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49
Citations
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World Ranking
14939
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3810

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering computational studies of liquid surfaces, including ion transport, energy relaxation, spectroscopy and chemical reaction dynamics at liquidvapor and liquidliquid interfaces
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Ilan Benjamin is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research intersects the fields of Chemistry and Physics and Astronomy, with a particular focus on subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Electrochemistry; Inorganic Chemistry; Mechanical Engineering; and Biomedical Engineering.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Radioactive Element Chemistry and Processing
  • Extraction and Separation Processes
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Nanoparticles Nucleation Surface Interactions
  • Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

The researcher has contributed a number of scholarly articles published in prominent venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • ACS Central Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics

Recent publications exemplify the scope of their research, detailing interactions at molecular and liquid interfaces and complexation phenomena:

  • "Antagonistic Role of Aqueous Complexation in the Solvent Extraction and Separation of Rare Earth Ions," 2021, ACS Central Science
  • "On the mechanisms of ion adsorption to aqueous interfaces: air-water vs. oil-water," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Relevance of Surface Adsorption and Aqueous Complexation for the Separation of Co(II), Ni(II), and Fe(III)," 2023, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • "Molecular Dynamics Studies on the Effect of Surface Roughness and Surface Tension on the Thermodynamics and Dynamics of Hydronium Ion Transfer Across the Liquid/Liquid Interface," 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • "Structure, Thermodynamics, and Dynamics of Thiocyanate Ion Adsorption and Transfer across the Water/Toluene Interface," 2022, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Their research collaborations have involved frequent coauthors such as Mark L. Schlossman, Pan Sun, Erik A. Binter, Zhu Liang, and Mrinal K. Bera, reflecting interdisciplinary and collaborative efforts in their work.

In recognition of their contributions to their fields, they have been honored with awards including:

  • Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2013, for pioneering computational studies of liquid surfaces, focusing on ion transport, energy relaxation, spectroscopy, and chemical reaction dynamics at liquid-vapor and liquid-liquid interfaces
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012

Best Publications

  • Chemical Reactions and Solvation at Liquid Interfaces: A Microscopic Perspective.

    Ilan Benjamin

  • Theoretical study of the water/1,2-dichloroethane interface: Structure, dynamics, and conformational equilibria at the liquid-liquid interface

    Ilan Benjamin

  • MOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS AT LIQUID-LIQUID INTERFACES

    Ilan Benjamin

  • Ion distributions near a liquid-liquid interface.

    Guangming Luo;Sarka Malkova;Jaesung Yoon;David G. Schultz

  • A unified algebraic model description for interacting vibrational modes in ABA molecules

    O. S. van Roosmalen;I. Benjamin;R. D. Levine

  • Theoretical study of ion solvation at the water liquid–vapor interface

    Ilan Benjamin

  • Vibrational spectrum of water at the liquid/vapor interface.

    Ilan Benjamin

  • Nonequilibrium Free Energy Functions, Recombination Dynamics, and Vibrational Relaxation of I2- in Acetonitrile: Molecular Dynamics of Charge Flow in the Electronically Adiabatic Limit

    Ilan Benjamin;Paul F. Barbara;Bradley J. Gertner;James T. Hynes

  • Vibrational relaxation of I−2 in water and ethanol: molecular dynamics simulation

    Ilan Benjamin;Robert M. Whitnell

  • Molecular dynamics computer simulations of solvation dynamics at liquid/liquid interfaces

    David Michael;Ilan Benjamin

  • MOLECULAR DYNAMICS OF ADIABATIC AND NONADIABATIC ELECTRON TRANSFER AT THE METAL-WATER INTERFACE

    Daniel A. Rose;Ilan Benjamin

  • Solute Orientational Dynamics and Surface Roughness of Water/Hydrocarbon Interfaces

    David Michael;Ilan Benjamin

  • Molecular dynamics of phenol at the liquid-vapor interface of water

    Andrew Pohorille;Ilan Benjamin

  • Wetting of Hydrophobic Organic Surfaces and Its Implications to Organic Aerosols in the Atmosphere

    Yinon Rudich;Ilan Benjamin;Ron Naaman;Elan Thomas

  • Transfer of Small Ions across the Water/1,2-Dichloroethane Interface

    Karl J. Schweighofer;Ilan Benjamin

  • Nanoscale view of assisted ion transport across the liquid-liquid interface.

    Zhu Liang;Wei Bu;Karl J. Schweighofer;David J. Walwark

  • THEORY AND COMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF SOLVATION AND CHEMICAL REACTIONS AT LIQUID INTERFACES

    Ilan Benjamin

  • Hydrogen bond dynamics at water/organic liquid interfaces.

    Ilan Benjamin

  • Proposed experimental probes of chemical reaction molecular dynamics in solution: ICN photodissociation

    I. Benjamin;Kent R. Wilson

  • Ultrafast photodissociation of I3− in ethanol: A molecular dynamics study

    Ilan Benjamin;Uri Banin;Sanford Ruhman

  • Static and Dynamic Electronic Spectroscopy at Liquid Interfaces

    Ilan Benjamin

Frequent Co-Authors

Raphael D. Levine
Raphael D. Levine Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Abraham Nitzan
Abraham Nitzan University of Pennsylvania
Andrew Pohorille
Andrew Pohorille Ames Research Center
Kent R. Wilson
Kent R. Wilson University of California, San Diego
Thuc-Quyen Nguyen
Thuc-Quyen Nguyen University of California, Santa Barbara
Ron Naaman
Ron Naaman Weizmann Institute of Science
Ronny Neumann
Ronny Neumann Weizmann Institute of Science
Paul F. Barbara
Paul F. Barbara The University of Texas at Austin
Benjamin J. Schwartz
Benjamin J. Schwartz University of California, Los Angeles
Uri Banin
Uri Banin Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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