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March 4, 2024.
The group welcomes Jakob Söllner, an exchange PhD student from University of Erlangen - Nurenberg, Germany, and a new Aresty Fellow Evan Schley.
February 6, 2024.
Congratulations to Shivam for selection of his cover art associated with our just published paper Pore Structure Compartmentalization for Advanced Characterization of Metal-Organic Framework Materials, as the Front Cover for a respective issue of Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling.
January 9, 2024.
The group welcomes Eva Iungbliudt, a newly admitted PhD student from Tomsk, Russia.
January 1, 2024.
Warmest New Year wishes to everybody! Be healthy, happy and enjoy life! 2023 was a remarkable year for our group. Our publications have reached a new high in citations, with the Hirsh index climbing to h=76 and over 4,350 references in 2023 alone. Shivam and Nick's presentations at the AIChE meeting were outstanding, and the CPM-9 International Workshop we organized has received an overwhelming response. Nick's exceptional teaching earned CBE student awards praising him as the best teacher. We celebrated Lizy's and Aastha's admission to the country's top PhD programs at Stanford and Northeastern We cheered the arrival of new babies in the families of Silvio and Alison, and Santo and Jisa.
December 16, 2023.
Congratulations Santo and Jisa on the birth of your son, Sam! Wishing your family endless joy and happiness for your beautiful new journey together.
November 28, 2023.
Shivam Parashar and Nick Corrente present their work at the Rutgers CBE-GSO Fall Research Forum.
November 13-17, 2023.
Our group actively participates in the 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting, Fenix, Arizona , with Alex Neimark chairing two sessios, and oral talks by Nick Corrente, 2 talks by Shivam Parashar as well as a poster on collaborative work with ExxonMobil
October 13-25, 2023.
During his trip to Japan, Alex Neimark presents an invited talk at the 7CBNM in Nagano, and seminars at the Tohoku University, Sedai, and Kyoto University.
August 29, 2023.
Alex Neimark visits Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, for continuing research collaborations with Prof. Matthias Thommes.
August 26, 2023.
9th International Workshop "Characterization of Porous Materials", CPM-9, on May 19-22, 2024, in Delray Beach, Florida, is organized by our CBE department and Rutgers Continuing Education Services with Alex Neimark as the Chair and Nick Corrente as the Conference Secretary.
August 25, 2023.
A special group retreat to host Dr. Aleksey Vishnyakov, our former group member and long-time collaborator.
August 8, 2023.
Ryan Jaworsky, REU student from Fairfield University, presents at the RISE Mini Symposium.
August 3, 2023.
Aresty Fellow Ian Rosenheim presents his poster "Assessing the Hydrogen Storage Capacity of Metal Organic Frameworks" at the Aresty Symposium.
July 21, 2023.
Our traditional summer group retreat with group alumni, and industrial collaborators, including Drs. Rasmusen - Bolt Threads, San-Francisco, CA, Colon - Seres Therapeutics, Boston, MA, Gor - NJIT, Cimino - NJIT, Dantas - Merk, PA, Potanin - Colgate. The retreat was an important event in the team building in the group and the continuation of working relations with former group members.
June 24, 2023.
Alex Neimark visits the Imperial College, London, UK, and presents an invited seminar at the Thomas Young Center.
June 21-23, 2023.
Alex Neimark participates in CECAM Flagship Workshop "Fluids in Porous Materials: from Fundamental Physics to Engineering Application", in Lausanne, Switzerland.
June 15, 2023.
Alex Neimark has been included in the 2023 Ranking of Best Scientists in Chemistry.
May 17, 2023.
The group welcomes a new cohort of undergraduate REU and Aresty fellows, REU student from Fairfield University Ryan Jaworski, Summer Aresty Fellow Ian Rosenheim, Research Aresty Fellows Kaelyn Chang, Tijil Kiran, Suchit Kalluru, and Aditya Ningaiah. The students will be mentored by Santo, Shivam, Nick.
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May 2, 2023.
Tech Exchange Meeting at Colgate-Palmolive. Alex and Santo present an invited seminar on "Competitive Adsorption of Surfactants and Amino Acids on Dental Biofilms: Insight from Multiscale Molecular Simulations".
April 25, 2023.
Congratulations to Nick Corrente for winning the Engineering Governing Council (EGC) Student’s Professor of the Year Award in the 2022-2023 academic year.
