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| May 21, 2009. |
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| Alex Neimark receives a grant award of $450,000 from the Army Research Office for the three year research project. Molecular Design and Characterization of Novel Nanoporous Adsorbents with Increased Removal Capacity. |
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| January-February 2009. |
| New papers published:
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A.V. Neimark, Y. Lin, P.I. Ravikovitch, and M. Thommes. - Quenched solid density functional theory and pore size analysis of micro-mesoporous carbons, - Carbon, 2009, V.47, p.1617-1628.
C. Vercaemst, H. Friedrich, P. de Jongh, A.V. Neimark, B. Goderis, F. Verpoort, P. Van Der Voort, - Periodic mesoporous organosilicas consisting of 3D hexagonally ordered interconnected globular pores, - Journal Physical Chemistry C, 2009, V. 113, p. 5556-5562.
K. Miyasaka, A.V. Neimark, and O. Terasaki, - Density functional theory of in-situ synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction on mesoporous crystals: Argon adsorption on MCM-41, - Journal Physical Chemistry C, 2009, V.113, p.791-794. |
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| December 18, 2008. |
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| Alex Neimark receives an award of $100,000 from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund for studies of adsorption and chromatographic separation of chain molecules on nanoporous substrates. |
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| November 16-21, 2008. |
| The Annual AICHE meeting.
Philadelphia, PA.
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Our group members present five papers, including a plenary talk given by Alex
Neimark on "Adsorption on Molecularly Rough Surfaces". |
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| October 7, 2008. |
| Alex Neimark is invited to
give
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a seminar at the Department of Chemistry, College of Staten Island, City
University of New York. |
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| September 10-12, 2008. |
| Alex Neimark lectures
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at the CECAM workshop "Surfactant Templated Porous Materials: Synthesis and
Characterization", Zurich, Switzerland.
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| September 8-9, 2008. |
| International
Meso-structured Materials Symposium 2008, Namur, Belgium. (IMMS2008).
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Alex Neimark presents a collaborative work with Stockholm University on “In
situ XRD studies of adsorption on mesoporous materials: theory and experiments”
with Keiichi Miyasaka, Norihiro Muroyama, Osamu Terasaki, and Peter
Ravikovitch.
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| July 19-24, 2008. |
| Aleksey Vishnyakov gives
an invited lecture
on "Multiscale simulation of self-assembled polyelectrolyte membranes" at the
symposium on "Theory and Modeling of Electrochemical Materials for Polymer
Electrolyte Fuel Cells" at the 6th Congress of the International Society for
Theoretical Chemical Physics (ISTCP-VI), Vancouver, Canada.
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| July 11-17, 2008. |
| Alex Neimark visits Japan
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to give an invited talk "The Role of Surface Roughness in Adsorption:
Applications to Nanoporous Carbons" at the International Workshop "Future
Challenges for Carbon-Based Nanoporous Materials", Chiba (July 11-13), oral
paper at the International Carbon conference, Nagano (July 14-15) on
"Re-evaluation of the pore size distribution in microporous carbons by quenched
solid density functional theory" with Matthias Thommes of Quantachrome, and a
lecture on Recent Advances in Characterization of Nanoporous Materials at the
National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba (July 16-17).
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| June 16-19, 2008. |
| 7th International
Symposium on Polyelectrolytes, Coimbra, Portugal.
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Alex Neimark gives an invited lecture on "Multiscale simulation of
self-assembled polyelectrolyte membranes". |
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| June 10-13, 2008. |
| The 8th International
Symposium on the Characterization of Porous Solids (COPS-8), Edinburgh, UK.
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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". |
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| May 26-28, 2008. |
| 5th International
Symposium on Nanoporous Materials, Vancouver, Canada.
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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. |
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| 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.
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| May 5, 2008. |
| Seminar in the Arrhenius
Laboratory of Stockholm University
given by Alex Neimark on "Adsorption on molecularly rough surfaces and in
nanopores".
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| March 1, 2008. |
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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
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Alex Neimark presents a plenary talk on "Fluid-Solid Interactions: Accounting
for the Surface Roughness". |
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| December 7, 2007. |
| New NIH project. |
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| 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.
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| November 23, 2007. |
| Seminar at Delft
University, Netherlands |
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Alex Neimark presents a talk on Multiscale Simulation of Self-Assembled
Polymeric Membranes. |
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| November 12, 2007. |
| Research Project with
Colgate Palmolive.
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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. |
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| November 5-8, 2007. |
| Six talks given at the
Annual AIChE meeting. |
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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.
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| April 17, 2007. |
| Special Volume of Colloids
and Surfaces. |
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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. |
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| March 6, 2007. |
| Alex Neimark named a
winner of 2007 competition under ARO Defense University Research
Instrumentation Program (DURIP).
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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. |
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| March 5, 2007. |
| Adsorption lab has been
established at CBE. |
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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. |
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| December 19, 2006.
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| Advancing the Density
Functional Theory. |
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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).
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| December 15, 2006.
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| Collaborative Research
with University of Texas.
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"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. |
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| December 7, 2006. |
| ARO awards to Alex Neimark
a new grant. |
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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.
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| November 12-16, 2006. |
| Seven papers presented at
AIChE Annual Meeting
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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
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| November 3, 2006. |
| Featured In Physical
Review Letters |
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“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. |
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