Publications

Books

Numerical methods with chemical engineering applications. Kevin D. Dorfman and Prodromos Daoutidis, Cambridge University Press (2017). DOI: 10.1017/9781316471425

Theory of Block Polymer Self-Assembly. Benjamin R. Magruder and Kevin D. Dorfman, American Chemical Society (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acsinfocus.7e8001

Journal Publications

2026

Depletion forces from interacting crowders. Gopal Parthasarathy, Xiang Cheng, and Kevin D. Dorfman, Physical Review E (in press).

Cell-extracellular matrix feedback results in spontaneous cell polarization and heterogeneous remodeling in 3D isotropic and aligned discrete-fiber models of cell-mediated remodeling. Adam W.Y. Ley, Lauren M. Bersie-Larson, Sabin Adhikari, Paolo P. Provenzano, Kevin D. Dorfman and Victor H. Barocas, Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering 19, 407–426 (2026). pdf

Deformation and mechanics of graft block copolymer compatibilized polymer blends. Ashutosh K. Nehete, Frank S. Bates and Kevin D. Dorfman, Macromolecules 59, 7230-7241 (2026). pdf  data

Helicity of a confined bottlebrush ring polymer. Luyang Li, Sabin Adhikari and Kevin D. Dorfman, Macromolecules 59, 6168-6177 (2026). pdf  data

Critical micelle concentration of multiblock copolymers in immiscible homopolymer blends. Cyrus A. Watrin, Benjamin R. Magruder, Ashutosh K. Nehete, Frank S. Bates and Kevin D. Dorfman, ACS Macro Letters 15, 429-433 (2026). pdf  data

Interfacial failure in graft block copolymer-reinforced polymer blends. Ashutosh K. Nehete, Frank S. Bates and Kevin D. Dorfman, ACS Macro Letters 15, 202-207 (2026). pdf  data

2025

Exploring the self-assembly of glycolipids into three-dimensional network phases. Caini Zheng, Ke Luo, Soumi Das, Pengyu Chen, Zhengyuan Shen, Joseph Jaye, Daoyuan Li, Michelle A. Calabrese, Theresa M. Reineke, Mahesh K. Mahanthappa, Kevin D. Dorfman, Timothy P. Lodge, J. Ilja Siepmann, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 129, 8231-8243 (2025).  pdf

Dynamic masks and external fields in periodic self-consistent field theory: A case study on double-gyroid thin films. Benjamin R. Magruder and Kevin D. Dorfman, Macromolecules 58, 8555-8567 (2025). pdf  data

Double-gyroid network morphologies formed by asymmetric AB1B2 tri-block amphiphiles over wide volume fraction range. Daoyuan Li, Zhengyuan Shen, Pengyu Chen, Mahesh K. Mahanthappa, Kevin D. Dorfman, Timothy P. Lodge and J. Ilja Siepmann, JACS Au 7, 3387-3398 (2025). pdf

Interfacial tension of graft block polymers at immiscible homopolymer interfaces. Ashutosh K. Nehete, Frank S. Bates and Kevin D. Dorfman, Macromolecules 58, 4875-4887 (2025).  pdf  data

2024

Computational phase discovery in block polymers. Kevin D. Dorfman, ACS Macro Letters 13, 1612-1619 (2024). pdf

Circular dichroism of distorted double gyroid thin film metamaterials. Emily K. McGuinness, Benjamin R. Magruder, Kevin D. Dorfman, Christopher J. Ellison and Vivian E. Ferry, Physical Review Materials 8, 115201 (2024). pdf  data

Equilibrium phase behavior of gyroid-forming diblock polymer thin films. Benjamin R. Magruder, Christopher J. Ellison and Kevin D. Dorfman, Journal of Chemical Physics 161, 084902 (2024). pdf  data

Chain and structural dynamics in melts of sphere-forming diblock copolymers. Anshul Chawla, Frank S. Bates, Kevin D. Dorfman and David C. Morse, Macromolecules 57, 7675-7683 (2024).  pdf  data

Deformation and failure of glassy polymer-polymer interfaces compatibilized by linear multiblock copolymers. Ryan P. Collanton and Kevin D. Dorfman, Physical Review Materials 8, 075604 (2024).  pdf  data

Dynamics of double-knotted DNA molecules under nanochannel confinement. Runfang Mao and Kevin D. Dorfman, Macromolecules 57, 5121-5560 (2024). pdf  data

A soft crystalline packing with no metallic analogue. Pengyu Chen and Kevin D. Dorfman, Nature Materials 23, 455-456 (2024).  pdf  data

Boundary frustration in double-gyroid thin films. Benjamin R. Magruder, David C. Morse, Christopher J. Ellison and Kevin D. Dorfman, ACS Macro Letters 13, 382-388 (2024).  pdf  data

2023

Probing physical properties of single amyloid fibrils using nanofluidic channels. Nima Sasanian, Rajhans Sharma, Quentin Lubart, Sriram KK, Marziyeh Ghaeidamini, Kevin D. Dorfman, Elin K. Esbjörner and Fredrik Westerlund, Nanoscale 15, 18737-18744 (2023).  pdf

Gaming self-consistent field theory: Generative block polymer phase discovery. Pengyu Chen and Kevin D. Dorfman, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 120, e2308698120 (2023). pdf  data

Thermodynamics and morphology of linear multiblock copolymers at homopolymer interfaces. Ryan P. Collanton, Christopher J. Ellison and Kevin D. Dorfman, Journal of Chemical Physics 159, 194905 (2023). pdf  data

Surface relief terraces in double gyroid-forming polystyrene-block-polylactide thin films. Szu-Ming Yang, Jinwoo Oh, Benjamin R. Magruder, Hee Joong Kim, Kevin D. Dorfman, Mahesh K. Mahanthappa and Christopher J. Ellison, Physical Review Materials 7, 125601 (2023).  pdf  data

Single gyroid in H-shaped block copolymers. So Jung Park, Frank S. Bates and Kevin D. Dorfman, Physical Review Materials 7, 105601 (2023). pdf  data 

Liquid-like states in micelle-forming diblock copolymer melts. Kevin D. Dorfman and Zhen–Gang Wang, ACS Macro Letters 12, 980-985 (2023).  pdf  data

