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Faculty Research Publications (Physics)

 

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  • Tunable thermal switching via DNA-based nano-devices 
    Chien, Chih-Chun; Velizhanin, Kirill A; Dubi, Yonatan; Zwolak, Michael (IOP Publishing, 2013-02-08)
    DNA has a well-defined structural transition-the denaturation of its double-stranded form into two single strands-that strongly affects its thermal transport properties. We show that, according to a widely implemented mo ...
  • An Expert Path Through a Thermo Maze 
    Kustusch, Mary Bridget; Roundy, David; Dray, Tevian; Manogue, Corinne (American Institute of Physics, 2013-01)
    Several studies in recent years have demonstrated that upper-division students struggle with partial derivatives and the complicated chain rules ubiquitous in thermodynamics. We asked several experts (primarily faculty ...
  • Exploring the thermodynamics of a rubber band 
    Roundy, David; Rogers, Michael (American Association of Physics Teachers, 2013-01)
    We describe an upper-division experiment in thermal physics where students measure the tension of a rubber band as a function of temperature and length, and use a Maxwell relation to find the change in internal energy ...
  • A classical density-functional theory for describing water interfaces 
    Hughes, Jessica; Krebs, Eric J.; Roundy, David (American Institute of Physics, 2013-01-14)
    We develop a classical density functional for water which combines the White Bear fundamental-measure theory (FMT) functional for the hard sphere fluid with attractive interactions based on the statistical associating fl ...
  • Using fundamental measure theory to treat the correlation function of the inhomogeneous hard-sphere fluid 
    Schulte, Jeff B.; Kreitzberg, Patrick A.; Haglund, Chris V.; Roundy, David (2012-12-28)
    We investigate the value of the correlation function of an inhomogeneous hard-sphere fluid at contact. This quantity plays a critical role in statistical associating fluid theory, which is the basis of a number of recen ...