Dr. Alexander published a paper in the Journal of Mathematical Chemistry entitled “Performance of a rigid rod statistical mechanical treatment to predict monolayer ordering: a study of chain interactions and comparison with molecular dynamics simulation”. This paper investigates whether a very simple statistical mechanics model can capture details of organic surface structures with similar accuracy of more expensive molecular dynamics approaches. The work was supported in part by a UofM College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Grant and CROMIUM. The paper can be accessed here.