Diffusion of knots in nanochannel-confined DNA molecules. Runfang Mao and Kevin D. Dorfman, Journal of Chemical Physics 158, 194901 (2023).  pdf  data

Alternating gyroid stabilized by surfactant-like triblock terpolymers in IS/SO/ISO ternary blends. Pengyu Chen, Frank S. Bates and Kevin D. Dorfman, Macromolecules 56, 2568−2577 (2023).  pdf  data

Complex phase behavior in binary blends of AB diblock copolymer and ABC triblock terpolymer. So Jung Park, Frank S. Bates and Kevin D. Dorfman, Macromolecules 56, 1278-1288 (2023).  pdf  data

Tuning conformational asymmetry in particle-forming diblock copolymer alloys. Logan J. Case, Frank S. Bates and Kevin D. Dorfman, Soft Matter 19, 90-97 (2023). pdf  data

2022

Mechanism of escape of a single chain from a diblock copolymer micelle. Sarah C. Seeger, Timothy P. Lodge and Kevin D. Dorfman, Macromolecules 55, 10220-10228 (2022).  pdf

DNA in nanochannels – theory and applications. Karolin Frykholm, Vilhelm Müller, Sriram KK, Kevin D. Dorfman and Fredrik Westerlund, Quarterly Review of Biophysics 55, e12, 1-27 (2022). pdf

DNA fragmentation in a steady shear flow. Yiming Qiao, Zixue Ma, Clive Onyango, Xiang Cheng and Kevin D. Dorfman, Biomicrofluidics 16, 054109 (2022).  pdf  data  

Simulations of sphere-forming diblock copolymer melts. Anshul Chawla, Frank S. Bates, Kevin D. Dorfman and David C. Morse, Physical Review Materials 6, 095602 (2022).  pdf  data

Dynamics and equilibration mechanisms in block copolymer particles. Timothy P. Lodge, Claire L. Seitzinger, Sarah C. Seeger, Sanghee Yang, Supriya Gupta and Kevin D. Dorfman, ACS Polymers Au 2, 397-416 (2022).  pdf

Stability of cubic single network phases in diblock copolymer melts. Pengyu Chen, Mahesh K. Mahanthappa and Kevin D. Dorfman, Journal of Polymer Science 60, 2543-2552 (2022).  pdf  data

Stabilizing a double gyroid network phase with 2 nm feature size by blending of lamellar and cylindrical forming block oligomers.  Zhengyuan Shen, Ke Luo, So Jung Park, Daoyuan Li, Mahesh K. Mahanthappa, Frank S. Bates, Kevin D. Dorfman, Timothy P. Lodge, and J. Ilja Siepmann, JACS Au 2, 1405-1416 (2022).  pdf

Alternating gyroid in block polymer blends. So Jung Park, Frank S. Bates and Kevin D. Dorfman, ACS Macro Letters 11, 643−650 (2022). pdf  data

Adsorption of charge sequence-specific polydisperse polyelectrolytes. Vaidyanathan Sethuraman, David Zheng, David C. Morse and Kevin D. Dorfman, Macromolecules 55, 3030-3038 (2022). pdf  data

Laves phase field in a diblock copolymer alloy. Benjamin R. Magruder, So Jung Park, Ryan P. Collanton, Frank S. Bates and Kevin D. Dorfman, Macromolecules 55, 2991-2998 (2022). pdf data

Interfacial geometry in particle-forming phases of diblock copolymers. Ryan P. Collanton and Kevin D. Dorfman, Physical Review Materials 6, 015602 (2022).  pdf  data

2021

Free energy trajectory for escape of a single chain from a diblock copolymer micelle. Sarah C. Seeger, Kevin D. Dorfman and Timothy P. Lodge, ACS Macro Letters 10, 1570-1575 (2021). pdf

The disordered micelle regime in a conformationally asymmetric diblock copolymer melt. Guo Kang Cheong and Kevin D. Dorfman, Macromolecules 54, 9868-8978 (2021). pdf data

Interactions between two knots in nanochannel-confined DNA molecule. Zixue Ma and Kevin D. Dorfman, Journal of Chemical Physics 155, 154901 (2021). pdf  data

Frank-Kasper phases in block polymers. Kevin D. Dorfman, Macromolecules 54, 10251-10270 (2021). pdf

The C36 Laves phase in diblock copolymer melts. Benjamin R. Magruder and Kevin D. Dorfman, Soft Matter 17, 8950-8959 (2021). pdf  data

Stability of the double gyroid phase in bottlebrush diblock copolymer melts. So Jung Park, Guo Kang Cheong, Frank S. Bates and Kevin D. Dorfman, Macromolecules 54, 9063-9070 (2021). pdf  data

Open-source platform for block polymer formulation design using particle swarm optimization. Logan J. Case, Kris T. Delaney, Glenn H. Fredrickson, Frank S. Bates and Kevin D. Dorfman, European Physical Journal E 44, 115 (2021). pdf  pdf (free, view only)  pscfFieldGen  pscfInverse

Identifying a critical micelle temperature in simulations of disordered asymmetric diblock copolymer melts. Anshul Chawla, Frank S. Bates, Kevin D. Dorfman and David C. Morse, Physical Review Materials 5, L092601 (2021). pdf  data

Complex phase behavior in particle-forming AB/AB′ diblock copolymer blends with variable core block lengths. Aaron P. Lindsay, Guo Kang Cheong, Austin J. Peterson, Steven Weigand, Kevin D. Dorfman, Timothy P. Lodge, and Frank S. Bates. Macromolecules 54, 7088-7101 (2021).  pdf 

Modeling of quasi-static floating gate transistor biosensors. Mathew S. Thomas, Demetra Z. Adrahtas, C. Daniel Frisbie and Kevin D. Dorfman, ACS Sensors 6, 1910-1917 (2021). pdf

Diffusion of knotted DNA molecules in nanochannels in the extended de Gennes regime. Zixue Ma and Kevin D. Dorfman, Macromolecules 54, 4211-4218 (2021). pdf  data

