Charles E. Sing

5.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
88 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Charles E. Sing is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Surfaces, Coatings and Films and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles E. Sing has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Materials Chemistry, 28 papers in Surfaces, Coatings and Films and 26 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Charles E. Sing's work include Polymer Surface Interaction Studies (27 papers), Block Copolymer Self-Assembly (20 papers) and Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies (17 papers). Charles E. Sing is often cited by papers focused on Polymer Surface Interaction Studies (27 papers), Block Copolymer Self-Assembly (20 papers) and Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies (17 papers). Charles E. Sing collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Germany. Charles E. Sing's co-authors include Sarah L. Perry, Mónica Olvera de la Cruz, Alfredo Alexander‐Katz, Tyler Lytle, Jos W. Zwanikken, Mithun Radhakrishna, Jason Madinya, Sarit Dutta, Damien Guironnet and Matthias F. Schneider and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Charles E. Sing

85 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Recent progress in the science of complex coacervation

2020 483 citations Charles E. Sing et al. Soft Matter profile →
Sequence and entropy-based control of complex coacervates

2017 298 citations Charles E. Sing et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Charles E. Sing United States	36	1.4k	1.2k	1.1k	780	718	88	4.1k
Jasper van der Gucht Netherlands	42	1.7k 1.2×	1.9k 1.6×	1.6k 1.6×	838 1.1×	509 0.7×	162	6.0k
Paul D. Butler United States	39	1.3k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	324 0.3×	942 1.2×	324 0.5×	111	4.0k
Yu‐Jane Sheng Taiwan	37	1.8k 1.3×	1.3k 1.0×	1.8k 1.7×	693 0.9×	234 0.3×	270	5.3k
A. Johner France	30	1.4k 1.0×	664 0.5×	995 0.9×	423 0.5×	657 0.9×	152	3.1k
Jan‐Michael Y. Carrillo United States	35	1.5k 1.0×	729 0.6×	753 0.7×	203 0.3×	467 0.7×	138	3.7k
Samanvaya Srivastava United States	26	772 0.6×	634 0.5×	566 0.5×	427 0.5×	265 0.4×	60	2.6k
Christine M. Papadakis Germany	39	2.0k 1.5×	2.3k 1.9×	855 0.8×	329 0.4×	151 0.2×	196	4.8k
Elena E. Dormidontova United States	28	973 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	435 0.4×	295 0.4×	261 0.4×	64	2.5k
Fabio Ganazzoli Italy	30	1.0k 0.7×	683 0.6×	451 0.4×	604 0.8×	172 0.2×	129	2.7k
Matthias Ballauff Germany	29	827 0.6×	891 0.7×	364 0.3×	348 0.4×	224 0.3×	85	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Charles E. Sing

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Charles E. Sing

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All Works

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Lin, Tsai-Wei, Baicheng Mei, Sarit Dutta, Kenneth S. Schweizer, & Charles E. Sing. (2025). Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Theoretical Analysis of Structural Relaxation, Bond Exchange Dynamics, and Glass Transition in Vitrimers. Macromolecules. 58(3). 1481–1497. 14 indexed citations

Gu, Junsi, et al.. (2025). The effect of selective surface interaction on polymer phase separation with explicit polydispersity during polymerization. Soft Matter. 21(7). 1308–1322. 1 indexed citations

Sing, Charles E., et al.. (2025). Dynamic Covalent Bond Exchange at Block Copolymer Junctions Impacts Self-Assembly Kinetics. Macromolecules. 58(6). 2947–2957. 1 indexed citations

Sing, Charles E., et al.. (2025). Hydrodynamically Enhanced Brownian Motion in Flowing Polymer Solutions. ACS Macro Letters. 14(4). 464–471.

Lin, Tsai-Wei, Baicheng Mei, Kenneth S. Schweizer, & Charles E. Sing. (2023). Simulation study of the effects of polymer network dynamics and mesh confinement on the diffusion and structural relaxation of penetrants. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 159(1). 12 indexed citations

Mei, Baicheng, et al.. (2023). How Segmental Dynamics and Mesh Confinement Determine the Selective Diffusivity of Molecules in Cross-Linked Dense Polymer Networks. ACS Central Science. 9(3). 508–518. 24 indexed citations

Sing, Charles E. & Jian Qin. (2023). Bridging Field Theory and Ion Pairing in the Modeling of Polyelectrolytes and Complex Coacervation. Macromolecules. 56(15). 5941–5963. 12 indexed citations

Mei, Baicheng, Tsai-Wei Lin, Charles E. Sing, & Kenneth S. Schweizer. (2023). Self-consistent hopping theory of activated relaxation and diffusion of dilute penetrants in dense crosslinked polymer networks. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 158(18). 12 indexed citations

Gu, Junsi, et al.. (2023). Modeling the competition between phase separation and polymerization under explicit polydispersity. Soft Matter. 20(3). 681–692. 3 indexed citations

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Mei, Baicheng, et al.. (2022). Structural Relaxation and Vitrification in Dense Cross-Linked Polymer Networks: Simulation, Theory, and Experiment. Macromolecules. 55(10). 4159–4173. 39 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yuecheng, et al.. (2021). Dynamics and rheology of ring-linear blend semidilute solutions in extensional flow. Part I: Modeling and molecular simulations. Journal of Rheology. 65(4). 757–777. 16 indexed citations

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Sing, Charles E., et al.. (2020). Nonmonotonic dependence of comb polymer relaxation on branch density in semidilute solutions of linear polymers. Physical Review Fluids. 5(12). 11 indexed citations

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Kim, Ahyoung, Shan Zhou, Lehan Yao, et al.. (2019). Tip-Patched Nanoprisms from Formation of Ligand Islands. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(30). 11796–11800. 58 indexed citations

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Sing, Charles E., et al.. (2019). Ring polymer dynamics and tumbling-stretch transitions in planar mixed flows. Physical review. E. 99(6). 62502–62502. 18 indexed citations

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Smith, Cartney E., Ju‐Yeon Lee, Yongbeom Seo, et al.. (2016). Worm-Like Superparamagnetic Nanoparticle Clusters for Enhanced Adhesion and Magnetic Resonance Relaxivity. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(2). 1219–1225. 13 indexed citations

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Sing, Charles E.. (2016). Development of the modern theory of polymeric complex coacervation. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science. 239. 2–16. 243 indexed citations

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Sing, Charles E., et al.. (2016). Facilitated Dissociation Kinetics of Dimeric Nucleoid-Associated Proteins Follow a Universal Curve. Biophysical Journal. 112(3). 543–551. 12 indexed citations

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Sing, Charles E., Jennifer Selvidge, & Alfredo Alexander‐Katz. (2013). Von Willlebrand Adhesion to Surfaces at High Shear Rates Is Controlled by Long-Lived Bonds. PubMed Central. 20 indexed citations

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Alexander‐Katz, Alfredo & Charles E. Sing. (2011). Giant Nonmonotonic Stretching Response of a Self-Associating Polymer in Shear Flow. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 9 indexed citations

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Sing, Charles E. & Alfredo Alexander‐Katz. (2011). Giant Nonmonotonic Stretching Response of a Self-Associating Polymer in Shear Flow. Physical Review Letters. 107(19). 198302–198302. 25 indexed citations

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