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G. N. Patey is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada, conducting research primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences. The scientist's body of work extends notably into Atmospheric Science, with additional contributions in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, and Spectroscopy.

The research topics covered by G. N. Patey include:

  • nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Diffusion Coefficients in Liquids

Publications by G. N. Patey include several papers published in key journals within the physical chemistry and atmospheric science fields. Notable recent papers are:

  • Unified Description of Diffusion Coefficients from Small to Large Molecules in Organic-Water Mixtures, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • How Microscopic Features of Mineral Surfaces Critically Influence Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Effects of Inorganic Ions on Ice Nucleation by the Al Surface of Kaolinite Immersed in Water, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Molecular Simulations of Feldspar Surfaces Interacting with Aqueous Inorganic Solutions: Interfacial Water/Ion Structure and Implications for Ice Nucleation, 2021, ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
  • Unraveling the Mechanism of Ice Nucleation by Mica (001) Surfaces, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

G. N. Patey frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

The scientist collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • Allan K. Bertram
  • Abhishek Soni
  • Anand Kumar
  • Yi Ren
  • Hayden Scheiber

Best Publications

  • The solution of the hypernetted‐chain approximation for fluids of nonspherical particles. A general method with application to dipolar hard spheres

    P. H. Fries;G. N. Patey

  • Orientational order in simple dipolar liquids: Computer simulation of a ferroelectric nematic phase.

    Dongqing Wei;G. N. Patey

  • A Monte Carlo method for obtaining the interionic potential of mean force in ionic solution

    G. N. Patey;J. P. Valleau

  • On the molecular theory of aqueous electrolyte solutions. I. The solution of the RHNC approximation for models at finite concentration

    P. G. Kusalik;G. N. Patey

  • Dielectric Constants of Fluid Models: Statistical Mechanical Theory and its Quantitative Implementation

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  • Electrical double layers. II. Monte Carlo and HNC studies of image effects

    G. M. Torrie;J. P. Valleau;G. N. Patey

  • Fluids of polarizable hard spheres with dipoles and tetrahedral quadrupoles Integral equation results with application to liquid water

    S.L. Carnie;G.N. Patey

  • The interaction of two spherical colloidal particles in electrolyte solution. An application of the hypernetted‐chain approximation

    G. N. Patey

  • Ferroelectric liquid-crystal and solid phases formed by strongly interacting dipolar soft spheres

    Dongqing Wei;G. N. Patey

  • Isotropic fluid phases of dipolar hard spheres

    Philip J. Camp;J. C. Shelley;G. N. Patey

  • An integral equation theory for the dense dipolar hard-sphere fluid

    G.N. Patey

  • Structure and scattering in colloidal ferrofluids

    Philip J. Camp;G. N. Patey

  • Charged hard spheres in dipolar hard sphere solvents. A model for electrolyte solutions

    D. Levesque;J. J. Weis;G. N. Patey

  • The free energy of spheres with dipoles: Monte Carlo with multistage sampling

    G.N. Patey;J.P. Valleau

  • Structure and interaction in aqueous urea-trimethylamine-N-oxide solutions.

    Sandip Paul;Grenfell N Patey

  • Cavitation of a Lennard‐Jones fluid between hard walls, and the possible relevance to the attraction measured between hydrophobic surfaces

    D. R. Bérard;Phil Attard;G. N. Patey

  • The solution of the reference hypernetted-chain approximation for water-like models

    Peter G. Kusalik;G. N. Patey

  • Hypernetted‐chain closure with bridge diagrams. Asymmetric hard sphere mixtures

    Phil Attard;G. N. Patey

  • The thermodynamic properties of electrolyte solutions: Some formal results

    Peter G. Kusalik;G. N. Patey

  • The solution of the hypernetted chain and Percus–Yevick approximations for fluids of hard nonspherical particles. Results for hard ellipsoids of revolution

    A. Perera;P. G. Kusalik;G. N. Patey

  • A Monte Carlo study of dipolar hard spheres The pair distribution function and the dielectric constant

    D. Levesque;D. Levesque;G.N. Patey;G.N. Patey;J.J. Weis;J.J. Weis

Frequent Co-Authors

Dong-Qing Wei
Dong-Qing Wei Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Peter G. Kusalik
Peter G. Kusalik University of Calgary
Allan K. Bertram
Allan K. Bertram University of British Columbia
Amalendu Chandra
Amalendu Chandra Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Masahiro Kinoshita
Masahiro Kinoshita Kyoto University
Sushil K. Atreya
Sushil K. Atreya University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Scot T. Martin
Scot T. Martin Harvard University
Peter Englezos
Peter Englezos University of British Columbia

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