Gary Grest

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Gary Stephen Grest (born November 22, 1949 in New Orleans ) is an American physicist.

Grest studied physics at Louisiana State University with a bachelor's degree in 1971, a master's degree in 1973 and a doctorate in 1974. As a post-doctoral student , he was at Rutgers University and 1977/78 Chaim Weitzmann Fellow and research assistant at the University's James Franck Institute Chicago. 1979 to 1981 he was an assistant professor at Purdue University . From 1981 he was at the Exxon Research Laboratories, from 1984 as Senior Staff Physicist. From 1998 he is at Sandia National Laboratorieswhere he is Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. He is also a Distinguished Sandia National Laboratories Professor at the University of New Mexico. Since 2009 he has also been an adjunct professor in the chemistry department at Clemson University .

He examines the structure and dynamics of polymers and complex fluids, granular materials, emulsions and colloids, for example in the identification of typical time and length scales of the respective systems and comparison with those from numerical simulation.

In 2008 he received the Aneesur Rahman Prize for groundbreaking development of numerical methods and their application in the study of soft matter including polymers, colloids and granular systems (laudation). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1989), received the Humboldt Research Award in 2002 and was a Sloan Research Fellow . In 2011 he received the Polymer Physics Prize . In 2008 he became a member of the National Academy of Engineering .

In 2002 he became editor of Physical Review E.

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  • MH Cohen, GS Grest: Liquid-glass transition, a free-volume approach, Physical Review B, Volume 20, 1979, p. 1077
  • GS Grest, MH Cohen: Liquids, Glasses, and the Glass Transition: A Free-Volume Approach, Advances in Chemical Physics, 1981, pp. 455-525
  • MP Anderson, DJ Srolovitz, GS Grest, PS Sahni: Computer simulation of grain growth — I. Kinetics, Acta Metallurgica, Vol. 32, 1984, pp. 783-791, Part 2, pp. 793-802
  • GS Grest, K. Kremer: Molecular dynamics simulation for polymers in the presence of a heat bath, Physical Review A, Volume 33, 1986, p. 3682
  • MO Robbins, K. Kremer, GS Grest: Phase diagram and dynamics of Yukawa systems, J. of Chemical Phywsics, Volume 88, 1988, pp. 3286-3312
  • MP Anderson, GS Grest, DJ Srolovitz: Computer simulation of normal grain growth in three dimensions, Philosophical Magazine B, Volume 59, 1989, pp. 293-329
  • K. Kremer, GS Grest: Dynamics of entangled linear polymer melts: A molecular-dynamics simulation, The Journal of Chemical Physics, Volume 92, 1990, pp. 5057-5086
  • PA Thompson, GS Grest, MO Robbins: Phase transitions and universal dynamics in confined films, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 68, 1992, p. 3448
  • GS Grest, M. Murat: Molecular dynamics study of dendrimer molecules in solvents of varying quality, Macromolecules, Volume 29, 1996, pp. 1278-1285
  • LE Silbert, D. Ertas, GS Grest, TC Halsey, D. Levine, SJ Plimpton: Granular flow down an inclined plane: Bagnold scaling and rheology, Phys. Review E, Volume 64, 2001, p. 051302
  • LE Silbert, D. Ertas, GS Grest, TC Halsey, D. Levine: Geometry of frictionless and frictional sphere packings, Physical Review E, Volume 65, 2002, p. 031304
  • R. Everaers, GS Grest et al. a .: Rheology and microscopic topology of entangled polymeric liquids, Science, Volume 303, 2004, pp. 823-826
  • JT Kalathi, U. Yamamoto, KS Schweizer, GS Grest, and SK Kumar, Nanoparticle Diffusion in Polymer Nanocomposites, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 108301 (2014).
  • A. Agrawal, D. Perahia, and GS Grest, Clustering Morphology in Ionic Polymers: Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Phys. Rev. E 92, 022601 (2015).
  • KM Salerno, A. Agrawal, D. Perahia, and GS Grest, Resolving Dynamic Properties of Polymers through Coarse-Grained Computational Studies, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 058302 (2016).
  • A. Agrawal, D. Perahia and GS Grest, Cluster Morphology-Polymer Dynamics Correlations in Sulfonated Polystyrene Melts: Computational Study, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 158001 (2016).
  • GS Grest, Communication: Polymer Entanglement Dynamics: Role of Attractive Interactions, J. Chem. Phys. 145, 141101 (2016).
  • S. Cheng and GS Grest, Dispersing Nanoparticles in a Polymer Film via Solvent Evaporation, ACS Macro Lett. 5, 694 (2016).
  • D. Aryal, GS Grest and D. Perahia, Soft Nanoparticles: Nano Ionic Networks of Structured Ionic Polymers, Nanoscale 9, 2117 (2017).
  • T. Ge, JT Kalathi, JD Halverson, GS Grest and M. Rubinstein, Nanoparticle Motion in Entangled Melts of Non-Concatenated Ring Polymer, Macromolecules 50, 1749 (2017).
  • D. Aryal, A. Agrawal, D. Perahia, and GS Grest, Structure and Dynamics Ionic Block Copolymer Melts: Computational Study, Macromolecules 50, 7388 (2017).
  • T. Ge, GS Grest, and M. Rubinstein, Nanorheology of Entangled Polymer Melts, Physical Review Letters 120, 057801 (2018).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Aneesur Rahman Prize
personal data
SURNAME Grest, Gary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grest, Gary Stephen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans