolyesters. Invited Lecture at the Annual Technical Conference of the Society of Plastics Engineers, Montreal, Canada, May 1991.

42. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Daniel P. Heberer and Frank W. Harris, Crystallization and morphology of semicrystalline polyimides. Invited Lecture at the Annual Technical Conference of the Society of Plastics Engineers, Montreal, Canada, May 1991.

43. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal characterization of liquid crystal polymers. Invited Lecture at American Chemical Society Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, May 1991.

44. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Isotacticity effect on thermodynamic properties, crystallization, morphology of polypropylene fractions. Invited Lecture at Research Center, Exxon Chemical Company, Houston, Texas, May 1991.

45. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Organo-soluble rigid-rod and segmented rigid-rod polyimides and their applications. Invited Lecture at Gencorp Research, Akron, Ohio, June 1991.

46. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Rigid-rod and segmented rigid-rod polyimides: gel/sol and liquid crystal transitions, fibers and films. Invited Lecture at Polymers Gordon Research Conference, New Hampshire, June 1991.

47. Frank W. Harris, Steven L.-C. Hsu, C. J. Lee, Fred E. Arnold, Jr. and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Organo- soluble segmented rigid-rod polyimides: synthesis and properties. Invited Lecture at Fourth International Conference on Polyimides, Ellenville, New York, October 1991.

48. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal characterization of segmented rigid-rod polyimide films. Invited Lecture at Thermal Analysis Symposium at Michigan Molecular Institute, Midland, Michigan, November 1991.

49. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High performance polyimide fibers. Invited Lecture at Eastman Kodak Company, Kingsport, Tennessee, November 1991.

50. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Gel/sol and liquid crystal transitions in rigid-rod and segmented rigid-rod polyimides. Invited Lecture at ALCOM Symposium, Akron, Ohio, November 1991.

51. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structure-property relationships of aromatic polyimides. Invited Lecture at Du Pont Company, Experimental Station, Wilmington, Delaware, December 1991.

52. Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polyimide fiber/polyimide matrix composites. Invited Lecture at Polymer Composite Gordon Research Conference (West), California, January 1992.

53. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Rigid-rod and segmented rigid-rod polyimides: structure, property and applications. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, January 1992. 46

54. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, How does a chain molecule crystallize? From ethylene oxide oligomers to poly(ethylene oxide)s. Invited Lecture at Macromolecular Science Program, University of Michigan, Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 1992.

55. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structure, morphology and properties in polymeric materials. Invited Lecture at Advanced Cardiovascular Systems Inc., Sata Clara, California, April 1992.

56. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Fred E. Arnold, Jr., Anqiu Zhang, Dexing Shen, Jae-Young Park, Chul Joo Lee and Frank W. Harris, Ordered structure formations in segmented rigid-rod polyimides. Invited Lecture at Spring Annual American Chemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, California, April 1992.

57. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Martin L. Mittleman, James J. Janimak, Dexing Shen, Tammy M. Chalmers, Shawn H.-S. Lien, C. C. Tso, P. A. Gabori and Frank W. Harris, New semicrystalline polyimide (PI-2) for fiber reinforced composites. 2. Crystal structure, crystallization kinetics and morphology. Invited Lecture at Spring Annual American Chemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, California, April 1992.

58. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Nonintegral and Integral Chain folding crystals in polymer crystallization: thermodynamics, kinetics, end Group effect and molecular weight dependence. Invited Lecture at Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, April 1992.

59. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Organo-soluble segmented rigid-rod polyimides and copolyimides: Gel/sol and order/disorder transitions, high performance fibers, and films for microelectronic applications. Invited Lecture at Man-made Fiber Research Institute, China Textile University, Shanghai, China, April 1992.

60. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Monotropic transition behavior in thermotropic main chain mesogen-nonmesogen liquid crystal polymers. Invited Lecture at Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, April 1992.

61. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Organo-soluble segmented rigid-rod polyimides and copolyimides: Gel/sol and order/disorder transitions, high performance fibers, and films for microelectronic applications. Invited Lecture at Shanghai Synthetic Resin Institute, Shanghai, China, April 1992.

62. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Organo-soluble segmented rigid-rod polyimides and copolyimides: Gel/sol and order/disorder transitions, high performance fibers, and films for microelectronic applications. Invited Lecture at Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, April 1992.

63. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal properties and interfacial structure in semicrystalline thermoplastic polymers. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, April 1992.

64. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Organo-soluble segmented rigid-rod polyimides and copolyimides: Gel/sol and order/disorder transitions, high performance fibers, and films for microelectronic applications. Invited Lecture at Institute of Guangzhou Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Guangzhou, China, April 1992.

65. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal properties and interfacial structure in semicrystalline thermoplastic polymers. Invited Lecture at Polymer Science Research Institute, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China, April 1992.

66. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Organo-soluble segmented rigid-rod polyimides and copolyimides: Gel/sol andorder/disorder transitions, high performance fibers, and films for microelectronic applications. Invited Lecture at Modern Chemical Research Institute, Xian, China, April 1992.

67. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Monotropic transition behavior in thermotropic main chain mesogen-nonmesogen liquid crystal polymers. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, April 1992.

68. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Nonintegral and integral chain folding crystals in polymer crystallization: thermodynamics, kinetics, end group effect and molecular weight dependence. Invited Lecture at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, April 1992.

69. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Organo-soluble segmented rigid-rod polyimides and copolyimides: Gel/sol and order/disorder transitions, high performance fibers, and films for microelectronic applications. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, May 1992.

70. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Polyimide fiber/polyimide matrix composites: Structure and property relationships. Invited Lecture at Akron Polymer Conference, Akron, Ohio, May 1992.

71. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal analysis in polymeric materials. Invited Lecture at NCTAS, OVTAS and WPTAS Thermal Analysis Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, May 1992.

72. Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Cho Joo Lee, Dexing Shen and Fred E. Arnold, Jr., Design of segmented rigid-rod polyimides for optical applications. Invited Lecture at ALCOM Symposium, Akron, Ohio, May 1992.

73. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Dynamic mechanical properties and molecular motion in aromatic polyimide fibers and films. Invited Lecture at Thermal Analysis Symposium in Houston, Texas, August 1992.

74. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymorphs in polypropylene: Crystal structures, morphology and properties. Invited Lecture at Exxon Research Center, Baytown, Texas, August 1992.

75. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High performance aromatic polyimide fibers, structure and properties. Invited Lecture at Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Institut of Polymere, Zurich, Switzerland, September 1992.

76. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Nonintegral and integral folding crystal growth in low molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide) fractions. Invited Lecture at “Crystallization of Polymers, Theoretical and Experimental Aspect”, NATO Workshop, Mons, Belgium, September 1992.

77. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Advanced aromatic polyimide fibers. Invited Lecture at the 21st Annual Conference of the North American Thermal Analysis Society, Atlanta, Georgia, September 1992.

78. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Isotacticity effect on crystallization, melting and morphology of isotactic polypropylene fractions. Invited Lecture of Polymer Physics Symposium at 3M Company Research Center, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, October 1992.

79. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polyimide fibers and films: Structure and properties. Invited Lecture at Du Pont Company, Experimental Station, Wilmington, Delaware, November 1992.

80. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polypropylene: Crystal structures, crystallization, melting, and morphology in homopolymers and copolymers. Fina Oil and Chemical Company, Deer Park, Texas, December 1992.

81. Frank W. Harris, Fred E. Arnold, Jr., Zongquan Wu, Steven L.-C. Hsu, Chul Joo Lee, Dexing Shen, Anqiu Zhang and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in rigid-rod and segmented rigid-rod polyimides. Invited Lecture at Japan Polymer Science Society, Japan, December 1992.

82. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal characterization of polymeric materials. Invited Lecture at 3M Company Research Center, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, February 1993.

83. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermosets: basics and practice. Invited Lecture at Glidden Company, Strongsville, Ohio, March 1993.

84. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Fred E. Arnold, Jr., Dexing Shen and Frank W. Harris, Thermal characterization of aromatic polyimide films. Invited Lecture at Spring Annual American Chemical Society Meeting, Denver, Colorado, April 1993. 48

85. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Tammy M. Chalmers, Patricia A. Gabori, Yi-Ding Zhang and Frank W. Harris, High performance thermoplastic polyimide matrix/fiber composites. Invited Lecture at Spring Annual American Chemical Society Meeting, Denver, Colorado, April 1993.

86. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Jae-Young Park, Chul Joo Lee and Frank W. Harris, Ordered structure and crystal morphology of fully aromatic polyimides grown from solutions. Invited Lecture at Spring Annual American Chemical Society Meeting, Denver, Colorado, April 1993.

87. Frank W. Harris, Fred E. Arnold, Jr., Mark Eashoo, Steven, L.-C. Hsu, C. J. Lee, Dexing Shen, Anqiu Zhang and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Fluorine containing high performance polyimides: Synthesis, properties and applications. Invited Lecture at the Annual Technical Conference of the Society of Plastics Engineers, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 1993.

88. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Jonahira Rodriguez, Crystallization and morphology of syndiotactic polypropylene fractions. Invited Lecture at International Polymer Physics Symposium Honoring Professor John D. Hoffman's 70th Birthday, Washington D. C., May 1993.

89. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization, melting and morphology of syndiotactic polypropylene fractions. Invited Lecture at Research and Development, Phillips Petroleum Company, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, June 1993.

90. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High-strength, high-modulus, high-temperature polyimide fibers. Invited Lecture at NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, July 1993.

91. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Sung Koo Lee, Fuming Li, Steven L.-C. Hsu and Frank W. Harris, Gel/sol and order/disorder transitions in aromatic organo-soluble polyimides. Invited Lecture at Fall Annual American Chemical Society Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, August 1993.

92. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in main-chain thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers. Invited Lecture at Chengdu University of Science and Technology, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, September 1993.

93. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in organo-soluble aromatic polyimide fibers and films: Structure- property relationships. Invited Lecture at Chengdu University of Science and Technology, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, September 1993.

94. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Gel/sol and order/disorder transitions in organo-soluble aromatic polyimides. Invited Lecture at Chengdu University of Science and Technology, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, September 1993.

95. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structure-property relationships in thermoplastic polyimide matrix resin and carbon fiber reinforced composites. Invited Lecture at Chengdu University of Science and Technology, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, September 1993.

96. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in main-chain thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers. Invited Lecture at Hubei University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, October 1993.

97. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structure-property relationships in thermoplastic polyimide matrix resin and carbon fiber reinforced composites. Invited Lecture at Hubei University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, October 1993.

98. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in polymer crystal, crystallization and morphology. Invited Lecture at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, October 1993.

99. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in main-chain thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers. Invited Lecture at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, October 1993.

100. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in organo-soluble aromatic polyimide films. Invited Lecture at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, October 1993. 49

101. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystal structure and morphology and isotactic and syndiotactic polypropylene fractions: Molecular weight and tacticity dependence. Invited Lecture at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, October 1993.

102. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in organo-soluble aromatic polyimide. Invited Lecture at Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China, October 1993.

103. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in organo-soluble aromatic polyimide fibers: Structure-property relationships. Invited Lecture at China Textile University, Shanghai, China, October 1993.

104. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in organo-soluble aromatic polyimide films. Invited Lecture at Shanghai Synthetic Resin Research Institute, Shanghai, China, October 1993.

105. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal characterization in organo-soluble segmented rigid-rod polyimide films. Invited Plenary Lecture at 29th Japan Conference of Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis, Nagaoka, Japan, October 1993.

106. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization, melting and morphology of syndiotactic polypropylene fractions. Invited Lecture at Tulsa-Bartlesville Chapter SPE and ACS Meeting, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, November 1993.

107. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal characterization of aromatic polyimide films for electronic packaging and optical applications. Invited Lecture at East Analytical Conference, New Jersey, November 1993.

108. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymeric materials: the future applications. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemistry, Wooster College, Wooster, Ohio, December 1993.

109. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in organo-soluble aromatic polyimide films: Anisotropic structure and anisotropic properties. Invited Lecture at Standards and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia, Shah Alam, Malaysia, December 1993.

110. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal characterization of polymeric materials. Invited Lecture at Standards and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia, Shah Alam, Malaysia, December 1993.

111. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization, melting and morphology of isotactic and dyndiotactic polypropylene fractions. Invited Lecture at Standards and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia, Shah Alam, Malaysia, December 1993.

112. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structure-property relationships in thermoplastic polyimide fibers, matrix resin and carbon fiber reinforced composites. Invited Lecture at Standards and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia, Shah Alam, Malaysia, December 1993.

113. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in main-chain thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers. Invited Lecture at Standards and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia, Shah Alam, Malaysia, December 1993.

114. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structure-property relationships in thermoplastic polyimide fibers, matrix resin and carbon fiber reinforced composites. Invited Lecture at Petronas of Malaysia, Malaysia, December 1993.

115. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in aromatic polyimides: Structure, property and applications. Invited Lecture at Research and Development Center, Akzo Chemical Company, Dobbs Ferry, New York, April 1994.

116. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Fred E. Arnold and Frank W. Harris, Anisotropic structures and anisotropic properties of aromatic polyimide films. Invited Lecture at Annual Conference of Society of Plastic Engineers, San Francisco, May 1994.

117. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystal order, morphology, molecular motion and thermal properties in a new tough polyimide resin and fiber reinforced composites. Invited Lecture at NCTAS, OVTAS and WPTAS Thermal Analysis Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, May 1994.

118. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystal structure, morphology and molecular motion in a new tough polyimide resin and fiber reinforced composites. Invited Lecture at Thermal Analysis Forum of Delaware Valley for Honoring Dr. Jen Chu, Wilmington, Delaware, June 1994.

119. Goran Ungar, J. P. Zhou, Virgil Percec, Peiwei Chu, M. Kawasumi and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Linear and macrocyclic liquid crystal polymers. Invited Lecture at the IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, MacroAkron, Akron, Ohio, July 1994.

120. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, X-ray characterizations in aromatic polyimide and copolyimide fibers. Invited Lecture at 43rd Annual Denver X-ray Conference, Denver, Colorado, August 1994.

121. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structure and morphological development and their relationships to macroscopic properties in aromatic polyimide and copolyimide fibers. Invited Keynote Lecture at the Pacific Conference on Rheology and Polymer Processing, Kyoto, Japan, September 1994.

122. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Molecular motion and ordered structure identification of the polyimide resins and fiber reinforced composites. Invited Lecture at Toray Research Center, Sonoyama, Japan, September 1994.

123. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structure development of liquid crystalline polymers from the view point of thermodynamics. Invited Lecture at Okayama University of Science and the Lecture Series of Japan Polymer Science Society at Okayama, Japan, October 1994.

124. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in polymer phase transitions. Invited Lecture at Polyplastic Company, Shizuoka, Japan, October 1994.

125. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in crystallization, melting and morphology of isotactic and syndiotactic polypropylene fractions. Invited Lecture at Science University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, October 1994.

126. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Order and motion in thermotropic main chain mesogen-non-mesogen liquid crystalline polymers. Invited Lecture at Science University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, October 1994.

127. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent Advances in Crystal Structure, Phase Identification and Morphology in Semicrystalline Thermoplastic Polymers. Invited Lecture at Science University of Tokyo, Japan, October 1994.

128. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High-performance aromatic polyimide and copolyimide Fibers: Structure, property and processing relationships. Invited Lecture at Science University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, October 1994.

129. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in polymer crystal structure, morphology and crystallinity determination. Invited Lecture at Science University of Tokyo, Japan, October 1994.

130. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Electronic and optical applications in organo-soluble rigid-rod and segmented rigid-rod polyimides and copolyimides. Invited Lecture at Science University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, October 1994.

131. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Order and motion in thermotropic main chain mesogen-non-mesogen liquid crystalline polymers. Invited Lecture at the Kanagawa University, Kanagawa, Japan, October 1994.

132. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in polymer structure, morphology and phase identifications. Invited Plenary Lecture at the International Polymer Physics Symposium '94, Zhengzhou, China, October 1994.

133. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Molecular motion and ordered structure identification of the polyimide resins and fiber reinforced composites. Invited Lecture at Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China, October 1994.

134. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in crystallization, melting and morphology of isotactic and syndiotactic polypropylene fractions. Invited Lecture at Institute of Chemistry at Beijing, Academia Sinica, October 1994.

135. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Order and motion in thermotropic main chain mesogen-non-mesogen liquid crystalline polymers. Invited Lecture at Institute of Chemistry at Beijing, Academia Sinica, October 1994.

136. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Optical applications in organo-soluble rigid-rod and segmented rigid-rod polyimides and copolyimides. Invited Lecture at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, China, November 1994.

137. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structure, morphology, property and processing relationships of a new aromatic polyimide fiber and composites. Invited Lecture at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, China, November 1994.

138. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Molecular order, motion and structure identifications in monotropic liquid crystalline polymers. Invited Lecture at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, China, November 1994.

139. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in crystallization, melting and morphology of isotactic and syndiotactic polypropylene fractions. Invited Lecture at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, China, November 1994.

140. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anisotropic structure and properties of organo-soluble rigid-rod and segmented rigid-rod polyimides and copolyimides. Invited Lecture at Guangzhou Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Guangzhou, China, November 1994.

141. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anisotropic optical applications of organo-soluble rigid-rod and segmented rigid-rod polyimides in liquid crystal displays. Invited Lecture at Guangzhou Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Guangzhou, China, November 1994.

142. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Anisotropic structure and properties of aromatic polyimide films in microelectronic and optical applications. Invited Lecture at the IUPAC Meeting of Functional Polymers and High Temperature Polymers, Taipei, Taiwan, November 1994.

143. Frank W. Harris, Sheng-Hsien Lin, Fuming Li and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in aromatic polyimides: Synthesis and polymerization of 2,2'-substituted-4,4',5,5'-biphenyl-tetracarboxylic dianhydrides. Invited Lecture at the IUPAC Meeting of Functional Polymers and High Temperature Polymers, Taipei, Taiwan, November 1994.

144. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in crystal structure, phase identification and morphology in semicrystalline thermoplastic polymers. Invited Lecture at Institute of Material Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, November 1994. 145. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in order and motion of thermotropic main chain mesogen-nonmesogen liquid crystalline polymers. Invited Lecture at National Tsinghua University, Shinchu, Taiwan, November 1994.

146. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, How to establish research cooperation and economic relationships between industries and universities. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemical Engineering, National Central University, Chongli, Taiwan, November 1994.

147. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in high performance aromatic polyimide and copolyimide resins, fibers and composites: Structure and property relationships. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemistry, Chong-yuan University, Chongli, Taiwan, November 1994.

148. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in crystal structure, phase identification and morphology in semicrystalline thermoplastic polymers. Invited Lecture at the Union Chemical Laboratory, Shinchu, Taiwan, November 1994.

149. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structure and morphological development and their relationships to macroscopic properties in aromatic polyimide and copolyimide fibers. Invited Lecture at the Union Chemical Laboratory, Shinchu, Taiwan, November 1994.

150. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in high performance aromatic polyimide and copolyimide resins, fibers and composites: Structure and property relationships. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemical Engineering, National Chung-Kong University, Tainan, Taiwan November 1994.

151. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, How to establish research cooperation and economic relationships between industries and universities. Invited Lecture at Chinese Steel Company, Kaoshiong, Taiwan, November 1994.

152. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in crystal structure, phase identification and morphology in semicrystalline thermoplastic polymers. Invited Lecture at Institute of Material Sciences, National ShenYa- shian University, Kaoshiong, Taiwan, November 1994.

153. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, New applications of high temperature polymers. Invited Lecture at Goodyear Rubber and Tire Company, Akron, Ohio, December 1994.

154. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, An important role in polymer crystal physics. Award Acceptance Lecture at American Chemical Society Akron Section Meeting, Akron, Ohio, December 1994.

155. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thin film optics of organo-soluble aromatic polyimides. Invited Lecture at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, January 1995.

156. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Effects of molecular architecture on polymer crystallization and thin film optics. John H. Dillon Medal Acceptance Speech at the Annual Meeting of America Physical Society, San Jose, California, March 1995.

157. Seung-Wook Lee, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, S. K. Lee and E. D. von Meerwall and Benjamin S. Hsiao, Molecular shape effects on the crystallization and melting behavior of poly(ethylene oxide) fractions. Invited Lecture at the American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, April 1995.

158. John Blackwell, Tzong-Ming Wu, Sergei Chvalun, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Zongquan Wu and Frank W. Harris, X-ray analysis and molecular modeling of the structure of aromatic copolyimides. Invited Lecture at the American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, April 1995.

159. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Yeocheol Yoon, Rong-Ming Ho and Anqiu Zhang, Phase identification in a series of polyethers having highly ordered smectic liquid crystalline structures. Invited Lecture at the American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, April 1995.

160. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase identification and transformations in liquid crystalline polymers. Invited Lecture at Midwest Thermal Analysis Forum Symposium, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, April 1995.

161. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polyimide materials: Structure, properties and applications. Invited Lecture at Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, April 1995.

162. Frank W. Harris, Mark Eashoo, Zongquan Wu, Anqiu Zhang, Dexing Shen, Cecilia Tse and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Preparation and characterization of a new high performance aromatic polyimide fibers. Invited Lecture at the Society for the Advancement of Materials and Processing Engineering Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, May 1995.

163. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Are metallocene catalyzed polyethylene homogeneous systems? Invited Lecture at Central Research and Development, Experimental Station, Du Pont Company, Wilmington, Delaware, May 1995.

164. Frank W. Harris, Fuming Li, Shen-Hsien Lin and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polyimide films for use in liquid crystal displays. Invited Lecture at 27th Central Regional American Chemical Society Meeting, Akron, Ohio, May 1995.

165. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Yeocheol Yoon, Anqiu Zhang, Virgil Percec and Peihwei Chu, Phase identifications in a series of liquid crystalline TPP polyethers and copolymers having highly ordered mesophase structures. Invited Lecture at 27th Central Regional American Chemical Society Meeting, Akron, Ohio, May 1995.

166. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Yeocheol Yoon, Rong-Ming Ho and Anqiu Zhang, Phase identification in a series of polyethers having highly ordered smectic liquid crystalline structures. Invited Lecture at the American Crystallographic Society, Montreal, July 1995.

167. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polyimide materials: Structure, properties and applications. Invited Lecture at Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea, July 1995.

168. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anisotropic structure and properties in organo-soluble aromatic polyimides thin films and their applications in liquid crystalline displays. Invited Lecture at Cheil Industries Inc., Kyoungki-Do, Korea, August 1995.

169. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anisotropic structure and properties in organo-soluble aromatic polyimides thin films and their applications in liquid crystalline displays. Invited Lecture at Samsung Advanced Institute of Chemical Institute, Taejon, Korea, August 1995.

170. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Are metallocene catalyzed polyethylene homogeneous systems? Invited Lecture at Samsung Advanced Institute of Chemical Institute, Taejon, Korea, August 1995.

171. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anisotropic structure and properties in organo-soluble aromatic polyimides thin films and their applications in liquid crystal displays. Invited Lecture at LG Chemical, Ltd/Research Park, Taejon, Korea, August 1995.

172. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Are metallocene catalyzed polyethylene homogeneous systems? Invited Lecture at LG Chemical Ltd/Research Park, Taejon, Korea, August 1995.

173. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polyimide materials: Structure, properties and applications. Invited Lecture at Cheil Systems Inc., Kyung Buk, Korea, August 1995.

174. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, How to establish research cooperation and economic relationships between industries and universities. Invited Lecture at College of Materials Science, China Textile University, Shanghai, China, August 1995.

175. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polyimide materials: Structure, properties and applications. Invited Lecture at Shanghai Synthetic Resin Research Institute, Shanghai, China, August 1995.

176. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastability in polymer phase behavior. Invited Lecture at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, August 1995.

177. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase transitions and identification of main-chain liquid crystalline polyethers containing highly ordered smectic structures. Invited Lecture at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, August 1995. 54

178. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymorphism and crystal structure of poly(ether ketone ketone)s. Invited Lecture at Beijing Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, August 1995.

179. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase identifications and phase transitions in polymers. Plenary Lecture at the First Worldwide Academic Conference of Chinese Young Chemists, Beijing, August 1995.

180. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastability in polymer phase behavior. Invited Lecture at the International Microsymposium on Polymer Physics. Xian, China, August 1995.

181. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastability in polymer phase behavior. Invited Lecture at Sichuan Union University, Chengdu, China, August 1995.

182. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polyimide matrix materials in composites: Structure, molecular motion and properties. Invited Lecture at Sichuan Union University, Chengdu, China, August 1995.

183. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polyimide fibers: Structure, tensile and compressive Properties. Invited Lecture at Sichuan Union University, Chengdu, China, August 1995.

184. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anisotropic structure and properties in organo-soluble aromatic polyimides thin films and their applications in liquid crystal displays. Invited Lecture at 3M Company, Austin, Texas, October 1995.

185. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal analysis in liquid crystalline polymers. Invited Lecture at the Annual Meeting of Federation of Analytical Chemistry & Spectroscopy Societies, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 1995.

186. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Rong-Ming Ho, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Kenncorwin H. Gardner, Crystal structure and polymorphism of poly(ether ketone ketone)s. Invited Lecture at Pittsburgh X-ray Conference, Akron, Ohio, November 1995.

187. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polyimide materials: Structure, properties and applications. Invited Lecture at Great Lake Thermal Analysis Society, Detroit, Michigan, November 1995.

188. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Fuming Li, Edward P. Saviski, Sheng-Hsien Lin, Jyh-Chien Chen and Frank W. Harris, Recent advances of aromatic polyimides in optical applications. Invited Lecture at Fourth Pacific Polymer Conference, American Chemical Society, Kauai, Hawaii, December 1995.

189. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Bryan P. Livengood, Bryan F. L. Lin, Y. C. Lee and Frank W. Harris, Structure and property relationships of nylon 6-b-polyimide-b-nylon 6 copolymers. Invited Lecture at International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 1995.

190. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances of aromatic polyimides in optical applications. Invited Lecture at Akron Physics Club, Akron, Ohio, January 1996.

191. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Highly ordered smectic liquid crystalline polymers: Bulk structures and surface ordering. Invited lecture at Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, January 1996.

192. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Yeocheol Yoon, Anqiu Zhang, Virgil Percec and Peihwei Chu, Phase identifications in a series of liquid crystalline TPP polyethers and copolymers having highly ordered mesophase structures. Invited Lecture at American Chemical Society Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 1996.

193. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in liquid crystalline polymers. Invited Lecture at Regional American Chemical Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 1996.

194. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Metastability and critical phenomenon in polymer phase transitions. Invited Lecture at Hong Kong Chinese University, Hong Kong, May 1996.

195. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Linear optical anisotropy of aromatic polyimide films and its applications as negative birefringent compensators in liquid crystal displays. Invited Lecture at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, May 1996.

196. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Metastability and critical phenomena in polymer phase transitions. Invited Lecture at Guangzhou Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academic Science, Guangzhou, China, May 1996.

197. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Metastability and critical phenomena in polymer phase transitions. Invited Lecture at Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China, May 1996.

198. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Metastability and critical phenomena in polymer phase transitions. Invited Lecture at Beijing Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academic Science, Beijing, China, May 1996.

199. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Identification of highly ordered smectic crystal phases in main chain liquid crystalline polyethers and surface induced ordering structures. Invited Lecture at Beijing Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, May 1996.

200. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymorphism in poly(ether ketone ketone)s. Invited Lecture at Beijing Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, May 1996.

201. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Molecular architecture effects on crystallization in low molecular weight poly(ethylene Oxide) fractions. Invited Lecture at Beijing Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, May 1996.

202. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Single crystal structure, chain folding and morphology in syndiotactic polypropylene crystals. Invited Lecture at Beijing Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, May 1996.

203. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Metastability and critical phenomena in polymer phase transitions. Invited Lecture at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, China, May 1996.

204. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Identification of highly ordered smectic crystal phases in main chain liquid crystalline polyethers and surface induced ordering structures. Invited Lecture at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, China, May 1996.

205. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Molecular architecture effects on crystallization in low molecular weight poly(ethylene Oxide) fractions. Invited Lecture at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, China, May 1996.

206. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Metastability and critical phenomena in polymer phase transitions. Invited Lecture at Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China, May 1996.

207. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Linear optical anisotropy of aromatic polyimide films and its applications as negative birefringent compensators in liquid crystal displays. Invited Lecture at Nankai University, Tianjin, May 1996.

208. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Metastability and critical phenomena in polymer phase transitions. Invited Lecture at Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, June 1996.

209. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Metastability and critical phenomena in polymer phase transitions. Invited Lecture at Chinese University of Science and Technology, Hefei, China, June 1996.

210. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Metastability and critical phenomena in polymer phase Transitions. Invited Lecture at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, June 1996.

211. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent development of aromatic polymers in industrial applications. Invited Lecture at NOK Incorporated, Tuskuba, Japan, August 1996.

212. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystal structure and morphology of aromatic polymers. Invited Lecture at Science University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, August 1996.

213. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in liquid crystalline polymers. Invited Lecture at 14th IUPAC Conference on Chemical Thermodynamics, Osaka, Japan, August 1996.

214. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent development in aromatic polyimide fibers. Invited Lecture at Toyobo Company, Japan, August 1996.

215. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Linear optical anisotropy of aromatic polyimide films and its applications as negative birefringent compensators in liquid crystal displays. Invited Lecture at Toray Research Center, Sonoyama, Japan, August 1996.

216. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystal structure and morphology of aromatic polymers. Invited Lecture at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, August 1996.

217. Fuming Li, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Linear optical anisotropy of aromatic polyimide films and its applications as negative birefringent compensators in liquid crystal displays. Invited Lecture at American Chemical Society Meeting, Orlando, Florida, August 1996.

218. Frank W. Harris, Fuming Li, Sheng-Hsien Lin, Jyh-Chien Chen and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, New organic- soluble polyimides for optical, microelectronic and fiber applications. Invited Lecture at IUPAC International Symposium on Polycondensation, Paris, France, September 1996.

219. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Rong.Ming Ho, Yeocheol Yoon, Fuming Li, Bongseok Moon, Frank W. Harris, Dengke Yang, Virgil Percec and Peihwei Chu, Surface induced orientation and order in a series of main chain liquid crystalline polyethers. Invited Lecture at ALCOM Symposium of Non-Rub Alignment Techniques, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, October 1996.

220. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastability in polymer ordered phase transitions. Invited Lecture at University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, November 1996.

221. Frank W. Harris, Fuming Li and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polyimide films for liquid crystal displays used in aerospace applications. Invited lecture at 28th International SAMPE Technical Conference, Seattle, Washington, November 1996.

222. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The polymer age: New opportunities and new challenges. Invited Lecture at Annual Meeting of US-Chinese Association for Science and Technology, New York, New York, December 1996.

223. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structural and property anisotropy of aromatic polyimide films in liquid crystal display applications. Invited Lecture at Wesley-Jessen Company, Chicago, Illinois, December 1996.

224. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Linear Optical Anisotropy of Aromatic Polyimide Negative Birefringent Compensators in Liquid Crystal Displays. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada January 1997.

225. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The Role of Metastability in Polymer Ordered Phase Transitions. Invited Lecture at Beijing Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, March 1997.

226. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The Polymer Age: New Opportunities and New Challenges. Invited Lecture at the Research Institute of Scientific and Technology in China, Beijing, China, March 1997.

227. Fuming Li, Edward P. Savitski, Jyh-Chien Chen, Yeocheol Yoon, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Linear optical anisotropy in aromatic polyimide films and its applications as negative birefringent compensators in liquid crystal displays. Invited Lecture at American Chemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, California, April 1997.

228. Fuming Li, Zongquan Wu, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Richard Lyon, The study of thermo- oxidative stability of high performance polymer fibers. Invited Lecture at Annual Meeting of Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering, Anaheim, California, May 1997.

229. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structural levels for property improvement. Invited Lecture at Materials Science Conference Organized by British Petroleum Company, France, June 1997.

230. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Linear optical anisotropy of aromatic polyimide negative birefringent compensators in liquid crystal displays. Invited Lecture at Institute Charles Sadron of Macromolecules, CNRS, Strasbourg, France, June 1997.

231. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Metastability of polymer ordered structure determined by diffraction methods. Invited Lecture at 46th Annual Denver X-ray Conference, Springboat, Colorado, August 1997.

232. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Recent advances in structure developments and phase transitions using thermal analysis methods. Invited Lecture at the 10th International Symposium on Polymer Analysis and Characterization at The University of Toronto, Canada, August 1997.

233. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structure and property anisotropy of aromatic polyimide thin films in liquid crystal display and microslectronic applications. Invited Lecture at Research Center of Dow Corning Corporation, Midland, Michigan, August 1997.

234. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Metastability of polymer ordered structure determined by diffraction methods. Invited Lecture at American Chemical Society Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 1997.

235. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Wengsheng Zhou, Zhengzheng Bu, and R. K. Eby, Syndiotactic polypropylene. Invited Lecture at American Chemical Society Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 1997.

236. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers. I. Concepts and principles. Invited Lecture at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, Jilin, China, September 1997.

237. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structure and property anisotropy of aromatic polyimide thin films in liquid crystal display and microslectronic applications. Invited Lecture at Changchun Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, Jilin, September 1997.

238. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers. II. Experimental observations. Invited Lecture at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, Jilin, September 1997.

239. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastability in polymer phase behaviors. Plenary Lecture at National Polymer Science Symposium in China, Hefei, China, October 1997.

240. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations. Invited Lecture at Chinese University of Science and Technology, Hefei, China, October 1997.

241. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The polymer basic and applied researches: New opportunities and new challenges. Invited Lecture at Beijing Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing China, October 1997.

242. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations. Invited Lecture at Beijing Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing China, October 1997.

243. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The polymer age: New opportunities and new challenges. Plenary Lecture at the International Conference of Graduate Education, Peking University, Beijing, China, October 1997.

244. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations. Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, October 1997.

245. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations. Invited Lecture at Second Mainland and Taiwan Polymer Symposium, Beijing, China, October 1997.

246. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Advanced Polymer Science and Technology. Invited Lecture at Manufacturing Research Series, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 1997.

247. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations. Invited Lecture at Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithica, November 1997.

248. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers. I. Concepts and principles. Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejing University, Hangzhou, Zhijing, China, November 1997.

249. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers. II. Experimental observations. Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejing University, Hangzhou, Zhijing, China, November 1997.

250. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structure and property anisotropy of aromatic polyimide thin films in liquid crystal display and microelectronic applications. Invited Lecture at Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, November 1997.

251. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations. Invited Lecture at Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, November 1997.

252. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The polymer age: New opportunities and new challenges. Invited Lecture at Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, November 1997.

253. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations. Invited Lecture at 3rd International Polymer Physics Symposium, Guilin, Guangxi, China, November 1997.

254. Fengchao Xie, Donghang Yan, Tianbai He, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Virgil Percec, Bulk phase identification and homeotropic monodomain alignment in films for highly ordered liquid crystalline copolyethers. Invited Lecture at 3rd International Polymer Physics Symposium, Guilin, Guangxi, China, November 1997.

255. Eric T. Hsieh, Chung C. Tso, Jim D. Byers, Timothy W. Johnson and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Molecular structure and compositional inhomogeniety of metallocene polyethylene copolymers. Invited Lecture at 3rd International Polymer Physics Symposium, Guilin, Guangxi, China, November 1997.

256. Fuming Li, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anisotropic structures and properties of novel organo-soluble aromatic polyimides for optical applications. Invited Lecture at 3rd International Polymer Physics Symposium, Guilin, Guangxi, China, November 1997.

257. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer researches in twenty-first century. Invited Lecture at Second Material Chemistry Conference, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, December 1997.

258. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations. Invited Lecture at Second Material Chemistry Conference, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, December 1997.

259. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations. Invited Lecture at Second World Wide Conference of Young Chemists, Hong Kong, China, December 1997.

260. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers. I. Concepts and principles. Invited Lecture at Guangzhou Institute of Chemistry, Academy of Science, Guangzhou, China, December 1997.

261. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers. II. Experimental observations. Invited Lecture at Guangzhou Institute of Chemistry, Academy of Science, Guangzhou, China, December 1997.

262. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer researches in twenty-first century. Invited Lecture at Guangzhou Institute of Chemistry, Academy of Science, Guangzhou, China, December 1997.

263. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The polymer basic and applied researches: New opportunities and new challenges. Invited Lecture at Guangzhou Institute of Chemistry, Academy of Science, Guangzhou, China, December 1997.

264. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations. Invited Distinguished Lecture at National Institute of Standard and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, January 1998.

265. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization behavior of semicrystalline polymers. Invited Lecture at Hoechst America, North Carolina, March 1998.

266. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anisotropic structures and properties of novel organo-soluble aromatic polyimides for optical applications. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Chinese University, Hong Kong, China, March 1998.

267. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations. Invited Lecture at Institute of Materials Science, National Shen Ya-Shian University, Kaoshiong, Taiwan, March 1998.

268. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemical Engineering, National Chung-Kong University, Taiwan, Taiwan, March 1998.

269. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemical Engineering, National Tsinghua University, Shinchu, Taiwan, March 1998.

270. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anisotropic structures and properties of novel organo-soluble aromatic polyimides for optical applications. Invited Lecture at the Union Chemical Laboratory, Shinchu, Taiwan, March 1998.

271. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anisotropic structures and properties of novel organo-soluble aromatic polyimides for optical applications. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemical Engineering, National Chung-Kong University, Taiwan, Taiwan, April 1998.

272. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The polymer age: New opportunities and new challenges. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemical Engineering, National Chung-Kong University, Taiwan, Taiwan, April 1998.

273. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemical Engineering, National Chong-Hsing University, Taiwan, April 1998.

274. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymers and thermal analysis, Invited Lecture at the Third United Kingdom Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry Symposium, The University of Surrey, Guilford, England, April 1998.

275. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 1998.

276. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Geometrically frustrated double-twisted helical lamellar crystals in a synthetic main-chain chiral polyester similar to biological polymers. Invited Lecture for 100th birthday Celebration of Peking University at College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, May 1998.

277. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Double-twisted helical lamellar crystals in a synthetic main-chain chiral polyester similar to biological polymers. Invited Lecture at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, May 1998.

278. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Double-twisted helical lamellar crystals in a synthetic main-chain chiral polyester similar to biological polymers. Invited Lecture at Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, China, May 1998.

279. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Christopher Y. Li, Feng Bai and Frank W. Harris, Double-twisted helical lamellar crystals in a synthetic main-chain chiral polyester similar to biological polymers. Invited Lecture at X- ray Microscopy Workshop at National Institute of Standard and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, May 1998.

280. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Qiang Fu, Fang-Chyou Chiu and Anqiu Zhang, Structure and morphology of metallocene catalyzed polyethylene copolymers. Invited Lecture at the 30th Central Regional Meeting, American Chemical Society, Cleveland, Ohio, May 1998.

281. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Size effects on structural and morphological metastability in polymers. Invited Lecture at Gordon Research Conference of Polymer Physics, New Port, Rod Island, August 1998.

282. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Erqiang Chen, Gi Xue, Song-Wook Lee, Anqiu Zhang, Bon-Suk Moon and Frank W. Harris, Effects of conformational defects in low molecular weight PEO fractions on crystallization and phase behavior. Invited Lecture at the American Chemical Society Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, August 1998.

283. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Atomic force microscopic and transmission electron microscopic studies of syndiotactic polypropylene single crystals. Invited Lecture at Bristol Symposium of AFM. Bristol, England, September 1998.

284. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structure, morphology and properties of metallocene catalyzed short chain branched polyethylenes. Invited Lecture at British Petroleum Chemical Company, London, England, September 1998.

285. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structure, morphology and properties of metallocene catalyzed short chain branched polyethylenes. Invited Keynote Lecture at Polymer ’98, The New Polymers: Science, Technology and Applications. Brighton, England, September 1998.

286. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structure, morphology and properties of metallocene catalyzed short chain branched polyethylenes. Invited Lecture at Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September 1998.

287. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemistry, The State University of New York at Stony Brook, November 1998.

288. Fuming Li, Christopher Y. Li, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal degradation mechanism and flammability of organic aromatic polyimides. Invited Lecture at International Aircraft Fire and Cabin Safety Research Conference, Atlantic City, New Jersey, November 1998.

289. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, February 1999.

290. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemistry, Carnage Melon University, February 1999.

291. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations. Invited Lecture at Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champion, March 1999.

292. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Christopher Y. Li, Feng Bai and Frank W. Harris, Double-twist in polymer lamellar crystals helical lamellar crystals. Invited Lecture at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, April 1999.

293. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Lei Zhu, Phase relationships among self-organization, vitrification and crystallization in amorphous-crystalline block copolymers. Invited Lecture at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, April 1999.

294. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Christopher Y. Li, Feng Bai and Frank W. Harris, Double-twist in polymer lamellar crystals helical lamellar crystals. Invited Lecture at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, China, May 1999.

295. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Lei Zhu, Phase relationships among self-organization, vitrification and crystallization in amorphous-crystalline block copolymers. Invited Lecture at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, China, May 1999.

296. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Lei Zhu, Phase relationships among self-organization, vitrification and crystallization in amorphous-crystalline block copolymers. Invited Lecture at Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jinlin University, Changchun, China, May 1999.

297. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Lei Zhu, Phase relationships among self-organization, vitrification and crystallization in amorphous-crystalline block copolymers. Invited Lecture at Science University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, May 1999.

298. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Lei Zhu, Phase relationships among self-organization, vitrification and crystallization in amorphous-crystalline block copolymers. Invited Lecture at Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, May 1999.

299. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Christopher Y. Li, Feng Bai and Frank W. Harris, Double-twisted helical lamellar crystals in a synthetic main-chain chiral polyester similar to biological polymers. Invited Keynote Speaker at Japan Fiber Society Annual Meeting, Japan, May 1999.

300. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Christopher Y. Li, Feng Bai and Frank W. Harris, Double-twisted helical lamellar crystals in a synthetic main-chain chiral polyester similar to biological polymers. Invited Lecture at University of Dortmund, Germany, June 1999.

301. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Classical concepts of metastable states. Invited Lecture at Institute Charles Sadron, CNRS, and University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, June 1999.

302. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Experimental observations of morphological metastability in polymers. Invited Lecture at Institute Charles Sadron, CNRS, and University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, June 1999.

303. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Christopher Y. Li, Feng Bai and Frank W. Harris, Double-twisted helical lamellar crystals in a synthetic main-chain chiral polyester similar to biological polymers. Invited Lecture at Institute Charles Sadron, CNRS, and University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, June 1999. 62

304. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Lei Zhu, Phase relationships among self-organization, vitrification and crystallization in amorphous-crystalline block copolymers. Invited Lecture at Institute Charles Sadron, CNRS, and University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, June 1999.

305. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anisotropic structures and properties of novel organo-soluble aromatic polyimides for optical applications. Invited Lecture at Institute Charles Sadron, CNRS, and University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, June 1999.

306. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Lei Zhu, Phase transitions under confined micro-environments: Self organization, vitrification and crystallization in amorphous-crystalline block copolymers. Invited Lecture Institute at Seminar of Polymer Crystallization at University of Freiburg, Germany, June 1999.

307. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Lei Zhu, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Fengji Yeh, Phase transitions under confined micro- environments: self organization, vitrification and crystallization in amorphous-crystalline block copolymers. Invited Lecture at International Polymer Physics Workshop at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, August 1999.

308. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Christopher Y. Li, Feng Bai and Frank W. Harris, Double-twisted helical lamellar crystals in a synthetic main-chain chiral polyester similar to biological polymers. Invited Lecture at International Polymer Physics Workshop at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, August 1999.

309. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Classical concepts of metastable states. Invited Lecture at Chinese Textile University, Shanghai, China, August 1999.

310. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Experimental observations of morphological metastability in polymers. Invited Lecture at Chinese Textile University, Shanghai, China, August 1999.

311. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Christopher Y. Li, Feng Bai and Frank W. Harris, Double-twisted helical lamellar crystals in a synthetic main-chain chiral polyester similar to biological polymers. Invited Lecture at China Textile University, Shanghai, China, August 1999.

312. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Lei Zhu, Phase relationships among self-organization, vitrification and crystallization in amorphous-crystalline block copolymers. Invited Lecture at Chinese Textile University, Shanghai, China, August 1999.

313. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Christopher Y. Li, Feng Bai, Frank W. Harris and Bernard Lotz, Double-twisted helical lamellar crystals in a synthetic main-chain chiral polyester similar to biological polymers. Invited Lecture at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 1999.

314. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The rule of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations. Invited Mettler-Toledo Award Lecture Speaker at the North American Thermal Analysis Society, Savannah, Georgia, September 1999.

315. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Lei Zhu, Bojie Wang and Christopher Y. Li, Phase transitions under confined micro- environments: Self organization, vitrification and crystallization in amorphous-crystalline block copolymers. Invited Lecture at the North American Thermal Analysis Society, Savannah, Georgia, September 1999.

316. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polypropylene: Structure, morphology and properties. Invited Horizon Lecture at Kinbery-Clark Company, Atlanta, Georgia, September 1999.

317. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer structure and morphology. Invited Lecture at Beijing Research Institute of Chemical Industry, SINOPEC, Beijing, China, October 1999.

318. Stephen Z. D, Cheng, Structure, morphology and properties of metallocene catalyzed short chain branched polyethylenes. Invited Lecture at Beijing Research Institute of Chemical Industry, SINOPEC, Beijing, China, October 1999.

319. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polypropylene: Structure, morphology and properties. Invited Lecture at Beijing Research Institute of Chemical Industry, SINOPEC, Beijing, China, October 1999.

320. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Lei Zhu, Molecular and supra-molecular ordering in nano-confined environments. Planary Invited Lecture at 6th Percific Polymer Conference, Guangzhou, China, December 1999.