April 19, 2023.
Lizy Hinks receives the 1st place award at the CBE Undergraduate Research Symposium for her poster "Modeling adsorption of simple fluids and hydrocarbons on nanoporous carbons". Congratulations to Lizy, her mentor Nick and her undergraduate peers Aastha and Raleigh!
April 15, 2023.
Congratulations to Aastha and Lizy for accepting admission to the best Chemical Engineering PhD programs at Northwestern and Stanford. They serve as exceptional role models for undergraduate students pursing carriers in science and engineering.
March 29, 2023.
Aastha Kasera receives the CBE Senior Researcher-Scholar Award that acknowledges her research accomplishments as Aresty fellows and James J. Slade Scholar.
Jan. 1, 2023.
Warmest New Year wishes to everybody! Be healthy, happy and enjoy life! Special wishes of success and luck in their future endeavors to seniors and masters who graduate in 2023!
Dec. 1, 2022.
ColgatePalmolive amends our ongoing project "Adsorption of Surfactants and Amino Acids on Dental Biofilms" by additional $25,000 to extend the research program on coarse-grained simulations of personal care formulations.
Nov. 7-13, 2022.
Our group actively participates in the 2022 AIChE Annual Meeting, Fenix, Arizona.
Nov. 7, 2022.
Anton 2 supercomputer award to investigate interactions of coronaviruses with pulmonary surfactants. Alex Neimark and Kolattukudy Santo have received an award from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) to study adsorption of pulmonary surfactants on Spike proteins of Covid-19 coronavirus variants by microseconds long molecular dynamics (MD) simulations on Anton 2 special-purpose supercomputer.
Oct 4, 2022.
Alex Neimark and Kolattukudy Santo have signed with Elsevier a contract for writing the book "Dissipative Particle Dynamics: Fundamentals And Applications In Colloid And Interface Science".
Oct 4, 2022.
The prime journal in energy research "ACS Energy & Fuels" published Shivam Parashar’s paper in collaboration with Peter I. Ravikovitch of ExxonMobil on Molecular Modeling and Adsorption Characterization of Micro-Mesoporous Kerogen Nanostructures.
Sept 10, 2022.
Welcome to a new cohort of the Aresty Research Fellows, Pooja Rana, Nikolai Styrkas, and Ajay Pate, who join the group in 22'-23' academic year.
Sept 8, 2022.
Alex Neimark presents an Invited Talk "Mesocanonical Ensemble as a Rational to Study Fluctuations and Phase Transformations in Nanoconfined Fluids" at the Venice Meeting on Fluctuations in Small Complex Systems VI. Venice. Italy.
Sept 1, 2022.
Congratulations to Kolattukudy Santo for his promotion to Research Assistant Professor
July 31, 2022.
NSF awards an INTERN supplement of $55,000 to our current NSF-CBET grant "Deformation of Poroelastic Nanoporous Materials of Hierarchical Structure upon Adsorption of Gas Mixtures" to support internship of Shivam Parashar at the ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company.
July 29, 2022.
Congratulations to Aastha for her selection as a James J. Slade Scholar! As a James J. Slade Scholar, Aastha will continue to work in the group on modeling hydrocarbon adsorption on nanoporous carbons under Nick’s guidance.
July 21, 2022.
New industrial research project of $50,000 is granted by Colgate-PalmOlive to study "Adsorption of Surfactants and Amino Acids on Dental Biofilms". This project is performed under the Master Services Agreement between Colgate-Palmolive Company and Rutgers.
June 24, 2022.
First the end of the semester group retreat after pandemics with group alumni, and industrial collaborators, including Drs. Ravikovitch -ExxonMobil, Callegari – Rutgers; Gor - NJIT, Dantas – Merk, Potanin – Colgate. The retreat was an important event in the team building in the group and the continuation of working relations with former group members.
June 15, 2022.
Keynote Invited Talk "Dissipative Particle Dynamics of Soft Matter Systems", 11th International Colloids Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.
June 1, 2022.
A new grant project of $78,000 is awarded by the MSI STEM R&D Consortium for the "Development of Tailored Metal Organic Framework Designer Monte Carlo Kernels for Gas Adsorption Characterization".
May 28, 2022.
Welcome to Johnny Kelly, rising sophomore, who joins the group as a Summer Aresty Fellow.
May 27, 2022.
