Sanket Deshmukh

Education

• Ph.D., University College Dublin, Ireland, 2009
• M.Sc., University of Pune, Pune, India, 2004
• B.Sc., University of Pune, Pune, India, 2002

Research Interests

• Development of Computer Code for acceleration of molecular dynamics on ultra-high performance petascale supercomputers
• Development of Simulation Techniques and Coarse-Grained Models to Study:
        1. Tribology at Nano- to Meso-scale
        2. Effect of surface chemistry, mechanical chemistry, and surrounding environment on friction
• Structure-Property Relationships in Soft- and Bio-materials:
        1. Conformational transitions in smart-polymers and their composites/architectures
        2. Atomic-level structure of solvent at the polymer/solvent and bio-material/solvent interfaces
        3. Mechanisms of self-assembly at fluid/fluid and fluid/gas interfaces and in bulk
• Corrosion:
        1. Adsorption of ions and structure of solvent at metal/metal oxide surfaces
        2. Mechanism of early stages of oxidation and oxide growth on metal/alloy surfaces