Dynamics of DNA-bridged dumbbells in concentrated, shear-banding polymer solutions. Seunghwan Shin, Yangming Kou, Kevin D. Dorfman and Xiang Cheng, Macromolecules 54, 4186-4197 (2021). pdf

2020

Order and disorder in ABCAʹ tetrablock terpolymers. Madalyn R. Radlauer, Akash Arora, Megan E. Matta, Frank S. Bates, Kevin D. Dorfman and Marc A. Hillmyer, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 124, 10266-10275 (2020). pdf  data

Origins of the suppression of fibril formation in grafted methylcellulose solutions. Vaidyanathan Sethuraman and Kevin D. Dorfman, Physical Review Materials 4, 085601 (2020). pdf data

Diffusion of knots along DNA confined in nanochannels. Zixue Ma and Kevin D. Dorfman, Macromolecules 53, 6461-6468 (2020). pdf data

Symmetry breaking in particle-forming diblock polymer/homopolymer blends. Guo Kang Cheong, Frank S. Bates and Kevin D. Dorfman, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 117, 16764-16769 (2020). pdf  data

3D printing-enabled DNA extraction for long-read genomics. Paridhi Agrawal, Jeffrey G. Reifenberger and Kevin D. Dorfman, ACS Omega 5, 20817-20824 (2020). pdf data

Glomerular filtration and podocyte tensional homeostasis: Importance of the minor type IV collagen network. Lauren M. Bersie-Larson, Lazarina Gyoneva, Daniel J. Goodman, Kevin D. Dorfman, Yoav Segal and Victor H. Barocas, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology 9, 2433-2442 (2020). pdf

Open-source code for self-consistent field theory calculations of block polymer phase behavior on graphics processing units. Guo Kang Cheong, Anshul Chawla, David C. Morse and Kevin D. Dorfman, European Journal of Physics E 43, 15 (2020). pdf  view-only

Microfluidic opportunities in printed electrolyte-gated transistor biosensors. Kevin D. Dorfman, Demetra Z. Adrahtas, Mathew S. Thomas and C. Daniel Frisbie, Biomicrofluidics 14, 011301 (2020).  pdf 

Limitations of the equivalent neutral polymer assumption for theories describing nanochannel-confined DNA. Aditya Bikram Bhandari and Kevin D. Dorfman, Physical Review E 101, 012501 (2020). pdf  data

2019

Detection and amplification of capacitance- and charge-based signals using printed electrolyte gated transistors with floating gates. Mathew S. Thomas, Kevin D. Dorfman and C. Daniel Frisbie, Flexible and Printed Electronics 4, 044001 (2019). pdf

Extension distribution for DNA confined in a nanochannel near the Odijk regime. Hui-Min Chuang, Jeffrey G. Reifenberger, Aditya Bikram Bhandari, and Kevin D. Dorfman. Journal of Chemical Physics 151, 114903 (2019).  pdf data

Hydrophobic catalysis and a potential biological role of DNA unstacking induced by environment effects. Bobo Feng, Robert P. Sosa, Anna K. F. Mårtensson, Kai Jian, Alex Tong, Kevin D. Dorfman, Masayuki Takahashi, Per Lincoln, Carlos J. Bustamante, Fredrik Westerlund and Bengt Nordén. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 116, 17169-17174 (2019). pdf 

Simulations corroborate telegraph model preditions for the extension distributions of nanochannel confined DNA. Aditya Bikram Bhandari and Kevin D. Dorfman, Biomicrofluidics, 13, 044110 (2019). pdf data

Influence of charge sequence on the adsorption of polyelectrolytes to oppositely-charged polyelectrolyte brushes. Vaidyanathan Sethuraman, Michael McGovern, David C. Morse, and Kevin D. Dorfman, Soft Matter 15, 5431-5442 (2019). pdf data

Simulating precursor steps for fibril formation in methylcellulose solutions. Vaidyanathan Sethuraman and Kevin D. Dorfman, Physical Review Materials 3, 055601 (2019). pdf data

Microfluidic long DNA sample preparation from cells. Paridhi Agrawal and Kevin D. Dorfman, Lab on a Chip 19, 281-290 (2019). pdf data

2018

Role of chain length in the formation of Frank-Kasper phases in diblock copolymers. Ronald M. Lewis III, Akash Arora, Haley K. Beech, Bongjoon Lee, Aaron P. Lindsay, Timothy P. Lodge, Kevin D. Dorfman and Frank S. Bates, Physical Review Letters 121, 208002 (2018). pdf data

Subdiffusion of loci and cytoplasmic particles are different in compressed Escherichia coli cells. Shi Yu, Julian Sheats, Pietro Cicuta, Bianca Sclavi, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino and Kevin D. Dorfman, Communications Biology 1, 176 (2018). pdf data

Stable Frank-Kasper phases of self-assembled, soft matter spheres. Abhiram Reddy, Michael B. Buckley, Akash Arora, Frank S. Bates, Kevin D. Dorfman and Gregory M. Grason, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 115, 10233–10238 (2018). pdf data

Effect of edge disturbance on shear banding in polymeric solutions. Seunghwan Shin, Kevin D. Dorfman and Xiang Cheng, Journal of Rheology 62, 1339-1345 (2018).  pdf

Predicting the phase behavior of ABAC tetrablock terpolymers: Sensitivity to Flory-Huggins interactions parameters. Akash Arora, Naveen Pillai, Frank S. Bates and Kevin D. Dorfman, Polymer 154, 305-314 (2018).  pdf data

Measuring the wall depletion length of nanoconfined DNA. Aditya Bikram Bhandari, Jeffrey G. Reifenberger, Hui-Min Chuang, Han Cao and Kevin D. Dorfman. Journal of Chemical Physics 149, 104901 (2018).  pdf data

Alpha‐synuclein modulates the physical properties of DNA. Kai Jiang, Sandra Rocha, Alvina Westling, Sriram KK, Kevin D. Dorfman, Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede and Fredrik Westerlund. Chemistry - A European Journal 24, 15685-15690 (2018). pdf data

Distribution of label spacings for genome mapping in nanochannels. Daniel Ödman, Erik Werner, Kevin D. Dorfman, Charles R. Doering and Bernhard Mehlig, Biomicrofluidics 12, 034115 (2018). pdf data

