Alumnus
Kevin L. Van Workum

Education

• Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002
  • Thesis: Mechanical Properties of Solids and Nanoscopic Structures via Molecular Simulations

Publications

• Kenji Yoshimoto, Tushar S. Jain, Kevin Van Workum, Paul F. Nealey, Juan J. de Pablo.
  "Mechanical heterogeneities in model polymer glasses at small length scales".
  Physical Review Letters, 93(17):175501, October 18, 2004. [doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.175501] [APS/PRL]
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• Kevin Van Workum, Thomas R. Böhme, and Juan J. de Pablo.
  "Modelling of Polymer Glasses: Molecular Dynamics".
  Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology, Elsevier, 2004 November 10. ISBN 0-08-043152-6. [DOI]
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• Kevin Van Workum and Juan J. de Pablo.
  " Computer Simulation of the Mechanical Properties of Amorphous Polymer Nanostructures ".
  Nano Letters 3(10):1405-1410, 2003 September 4. [DOI]
• Kevin Van Workum and Juan J. de Pablo.
  "Local elastic constants in thin films of an fcc crystal".
  Physical Review E 67 031601, 2003 March 11. [DOI] [APS/PRE]
• Kevin Van Workum and Juan J. de Pablo.
  "Improved simulation method for the calculation of the elastic constants of crystalline and amorphous systems using strain fluctuations ".
  Physical Review E 67 011505, 2003 January 22. [DOI] [APS/PRE]

Contact

Dr. Kevin Van Workum
Assistant Research Professor
Department of Chemistry
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis, MD 21403
U.S.A.