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A0249 BOURNS HALL
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Wu, Jianzhong

Professor

Bourns College of Engineering

Chemical/Environmental Engineering


Biography

Former Institution

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Degrees

B.E. Chemical Engineering 1991

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

B.S. Applied Mathematics 1991

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

M.S. Chemical Engingeering 1994

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering 1998

UC Berkeley

Awards

• Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (2008)
• Regents’ Faculty Development Award, University of California at Riverside (2003)
• Regents’ Faculty Fellowship, University of California at Riverside (2001)
• Outstanding Performance Award, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2000)
• Progress in Science and Technology Award (2nd place team award), Ministry of Education, P. R. China (1999)
• Shen Graduate Award, University of California at Berkeley (1996)


Research Area

My research concerns development and application of molecular theory and simulation methods for predicting microscopic structure and thermodynamic properties of soft matter and biological systems. The fundamental research is useful for a variety of engineering applications including energy production and storage, environmental protection, rational design and fabrication of polymeric materials and pharmaceutics, and target delivery of biomolecular drugs.

Publications

Recent Publications

1. “Pairwise additive hydrophobic effect for alkanes in water”, J. Wu and J. M. Prausnitz, Proceedings of National Academy of Science of the United States, 105(28): 9512–9515, 2008.

2. ''Density functional theory for complex fluids'', J. Wu, Z. Li, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 58:85-112 (2007).

3. ''Density functional theory for polyelectrolytes near oppositely charged surfaces,'' Z. Li and J. Wu, Physical Review Letters, 96, Article# 048302 (2006).

4. “Microstructure of block copolymers near selective surfaces: Theoretical predictions and configurational-bias Monte Carlo simulation” (D. Cao and J. Wu), Macromolecules, 38, 971-978 (2005).

5. “Novel Carbonaceous Materials for Hydrogen Storage” (D. Cao, P. Feng and J. Wu), Nano Letters, 4(8), 1489-1492 (2004).

6. “Phase behavior of thermally responsive microgel colloids”, J. Wu, B. Zhou, and Z. Hu, Physical Review Letters, 90(4), 048304(2003).


For additional information, please visit

http://www.engr.ucr.edu/~jwu