Interfacial charge contributions to chemical sensing by electrolyte-gated transistors with floating gates. Mathew S. Thomas, Scott P. White, Kevin D. Dorfman and C. Daniel Frisbie, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 9, 1335-1339 (2018).  pdf

Hairpins in the conformations of a confined polymer. Erik Werner, Aashish Jain, Abhiram Muralidhar, Karolin Frykholm, Toby St. Clere Smithe, Joachim Fritzsche, Fredrik Westerlund, Kevin D. Dorfman and Bernhard Mehlig, Biomicrofluidics 12, 024105 (2018). pdf data

Entropic trap purification of long DNA. Pranav Agrawal, Zsófia Bognár and Kevin D. Dorfman, Lab on a Chip 18, 955-964 (2018). pdf data

Evaluation of blob theory for the diffusion of DNA in nanochannels. Damini Gupta, Aditya Bikram Bhandari and Kevin D. Dorfman, Macromolecules 51, 1748-1755 (2018). pdf  data

Detection and sourcing of gluten in grain with multiple floating-gate transistor biosensors. Scott P. White, C. Daniel Frisbie and Kevin D. Dorfman, ACS Sensors 3, 395-402 (2018). pdf  data

Evidence for the extended de Gennes regime of a semiflexible polymer in slit confinement. Guo-Kang Cheong, Xiaolan Li and Kevin D. Dorfman, Physical Review E 97, 022502 (2018). pdf data

Odijk excluded volume interactions during the unfolding of DNA confined in a nanochannel. Jeffrey G. Reifenberger, Han Cao and Kevin D. Dorfman, Macromolecules 51, 1172-1180 (2018). pdf data 

Origins of low symmetry phases in asymmetric diblock copolymer melts. Kyungtae Kim, Akash Arora, Ronald M. Lewis III, Meijiao Liu, Weihua Li, An-Chang Shi, Kevin D. Dorfman and Frank S. Bates, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 115, 847-854 (2018). pdf 

The statistical segment length of DNA: Opportunities for biomechanical modeling in polymer physics and next-generation genomics. Kevin D. Dorfman, Journal of Biomechanical Engineering 140, 020801 (2018).  pdf

2017

One-parameter scaling theory for DNA extension in a nanochannel. Erik Werner, Guo Kang Cheong, Damini Gupta, Kevin D. Dorfman and Bernhard Mehlig, Physical Review Letters 119, 268102 (2017). pdf data

Shear-banding and superdiffusivity in entangled polymer solutions. Seunghwan Shin, Kevin D. Dorfman and Xiang Cheng, Physical Review E 96, 062503 (2017). pdf 

Sequence-dependent persistence length of long DNA. Hui-Min Chuang, Jeffrey G. Reifenberger, Han Cao and Kevin D. Dorfman, Physical Review Letters 119, 227802 (2017). pdf data

Rapid conformational fluctuations in a model of methylcellulose. Xiaolan Li, Frank S. Bates and Kevin D. Dorfman, Physical Review Materials 1, 025604 (2017).  pdf data

Accelerating self-consistent field theory of block polymers in a variable unit cell. Akash Arora, David C. Morse, Frank S. Bates and Kevin D. Dorfman, Journal of Chemical Physics 146, 244902 (2017).  pdf  data

Role of growth rate on the orientational alignment of E. Coli in a slit. Julian Sheats, Bianca Sclavi, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino, Pietro Cicuta and Kevin D. Dorfman, Royal Society Open Science 4, 170463 (2017). pdf  data

Thermal processing of diblock copolymer melts mimics metallurgy. Kyungtae Kim, Morgan W. Schulze, Akash Arora, Ronald M. Lewis III, Marc A. Hillmyer, Kevin D. Dorfman and Frank S. Bates, Science 356, 520-523 (2017). pdf html data

Equilibration of micelle-polyelectrolyte complexes: Mechanistic differences between static and annealed charge distributions. Jennifer E. Laaser, Michael McGovern, Yaming Jiang, Elise Lohmann, Theresa M. Reineke, David C. Morse, Kevin D. Dorfman and Timothy P. Lodge, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 121, 4631-4641 (2017). pdf

Simulations of knotting of DNA during genome mapping. Aashish Jain and Kevin D. Dorfman, Biomicrofluidics 11, 024117 (2017). pdf  data

Wall depletion length of a channel-confined polymer. Guo Kang Cheong, Xiaolan Li and Kevin D. Dorfman, Physical Review E 95, 022501 (2017).  pdf  data

Morphological consequences of frustration in ABC triblock polymers. Madalyn R. Radlauer, Christophe Sinturel, Yusuke Asai, Akash Arora, Frank S. Bates, Kevin D. Dorfman, and Marc A. Hillmyer, Macromolecules 50, 446-458 (2017).  pdf

2016

Modeling the relaxation of internal DNA segments during genome mapping in nanochannels. Aashish Jain, Julian Sheats, Jeffrey G. Reifenberger, Han Cao and Kevin D. Dorfman, Biomicrofluidics 10, 054117 (2016). pdf  data

Rapid, selective, label-free aptameric capture and detection of ricin in potable liquids using a printed floating gate transistor. Scott P. White, Srinand Sreevatsan, C. Daniel Frisbie and Kevin D. Dorfman, ACS Sensors 1, 1213-1216 (2016).  pdf data

Particle-directed assembly of semiflexible polymer chains. Michael McGovern, Kevin D. Dorfman and David C. Morse, Soft Matter 12, 6214-6222 (2016). pdf

Broadly accessible self-consistent field theory for block polymer materials discovery. Akash Arora, Jian Qin, David C. Morse, Kris T. Delaney, Glenn H. Fredrickson, Frank S. Bates and Kevin D. Dorfman, Macromolecules 49, 4675-4690 (2016). pdf  pscf

A cornucopia of nanoscale ordered phases in sphere forming tetrablock terpolymers. Siddharth Chanpuriya, Kyungtae Kim, Jingwen Zhang, Sangwoo Lee, Akash Arora, Kevin D. Dorfman, Kris T. Delaney, Glenn H. Fredrickson, and Frank S. Bates. ACS Nano 10, 4961–4972 (2016). pdf

