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Potoff Research Group
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Wayne State University
5050 Anthony Wayne Drive, Detroit, MI 48202-3902
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Publications

Presentations

Courses:
 Material and Energy Balances

Advanced Thermodynamics

Research:
 Intermolecular force fields

Thin film phase behavior

Langmuir monolayers

Critical phenomena

Self-assembly processes

Codes:
 Histogram-reweighting analysis

PGI Fortran documentation

Intel Fortran documentation

Links:
 Science and Engineering Library (WSU)

Minnesota Supercomputing Institute

Cygwin project
(Unix tools for Windows platforms)

Linux.org

Other Research Groups:
 Ilja Siepmann (U of MN)
Thanos Panagiotopoulos (Princeton)
Lev Gelb (FSU)

The Baby Page:
 Babymania
Jeffrey J. Potoff (Research Director)
Curriculum Vitae
tel (office): 313.577.9357
tel (lab): 313.577.9255
fax: 313.577.3810
Email: jpotoff@chem1.eng.wayne.edu

Research in our lab is in the general area of molecular simulation and computational statistical mechanics.

Current research projects:

Development of realistic intermolecular force fields for bulk fluid phase equilibria calculations via molecular simulation. Studies are focused currently on united-atom models for carbonyl containing compounds (aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acids).
Studies of thin film phase behavior, including the vapor-liquid phase behavior of alkane, alcohol and thiol monolayers. Future projects will investigate the effects of surface roughness (energetic barriers to motion parallel to the surface).
Self-assembly processes and microheterogenaity in complex fluid mixtures. Molecular level understanding of azeotrope formation. Systems of interest include carbon dioxide/carboxylic acid, acetone/chloroform (maximum boiling azeotrope), acetone/methanol (minimum boiling azeotrope), and sulfur dioxide/dimethyl ether (maximum boiling azeotrope) mixtures.

Last modification:
Fri Aug 3 15:51:26 EDT 2001
jpotoff@chem1.eng.wayne.edu