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STAIR: Sustainable Technology through Advanced Interdisciplinary Research


Publications

  • Wang, Q., Keffer, D.J., Nicholson, D.M., Thomas, J.B., “Coarse-grained Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET)” (in press, 2010) Macromolecules.
  • Moon, J., Rawn, C., Rondinone, A., Love, L., Roh, Y., Everett, M., Lauf, R., & Phelps, T.,“ Large-scale Production of Magnetic Nanoparticles Using Bacterial Fermentation” (2010) J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol, 37, pp. 1023-1031.
  • Liu, J., Suraweera, N., Keffer, D.J., Cui, S., & Paddison, S.J., “On the Relationship Between Polymer Electrolyte Structure and Hydrated Morphology of Perfluorosulfonic Acid Membranes” (in press, 2010) J. Phys. Chem. C.
  • Goswamy, M., Sumpter, B.G. & Mays, J., “Controllable Stacked Disc Morphologies of Charged Diblock Copolymers”, (2010) Chem. Phys. Lett., 487, pp.272-278.
  • Iwuchukwu, I., Vaughn, M., Myers, N, O'Neill, H., Frymier, P., & Bruce, B., “Sustained Self-assembled Photosynthetic Nanoparticle for Cell-free Hydrogen Production”, (2010) Nature Nanotechnology, 5, pp. 73-79.
  • Wang, Q., Keffer, D.J., Petrovan, S., & Thomas, J.B., “Molecular Dynamics Simulaton of Polyethylene Terephthalate Oligomers”, (2010) J. Phys. Chem. B., 114(2), pp.786-795.
  • Mulder, C., Theogarajan, L., Currie, M., Mapel, J. K., Baldo, M.A., Vaughn, M., Willard, P., Bruce, B.D., Moss, M.W., McLain, C.E. & Morseman, J.P., “Luminescent Solar Concentrators Employing Phycobilisomes”, (2009) Advanced Materials, 21, pp. 1-5.

Presentations

  • Suraweera, N.S., Peretich, J.A., Barnes, C.E. and Keffer, D.J. “Molecular Simulation of Hydrogen Adsorption in Porous Material Made up with Silsesquioxane Units and Metal Catalytic Site” AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, October 2011.
  • Keffer, D.J., Selvan, M.E. and Calvo-Munoz, E. “Toward a Predictive Understanding of Water and Charge Transport in Proton Exchange Membranes” AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, October 2011.
  • He, Q., Joy, D.C., and Keffer, D.J., “Electron Beam Induced Radiation Damage in Nafion and the Lifetime of Fuel Cells” AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, October 2011.
  • He, Q., Joy, D.C. and Keffer, D.J., “Nano-Particle Adhesion in PEM Fuel Cell Electrodes“ AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, October 2011.
  • Wang, Q., Keffer, D.J., Deng, S. and Mays, J.W., “Multi-Scale Models for Poly (1,3-cyclohexadiene) (PCHD) Polymer” AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, October 2011.
  • Wang, Q., Keffer, D.J., and Nicholson, D.M. “A Coarse-Grained Model for Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) Polymer” AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, October 2011.
  • Le, R.K., Iwuchukwu, I.J., Iwuchukwu, E.A., Bruce, B.A., Sawhney, R.S. and Frymier, P.D., “Optimization of Photosynthetic Hydrogen Yield from Platinized Photosystem I Complexes” AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, October 2011.
  • Iwuchukuw, I., Boder, E., Bruce, B. & Frymier, P., “Protein Engineering for Enhanced Photo-production of Hydrogen” AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2010.
  • Suraweera, N., Xiong, R., Luna, J.P., Nicholson, D.M., Keffer, D.J., “Relationship between Metal Organic Frameworks Structure and Hydrogen Adsorption and Diffusion”, AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2010.
  • He, Q., Keffer, D.J., Zawodzinski, T.A., & Joy, D.C., “SEM and TEM Studies of Electrode Structure in PEM Fuel Cells” AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2010.
  • Wang, Q., Keffer, D.J., Nicholson, D.M., & Thomas, J.B., “Coarse-grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations of PET” AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2010.
  • Wang, Q., Keffer, D.J., Nicholson, D.M., & Thomas, J.B., “Use of the Ornstein-Zernike Percus-Yevick Equation to Extract Interaction Potentials from Pair Correlation Functions” AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2010.
  • Willard, P., Herget, A., Nguyen, K., Harrell, D. & Bruce, B., “Design of a PBS-PSI Fusion for Extended Spectral Response: In Vitro Phycobilisome Disassembly, Reassembly and CPCG2-PSI Fusion” 19th Western Photosynthesis Conference, Pacific Grove, CA, January 2010. Poster
  • Bunn, J., Penumadu, D., Lou, X., & Hubbard, C.R., “Residual Stress Sensor for Multi-axial Loading Conditions at NRSF2”SNS: Scientific Opportunities, Industrial Application and Challenges workshop ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, January 2010. Poster
  • Suraweera, N., Xiong, R., Luna, J.P., & Keffer, D.J., “The Role of Pore Size and Polar Functional Groups in Hydrogen Adsorption in Metal Organic Frameworks,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, November 2009.
  • University of Rhode Island/University of Connecticut Biofuels Symposium program presentation on May 29, 2009, “Cellulosic Bioenergy Production”
  • University Studies Program on February 18, 2009, on our energy future, Sustainability & Technology: Are They Compatible?
  • Slides from UT Open House on October 23, 2008