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 March 2024. Back row: Ashoka Karunarathne (postdoc), Gunel Nabiyeva (PhD student), Santiago Alberto Flores Roman (PhD student), Ella Ivanova (PhD student). Front row: Andrei Kolesnikov (postdoc), Matthew Stickles (undergrad), Gennady Gor (PI), Geordy Jomon (undergrad), Egor Demidov (PhD student, co-advised).
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
9/17/2024: Gennady visited the University of Southern California, giving a seminar at the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.
9/13/2024: Our group hosted the 5th Molecular Simulation workshop with more than 50 researchers from NJIT, Rutgers, Princeton, NYU, Johns Hopkins University, MIT, etc. More information is here.
9/10/2024: Gennady visited the MEAM department at UPenn, presenting in the graduate seminar series.
9/06/2024: Gennady presented a talk on molecular modeling and experimental study of compressibility of fluids in nanopores at the Thermodynamics-2024 conference, at TU Delft, the Netherlands.
9/02/2024: Gennady visited Imperial College London, presenting a seminar in the Chemical Engineering department.
8/14/2024: Gennady visited the Partners in Science program for high-school students and presented about Chemical Engineering and Materials Science -- as a field of study, profession and a research career.
8/09/2024: Our lab hosted very special guests -- coordinators of the Liberty Science Center's Partners in Science program for high-school students, Ruben Rosario and Kara Mann, and two of the program participants -- Maithili Chaudhari and Alan Qu. Alan and Maithili spent their summer learning from Gunel Nabiyeva various aspects of sorption and swelling of natural soft materials.
8/06/2024: We are looking forward to seeing you at the 5th Molecular Simulation workshop. More information is here.
7/22/2024: Our invited perspective article (Gennady Gor and Andrei Kolesnikov "What Drives Deformation of Smart Nanoporous Materials During Adsorption and Electrosorption?") was published in Langmuir. The PDF is available at DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c00443.
7/18/2024: Congratulations to Geordy Jomon on his MSEE Undergraduate Research Award! This award will fund his research starting this fall. Geordy will join our big MSEE family (Materials Science in Extreme Environments), an alliance of 17 research institutions sponsored by DTRA.
6/13/2024: Our new paper (Boris Gurevich, Michel Nzikou, and Gennady Gor "Modeling Patchy Saturation of Fluids in Nanoporous Media Probed by Ultrasound and Optics") was published in Phys. Rev. E. The PDF is available at DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.109.064801. This work demonstrates the power of sorption-ultrasonics method to study fluids in nanoporous media.
6/13/2024: Liza and Gennady attended the MSEE Annual Review meeting at Johns Hopkins University, presenting viscosity predictions of organophosphates.
5/17/2024: The group, led by Ella, recorded a nice overview of the group research, now available on YouTube.
4/23/2024: Congratulations to Ella Ivanova on defending her PhD in Chemical Engineering! Her thesis "Molecular-to-Continuum Scale Modeling of Aerosols: Atmospheric Application and Beyond" was co-advised by Gennady Gor and Alexei Khalizov and co-sponsored by NSF and MSEE. Ella continues her career as a postdoc at UC Riverside.
4/18/2024: Gennady visited the Earth and Environmental Engineering department at Columbia University, presenting the seminar "Compressibility of Fluids in Nanopores: Molecular Modeling and Ultrasonic Experiments."
4/06/2024: Congratulations to Geordy Jomon on receiving the NJIT Provost Undergraduate Research and Innovation (URI) Summer Fellowship!
3/22/2024: Gennady visited the Petroleum Engineering Department at the Louisiana State University, presenting in the graduate seminar series.
3/20/2024: Gennady presented a talk "Smart Nanoporous Materials: Mechanisms of Actuation by Adsorption and Electrosorption" at The International Adsorption Society webinar series. The recording is available on YouTube.
3/04/2024: Gennady attended the APS March Meeting, (March 3-8, 2024, Minneapolis, MN, USA) and presented a talk "Bacterial Spores Respond to Humidity Similarly to Hydrogels" based on the PNAS paper which just came out: DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2320763121
2/28/2024: Our new paper "Bacterial Spores Respond to Humidity Similarly to Hydrogels" (Gor, G. Y.; Scherer, G. W.; Stone, H. A.) was published in PNAS DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2320763121
2/26/2024: Gennady visited the Chemical Engineering Department at the City College of New York, presenting in the ChemE graduate seminar series.
2/20/2024: Gennady visited the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Rutgers presented a seminar "Smart Nanoporous Materials: Mechanisms of Actuation by Adsorption and Electrosorption" at the MSE Graduate Seminar Series.
