Ionic Liquids

Room temperature ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents The behavior of polymers is complex solvents, such as room temperature ionic liquids or deep eutectic solvents, is interesting from both a fundamental and practical perspective.   The …

Electrolytes for Lithium Battery Applications

Electrolytes for Lithium battery applications Improving lithium-ion battery performance is of technological importance due to increased demand for consumer electronics and the increasing electrification of automobiles.  Understanding the effect of chemical detail on the performance …

Polyelectrolytes and Coacervates

Polyelectrolytes and Polymer Coacervates Polyelectrolytes are an important and interesting class of soft matter. Their fundamental interest arises from the fascinating range of properties they can display.  For example, single polyelectrolyte chains are predicted to …

Machine Learning

Machine Learning We use a number of supervised and un-supervised machine learning (ML) methods to study the phase behavior of complex fluids and the conformational properties of macromolecules. Convolutional neural network An example is the …