Office Location:
William Eckhardt Research Center (251)
Chuting Deng grew up in Shenzhen, China. She received her BS degree in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Cornell University in June 2018. There, she found her interests in statistical mechanics and computational material design. Then, she moved to Chicago and joined the de Pablo group at the University of Chicago. She is currently pursuing her PhD in molecular engineering, advised by Professor de Pablo. In her free time, she enjoys watching sports game.
Chuting’s current research concerns multiscale modeling of soft materials and involves the following specific topics:
1) Simulate coarse-grained (CG) physical vapor deposition (PVD) processes to investigate the effect of substrate on molecular orientation in PVD glass of organic semiconductor molecules. (Collaboration with Mark Ediger’s group)
2) Atomistic study Li ion transport in ethylene oxide-based polymer electrolytes of graft, block, and random copolymer architectures. (Collaboration with Paul Nealey’s group)
3) Atomistic study and material design of self-assembled peptide amphiphile micelles for selective phosphate sequestration. (Collaboration with Matt Tirrell’s group)
4) Multiscale modeling and machine learning prediction of thermodynamic and dynamical properties of polyethylene mixtures for plastic upcycling. (Center for Plastics Innovation, U of Delaware)
