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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering contributions in computational and theoretical polymers physics especially in the areas of polyelectrolytes, polymer blends, and confined polymers
  • 1997 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Arun Yethiraj is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Engineering. Their work intersects several specialized fields including Molecular Biology, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist has published extensively on topics related to Electrostatics and Colloid Interactions, Protein Structure and Dynamics, Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior, Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies, Ionic Liquids Properties and Applications, Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, as well as RNA Research and Splicing.

Among the recent academic papers by Arun Yethiraj are:

  • Deep Eutectic Solvents: Molecular Simulations with a First-Principles Polarizable Force Field (2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B)
  • A Transferable Polarizable Force Field for Urea Crystals and Aqueous Solutions (2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B)
  • Why Lithium Ions Stick to Some Anions and Not Others (2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B)
  • Sensitive and selective polymer condensation at membrane surface driven by positive co-operativity (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Phase Behavior of Poly(ethylene oxide) in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids: A Molecular Simulation and Deep Neural Network Study (2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B)

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (10 publications)
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics (7 publications)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (2 publications)

Collaborations have been a significant component of their research output. Frequent co-authors include Ajay Muralidharan, In-Hyuk Jang, Qiang Cui, Aditya Singh, and Kyeong-Jun Jeong.

Over their career, Arun Yethiraj has received recognition from professional organizations. Notably, they were named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2001 for contributions in computational and theoretical polymer physics, focusing on polyelectrolytes, polymer blends, and confined polymers. They were also a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1997.

Best Publications

  • A new coarse-grained model for water: the importance of electrostatic interactions.

    Zhe Wu;Qiang Cui;Arun Yethiraj

  • Self-diffusion and viscosity in electrolyte solutions.

    Jun Soo Kim;Zhe Wu;Andrew R. Morrow;Anand Yethiraj

  • Monte Carlo density functional theory of nonuniform polymer melts

    Arun Yethiraj;Clifford E. Woodward

  • Monte-Carlo simulation of polymers confined between flat plates

    Arun Yethiraj;Carol K. Hall

  • Polymer reference interaction site model theory: New molecular closures for phase separating fluids and alloys

    Kenneth S. Schweizer;Arun Yethiraj

  • Rheology of Confined Polymer Melts

    Rajesh Khare;Juan J. de Pablo;Arun Yethiraj

  • Why Are Lipid Rafts Not Observed In Vivo

    Arun Yethiraj;James C. Weisshaar

  • Effect of macromolecular crowding on reaction rates: a computational and theoretical study.

    Jun Soo Kim;Arun Yethiraj

  • Low-symmetry sphere packings of simple surfactant micelles induced by ionic sphericity.

    Sung A. Kim;Kyeong Jun Jeong;Arun Yethiraj;Mahesh K. Mahanthappa

  • Molecular simulation and continuum mechanics study of simple fluids in non-isothermal planar couette flows

    Rajesh Khare;Juan de Pablo;Arun Yethiraj

  • Solvent effects on the collapse dynamics of polymers

    Rakwoo Chang;Arun Yethiraj

  • Short chains at surfaces and interfaces: A quantitative comparison between density-functional theories and Monte Carlo simulations

    M. Müller;L. G. MacDowell;A. Yethiraj

  • Entropy-based mechanism of ribosome-nucleoid segregation in E. coli cells.

    Jagannath Mondal;Benjamin P. Bratton;D Yijie Li;Arun Yethiraj

  • Liquid‐state theory of the density dependent conformation of nonpolar linear polymers

    Christopher J. Grayce;Arun Yethiraj;Kenneth S. Schweizer

  • Monte Carlo simulation of hard chain–hard sphere mixtures in slitlike pores

    Arun Yethiraj;C. K. Hall

  • Monte Carlo simulations and integral equation theory for microscopic correlations in polymeric fluids

    Arun Yethiraj;Carol K. Hall

  • Monte Carlo simulation of confined semiflexible polymer melts

    Arun Yethiraj

  • Phase behavior of semiflexible tangent hard sphere chains

    Herb Fynewever;Arun Yethiraj

  • Density functional theory of polymers: A Curtin-Ashcroft type weighted density approximation

    Arun Yethiraj

  • Surface segregation in polymer blends due to stiffness disparity

    Arun Yethiraj;Sanat Kumar;Arvind Hariharan;Kenneth S. Schweizer

  • The effect of macromolecular crowding on reaction rates: a computational and theoretical study

    Jun Soo Kim;Arun Yethiraj

Frequent Co-Authors

Qiang Cui
Qiang Cui Boston University
Carol K. Hall
Carol K. Hall North Carolina State University
J. R. Schmidt
J. R. Schmidt University of Wisconsin–Madison
Juan J. de Pablo
Juan J. de Pablo New York University
Stephan Link
Stephan Link Rice University
Kenneth S. Schweizer
Kenneth S. Schweizer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Biman Bagchi
Biman Bagchi Indian Institute of Science
Pavel Jungwirth
Pavel Jungwirth Czech Academy of Sciences
Sanat K. Kumar
Sanat K. Kumar Columbia University
Gregory D. Scholes
Gregory D. Scholes Princeton University

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