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| August 22, 2025. |
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New NSF grant award. This 3-year grant “Computationally guided design of novel metal-organic frameworks for enhanced proton conductivity and photocatalytic water splitting” is a part of an interdisciplinary international collaboration project with U. of Manchester (Lev Sarkisov and the experimental group of Martin Schröder) in partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and IBM.
We are looking for a capable PhD student who is interested in molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations.
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| August 1, 2025. |
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Continuing research collaboration with Colgate PalmOlive. A new research project is started on mesoscale modeling of mutual adsorption of surfactants and amino acids on charged surfaces, including model silica and dental biofilm.
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| July 1, 2025. |
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Congratulations to Nick for winning the most prestigious 2025 AIChE Separations Division Graduate Student Research Award for Adsorption & Ion Exchange.
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| June 15-18, 2025. |
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14th International Colloids Conference in San Sebastian, Spain. Alex presents Invited keynote talk co-authored by Santo on "Interfacial Properties of Coronavirus Virions".
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| June 1, 2025. |
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The group welcomes a new cohort of undergraduate Aresty students: Pal Mehta, Muh Noor, and Disha Khot from Chemical and Biochemical Engineering department., Varshaa Venkitesh from Physics, and Arnav Saxena for Computer Sciences.
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| May 24–June 14, 2025. |
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Alex holds Visiting Professor appointment at Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, hosted by Prof. Alberto Giacomello.
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| May 18-23, 2025. |
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15th International Conference on Fundamentals of Adsorption, Porto, Portugal. Alex presents Invited keynote talk co-authored by Shivam and Nick on "Revealing Mechanisms of Adsorption-Induced Deformation: from Contraction and Softening to Expansion and Hardening".
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| May 11-14, 2025. |
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2nd Mediterranean Conference on Porous Materials, Marrakesh, Morocco. As a Distinguished Speaker and Panelist, Alex presents a talk on Challenges and Advances in Adsorption Characterization of Metal-Organic Frameworks.
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| February 26-28, 2025. |
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36th German Zeolite Conference (DZT), Erlangen, Germany. Alex delivers Invited Plenary Talk "Coupling Adsorption and Mechanical Properties of Flexible Nanoporous Materials".
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| February 20 – April 19, 2025. |
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Alex holds Visiting Professor appointment at the University at the University Grenoble-Alps in France hosted by Dr. Benoit Coasne.
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| January 1, 2025. |
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Warmest New Year wishes to everybody! Be healthy, happy and enjoy life! 2024 was another remarkable year for our group. Shivam and Nick have successfully defended their PhD dissertations and will enjoy their new carrier passes. The CPM-9 meeting with 144 participants from 18 countries was the highlight of our long-lasting contributions to the scientific community by facilitating, maintaining and expanding research collaborations.
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