Current Position

Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Education

Ph.D., Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
M.S., Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
B.S., Math and Physics, Kansas State University

Research Interests

Prof. Whitmer's research interests include equilibrium and nonequilibrium polyelectrolytes; liquid crystalline gels, elastomers, and sensors; and colloidal clustering and assembly.

Key Words

Computer Simulation, Liquid Crystals, Microfluidics, Patchy Particles, Statistical Mechanics

Relevant Energy Publications

1. Sevgen, Emre, Ashley Z. Guo, Hythem Sidky, Jonathan K. Whitmer, and Juan J. de Pablo. "Combined force-frequency sampling for simulation of systems having rugged free energy landscapes." Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 16, no. 3 (2020): 1448-1455.
2. Huang, Shanghui, Michael J. Quevillon, Soren Kyhl, and Jonathan K. Whitmer. "Surveying the free energy landscape of clusters of attractive colloidal spheres." The Journal of Chemical Physics 152, no. 13 (2020): 134901.
3. Shi, Jiale, Hythem Sidky, and Jonathan K. Whitmer. "Automated determination of n-cyanobiphenyl and n-cyanobiphenyl binary mixtures elastic constants in the nematic phase from molecular simulation." Molecular Systems Design & Engineering 5, no. 6 (2020): 1131-1136.
4. Rathee, Vikramjit S., Hythem Sidky, Benjamin J. Sikora, and Jonathan K. Whitmer. "Explicit ion effects on the charge and conformation of weak polyelectrolytes." Polymers 11, no. 1 (2019): 183.
5. Han, Ming, Jonathan K. Whitmer, and Erik Luijten. "Dynamics and structure of colloidal aggregates under microchannel flow." Soft matter 15, no. 4 (2019): 744-751.

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