321. Xigao Jin, Liyan Huang, Yi Shi, Xing Fang, Zongquan Wu, Fuming Li, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The thermal degradation mechanism and thermal mechanical properties of two high performance heterocyclic polymer fibers. Invited Lecture at 6th Percific Polymer Conference, Guangzhou, China, December 1999.

322. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization in confined nano-length scale environments. Invited Lecture at Science laboratory, 3M, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2000.

323. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization in confined nano-length scale environments. Invited Lecture at American Physics Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2000.

324. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Bojie Wang, Christopher Y. Li, Jason J. Ge and Janusz Grebowicz, Phase structure and morphologies on different length scales in poly(trimethylene teraphthalate). Invited Lecture at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, March 2000.

325. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polypropylene: Structure, morphology and properties. Invited lecture at Aristech Chemical, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 2000.

326. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization in confined nano-length scale environments. Invited Lecture at Europolymer Physics Conference 2000, Gargnano, Italy, May 2000.

327. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase transformations in confined nano-length scale environments. Planary Invited Lecture at Polymer Processing Society Annual Meeting, Shanghai, China, June 2000.

328. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations (1) Theoretical aspects. Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, June 2000.

329. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations (2) Polymer crystallization. Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, June 2000.

330. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations (3) Crystal growth mechanism. Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, June 2000.

331. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations (4) Crystal melting. Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, June 2000.

332. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations (5) Glass transition. Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, June 2000.

333. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations (6) liquid crystals. Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, June 2000. 64

334. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Surface Alignment and pretilt angle of rubbed organo-soluble side-chain polyimides. Invited Lecture at Samsong Chemical Company, South Korea, July 2000.

335. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Synthesis and characterization of high performance polyheterocycles. Invited Lecture at Samsong Chemical Company, South Korea, July 2000.

336. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Synthesis and characterization of high performance polyheterocycles. Invited Lecture at Korea Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, July 2000.

337. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Surface alignment and pretilt angle of rubbed organo-soluble side-chain polyimides. Invited Lecture at Samsong Electronics, South Korea, July 2000.

338. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Christopher Y. Li, Feng Bai, Frank W. Harris and Bernard Lotz, Double-twisted helical lamellar crystals in a synthetic main-chain chiral polyester similar to biological polymers. Invited Lecture at American Crystallographic Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 2000.

339. Chrisetopher Y. Li, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernard Lotz, Double-twisted helical lamellar crystals in a synthetic main-chain chiral polyester similar to biological polymers. Invited Lecture at International Polymer Physics Symposium, Yellow Mountain, Anhui, China, September 2000.

340. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase transformations in confined nano-length scale environments. Invited Lecture at International Polymer Physics Symposium, Yellow Mountain, Anhui, China, September 2000.

341. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization in confined nano-length scale environments. Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, June 2000.

342. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Double-twisted helical lamellar crystals in a synthetic main-chain chiral polyester similar to biological polymers. Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, June 2000.

343. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anisotropic structures and properties of novel organo-soluble aromatic polyimides for optical applications. Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, June 2000.

344. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Alignment and pretilt angle of rubbed organo-soluble side-chain polyimides and surface molecular orientation. Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, June 2000.

345. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Double-twisted helical lamellar crystals in a synthetic main-chain chiral polyester similar to biological polymers. Invited Lecture at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, June 2000.

346. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization in confined nano-length scale environments. Invited Lecture at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, China, June 2000.

347. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization in confined nano-length scale environments. Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, June 2000.

348. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization in confined nano-length scale environments. Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Jaotong University, Shanghai, China, June 2000.

349. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization in confined nano-length scale environments. Invited Lecture at International Polymer Physics Symposium, Yellow Mountain, Anhui, China September 2000.

350. Christopher Y. Li and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer helical assembly: from asymmetric chemistry to asymmetric physics. Invited Lecture at International Polymer Physics Symposium, Yellow Mountain, Anhui, China September 2000. 65

351. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization in confined nano-length scale environments. Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, September 2000.

352. Christopher Y. Li and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer helical assembly: from asymmetric chemistry to asymmetric physics. Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, September 2000.

353. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization in a complicated confined nano-length scale environments. Invited Lecture at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, China, September 2000.

354. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Christopher Y. Li, Polymer helical assembly: from asymmetric chemistry to asymmetric physics. Invited Lecture at the Symposium of Liquid Crystals and Polymers, Past, Present and Future, Kent State University, October 2000.

355. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Christopher Li, Frank W. Harris, Lang-Chy Chien and Bernard Lotz, Chirality on different length scales in a series of chiral main-chain liquid crystalline polyesters. Invited Lecture at Pacificchem 2000 Congress, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 2000.

356. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Lei Zhu, Qiang Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Edwin Thomas, Benjamin Hisao, Fengji Yeh and Bernard Lotz, Phase transformations in nano-confined environments. Invited Lecture at Pacificchem 2000 Congress, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 2000.

357. Frank W. Harris, Y Pae and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Synthesis and properties of polyimide-g-nylon 6 copolymers. Invited Lecture at Pacificchem 2000 Congress, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 2000.

358. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Current research topics in polymer physics. Invited Lecture at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, January 2001.

359. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer science researches in the twenty-first century. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemical Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, February 2001.

360. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Nano-confined polymer crystallization in self-assembled blcok copolymers. Invited Lecture at Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, University of MacMaster, Canada, April 2001.

361. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase transformations in nano-confined environments. Invited Lecture at Department of Macromolecular Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, April 2001.

362. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer helical assembly: from asymmetric chemistry to asymmetric physics. Invited Lectue at National Jiao-Tong University, Taiwan, May 2001.

363. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Nano-confined polymer crystallization in self-assembled block copolymers. Invited Lecture at National Chong-Shing University, Taiwan, May 2001.

364. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer helical assembly: from asymmetric chemistry to asymmetric physics. Invited Lectue at National Chung-Kong University, Taiwan, May 2001.

365. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer helical assembly: from asymmetric chemistry to asymmetric physics. Invited Lectue at National Shen Ya-Shian University, Taiwan, May 2001.

366. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer science researches in the twenty-first century. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemical Engineering at Chang-Keng University, Taiwan, May 2001.

367. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer crystal structure, morphology and defects (1). Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, May 2001.

368. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer crystal structure, morphology and defects (2). Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, June 2001.

369. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer crystal structure, morphology and defects (3). Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, June 2001.

370. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer crystal structure, morphology and defects (4). Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, June 2001.

371. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer crystal structure, morphology and defects (5). Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, June 2001.

372. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer crystal structure, morphology and defects (6). Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, June 2001.

374. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Nano-confined polymer crystallization in self-assembled blcok copolymers. Invited Lecture at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing China, June 2001.

374. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Nano-confined polymer crystallization in self-assembled blcok copolymers. Invited Lecture at Institute of Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing China, June 2001.

375. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Nano-confined polymer crystallization in self-assembled blcok copolymers. Invited Lecture at University of Mons, Belgium, July 2001.

376. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Nano-confined polymer crystallization in self-assembled blcok copolymers. Invited Lecture at European Polymer Congress, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, July 2001.

377. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Christopher Y. Li and Shi Jin, Double-twisted helical lamellar crystals in synthetic main-chain chiral polyesters determined using diffraction methods. Invited Lecture at Denver X-ray Conference, Steamboat, Colorado, August 2001.

378. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer science researches in the twenty-first century. Invited Plenary Lecture at 2001 Asian Plastics Technology Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, September 2001.

379. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization in nano-confined environments: from layered to caged confinements. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, October 2001.

380. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization in nano-confined environments: from layered to caged confinements. Invited Lecture at Department of Materials Sceince and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, November 2001.

381. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer Phase transitions in nano-confined environments: from layered to caged confinements. Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, November 2001.

382. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer science researches in the twenty-first century. Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, November 2001.

383. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer phase transitions in nano-confined environments: from layered to caged confinements. Invited Lecture at China-Taiwan Polymer Symposium, Wuyishan, China, November 2001.

384. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization in nano-confined environments: from layered to caged confinements. Invited Lecture at Symposium of Complex Matter. Invited Tribute to Prof. Ben Chu for the Occasion of His 70th Birthday, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, December 2001.

385. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Lei Zhu, William Y. Chen, Ping Huang, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Benjamin S. Hisao, Fengji Yeh and Lizhi Liu, Nanotailored polymer crystallization in the HPL phase of a PS-b-PEO diblock copolymer. Invited lecture at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, April 2002.

386. Lei Zhu, William Y. Chen, Ping Huang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Benjamin S. Hisao, Fengji Yeh and Lizhi Liu, Dislocation-controlled hexagonally perforated layer phase in a PEO-b-PS diblock copolymer. Invited lecture at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, April 2002.

387. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Fran W. Harris, Novel approaches in developing polymer solid eletrolytes for rechargeable batteries. Invited Lecture at Polymer Energy Rechargeable System Technology Review Meeting, NASA, Cleveland, May 2002.

388. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Views of online submission and peer review processes as an author, a referee and an editor. Invited lecture at Online submission and Peer Review Roundtable. Assocaition of American Publishers, New York City, New York, May 2002.

389. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Nucleation and crystallization control in polymers: Structural and morphological probes on different length and time scales. Invited Lecture at the Royal Society Discussion Meeting on “Nucleation Control”, The Royal Society of United Kingdom, London, England, June 2002.

390. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Nucleation and crystallization control in polymers: Structural and morphological probes on different length and time scales. Invited Lecture at International Crystallization Symposium, Mishima, Japan, June 2002.

391. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Tailoring polymer crystalline morphologies in nano-templates of self-assembled block copolymers. Invited Lecture at the Discussion Meeting of Structure Formation Mechanisms of Polymer Crystallization, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, June 2002.

392. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer science researches in the twenty-first century. Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Kuming University of Science and Technology, Kuming, China, June 2002.

393. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Rubbing-induced molecular reorientation on an alignment surface of an aromatic polyimide containing cyanobiphenyl side chains. Invited Lecture at International Polymer Physics Symposium, Qingtao, Shandong, China July 2002.

394. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Tailoring polymer crystalline morphologies in nano-templates of self-assembled block copolymers. Invited Lecture IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, Beijing, China, July 2002.

395. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Christopher Y. Li, Structure and formation of polymer single crystal textures. Invited Keynote Lecture at the 13th International Conference on Textures of Materials. Seoul, Korea, August 2002.

396. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase Transitions in polymeric materials: The role of metastable states and metastability using combined thermal analytical methods. Invited Lecture at Ashland Chemical Company, Dublin, Ohio, September 2002.

397. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase structure and morphologies on different length scales in poly(trimethylene teraphthalate). Invited Lecture at BP Chemical Materials Network Symposium, Brussels, Belgium, September 2002.

398. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Nucleation and crystallization control in polymers: Structural and morphological probes on different length and time scales. Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, October 2002.

399. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastability in polymer phase transformations (1-3). Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, October 2002.

400. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase transitions in nano-space: from layered to caged confinements. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, November 2002.

401. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Molecular manipulations and molecular coding via crystal templates. Invited Lecture at American Physics Society Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, March 2003.

402. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer helical self-assembly: from chiral chemistry to chiral physics. Invited Lecture at Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storr, Connecticut, March 2003.

403. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystal structure, morphology and properties of isotactic polypropylene and poly(ethylene teraphthalate). BP Chemical Company, Maplesville, Illinois, March 2003.

404. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase transitions in nano-space: from layered to caged confinements. Invited Lecture at Dupont Company, Experimental Station, Wilmington, Delaware, May 2003.

405. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Rubbing-induced molecular reorientation on an alignment surface of an aromatic polyimide containing cyanobiphenyl side chains. Invited Lecture at Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 2003.

406. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer crystal structure, morphology, defects (1-4). Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, June 2003.

407. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Molecular manipulation and molecular coding via crystal templates. Invited lecture at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, July 2003.

408. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Molecular manipulation and molecular coding via crystal templates. Invited lecture at the Workshop “Polymer theory versus experiments” Telluride, Colorado, July 2003.

409. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, A novel approach to control tethering density of polymer brushes. Invited Lecture at Tec Form of Adhesives and Adhesion, 3M, St. Paul, Minnesota, August 2003.

410. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer researches in utilizing a high brightness synchrotron beam line. Invited Talk at DOE Workshop of Scientific Opportunities in Soft Matter and Biophysics at NSLS-II. State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, September 2003.

411. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Christopher Y. Li, Shi Jin, Xin Weng, Dong Zhang, Feng Bai, John Z. Zhang, Frank W. Harris, Liang-Chy Chien and Bernard Lotz, Polymer helical self-assembly: from asymmetric chemistry to asymmetric physics. Invited lecture at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, New York, New York, September 2003.

412. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, A novel method to generate polymers on surfaces with precisely controlled tethering density. Invited Lecture at Institute Charles Sadron, CNRS, and University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, September 2003.

413. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Molecular manipulation and molecular coding via crystal templates. Main-Invited Lecture at European Discussion Meeting on Polymer Physics, Waldau/Hochschwarzwald, Germany, September 2003.

414. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Molecular manipulation and molecular coding on nano-length scale via crystal engineering. Invited Lecture at Bayreuth Polymer Symposium, Bayreuth, Germany, September 2003.

415. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, A novel approach to control tethering density of polymer brushes. Invited Lecture at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, China, October 2003.

416. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, A novel approach to control tethering density of polymer brushes. Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Peking, China, October 2003.

417. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Molecular manipulation and molecular coding on nano-length scale via crystal engineering. Keynote Invited Lecture at 8th Pan Pacific Polymer Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, November 2003.

418. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer photonics. Invited Lecture at Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsburg, Tennessee, December 2003.

419. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer helical self-assembly: from asymmetric chemistry to asymmetric physics. Invited lecture at Shanghai Organic Chemical Institute, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China, December 2003.

420. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Molecular manipulation and molecular coding on nano-length scale via crystal engineering. Invited lecture at Shanghai Organic Chemical Institute, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China, December 2003.

421. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase transitions in nano-space: from layered to caged confinements. Invited lecture at Shanghai Organic Chemical Institute, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China, December 2003.

422. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer Photonics. Invited lecture at Shanghai Organic Chemical Institute, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China, December 2003.

423. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer helical self-assembly: from asymmetric chemistry to asymmetric physics. Invited lecture at Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, December 2003.

424. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer Photonics. Invited lecture at Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, December 2003.

425. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Molecular manipulation and molecular coding via crystal templates. Invited Lecture at 27th Asilomar Conference on Polymer Materials, Pacific Grove, California, February 2004.

426. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Metastable states and metastability in polymers (1-6). Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, May 2004.

427. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High refractive index polythiophene for 3-D photonic crystals with complete band gaps. Invited lecture at 50th anniversary of Polymer Science and Engineering at Peking University, Beijing, China, May 2004.

428. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, A novel approach to control tethering density of polymer brushes. Invited Lecture at International Polymer Physics Symposium, Dali, China, June 2004.

429. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High refractive index polythiophene for 3-D photonic crystals with complete band gaps. Plenary lecture at 3rd East Asia Polymer Conference, Chengdu, China, June 2004.

430. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High refractive index polythiophene for 3-D photonic crystals with complete band gaps. Invited lecture at Donghua University, Shanghai, China, June 2004.

431. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High refractive index polythiophene for 3-D photonic crystals with complete band gaps. Invited lecture at Institute Charles Sadron, CNRS, and University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, June, 2004.

432. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Molecular manipulation and molecular coding via crystal templates. Invited Lecture at 40th IUPAC Macromolecules, Paris, France, July 2004.

433. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structure, morphology and properties of isotactic polypropylene. Invited Lecture at 3M Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, July 2004.

434. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structural and morphological heterogeneities of short chain branched polyethylenes. Invited Lecture at 3M Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, July 2004.

435. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer crystallization: The legacy of the Hoffman-Lauritzen theory on the last 40 years of polymer crystal physics. Invited Lecture at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 2004.

436. Stephen Z. D, Cheng, The rule of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations. Invited TA-Instrument International Confederation of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry Award Lecture Speaker at ICTAC conference, Chia, Italy, September 2004.

437. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, A novel approach to control tethering density of polymer brushes. Invited Lecture at China-Taiwan Polymer Symposium, Taiwan, November 2004.

438. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High refractive index polythiophene for 3-D photonic crystals with complete band gaps. Invited lecture at National Tsinghua University, Shin-Chu, Taiwan, November 2004.

439. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Workshop for polymer photonics. Invited two-day workshop at Union Chemical Laboratory, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan, November 2004.

440. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High refractive index polythiophene for 3-D photonic crystals with complete band gaps. Invited lecture at Brookhouse Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, November 2004.

441. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Polyimides containing pendent perfluoromethyl groups: synthesis, properties, and space applications. Invited Lecture at Materials Society Fall Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, December 2004.

442. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The rule of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations. Invited Lecture at Donghua University, Shanghai, China, December 2004.

443. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer helical self-assembly: from asymmetric chemistry to asymmetric physics. Invited lecture at Donghua University, Shanghai, China, December 2004.

444. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, A novel approach to control tethering density of polymer brushes via crystal engineering. Invited lecture at Donghua University, Shanghai, China, December 2004.

445. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase transitions in nano-space: from layered to caged confinements. Invited lecture at Donghua University, Shanghai, China, December 2004.

446. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High refractive index polythiophene for 3-D photonic crystals with complete band gaps. Invited lecture at Shanghai, Organic Research Institute, Shanghai, China, December 2004.

447. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High refractive index polythiophene for 3-D photonic crystals with complete band gaps. Invited lecture at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, December 2004.

448. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Comparison of the graduate student educations in US and China: from methods to philosophies. Invited lecture at College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, December 2004.

449. Stephen Z. D, Cheng, High refractive index polythiophene for 3-D photonic crystals with complete band gaps. Invited lecture at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, December 2004.

450. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The study of onsets of tethered chain overcrowding and highly stretched brush regimes via crystalline-amorphous diblock copolymers. Invited lecture at Department of Materials Science and engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, February, 2005.

451. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase structures and self-assembled helical supra-structures via hydrogen bonding in a series of achiral 4-biphenyl carboxylic acid compounds. Invited lecture at Thermal Analysis Forum of Delaware Valley Spring Symposium, LRSM, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March, 2005.

452. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Design and assembly of polyimide thin film optics to develop negative retardation layers. Awardees Lecture at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, March 2005.

453. Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, How a search for organo-soluble polyimides led to polyimide compensation films for LCDs. Awardees Lecture at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, March 2005.

454. Z. Zong, F. Fen, Chenchen Xue, Ron K. Eby, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, M. Takahashi, and Y. Kimura, Self- organization of acylated chitosans and characteristic morphology. Invited lecture at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, March 2005.

455. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Design and engineering of crystal surfaces and interfaces. Invited Lecture at Department of Materials Science and Engineering for Prof. Phil Geil’s 75th Birthday Symposium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, April 2005.

456. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The rule of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations. Invited Lecture at PerkinElmer Global Lecture Series, Chicago, Illinois, April 2005.

457. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The rule of metastable states in polymers: Concepts, principles and experimental observations. Invited Lecture at PerkinElmer Global Lecture Series, Akron, Ohio, May 2005.

458. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Design and assembly of polyimide thin film optics to develop negative retardation layers. Invited Lecture at Donghua University, Shanghai, China, May 2005.

459. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High refractive index polythiophene for 3D photonic crystals with complete band gaps. Invited lecture at Donghua University, Shanghai, China, May 2005.

460. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Design and engineering of crystal surfaces and interfaces. Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, June 2005.

461. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Metastable states and metastability in polymers (1-6). Invited Lecture at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, June 2005.

462. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Design and engineering of crystal surfaces and interfaces. Invited Lecture at The 5th International Discussion Meeting on Relaxation in Complex Systems. Lille, France, July 2005.

463. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Development of high refractive index polythiophene for 3D photonic crystals. Invited Lecture at Optics & Photonics Symposium, SPIE 50th Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, August 2005.

464. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Research and development of polymer photonics. Invited Lecture at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Changchun, China, August 2005.

465. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High refractive index polythiophene for 3D photonic crystals with complete band gaps. Invited Lecture at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Changchun, China, August 2005.

466. Ping Huang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Ryan van Horn, Yao Guo, Roderic P. Quirk, Bernard Lotz, Edwin L. Thomas, Benjamin S. Hsiao, C. A. Avilia-Orta, and Igors Sics, PEO crystal orientation changes within an 72

inverse cylinder morphology constructed by a PEO-b-PS block copolymer. Invited Lecture at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting at Washington DC, August 2005.

467. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The origins of self-assembled supra-molecular structure of a series of achiral 4- biphenyl carboxylic acid compounds. Invited Lecture at Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Ohio, September 2005.

468. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High refractive index polythiophene for 3D photonic crystals with complete band gaps. Invited Lecture at 3M Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, September 2005.

469. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High refractive index polythiophene for 3D photonic crystals with complete band gaps. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemistry, University of Montréal, Montréal, Canada, September 2005.

470. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High refractive index polythiophene for 3D photonic crystals with complete band gaps. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemistry, University of McGill, Montréal, Canada, September 2005.

471. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Design and engineering of crystal surfaces and interfaces. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemistry, University of Laval, Canada, September 2005.

472. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Design and engineering of crystal surfaces and interfaces. Invited Lecture at Chinese National Polymer Conference, Beijing, China, October 2005.

473. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, My life in Science. Invited Lecture at Donghua University, Shanghai, China, October, 2005.

474. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The origins of self-assembled supra-molecular structure of a series of achiral 4- biphenyl carboxylic acid compounds. Invited Lecture at 2nd International Conference of Advanced Polymer Fibers and Materials, Shanghai, China, October 2005.

475. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High refractive index polythiophene for 3D photonic crystals with complete band gaps. Invited Lecture at Liquid Crystal and Photonics Workshop, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, October 2005.

476. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The origins of self-assembled supra-molecular structure of a series of achiral 4- biphenyl carboxylic acid compounds. Invited Lecture at National Chiao Tung University, Shin-Chu, Taiwan, January 2006.

477. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Soft matter science and engineering: The next step for polymer researches – A personal view. Invited Plenary Lecture at Taiwan Polymer Conference, Taiwan, January 2006.

478. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The onsets of tethered chain overcrowding and highly stretched brush regime utilizing crystalline-amorphous diblock copolymers. Invited Lecture at City University of New York, Staten Island, New York, March 2006.

479. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, A new approach to study of the onsets of tethered chain overcrowding and highly stretched brush regime utilizing crystalline-amorphous diblock copolymers. Invited Lecture at American Physics Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, March 2006.

480. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Soft matter science and engineering: The next step for polymer researches – A personal view. Invited Lecture at Donghua University, Shanghai, China, May 2006.

481. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Soft matter science and engineering in optical technologies. Invited Lecture at Donghua University, Shanghai, China, May 2006.

482. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Graduate education in the United States of America. Invited Lecture at Donghua University, Shanghai, China, May 2006. 73

483. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Soft matter science and engineering: The next step for polymer researches – A personal view. Invited Lecture at Eastern Forum of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, May 2006.

484. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Soft matter science and engineering in optical technologies. Invited Lecture at Eastern Forum of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, May 2006.

485. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Soft matter science and engineering in optical technologies. Invited Lecture at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, May 2006.

486. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Soft matter science and engineering: The next step for polymer researches – A personal view. Invited Lecture at Peking University, Beijing, China, May 2006.

487. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Soft matter science and engineering in optical technologies. Invited Lecture at Peking University, Beijing, China, May 2006.

488. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Self-assemblies of block copolymers in different environments. Invited Plenary Lecture at 4th Eastern Polymer Conference, Tianjin, China, May 2006.

489. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Self-assemblies of block copolymers in different environments. Invited Lecture at International Symposium on Polymer Physics, Suzhou, China, June 2006.

490. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Soft matter science and engineering in optical technologies. Invited Lecture at International Symposium on Polymer Physics, Suzhou, China, June 2006.

491. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Self-assemblies of block copolymers in different environments. Invited Lecture at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, June 2006.

492. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, What is the nucleation barrier in polymer crystallization. Invited Lecture at China- France Bilateral Workshop on Polymer Crystallization, Nanjing, China, June 2006.

493. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The origins of self-assembled supra-molecular structure of a series of achiral 4- biphenyl carboxylic acid compounds. Invited Lecture at SPIE Great Lake Photonics Symposium, Dayton, Ohio, June 2006.

494. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Soft matter science and engineering: The next step for polymer researches - A personal view. Invited Lecture at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, China, August 2006.

495. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Soft matter science and engineering in optical technologies. Invited Lecture at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, China, August 2006.

496. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Soft matter science and engineering in optical technologies. Invited Lecture at China- Taiwan Bilateral Polymer Conference, Dunhuang, Gansu, China, August 2006.

497. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Self-assemblies of block copolymers in different environments. Invited Lecture at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting at San Francisco, September 2006.

498. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Soft matter science and engineering in optical technologies. Invited Lecture at School of Polymers and High Performance Materials, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, September, 2006.

499. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Self-assemblies of block copolymers in different environments. Invited Lecture at East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, October, 2006.

500. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Soft matter science and engineering in optical technologies. Invited Lecture at 3M China Technology Center, Shanghai, China, October, 2006.

501. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable state and metastability in polymer phase transitions. Series Lectures at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing China, October, 2006.

502. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Self-assemblies of block copolymers in different environments. Invited Lecture at 50th Anniversary Celebration of Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, October, 2006.

503. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymers for photonics and optical technologies. Invited Lecture at School of Polymers and Fibers, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, November, 2006.

504. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymers for photonics and optical technologies. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, November, 2006.

505. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Soft matter science and engineering: The next step for polymer researches - A personal view. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, November, 2006.

506. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer helical self-assembly: from asymmetric chemistry to asymmetric physics. Invited lecture at Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, November, 2006.

507. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer helical self-assembly: from asymmetric chemistry to asymmetric physics. Invited lecture at Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chiao Tung University, Shin-Chu, Taiwan, November, 2006.

508. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Chriality from achiral molecules. Invited Lecture at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, December, 2006.

509. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable state and metastability in polymer phase transitions. Series Lectures at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, December, 2006.

510. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymers for photonics and optical technologies. Invited Lecture at Institute of Polymer Science, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, December, 2006.

511. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable state and metastability in polymer phase transitions. Invited Lectures at College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai, December 2006.

512. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Self-assemblies of block copolymers in different environments. Invited Lecture at Thirtieth Asilimar Conference on Polymeric Materials, Pacific Grove, California, February, 2007.

513. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable state and metastability in polymer phase transitions. Series Lectures at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, National University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, March, 2007.

514. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymers for photonics and optical technologies. The Epistar Lectureship Professor Award Lecture, Department of Chemical engineering, National Tsinghua University, Shin-Chu, Taiwan, March, 2007.

515. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Self-assemblies of block copolymers in different environments. The Epistar Lectureship Professor Award Lecture, Department of Chemical engineering, National Tsinghua University, Shin-Chu, Taiwan, March, 2007.

516. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Chriality from achiral molecules. The Epistar Lectureship Professor Award Lecture, Department of Chemical engineering, National Tsinghua University, Shin-Chu, Taiwan, March, 2007.

517. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymers for photonics and optical technologies. Invited Lecture at Wooster Rotary Club, Wooster, Ohio, April, 2007. 75

518. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Tuning surface and interface properties through crystal engineering. Invited Lecture at Donghua University, Shanghai, China, April, 2007.

519. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Mesomorphic structures in polymer fibers, how to characterize them? Invited Lecture at East Forum of Polymer Fibers. Shanghai, China, April, 2007.

520. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymers for photonics and optical technologies. Invited Lecture at Department of Structural Engineering, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California, May, 2007.

521. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable state and metastability in polymer phase transitions. Series Lectures at College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai, China, May 2007.

522. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymers for photonics and optical technologies. Invited Lecture at College of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, May 2007.

523. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The next step of polymer physics research - A personal view. Invited Lecture at Discussion Meeting of Polymer Physics Resarch, Peking Unviersity, Beijing, China, May 2007.

524. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable state and metastability in polymer phase transitions. Series Lectures at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking Unviersity, Beijing, China, May 2007.

525. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Tuning surface and interface properties through crystal engineering. Invited Lecture at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, May 2007.

526. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymers for photonics and optical technologies. Invited Lecture at IUMACRO’07: Macromolecules for a Safe and Sustainable and Healthy World. Brooklyn, New York, June 2007.

527. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The role of metastable state and metastability in polymer phase transitions. Series Lectures as The Turner Alfrey Visiting Lecture Professor, Michigan Molecular Institute and Michigan State Universities. Midland, Michigan, June 2007.

528. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymers for photonics and optical technologies. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michingan, June 2007.

529. Stephen Z. D. cheng, Phase transitions in nano-space: from layered to caged confinements. Invited Lectue at College of Science, Central Michingan University, Michigan, June 2007.

530. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, for photonics and optical technologies. Invited Lecture at Joint Meeting of Society of Plastic Engineers, American Chemical Society, Michigan Division, Midland, Michigan, June 2007.

531. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, for photonics and optical technologies. Invited Lecture at Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan, June 2007.

532. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, for photonics and optical technologies. Invited Lecture at Dow Corning Cooperation, Midland, Michigan, June 2007.

533. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Shi Jin, Matthew J. Graham, Polymer helical self-assembly: from asymmetric chemistry to asymmetric physics. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemistry. Invited Lecture at Denver X-ray Conference, Colorado Spring, Colorado, August 2007.

534. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Huiming Xiong, Ryan Van Horn, Wenbin Zhang, Turning surface and interface properties through crystal engineering. Invited Lecture at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, August 2007. 76

535. Erqiang Chen, Dunshen Zhu, Yixin Liu, An-Chang Shi and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization and thickening kinetics of monolayer PEO lamellae on mica surfaces. Invited Lecture at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, August 2007.

536. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, for photonics and optical technologies. Invited Lecture at Goodyear Rubber and Tire Company, Akron, Ohio, September 2007.

537. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Turning surface and interface properties through crystal engineering. Invited Lecture at Department of Chmecial Engineering, Cheng Kong Unviersity, Tainan, Taiwan, September 2007.

538. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, , Polymers for photonics and optical technologies. Invited Lecture at Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cheng Kong Unviersity, Tainan, Taiwan, September 2007

539. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymers for photonics and optical technologies. Invited Lecture at Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan, September 2007.

540. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymers for photonics and optical technologies. Invited Lecture at Chilin Industry Tainan, Taiwan, September 2007.

541. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Beyond polymer single crystals, what is next? Invited Lecture at International Symposium for Polymer Crystallization, Mishima, Japan, September 2007.

542. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Turning surface and interface properties through crystal engineering. Invited Lecture at Chinese National Polymer Conference, Chengdu, Sichuan, October 2007.

543. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer research for the next ten years. Invited Plenary Lecture at 2nd International Conference of Advanced Polymer Fibers and Materials, Shanghai, China, October 2007.

544. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymers for photonics and optical technologies. Invited Lecture at 9th International Conference of Polymer for High Technology, Shanghai, China, October 2007.

545. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Turning surface and interface properties through crystal engineering. Invited Lecture at Institute of Polymer Science, Zhejiang Unviersity, Hangzhou, China, October 2007.

546. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Emerging directions in polymer science and polymer engineering: Visions for the University of Akron’s future role. Invited Lecture at Ohio Polymer Strategic Council, Brecksville, Ohio, November 2007.

547. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer crystallization: what are the controlling factors? Invited Lecture at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, Annandale, New Jersey, December 2007.

548. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Interdisciplinary, globally leading polymer science and engineering. Invited Lecture at Chinese Polymer workshop, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, December 2007.

549. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymers for photonics and optical technologies. Invited Lecture at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2008.

550. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Different block copolymer self-assemblies in solution. Invited Lecture at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2008.

551. Stephen Z. D, Cheng, The next step of polymer researches - A personal view. Invited Lecture at Donghua University, Shanghai, China, May 2008.

552. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, What is the future of polymer researches? - A personal view. Invited Lecture at East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, May 2008.

553. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Soft matter science and engineering, - A personal view. Invited Lecture at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, May 2008.

554. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Soft matter science and engineering, - A personal view. Invited Lecture at Shuangqin Forum, Chinese National Science Foundation, Beijing, China, May 2008.

555. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, New science and technology developed via polymer single crystal templates. In vited Lecture at International Polymer Physics Symposium, Xiamen, Fujian, China, June 2008.

556. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer single crystals: An insight into low-dimensional physics through 2- dimensionally ordered structures. Invited Lecture at Peking University, Beijing, China, June 2008.

557. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer single crystals: An insight into low-dimensional physics through 2- dimensionally ordered structures. Plenary Invited Lecture at IUPAC Macromolecules 2008, Taipei, Taiwan, July 2008.

558. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Future directions of the polymer program at the University of Akron. Invited Lecture at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 2008.

559. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Optical compensation films for liquid crystalline displays. Invited Lecture at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 2008.

560. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Exploiting the low dimensional physics of incompressible particles to tailor the stability and morphology of finite phases through designed surface energies. Cross-Strait Symposium in Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, Shin-Chu, Taiwan, November 2008.

561. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymers for photonics and optical technologies. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, November 2008.

562. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The next step of polymer researches - A personal view. Invited Lecture at College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, November 2008.

563. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Exploiting new science and engineering in polymers. Invited Lecture at College of Chemical and Materials Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, December 2008.

564. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The next step of polymer researches - A personal view. Invited Lecture at College of Chemical and Materials Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, December 2008.

565. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Exploiting new science and engineering in polymers. Invited Lecture at College of Live Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Chain, December 2008.

566. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Chirality transfers on different length scales in large and small molecles. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, February 2009.

567. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer single crystals: An insight into low-dimensional physics through 2- dimensionally ordered structures. Invited Lecture at Macromolecular Program, University of Michigan at Ann Arber, Michigan, February 2009.

568. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Assembly of organic/nanoparticle hybrid systems. Invited Lecture at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 2009.

569. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Assembly of nanoparticle/organic hybrids. Invited Lecture at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China, April 2009.

570. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer single crystals: An insight into low-dimensional physics through 2- dimensionally ordered structures. Invited Lecture at at College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, May 2009.

571. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Assembly of organic/nanoparticle hybrid systems. Invited Lecture at Donghua University, Shanghai, China, May 2009.

572. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Emerging Directions of Future Promise and Growth in Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering. Invited Lecture at Akron Section of Society of Plastic Engineers, Akron, Ohio, May 2009.

573. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Assembly of organic/nanoparticle hybrid systems. Invited Lecture at Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, May 2009.

574. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Assembly of organic/nanoparticle hybrid systems. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, June 2009.

575. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Self-assembly of organic/nanoparticle hybrids. Invited Lecture at Gordon Research Conference of Polymers, Massachusetts, June 2009.

576. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Future research in soft matter and polymer science and engineering. Invited Nanqiang Lectureship at Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China, August 2009.

577. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, What is future direction in polymer crystallization? Invited Lecture at International Discussion Meeting on Polymer Crystallization, Shanghai, China August 2009.

579. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Assembly of organic/nanoparticle hybrid systems. Invited Plenary Lecture at National Polymer Congress of China, Tianjin, China August 2009.

580. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Assembly of soft matter/nanoparticle hybrids. Invited Lecture at 11th International Conference on Advanced Materials, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 2009.

581. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Assembly of soft matter/nanoparticle hybrids. Invited Lecture at 4th International Conference on Fibers and Advanced Polymer Materials, Shanghai, China, October 2009.

582. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Future research in polymer science and engineering – A personal view. Invited Lecture at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, October 2009

583. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, . Invited Qingsong Lecture Series at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, December 2009

584. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Assembly of soft matter/nanoparticle hybrids. Invited Lecture at SooChow University, Suzhou, China, December 2009.

585. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Future research in polymer science and engineering – A personal view. Invited Lecture at SooChow University, Suzhou, China, December 2009.

586. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Assembly of soft matter/nanoparticle hybrids in electronic and optical applications. Invited Electronic and optical Lecture Series at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan China, December 2009.

587. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Future research in polymer science and engineering – A personal view. Invited Lecture at Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, December 2009.

588. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Emerging Research Directions in Polymer Science and Engineering at University of Akron. Invited Lecture at Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China, January 2010.

589. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Future research in polymer science and engineering – A personal view. Invited Lecture at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China, January 2010.

590. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Nanoparticles as well-defined building blocks for hierarchical structure formation in hybrid functional materials. Invited Lecture at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, March 2010. 79

591. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Hierarchal ordered structures in hybrid functional supremolecules and macromolecules. Plenary Lecture for Celebration of 100 years Chemistry Education and Research in Peking University. Beijing, China, May 2010.

592. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, From hierarchical structures to hybrid functional materials: Where chemistry and physics meet. Invited Lecture at the Symposium of Frontier of Polymer Chemistry in Honoring Prof. R. P. Quirk’s Retirement at University of Akron. Akron, Ohio, May 2010.

593. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Hierarchal ordered structures in hybrid functional supremolecules and macromolecules. Invited Lecture at International Symposium on Polymer Physics. Jinan, China, June 2010.

594. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, From hierarchical structures to hybrid functional materials: Where chemistry and physics meet. Invited Lecture at Akron University-Peking University-Institute of Chemistry Trilateral Symposium on Frontier of Polymer Science and Technology, Beijing, China, June 2010.

595. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, From hierarchical structures to hybrid functional materials: Where chemistry and physics meet. Invited Lecture at Akron University-Fudan University Bilateral Symposium on Frontier of Polymer Science and Technology, Shanghai, China June 2010.

596. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase transitions in polymers: the role of metastable state. Invited Lecture Series at College of Materials Science and Engieering, Beijing Unviersity of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China, June 2010.

597. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Hierarchal ordered structures in hybrid functional supremolecules and macromolecules. Invited Lecture at National Chiao Tung University, Shin-Chu, Taiwan, August 2010.

598. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, From hierarchical structures to hybrid functional materials: Where chemistry and physics meet. Invited Lecture at University of Teaxs at Austin, Austin, Texas, September 2010.

599. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, From hierarchical structures to hybrid functional materials: Where chemistry and physics meet. Invited Lecture at Polymr Crystal Physics Symposium, Akron, Ohio September, 2010.

600. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, From hierarchical structures to hybrid functional materials: Where chemistry and physics meet. Invited Lecture at the Corss-Strait Polymer Conference, Suzhou, China, October 2010.

601. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, From hierarchical structures to hybrid functional materials: Where chemistry and physics meet. The 2010 Norman N. Li Distinguished Lecture in Chemical Engineering at Wayne State University, Michigan, November 2010.

602. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, From hierarchical structures to hybrid functional materials: Where chemistry and physics meet. Invited Lecture at Lioquuid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, November 2010.

603. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, From hierarchical structures to hybrid functional materials: Where chemistry and physics meet. Invited Lecture at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, December 2010.

604. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, From hierarchical structures to hybrid functional materials: Where chemistry and physics meet. Invited Lecture at College of Materials Science and Engieering, Beijing Unviersity of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China, December 2010.

605. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, From hierarchical structures to hybrid functional materials: Where chemistry and physics meet. Invited Lecture at College of Materials Science and Engieering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, December 2010.

606. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, From hierarchical structures to hybrid functional materials: Where chemistry and physics meet. Invited Lecture at College of Materials Science and Engieering, Donghua University, Shanghai, China, December 2010.

607. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, From hierarchical structures to hybrid functional materials: Where chemistry and physics meet. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemical and Bio-Engineering, University of Buffalo, New York, March 2011.

608. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, From hierarchical structures to hybrid functional materials: Where chemistry and physics meet. Invited Lecture at Pan-Asia Polymer Congress, Beijing, China, May 2011.

609. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Invited Lecture at Akron-Peking-Kyoto Trilateral Sylposium on Frintier of Polymer Science and Technology, Beijing, China, May 2011.

610. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Invited Lecture at South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, May 2011.

611. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Invited Lecture at East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, May 2011.

612. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Invited Lecture at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China, May 2011.

613. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, From hierarchical structures to hybrid functional materials: Where chemistry and physics meet. Invited Lecture at Institute of Materials Science at Mulhouse, CNRS France, June 2011.

614. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Invited Lecture at Institute Charles Sadron, Strasbourg, CNRS, France, June 2011.

615. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Invited Lecture at Donghua University, Shanghai, China, July 2011.

616. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal analysis in polymer materials. Invited Lecture at Donghua University, Shanghai, China, July 2011.

617. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase transitions in Polymers – The role of metstable state. Invited lecture at Complex Fluid Workshop, Beijing, China, July 2011.

618. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Invited Lecture at International Discussion Meeting on Polymer Crystallization, Beijing, China, August 2011.

619. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant surfactants and lipids, A new class of advanced materials. Invited lecture at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, August 2011.

620. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, From hierarchical structures to hybrid functional materials: Where chemistry and physics meet. Invited Lecture at 2011 International High-End Forum on Green Chemical Science and Technology. Tianjin, China, September 2011.

621. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Invited Lecture at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Changchun, China, September 2011. 81

622. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Invited Lecture at Chinese Polymer Congress, Dalian, China, September 2011.

623. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thinking out of the polymer box: Giant molecules based on nano-atoms. Invited Lecture at High-End Forum on Science and Technology, Donghua University, Shanghai, China, October 2011.

624. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, From hierarchical structures to hybrid functional materials: Where chemistry and physics meet. Invited Lecture at Taishan Acvademic Forum, Qingdao, China, November 2011.

625. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Keynote Lecture at 6th Sino-US Chemical Engineering Joint Conference, Beijing, China, November 2011.

626, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Invited Lecture at Research Center, Samsung Cheil Industries, Korea, November 2011.

627. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Invited Lecture at Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Korea, November 2011.

628. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Invited Lecture at 12th Pecific Polymer Conference, Jiuju Island, Korea, November 2011.

629. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Invited Lecture at Mational Chiao Tung Unviersity, Shinchu, Taiwan, January, 2012.

630. Stephen Z. D, Cheng, Thinking out of the polymer box: Giant molecules based on nano-atoms. Invited Lecture at National Tsing Hua University at Shinchu, Taiwan, January 2012.

631. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization and ordering of giant molecules based on nano-atoms. Invited Lecture at American Physical Society Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, February 2012.

632. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Invited Lecture at American Chemical Society Meeting, San Diego, March 2012.

633. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Invited Lecture at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, April 2012.

634. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Invited Lecture at University of Huston, Huston, Texas, April 2012.

635. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Invited Lecture at University of Lamar, Texas, May 2012.

636. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Invited Lecture at Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, May 2012.

637. Stephen Z. D, Cheng, Thinking out of the polymer box: Giant molecules based on nano-atoms. Invited Lecture at Forum for Advanced Chemistry, Nanjing University, May 2012.

638. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Invited Lecture at East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, May 2012.

639. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Invited Lecture at Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, May 2012.

640. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Invited Lecture at China-Germany Workshop on Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Nano-Materials, Shanghai, China, May 2012.

641. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Invited Lecture at Flexible Electronics Symposium for Celebrating Prof. Dosong Wang’s 80th Birthday, Changchun, China, June 2012.

642. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms. Invited Lecture at International Polymer Physics Sympsoium, Chengdu, China, June 2012.

643. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Invited Lecture at Frontier Polymer Science Symposium, SooChow University, Suzhou, China, June 2012.

644. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms. Invited Lecture at North American Thermal Analysis Society Annuaol Meeting, August 2012.

645. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Invited Lecture at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, August 2012.

646. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms. Invited Lecture at American Chemical Society Meeting, Philadelphia, August 2012.

647. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms. Invited Lecture at Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Technische Universiteit/Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherland, September 2012.

648. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms. Invited Lecture at SDM, Netherland, September 2012.

649. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms: size amphilification, function diversification, and self-assembly manipulation. Invited Lecture at Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, October 2012.

650. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant molecules based on nano-atoms. Invited Distinguished Lecturer Seminar at College of Engineering and Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, October 2012. 83

PAPER PRESENTATIONS OF STEPHEN Z. D. CHENG

1. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Rangquan Wu, Stochastic study of macroconformation in polymer solution. Contributed Paper to the Mathematical Society Meeting, Shanghai, May 1981.

2. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Fanting Li, Synthesized fiber fracture process and mechanism. Contributed Paper to the Man-Made Fiber Symposia, Shanghai, October 1981.

3. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, Molecular nucleation of poly(ethylene oxide). Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Detroit, Michigan, March 1984.

4. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, The kinetics of molecular nucleation. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, March 1985.

5. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The glass transition and melting behavior of PEEK, an important thermoplastic composite matrix material. Presentation at NASA/AIR Force Research Report Meeting, Troy, New York, February 1986.

6. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High melting polymers (thermal properties-testing). Contributed Paper at Advanced Composites Symposium at General Electric Co., Pittsfield, Massachusetts, March 1986.

7. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, Thermal properties of high melting polymers contain phenylene groups. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 1986.

8. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, Thermodynamics of polymer liquid crystals. Poster Presented at Second Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystalline Polymers, New London, New Hampshire, July 1986.

9. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, Thermal analysis of PEEK. Contributed Paper at 15th North American Thermal Analysis Society Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 1986.

10. Bernhard Wunderlich and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The rigid amorphous state of semicrystalline polymers. Contributed Paper at German Polymer Society Meeting, Freiburg, Germany, March 1987.

11. Haishan Bu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, The Tarasov function in the calculation of heat capacity. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, New York, New York, March 1987.

12. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Bernhard Wunderlich, Donald W. Noid and George A. Pfeffer, Computersimulation of macromolecular motion and nucleation on crystal surface. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, New York, New York, March 1987.

13. Bernhard Wunderlich and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The rigid amorphous state of semicrystalline macromolecules. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, New York, New York, March 1987.

