Robin L. B. Selinger
Professor, Chemical Physics
Liquid Crystal Institute &
Chemical Physics Program
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio 44242
Tel.: (330) 672 1582
Fax: (330) 672 2796
robin@lci.kent.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Computational materials science; molecular scale and mesoscale
simulation techniques applied to both hard and soft condensed matter

Liquid crystals: phase behavior, transport, and microstructure

Chirality in soft condensed matter

Mechanics governing shape selection in chiral lipid membranes

Fracture and deformation of crystalline solids: size effects in
plasticity, dislocation dynamics and patterning, dynamic fracture

Work has been funded by NSF-DMR, NSF-DUE, NSF-CAREER, U.S. Navy, Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society.

EDUCATION
Ph.D., Physics, Harvard University, 1989.
A.M., Physics, Harvard University, 1986.
A.B. Cum Laude, Physics, Harvard-Radcliffe College, 1984.

EMPLOYMENT
Full Professor, Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Kent State
University, July, 2005-present.

Associate Professor, Catholic University of America, Department of
Physics, 2000-2005; Assistant Professor 1996-2000; Adjunct Assistant
Professor, Fall 1995. Tenure awarded in 2001.

Sabbatical visitor, National Inst. of Standards and Technology, summer
2003.

Sabbatical visitor, Naval Research Laboratory, Fall 2002-Spring 2003.

Postdoctoral fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology
1994-5. Advisor: Robb Thomson.

Postdoctoral fellow, Institute for Physical Science and Technology,
University of Maryland, 1992-4. Advisor: John Weeks.

Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of California,
Los Angeles, 1989-92. Advisor: William Gelbart.

Publications:
Diana Farkas and Robin L. B. Selinger, "Atomistics of Fracture," in
Handbook of Materials Modeling, Vol. 1 (Methods and Models,) edited by S.
Yip. (2005).

Robin L. B. Selinger, J. V. Selinger, A. P. Malanoski, and J. M. Schnur,
" Visualizing chiral self-assembly," Chaos 14, S3, (2004.)

Robin L. B. Selinger, Jonathan V. Selinger, Anthony Malanoski, and Joel M.
Schnur, "Shape Selection in Chiral Self-Assembly," Phys. Rev. Lett. 93,
158103 (2004).

Nurit Baytch, Robin L. B. Selinger, Jonathan V. Selinger, and R.
Shashidhar, "Simulations of helix unwinding in ferroelectric liquid
crystals," Phys. Rev. E 68, 041702 (2003).

Ming Li and Robin L. B. Selinger, "Molecular dynamics simulation of
dislocation instability in a stress gradient," Phys. Rev. B 67, 134108
(2003).

Robin L. B. Selinger, ``Diffusion in a smectic liquid crystal with screw
dislocations,'' Phys. Rev. E. 65, 51702 (2002).

Robin L. B. Selinger, B. B. Smith, and Weidong Luo, ``Dislocation
Patterning and Vortex Channeling in the XY Model,'' MRS Proc. V. 653
(2001).

J. Xu, R. L. B. Selinger, J. V. Selinger, and R. Shashidhar, "Monte Carlo
Simulation of Liquid-Crystal Alignment and of Chiral Symmetry-Breaking."
J. Chem. Phys. 115, 4333 (2001).

R. L. B. Selinger and J. M. Corbett, ``Dynamic Fracture in Disordered
Media,'' MRS Bulletin 25, 46 (2000).

Jonathan V. Selinger, Jianling Xu, Robin L. B. Selinger, B. R. Ratna. R.
Shashidhar, ``Chiral Modulations in Smectic-A Liquid Crystals Under an
Electric Field,'' Phys. Rev. E 62, 666 (2000).

Ming Li, Brian B. Smith, Robin L. B. Selinger, ``Fingering Instability of
Dislocations and Related Defects,'' Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 2306 (1999).

John M. Corbett and Robin L. B. Selinger, ``Molecular Dynamics Studies of
Interfacial Crack Propagation in Heterogeneous Media,'' MRS Proceedings
539, 209 (1999).

Jianling Xu, Robin L. B. Selinger, Jonathan V. Selinger, B. R. Ratna, and
R. Shashidhar, ``Monte Carlo simulation of smectic liquid crystals and the
electroclinic effect: The role of molecular shape,'' Phys. Rev. E 60, 5584
(1999).

M. M. Green, J. W. Park, T. Sato, A. Teramoto, S. Lifson, Robin L. B.
Selinger, and J. V. Selinger, ``The Macromolecular Route to Chiral
Amplification'' Angewandte Chemie 111, 3306 (1999).

J. V. Selinger, R. L. B. Selinger, S K. Jha, and M. M. Green, ``A Chiral
Polymeric Analogy to a One Dimensional Paramagnetic Material,'' Chirality
10, 41 (1998).

J. V. Selinger and R. L. B. Selinger, ``Cooperative Chiral Order in
Polyisocyanates: New Statistical Problems.'' Macromolecules 31, 2488-2492
(1998).

J. V. Selinger and R. L. B. Selinger, ``Chiral Order in Copolymers of
Chiral and Achiral Units,'' Phys. Rev. E, 55, 1728 (1997).

J. V. Selinger and R. L. B. Selinger, "Theory of chiral order in random
copolymers," Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 58 (1996).

D. Liu, R. L. B. Selinger, and J . D. Weeks, "Modelling Organic Molecular
Thin Films: A Reduced Intermolecular Potential for Copper Phthalocyanine,"
J. Chem. Phys. 105, 4751 (1996).

R. L. B. Selinger, "Stress-assisted Kosterlitz-Thouless dislocation
nucleation: the statistical physics of plastic flow," in Fracture:
Instability Dynamics, Scaling, and Ductile/Brittle Behavior, R. L. B.
Selinger, J. J. Mecholsky, A. E. Carlsson, and E. R. Fuller, editors,
Materials Research Society (Pittsburgh) 1996.