Fast, efficient and gentle transfection of human adherent cells in suspension. Pranav Agrawal, Nilesh P. Ingle, William S. Boyle, Emily Ward, Jakub Tolar, Kevin D. Dorfman, and Theresa M. Reineke, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8, 8870-8874 (2016).  pdf 

The backfolded Odijk regime for wormlike chains confined in rectangular nanochannels. Abhiram Muralidhar, Michael J. Quevillon and Kevin D. Dorfman, Polymers 8, 79 (2016).  pdf   data

Effect of excluded volume on the force-extension of wormlike chains in slit confinement. Xiaolan Li and Kevin D. Dorfman, Journal of Chemical Physics 144, 104902 (2016). pdf data

Backfolding of DNA confined in nanotubes: Flory theory versus the two-state cooperativity mode. Abhiram Muralidhar and Kevin D. Dorfman, Macromolecules 49, 1120-1126 (2016). pdf data

Operating and sensing mechanism of electrolyte-gated transistors with floating gates: Building a platform for amplified biodetection. Scott P. White, Kevin D. Dorfman, C. Daniel Frisbie, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 120, 108-117 (2016). pdf data

Cell-matrix interaction during strain-dependent remodeling of simulated collagen networks. Lazarina Gyoneva, Carley B. Hovell, Ryan J. Pewowaruk, Kevin D. Dorfman, Yoav Segal and Victor H. Barocas, Interface Focus 6, 201500069 (2016). pdf

A computational model of flow and species transport in the mesangium. Sarah Hunt, Kevin D. Dorfman, Yoav Segal and Victor H. Barocas, American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology 310, F222-F229 (2016). pdf

2015

Measurements of DNA barcode labels in nanochannels from time-series data. Julian Sheats, Jeffrey G. Reifenberger, Han Cao and Kevin D. Dorfman, Biomicrofluidics 9, 064119 (2015). pdf data


Finite-size corrections for confined polymers in the extended de Gennes regime. Toby St Clere Smithe, Vitalii Iarko, Abhiram Muralidhar, Erik Werner, Kevin D. Dorfman and Bernhard Mehlig, Phys. Rev. E 92, 062601 (2015). pdf data

Thermodynamics of aqueous methylcellulose solutions. John W. McAllister, Peter W. Schmidt, Kevin D. Dorfman, Timothy P. Lodge and Frank S. Bates, Macromolecules 48, 7205-7215 (2015). pdf

Experimental evidence of weak excluded volume effects for nanochannel confined DNA. Damini Gupta, Jeremy J. Miller, Abhiram Muralidhar, Sara Mahshid, Walter Reisner and Kevin D. Dorfman, ACS Macro Letters 4, 759-763 (2015). pdf data

Modeling the stretching of wormlike chains in the presence of excluded volume. Xiaolan Li, Charles M. Schroeder and Kevin D. Dorfman, Soft Matter 11, 5947-5954 (2015). pdf data

Topological events in single molecules of E. coli DNA confined in nanochannels. Jeffrey G. Reifenberger, Kevin D. Dorfman and Han Cao, Analyst 140, 4887-4894 (2015). pdf data

Commensurability and finite size effects in lattice simulations of diblock copolymers. Akash Arora, David C. Morse, Frank S. Bates and Kevin D. Dorfman, Soft Matter 11, 4862-4867 (2015). pdf data

Kirkwood diffusivity of long semiflexible chains in nanochannel confinement. Abhriam Muralidhar and Kevin D. Dorfman, Macromolecules 48, 2829-2839 (2015). pdf data

Evaluation of the Kirkwood approximation for the diffusivity of channel-confined DNA chains in the de Gennes regime. Aashish Jain and Kevin D. Dorfman, Biomicrofluidics 9, 024112 (2015). pdf data

Shear-induced desorption of isolated polymer molecules from a planar wall. Sarit Dutta, Kevin D. Dorfman and Satish Kumar, ACS Macro Letters 4, 271-274 (2015). pdf data

Distribution of distances between DNA barcode labels in nanochannels close to the persistence length. Wesley F. Reinhart, Jeff G. Reifenberger, Damini Gupta, Abhiram Muralidhar, Julian Sheats, Han Cao and Kevin D. Dorfman, Journal of Chemical Physics 142, 064902 (2015). pdf data

Label-free DNA sensing platform with low-voltage electrolyte-gated transistors. Scott P. White, Kevin D. Dorfman and C. Daniel Frisbie, Analytical Chemistry 87, 1861-1866 (2015). pdf data

Effect of supercoiling on the mechanical and permeability properties of model collagen IV networks. Lazarina Gyoneva, Yoav Segal, Kevin D. Dorfman and Victor H. Barocas, Annals of Biomedical Engineering 43, 1695-1705 (2015). pdf

2014

Backfolding of wormlike chains confined in nanochannels. Abhiram Muralidhar, Douglas R. Tree and Kevin D. Dorfman, Macromolecules 47, 8446-8458 (2014). pdf data

Hydrodynamics of DNA confined in nanoslits and nanochannels. Kevin D. Dorfman, Damini Gupta, Aashish Jain, Abhiram Muralidhar and Douglas R. Tree, European Physical Journal - Special Topics 223, 3179-3200 (2014). pdf

Measuring bacterial adaptation dynamics at the single-cell level using a microfluidic chemostat and time-lapse fluorescence microscopy. Zhicheng Long, Anne Olliver, Elisa Brambilla, Bianca Sclavi, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino and Kevin D. Dorfman, Analyst 139, 5254-5262 (2014). pdf data

Assessing corrections to the Fick-Jacobs equation. Kevin D. Dorfman and Ehud Yariv, Journal of Chemical Physics 141, 044118 (2014). pdf

Tilted post arrays for separating long DNA. Joel D. P. Thomas and Kevin D. Dorfman, Biomicrofluidics 8, 034115 (2014). pdf data

The Odijk regime in slits. Douglas R. Tree, Wesley F. Reinhart and Kevin D. Dorfman, Macromolecules 47, 3672-3684 (2014). pdf data