14. Donald W. Noid, George A. Pfeffer, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, Computer simulation of two-dimensional crystal melting. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society, Meeting, New York, New York, March 1987.

15. George A. Pfeffer, Donald W. Noid, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, Static simulation of macromolecular conformation on two-dimensional crystal surfaces. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, New York, New York, March 1987.

16. John P. Wesson, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, Mesophase transitions of polydiethylsiloxane. Contributed Paper at Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society Meeting, Montreal, Canada, May 1987. 84

17. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Interface structures in semicrystalline high melting polymers. Seminar at Sponsors’ Days of the University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, October 1987.

18. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Haishan Bu, and Bernhard Wunderlich, A new etching method to study PEO crystalline morphology and molecular segregation. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1988.

19. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, The principle of molecular segregation during crystallization of PEO fractions. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1988.

20. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Miaoyong Cao, Kinetics of mesophase transitions in thermotropic copolyesters. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1988.

21. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, Kinetic study of mesophase transitions. Poster Presentation at Third Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystalline Polymers, New London, New Hampshire, July 1988.

22. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernhard Wunderlich, Thermal analysis of thermoplastic polymers. Contributed Paper at 9th International Congress on Thermal Analysis, Jerusalem, Israel, August 1988.

23. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal characterization of liquid crystalline polymers. Contributed Paper at 43rd Annual Calorimetry Conference, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, August 1988.

24. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and James J. Janimak, Kinetic study of mesophase transitions in thermotropic copolyesters. Contributed Paper at 17th Annual Conference of the North American Thermal Analysis Society, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, October 1988.

25. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Daniel P.Heberer, Shawn H.-S. Lien, and Frank W. Harris, Thermal characterization of high melting-point polyimides. Contributed Paper at 17th Annual Conference of the North American Thermal Analysis Society, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, October 1988.

26. James J. Janimak and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization in isotactic polypropylene fractions. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, March 1989.

27. Daniel P. Heberer, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Shawn H.-S. Lien and Frank W. Harris, Phase transitions in semicrystalline polyimides. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, March 1989.

28. Tim I. Lipinski, James J. Janimak and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Kinetics of phase transitions in thermotropic liquid crystalline poly(azomethine)s. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society, Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, March 1989.

29. Anqiu Zhang, James J. Janimak, Zongquan Wu and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Kinetics of polymorphs mesophase transitions in thermotropic copolyesters. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, March 1989.

30. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Jeffrey S. Barley, Some explanation of spherulitic formation in poly(ethylene oxide) fractions and mixtures. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, March 1989.

31. Ernest D. von Meerwall, Jeffrey S. Barley and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Self-diffusion of poly(ethylene oxide) fractions and its influence on the crystalline texture. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, March 1989.

32. Bobby G. Sumpter, Donald W. Noid, Bernhard Wunderlich and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Molecular dynamics simulation of the melting transition of polyethylene. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, March 1989.

33. James J. Janimak, Anqiu Zhang and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Surface nucleation kinetics in crystallization study of isotactic polypropylene Fractions. Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society Meeting, Miami Beach, Florida, September 1989.

34. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Jianhua Chen and James J. Janimak, Does regime transition exist in poly(ethylene oxide) fractions crystallized from the melt? Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society Meeting, Miami Beach, Florida, September 1989.

35. Daniel P. Heberer and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal snalysis of demicrystalline polyimides for heat vapacity, rigid amorphous content, and transition behavior. The best Student Papers at 18th Annual Conference of North American Thermal Analysis Society, San Diego, California, September 1989.

36. James J. Janimak and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization and melting behavior in isotactic polypropylene fractions. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Anaheim, California, March 1990.

37. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Jianhua Chen, Retardation of crystal growth at low supercooling in a low molecular mass ,-methoxy-poly(ethylene oxide) Fraction. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Anaheim, California, March 1990.

38. Bobby G. Sumpter, Donald W. Noid, Bernhard Wunderlich and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Computer simulations of polymer phase transitions: conformational disorder. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Anaheim, California, March 1990.

39. Jeffrey S. Barley, Ernest D. von Meerwall and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystalline texture size dependence on supercooling and crystallization time in mixtures of poly(ethylene oxide) fractions. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Anaheim, California, March 1990.

40. Jianhua Chen and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Nonintegral and integral folding crystal growth in low molecular mass poly(ethylene oxide) fractions. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Anaheim, California, March 1990.

41. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Michael A. Yandrasits, Phase behavior of one thermotropic polyether involving rod-like mesogenic groups based on conformational isomerism. Post Presentation at Fourth Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystal Polymers, New London, New Hampshire, July 1990.

42. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Ronald L. Johnson, Kinetics of mesophase transitions in thermotropic copolyesters. Post Presentation at Fourth Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystal Polymers, New London, New Hampshire, July 1990.

43. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Jianhua Chen, Retardation of linear crystal growth at high crystallization temperature in low molecular mass ,-methoxy-poly(ethylene oxide) fractions. Contributed Paper at 33rd IUPAC Symposium on Macromolecules, Montreal, Canada, July 1990.

44. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Ronald L. Johnson, Structural formation in thermotropic copolyesters. Contributed Paper at 33rd IUPAC Symposium on Macromolecules, Montreal, Canada, July 1990.

45. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Daniel P. Heberer and Frank W. Harris, Glass transition and crystal melting in semicrystalline polyimides. Contributed Paper at 33rd IUPAC Symposium on Macromolecules, Montreal, Canada, July 1990.

46. Frank W. Harris, Steven L.-C. Hsu, Zongquan Wu and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High modulus aromatic polyimide fibers. Contributed Paper at 33rd IUPAC Symposium on Macromolecules, Montreal, Canada, July 1990.

47. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Ronald L. Johnson, Kinetics of mesophase transitions in thermotropic copolyesters. Contributed Paper at the 19th Annual Conference of North American Thermal Analysis Society, Boston, Massachusetts, September 1990.

48. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Michael A. Yandrasits, Transitions in thermotropic polyesters involving rod- like mesogenic group based on conformational isomerism. Contributed Paper at the 19th Annual Conference of North American Thermal Analysis Society, Boston, Massachusetts, September 1990.

49. Tammy M. Chalmers, James J. Janimak, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, and Frank W. Harris, Structure formations in a semicrystalline polyimide. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 1991.

50. Mark Eashoo, Zongquan Wu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, and Frank W. Harris, A high performance aromatic polyimide fiber. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 1991.

51. Xiaoxin Wu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Michael A. Meador, Phase transitions and morphology of a highly conjugated polymer. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 1991.

52. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anqiu Zhang, Jianhua Chen, Jeffrey S. Barley, A. Habenschuss, P. R. Zschack, Molecular weight dependence of nonintegral folding chain crystals in low MW PEO fractions. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 1991.

53. Fred E. Arnold, Jr., Anqiu Zhang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Steven L. C. Hsu and Frank W. Harris, Molecular orientation and optical properties of aromatic polyimide films: BPDA-PFMB. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 1991.

54. Song-Koo Lee, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Steven L. Hsu and Frank W. Harris, Gel/sol and liquid crystalline transitions in solution of rigid-rod polyimides. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 1991.

55. Michael A. Yandrasits, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Virgil Percec, Phase behavior in a series of polyethers involving rod-like mesogenic groups based on conformational isomerism. Contributed Paper at the American Physical Society Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 1991.

56. Anton Habenschuss, Paul R. Zschack, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anqiu Zhang, Jeffrey S. Barley, Jianhua Chen, Isothermal thickening and thinning processes in low MW PEO fractions. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 1991.

57. Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and T. Kyu, Preparation and characterization of polyimide molecular composites. Post Presentation at EPIC Annual Industrial Meeting, Brecksville, Ohio, April 1991.

58. Mark Eashoo, Zongquan Wu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, High performance polyimide fibers. Post Presentation at EPIC Annual Industrial Meeting, Brecksville, Ohio, April 1991.

59. Tammy M. Chalmers and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal characterization of a semicrystalline polyimide, PI-2. Post Presentation at the Annual Conference of North American Thermal Analysis Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 1991.

60. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Fred E. Arnold, Jr., Steven L.-C. Hsu, Chul Joo Lee and Frank W. Harris, Rigid-rod and segmented rigid-rod polyimide films for microelectronic applications. Contributed Paper at Annual Conference of the North American Thermal Analysis Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 1991.

61. Fred E. Arnold, Jr., Anqiu Zhang, Chul Joo Lee, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Organo- soluble segmented rigid-rod polyimide thin films. Poster Presentation at Advanced Liquid Crystalline Optical Material Symposium, Akron, Ohio, November 1991.

62. Mark Eashoo, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Zongquan Wu, Dexing Shen, Steven L.-C. Hsu, Chul Joo Lee and Frank W. Harris, A high performance aromatic polyimide fiber. Poster Presentation at Advanced Liquid Crystalline Optical Material Symposium, Akron, Ohio, November 1991.

63. Xiaoyan Huang, James J. Janimak, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, K. Shridhar and Frank W. Harris, Liquid crystalline poly(azomethine)s: Thermodynamic properties and structural formation kinetics. Post Presentation at Advanced Liquid Crystalline Optical Material Symposium, Akron, Ohio, November 1991.

64. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Jianhua Chen, Anqiu Zhang, Xiaoxing Wu, Anton Habenschuss and Paul Zschack, End group effect in different molecular weight fractions of poly(ethylene oxide). Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 1992.

65. Ricardo Pardey, Stephen Z. D. Cheng , P. Gabori and Frank W. Harris, Phase behavior of liquid crystal poly(ester Imide)s. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 1992.

66. Tammy M. Chalmers, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Frank W. Harris, P. Gabori, Y. Zhang and Anqiu Zhang, Crystal structure and morphology of a semicrystalline polyimide, PI-2. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 1992.

67. Yiming Jin, Jinlong Cheng, Bernhard Wunderlich, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, M. A. Yandrasits and Anqiu Zhang, Thermodynamic properties and motion in MBPE polymers. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 1992.

68. Fred E. Arnold, Jr., Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Chul Joo Lee and Frank W. Harris, Microelectronicapplications in polyimide thin films: BPDA-PFMB, (BPDA-PFMB)(70)-(PMDA-PFMB)(30) and (BPDA-PFMB) (50)- (PMDA-PFMB)(50). Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 1992.

69. Mark Eashoo, Zongquan Wu, Dexing Shen, Chul Joo Lee, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High performance polyimide fibers. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 1992.

70. Ronald L. Johnson and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization behavior of the thermotropic liquid crystalline copolyester containing TPA/PHQ/HBA. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 1992.

71. Sung Koo Lee, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Zongquan Wu, Chul Joo Lee and Frank W. Harris, Molecular weight and concentration effects on gel/sol transitions in a segmented rigid-rod polyimide solution. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 1992.

72. Fred E. Arnold, Jr. and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal characterization of segmented rigid-rod polyimide films. Scholarship Award Presentation at TCTAS, OVTAS and WPTAS Thermal Analysis Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, May 1992.

73. Mark Eashoo, Zongquan Wu, Dexing Shen, Chul Joo Lee, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High performance polyimide fibers. Contributed Paper at the Annual Conference of North American Thermal Analysis Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, September 1992.

74. Fred E. Arnold, Jr. and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal characterization of segmented rigid-rod polyimide films. Contributed Paper at the Annual Conference of North American Thermal Analysis Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, September 1992.

75. Tammy M. Chalmers, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Frank W. Harris, P. Gabori, Y. Zhang and Anqiu Zhang, Structure, morphology and property relationships of a semicrystalline polyimide composite. Contributed Paper at the Annual Conference of North American Thermal Analysis Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, September 1992.

76. Mark Eashoo, Zongquan Wu, Dexing Shen, Chul Joo Lee, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High performance polyimide fibers. Post Presentation at EPIC/CMMC Annual Industrial Meeting, Brecksville, Ohio, October; Akron, Ohio, November 1992.

77. Tammy M. Chalmers, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Frank W. Harris, P. Gabori, Y. Zhang and Anqiu Zhang, Structure, morphology and property relationship of a semicrystalline polyimide composite. Post Presentation at EPIC/CMMC Annual Industrial Meeting, Brecksville, Ohio, October; Akron, Ohio, November 1992.

78. Kaite Bruno, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Computer modeling on the crystal structure of a segmented rigid-rod polyimide BPDA-PFMB. Post Presentation at ALCOM/IMA Conference, Kent, Ohio, November 1992.

79. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Scott S. Wu, Jianhua Chen, Qizhuo Zhuo, Roderic P. Quirk, Earnst D. von Meerwall, Anton Habenschuss and Paul R. Zschack, End group effect and molecular weight dependence of Low molecular weight PEO fractions crystallized from the melt. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Seattle, Washington, March 1993.

80. Recardo L. Pardy, P. Gabri, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase transitions in liquid crystal poly(ester imides). Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Seattle, Washington, March 1993.

81. Jonahira Rodriguez and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization and crystal melting of syndiotactic polypropylene ffractions. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Seattle, Washington, March 1993.

82. Fred E. Arnold, Jr., Dexing Shen, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal characterization of aromatic polyimide films for electronic packaging and optical applications. Contributed Paper at 22nd North American Thermal Analysis Society Meeting, Denver, Colorado, September 1993.

83. Bryan Livengood, Tammy M. Chalmers, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polyimide fiber/polyimide matrix composites. Contributed Paper at 22nd North American Thermal Analysis Society Meeting, Denver, Colorado, September 1993.

84. Ricardo Pardey, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Frank W. Harris and Andrw Keller, Liquid crystalline transition and crystallization kinetics in poly(ester imide)s. Poster Presentation of Royal Society Discussion Meeting, London, England, December 1993.

85. Frank W. Harris, Shanjing Li, Bin-Lin Hsu and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Novel polyimide for toughening epoxy resin. Poster Presentation of Gordon Research Conference (West) of Polymer Composites, California, January 1994.

86. Bin-Lin Hsu, Shanjing Li, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The novel polyimide for toughening epoxy network. Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society Meeting, San Diago, California, March 1994.

87. Edward, P. Savitski, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, D. M. McIntyre, S. H. Lin and Frank W. Harris, Some Solution Properties of a Soluble Aromatic Immidized Rigid-rod Polyimide. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 1994.

88. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Ricardo Pardey and Frank W. Harris, Liquid crystalline transition and crystallization kinetics in poly(ester imide)s. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 1994.

89. Rong-Ming Ho, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, B. S. Hsiao and K. H. Gardner, Crystal morphology and phase identifications in poly(aryl ether ketone ketone). Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 1994.

90. Bryan P. Livengood, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Hong Ding and Frank W. Harris, Transition behavior and crystallization studies of nylon 6/aromatic polyimide molecular composites. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 1994.

91. Jonahia Rodriguez-Arnold and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization and morphology of different molecular weight fractions of syndiotactic polypropylene. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 1994.

92. Jiang Liu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, D. Kim and Frank W. Harris, Crystal structure, morphology and thermal effects in aromatic polyimides. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 1994.

93. Zhengzheng Bu and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Temperature dependence and structure and morphology of syndiotactic polypropylene. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 1994.

94. Weihan Li, Zongquan Wu, Anqiu Zhang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Compressive behavior of a high performance polyimide fiber. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 1994.

95. Bin-Lin Hsu, Shanjing Li, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The novel polyimide for toughening epoxy network. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 1994.

96. Yeocheol Yoon, Anqiu Zhang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Virgil Percec, Structure and phase behavior of thermotropic main chain liquid crystalline polyethers. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 1994.

97. Scott, X. Wu, Jianhua Chen, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, B. Lotz and J.-C. Wittmann, Polymer decoration study in chain folding behavior of solution-grown high molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide) crystals. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 1994.

98. Fang-Chiou Chiu and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization, melting behavior and morphology of high density polyethylene fractions and linear low density polyethylene. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 1994.

99. Fred E. Arnold, Jr., Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Hans R. Kricheldorf, Structure and Morphology of a Series of Thermotropic Copoly(ester Imide)s. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 1994.

100. Seung-Wook Lee, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, S. K. Lee and E. D. von Meerwall, Molecular shape on the crystallization behavior of poly(ethylene oxide) fractions. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 1994.

101. Fuming Li, Edward P. Savitski, Frank W, Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Negative nirefringence films from organo-soluble aromatic polyimides. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 1994.

102. Jae-Young Park, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Phase transitions, structure formation, and morphology in an aromatic polyimide(BPDA-PFMB)/m-cresol system. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 1994.

103. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Aromatic polyimide fibers. Technical Speaker in EPIC Biannual Technical Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, April 1994.

104. Steven F. Hubbard, Kenneth D. Singer, Fuming Li, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Second harmonic generation in a fluorinated poled polyimide guest-host system. Poster Contribution at ALCOM Symposium on Thin Film Optics, Akron, Ohio, May 1994. 90

105. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Ricardo Pardey, Scott Wu, Jianhua Chen, Frank W. Harris, Andrew Keller, J. Aducci and Robert W. Lenz, Liquid crystal transition and crystallization kinetics in poly(ester imide)s. Contributed Paper at IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, MacroAkron, Akron, Ohio, July 1994.

106. Zhengzheng Bu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structure and morphology studies of syndiotactic polypropylene single crystals. Contributed Paper at IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, MacroAkron, Akron, Ohio, July 1994.

107. Yoan Kim, Doyun Kim, Patrise A. Gabori, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Physico-chemical mechanism of transimidization on polyimide composite matrix resins. Contributed Paper at IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, MacroAkron, Akron, Ohio, July 1994.

108. Weihan Li, Zongquan Wu, Anqiu Zhang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W, Harris, Compressive behavior of high performance polymeric fibers-polyimide fibers. Contributed Paper at IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, MacroAkron, Akron, Ohio, July 1994.

109. Edward P. Savitski, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Donald M. McIntyre, S. H. Lin and Frank W. Harris, Characterization of a pair of soluble completely aromatic imidized rigid-rod polyimides. Contributed Paper at IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, MacroAkron, Akron, Ohio, July 1994.

110. Bin-Lin Hsu, Shanjin Li, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, A study of toughening epoxy resinwith novel polyimide. Contributed Paper at IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, MacroAkron, Akron, Ohio, July 1994.

111. Fuming Li, S. H. Lin, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Negative birefringence films from organo-soluble aromatic polyimides. Contributed Paper at IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, MacroAkron, Akron, Ohio, July 1994.

112. Jae-Young Park, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Phase transitions and morphology in an aromatic polyimide (BPDA-PFMB)/m-cresol system. Contributed Paper at IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, MacroAkron, Akron, Ohio, July 1994.

113. Joseph M. Deitzel and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The mesophase nature of poly(ethylene-co-chlorotrifluoroethylene). Contributed Paper at IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, MacroAkron, Akron, Ohio, July 1994.

114. Yeocheol Yoon, Anqiu Zhang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng , Jinglong Cheng and Virgil Percec, Structure and phase behavior of thermotropic main chain liquid crystalline polyethers. Contributed Paper at IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, MacroAkron, Akron, Ohio, July 1994.

115. Zongquan Wu, Anqiu Zhang, Dexing Shen, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, The effect of molecular structure on crystal structure of polyimide fibers. Contributed Paper at the IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, MacroAkron, Akron, Ohio, July 1994.

116. Michell Zimmerman and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The molecular weight effect on the phase transitions and crystal morphology of poly-4-methyl-1-pentene. Contributed Paper at IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, MacroAkron, Akron, Ohio, July 1994.

117. Seung-Wook Lee, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, S. K. Lee and E. D. von Meerwall, Molecular shape effects on the crystallization and melting behavior of poly(ethylene oxide) fractions. Contributed Paper at IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, MacroAkron, Akron, Ohio, July 1994.

118. Scott S. Wu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Jianhua Chen, Q. Zhuo, R. P. Quirk and E. D. von Meerwall, End group dependence of melt crystallization of low molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide) fractions. Contributed Paper at IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, MacroAkron, Akron, Ohio, July 1994.

119. Jiang Liu, Doyun Kim, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystal structure, morphology and thermal effects of aromatic polyimides. Contributed Paper at IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, MacroAkron, Akron, Ohio, July 1994.

120. Bryan Livengood, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, F. L. Lin, Y. C. Lee and Frank W. Harris, Phase behavior and transition studies of nylon 6/aromatic polyimide and polyamide molecular composites. Contributed Paper at the IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, MacroAkron, Akron, Ohio, July 1994.

121. Rong-Ming Ho, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Kenncorwin H. Gardner, Crystal morphology and phase identification in poly(aryl ether ketone)s. Contributed Paper at the IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, MacroAkron, Akron, Ohio, July 1994.

122. Young Ho Kim and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Synthesis and thermal properties of Poly(-caprolactam)-b- poly(propylene glycol)-b-poly(-Caprolactam) triblock copolymers. Contributed Paper at the IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, MacroAkron, Akron, Ohio, July 1994.

123. Frank W. Harris, Hong Ding, F-U, Lin, Y-C. Lee, B. Livengood and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Synthesis and Characterization of Polyimide-g-Nylon-6 and Nylon-6-b-Polyimide-b-Nylon-6 Copolymers. Contributed Paper at IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, MacroAkron, Akron, Ohio, July 1994.

124. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Frank W. Harris and Ricardo Pardey, Liquid crystalline transition kinetics in poly(ester Imide)s. Contributed Paper at IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, MacroAkron, Akron, Ohio, July 1994.

125. Benjamin, S. Hsiao, Kenncorwin H. Gardner and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Time-resolved X-ray studies of crystallization and triple melting behavior in poly(aryl ether ketone ketone) containing isophthalic moiety. Contributed Paper at IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, MacroAkron, Akron, Ohio, July 1994.

126. Bryan Livengood, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, F. L. Lin, Y. C. Lee and Frank W. Harris, Thermal characterization of nylon 6/aromatic polyimide and polyamide molecular composites. Contributed Paper at North American Thermal Analysis Society Meeting, Toronto, Canada, September 1994.

127. Peter P. J. Chu, B. S. Yang and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization polymorphism and molecular dynamics of syndiatactic polypropylene, s-poly(4-methyl-1-pentene) and s-polystyrene. Contributed paper at IUPAC Meeting of Functional Polymers and High Temperature Polymers, Taipei, Taiwan, November 1994.

128. Rong-Ming Ho, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Kenncorwin H. Gardner, Crystal morphology and phase identification in poly(aryl ether ketone)s. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, San Jose, California, March 1995.

129. Jinag Liu, Jinjei Sang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Phillip H. Geil, Single crystals of poly(p-phenylene terephthalamide) prepared by melt polymerization-crystallization. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, San Jose, California, March 1995.

130. Benjamin S. Hsiao, Kenncorwin H. Gardner, Rong-Ming Ho and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystal structure identification and crystallization in poly(aryl ether ketone)s. Contributed Paper at the American Physical Society Annual Meeting, San Jose, California, March 1995.

131. Frank W. Harris, Fuming Li, S. Lin and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polyimide films for use in liquid crystal displays. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, San Jose, California, March 1995.

132. Rong-Ming Ho, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Kenncorwin H. Gardner, Crystal morphology and phase identification in poly(aryl ether ketone)s. Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, April 1995.

