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Peter J. Rossky

Peter J. Rossky

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Chemistry

D-Index
93
Citations
30899
World Ranking
1795
National Ranking
667

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1997 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1994 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For the innovative development of classical and quantum approaches to the study of liquids and their effective application to the elucidation of the molecular basis for experimentally observed solution behavior
  • 1982 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Peter J. Rossky is affiliated with Rice University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with notable contributions spanning several subfields including materials chemistry, atomic and molecular physics and optics, electrical and electronic engineering, molecular biology, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

The main topics covered in their work involve machine learning applications in materials science, quantum dots synthesis and properties, synthesis and applications of gold and silver nanoparticles, organic electronics and photovoltaics, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, advanced chemical physics studies, and computational drug discovery methods.

Recent publications by Peter J. Rossky include:

  • Predicting optical spectra for optoelectronic polymers using coarse-grained models and recurrent neural networks, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Machine-Learned Decision Trees for Predicting Gold Nanorod Sizes from Spectra, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Mechanism for plasmon-generated solvated electrons, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Aggregation of Charge Acceptors on Nanocrystal Surfaces Alters Rates of Photoinduced Electron Transfer, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Structural Disorder at the Edges of Rubrene Crystals Enhances Singlet Fission, 2023, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Langmuir
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Peter J. Rossky are:

  • Jakub K. Sowa
  • Sean T. Roberts
  • Christy F. Landes
  • Behnaz Ostovar
  • Anastasiia Misiura

The scientist has been recognized through several fellowships and memberships, including Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2011), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2006, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2004, Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation since 1997, Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) since 1994 - with a citation acknowledging their development of classical and quantum approaches to the study of liquids - and Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation from 1982.

Best Publications

  • The structure of liquid water at an extended hydrophobic surface

    Chyuan‐Yih Lee;J. Andrew McCammon;P. J. Rossky

  • Hot charge-transfer excitons set the time limit for charge separation at donor/acceptor interfaces in organic photovoltaics

    Askat E. Jailaubekov;Adam P. Willard;John R. Tritsch;Wai Lun Chan

  • Role of water in electron-initiated processes and radical chemistry: issues and scientific advances.

    Bruce C Garrett;David A Dixon;Donald M Camaioni;Daniel M Chipman

  • A comparison of the structure and dynamics of liquid water at hydrophobic and hydrophilic surfaces—a molecular dynamics simulation study

    Song Hi Lee;Peter J. Rossky

  • An extended rism equation for molecular polar fluids

    Fumio Hirata;Peter J. Rossky

  • Alkali halides in water: Ion–solvent correlations and ion–ion potentials of mean force at infinite dilution

    B. Montgomery Pettitt;Peter J. Rossky

  • FROM MOLECULES TO MATERIALS : CURRENT TRENDS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

    A. Paul Alivisatos;Paul F. Barbara;A. Welford Castleman;Jack Chang

  • Brownian dynamics as smart Monte Carlo simulation

    Peter J Rossky;J. D. Doll;H. L. Friedman

  • Effect of surface polarity on water contact angle and interfacial hydration structure.

    Nicolas Giovambattista;Pablo G. Debenedetti;Peter J. Rossky

  • Collapse of stiff conjugated polymers with chemical defects into ordered, cylindrical conformations

    Dehong Hu;Ji Yu;Kim Wong;Biman Bagchi

  • SOLVATION. A MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY OF A DIPEPTIDE IN WATER.

    Peter J. Rossky;Martin Karplus

  • Nonadiabatic processes in condensed matter: semi-classical theory and implementation

    Frank Webster;Peter J Rossky;R. A. Friesner

  • Surface topography dependence of biomolecular hydrophobic hydration.

    Yuen-Kit Cheng;Peter J. Rossky

  • Quantum decoherence in mixed quantum‐classical systems: Nonadiabatic processes

    Eric R. Bittner;Peter J. Rossky

  • Molecular origins of fluorocarbon hydrophobicity

    Vishwanath H. Dalvi;Peter J. Rossky

  • The hydrated electron: quantum simulation of structure, spectroscopy, and dynamics

    Peter J. Rossky;Jurgen Schnitker

  • Effect of pressure on the phase behavior and structure of water confined between nanoscale hydrophobic and hydrophilic plates

    Nicolas Giovambattista;Peter J. Rossky;Pablo G. Debenedetti

  • Quantum decoherence and the isotope effect in condensed phase nonadiabatic molecular dynamics simulations

    Benjamin J. Schwartz;Benjamin J. Schwartz;Eric R. Bittner;Oleg V. Prezhdo;Peter J. Rossky

  • Mean-field molecular dynamics with surface hopping

    Oleg V. Prezhdo;Peter J. Rossky

  • Integral equation predictions of liquid state structure for waterlike intermolecular potentials

    B. Montgomery Pettitt;Peter J. Rossky

Frequent Co-Authors

Pablo G. Debenedetti
Pablo G. Debenedetti Princeton University
Keith P. Johnston
Keith P. Johnston The University of Texas at Austin
Benjamin J. Schwartz
Benjamin J. Schwartz University of California, Los Angeles
Nicolas Giovambattista
Nicolas Giovambattista City University of New York
Perla B. Balbuena
Perla B. Balbuena Texas A&M University
Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus Harvard University
B. Montgomery Pettitt
B. Montgomery Pettitt The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
H. Eugene Stanley
H. Eugene Stanley Boston University
Sergey V. Buldyrev
Sergey V. Buldyrev Yeshiva University
Oleg V. Prezhdo
Oleg V. Prezhdo University of Southern California

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