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  • 2016 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For creative and insightful use of molecular dynamics simulations to elucidate mechanisms of deformation and transport in polymeric materials

Overview

Sinan Keten is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and is an active researcher primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering.

The main areas of study for their work include:

  • Materials Science
  • Engineering

Their research spans several subfields, notably:

  • Polymers and Plastics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Biomaterials

Key topics addressed in their publications encompass:

  • Polymer crystallization and properties
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties
  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Polymer Surface Interaction Studies
  • Material Dynamics and Properties

Their recent papers include:

  • Hierarchically structured bioinspired nanocomposites, 2022, Nature Materials
  • Mesoscopic and multiscale modelling in materials, 2021, Nature Materials
  • Forces are not Enough: Benchmark and Critical Evaluation for Machine Learning Force Fields with Molecular Simulations, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Hygromechanical mechanisms of wood cell wall revealed by molecular modeling and mixture rule analysis, 2021, Science Advances
  • Hydrogen bonds dominated frictional stick-slip of cellulose nanocrystals, 2021, Carbohydrate Polymers

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Subhadeep Pal
  • Andrea Giuntoli
  • Richard M. Lueptow
  • Wei Chen
  • Xinyan Yang

The scientist has contributed multiple publications to various academic venues, with notable frequency at:

  • Macromolecules
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Extreme Mechanics Letters
  • Biophysical Journal

In recognition of their work, they were named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2016 for creative and insightful use of molecular dynamics simulations to elucidate mechanisms of deformation and transport in polymeric materials.

Best Publications

  • Nanoconfinement controls stiffness, strength and mechanical toughness of β-sheet crystals in silk

    Sinan Keten;Zhi Ping Xu;Britni Ihle;Markus J. Buehler

  • Molecular and Nanostructural Mechanisms of Deformation, Strength and Toughness of Spider Silk Fibrils.

    Andrea Nova;Sinan Keten;Nicola M. Pugno;Alberto Redaelli

  • Mesoscopic and multiscale modelling in materials

    Jacob Fish;Gregory J. Wagner;Sinan Keten

  • Nanostructure and molecular mechanics of spider dragline silk protein assemblies.

    Sinan Keten;Markus J. Buehler

  • Geometric confinement governs the rupture strength of H-bond assemblies at a critical length scale.

    Sinan Keten;Markus J. Buehler

  • Hierarchies, multiple energy barriers, and robustness govern the fracture mechanics of α-helical and β-sheet protein domains

    Theodor Ackbarow;Xuefeng Chen;Sinan Keten;Markus J. Buehler

  • The role of mechanics in biological and bio-inspired systems

    Paul Egan;Robert Sinko;Philip R. Leduc;Sinan Keten

  • Theoretical and computational hierarchical nanomechanics of protein materials: Deformation and fracture

    Markus J. Buehler;Sinan Keten;Theodor Ackbarow

  • A coarse-grained model for the mechanical behavior of multi-layer graphene

    Luis Ruiz;Wenjie Xia;Zhaoxu Meng;Sinan Keten

  • Forces are not Enough: Benchmark and Critical Evaluation for Machine Learning Force Fields with Molecular Simulations

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  • A comparative molecular dynamics study of crystalline, paracrystalline and amorphous states of cellulose

    Karol Kulasinski;Karol Kulasinski;Sinan Keten;Sergey V. Churakov;Dominique Derome

  • Dynamics of water and solute transport in polymeric reverse osmosis membranes via molecular dynamics simulations

    Meng Shen;Sinan Keten;Richard M. Lueptow

  • Multi-scale computational analysis of unidirectional carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites under various loading conditions

    Qingping Sun;Zhaoxu Meng;Guowei Zhou;Guowei Zhou;Shih Po Lin

  • Recoverable Slippage Mechanism in Multilayer Graphene Leads to Repeatable Energy Dissipation

    Xiaoding Wei;Xiaoding Wei;Zhaoxu Meng;Luis Ruiz;Wenjie Xia

  • Processable Cyclic Peptide Nanotubes with Tunable Interiors

    Rami Hourani;Chen Zhang;Rob van der Weegen;Luis Ruiz

  • Failure criteria of unidirectional carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites informed by a computational micromechanics model

    Qingping Sun;Guowei Zhou;Guowei Zhou;Zhaoxu Meng;Haiding Guo

  • Energy-Renormalization for Achieving Temperature Transferable Coarse-Graining of Polymer Dynamics

    Wenjie Xia;Jake Song;Cheol Jeong;David D. Hsu

  • Predicting the Macroscopic Fracture Energy of Epoxy Resins from Atomistic Molecular Simulations

    Zhaoxu Meng;Miguel A. Bessa;Wenjie Xia;Wing Kam Liu

  • Systematic Method for Thermomechanically Consistent Coarse-Graining: A Universal Model for Methacrylate-Based Polymers.

    David D. Hsu;Wenjie Xia;Steven G. Arturo;Sinan Keten

  • Atomistic model of the spider silk nanostructure

    Sinan Keten;Markus J. Buehler

  • Asymptotic strength limit of hydrogen-bond assemblies in proteins at vanishing pulling rates.

    Sinan Keten;Markus J. Buehler

  • Substrate vs. free surface: Competing effects on the glass transition of polymer thin films

    Wenjie Xia;Shawn Mishra;Sinan Keten

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Carmeliet
Jan Carmeliet ETH Zurich
Jack F. Douglas
Jack F. Douglas National Institute of Standards and Technology
Ting Xu
Ting Xu University of California, Berkeley
Wing Kam Liu
Wing Kam Liu Northwestern University
Nicola Pugno
Nicola Pugno University of Trento
Zdeněk P. Bažant
Zdeněk P. Bažant Northwestern University
Robert A. Guyer
Robert A. Guyer Los Alamos National Laboratory
Wei Chen
Wei Chen Northwestern University
Neel Joshi
Neel Joshi Microsoft (United States)

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