2/07/2024: Gennady presented a seminar "Smart Nanoporous Materials: Mechanisms of Actuation by Adsorption and Electrosorption" at the Princeton Materials Institute Seminar Series.
1/01/2024: Congratulations to Gunel Nabiyeva on successfully passing the qualifying examination!
12/01/2023: Santiago and Gennady attended the 27th Annual Meeting of Northeast Corridor Zeolite Association (NECZA) at the Villanova University. Santiago presented a poster "Mechanical Properties of Gases Adsorbed on Zeolites from the Fluctuation Theory".
11/30/2023: Our project "Elastic Properties of Confined Fluids and their Role for Wave Propagation in Nanoporous Media" (PI: Gor, Co-PI: Khalizov) was funded by the NSF. More details are available on the NSF website.
11/17/2023: We hosted Patrick Huber's group members, Guido Dittrich, Juan Sanchez, Laura Gallardo at NJIT, and organized a joint group meeting to discuss various problems related to fluids in nanoporous media.
11/09/2023: Gennady presented three talks at the AIChE Annual Meeting: two contributed "Effect of Water Vapor Adsorption on Ultrasonic Wave Propagation in Nanoporous Glasses" and "Adsorption-Induced Deformation of Zeolites 4A and 13X: Experimental and Molecular Simulation Study", and an invited talk "Predicting Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of Organophosphates: A Molecular Simulation Substitute for Experiments that You Don't Want to Perform" in the AIChE Futures Session. He also chaired the Area 2E session "Molecular and Data Science Modeling of Adsorption".
10/30/2023: Gennady visited UT Austin and gave a seminar on "Compressibility of Fluids in Nanopores: Molecular Modeling and Ultrasonic Experiments" within the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Graduate Seminar Series.
10/10/2023: Gennady presented a talk "Swelling of Polypropylene Separators and Its Effect on the Lithium-Ion Battery Performance" at the 244th ECS Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden.
10/02/2023: Ella attended the 41st AAAR Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon and gave a talk "Modeling of Joint Capillary Condensation of Trace Chemicals and Water on Fractal Soot Aggregate" (Ivanova, E. V.; Hasani, A.; Demidov, E.; Gor, G. Y.; Khalizov, A. F.)
10/02/2023: Gennady participated at the DIMP Workshop organized by the MSEE URA at the Johns Hopkins University, presenting a summary of the group's work performed over the last few years "Molecular dynamics prediction of DIMP and other organophosphorus liquids".
9/12/2023: Gennady visited Texas A&M University presenting a seminar in the Petroleum Engineering Seminar Series.
9/05/2023: Gennady started his sabbatical leave, spending the first part of it at Princeton University working with Howard Stone's Complex Fluids Group.
8/19/2023: This summer our group hosted three high school students, two of them through the Liberty Science Center's Partners in Science program: Rishan Tilve and Alexandra Whittle. At the research symposium organized by the LSC, Rishan presented his research on modeling liquid metals, and Allie presented on modeling ultrasound propagation in batteries.
Allie commented on her experience as follows: "I really enjoyed learning how to code and how to apply it to problems in my desired field of study - chemical engineering - and get actual results that can be used by scientists in their research." Read more in the highlights of the event published by the LSC.
8/10/2023: Gennady attended the Research Project Showcase organized by Bergen Community College, serving as a judge for students poster and participating as a pannelist in the Career Connection.
8/09/2023: Our paper (Ogbebor, J.; Valenza, J. J.; Ravikovitch, P. I.; Karunarathne, A.; Muraro, G.; Lebedev, M.; Gurevich, B. Khalizov, A. F.; Gor, G. Y. "Ultrasonic Study of Water Adsorbed in Nanoporous Glasses") was published in Phys. Rev. E. The PDF is available at DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.108.024802.
The paper reports experimental study of water adsorbing in nanoporous glasses. This work, supported by NSF, confirmed our hypothesis that water in a nanopore is stiffer than the bulk water. Congratulations to Jason, on his first publication!
8/04/2023: Our paper (Emelianova, A.; Balzer, C.; Reichenauer, G.; Gor, G. Y. "Adsorption-Induced Deformation of Zeolites 4A and 13X: Experimental and Molecular Simulation Study") came out in Langmuir. The PDF is available at DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c01248.
The experiments done a few years back by Christian Balzer and Gudrun Reichenauer showed qualitative difference in adsorption-induced deformations for two types of zeolites, for which the adsorption isotherms looked very similar. Thermodynamic model was not able to explain this difference. However, coupled MC-MD simulation, utilized by Alina Emelianova, helped to resolve the puzzle.
The paper was selected as "ACS Editors' Choice", so it is available free of charge.
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