Alumnus
De-Wei (Dewey) Yin

• Grainger Graduate Fellow (2003-2005)
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postgraduate Scholar (2001-2003)
• Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (2005-2008)
• Grid Laboratory of Wisconsin Technical Committee (2003-2008)

Education

• Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008
• M.A.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada, 1997
• B.A.Sc., Chemical Engineering, U. of Waterloo, Canada, 1995

Research Interests

• Volumetric properties and phase transitions in crosslinked polyelectrolyte gels
• Systems with long-range electrostatic interactions
• Molecular simulation methods and code development
• Computational fluid dynamics

Professional Affiliations

• Association of Professional Engineers Ontario
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• American Physical Society
• Canadian Institute of Chemistry
  • Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering

Academic Experience

• Lecturer, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Waterloo, 1997.

Industrial Experience

• Project Leader and Applications Consultant, AEA Technology Engineering Software Ltd. (now ANSYS Canada Ltd.), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1998-2001.
• Wastewater Treatment Engineer, Hydromantis, Inc. Consulting Engineers, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1993-1995.
• Research Assistant, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. Chalk River Laboratories, Ontario, Canada, 1991-1992.

Publications

• De-Wei Yin, Qiliang Yan, and Juan J. de Pablo.
  "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Discontinuous Volume Phase Transitions in Highly-Charged Crosslinked Polyelectrolyte Networks with Explicit Counterions in Good Solvent".
  Journal of Chemical Physics 123(17):174909, November 1, 2005. [doi:10.1063/1.2102827] [AIP/JCP]
• De-Wei Yin, Ferenc Horkay, Jack F. Douglas, and Juan J. de Pablo.
  "Molecular Simulation of the Swelling of Polyelectrolyte Gels by Monovalent and Divalent Counterions".
  Journal of Chemical Physics, 129(15):154902, October 16, 2008. [doi:10.1063/1.2991179] [AIP/JCP]
• De-Wei Yin, Monica Olvera de la Cruz, and Juan J. de Pablo.
  "Swelling and Collapse of Polyelectrolyte Gels in Equilibrium with Monovalent and Divalent Electrolyte Solutions".
  Physical Review Letters, submitted October 29, 2008.

Presentations

Invited Presentation

• De-Wei Yin.
  "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Discontinuous Volume Phase Transitions in Crosslinked Polyelectrolyte Networks".
  U.S. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, December 8, 2005.

Conference Oral Presentations

• De-Wei Yin and Juan J. de Pablo.
  "Simulations of Volume Phase Transitions in Polyelectrolyte Networks Upon Counterion Exchange".
  American Physical Society March Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., 2006 March 13-17.
• De-Wei Yin and Juan J. de Pablo.
  "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Discontinuous Volume Phase Transitions in Permanently Crosslinked Polyelectrolyte Networks".
  American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A., 2005 October 30-November 4.
• De-Wei Yin and Juan J. de Pablo.
  "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Discontinuous Volume Phase Transitions in Permanently Crosslinked Polyelectrolyte Networks".
  55th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2005 October 16-19.
• De-Wei Yin and Juan J. de Pablo.
  "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Polyelectrolyte Networks".
  American Physical Society March Meeting, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., 2005 March 21-25.

Conference Poster Presentation

• De-Wei Yin and Juan J. de Pablo.
  "Numerical Simulation of Discontinuous Volume Transitions in Permanently Crosslinked Polyelectrolyte Networks".
  Gordon Research Conference on Elastomers, Networks, and Gels, New London, New Hampshire, U.S.A., 2005 July 17-22.

Contact

De-Wei Yin, P.Eng.
Senior Engineer
Fluid Mechanics and Mixing
Engineering and Process Sciences
The Dow Chemical Company
Bldg 1707 Rm 8
Midland MI 48674
U.S.A.
tel: +1 989 636-4167