Mixed confinement regimes during equilibrium confinement spectroscopy of DNA. Damini Gupta, Julian Sheats, Abhiram Muralidhar, Jeremy J. Miller, Derek E. Huang, Sara Mahshid, Kevin D. Dorfman and Walter Reisner, Journal of Chemical Physics  140, 214901 (2014). pdf data

Persistent super-diffusive motion of E. coli chromosomal loci. Avelino Javer, Nathan J. Kuwada, Zhicheng Long, Vicenzo G. Benza, Kevin D. Dorfman, Paul A. Wiggins, Pietro Cicuta and Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino,. Nature Communications 5, 3854 (2014). pdf

Comparison of microfabricated hexagonal and lamellar post arrays for DNA electrophoresis. Zhen Chen and Kevin D. Dorfman, Electrophoresis 35, 654-661 (2014). pdf data

Interplay between chain stiffness and excluded volume of semiflexible polymers confined in nanochannels. Abhiram Muralidhar, Douglas R. Tree, Yanwei Wang and Kevin D. Dorfman, Journal of Chemical Physics 140, 084905 (2014). pdf data

Tilted hexagonal post arrays: DNA electrophoresis in anisotropic media. Zhen Chen and Kevin D. Dorfman, Electrophoresis 35, 405-411 (2014). pdf data

2013

Dynamics of polymer adsorption from dilute solution in shear flow near a planar wall. Sarit Dutta, Kevin D. Dorfman and Satish Kumar, Journal of Chemical Physics 139, 174905 (2013). pdf data

Modeling the relaxation time of DNA confined in a nanochannel. Douglas R. Tree, Yanwei Wang and Kevin D. Dorfman, Biomicrofluidics 7, 054118 (2013). pdf data

Is DNA a good model polymer? Douglas R. Tree, Abhiram Muralidhar, Patrick S. Doyle and Kevin D. Dorfman, Macromolecules 46, 8369-8382 (2013). pdf data

The role of order during Ogston sieving of DNA in colloidal crystals. Scott B. King and Kevin D. Dorfman, Analytical Chemistry 85, 7769-7776 (2013). pdf data

Ratchet nanofiltration of DNA.  Joel D. P. Thomas, Mark N. Joswiak, Daniel W. Olson, Sung-Gyu Park and Kevin D. Dorfman, Lab on a Chip 13, 3741-3746 (2013). pdf data

Mechanical response of wild-type and Alport murine lens capsules during osmotic swelling. Lazarina Gyoneva, Yoav Segal, Kevin D. Dorfman and Victor H. Barocas, Experimental Eye Research 113, 87-91 (2013). pdf

Short-time movement of E. Coli chromosomal loci depends on coordinate and subcellular localization. Avelino Javer, Zhicheng Long, Eileen Nugent, Marco Grisi, Kamin Siriwatwetchakul, Kevin D. Dorfman, Pietro Cicuta and Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino, Nature Communications 4, 3003 (2013). pdf

Extension of DNA in a nanochannel as a rod-to-coil transition. Douglas R. Tree, Yanwei Wang and Kevin D. Dorfman, Physical Review Letters 110, 208103 (2013). pdf data

Revisiting blob theory for DNA diffusivity in slitlike confinement. Liang Dai, Douglas R. Tree, Johan R. C. van der Maarel, Kevin D. Dorfman and Patrick S. Doyle, Physical Review Letters 110, 168105 (2013). pdf

Entropic depletion of DNA in triangular nanochannels. Wesley F. Reinhart, Douglas R. Tree and Kevin D. Dorfman, Biomicrofluidics 7, 024102 (2013). pdf data

Relationship between frequency and deflection angle in the DNA prism. Zhen Chen and Kevin D. Dorfman, Physical Review E 87, 012723 (2013). pdf data

Beyond gel electrophoresis: Microfluidic separations, fluorescence burst analysis, and DNA stretching. Kevin D. Dorfman, Scott B. King, Daniel W. Olson, Joel D. P. Thomas and Douglas R. Tree, Chemical Reviews 113, 2584-2667 (2013). pdf data

Microfluidic chemostat for measuring single cell dynamics in bacteria. Zhicheng Long, Eileen Nugent, Avelino Javer, Pietro Cicuta, Bianca Sclavi, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino and Kevin D. Dorfman, Lab on a Chip 13, 947-954 (2013). pdf data

The fluid mechanics of genome mapping. Kevin D. Dorfman, AIChE Journal 59, 346-354 (2013). pdf

Adsorption of single polymer molecules in shear flow near a planar wall. Sarit Dutta, Kevin D. Dorfman and Satish Kumar, Journal of Chemical Physics 138, 034905 (2013). pdf data

2012

Experimental study of the effect of disorder on DNA dynamics in post arrays during electrophoresis. Daniel W. Olson and Kevin D. Dorfman, Physical Review E 86, 041909 (2012). pdf data

A model of strain-dependent glomerular basement membrane maintenance and its potential ramifications in health and disease. Victor H. Barocas, Kevin D. Dorfman and Yoav Segal, Journal of Biomechanical Engineeering 134, 081006 (2012). pdf

Physical descriptions of the bacterial nucleoid at large scales, and their biological implications. Vicenzo G. Benza, Bruno Bassetti, Kevin D. Dorfman, Vittore F. Scolari, Krystyna Bromek, Pietro Cicuta and Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino, Reports on Progress in Physics 175, 076602 (2012). pdf

Mobility of a semiflexible chain confined in a nanochannel. Douglas R. Tree, Yanwei Wang and Kevin D. Dorfman, Physical Review Letters 108, 228105 (2012). pdf  data

DNA electrophoresis in a nanofence array.  Sung-Gyu Park, Daniel W. Olson and Kevin D. Dorfman, Lab on a Chip 12, 1463-1470 (2012). pdf

Statistical properties of the electrophoretic collision of a long DNA molecule with a small obstacle.  Mark N. Joswiak, Jia Ou and Kevin D. Dorfman, Electrophoresis 33, 1013-1020 (2012). pdf  data

Telescopic time-scale bridging for modeling dispersion in rapidly oscillating flows.  Ram K. Balachandran, Jaijeet Roychowdhury, Kevin D. Dorfman and Victor H. Barocas, AIChE Journal 58, 1987-1997 (2012). pdf

