{"id":2,"date":"2015-12-03T15:38:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T15:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/kindtgroup\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-04-29T18:53:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T18:53:47","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/kindtgroup\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kindt group is not currently taking students or postdoctoral fellows.<\/p>\n

My current primary responsibilities within the Department of Chemistry are to teach and to serve as Director of Undergraduate Studies. \u00a0As the opportunity arises, I occasionally advise students and colleagues on research questions related to simulation and theory (thermodynamics and kinetics).<\/p>\n


\n\"Summer2018\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We use computer simulation and formal theory to study the fascinating phenomenon of molecular self-assembly: the spontaneous and reversible aggregation of molecules into a wide variety of structures. \u00a0Self-assembly is common in biological systems, and also provides a useful approach to the synthesis of materials with nanoscale features. \u00a0 Our research goals are to understand and predict how the sizes, shapes, and various other properties of self-assembled structures depend on the chemical structures of their constituents and on conditions of temperature, pressure and concentration. \u00a0Using a range of theoretical and computational tools (e.g. molecular dynamics, Brownian dynamics, Monte Carlo, and statistical thermodynamics) we can learn both how a molecule’s structure influences local packing\u00a0and\u00a0<\/i>how local effects give rise to mesoscale structure and bulk phase behavior.<\/p>\n

See the menu above for more information on active projects within the group, the people who are doing this work, and our research publications.<\/p>\n

\"Sphere-80-Erdong\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Spheres packed on the surface of a (160 times) larger sphere, modeled via solvent-repacking grand canonical Monte Carlo algorithm. \u00a0Color coding indicates number of neighbors; grey for 6, red for 7, blue for 5, yellow for 4. \u00a0Simulation by Erdong Lu.<\/p>\n

Financial support for the Kindt group research activities has been provided by National Science Foundation grants CHE-1213904, CHE-0911285, CHE-0616383, and CHE-0316076
\nand ACS Petroleum Research Fund \u00a0grant 54642-ND6. Current funding from the Department of Chemistry and the Emory University Research Committee is gratefully acknowledged. \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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