Research Interests
Soft Condensed Matter, Polyelectrolytes, Block Copolymers and Polymer Blends, Polymer Brushes, Nanocomposites;
Self-Assembly, Surface and Interface Phenomena, Structure-Property Relations;
Molecular Simulations, Field Theory, Mesoscopic Simulations, Statistical Mechanics.
Education
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University, 08/04 - present
Postdoctoral Researcher with Prof. Glenn H. Fredrickson
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Research Laboratory, University of California - Santa Barbara, 11/02 - 07/04
Self-Consistent Field Theory of Polyelectrolyte Systems.
- Studied the thermodynamic behavior of polyelectrolyte solutions, blends, block copolymers and brushes;
- Investigated the effects of various charge distributions and position-dependent dielectric constants on these systems.
Research Assistant with Profs. Juan J. de Pablo / Paul F. Nealey
Department of Chemical Engineering and Center for Nanotechnology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 09/97 - 09/02
Molecular Study of the Structure and Morphology of Diblock Copolymers on Nano-Patterned Substrates.
- Combined advanced Monte Carlo simulation techniques with theoretical approaches;
- Provided systematic understanding of diblock copolymer thin films and essential guidance for experimental work;
- Results confirmed by experiments.
Research Assistant
Department of Chemical Engineering and Solvent Extraction Laboratory (State Key Lab of Chemical Engineering in China), Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China, 09/93 - 03/97
- Development and Optimization of a Novel Process of Heavy Aromatics Extraction by Dimethylsulfoxide.
- Process Flowsheeting of the Aromatics Plant of Shanghai Petrochemical Ltd. Co., China.
- Process Design of Aromatics Extraction by Sulfolane in Maoming’s 300,000 T/a Ethylene Project in Guangdong Province, China.
Teaching Assistant
- Graduate Course ChE 710 -- "Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics", UW - Madison, Fall 2000
- Undergraduate Course ChE 311 -- "Thermodynamics of Mixtures", UW - Madison, Fall 1999
- Undergraduate Courses -- "Principles of Chemical Engineering" and "Perceptual Practice", Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China, Spring and Summer Semesters, 1995
Professional Affiliations
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