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Center for Micro Engineered Materials - Frank van Swol
Frank van Swol

Research Professor of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering
University of New Mexico
Advanced Materials Laboratory
1001 University Blvd SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
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Principal Member of Technical Staff
Sandia National Laboratories

Education :

PhD, Doctoral Exam, BS (Chemistry) University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Professional Activities:

American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Materials Research Society

Recent Publications :

73 total publications

Five Publications Most Closely Related to Proposal:

  1. Courtemanche, D. J., and van Swol, F., "On the Wetting State of a Crystal-Fluid System of Hard Spheres", Phys. Rev. Lett., 69, 2078, (1992).
  2. Klingenberg, D. J., van Swol, F., and Zukoski, C. F., "Dynamic Simulation of Electrorheological Suspensions", J. Chem. Phys., 91, 7888, (1989).
  3. Hug, J. E., van Swol, F. and Zukoski, C. F., "The Freezing of Colloidal Suspensions in Confined Systems" Langmuir, 14, 1776 (1995)
  4. Lupkowski, M. and van Swol, F., "Ultrathin Films Under Shear", J. Chem. Phys., 95, 1995, (1991).
  5. Frink, L. J. D. and van Swol, F. "Solvation Forces and Colloidal Stability: A Combined Monte Carlo and Density Functional Theory Approach," J. Chem. Phys., 100,9106 (1994).

Five Additional Significant Publications:

  1. Henderson, J. R. and van Swol, F., "On the Approach to Complete Wetting by Gas at a Liquid-Wall interface. Exact Sum Rules, Fluctuation Theory and the Verification of the Presence of Long-Range Pair Correlations at the Wall," Mol. Phys., 56, 1313 (1985).
  2. Marini Bettolo Marconi, U., and van Swol, F., "A New Microscopic Model for Hysteresis and Phase Equilibria of Fluids Confined Between Parallel Plates," Phys. Rev. A, 39, 4109, (1989).
  3. van Swol, F. and Henderson, J. R., "Wetting and Drying Transitions At A Fluid-Wall Interface. Density Functional Theory Versus Computer Simulation, II," Phys. Rev. A 43, 2932, (1991).
  4. Douglas, L. J., Lupkowski, M., Dodd, T., and van Swol, F., "On the Role of Solvation Forces in Clayswelling and Protein Crystallization", Langmuir, 9, 1442, (1993).
  5. Frink, L.J.D., and van Swol, F. "Solvation Forces Between Rough Surfaces", J. Chem. Phys., 108, 5588, (1998).

Recent Collaborators (within the last 48 months) :

Prof. L.V. Woodcock, Bradford University, UK
Dr. J. R. Henderson, University of Leeds, UK
Prof J. K. Johnson, University of Pittsburgh.
Prof. C.F. Zukoski, University of Illinois.
Dr. L. Steinberg, University of Puerto Rico.
Prof. H. Lekkerkerker, Dr. A van Blaaderen, Dr. W. Kegel, University of Utrecht, NL

Dr . J.G. Curro, Dr J. A. Emerson, Dr, A.J. Hurd, M. R. Baer (All at Sandia Nat’l Labs).

Graduate Advisor :

Prof. L.V. Woodcock and Prof. J. van der Elsken (University of Amsterdam)

Postdoctoral Advisor :

Prof. J.S. Rowlinson (Oxford)

Postdoctoral Associates (2) :

M. Lupkowski (1988-1991), L. Silbert(1999- )

PhD. Students (6) :

David. J. Courtemanche (1993)
Aphrodite Papadopoulou (1993)
David R. Rector(1994)
Eric J. Hug(1994)
Laura J.D. Frink(1995)
Efrosini Kokkoli (1998)