Jonathan Whitmer
Associate Professor
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
Prof. Whitmer's research interests include equilibrium and nonequilibrium polyelectrolytes; liquid crystalline gels, elastomers, and sensors; and colloidal clustering and assembly.
Research Interests
Energy Conversion and Efficiency, Computer Simulation, Liquid Crystals, Microfluidics, Patchy Particles, Statistical Mechanics
Relevant Energy Publications
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.