Resolution limit for DNA barcodes in the Odijk regime.  Yanwei Wang, Wes F. Reinhart, Douglas R. Tree and Kevin D. Dorfman, Biomicrofluidics 6, 014101 (2012). pdf  data

2011

Moving beyond Watson-Crick models of coarse grained DNA dynamics.  Margaret C. Linak, Richard Tourdot and Kevin D. Dorfman, Journal of Chemical Physics 135, 205120 (2011). pdf

Simulation of DNA extension in nanochannels.  Yanwei Wang, Douglas R. Tree and Kevin D. Dorfman, Macromolecules 44, 6594-6604 (2011). pdf  data

Continuous time random walk models of DNA electrophoresis in a post array: II. Mobility and sources of band broadening.  Daniel W. Olson, Sarit Dutta, Nabil Laachi, Mingwei Tian and Kevin D. Dorfman, Electrophoresis 32, 581-587 (2011). pdf

Continuous time random walk models of DNA electrophoresis in a post array: I. Evaluation of existing models. Daniel W. Olson, Jia Ou, Mingwei Tian and Kevin D. Dorfman, Electrophoresis 32, 573-580 (2011). pdf

Plasma thinned nanopost arrays for DNA electrophoresis. Jia Ou, Mark N. Jowsiak, Samuel J. Carpenter and Kevin D. Dorfman, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A 29, 011025 (2011). pdf

2010

DNA electrophoresis in confined, periodic geometries: A new lakes-straits model.  Nabil Laachi and Kevin D. Dorfman, Journal of Chemical Physics 133, 234104 (2010). pdf

Collision of a long DNA molecule with an isolated nanowire.  Noritoshi Araki, Eray S. Aydil and Kevin D. Dorfman, Electrophoresis 31, 3675-3680 (2010). pdf

DNA electrophoresis in microfabricated devices.  Kevin D. Dorfman, Reviews of Modern Physics 82, 2903-2947 (2010). pdf

Analysis of a DNA simulation model through hairpin melting experiments. Margaret C. Linak and Kevin D. Dorfman, Journal of Chemical Physics 133, 125101 (2010). pdf  data

Giant biocompatible and biodegradable PEG-PMCL vesicles and microcapsules by solvent evaporation from double emulsion droplets. Tobias Foster, Kevin D. Dorfman and H. Ted Davis, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 351, 140-150 (2010). pdf

Elasticity of the porcine lens capsule as measured by osmotic swelling. Tracy A. Powell, Rouzbeh Amini, Alina Oltean, Vincent A. Barnett, Kevin D. Dorfman, Yoav Segal and Victor H. Barocas, Journal of Biomechanical Engineering 132, 091008 (2010). pdf

Brownian dynamics simulations of electrophoretic DNA separations in a sparse ordered post array. Jaeseol Cho and Kevin D. Dorfman, Journal of Chromatography A 1217, 5522-5528 (2010). pdf  data

Rapid ejection of giant pluronic L121 vesicles from spreading double emulsion droplets. Tobias Foster, Kevin D. Dorfman and H. Ted Davis, Langmuir 26, 9666-9672 (2010). pdf

Electrophoretic collision of a DNA molecule with a small elliptical obstacle. Jaeseol Cho, Satish Kumar and Kevin D. Dorfman, Electrophoresis 31, 860-867 (2010). pdf

Statistics of tethered self-avoiding chains under spherical confinement and an external force.  Nabil Laachi and Kevin D. Dorfman, Journal of Chemical Physics 132, 084108 (2010). pdf  data

Onset of channeling during DNA electrophoresis in a sparse ordered post array.  Jia Ou, Samuel J. Carpenter and Kevin D. Dorfman, Biomicrofluidics 4, 013203 (2010). pdf

Taylor-Aris Dispersion during lubrication flow in a periodic channel. Kevin D. Dorfman, Chemical Engineering Communications 197, 39-50 (2010). pdf

Howard Brenner's legacy...so far. Kevin D. Dorfman, Carlos M. Rinaldi Ramos and Ehud Yariv, Chemical Engineering Communications 197, 1-2 (2010). pdf

2009

Coarse grained Brownian dynamics simulations of the 10-23 DNAzyme. Martin Kenward and Kevin D. Dorfman, Biophysical Journal 97, 2785-2793 (2009). pdf  data

Electrophoretic separation of DNA in gels and nanostructures. Georgette B. Salieb-Beugelaar, Kevin D. Dorfman, Albert van den Berg and Jan C. T. Eijkel, Lab on a Chip 9, 2508-2523 (2009). pdf

DNA electrophoresis in a sparse ordered post array. Jia Ou, Jaeseol Cho, Daniel W. Olson and Kevin D. Dorfman, Physical Review E 79, 061904 (2009). pdf  data

A boundary element method/Brownian dynamics approach to simulating DNA electrophoresis in electrically insulating microfabricated devices. Jaeseol Cho, Martin Kenward and Kevin D. Dorfman, Electrophoresis 30, 1482-1489 (2009). pdf  data

DNA unhooking from a single post as a deterministic process: Insights from translocation modeling. Nabil Laachi, Jaeseol Cho and Kevin D. Dorfman, Physical Review E 79, 031928 (2009). pdf data

Brownian dynamics simulations of single-stranded DNA hairpins. Martin Kenward and Kevin D. Dorfman, Journal of Chemical Physics 130, 095101 (2009). pdf data

Coupled flow and reaction during natural convection PCR. Joshua W. Allen, Martin Kenward and Kevin D. Dorfman, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics 6, 121-130 (2009). pdf data

2008

Combined electrophoretic and electroosmotic transport through channels of periodically varying cross-section.  Kevin D. Dorfman, Physics of Fluids 20, 037102 (2008). pdf

Comment on Taylor dispersion with adsorbing boundaries: A stochastic approach.  Kevin D. Dorfman and Howard Brenner, Physical Review Letters 100, 029401 (2008). pdf

Electrophoresis. Kevin D. Dorfman, Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, Ed. D. Li, Springer, Berlin, pp. 580-588 (2008).

