Nanostructured and Self-Assembled Materials

• "Hierarchies of networked phases induced by multiple liquid-liquid critical points". C.W. Hsu, J. Largo, F. Sciortino, F.W. Starr, Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (2008).
• "The Effect of Nanoparticle Shape on Polymer-Nanocomposite Rheology and Tensile Strength". S.T. Knauert, J.F. Douglas, and F.W. Starr, Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics 45, 1882-1897 (2007).
• "Self-Assembling DNA Dendrimers: A Numerical Study". J. Largo, F.W. Starr and F. Sciortino, Langmuir 23, 5896-5905 (2007).
• "Model for Assembly and Gelation of Four-Armed DNA Dendrimers". F.W. Starr and F. Sciortino, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 18, L347-L353 (2006); also selected by editors for the IoP Select special collection of journal articles.
• "Origin of Particle Clustering in a Simulated Polymer Nanocomposite and its Impact on Rheology". F.W. Starr, J.F. Douglas, and S.C. Glotzer. Journal of Chemical Physics 119, 1777-1788 (2003); also selected to appear in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology 8 (2003).
• "Molecular dynamics simulation of a polymer melt with a nanoscopic particle". F.W. Starr, T.B. Schrøder, and S.C. Glotzer, Macromolecules 35, 4481-4492 (2002).
• "Effects of a nanoscopic filler on the structure and dynamics of a simulated polymer melt and the relationship to ultra-thin films". F.W. Starr, T.B. Schrøder, and S.C. Glotzer, Physical Review E, 64, 021802 (2001).

Supercooled Water

• “Breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein Relation in Supercooled Water”. P. Kumar, S.V. Buldyrev, S.R. Becker, P.H. Poole, F.W. Starr, and H.E. Stanley, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 104, 9575-9579 (2007).
• "Fractional Stokes-Einstein and Debye-Stokes-Einstein relations in a network forming liquid". S.R. Becker, P.H. Poole, and F.W. Starr, Physical Review Letters 97, 055901 (2006).
• "Relation between Rotational and Translational Dynamic Heterogeneities in Water". M. Mazza, N. Giovambattista, F.W. Starr, and H.E. Stanley, Physical Review Letters 96, 057803 (2006).
• "Phase Diagram, Structure, and Dynamics of Water Confined between Hydrophobic Plates," P. Kumar, S.V. Buldyrev, F.W. Starr, N. Giovambattista, and H.E. Stanley, Physical Review E 72, 051503 (2005).
• "Recent results on the connection between thermodynamics and dynamics in supercooled water." F.W. Starr, C.A. Angell, E. La Nave, S. Sastry, A. Scala, F. Sciortino, and H.E. Stanley. Biophysical Chemistry 105, 573-583 (2003).
• "Thermodynamic and structural aspects of the potential energy surface of simulated water". F.W. Starr, S. Sastry, E. La Nave, A. Scala, H.E. Stanley, and F. Sciortino. Physical Review E, 63, 041201 (2001).
• "Configurational Entropy and Diffusivity of Supercooled Water". A. Scala, F.W. Starr, E. La Nave, F. Sciortino, and H.E. Stanley. Nature 406, 166-169 (2000).
• "Instantaneous Normal Mode Analysis of Supercooled Water". E. La Nave, A. Scala, F.W. Starr, F. Sciortino, and H.E. Stanley. Physical Review Letters 84, 4605-4608 (2000).
• "Dynamics of simulated water under pressure". F.W. Starr, F. Sciortino, and H.E. Stanley Physical Review E, 60, 6757-6768 (1999). [pdf]
• "Slow Dynamics of Water under Pressure". F.W. Starr, S. Harrington, F. Sciortino, and H.E. Stanley. Physical Review Letters 82, 3629-3632 (1999).
• "Fast and Slow Dynamics of Hydrogen Bonds in Liquid Water". F.W. Starr, J.K. Nielsen, and H.E. Stanley. Physical Review Letters 82, 2294-2297 (1999).

Glass Transition

• "Fractional Stokes-Einstein and Debye-Stokes-Einstein relations in a network forming liquid," S.R. Becker, P.H. Poole, and F.W. Starr, Physical Review Letters 97, 055901 (2006).
• "Local dynamics and Voronoi volume are only weakly correlated in colloidal suspensions," J.C. Conrad, F.W. Starr, D.A. Weitz, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 109, 21235-21240 (2005).
• "Connection between Adam-Gibbs Theory and Spatially Heterogeneous Dynamics". N. Giovambattista, S.V. Buldyrev, F.W. Starr, and H.E. Stanley, Physical Review Letters 90, 085506 (2003).
• "Stringlike correlated motion in the dynamics of supercooled polymer melts". M. Aichele, Y. Gebremichael, F.W. Starr, J. Baschnagel, and S.C. Glotzer, Journal of Chemical Physics 119, 52905304 (2003).
• "Spatially heterogeneous dynamics investigated via a time-dependent four-point density correlation function." N. Lacevic, T.B. Schrøder, F.W. Starr, and S.C. Glotzer, Journal of Chemical Physics 119, 7372-7387 (2003).
• "What do we learn from the local geometry of glass-forming liquids?". F.W. Starr, S. Sastry, J.F. Douglas, and S.C. Glotzer, Physical Review Letters 89, 125501 (2002).

Other Topics

• "Interface Roughening in a Hydrodynamic Lattice-Gas Model with Surfactant". F.W. Starr, S.T. Harrington, B.M. Boghosian, and H.E. Stanley. Physical Review Letters 77, 3363-3366 (1996).