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  • 2014 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering applications of KohnSham density functional theory to further our understanding of complex processes that occur at the airwater interface

Overview

Christopher J. Mundy is affiliated with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy, Materials Science, and Chemistry, with significant contributions to several subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biomaterials.

Their work has covered a range of scientific topics, including:

  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Electrostatics and Colloid Interactions
  • Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
  • Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies
  • Material Dynamics and Properties

Mundy has published extensively in several key journals and venues, with notable frequent publications in:

  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Some of the recent papers associated with Christopher J. Mundy include:

  • CP2K: An electronic structure and molecular dynamics software package - Quickstep: Efficient and accurate electronic structure calculations, 2020, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Connecting energetics to dynamics in particle growth by oriented attachment using real-time observations, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Hierarchical Materials from High Information Content Macromolecular Building Blocks: Construction, Dynamic Interventions, and Prediction, 2022, Chemical Reviews
  • Moving beyond the Solvent-Tip Approximation to Determine Site-Specific Variations of Interfacial Water Structure through 3D Force Microscopy, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • MARTINI-Compatible Coarse-Grained Model for the Mesoscale Simulation of Peptoids, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Christopher J. Mundy has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Gregory K. Schenter
  • Jaehun Chun
  • James J. De Yoreo
  • Jim Pfaendtner
  • Elias Nakouzi

In 2014, Christopher J. Mundy was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) with a citation for pioneering applications of Kohn-Sham density functional theory contributing to the understanding of complex processes that occur at the air-water interface.

Best Publications

  • CP2K: An electronic structure and molecular dynamics software package - Quickstep: Efficient and accurate electronic structure calculations

    Thomas D. Kühne;Marcella Iannuzzi;Mauro Del Ben;Vladimir V. Rybkin

  • An ab initio molecular dynamics study of the aqueous liquid-vapor interface.

    I-Feng W. Kuo;Christopher J. Mundy

  • Liquid Water from First Principles: Investigation of Different Sampling Approaches

    I-Feng W. Kuo;Christopher J. Mundy;Matthew J. Mcgrath;J. Ilja Siepmann

  • Isobaric−Isothermal Molecular Dynamics Simulations Utilizing Density Functional Theory: An Assessment of the Structure and Density of Water at Near-Ambient Conditions

    Jochen Schmidt;Joost VandeVondele;I-F W. Kuo;Daniel Sebastiani

  • Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Liquid Water: Hybrid Density Functionals†

    Teodora Todorova;Ari P. Seitsonen;Jurg Hutter;I-Feng W. Kuo

  • Dynamic ionization of water under extreme conditions.

    Alexander F. Goncharov;Nir Goldman;Laurence E. Fried;Jonathan C. Crowhurst

  • General and efficient algorithms for obtaining maximally localized Wannier functions

    Gerd Berghold;Christopher J. Mundy;Aldo H. Romero;Jürg Hutter

  • On the classical statistical mechanics of non-Hamiltonian systems

    M. E. Tuckerman;C. J. Mundy;G. J. Martyna

  • No confinement needed: observation of a metastable hydrophobic wetting two-layer ice on graphene.

    Gregory A. Kimmel;Jesper Matthiesen;Marcel Baer;Christopher J. Mundy

  • Understanding the surface potential of water.

    Shawn M. Kathmann;I-Feng William Kuo;Christopher J. Mundy;Gregory K. Schenter

  • Simulation and Theory of Ions at Atmospherically Relevant Aqueous Liquid-Air Interfaces

    Douglas J. Tobias;Abraham C. Stern;Marcel D. Baer;Yan Levin

  • Modified nonequilibrium molecular dynamics for fluid flows with energy conservation

    Mark E. Tuckerman;Christopher J. Mundy;Sundaram Balasubramanian;Michael L. Klein

  • Electronic effects on the surface potential at the vapor-liquid interface of water.

    Shawn M. Kathmann;I-Feng William Kuo;Christopher J. Mundy

  • Supersaturated calcium carbonate solutions are classical.

    Katja Henzler;Evgenii O. Fetisov;Mirza Galib;Marcel D. Baer

  • Structure and Dynamics of the Aqueous Liquid−Vapor Interface: A Comprehensive Particle-Based Simulation Study⊥

    I-F. Will Kuo, ,†;Christopher J. Mundy;Becky L. Eggimann;Matthew J. McGrath

  • The Effect of Polarizability for Understanding the Molecular Structure of Aqueous Interfaces.

    Collin D. Wick;I-Feng W. Kuo;Christopher J. Mundy;Liem X. Dang

  • Simulating fluid-phase equilibria of water from first principles.

    Matthew J. Mcgrath;J. Ilja Siepmann;I.-Feng W. Kuo;Christopher J. Mundy

  • Revisiting the hydration structure of aqueous Na.

    M. Galib;M. D. Baer;L. B. Skinner;C. J. Mundy

  • Tuning crystallization pathways through sequence engineering of biomimetic polymers

    Xiang Ma;Xiang Ma;Shuai Zhang;Fang Jiao;Fang Jiao;Christina J. Newcomb

  • Toward an Understanding of the Specific Ion Effect Using Density Functional Theory

    Marcel D. Baer;Christopher J. Mundy

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory K. Schenter
Gregory K. Schenter Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
J. Ilja Siepmann
J. Ilja Siepmann University of Minnesota
James J. De Yoreo
James J. De Yoreo Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jürg Hutter
Jürg Hutter University of Zurich
Douglas J. Tobias
Douglas J. Tobias University of California, Irvine
Michael L. Klein
Michael L. Klein Temple University
Sundaram Balasubramanian
Sundaram Balasubramanian Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
Evan J. Reed
Evan J. Reed Stanford University
Laurence E. Fried
Laurence E. Fried Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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