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	NEWS Postdoctoral & PhD Opportunities June 16-19, 2008. 7th International Symposium on Polyelectrolytes, Coimbra, Portugal. Alex Neimark gives an invited lecture on "Multiscale simulation of self-assembled polyelectrolyte membranes". June 10-13, 2008. The 8th International Symposium on the Characterization of Porous Solids (COPS-8), Edinburgh, UK. The group is represented by a talk given by Alex Neimark on "A unified approach to adsorption and XRD characterization based on the quenched solid density functional theory", and a poster presented by Chris Rasmussen on "A Monte Carlo simulation study of cavitation in spherical mesopores: pore size effect and comparison with experiments". May 26-28, 2008. 5th International Symposium on Nanoporous Materials, Vancouver, Canada. Alex Neimark presents a talk “Reconsiliation of adsorption and in situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction data" with the results of collaborative research with the group of Osamu Terasaki of Stockholm University and researchers from Japan and Korea. May 12, 2008. Alex Neimark invited to Drexel University to give a talk on "Adsorption on Molecularly Rough Surfaces and in Nanopores" at the Department of Matrerials Science and Engineering. May 5, 2008. Seminar in the Arrhenius Laboratory of Stockholm University given by Alex Neimark on "Adsorption on molecularly rough surfaces and in nanopores". For more info visit Newsroom March 1, 2008. The article, "Specifics of solvation of sulfonated polyelectrolytes in water, dimethylmethylphosphonate, and their mixture: A molecular simulation study," published in The Journal of Chemical Physics 128, 164902 (2008), has been selected for the May 1, 2008 issue of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research. The Virtual Journal covers a focused area of frontier research. You can access the Virtual Journal at http://www.vjbio.org December 16-18, 2007. The 98th Statistical Mechanics Conference Alex Neimark presents a plenary talk on "Fluid-Solid Interactions: Accounting for the Surface Roughness". December 7, 2007. New NIH project. Alex Neimark receives a three-year NIH subcontract award of $204,000 per year from TRI/Princeton. He will lead the team of Rutgers investigators (Profs Kohn, Chabal, Grumet, Plummer) in the collaborative project with TRI aiming at developing implantable neural electrodes from carbon nanotube fibers. November 23, 2007. Seminar at Delft University, Netherlands Alex Neimark presents a talk on Multiscale Simulation of Self-Assembled Polymeric Membranes. November 12, 2007. Research Project with Colgate Palmolive. Alex Neimark received $100,000 from the Colgate Palmolive Innovation Fund to study structure formation in polymer solutions and gels by means of multiscale molecular simulations. November 5-8, 2007. Six talks given at the Annual AIChE meeting. Mesoscopic Canonical Ensemble presented by Alex Neimark Determination Of Chemical Potentials Of Quasi-Particles In Coarse-Grained Models Of Complex Fluids And Polyelectrolytes presented by Alex Neimark and Aleksey Vishnyakov. April 17, 2007. Special Volume of Colloids and Surfaces. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop “Characterization of Porous Materials: from Angstroms no Millimeters” are published in Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects 300 (2007) 1–2. Workshop Chairman and Editor Alex Neimark. March 6, 2007. Alex Neimark named a winner of 2007 competition under ARO Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP). A new grant "Computational System for Simulation of Nanostructured Polymeric Materials" will significantly extend existing computational capabilities for developing novel multiscale methods for nanomaterials modeling and characterization. March 5, 2007. Adsorption lab has been established at CBE. Fully automated physisorption and chemisorption analyzer Autosorb-1-C has been provided to Alex Neimark on a free loan by Quantachrome instruments to support research on modeling and characterization of nanostructured materials. The instrument performs measurements of adsorption and desorption isotherms for characterization of surface area, pore volume and pore size distribution of microporous and mesoporous solids. It includes automated gas switching, in-situ sample preparation, high temperature furnace and digital temperature controller for precise chemisorption measurements and characterization of active surface area, heats of adsorption, degree of dispersion, average crystallite size. December 19, 2006. Advancing the Density Functional Theory. Two papers published in Langmuir by Peter Ravikovitch and Alex Neimark open up new perspectives in DFT models of adsorption systems. "Density Functional Theory Model of Adsorption on Amorphous and Microporous Silica Materials" – Langmuir, 22, 10864 (2006). "Density Functional Theory Model of Adsorption Deformation" – Langmuir, 22, 11171 (2006). December 15, 2006. Collaborative Research with University of Texas. "Using Nitrogen and Carbon Dioxide Molecules To Probe Arsenic (V) Bioaccessibility in Soils" – by K.C. Makris, D. Sarkar, R. Datta, P.I. Ravikovitch, and A.V. Neimark, Environmental Science and Technology, 2006, V. 40, 7732-7738. December 7, 2006. ARO awards to Alex Neimark a new grant. Research grant "Molecular Design of Sulfonated Block Copolymer Permselective Membranes" will enable developing novel methods for multiscale simulation of nanostructure formation and transport in ion-exchange polymers. November 12-16, 2006. Seven papers presented at AIChE Annual Meeting Monday 9:10 AM Using Nitrogen and Carbon Dioxide Adsorption to Estimate Arsenic(V) Bioaccessibility in Soils by Ravikovitch (presenter), Neimark, Makris, Sarkar, and Datta November 3, 2006. Featured In Physical Review Letters “Ribbon-to-fiber transformation in the process of spinning of carbon-nanotube dispersion” by K.G. Kornev, G. Callegari, J. Kuppler, S. Ruetsch and A.V. Neimark, PRL 97, 188303 (2006). Carbon nanotubes are the most exciting building blocks employed for various nanostructures and nanodevices. up...