Ryan Molecke's Online Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:

nanoscale / multiscale systems, protein interactions / chain reactions, diagnostics and treatment of genetic diseases, virology, biomedical engineering, drug-delivery systems, self-assembling systems, directed-assembly, sol-gel systems, optical tweezers, nanoscale electronics and logic systems, molecular dynamics, modeling of nanoscale systems, quantum density functional theory, crystallography and surface energy theory, applied mathematics, order parameterization, cryptography, pattern recognition, artifical vision, high-power electronics, OEM electronics, solar power, photonics, currency trading, arbitration, and brokerage

Publications:

R. Molecke, "Characterization, Modeling, and Simulation of Multiscale Directed-Assembly Systems", Ph.D. Dissertation, University of New Mexico Nanoscience and Microsystems Department, 2011, print (Proquest).

S. Xiong, R. Molecke, M. Bosch, P. R. Schunk, C. J. Brinker, "Transformation of a Close-Packed Au Nanoparticle/Polymer Monolayer into a Large Area Array of Oriented Au Nanowires via E-beam Promoted Uniaxial Deformation and Room Temperature Sintering", accepted for publication in Journal of the American Chemical Society

P. S. Wong, B. Liang, R. Molecke, J. Tatebayashi, D. L. Huffaker, "Controlled Formation and Dynamic Wulff Simulation of Equilibrium Crystal Shapes of GaAs Pyramidal Structures on Nanopatterned Substrates", Crystal Growth and Design 2010, 10(6), 2509-2514

A. Grillet, T. Koehler, C. Brotherton, N. Bell, A. Gorby, M. Reichert, R. Molecke, C. J. Brinker, K. A. Bogart, E. Dufresne, J. Merrill, S. Sainis, J. Park, E. Dunn, E. Furst, M. Mittal, P. Lele, J. Singh, "Nano-Engineering by Optically Directed Self-Assembly", SANDIA REPORT SAND2009-6163 Sept 2009 (unlimited release)

R. Molecke, D. Roberts, J. Zhang, S. Steinberg, B. Wilson, "Protein pathway mapping using Ripley's K and Hopkin's tests for spatial randomness, with extension to graphical user interfaces and colloid simulations.", in review for submission to Bioinformatics

R. Molecke, P. R. Schunk, C. J. Brinker "Evolution in semiconductor crystal shape and surface energy: modeling crystal growth and extrapolating surface energies via augmented Wulff constructions.", in review for submission to Crystal Growth and Design

R. Molecke, S. Xiong, P. R. Schunk, C. J. Brinker, "Discrete-element Simulation and Order Parameterization of Au Nanowires Formed by Thin-Film Processing", in revision

R. Molecke, S. Xiong, C. J. Brinker, P. R. Schunk "Modeling and simulation of soft-particle colloids under dynamic environmental gradients" The 15th International Coating Science and Technology Symposium, Sept 20101 St. Paul, Mn (poster session)

S. Will, M. Gilmore, C.T. Abdallah, J. Herrera, R. Molecke, S. Xie, "Experimental Investigation of Active Feedback Control of Turbulent Transport in a Magnetized Laboratory Plasma" 46th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, Nov 2004 Savannah, GA (poster session)

A. Grillet, C.M. Brotherton, T.P. Kochler, M.D. Reichert, R. Molecke, "Interparticle Interaction Measurements using Laser Tweezers", XVth International Congress on Rheology, August 2008, Monterey, Ca (conference presentation)


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