Professor Gennady Gor and his group focus on porous materials and confined fluids, ranging from nanoporous adsorbents and polymer membranes to geological materials, like coal and shale. We use various modeling techniques to represent phenomena at the nanoscale: Monte Carlo simulations, molecular dynamics, density functional theory, etc.
Group in November 2025. Front (left to right): Santiago Alberto Flores Roman (PhD student), Supun Rangana (PhD student), Egor Demidov (PhD student, co-advised), Ivan Rodriguez (undergrad), Brian Castone (undergrad), Gennady Gor (PI), Gunel Nabiyeva (PhD student), Gurdeep Singh (undergrad). Back (left to right): Ashoka Karunarathne (postdoc), Daniel Mottern (PhD student, co-advised), Neil Ahlawat (undergrad), Geordy Jomon (undergrad), Trinh Quoc Dat Luong (PhD student).
Interested in joining the lab?
Note for potential postdoctoral, graduate, undergraduate and high-school researchers: we are always looking for strong candidates to join the group. More details can be found on the positions page. The list of the possible projects is given on the research page, but this list is not necessarily exhaustive.
News and recent publications
12/22/2025: Congratulations to Egor on successful passing of his dissertation proposal!
12/15/2025: Our paper, "Compressibility of Confined Fluids from Volume Fluctuations" led by Jason Ogbebor, came out in Langmuir as a Letter. The PDF is available ope access: DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5c03971.
12/05/2025: Our group attended the 29th Annual Meeting of Northeast Corridor Zeolite Association (NECZA). Gennady gave an invited talk, and participated in the discussion panel, Dan and Santiago presented posters on their research on zeolites and COFs.
11/06/2025: Our group attended the 2025 AIChE Annual Meeting in Boston. Both Geordy and Santiago gave oral presentations. Gennady presented in the Area 2E plenary session.
10/02/2025: Gennady gave a seminar at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at University of Alabama.
9/26/2025: Our group organized the 6th Molecular Simulation Workshop. This time we had participants from all over the region, NJIT, CCNY, Lehigh University, Rowan University, Princeton University, Rutgers University. Thanks to Gunel Nabiyeva for organizing and Dr. John Landers (Apollodyne) for the sponsorship.
9/16/2025: Gennady gave a seminar at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University.
9/12/2025: Gennady gave a seminar at the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers.
9/04/2025: Gunel's work with Colgate-Palmolive "Sunscreen Sensory Attribute Prediction via Textural, Rheological, and Tribological Tests" is published in
Int. J. Cosmet. Sci.DOI: 10.1111/ics.70021
7/24/2025: Gennady gave a Highlighted Oral Presentation at the 27th IUPAC International Conference on Chemical Thermodynamics (ICCT2025).
7/10/2025: Congratulations to Gunel on successful passing of her dissertation proposal!
6/23/2025: Congratulations to Egor on successful passing of his qualifying examination!
6/27/2025: Santiago, Geordy, and Gennady attended the 2025 MSEE Annual Review Meeting, in Washington DC. We presented our new results on force field parameterization and molecular simulations of organophosphates.
6/11/2025: Congratulations to Supun on successful passing of his qualifying examination!
6/05/2025: Our new paper "Ultrasound propagation in water-sorbing carbon xerogel" came out in NPJ Acoustics DOI: 10.1038/s44384-025-00015-8
6/04/2025: Gennady visited California, presenting seminars at the UCSD and Stanford University. The Stanford colloquium was recorded and available for anyone to watch.
5/26/2025: A collaborative paper led by Prof. Khalizov "Capillary Condensation: An Unaccounted Pathway for Rapid Aging of Atmospheric Soot" came out in Environmental Science and Technology. The article was highlighted on the journal cover. The PDF is available at DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5c00633.
4/30/2025: Our CME Department held its Annual Scholarship, Service, and Research Award Ceremony. Congratulations to my group members Trinh Quoc Dat Luong, Gunel Nabiyeva and Santiago Alberto Flores Roman on their awards!
4/07/2025: Gennady, Geordy Jomon and Grecia Manrique visited Bergen Community College to meet with students and told them about CME department, chemical and materials engineering undergraduate programs, and the NJIT-BCC summer research program.
3/27/2025: Gennady gave a seminar at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Manchester.
3/26/2025: Gennady gave a seminar at the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering at the University of Sheffield.
3/21/2025: Gennady gave a seminar at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Alicante.
3/19/2025: Gennady visited the University of Vienna, giving a seminar at the Department of Functional Materials and Catalysis.
1/25/2025: Our group presented at two conferences organized at NJIT: Gennady and Gunel presented at the 19th Northeast Complex Fluids and Soft Matter Workshop. Egor and Geordy presented at the 43rd Regional Meeting on Kinetics and Dynamics.
1/14/2025: Santiago's new paper "Molecular Simulation Study of Elasticity of Fluid-Saturated Zeolites" came out in J. Phys. Chem. C. Our simulations show that when zeolites pores are filled with adsorbed gas, the overall bulk modulus of zeolites increases by a factor of two! The PDF is available at DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c04839.
1/01/2025: Gennady started as an Associate Editor of Adsorption, the journal of the International Adsorption Society published by Springer Nature. The journal coverage includes fundamental and practical aspects of adsorption: mathematics, thermodynamics, chemistry, and physics, as well as processes, applications, models engineering, and equipment design.
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