Alex Neimark is elected on the Board of Directors of the International Adsorption Society (IAS).
May 22-27, 2022.
14th International Conference on the Fundamentals of Adsorption, Broomfield, Colorado. Our group features with 3 talks: Alex Neimark, Shivam Parashar and Nick Corrente.
May 13, 2022.
. NJIT Molecular Simulations Workshop, NJIT, NJ. Our group actively participated with the Keynote Lecture "Coarse-Grained Simulations of Interactions of Nanoparticles with Soft Interfaces" by Alex Neimark, and presentations of Nick Corrente on modeling 3D molecular structures of nanoporous carbons and Shivam Parashar on characterization of complex nanoporous structure with hierarchical architecture.
May 1, 2022.
Welcome Runcen Yin, MS student at CBE. Runcen joins the group to work on coarse-grained modeling of surfactant adsorption on biological substrates under the guidance of Dr. Santo.
March 11, 2022.
New NSF grant award. Alex Neimark as the Principal investigator receives the 4-year award "Multiscale Modeling of Coronavirus Virions in the Respiratory System" with the budget of $500,000.
March 8, 2022.
Alex Neimark presents a lecture "Adsorption Characterization of MOF Materials: Real Samples vs Ideal Crystals" at the International Adsorption Society Webinar Series.
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January 1, 2022.
Despite the pandemics restrictions and continuing challenges, our group made 2021 another successful year with 9 papers published in the high-profile journals and 4 new grant awards from NSF, NJ ACTS, and ExxonMobil. Google Scholar reported 4,121 new citations to our works in 2021 exceeding the last year record of 3,612 and bringing the total number of citations to ~29,000 and Hirsh number to h=72. We look forward to 2022 with optimism and enthusiasm.
December 14, 2021.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry publishes a long-awaiting paper "Interactions of polyelectrolyte gels with nonionic and ionic surfactants". This paper summarizes the works of former MS student Runfang Mao and undergraduate Kimberly Kam mentored by Aleksey Vishnyakov and our Colgate-Palmolive collaborator Andrei Potanin.
November 8-10, 2021.
AIChE Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. First in-person conference after pandemic pause. Our group is represented by four oral talks on the results of our NSF and ExxonMobil projects given by PhD students Shivam Parashar and Nick Corrente with contributions of undergraduate students Skandan Venkatraman, Lizy Hinks and Aastha Kasera.
October 27-28, 2021.
During his sabbatical stay in Paris, Alex Neimark presents
- Navier seminar on "Multiscale Nature of Poromechanics of Nanoporous Adsorbents" at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, Champs-sur-Marne,
- invited seminar on “Mesoscale Modeling of Soft Matter Systems” at Chimie ParisTech/PSL.
October 18-22, 2021.
Alex Neimark delivers a Plenary Lecture, "Thermodynamics of Adsorption Deformation of Microporous Carbons" and the Russian Conference "Physicochemical Problems of Adsorption, Structure and Surface Chemistry of Nanoporous Materials", Moscow, Russia. This conference is organized in honor of Academician M.M. Dubinin, the founder of the Russian school of adsorption and the head of the Department of Adsorption at the Russian Academy of Sciences, where Alex worked before his move to the US.
October 14, 2021.
Santo Kolattukudy and Alex Neimark published a historical perspective "Dissipative Particle Dynamics Simulations in Colloid and Interface Science: A Review" in Advances in Colloid and Interface Science. This comprehensive review presents the progress in theoretical formulations, parametrization strategies, and applications of DPD for modeling complex colloidal and interfacial phenomena involving phase separations, self-assembly, and transport in polymeric, surfactant, nanoparticle, and biomolecules systems.
October 7, 2021.
Alex Neimark presents a lecture "Thermodynamics of Adsorption-Induced Deformation of Nanoporous Solids: Old Problem, Enigmatic Features, and Modern Applications" at the ATOMS virtual seminar organized by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil.
September 20, 2021.
Alex Neimark starts his sabbatical at the l’Institut de Recherche de Chimie, Paris Sciences et Lettres University (PSL), to continue our longstanding collaborations with FX Coudert, Anne Boutin, and Alan Fuchs on modelling adsorption in nanoporous solids.
September 1, 2021.
Congratulations to Raheem Abdallah for his full-time position at Merk after the successful completion of the MS program. Raheem will continue his research towards PhD dissertation as a part time PhD student.
