People
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
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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.
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Current research projects:
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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).
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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).
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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.
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