Professor Kurt Kremer (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research)

Prof. Kremer was awarded the “George T. Piercy Distinguished Professorship of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science” of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 1991 and the “Walter Schottky Preis der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft” in 1992. In 1999 he was Whitby Lecturer at Akron University, and in 2006 Nakamura Lecturer at UC Santa Barbara. Since 2006 he is Fellow of the American Physical Society. Together with G. S. Grest he is the 2011 recipient of the Polymer Physics Prize of the American Physical Society.

His research mainly employed various computer simulation techniques to a variety of different problems in the general area of soft matter physics in close relation to either experiment or analytic theory or both. This covers models which contain some or all local chemical details as well as highly idealized models. Specific current research areas of the theory group include:

1)computational physics methods/ applications

2)statistical mechanics of soft matter (polymers, colloids, membranes)

3)Polyelectrolytes

4)theory of complex fluids

5)multiscale modeling, structure property relations

6)multiscale modeling of soft matter electronics and of biological soft matter

Selected Publication list:

[1] Mukherji D, Marques C M, Kremer K. Polymer collapse in miscible good solvents is a generic phenomenon driven by preferential adsorption[J]. Nature communications, 2014, 5: 4882.

[2] Fritsch S , Poblete S , Junghans C , et al. Adaptive resolution molecular dynamics simulation through coupling to an internal particle reservoir[J]. Physical Review Letters, 2012, 108(17): 170602.

[3] Everaers R. Rheology and Microscopic Topology of Entangled Polymeric Liquids[J]. Science, 2004, 303(5659): 823-826.

[4] Robbins M O, Kremer K, Grest G S. Phase diagram and dynamics of Yukawa systems[J]. Journal of Chemical Physics, 1998, 88(5): 3286-3312.

[5] Carmesin I, Kremer K. The bond fluctuation method: a new effective algorithm for the dynamics of polymers in all spatial dimensions[J]. Macromolecules, 1988, 21(9): 2819-2823.

[6]Kremer K, Grest G S. Dynamics of entangled linear polymer melts: A molecular‐dynamics simulation[J]. Journal of Chemical Physics, 1990, 92(8): 5057-5086.