Alexandros Chremos
Employment
2012 – 2014 Postdoctoral research associate Imperial College, Department of Chemical Engineering, Centre for Process Systems Engineering.
2009-2012 Postdoctoral research associate Princeton University, Chemical and Biological Engineering and Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials.
Education
2005-2008 PhD, "Self-Assembly in Soft-Matter" University of Edinburgh, School of Chemistry.
2000-2004 BSc (Hons) Mathematical Physics University of Edinburgh, School of Physics.
Research Interests
Polyelectrolytes and counter-ions
Synthetic and biological polymers (e.g., DNA and proteins) are challenging to model due to the formation of dynamic layers of associated water and counter-ion particles in the proximity of the polyelectrolyte. The dynamics of these polyelectrolytes are predominantly influenced by the associating species in these layers. This association phenomenon and the coupling to the polymer dynamics is poorly understood. Molecular dynamics of bead-spring model and an explicit solvent are used to develop quantitative metrologies for quantifying this complex interactions between the polyelectrolytes and these dynamic layers of associating particles.
Impact of Molecular Shape in Dense Polymeric Materials
We investigate the role of molecular shape in the thermodynamics and in the dynamics of dense fluids. Towards understanding the impact of molecular shape, ZENO is applied to compute shape related characteristics including the hydrodynamic radius and sphericity, and molecular dynamics simulations with a bead-spring model are used to investigate the thermodynamical and dynamical behavior of distinct molecular topologies such as linear chains, stars, and rings.