133. Masao Tomikawa, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Synthesis and properties of new soluble, rigid-rod polyimides based on substituted pyromellitic dianhydrides. Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, April 1995.

134. Anqiu Zhang, Zongquan Wu and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The degree of orientation in polymer amorphous and crystalline regions. Contributed Paper at American Crystallographic Society, Montreal, July 1995.

135. Fuming Li and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anisotropic dtructure and properties of aromatic polyimides in liquid crystal display applications. Contributed Lecture at First Worldwide Academic Conference of Chinese Young Chemists, Beijing, August 1995.

136. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Bryan P. Livengood, Bryan F. L. Lin, Y. C. Lee and Frank W. Harris, Structure and property relationships of nylon 6-b-polyimide-b-bylon 6 copolymers. Contributed Paper at North America Thermal analysis Society Meeting, San Francisco, California, September 1995.

137. Yeocheol Yoon, Anqiu Zhang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Virgil Percec, Phase transition behavior in a series of liquid crystalline TPP polyethers having highly ordered smectic structures. Contributed Paper at North America Thermal analysis Society Meeting, San Francisco, California, September 1995.

138. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Zongquan Wu, Frank W. Harris, Diana L. Hull and Kathy Chuang, High strength and modulus fibers. Contributed Paper at High Temperature Polymer Material Composite Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, October 1995.

139. Mingming Guo, Qiang Fu, F.-C. Chiu and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Location of side-chain branches in ethylene-1-hexence copolymers studied by high resolution solid state 13C-NMR. Contributed Paper at International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 1995.

140. Bai Feng, L.-C. Chien and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Regiocontrolled chiral liquid-crystalline polymers: Synthesis and properties. Contributed Paper at International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 1995.

141. Fuming Li, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polyimide films as negative birefringent compensators for liquid crystal display applications. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, March 1996.

142. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Seung-Wook Lee, Erqiang Chen, E. D. von Meerwall, Benjamin S. Hsiao and R. Verma, Molecular Architecture Effects on Star Poly(ethylene Oxide) Crystallization. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, March 1996.

143. Rong-Ming Ho, Yeocheol Yoon, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Vergil, Percec and P. Chu, Highly ordered smectic phase structures and morphology in a series of main-chain liquid crystalline polyethers. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, March 1996.

144. Benjamin S. Hsiao, Ravi Verma, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Small angle X-ray scattering on aromatic polyimide fibers. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, March 1996. 145. Mark E. Leland and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase behavior and structure identification of a novel series of copoly(ester Imide)s. Contributed Paper at Second National Graduate Research Conference, Virginia Technical Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, June 1996.

146. Erqiang Chen, Seung-Wook Lee, Bong Seok Moon, Frank W. Harris, Anqiu Zhang and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Effects of conformational defects on the crystallization of low molecular weight PEO fractions. Contributed Paper at Second National Graduate Research Conference, Virginia Technical Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, June 1996.

147. Kevin W. McCreight, Xiaoming Jin, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Molecular and supramolecular structures of BPDA based hairy-rod polyimides. Contributed Paper at Second National Graduate Research Conference, Virginia Technical Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, June 1996. 93

148. Joseph M. Deitzel, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Anqiu Zhang, Structural characterization of 1:1 poly(ethylene-co-chlorotrifluoroethylene). Contributed Paper at Second National Graduate Research Conference, Virginia Technical Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, June 1996.

149. Shian-Ming. Lin and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization, structure and morphology of MPMD-6. Contributed Paper at Second National Graduate Research Conference, Virginia Technical Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, June 1996.

150. Orawan Taikum, D. Y, Kim, Bong Seok Moon, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization, kinetics and liquid crystal formation on monotropic liquid crystalline polyethers (MBPE)s. Contributed Paper at Second National Graduate Research Conference, Virginia Technical Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, June 1996.

151. Qiang Fu, F. C. Chiu and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Effects of the phase-separated melt on crystallization behavior and morphology in short chain branched metallocene polyethylenes. Contributed Paper at Second National Graduate Research Conference, Virginia Technical Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, June 1996.

152. Jason J. Ge, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Re-entrant phase behavior in side chain/main chain liquid crystalline polyesters pendent with cyanobiphenyl end groups. Contributed Paper at Second National Graduate Research Conference, Virginia Technical Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, June 1996.

153. Fuming Li, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Linear optical anisotropy in aromatic polyimide films and its applications as negative birefringent compensators in liquid crystal displays. Contributed Paper at Second National Graduate Research Conference, Virginia Technical Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, June 1996.

154. Qiang Fu, F. C. Chiu and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Effects of the phase-separated melt on crystallization behavior and morphology in short chain branched metallocene polyethylenes. Contributed Paper at 25th North America Thermal Analysis Society Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 1996.

155. Fuming Li, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Linear optical anisotropy in aromatic polyimide films and its applications as negative birefringent compensators in liquid crystal displays. Contributed Paper at North America Thermal Analysis Society Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 1996.

156. Mark E. Leland and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase behavior and structure identification of a novel series of copoly(ester imide)s. Contributed Paper at North America Thermal Analysis Society Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 1996.

157. Shian-Ming. Lin and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization, structure and morphology of MBMP-6. Contributed Paper at North America Thermal Analysis Society Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 1996.

158. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Metastability in polymer phase transitions. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, March 1997.

159. Fuming Li, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Linear optical anisotropy in aromatic polyimide films and its applications as negative birefringent compensators in liquid crystal displays. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, March 1997.

160. Zhengzheng Bu, Wensheng Zhou, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Eric T. Hsieh, Sectorized Single Crystals of Syndiotactic Polypropylene Fractions. Contributed Paper at Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, California, April 1997.

161. Yeocheol Yoon, Rong-Ming Ho, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Virgil Percec and Pewei Chu, Thin film surface induced structure and morphology from highly ordered smectic main-chain liquid crystalline polymers. Contributed Paper at Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, California, April 1997.

162. Mingming Guo, Qiang Fu and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Heterogeneous structure and motion in ethylene-1- hexane copolymers as studied by solid state 13C NMR. Contributed paper at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 1997.

163. Mark Leland, Qiang Fu, Bryan P. Livengood, Bryan F. L. Lin, Y. C. Lee, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structure and property relationships of nylon 6-b-polyimide-b-nylon 6 copolymers. Contributed Paper at NSF State/IUCRC Symposium, Oklahoma, October 1997.

164. Decai Yang, Mingwen Tian, Shanju Zhang, Zhongwen Wu, Jason J. Ge and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermotropic liquid crystalline behavior of novel poly(aryl ether ketone) containing chloro-side groups. Contributed Paper at 3rd International Symposium of Polymer Physics, Guilin, Guangxi, China, November 1997.

165. Ming Xu, Deng-Ke Yang, Phil J. Bos, Xiaoming Jin, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Very high pretilt alignment and its application in -cell liquid crystal displays. Annual SID Conference, California, November 1997.

166. Jason J. Ge, Anqiu Zhang, S.-Y. Wang, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z.D. Cheng, Phase structures and transition behavior in a "combined" main-chain/side-chain liquid crystalline polyester. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Las Angeles, California, March 1998.

167. Seok-Cheol Hong, Xiaowei Zhuang, Y.R. Shen, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z.D. Cheng, Surface-induced bulk alignment of liquid crystals on rubbed polyimide with mesogen side chains. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Las Angles, California, March 1998.

168. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Yuren Li, Feng Bai, Frank W. Harris, Donghang Yan and Tianbai He, Twisted single crystals in non-biological main-chain chiral polyesters. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Las Angles, California, March 1998.

169. Wengxheng Zhou, Zhengzheng Bu, Ronald K. Eby and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Morphology, Chain Folding and Metastability of Lamellar Single Crystals of Syndiotactic Polypropylene. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Las Angles, California, March 1998.

170. Erqiang Chen, Gi Xue, Bon-Song Moon, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Conformational defects in the crystals of low molecular weight two-arm poly(ethylene oxide) fractions crystallized from the melt. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Las Angles, California, March 1998.

171. Paul S. Honigfort, Rong-Ming Ho and Stephen Z. D. cheng, Study of crystalline structure of poly(aryl ether ketone ketone) copolymer. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Las Angles, California, March 1998.

172. Kevin W. McCreight, Jason J. Ge, Gi Xue, Xiaoming Jin, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal and structural analysis of BPDA based hairy-rod polyimides. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Las Angles, California, March 1998.

173. Christopher Y. Li, Feng Bai, Frank W. Harris, Donghang Yan, Tianbai He, and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystal structure and morphology of twisted single crystals in a chiral polyesters. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Las Angles, California, March 1998.

174. Mingming Guo, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Roderic P. Quirk, Variable temperature solid state carbon-13 NMR study of copolmyers of ethylene and -olefins. Contributed paper at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 1998.

175. Jason J. Ge, Anqiu Zhang, S.-Y. Wang, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z.D. Cheng, Phase structures and transition behavior in a "combined" main-chain/side-chain liquid crystalline polyester. Contributed Paper at 30th American Chemical Regional Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, May 1998.

176. Erqiang Chen, Gi Xue, Bon-Song Moon, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Conformational defects in the crystals of low molecular weight two-arm poly(ethylene oxide) fractions crystallized from the melt. Contributed Paper at 30th American Chemical Regional Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, May 1998.

177. Ru-Qing Zheng, Yeocheol Yoon, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Peiwei Chu and Virgil Percec, Studies on phase identification in a series of liquid crystalline TPP copolethers. Contributed Paper at Third National Graduate Research Polymer Conference, Akron, Ohio, June 1998.

178. Jason, J. Ge, Anqiu Zhang, S.-Y. Wang, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z.D. Cheng, Phase Structures and Transition Behavior in a "Combined" Main-chain/Side-chain Liquid Crystalline Polyester. Contributed Paper at Third National Graduate Research Polymer Conference, Akron, Ohio, June 1998.

179. Feng Bai, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Novel photosensitive polyimides for alignment layers. Contributed Paper at Third National Graduate Research Polymer Conference, Akron, Ohio, June 1998.

180. Hua-Bing Wang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Synthesis and characterization of polyimide containing multiple alkyl side chains. Contributed Paper at Third National Graduate Research Polymer Conference, Akron, Ohio, June 1998.

181. Paul S. Honigfort, Rong-Ming Ho and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Studies on the polymorphism of poly(aryl ether ketone ketone) copolymer. Contributed Paper at Third National Graduate Research Polymer Conference, Akron, Ohio, June, 1998.

182. Shing Fang, J. Chen, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Dielectric behavior of fluorinated aromatic polyimide films. Contributed Paper at Third National Graduate Research Polymer Conference, Akron, Ohio, June 1998.

183. Wensheng Zhou, Zhengzheng Bu, I. Jangchud, Ron K. Eby, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Eric T. Hsieh, Tim Johnson, Morphology, chain folding and metastability of lamellar single crystals of syndiotactic polypropylene. Contributed Paper at Third National Graduate Research Polymer Conference, Akron, Ohio, June 1998.

184. Lei Zhu, Yan Chen, Er-Qiang Chen, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, F. Yeh and Benjamin S. Hsiao, Simultaneous SAXS and WAXD study on crystallization kinetics of semicrystalline PEO-b-PS diblock copolymers. Contributed Paper at Third National Graduate Research Polymer Conference, Akron, Ohio, June 1998.

185. Yuren Li, Donghang Yan, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Feng Bai, Tianbai He, L.-C. Chien and Frank W. Harris, Double-twisted helical lamellar crystals in a synthetic main-chain chiral polyester similar to biological polymers. Contributed Paper at Third National Graduate Research Polymer Conference, Akron, Ohio, June 1998.

186. Xigao Jin, Liyan Huang, Yi Shi, Zongquan Wu, Fuming Li and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal degradation of some heterocyclic polymers. Contributed Paper at 37th IUPAC Symposium on Macromolecules, Gold Coast, Australia, July 1998.

187. Jason, J. Ge, Mingming Guo, Zhanhui Zhang, Paul Honigfort, S.-Y. Wang, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Variable temperature solid state 13C NMR studies of molecular motion and phase transitions in polymers containing rigid-rod backbones with flexible side chains. Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, August 1998.

188. Er-Qiang Chen, Bon-Suk Moon, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Fengji Yeh, Melting and annealing behaviors of non-integral folding chain crystals of low molecular weight two- 96

arm poly(ethylene oxide) fractions crystallized from the melt. Contributed Paper at North American Thermal Analysis Society Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, September 1998.

189. Wengsheng Zhou, Jonahir Rodriguez-Arnold, Zhengzheng Bu, Anqiu Zhang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Andrew Lovinger, Eric T. Hsieh, Tim W. Johnson, Rolf G. Geerts, Gil R. Hawley and M. Bruce Welch, Crystallization, melting and morphology of syndiotactic polypropylene. Contributed Paper North American Thermal Analysis Society Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, September 1998.

190. Kevin W. McCreight, Ian K. Mann, Jiaxing Ge, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal analysis of BPDA based hairy-rod polyimides. Contributed Paper at North American Thermal Analysis Society Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, September 1998.

191. Shane Fang, Jyh-Chien Chen, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Donald Shuele, Dielectric behavior and film surface structure in fluorinated aromatic polyimide films. Contributed Paper at North American Thermal Analysis Society Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, September 1998.

192. Paul Honigfort, Rong-Ming Ho and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Studies on the crystalline structure of poly(aryl ether ketone ketone) copolymer. Contributed Paper at North American Thermal Analysis Society Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, September 1998.

193. Christopher Y. Li, Donghang Yan, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Feng Bai, L. C. Chien, Frank W. Harris and Bernard Lotz, Double-twisted helical lamellar crystals in a synthetic main-chain polyester similar to biological polymers. Contributed Paper North American Thermal Analysis Society Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, September 1998.

194. Jason J. Ge, Shy-Yeu Wang, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase transitions in a noval combined side-chain/main-chain liquid crystal polyester. Contributed Paper at North American Thermal Analysis Society Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, September 1998.

195. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structure, morphology and properties of metallocene catalyzed short chain branched polyethylenes. Contributed lecture at Sponsors Day of Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, October 1998.

196. Yuren Li, Mark Leland, Qiang Fu, Bryan P. Livengood, Bryan F. L. Lin, Y. C. Lee, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structure and property relationships of nanocomposites. Contributed Paper at 2nd NSF State/IUCRC Symposium, Cary, North Carolina, October 1998.

197. Huabin Wang, Zhihao Shen, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Synthesis and characterization of polyethers containing multiple alkyl side-chains. Contributed paper at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, March 1999.

198. Christopher Li, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Feng Bai, Frank W. Harris, Donghang Yan, Tianbai He, Liang-Chy Chien and Bernard Lotz, Twisted single crystals and phase behaviors in a chiral main-chain liquid crystalline polyester. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1999.

199. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Lei Zhu, Roderic P Quirk, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Fengji Yeh, Competitions among self-organization, vitrification and crystallization in amorphous-crystalline block copolymers. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1999.

200. Jason J. Ge, Shyh-Yeu Wang, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Xiaowei Zhuang, Seok-Choel Hong and Y. R. Shen, Surface orientation study of polyimide alignment thin films. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1999.

201. Er-Qiang Chen, S. Wook Lee, B. S. Moon, frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Fengji Yeh, Crystallization, melting and annealing of low molecular weight star PEO fractions. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1999.

202. Paul S. Honigfort, Rong-Ming Ho, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Benjamin S. Hsiao, Studies on the crystalline structure of poly(aryl ether ketone ketone) copolymers. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1999.

203. Ru-Qing Zheng, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Pewei Chu and Virgil Percec, Structure change from smectic to columnar phases in a series of liquid crystalline TPP copolymers. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1999.

204. Shane Fang, Fuming Li, Jyh-Chien Chen, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thermal and dielectric characterization of fluorinated polyimide films. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1999.

205. Wensheng Zhou, Ronald K. Eby, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Eric T Hsieh, The sectorization and metastability of syndiotactic polypropylene crystals. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1999.

206. Huabing Wang, Zhihao Shen, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Synthesis and characterization of polyesters containing multiple alkyl side-chains. Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, March 1999. 207. Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Lei Zhu, Phase Transitions under confined micro-environments: self organization, vitrification and crystallization in amorphous-crystalline block copolymers. Invited Lecture at Denver X-ray Diffraction Conference, Steamboat, Colorado, August 1999.

208. Huabin Wang, Zhihao Shen, Jason J. Ge, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Synthesis and properties of a new self-assembling discotic liquid crystal. Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 1999.

208. Feng Bai, Jason J. Ge, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Synthesis of a biphenyl-containing achiral V-shape liquid crystalline polyester. Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 1999.

209. Zhanhui Zhang, Jason J. Ge, Feng Bai, Christopher Y, Li, Lang-Chy Chien, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Synthesis and characterization of optically active main-chain liquid crystalline polyesters. Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 1999.

210. Huabin Wang, Zhihao Shen, Mingming Guo, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Synthesis and characterization of polyimides containing multiple alkyl side-chains. Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 1999.

212. Wensheng Zhou, Sergei Magonov, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Darrell Reneker, The growth and melting of syndiotactic polypropylene single crystals observed by atomic force microscopy with heating stage. Contributed Paper at AFM Conference of Polymer Morphology. Santa Barbara, California, August 1999.

213. Yan Chen, Lei Zhu and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Melting and crystallization of amorphous-crystalline diblock copolymer. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2000.

214. Lei Zhu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Bret H. Calhoun, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Benjamin Hsiao and Fengji Yeh, Confined crystallization in a lamellar forming PEO-b-PS diblock copolymer. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2000.

215. Qiang Wang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Qiang Fu, Studies on single lamellar crystals of short chain branched polyethylene copolymers Crystallized from Solution, Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2000.

216. Ian K. Mann, Feng Bai, Jason J. Ge, Liming Sun, Huabin Huang, John Z. Zhang, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The relationship of pretilt angle and chemical structure of rubbed organo-soluble 98

side-chain polyimides. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March, 2000.

217. Shuxin Cong, Shi Jin and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Synthesis and characterization of high performance polyheterocycles. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2000.

218. Zhen Liu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Peiwei Zhu and Virgil Percec, The structure and phase behavior of the novel dendritic liquid crystalline polymers. . Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2000.

219. Jason J. Ge, Wensheng Zhou, John Z. Zhang, Shy-Yeu Wang, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Novel banded structures in combined main-chain/side-chain crystalline polyesters: from liquid crystals to confined crystals. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2000.

220. Wensheng Zhou, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Darrell H. Reneker and Sergei Magonov, The Growth and Morphology of Syndiotactic Polypropylene Lamellar Crystals Studied by AFM with Heating Stage. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2000.

221. Bret H. Calhoun, Coleen R. Pugh and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Characterization of Laterally Attached Main- Chain Liquid Crystals. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2000.

222. Gue-Hyun Kim, Coleen Pugh and Stephen Z. D. Cheng. Structure and phase determination of laterally attached side-chain liquid crystalline polynorbornenes with a one-carbon spacer. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2000.

223. Zhihao Shen, Huabin Wang, Jason J. Ge, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase transitions, relaxation behaviors and structures of hairy-rod polyimides. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2000.

224. Seok-Cheol Hong, Y. R. Shen, Jason J. Ge, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Second harmonic generation study of the surface of a rubbed side chain polymer and liquid crystal adsorbents. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2000.

225. Er-Qiang Chen, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystal melting, annealing and recrystallization in low molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide) fractions. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2000.

226. Lei Zhu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Fengji Yeh, Molecular ordering within ordered supramolecular structure. Contributed paper at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Washington DC, August 2000.

226. Bin Zhao, William J. Brittain, Wenshing Zhou and Stephen Z, D, Cheng, Atomic force microscopy of tethered diblock copolymers. Contributed paper at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Washington DC, August 2000.

227. Shanju Zhang, Luxiang Fu, Jingjiang Liu, Decai Yang, Jason J. Ge, and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Highly ordered liquid crystalline behavior and its role in phase transitions of a main-chain liquid crystalline poly(aryl ether ketone). Contributed Lecture at International Polymer Physics Symposium, Yellow Mountain, Anhui, China, September 2000.

228. Erqiang Chen, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Effect of cofigurational defects on crystallization kinetics of low molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide) fractions. Contributed Lecture at International Polymer Physics Symposium, Yellow Mountain, Anhui, China, September 2000.

229. Hongxiang Teng, Xigao Jin and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, A novel method to investigate the melting behavior of LLDPE. Contributed Lecture at International Polymer Physics Symposium, Yellow Mountain, Anhui, China, September 2000.

230. Fengchao Xie, Zhijun Hu, Jieping Liu, Doinghang Yan, Tianbai He, Ruqing Zheng and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Alignment of liquid crystalline copolyether thin films under electrostatic field. Contributed Lecture at International Polymer Physics Symposium, Yellow Mountain, Anhui, China, September 2000.

231. Jason J. Ge, John Z. Zhang, Christopher Y. Li, Bert H. Calhoun, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Novel chiral order from achiral molecules: Asymmetric banana-shaped :liquid crystalline polymer BLCP(n = 6). Contributed paper at ALCOM symposium, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, October 2000.

232. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization in a nano-confined length scale environments. Contributed lecture at Sponsors Day of Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, October 2000.

233. Christopher Y. Li, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Feng Bai, John Z. Zhang, Bret H. Calhoun, Frank W. Harris, Liang-Chy Chien and Bernard Lotz, Early-stage formation of helical single crystals and their confined growth in thin film. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Seattle, Washington, March 2001.

234. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Lei Zhu, Ping Huang, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Edwin L. Thomas, Bernard Lotz, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Fengji Yeh and Lizhi Liu, Caged polymer crystallization in perforated layers. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Seattle, Washington, March 2001.

235. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Lei Zhu, Ping Huang, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Edwin L. Thomas, Bernard Lotz, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Fengji Yeh and Lizhi Liu, Crystallization in nano-confined environments. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Seattle, Washington, March 2001.

236. Huabing Wang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Frank W. Harris, Synthesis and properties of stretchable polyetherimides for alignment layers in liquid crystal displays. Contributed paper at American Chemical Society, San Diago, California, April 2001.

237. Christorpher Y. Li and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymer helical assembly: from asymmetric chemistry to asymmetric physics. Contributed Lectue at European Polymer Congress, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, July 2001.

238. Caroline A. Helfer, Wayne L. Mattice, Christopher Y. Li, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Greg C. Rutledge, Investigations into the conformational structure of a chiral liquid crystalline polymer. Contributed paper at American Chemical Society, Chicago, Illinois, August 2001.

239. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Lei Zhu, Ping Huang, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Edwin L. Thomas, Bernard Lotz, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Fengji Yeh and Lizhi Liu, Crystallization in nano-confined environments: from layered to caged confinements. Contributed Paper at North America Thermal Analysis Society Meeting, St Louis, Missouri, September, 2001.

240. Erqiang Chen, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase structures and transition of side-chain liquid crystalline polyacetylene. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2002.

241. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Jason J. Ge, Christopher Y. Li, Frank W. Harris, Seok-Cheol Hong, Xiaowei Zhuang and Y. R. Shen, Rubbing-induced molecular reorientation on an alignment surface of an aromatic polyimide containing cyanobiphenyl side chains, Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2002.

242. Xin Weng, Christopher Y. Li, John Zhang, Feng Bai, Shi Jin, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Chirality effects on the morphology and structure of synthetic chiral main-chain liquid crystalline 100

polyesters. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2002.

242. Alexander J. Jing, Yongxin Tang, Bart Mansdorf Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase behaviors and structures of hexa-n-octoxyl-trphenylene. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2002.

243. Wenwen Cai, Christopher Y. Li, Freddy Khoury and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Structure and morphology of nylon 6,6. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2002.

244. William Y. Chen, Lei Zhu, Ping Huang and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization and melting behaviors of PEO nano-film confined between glassy walls. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2002.

245. Ping Huang, Alexander J. Jing, Lei Zhu, William Y. Chen, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Ya Guo, Qing Ge, Roderick P. Quirk, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Fengji Yeh, Lizhi Liu and Bernard Lotz, Phase morphology and crystal orientation changes in two-dimensionally confined nano-cylinders in a PEO-b-PS diblock copolymer. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2002.

246. Shi Jin, Feng Bai, Christopher Y. Li, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase transitions, crystallization behaviors and structure of a non-racemic chiral main-chain liquid crystalline polyester. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2002.

247. Jr-Jeng Ruan, Jason J. Ge, Anqiu Zhang, S.-Y. Wang, frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymorphous structures and their phase relationships in a main-chain/side chain liquid crystalline polyester. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2002.

248. Chenchen Xue, Jason J. Ge, Christopher Y. Li, Anqiu Zhang, Xin Weng, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Self-assembled supra-molecular liquid crystalline behaviors in symmetrically tapered bisamides via hydrogen bonding. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2002.

249. Bojie Wang, Hueiming Xiong, Christopher Y. Li and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystal structure and morphology of different length scales in poly(trimethylene teraphthalate). Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2002.

250. Lei Zhu, Ping Huang, William Y. Chen, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Qing Ge, Roderick P. Quirk, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Fengji Yeh, Lizhi Liu. Hexagonally perforated layer phase formed under plastic deformation. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2002.

250. Steve G. Boyes, William J. Brittain, Xin Weng and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Synthesis, characterization and properties of tethered ABA type triblock copolymer brushes of styrene and methyl acrylate. Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, April 2002.

251. Lei Zhu, William Y. Chen, Ping Huang, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization kinetics of PEO blocks in a nano-confined HPL phase structure. Contributed paper at IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, Beijing, China, July 2002.

252. William Y. Chen, Lei Zhu, Ping Huang and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Ordered structure evolution in a self- assembled nano-single layer PEO confined in between two thin glassy walls. Contributed paper at IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, Beijing, China, July 2002.

253. Alexander J. Jing, Orawan Taikum, Christopher Y. Li, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The monotropic phase transition behavior in a thermotropic main-chain liquid crystalline polyether. Contributed Paper at North America Thermal Analysis Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 2002. 101

254. Lei Zhu, Brio R. Mimnaugh, Ping Huang, William Y. Chen, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Edwin L. Thomas, Bernard Lotz, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Fengji Yeh and Lizhi Liu, Hard and soft confinement effects on nano-confined polymer crystallization in cylindrical mesophase. Contributed Paper at North America Thermal Analysis Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 2002.

255. Ping Huang, Lei Zhu, Jiaojai Jing, William Y. Chen, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Yao Guo, Qing Ge and Roderic P. Quirk, Phase morphology and crystal orientation changes in nano-confined lamellae of PEO-b-PS block copolymer. Contributed Paper at North America Thermal Analysis Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 2002.

256. Shi jin, Xin Weng, Feng Bai, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization of a non-racemic chiral main-chain liquid crystalline polyester confined by its smectic layer structure. Contributed Paper at North America Thermal Analysis Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 2002.

257. Jr-Jeng Ruan, Jason J. Ge, Anqiu Zhang, Jin Shi, Shy-Yeu Wang, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Polymorphous structures and their phase relationships in a main-chain/side-chain liquid crystalline polyester. Contributed Paper at North America Thermal Analysis Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 2002.

258. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Rubbing-induced molecular reorientation on an alignment surface of an aromatic polyimide containing cyanobiphenyl side chains. Lecture at Sponsor’s day 2002 of Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio October 2002.

259. Shi Jin, Shuxing Cong, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Anisotropic polythiophene films with high conductivity and good mechanical properties via a new electrochemical synthesis. Contributed paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, March 2003.

260. Ping Huang, Lei Zhu, Alexander J. Jing, William Y. Chen, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Ya Guo, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Edwin L. Thomas, Bernard Lotz and Benjamin S. Hsiao, Effect on crystal orientation changes in nano-confined lamellar of PEO-b-PS copolymers. Contributed paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, March 2003.

261. Alexander J. Jing, Bart Mansdorf, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Geometric “chirality” from “umbrella” molecules. Contributed paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, March 2003.

262. Jrjeng Ruan, Shi Jin, Jason Ge, Dong Zhang, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Bernard Lotz, Supramolecular and molecular structures in aromatic polyimides containing cyanobiphenyl side chains. Contributed paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, March 2003.

263. Xin Weng, Christopher Y. Li; Shi Jin, Dong Zhang, John J. Zhang, Feng Bai, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Morphological chirality and crystal twinning in different length scales of a chiral liquid crystalline polyester. Contributed paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, March 2003.

264. Xin Weng, Christopher Y. Li, Shi Jin, Dong Zhang, John Z. Zhang, Feng, Bai, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Bernard Lotz, Helical crystal twist sense and two levels of crystal twinning in a chiral main- chain liquid crystalline polyester. Contributed paper at American Chemical Society Spring Meeting, March 2003.

265. Xin Weng, Christopher Y. Li, Shi Jin, Dong Zhang, John Z. Zhang, Feng, Bai, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Bernard Lotz, Chiral liquid crystalline phases and transition behavior of a synthetic main-chain polyester with molecular asymmetry. Contributed paper at American Chemical Society Spring Meeting, March 2003.

266. Kwang-Un Jeong, Jason J. Ge, Shi Jin, Brian S. Knapp, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Spontaneous Helical Supra-structure formation of achiral liquid crystals investigated by thermal analysis. 102

Contributed paper at North American Thermal Analysis Society Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, September 2003.

267. William Y. Chen, Lei Zhu, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Bernard Lotz and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization and melting behaviors of PEO nano-layer crystals confined in between two PS nano-glassy layers. Contributed paper at North American Thermal Analysis Society Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, September 2003.

268. Lei Zhu, Lu Sun, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Ping Huang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Carlos A. Avila-Orta and Igos Sics, Morphological constraint to polymer crystallization in nano-spaces. Contributed paper at European Discussion Meeting on Polymer Physics, Waldau, Germany, September 2003.

269. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, A new approach on the study of tethered polymer chains via crystal templates. Lecture at Sponsor’s day 2003 of Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, October 2003.

270. Shi jin, Feng Bai, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallographic simulation of the crystalline phase of a nonracemic chiral main-chain liquid crystalline polyester. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 2004.

271. Lie Zhu, Lu Shen, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Benjamin S. Hisao, Igors Sics, Carlos Avila-Orta, Complex transitions between cubic and cylinder phases in a polystyrene-b-poly(ethylene oxide) diblock copolymer. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 2004.

272. Kwang-Un Jeong, Jason J. Ge, Shi Jin, Brian S. Knapp, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Helical Suprastructure generated from achiral 4-biphenyl carboxylic acid molecules via hydrogen bonding. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 2004.

273. Matt Graham, Shi Jin, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The synthesis and characterization of high performance polythiophene. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 2004.

274. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Joseph X. Zheng, William Y. Chen, Controlled tethering molecules via crystal surface engineering. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 2004.

275. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High refractive index polythiophene for 3-D photonic crystals with complete band gaps. Lecture at “Organic Photonic Workshop”, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio April 2004.

276. Chenchen Xue, F. Ilhan, Shi Jin, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Michel A. Meador and Ronald K. Eby, Hydrogen bonding and molecular conformation in self-assembled discotic liquid crystals. Contributed paper at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Anahiem, California, March 2004.

277. Chenchen Xue, Michel A. Meador, Ronald K. Eby, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Jason J. Ge and V. A. Cubon, Inter and intra molecular phase separation environment effects on PI-PEO block copolymers for batteries and fuel cells. Contributed paper at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, March 2004.

278. Mathew J. Graham, Shi Jin, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Timothy J. Bunning, Synthesis and characterization of high performance polythiophene. Contributed paper at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, August 2004.

279. Alexander J. Jing, Bart Mansdorf, Dong Zhang, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Phase behavior and eclectic field induced chiral packing of umbrella shaped molecules. Contributed paper at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 2004.

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280. Ping, Huang, Lei Zhu, Ya Guo, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Edwin L. Thomas, Bernard Lotz, Benjamin S. Hsiao, C. Avila-Orta, I. Sics and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Comparison of poly(ethylene oxide) crystal orientation changes in two-dimensionally nano-confined cylinders constructed by a poly(ethylene oxide)-b- polystyrene diblock copolymer and a blend of poly(ethylene oxide)-b-polystyrene and polystyrene. Contributed paper at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 2004.

281. Koung-Un Jeong, Jason J. Ge, Shi Jin, Hong Shen, Bryn S. Knapp, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Self-assembled helical suprastructure from achiral liquid crystals via hydrogen bonding. Contributed paper at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 2004.

282. Joseph X. Zheng, Huiming Xiong, K. M. Lee, Ping Huang, Ya Guo, Roderic P. Quirk, Bernard Lotz, Edwin L. Thomas and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Study of onsets of tethered chain overcrowding and highly stretched regime of brushes via crystalline-amorphous diblock copolymers. Contributed paper at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 2004.

283. Shi Jin, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Xin Weng, Christopher Y. Li, Feng Bai, Frank W. Harris and Bernard Lotz, Structure and soft-confined crystallization in a nonracemic chiral main-chain liquid crystalline polymer. Contributed paper at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 2004.

284. L. M. Burke Jr., Alexander J. Jing, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Frank W. Harris, Novel polyimides for optical applications. Contributed paper at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, March 2005.

285. Z. G. Zong F. Q. Fan, Cenchen Xue, Ron K. Eby, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, M. Takahashi and Y. Kimura, Self-organization of acylated chitosans and characteristic morphology.Contributed paper at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, March 2005.

286. Alexander J. Jing, Zhihao Shen, Shi Jin, Huabin Wang, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Ordered structural evolution and relaxation behaviors of a series of microphase separated polyimides. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California, March 2005.

287. Chenchen Xue, Faysal Ilhan, Shi Jin, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Michael A. Meador Mary Ann B. Meador and Ron K. Eby, Transition of hexagonal to lamellar packing in a discotic liquid crystal. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California, March 2005.

288. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Shin Jin, Matthew J. Graham and Timothy Bunning, Development of high refractive index polythiophene for 3D organic photonic crystals. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California, March 2005.

289. Huiming Xiong, Joseph X. Zheng, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Ya Guo, Roderic P. Quirk and Bernard Lotz, Single crystal engineering of diblock copolymer brushes. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California, March 2005.

290. Ping Huang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Ya Guo, Roderic P. Quirk, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Calos A. Avila-Orta and Igors Sics, Induced PEO crystal orientation within the inversed cylindrical morphology of a PEO-b-PS block copolymer. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California, March 2005.

291. Kwang-Un Jeong, Jason J. Ge, Shi Jin, Matthew J. Graham, Brian S. Knapp, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The origin of helical suprastructure from achiral 4-biphenyl carboxylic acid molecules. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California, March 2005.

292. Joseph X. Zheng, Huiming Xiong, Kyung-Min Lee, Christopher Y. Li, Lei Zhu, Ping Hunag, Ya Guo, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Bernard Lotz, Edwin L. Thomas and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Study of onsets of tethered chain overcrowding and highly stretched regimes of brushes via crystalline-amorphous diblock 104

copolymers. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California, March 2005.

293. Jie Hu, Dong Zhang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Frank W. Harris, Planar liquid-crystalline bispherazines: Potential electron transport materials. Contributed paper at American Chemical Society Annual Meeting at Washington DC, August 2005.

294. Dunshen Zhu, Erqiang Chen, An-Chang Shi and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Growth mechanism changes in pseudo-dewetted poly(ethylene oxide) thin films. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, March 2006.

295. Preacher Bhargava, Joseph X. L. Zheng, Yingfeng Tu and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Effect of selective solvent on the morphological phase behavior of PS-b-PEO. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, March 2006.

296. Ryan Van Horn, Joseph X. Zheng, Huiming Xiong, William Y. Chen, Kyungmin Lee, Roderic P. Quirk, Bernard Lotz, Edwin L. Thomas, An-Chang Shi and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Tethered polymer interactions with attractive surface potentials. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, March 2006.

297. Huiming Xiong, Joseph X. Zheng, Ryan Van Horn, Ya Guo, Roderic P. Quirk and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Single crystal engineering of block copolymers. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, March 2006.

298. Kwang-Un Jeong, Hong Shen, Matthew J. Graham, Huabing Wang, Mingming Guo, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, The origin of supra-molecular columnar structures from symmetric tapered bisamides. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, March 2006.

299. Matthew J. Graham, Shi Jin, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, High refractive index polythiophene for organic 3-D photonic crystals with a complete photonic band gap. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, March 2006.

300. Preacher Bhargava, Joseph X. L. Zheng, Yingfeng Tu and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Controlling PS-b-PEO morphologies by solution conditions. Contributed Paper at Annual American Chemical Society Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, March, 2006.

301. Matthew J. Graham, Shi Jin, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Electrochemical polymerization of highly conjugated Poly(thiophene). Contributed Paper at Annual American Chemical Society Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, March, 2006.

302. Bernard Lotz, Daniel Alcazar, Akiyoshi Kawaguchi, Annette Thierry, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Edwin L. Thomas, Determination of the extent of lateral spread and secondary nucleation density in isotactic poly(vinylcyclohexane) single crystals. An original means to investigate polymer crystal growth. Fall annual Materials Research Society Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, December, 2006.

303. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Ryan Van Horn and Wenbin Zhang, Tuning surface and interface properties through crystal engineering. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, March 2007.

304. Kwang-Un Jeong, Deng-Ke Yang, Matthew J. Graham, Brian S. Knapp, Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Construction of chiral propeller architectures from achiral molecules. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, March 2007.

305. Matthew J. Graham, Shi Jin and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Development of high refractive index xonjugated materials. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, March 2007.

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306. Ryan Van Horn, Joseph X. Zheng, Huiming Xiong, Roderic P. Quirk, Bernard Lotz, Edwin L. Thomas, An-Chang Shi and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Tetehred polymer chains on single crystal surfaces. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, March 2007.

307. Wne-Bin Zhang, Yingfeng Tu, Rajesh Ranjan, Ryan Van Horn, Michel J. Polce, Chrys Wesdemiotis, Roderic P. Quirk, George R. Newkome, Stephen Z. D. Cheng Efficient, mild, and modular approach to stable, well-defined fullerene polymers via click chemistry. Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society National Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2008.

308. Wen-Bin Zhang, Yingfeng Tu, Rajesh Ranjan, Ryan M. Van Horn, Siwei Leng, Jing Wang, Michael J. Polce, Chrys Wesdemiotis, Roderic P. Quirk, George R. Newkome and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, An efficient, mild, and modular approach to stable, well-defined fullerene polymers via "click" chemistry. Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society National Meeting, Washington D. C., August 2008.

309. Ming-Siao Hsiao, Joseph X. Zheng, Ryan M. Van Horn, Roderic P. Quirk, Edwin L. Thomas, Bernard Lotz and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystalliztion, crystal orientation and morphology of poly(ethylene oxide) under 1D defect-free nanocale confinement. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 2009.

310. Xinfei Yu, Wen-Bin Zhang, Ryan M. Van Horn, Roderic P. Quirk and Stephen Z. D. cheng, Tethered polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane on lamellar single crystal of poly(D-lactide). Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 2009.

311. Wen-Bin Zhang, Bin Sun, Hui Li, Matthew Panzer, Wiley Youngs, Roderic P. Quirk and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Nanoparticle tethered perylene tetracarboxylic diimides as novel photo harvesting antennae. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 2009.

312. Yingfeng Tu, Ye Chun Ye, Wen-Bin Zhang; Chi-Chun Tsai, Sin Sun, Xiaohong Li, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Fullerene-polyhedral oligosilsesquioxane organic-inorganic hybrids and applications as a nanolatered supercapacitor. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 2009.

313. Yan Cao, Ryan M. Van Horn, Chi-Chun Tsai, Matthew Grahmam, Kwuang-Un Jeong, Claudio De Rosa, Bernard Lotz and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Two different types of single crystal morphologies of the -phase and their conversion in isotactic polypropylene. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 2009.

314. Chi-Chun Tsai, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Bernard Lotz, Jin Huang, Yongming Chen, Structure of PEO-b-PPO- b-PEO triblock copolymer inclusion complexes with -cyclodextrin. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 2009.

315. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Yingfeng Tu, Chun Ye, Wen-Bin Zhang, Xinfei Yu, Ryan M. Van Horn and Chien- Lung Wang, Aeembly of organic/nanoparticle hybrid systems. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 2009.

316. Ryan M. Van Horn, Joseph X. Zheng, Ming-Siao Hsiao, Bernard Lotz, Edwin L. Thomas, Jutta Luettmer- Strathmann and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Transition from non-interacting to interacting regime of tethered polymer chains. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 2009.

317. Bin Sun; Wen-Bin Zhang; Jonathan Janoski; Roderic P. Quirk; Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Thiolene click chemistry as a simple, clean and efficient method to make α, ω-functionalized polystyrenes prepared by anionic polymerization. Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society National Meeting, Washington D. C., August 2009.

318. Wen-Bin Zhang; Bin Sun; Jonathan Janoski; Roderic P. Quirk; Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Dimethyl-[4-(1- phenylvinyl)phenyl]silane as a versatile intermediate in the synthesis of in-chain-functionalized diblock 106

copolymers. Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society National Meeting, Washington D. C., August 2009.

319. Chi-Chun Tsai, Bernard Lotz, Mingming Guo and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, A supramolecular structure of inclusion complexes of -cyclodextrin with PEO-b-PPO-b-PEO triblock copolymer. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 2010.

320. Ryan M. Van Horn, Joseph X. Zheng, Ming-Siao, Hsiao, Sewei Leng, Hao-Jan Sun and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization of tethered chain layers in crystalline-crysatlline diblock copolymers. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 2010.

321. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Ryan M. Van Horn, Wen-Bin Zhang, Xinfei Yu, Chien-Lung Wang, Hao-Ran Sun, Crystallization of hybrid polymer systems. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 2010.

322. Chien-Lung Wang, Ryan M. Van Horn, Wen-Bin Zhang, David A. Modarelli and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Synthesis and characterization of C60-porphyrin derivatives for enhanced photovoltaic performance through efficient carge generation and transfort. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 2010.

323. Hao-Ran Sun, Bernard Lotz, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Understanding and controlling scrolled polymer single crystal habits in isotactic polybutene-1. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 2010.

324. I-Fan Hsieh, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Feng Chen and Qiang Fu, PS-b-PDMS block copolymer thin film: pattern formation and phase behavior. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 2010.

325. Wen-Bin Zhang, Roderic P. Quirk and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Soft fullerene materials: Click chemistry and supramolecular assemblies. Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium, Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Francisco, California, March 2010.

317. Ming-Siao Hsiao, Joseph X. Zheng, Ryan Van Horn, Roderic P. Quirk, Bernard Lotz, Edwin L. Thomas, Hsin-Lung Chen and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Poly(ethylene oxide) crystal orientation change under 1D nanoscale confinement using polystyrene-block-poly(ethylenChi-Chun Tsai, Bernard Lotz, Mingming Guo and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, A supramolecular structure of inclusion complexes of -cyclodextrin with PEO- b-PPO-b-PEO triblock copolymer. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 2010.

318. Ryan M. Van Horn, Joseph X. Zheng, Ming-Siao, Hsiao, Sewei Leng, Hao-Jan Sun and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Crystallization of tethered chain layers in crystalline-crysatlline diblock copolymers. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 2010.

319. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Ryan M. Van Horn, Wen-Bin Zhang, Xinfei Yu, Chien-Lung Wang, Hao-Ran Sun, Crystallization of hybrid polymer systems. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 2010.

320. Chien-Lung Wang, Ryan M. Van Horn, Wen-Bin Zhang, David A. Modarelli and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Synthesis and characterization of C60-porphyrin derivatives for enhanced photovoltaic performance through efficient carge generation and transfort. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 2010.

321. Hao-Ran Sun, Bernard Lotz, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Understanding and controlling scrolled polymer single crystal habits in isotactic polybutene-1. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 2010.

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322. I-Fan Hsieh, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Feng Chen and Qiang Fu, PS-b-PDMS block copolymer thin film: pattern formation and phase behavior. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 2010.

323. Wen-Bin Zhang, Roderic P. Quirk and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Soft fullerene materials: Click chemistry and supramolecular assemblies. Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium, Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Francisco, California, March 2010.

324. Ming-Siao Hsiao, Joseph X. Zheng, Ryan Van Horn, Roderic P. Quirk, Bernard Lotz, Edwin L. Thomas, Hsin-Lung Chen and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Poly(ethylene oxide) crystal orientation change under 1D nanoscale confinement using polystyrene-block-poly(ethylene oxide) copolymers: Confined dimension and reduced tethering density effects. Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society National Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, August 2010.

325. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Wen-Bin Zhang, Chien-Lung Wang, Xinfei Yu, Yiwen Li, Xuehui Dong, and Ryan M. van Horn, Hierarchal ordered structures in hybrid functional supramolecules and macromolecules. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 2011.

326. I-Fan Hsieh and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, PS-b-PDMS block copolymer thin film: Pattern formation and phase behavior. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 2011.

327. Wen-Bin Zhang, Xinfei Yu, Xuehui Dong, Yiwen Li, Kan Yue, Jinlin He and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Hierarchical superstructures from the self-assembly of giant surfactants in condensed state. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 2011.

328. Jinlin He; Wen-Bin Zhang; Yiwen Li; Xuehui Dong; Peihong Ni; Roderic P. Quirk and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Functional polystyrenes synthesized via combination of anionic polymerization and orthogonal “Click” chemistry. Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society National Meeting, Denver, Colorado, August, 2011.

329. Xinfei Yu, Wen-Bin Zhang, Hao Liu, Roderic P. Quirk and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant surfactant: Polystyrene-(carboxylic acid-functionalized POSS) amphiphile. Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society National Meeting, Denver, Colorado, August, 2011.

330. Wen-Bin Zhang, Roderic P. Quirk and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Soft fullerene materials via retro-functional analysis: From molecules to materials. Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society National Meeting, Denver, Colorado, August, 2011.

