Pawel Keblinski

Assistant Professor, Materials Engineering

Education:

M.S., Physics, Warsaw University, 1990
Ph.D., Physics, Pennsylvania State University; 1995

Career Highlights:

Before joining Rensselaer in 1999, Keblinski served as a postdoctoral researcher at Argonne National Laboratory and worked at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe in Germany as a recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. Professor Keblinski is an author or co-author of 40 scientific articles on topics ranging from mesoscopic-level modeling of vapor deposition and phase separation to atomic-level structure and property relationships computer simulations of metals, covalent materials and ceramics. He was awarded a stipend from the Polish Ministry of Education for three consecutive years; such stipends are awarded to just 150 students selected from 250,000 nationwide. Keblinski was the American Vacuum Society Student Award winner and a Varian Fellowship Finalist in 1993. In 2002, he was awarded with a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award for his proposal "Microstructure Property Relationships in Carbon-Based Nanostructures."

Research Areas:

Keblinski's work involves computer modeling mechanical properties of interfacial brittle materials and analyzing the role of material microstructures in brittle fractures. His research group's work is focused on atomic-level computational studies of the relationship between microstructure and various materials properties, such as mechanical response, diffusion, and microstructural evolution, in particular, of nano-structured materials. Keblinski's major goal is to design and analyze computational models in order to gain insights into the nature of the material behavior and properties. These insights are used to formulate theoretical concepts, understand experimental results and guide future experiments. His other interests include connecting atomic-level modeling with electronic-level studies as well as with the macroscopic description of the material based on continuum models.

Selected Publications:

N. R. Raravikar, P. Keblinski, A. M. Rao, M. Dresselhaus, L. S. Schadler, and P. M. Ajayan, "Temperature Dependence of Radial Breathing Mode Raman Frequency of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes," submitted to Physical Review B (2000).

L. Xue, P. Keblinski, S. R. Phillpot, .S. U.-S. Choi, and J. A. Eastman "Two Regimes of Thermal Resistance at the Liquid-Solid Interface ," submitted to Journal of Chemical Physics (2002).

P. Keblinski, M. Bazant, R. K. Dash, and M. M. Treacy, "Thermodynamic Behavior of a Model Covalent Material Described by the Environment-Dependent Interatomic Potential," to be published in Physical Review B (2002).

Patrick K. Schelling, Simon R. Phillpot, Pawel Keblinski," Phonon Scattering at a Semiconductor Interface," Applied Physic Letters 80, 2484-2486 (2002).

P. K. Schelling, S. R. Phillpot, and P. Keblinski," Comparison of Atomic-Level Simulations methods for Computing Thermal Conductivity,"Physical Review B 65, 144306 1-12 (2002).

P. Keblinski, S. R. Phillpot, .S. U.-S. Choi, and J. A. Eastman," Mechanism of Heat flow in Suspensions Containing Nano-sized Particles (Nanofluids)" Int. Journal of Heat & Mass Transport 45, 855-863 (2002).

P. M. Voyles, N. Zotov, S. M. Nahkmanson, D. A. Drabold, J. M. Gibson, M. M. J. Treacy and P. Keblinski," The Structure and Physical Properties of Paracrystalline Molecular Dynamics Models of Amorphous Semiconductors," Journal of Applied Physics 90, 4437-4451 (2001).

P. Keblinski, J. Eggebrecht, D. Wolf, and S. R. Phillpot, "Molecular Dynamics Studies of Screening in Ionic Fluid," Journal of Chemical Physics, 113, 282-291 (2000).

S. R. Phillpot, P. Keblinski, D. Wolf, and F. Cleri, "Synthesis and Characterization of a Polycrystalline Ionic Thin Film by a Large-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations," Interface Science, 7, 15-31 (1999).

F. Cleri, P. Keblinski, L. Colombo, S. R. Phillpot, and D. Wolf, "On the Electrical Activity of sp2-bonded Grain Boundaries in Nanocrysalline Diamond," Europhysics Letters, 46, 671-677 (1999).

P. Keblinski, D. Wolf, S. R. Phillpot, and H. Gleiter, "Mechanism of Self-diffusion in fcc-Metals Grain Boundaries by Molecular Dynamics Simulation," Phil. Mag. A 79, 2735-2761 (1999).

P. Keblinski, D. Wolf, S. R. Phillpot, and H. Gleiter, "Structure of Grain Boundaries in Nanocrystalline FCC-Metal by Molecular Dynamics Simulations," Scipta Metall. 41, 631-535 (1999).

D. Wolf, P. Keblinski, S.R. Phillpot, and J. Eggebrecht, "Exact Method for the Simulation of Coulombic System by Direct, Pairwise 1/r Summation," Journal of Chemical Physics, 110, 8254-8282 (1999).

P. Keblinski, D. Wolf, and H. Gleiter, "Molecular-Dynamics Simulation of Grain-Boundary Diffusion Creep," Interface Science, 6, 205-212 (1998).

P. Keblinski, S. R. Phillpot, D. Wolf, and H. Gleiter, "Role of Coordination in the Atomic Structure of Diamond and Silicon Grain Boundaries," Journal of Materials Research, 13, 2077-2099 (1998).

Contact Information:

Pawel Keblinski
115 Materials Research Center
(518) 276-6858
keblip@rpi.edu
www.rpi.edu/~keblip/