August 28, 2021.
NJ Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS) awards Alex Neimark a Pilot Project Grant ($50,000) to initiate research on the Development of Computational Models to Explore Interactions of Coronavirus Virions with Lung Surfactant Films. This work will be performed by Dr. Santo Kolattukudy with Dr. Andrew Gow (EMSOP) and Dr. Jared Radbel (HWJMS), who will provide clinical pulmonary expertise for the evaluation of the practical significance of the computational models and simulation data.
August 21, 2021.
Congratulations to Nick Corrente for his first paper as a PhD student, "Deformation of Nanoporous Materials in the Process of Binary Adsorption: Methane Displacement by Carbon Dioxide from Coal" published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry. This work is the first attempt to develop a thermodynamic theory of adsorbent deformation induced of adsorption of multicomponent mixtures.
August 20, 2021.
Collaboration with Colgate-Palmolive resulted in the pioneering work published in Macromolecules, the leading journal in polymer science, "Modeling of the Effects of Metal-Complexation on Morphology and Rheology of Xanthan Gum Polysaccharide Solutions" coauthored by Santo Kolattukudy and Alex Neimark with CP scientists Drs. Fabijanic, Cheng, and Potanin. In this work, Santo built in the first coarse-grained DPD model of polysaccharides that can be adopted and applied to various pharma, personal care, cosmetic, and food applications.
June 16, 2021.
Respore International Congress "Porous solids: Unity in Diversity", Paris. Alex Neimark presents Keynote Lecture "Advanced Characterization of Structural and Adsorption Properties of Metal-Organic Frameworks".
June 16, 2021.
New NSF grant award. . Alex Neimark as the Principal investigator receives the 3-year award for the “Interactions of Airborne Engineered Nanoparticles with Lung Surfactant Films” with the budget of $359,999.
June 6, 2021.
NSF awards the 2nd INTERN supplement of $55,000 to support internship of Nick Corrente at the ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company Corporate Strategic Research Division.
May 23, 2021.
Welcome to Aparna Jayakumar, REU summer intern from Rice University. Aparna will work under mentorship of Nick Corrente to Monte Carlo simulation of phase transformations in adsorbed nanophases.
May 13, 2021.
Congratulations to Shivam Parashar with his first paper "Compartmentalization of Adsorption Isotherms Reveals the Specifics of Guest-Host Interactions in Metal Organic Frameworks: Monte Carlo Simulation of Ar, N2, and CO2 adsorption on PCN-224 and ZIF-443" published in ACS Applied Nano Materials.
March 26, 2021.
Alex Neimark gives the Morgan Advanced Materials Lecture, "Recent Advances in Characterization of Structural and Adsorption Properties of Nanoporous Carbons", at PennState.
February 1, 2021.
Research collaboration with ExxonMobil. New research project "Advanced Methods for Pore Structure Characterization and Adsorption in Geological Materials" focuses on developing 3D structural models of disordered micro-mesoporous structures of geosorbents, like kerogen, and their use for predicting adsorption and morphological properties.
January 29, 2021.
Congratulations to Silvio Dantas for successful defense of his PhD dissertation "Advancing Gas Adsorption Characterization of Nanoporous Materials Using Molecular Simulations". After graduation, Silvio will pursue his further carrier at MERK as a senior scientist.
December 22, 2020
Despite all the challenges imposed by the pandemic, our group made 2020 another successful year with 12 papers published in the high-profile journals. In addition, one patent was awarded, and one patent submitted. As of today, our works in 2020 were sited 3,612 times exceeding the last year record of 2,855 and pushing the total number of citations to 24,425. The Hirsh citation number increased to h-index=69
December 11, 2020.
Congratulations to Shivam and Nick for winning the best poster awards at inaugural International Adsorption Society Twitter Poster Conference. The award bears the certificate and the 100 USD prize.
November 20-23, 2020.
Three papers published within three days. Congratulations to Xinyang, Silvio and Parva!
November 16, 2020.
AIChE Annual Meeting, San-Francisco, CA. Our group is represented by two oral talks given in a virtual format by Shivam Parashar "Pore Level Decomposition of Adsorption Isotherm in Metal-Organic Frameworks", and Nick Corrente "Deformation of Nanoporous Materials in the Process of Binary Adsorption: Methane Displacement by Carbon Dioxide from Microporous Carbons".