331. Xinfei Yu and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Self-assembly of polystyrene tethered hydrophilic POSS/C60 nanoparticles. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, March 2012.

332. Yan Cao, Ryan M. Van Horn, Guoliang Zhang, Hao-Jan Sun, Kuang-Un Jeong, Finizia Auriemma, Claudio De Rosa, Bernard Lotz and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Understanding molecular epitaxial mechanism of the gamma-form crystal and chain tilt in the alpha-form single crystal of isotactic polypropylene. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, March 2012.

333. Chi-Hao Hsu, Chien-Lung Wang, Hao-Jan Sun, Yingfeng Tu and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Fullerene-based shape amphiphiles towards hierarchical supramolecular assemblies. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, March 2012.

334. Zheng Li, Yan Cao, Toshi Miyoshi and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Chain packing and trajectory of isotactic polypropylene alpha-crystals studied by solid-state NMR, Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, March 2012.

335. I-Fan Hsieh, Xinfei Yu, Kan Yue and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, S. Z. D. Self-assemble behavior of polystyrene-tethered hydrophilic POSS nanoparticles in thin film, Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, March 2012. 108

336. e oxide) copolymers: Confined dimension and reduced tethering density effects. Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society National Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, August 2010.

337. Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Wen-Bin Zhang, Chien-Lung Wang, Xinfei Yu, Yiwen Li, Xuehui Dong, and Ryan M. van Horn, Hierarchal ordered structures in hybrid functional supramolecules and macromolecules. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 2011.

338. I-Fan Hsieh and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, PS-b-PDMS block copolymer thin film: Pattern formation and phase behavior. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 2011.

339. Wen-Bin Zhang, Xinfei Yu, Xuehui Dong, Yiwen Li, Kan Yue, Jinlin He and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Hierarchical superstructures from the self-assembly of giant surfactants in condensed state. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 2011.

340. Jinlin He; Wen-Bin Zhang; Yiwen Li; Xuehui Dong; Peihong Ni; Roderic P. Quirk and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Functional polystyrenes synthesized via combination of anionic polymerization and orthogonal “Click” chemistry. Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society National Meeting, Denver, Colorado, August, 2011.

341. Xinfei Yu, Wen-Bin Zhang, Hao Liu, Roderic P. Quirk and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Giant surfactant: Polystyrene-(carboxylic acid-functionalized POSS) amphiphile. Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society National Meeting, Denver, Colorado, August, 2011.

342. Wen-Bin Zhang, Roderic P. Quirk and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Soft fullerene materials via retro-functional analysis: From molecules to materials. Contributed Paper at American Chemical Society National Meeting, Denver, Colorado, August, 2011.

343. Xinfei Yu and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Self-assembly of polystyrene tethered hydrophilic POSS/C60 nanoparticles. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, March 2012.

344. Yan Cao, Ryan M. Van Horn, Guoliang Zhang, Hao-Jan Sun, Kuang-Un Jeong, Finizia Auriemma, Claudio De Rosa, Bernard Lotz and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Understanding molecular epitaxial mechanism of the gamma-form crystal and chain tilt in the alpha-form single crystal of isotactic polypropylene. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, March 2012.

345. Chi-Hao Hsu, Chien-Lung Wang, Hao-Jan Sun, Yingfeng Tu and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Fullerene-based shape amphiphiles towards hierarchical supramolecular assemblies. Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, March 2012.

346. Zheng Li, Yan Cao, Toshi Miyoshi and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Chain packing and trajectory of isotactic polypropylene alpha-crystals studied by solid-state NMR, Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, March 2012.

347. I-Fan Hsieh, Xinfei Yu, Kan Yue and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, S. Z. D. Self-assemble behavior of polystyrene-tethered hydrophilic POSS nanoparticles in thin film, Contributed Paper at American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, March 2012.

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GRADUATE STUDENTS

M. S. THESES

1. Mr. Tim I. Lipinski, The thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transitions in poly(azomethine) liquid crystalline polymers. 1989. 2. Mr. Soo-Young Cha, Thermodynamic properties, transition kinetics and crystal structure of a new semicrystalline polyimide. 1991. 3. Mr. Anindya Mukherjee, Preliminary study on structure-property relationships of polymer blends consisting of a polyimide and a polyetherimide. 1992. 4. Mr. Martin L. Mittleman, Characterization of a novel semicrystalline polyimide synthesized from BTDA and DMDA. 1992. 5. Mr. Scott S. Wu, Structure, morphology and phase transition kinetics of a conjugated polymer. 1993. 6. Mr. Joseph M. Deitzel, A study of the phase behavior of statistically alternating poly(ethylene- chlorotrifluroethylene) involving hexagonal packings. 1994. 7. Mr. Gary Krysiak, Structural characterization of aromatic polyimides with pendent n-alkyl groups. 1994. 8. Ms. Neelam Chawla, Principle and results in dynamic differential scanning calorimetry study. 1996. 9. Mr. Byeong Kwan Min, Structure and crystallization behavior in linear low density polyethylene fractions. 1998. 10. Ms. Tao Jiang, Characterization of nylon 6-b-aromatic polyamide triblock copolymers. 1999. 11. Ms. Marcella A. Loner, Effect of PPVE comonomer on the physical properties of poly(tetrafluoro- ethylene). 2000. 12. Mr. Brion R. Mimnaugh, Structural and morphological characteristics of a crystalline-amorphous diblock copolymer. 2001. 13. Ms. Mingshi Zhou, Synthesis and characterization of highly ordered polypyrrole from mesoporous nanoplates, 2001. 14. Ms. Jennifer Hanzlicek, Characterization of poly(trimethylene terephthalate). 2004. 15. Mr. Shen Hong, Phase behaviors and structures of a series of symmetric tapered bisamides. 2004. 16. Mrs. Qing Li, Phase transitions, structure and morphology in a novel hybrid liquid crystal polyester PEFPB(n = 12) containing pendent cyanobiphenyl units. 2004. 17. Mr. Michael Yang, Subpecosecond all optical switching using polymeric one-dimensional photonic crystal, 2006.

Ph. D. DISSERTATIONS

1. Dr. Daniel P. Heberer (Morton International), Thermodynamic properties, transitions, and crystal structure and morphologies in semicrystalline polyimides. 1990. 2. Dr. Michael A. Yandrasits (3M Company), Thermotropic liquid crystal polyethers based on 1-(4- hydroxy-phenyl)-2-(2-Methyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)ethane and ,-dibromoalkanes. 1991. 3. Dr. Jianhua Chen (Boston Scientific), Isothermal thickening and thinning processes in low molecular mass poly(ethylene oxide) fractions crystallized from the melt. 1992. 4. Dr. Ronald L. Johnson (Goodyear Company), Mesophase transition behavior of thermotropic copolyesters. 1992. 5. Dr. Ricardo Pardey (Venezuela Technological Institute of Petroleum), Ordered structures and phase transitions in thermotropic liquid crystal poly(ester imide)s. 1993. 110

6. Dr. Fred E. Arnold, Jr. (Wright-Patterson Air force Base, Materials Manufacturing Directories), Anisotropic structure and properties of organo-soluble segmented rigid-rod polyimide films. 1993. 7. Dr. Jiang Liu (BP Chemical), Crystal structures morphology and thermal effects in aromatic polyimides. 1994. 8. Dr. Mark Eashoo (US Patent Office), The structure/property relationships of aromatic polyimide fibers based on 3,3',4,4'-biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydride. 1994. 9. Dr. Jae-Young Park (CTO, Nanopacific Inc., Korea), Phase Transitions, Structure Formation, and Morphology in an Aromatic BPDA-PFMB/m-cresol System. 1994. 10. Dr. Jonnie Rodriguez-Arnold (Wright-Patterson Air force Base Laboratory), Crystallization, Crystal Melting and Morphology of Different Molecular Weight Fractions of Syndiotactic Polypropylene. 1994. 11. Dr. Tammy M. Chalmers (3M Company), Structure and properties of a new thermoplastic semicrystaslline polyimide and its fiber reinforced composite. 1994. 12. Dr. Seung-Wook Lee (Vice President, Sumsong Cheil Industries Inc., Korea), Low molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide) fractions with different molecular shapes crystallized from the melt. 1994. 13. Dr. Scott S. Wu (Lexmark International), End Group Dependence of Melt Crystallization Behavior in Low Molecular Weight Poly(ethylene Oxide) Fractions and Morphology. 1994. 14. Dr. Han J. Song (Hyundai Petroleum, Korea), Morphology and properties of phase-separation elastomers. 1995. 15. Dr. Fang-Chyou Chiu (Professor, Chang Gung University, Taiwan), Crystallization, melting behaviors and crystal morphology of linear polyethylene fractions and short chain branched polyethylenes. 1995. 16. Dr. Bin-Lin Hsu (Oplink Inc., deceased), Structure, morphology and property relationships of novel aromatic polyimide toughened thermosets. 1995. 17. Dr. Zhengzheng Bu (General Electric Company), Single crystal morphology and growth mechanism of syndiotactic polypropylene fractions from the melt. 1995. 18. Dr. Yeocheol Yoon (Assistant Professor, Canada), Mesophase behavior in polyethers involving highly ordered smectic liquid crystalline structures. 1995. 19. Dr. Song-Koo Lee (Akron Rubber Development, Inc.), Gel/sol and liquid crystalline transitions in rigid- rod and segmented rigid-rod polyimides. 1995. 20. Dr. Rong-Ming Ho (Disdtinguished Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan), Crystal structure, morphology and phase identification of poly(aryl ether ketone)s crystallized from the melt. 1995. 21. Dr. Bryan Livengood (Lexmark International), Structure and property relationships of nylon 6-b- polyimide-b nylon 6 triblock copolymers as potential molecular composites. 1996. 22. Dr. Edward P. Savitski (Consultant), Molecular weight and shape dependence of aromatic polyimides in solution and their correlation to the structure and properties in the solid state. 1996. 23. Dr. Michelle Zimmerman (Pennsylvania State University at Erie Campus), The crystal structure, morphology and phase transitions of poly(4-methyl-1-pentene). 1996. 24. Dr. Weihan Li (Johnson & Johnson Industries), Structure, morphology and property of compressed high performance BPDA-PFMB polyimide fibers. 1996. 25. Dr. Ching-Chang Shen (ICI Company), Structure, morphology and properties of grafting polyimide-co- nylon 6 as potential molecular composites. 1996. 26. Dr. Joseph M. Deitzel (Army Research Laboratory), A study of the phase behavior of statistically alternating poly(ethylene-chlorotrifluroethylene) involving hexagonal packing. 1996. 27. Dr. Yoan Kim (Alpha-Micron Technology), Transimidization in thermoplastic polyimides. 1997. 28. Dr. Mark E. Leland (Atofina Petrochemicals Inc), Phase behavior and structure identification of a novel series of transitions of copoly(ester imide)s. 1998. 111

29. Dr. Orawan Taikum (Degussa Corperation), Crystallization kinetics in monotropic liquid crystalline polyether fractions. 1998. 30. Dr. Fuming Li (3M Company), Anisotropy in organo-soluble aromatic polyimide films and its optical applications. 1998. 31. Dr. Kevin W. McCreight (Eastman Chemical Company), Thermal and structure analyses of BPDA- hairy-rod polyamides. 1998. 32. Dr. Erqiang Chen (Professor, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, China), Self-assembly, self-ordering poly(ethylene oxide) fractions with different molecular shapes. 1998. 33. Dr. Jason Jiaxin Ge (Arkema Group), Phase structures and transition behavior in polymers containing rigid-rod backbones with flexible side chains. 1998. 34. Dr. Shian-Ming Lin (Printed Circuit Board Company, Taiwan), Crystallization, structure and morphology of MPMD-6 [poly(-methyl pentamethylene adipamide)]. 1998. 35. Dr. Christopher Y. Li (Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, Drexel University), Phase transition behavior and novel observations of double-twisted helical single crystals in a series of chiral main-chain liquid crystalline polyesters. 1999. 36. Dr. Shane Fang (US Patent Office), Thermal properties, dielectric behaviors, and surface structures of fluorinated aromatic polyimides. 1999. 37. Dr. Ruqing Zheng (Foreign Affair Office, Associate Director, Peking University, China), Structure change from smectic to columnar phases in a series of liquid crystalline TPP copolymers. 2000. 38. Dr. Paul Honigfort (Food and Drug Administration), Studies on the crystal structure and phase transition behavior of a perfectly alternating oligomeric poly(aryl ether ketone ketone) copolymer. 2000. 39. Dr. Wensheng Zhou (Bridgestone/Firestone Company), Morphology, crystal structure and melting of syndiotactic polypropylene lamellar crystals. 2000. 40. Dr. Lei Zhu (Associate Professor, Ddepartment of Macromolecular Science, Case Western Reserve University), Phase and crystallization behaviors determined by self-organization, crystallization, and vitrification in crystalline-amorphous diblock copolymers. 2000. 41. Dr. Ian Mann (Chief Executive Officer, Redfern Integrated Optics), Liquid crystal alignment and pretilt angle of rubbed organic-soluble side-chain polyimides. 2000. 42. Dr. Gue-Hyun Kim (Professor, Dongseo University at Pusan, Korea), Structure and phase determination of laterally attached side-chain liquid crystalline polynorbornenes with a 1-coban spacer. 2001. 43. Dr. Zhihao Shen (Associate Professor, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Peking University, China), Phase transitions, relaxation behavior, and structure of rigid-rod polyimides with multiple flexible side-chains. 2001. 44. Dr. Shuxing Cong (Lumera Corporation), Synthesis and characterization of high performance polyheterocycles. 2001. 45. Dr. Zheng Liu (3M Company), Phase behavior and structure identification of novel dendritic side-chain liquid crystalline polymers. 2001. 46. Dr. Yongxin Tang (Kent Electroptics Inc., New York), Phase structure identification, monotropic phase behavior, crystallization kinetics, and surface effect of discotic liquid crystals. 2001. 47. Dr. Shi Jin (Associate Professor at City University of New York), Phase transitions, crystallization behaviors and structure of a non-racemic chiral main-chain liquid crystalline polyester and its macroscopic quasi-monodomains. 2001. 48. Dr. Chengchen Xue (Bayer Corporation), Self-assembled supra-molecular liquid crystalline behavior via hydrogen bonding in symmetric tapered bisamides. 2002. 49. Dr. Xin Weng (Medtronics Inc), Helical assembly, liquid crystalline behavior and crystallization of a non- racemic chiral main-chain liquid crystalline polymer and its monomers. 2002. 112

50. Dr. Alexander J. Jing (Akron Polymer System), Phase behavior and structure determination of a series of discotic liquid crystals. 2003. 51. Dr. Jr-Jeng Ruan (Assistant Professor at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan), Phase behavior, molecular and supramolecular structures in polymers containing rigid-rod backbone with cyanobiphenyl side chains. 2003. 52. Dr. Bart Mansdorf (Sherman Plastics), Synthesis and characterization of a series of rod-disc combined liquid crystals. 2003. 53. Dr. Wenwen Cai (US Patent Office), Novel crystal structure and morphology of nylon 66. 2003. 54. Dr. Ping Huang (EV3 Cooperation), Phase morphology and crystal orientation within the nano-confined environments of the crystalline-amorphous block copolymers and blends. 2004. 55. Dr. Kwang-Un Jeong (Assistant Professor, Chonbuk National University, Korea), Phase structures and self-assembled helical supra-molecular structures via hydrogen bonding in achiral 4-biphenylcarboxylic acids and their asymmetric bent polymers. 2005. 56. Dr. Joseph Xiaoliang Zheng (Akron Polymer System), Study of onsets of tethered chain overcrowding and highly stretched brush regime via crystalline-amorphous diblock copolymers. 2005. 57. Dr. William Yan Chen (Pepsi Cooperation), Single crystal engineering of amorphous-crystalline diblock copolymers: Crystallization, morphology and application. 2005. 58. Dr. Huiming Xiong (Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), Single crystal engineering of linear tri-block copolymers: crystallization and polymer brushes. 2006. 59. Dr. Matthew J. Graham (Vice President, Akron Polymer System), Three-dimensional photonic crystals utilizing high refractive index polythiophene. 2006. 60. Dr. Prachur Bhargava (Ashland Aqualon), Self-assembled polystyrene-block-poly(ethylene Oxide) micelle morphologies in solutions. 2007. 61. Dr. Shujun Wang (3M Company), Liquid-liquid phase separation in a polyethylene blend with isorefractive indices monitored by crystallization kinetics and crystal-decorated phase morphologies. 2008. 62. Dr. Siwei Leng (3M Company), From crystal to columnar discotic liquid crystal phases: Molecular design and phase structural characterization of series of novel pyrenes potentially useful in organic electronics. 2009. 63. Dr. Ryan Van Horn (Assistant Professor, Allegheny College), Tethered polymer chains on single crystal surfaces. 2009. 64. Dr. Ming-Siao Hsiao (Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Bristol, England), Crystallization, crystal orientation and morphology of poly(ethylene oxide) under one-dimensional defect-free confinement on the nanoscale. 2009. 65. Dr. Wen-Bin Zhang (Postdoctoral Fellow at California Institute of Technology), Soft fullerene materials: Click chemistry and supramolecular assemblies. 2010. 66. Dr. Rahul R. Kulkarni (ExxonMobil Chemical), Unique morphology and structure of new organic porphyrin based discotic liquid crystals. 2010. 67. Dr. Chien-Lung Wang (Assistant Professor, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) Synthesis and characterization of C60-porphyrin derivatives for enhanced photovoltaic performance through efficient charge generation and transport. 2011. 68. Dr. Chi-Jun Tsai (Milligan Company), Supramolecular structure of inclusion complexes of -cyclodextrin with poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(propylene oxide)-block-poly(ethylene oxide) copolymers. 2011. 69. Dr. Hao-Jan Sun (University of Pennsylvania), Phase behaviors and Janus hierarchical supramolecular steructures based on geometrically and chemically asymmetric building blocks. 2012. 70. Dr. Xinfei Yu (National Institute of Science and Standard Technology), 2012. 71. Dr. Yan Cao (Kiushu University, Japan) Understanding molecular epitaxial mechanism and chain folding in determining chain packing and crystalline morphology of isotactic polypropylene, 2012. 113

POSTDOCTORS AND VISITING PROFESSORS

1. Professor Anqiu Zhang (Donghua University, China), November 1987-December 2002 2. Professor Zongquan Wu (Donghua University, China), June 1988-December 2000 3. Professor Dexing Shen (Donghua University, China), October 1990-January 1993 4. Dr. Katie Bruno (Business Owner), June 1991-October 1993 5. Dr. Michael A. Yandrasits (3M Company), September 1991-October 1992 6. Professor Shanjung Li (Fudan University, China), May 1992-December 1993 7. Dr. Fuming Li (3m Company), May 1992-May 1998 8. Dr. Jianhua Chen (Boston Scientific Scimed Inc.), January 1993-November 1993 9. Dr. Fred E. Arnold, Jr. (Airfoece Research Laboratory), December 1993-September 1995 10. Dr. Elena Mirzoeva (A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Moscow, Russia), November 1993-October 1994 11. Dr. Young Ho Kim (Soong Sil University, Korea), January 1994-January 1995 12. Dr. Jonnie Rodriguez-Arnold (Airfoece Research Laboratory), June 1994-September 1995 13. Dr. Jiang Liu (BP Chemical Company), May 1994-September 1994 14. Dr. Qiang Fu (Sichuan University, China), January 1995-November 1997 15. Professor Tianbei He (Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, China), March 1995-February 1996, January 1997-March 1997, January 1998-March 1998 16. Professor Tianlu Chen (Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, China), August 1995-February 1996 17. Dr. Rong-Ming Ho (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan), August 1995-July 1996 18. Dr. Yeocheol Yoon (University at Canada), August 1995-December 1996 19. Professor Gi Xue (Nanjing University, China), June 1996-December 1996, June 1998-December 1998 20. Professor Decai Yang (Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, China), March 1997-June 1997 21. Dr. Donghang Yan (Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, China), March 1997-September 1997 22. Dr. William Yan Chen (Pepsi Cooperation), November 1997-August 2000 23. Dr. Xuliang Lu (Fudan University, China), December 1997-May 1998 24. Dr. Qiang Wang (National Starch Company), February 1998-March 2000 25. Dr. Mukesh Chhajer (University of Michigan), July 1998-June 1999 26. Dr. Jason J. Ge (Arkema Group), September 1998-March 2001, September 2002-April 2004 27. Dr. Erqiang Chen (Professor, Peking University, China), September 1998-August 2000 28. Dr. Bojie Wang (University of Akron), February 1999-December 2001 29. Dr. Christopher Y. Li (Professor, Drexel University), February 2000-December 2001 30. Dr. Huiming Xiong (Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), July 2000-August 2002 31. Dr. Lei Zhu (Professor, Case Western Reserve University), September 2000-August 2002 32. Dr. Shi Jin (Professor, City University of New York), September 2001-August 2004 33. Dr. Alexander J. Jing (Akron Polymer System), May 2003-September 2005 34. Dr. Ping Huang (EV3 Cooperation), January 2004-September 2005 35. Dr. Yingfeng Tu (Peking University, China), February 2004-October 2009 114

36. Dr. Xinhua Wan (Peking University, Chia), June 2004-September 2004. 37. Dr. Kwang-Un Jeong (Professor, Chonbuk National University, Korea), August 2005-August 2006 38. Dr. Li-Hisn Chan (Professor, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan) May 2005-April 2006 39. Dr. Shiao-Wei Kuo (Professor, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan), September 2005-April 2006 40. Dr. Chun Ye (Peking University, China), April 2006-March 2009 41. Dr. Junting Xu (Professor, Zhejiang Unviersity), July 2006-December 2006 42. Dr. Matthew J. Graham (Vice President, Akron Polymer Systems), January 2007-January 2009 43. Dr. Hui Li (Professor, East China University of Science and Technology), November 2007-November 2008 44. Dr. Bin Sun (Professor, Donghua University), September 2007-September 2009 45. Dr. Yonggen Lu (Professor, Donghua University), December 2007-November 2008 46. Dr. Yong Huang (Professor, Chinese Academy of Science) May 2008-September 2008 47. Dr. Shuguang Yang (Professor, Donghua University) August 2008-September 2010 48. Dr. Xia Dong (Associate Professor, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science) September 2009- September 2010 49. Dr. Ryan M. Van Horn (Assistant Professor, Allegheny College) September 2009-July 2010 50. Dr. Wenbin Zhang (Institute of California Technology), June 2010-September 2011 51. Dr. Lin Xu (Senior Researcher at SINOPC), November 2010-November 2011 52. Dr. Guang Yang (Professor, Huazhong Unviersity of Science and Technology) November 2010- November 2011 53. Dr. Bin Na (Professor, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology), September 2011-August 2012 54. Dr. Lind Shi (Professor, Qingdao University of Science and Technology) February 2012-July 2012 55. Dr. Zhengbiao Zhang (Professor, Soochow University), February 2012-February 2013