2007

Force-driven transport through periodic entropy barriers.  Nabil Laachi, Martin Kenward, Ehud Yariv and Kevin D. Dorfman, Europhysics Letters 80, 50009 (2007). pdf data

Electrophoretic transport through channels of periodically varying cross section. Ehud Yariv and Kevin D. Dorfman, Physics of Fluids 19, 037101 (2007). pdf

Non-equilibrium transport of rigid macromolecules in periodically constricted geometries. Nabil Laachi, Carmelo Declet, Christina Matson and Kevin D. Dorfman, Physical Review Letters 98, 098106 (2007). pdf data

Theory of band broadening during cycling temperature capillary electrophoresis.  Nabil Laachi and Kevin D. Dorfman, Electrophoresis 28, 665-673 (2007). pdf

Nanoassembled stationary phases for DNA electrophoresis. Kevin D. Dorfman and Jean-Louis Viovy, CRC Handbook of Capillary and Microchip Electrophoresis and Related Microtechniques (3rd Edition), Chapter 54. Ed. J. Landers, CRC Press, Boca Raton (2007).

2006

DNA electrophoresis in microfluidic post arrays under moderate electric fields. Kevin D. Dorfman, Physical Review E 73, 061922 (2006). pdf

Automated microdroplet platform for sample manipulation and polymerase chain reaction.  Max Chabert, Kevin D. Dorfman, Patricia de Cremoux, Johanne Roeraade and Jean-Louis Viovy, Analytical Chemistry 78, 7722-7728 (2006). pdf

2005

Polymerase chain reaction in natural convection systems: A convection-diffusion-reaction model. Ehud Yariv, Guy Ben Dov and Kevin D. Dorfman, Europhysics Letters 71, 1008-1014 (2005). pdf

Droplet fusion by alternating current (AC) field electrocoalescence in microchannels. Max Chabert, Kevin D. Dorfman and Jean-Louis Viovy, Electrophoresis  26, 3706-3715 (2005). pdf

Contamination-free continuous flow polymerase chain reaction for clinical and quantitative applications.  Kevin D. Dorfman, Max Chabert, Jean-Hugues Codarbox, Gilles Rousseau, Patricia de Cremoux and Jean-Louis Viovy, Analytical Chemistry 77, 3700-3704 (2005). pdf

Non-Markovian transport of DNA in microfluidic post arrays.  Nicolas Minc, Jean-Louis Viovy and Kevin D. Dorfman, Physical Review Letters 94, 198105 (2005). pdf

Measurement of the surface concentration for bioassay kinetics in microchannels.  Aurelien Bancaud, Gaudeline Wagner, Kevin D. Dorfman and Jean-Louis Viovy, Analytical Chemistry 77, 833-839 (2005). pdf

Motion of single long DNA molecules through arrays of magnetic columns.  Nicolas Minc, Plamen Bokov, Konstantin B. Zeldovich, Claus Futterer, Jean-Louis Viovy and Kevin D. Dorfman, Electrophoresis 26, 362-375 (2005). pdf

2004

Model of RecA-mediated homologous recognition.  Kevin D. Dorfman, Renaud Fulconis, Marie Dutriex and Jean-Louis Viovy, Physical Review Letters 93, 268102 (2004). pdf

Exact calculation of diffusion coefficients in the presence of external fields and obstacles.  Michel G. Gauthier, Gary W. Slater and Kevin D. Dorfman, European Physical Journal E 15, 71-82 (2004). pdf

Quantitative microfluidic separation of DNA in self-assembled magnetic matrices.  Nicolas Minc, Claus Futterer, Kevin D. Dorfman, Aurelien Bancaud, Charlie Gosse, Cecile Goubault and Jean-Louis Viovy, Analytical Chemistry 76, 3770-3776 (2004). pdf

Semiphenomenological model for the dispersion of DNA during electrophoresis in a microfluidic array of posts. Kevin D. Dorfman and Jean-Louis Viovy, Physical Review E 69, 011901 (2004). pdf

2003

Generalized Taylor-Aris dispersion analysis of spatially periodic lattice Monte Carlo models: Effect of discrete time. Kevin D. Dorfman, Gary W. Slater and Michel G. Gauthier, Journal of Chemical Physics 119, 6979-6980 (2003). pdf

Exact computation of the mean velocity, molecular diffusivity and dispersivity of a particle moving on a periodic lattice.  Kevin D. Dorfman, Journal of Chemical Physics 118, 8428-8436 (2003). pdf

Convective dispersion without molecular diffusion. Kevin D. Dorfman and Howard Brenner, Physica A 322, 180-194 (2003). pdf

Anomalous sedimentation of a small Brownian sphere in a vertical circular cylinder of periodically varying radius.  Kevin D. Dorfman, Ehud Yariv, Loren H. Dill and Howard Brenner, Physics of Fluids 15, 1082-1085 (2003). pdf

Generalized Taylor-Aris dispersion in spatially periodic microfluidic networks. Chemical reactions.  Kevin D. Dorfman and Howard Brenner, SIAM Journal on Applied Math 63, 962-986 (2003). pdf

2002

Dispersion by pressure-driven flow in serpentine microchannels. Brian M. Rush, Kevin D. Dorfman, Howard Brenner and Sangtae Kim, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 41, 4652-4662 (2002). pdf

Modeling DNA electrophoresis in microfluidic entropic trapping devices. Kevin D. Dorfman and Howard Brenner, Biomedical Microdevices 4, 237-244 (2002). pdf

Separation mechanisms underlying vector chromatography in microlithographic arrays. Kevin D. Dorfman and Howard Brenner, Physical Review E 65, 052103 (2002). pdf

Generalized Taylor-Aris dispersion in discrete spatially periodic networks: Microfluidic applications. Kevin D. Dorfman and Howard Brenner, Physical Review E 65, 021103 (2002). pdf

2001

Comment on ‘Taylor dispersion of a solute in a microfluidic channel' [J. Appl. Phys. 89, 4667 (2001)].  Kevin D. Dorfman and Howard Brenner, Journal of Applied Physics 90, 6553-6554 (2001). pdf

Vector chromatography: Modeling micropatterned separation devices. Kevin D. Dorfman and Howard Brenner, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 238, 390-413 (2001). pdf