Biography
Dr. Saed is a University Royal Society Fellow at Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University; his research focuses on developing smart, sustainable, and stimuli-responsive polymers, his research interests range from designing new materials to additive manufacturing, including chemistry and physics of vitrimers, stimuli-responsive polymers, plastic compounding, adhesives, and liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs).
Research
Dr. Mohand Saed research at the Cavendish Laboratory focuses on developing smart, sustainable, and stimuli-responsive polymers.
Publications
1. Hiro Farre Kaga, Mohand O. Saed, and Eugene M. Terentjev: Dynamic Pressure Sensitive Adhesion in Nematic Phase of Liquid Crystal Elastomers, Advanced Functional Materials, impact factor = 18.8. 2021. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.78141.
2. Mohand O. Saed, Waiel Elmadih, Andrew Terentjev, Dimitrios Chronopoulos, David Williamson, Eugene M. Terentjev: Impact damping and vibration attenuation in nematic liquid crystalline elastomers
Nature Communications, impact factor = 14.9, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27012-1.
3. Mohand O. Saed, Xueyan Lin and Eugene M. Terentjev: Dynamic semicrystalline networks of polypropylene with thiol-anhydride exchangeable crosslinks , ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, impact factor = 9.2, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c12099.
4. Mohand O. Saed, Alexandra Gablier, and Eugene M. Terentjev: Exchangeable Liquid Crystalline Elastomers and their Applications. Chemical Reviews, impact factor = 60.6, 2021, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c01057.
5. Takuya Ohzono, Kaoru Katoh, Hiroyuki Minamikawa, Mohand O. Saed, and Eugene M. Terentjev: Internal constraints and arrested relaxation in main-chain nematic elastomers
Nature Communications, impact factor = 14.9, 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21036-3.
6. Alexandra Gablier, Mohand O. Saed, and Eugene M. Terentjev: Transesterification in Epoxy–Thiol Exchangeable Liquid Crystalline Elastomers. Macromolecules, impact factor = 5.9, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.0c01757.
7. Mohand O. Saed and Eugene M. Terentjev: Catalytic Control of Plastic Flow in Siloxane-Based Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Networks. ACS Macro Letters, impact factor = 6, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.0c00265.
8. Mohand O. Saed and Eugene M. Terentjev: Siloxane crosslinks with dynamic bond exchange enable shape programming in liquid-crystalline elastomers. Scientific Reports, impact factor = 3.4 , 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-63508-4.
9. Mohand O. Saed, Alexandra Gablier, and Eugene M. Terentjev: Liquid Crystalline Vitrimers with Full or Partial Boronic‐Ester Bond Exchange. Advanced Functional Materials, impact factor = 18.8 , 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201906458.
10. Fanlong Meng, Mohand O. Saed, and Eugene M. Terentjev: Elasticity and Relaxation in Full and Partial Vitrimer Networks. Macromolecules, impact factor = 5.9, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01123.
11. Takuya Ohzono, Mohand O. Saed, and Eugene M. Terentjev: Enhanced Dynamic Adhesion in Nematic Liquid Crystal Elastomers. Advanced Materials, impact factor = 30, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201902642.
12. Mohand O Saed, Cedric P Ambulo, Hyun Kim, Rohit De, Vyom Raval, Kyle Searles, Danyal A Siddiqui, John Michael O Cue, Mihaela C Stefan, M Ravi Shankar, and Taylor H Ware: Molecularly- Engineered, 4D-Printed Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators., Advanced Functional Materials, impact factor = 18.8 , 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201806412.
13. Mohand O Saed, Ross H Volpe, Nicholas A Traugutt, Rayshan Visvanathan, Noel A Clark, and Christopher M Yakacki: High strain actuation liquid crystal elastomers via modulation of mesophase structure. Soft Matter, impact factor = 3.4, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1039/C7SM01380A.
14. A Azoug, V Vasconcellos, J Dooling, Mohand O Saed, CM Yakacki, and TD: NguyenViscoelasticity of the polydomain-monodomain transition in main-chain liquid crystal elastomers
Polymer, impact factor = 2.8, 2016-| https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2016.06.022.
15. Christopher M. Yakacki, Mohand O. Saed, Devatha P. Nair, Tao Gong, Scott Reed, and Christopher N. Bowman: Tailorable and programmable liquid-crystalline elastomers using a two-stage thiol–acrylate reaction. RSC Advances, impact factor =3.4, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1039/C5RA01039J.
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