November 11, 2020.
Alex Neimark presents a seminar "Morphology, Rheology, and Transport Properties of Surfactant and Polymeric Solutions: Insight from Dissipative Particle Dynamics Simulations" at International Flavors and Fragrance (IFF) company
with an overview of our group works on DPD simulations of complex fluids. Our 10 years of experience in DPD modeling resulted in 3 PhD dissertations, 3 MS dissertations, and 20 papers in high-profile journals.
2019
is a record-breaking year for the group publications with 13 papers published in the leading journals with the Hirsh number increased to h-index=66 Congratulations to Jonathan, Silvio, Sean, Santo, Filip, Pranav, and Shiva for their published research accomplishments!
December 4-5, 2019.
FlexMOF Symposium, Dresden, Germany. Alex Neimark presents an invited talk "Adsorption Stress as a Rational for Quantification of Host-Guest Mechanical Interactions in MOFs and Other Nanoporous Materials".
November 10-14, 2019.
AIChE Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, Filip Formalik presents a talk Adsorption-Induced Transformations in Flexible Microporous Frameworks on the work done during his internship at Rutgers in collaboration with Professors Lucyna Firlej (Montpellier) and Bogdan Kuchta (Marseille).
October 14, 2019.
Alex Neimark presents Claude R. Hocott Lecture in Petroleum Engineering, University of Texas in Austin.
September 15, 2019.
The group traditional barbecue retreat with alumni and collaborators.
The current and former group members celebrated important carrier achievements of Chris Rasmussen (moves from DuPont to CA), Jonathan Colon (got an exciting offer from Celgene and moves to Boston), Rich Cimino (moves to NJIT), Sean Burgess (just defended, got a position at Genentech and moves to San Francisco), and Parva Patel (got an offer from Solaris Pharmaceutical as a research associate).
September 9-14, 2019.
1st International Gas Adsorption Summer School, Spetses, Greece.
Alex Neimark presents tutorial lectures on Monte Carlo simulations and Density Functional Theory for a group of international students from Greece, France, Germany, UK, Japan, USA, and other countries.
September 5, 2019.
Congratulations to Sean Burgess for the defense of his PhD dissertation "Molecular Modeling of nanoparticle Interactions with Soft Complex Interfaces"! Sean has already got an offer from Genetech in San Francisco.
September 3, 2019.
Welcome to Nicolas Corrente, who joins the group as a PhD student.
Nick comes from NJIT, where he worked with our group alumni Gennady Gor. Nick is interested in molecular simulations of nanoconfined fluids and mechanical properties of saturated porous materials.
July 13-28, 2019.
Alex Neimark continues his Leverhulme Visiting Professorship and presents a series of seminars and lectures in University College London, Imperial College London, and Thomas Young Centre Soiree Lecture in Queen Mary University of London.
July 9, 2019.
Alex Neimark visits his former colleagues in Moscow at the Laboratory of Adsorption
at the Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences and presents a lecture on Deformation of Adsorbents.
July 1-5, 2019.
Alex Neimark delivers a Plenary Lecture, "Adsorption Induced Deformation and Phase Transformations in Nanoporous Crystals".
at the International Conference "Mechanisms and Non-Linear Problems of Nucleation and Growth of Crystals and Thin Films", in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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May 18, 2018.
Establishing collaboration with Russian scientists. The Russian Science Foundation awarded a 3-year grant to study the dynamics of interactions of fluids with lyophobic nanoporous materials to be performed at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI) with Alex Neimark as the Principal Investigator responsible for the project research program.
May 6-9, 2018.
CPM-8 - the 8th International Workshop "Characterization of Porous Materials: from Angstroms to Millimeters" Delray Beach, Florida. The CPM Workshop Series was founded in 1997 by Alex Neimark to serve a bridge between academics and industrial scientists. With already 8 editions, the CPM Workshops have gained an international reputation for their high-quality interdisciplinary program, interactive style of presentations, and vivid discussions. With the participants representing 26 countries from five continents, CPM-8 has become one of the central international events in the subject area in 2018. CPM-8 is organized by Rutgers University with Alex Neimark as the Chair and sponsored by Quantachrome Instruments with Matthias Thommes as the Co-Chair. Silvio Dantas served as the conference secretary. Research from our group was presented by Silvio, Jonathan, and Santo. For more information, see http://cpm8.rutgers.edu/.
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