J. V. Selinger and R . L. B. Selinger, ``Cooperative Chiral Order in
Random Copolymers,'' Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 288, 33 (1996).

J. V. Selinger and R. L. B. Selinger, "Theory of chiral defects in
Langmuir monolayers," Phys. Rev. E Rapid Comm., 51, R860 (1995).

M. F. Sharlowe, R. L. B. Selinger, and W. M. Gelbart, "Cell model and
computer simulation studies of layered and hexagonal states of aligned,
hard disks versus rods," J. Phys. Chem. 99, 2907 (1995).

J. D. Weeks, R. L. B. Selinger, and J. Q. Broughton, "Self-consistent
treatment of repulsive and attractive forces in non-uniform liquids,"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 2694 (1995).

R. L. B. Selinger, Ruth Lynden-Bell, and W. M. Gelbart, "Stress-induced
failure and melting of ideal solids," J. Chem. Phys. 98, 9808 (1993).

R. L. B. Selinger, Z.-G. Wang, and W. M. Gelbart, "Fracture at Finite
Temperature: a Statistical-thermodynamic approach," p. 501, Complex
Fluids, eds. E. B. Sirota, D. Weitz, T. Witten, and J. Israelachvili,
Materials Research Society (Pittsburgh) 1992.

Z.-G. Wang, U. Landman, R. L. B. Selinger, and W. M. Gelbart, "Molecular
dynamics study of elasticity and failure of ideal solids," Phys. Rev. B
44, 378-381 (1991).

R. L. B. Selinger, Z.-G. Wang, W. M. Gelbart, and A . Ben-Shaul,
" Statistical-thermodynamic approach to fracture," Phys. Rev. A 43,
4396-4400 (1991).

R. L. B. Selinger, Z.-G. Wang, and W. M. Gelbart, "Effect of temperature
and small-scale defects on the strength of solids, J. Chem. Phys. 95,
9128-9141 (1991).

W. M. Gelbart, R. L. B. Selinger, and Z. G. Wang, "Solids under stress:
the statistical mechanics of failure", in Lectures on Thermodynamics and
Statistical Mechanics (World Scientific, 1991), edited by M. Lopez de Haro
and C. Varea.

R. L. B. Selinger and H. E. Stanley, "Percolation of interacting diffusing
particles," Phys. Rev. A 42, 4845-4852 (1990).

S. Havlin, M. Schwartz, R. L. B. Selinger, A. Bunde, and H. E. Stanley,
" Universality classes for diffusion in the presence of correlated spatial
disorder," Phys. Rev. A 40, 1717 (1989).

R. L. B. Selinger, J. Nittmann, and H. E. Stanley, "Inhomogeneous
diffusion-limited aggregation," Phys. Rev. A 40, 2590-2601 ( 1989).

R. L. B. Selinger, S. Havlin, F. Leyvraz, M. Schwartz, and H. E. Stanley,
" Diffusion in the presence of quenched random bias fields: a
two-dimensional generalization of the Sinai model," Phys. Rev. A (Rapid
Communications) 40, 6755-6758 (1989).

S. Havlin, R. L. B. Selinger, J. Schwartz, H. E. Stanley, and A. Bunde,
" Random multiplicative processes and transport in structures with
correlated spatial disorder," Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 1438-1441 (1988).

R. L. Blumberg, H. E. Stanley, A. Geiger, and P. Mausbach, "Connectivity
of hydrogen bonds in liquid water," J. Chem. Phys. 80, 5230-5241 (1984).

H. E. Stanley, R. L. Blumberg, A. Geiger, P. Mausbach, and J. Teixeira,
" The `locally-structured transient gel' model of water structure," J. de
Physique C7, 13-30 (1984).

A. Geiger, P. Mausbach, J. Schnitker, R. L. Blumberg, and H. E. Stanley,
" Structure and dynamics of the hydrogen bond network in water by computer
simulations," J. de Physique C7, 3-12 (1984).

H. E. Stanley, K. Kang, S. Redner, and R. L. Blumberg, "Novel
superuniversal behavior of a random-walk model," Phys. Rev. Lett. 51,
1223-1226 (1983).

H. E . Stanley, R. L. Blumberg, and A. Geiger, "Gelation models of
hydrogen bond networks in liquid water," Phys. Rev. B 28, 1626-1629
(1983).

H. E. Stanley, J. Teixeira, A. Geiger, and R. L. Blumberg, "Interpretation
of the unusual behavior of H_2O and D_2O at low temperature, Physica A
106, 260-277 (1981).

R. L. Blumberg, J. Shlifer, and H. E. Stanley, "Monte Carlo tests of
universality in a correlated-site percolation problem," J. Phys. A: Math.
Gen. 13, L147-L152 (1980).

BOOKS/JOURNALS EDITED

R. L. B. Selinger, J. J. Mecholsky, A. E. Carlsson, and E. R. Fuller,
editors, Fracture: Instability Dynamics, Scaling, and Ductile/Brittle
Behavior, Materials Research Society Proc. 409, (Pittsburgh, 1996).

G. Beltz, R. L. B. Selinger, K.-S. Kim, and M. P. Marder, editors,
Fracture and Ductile vs. Brittle Behavior--Theory, Modelling and
Experiment, Materials Research Society Proc. 539, (Pittsburgh, 1999).

L. P. Kubin, R. L. B. Selinger, J. L. Bassani, and K. Cho, Multiscale
Modeling of Materials-2000, Materials Research Society Proc. 653,
(Pittsburgh, 2001).

Robin Selinger and Diana Farkas, guest editors, MRS Bulletin, May 2000.