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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2015 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • 2015 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering work elucidating how nanoscale interfaces impact the structure, dynamics, and selfassembly of complex fluids and biomolecular systems
  • 2006 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Thomas M. Truskett is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a strong focus on Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering as key subfields. Other subfields in their work include Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Molecular Biology, and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

The main topics frequently addressed in their research cover a range of material and biological sciences. These include:

  • Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
  • Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
  • Pickering Emulsions and Particle Stabilization
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis and Properties
  • Electrostatics and Colloid Interactions
  • Material Dynamics and Properties
  • Protein Purification and Stability

Several recent papers authored or coauthored by Thomas M. Truskett illustrate their research focus and contributions over the past few years:

  • "Machine Learning-Assisted Design of Material Properties," 2022, Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  • "Assembling Inorganic Nanocrystal Gels," 2022, Nano Letters
  • "Colloidal Nanocrystal Gels from Thermodynamic Principles," 2021, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • "Assembly of Linked Nanocrystal Colloids by Reversible Covalent Bonds," 2020, Chemistry of Materials
  • "Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations for Understanding the Impact of Short-Range Anisotropic Attractions on Structure and Viscosity of Concentrated Monoclonal Antibody Solutions," 2020, Molecular Pharmaceutics

Thomas M. Truskett has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Delia J. Milliron
  • Zachary M. Sherman
  • Allison Green
  • Jiho Kang
  • Venkat Ganesan

Their work has appeared repeatedly in a selection of scientific journals notable for studies in chemistry, materials science, and nanotechnology, including:

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

Thomas M. Truskett has been recognized with several professional honors, including fellowships from major scientific organizations:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2017
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), 2015
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 2015, for pioneering work elucidating how nanoscale interfaces impact the structure, dynamics, and self-assembly of complex fluids and biomolecular systems
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2006

Best Publications

  • Is random close packing of spheres well defined

    S. Torquato;Thomas M Truskett;P. G. Debenedetti

  • Modeling Water, the Hydrophobic Effect, and Ion Solvation

    Ken A. Dill;Thomas M. Truskett;Vojko Vlachy;Barbara Hribar-Lee

  • Towards a quantification of disorder in materials: Distinguishing equilibrium and glassy sphere packings

    T. M. Truskett;S. Torquato;P. G. Debenedetti

  • Hydrophobic hydration from small to large lengthscales: Understanding and manipulating the crossover.

    Sowmianarayanan Rajamani;Thomas M. Truskett;Shekhar Garde

  • Layering and position-dependent diffusive dynamics of confined fluids

    Jeetain Mittal;Thomas M. Truskett;Jeffrey R. Errington;Gerhard Hummer

  • Structural precursor to freezing in the hard-disk and hard-sphere systems

    Thomas M. Truskett;Salvatore Torquato;Srikanth Sastry;Pablo G. Debenedetti

  • A SINGLE-BOND APPROACH TO ORIENTATION-DEPENDENT INTERACTIONS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR LIQUID WATER

    Thomas M. Truskett;Pablo G. Debenedetti;Srikanth Sastry;Salvatore Torquato

  • Excess-entropy-based anomalies for a waterlike fluid.

    Jeffrey R. Errington;Thomas M. Truskett;Jeetain Mittal

  • Thermodynamics predicts how confinement modifies the dynamics of the equilibrium hard-sphere fluid.

    Jeetain Mittal;Jeffrey R. Errington;Thomas M. Truskett

  • Thermodynamic implications of confinement for a waterlike fluid

    Thomas M. Truskett;Pablo G. Debenedetti;Salvatore Torquato

  • The Kauzmann Paradox Revisited

    Frank H. Stillinger;Pablo G. Debenedetti;Thomas M. Truskett

  • Free volume in the hard sphere liquid

    Srikanth Sastry;Thomas M. Truskett;Pablo G. Debenedetti;Salvatore Torquato

  • A simple molecular thermodynamic theory of hydrophobic hydration

    Henry S. Ashbaugh;Henry S. Ashbaugh;Thomas M. Truskett;Pablo G. Debenedetti

  • Effects of lengthscales and attractions on the collapse of hydrophobic polymers in water.

    Manoj V. Athawale;Gaurav Goel;Tuhin Ghosh;Thomas M. Truskett

  • Concentrated Dispersions of Equilibrium Protein Nanoclusters That Reversibly Dissociate into Active Monomers

    Keith P. Johnston;Jennifer A. Maynard;Thomas M. Truskett;Ameya U. Borwankar

  • Steric stabilization of nanoparticles with grafted low molecular weight ligands in highly concentrated brines including divalent ions

    Andrew J. Worthen;Vu Tran;Kevin A. Cornell;Thomas M. Truskett

  • Relationship between thermodynamics and dynamics of supercooled liquids.

    Jeetain Mittal;Jeffrey R. Errington;Thomas M. Truskett

  • Anomalous structure and dynamics of the Gaussian-core fluid.

    William P. Krekelberg;Tanuj Kumar;Jeetain Mittal;Jeffrey R. Errington

  • Synergistic Formation and Stabilization of Oil-in-Water Emulsions by a Weakly Interacting Mixture of Zwitterionic Surfactant and Silica Nanoparticles

    Andrew J. Worthen;Lynn M. Foster;Jiannan Dong;Jonathan A. Bollinger

  • The equation of state of an energy landscape

    Pablo G. Debenedetti;Frank H. Stillinger;Thomas M. Truskett;Christopher J. Roberts

  • Relationships between self-diffusivity, packing fraction, and excess entropy in simple bulk and confined fluids.

    Jeetain Mittal;Jeffrey R Errington;Thomas M Truskett

  • Quantitative link between single-particle dynamics and static structure of supercooled liquids

    Jeetain Mittal;Jeffrey R. Errington;Thomas M. Truskett

  • Generalized Rosenfeld scalings for tracer diffusivities in not-so-simple fluids: mixtures and soft particles.

    William P. Krekelberg;Mark J. Pond;Gaurav Goel;Vincent K. Shen

  • Theory of supercooled liquids and glasses: Energy landscape and statistical geometry perspectives

    Pablo G Debenedetti;Thomas M Truskett;Catherine P Lewis;Frank H Stillinger;Frank H Stillinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey R. Errington
Jeffrey R. Errington University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Keith P. Johnston
Keith P. Johnston The University of Texas at Austin
Jeetain Mittal
Jeetain Mittal Lehigh University
Pablo G. Debenedetti
Pablo G. Debenedetti Princeton University
Frank H. Stillinger
Frank H. Stillinger Princeton University
Venkat Ganesan
Venkat Ganesan The University of Texas at Austin
Salvatore Torquato
Salvatore Torquato Princeton University
Roger T. Bonnecaze
Roger T. Bonnecaze The University of Texas at Austin
Delia J. Milliron
Delia J. Milliron The University of Texas at Austin
Konstantin V Sokolov
Konstantin V Sokolov The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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