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 October 2024. Left to Right: Santiago Alberto Flores Roman (PhD student), Gunel Nabiyeva (PhD student), Geordy Jomon (undergrad), Egor Demidov (PhD student, co-advised), Gennady Gor (PI), Andrei Kolesnikov (postdoc), Trinh Quoc Dat Luong (undergrad), Ashoka Karunarathne (postdoc), Liza Basharova (PhD student), Supun Ragana (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
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.
12/18/2024: Congratulations to our group alumnus, Nick Corrente, on the succesful defense of his doctoral dissertation "Coupling Structural, Adsorption, and Mechanical Properties of Nanoporous Carbons Using Advanced Molecular Simulation Methods" at Rutgers University.
12/06/2024: Santiago, Ashoka and Andrei presented their results at The 28th Annual Meeting of NECZA (Northeast Corridor Zeolite Association).
11/22/2024: Egor's new paper came out in Phys. Rev. E. This work presents a implementation of a DEM (discrete element method) for modeling atmospheric soot aggregates. The PDF is available at DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.110.054902. The new code Soot-DEM is available on GitHib.
11/22/2024: Gennady visited the University of Houston, giving a seminar at the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
10/31/2024: Our new paper came out in Langmuir, presenting a model of kinetics of adsorption-induced deformation along with the experimental data from our collaborators from Moscow. The PDF is available at DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c02779.
10/28/2024: Gennady presented a talk "Utilizing Ultrasound to Complement Adsorption Characterization of Porous Materials" in the Area 2E Plenary Session: Adsorption and Ion Exchange - In Honor of Matthias Thommes at the AIChE Annual Meeting.
10/22/2024: Gennady visited the University of Minnesota and presented a seminar "Elasticity of Fluids in Nanopores: Molecular Modeling and Ultrasonic Experiments" at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.
10/09/2024: Our new paper "Effects of Humidity on Mycelium-Based Leather" came out in ACS Applied Bio Materials! The PDF is available at DOI: 10.1021/acsabm.4c00586. This is a story about a very cool sustainable product -- bio-based leather. To be more specific, it is a mushroom-based leather made by Bolt. The paper has a lot of characterization data, but the central part of the story is mechanical characterization using our new method -- sorption-ultrasonic testing.
10/04/2024: Gennady visited the New York University, giving a seminar within the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering graduate seminar series.
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.
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