Gary Grest

Education

• Ph.D., Physics
• Louisiana State University
• 1974

• M.S., Physics
• Louisiana State University
• 1973

• B.S., Physics
• Louisiana State University
• 1971

Positions

• 1998 - Present | Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
• 1/2009 - Present | Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry, Clemson University
• 2013 - Present | Distinguished Sandia National Laboratories Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of New Mexico

Awards

• Fellow - American Physical Society, 1989
• Senior Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, 2002
• American Physical Society Aneesur Rahman Prize in Computational Physics, 2008
• Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2008
• American Physical Society Polymer Physics Prize, 2011
• Hall of Distinction, Louisiana State University, College of Science, 2013

Professional Societies

• Editor, Physical Review E, 2002 - 2012
• Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2008
• Divisional Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters, 1994-2000
• Member-at-Large - Executive Committee of the Division of Condensed Matter Physics, American Physical Society, 1992-1995

Publications

• I. Srivastava, B. L. Peters, J. M. D. Lane, H. Fan, K. M. Salerno, and G. S. Grest,Mechanics of Gold Nanoparticle Superlattices at High Hydrostatic Pressures, J. Phys. Chem. C123, 17530 (2019).
• S. Wijesinghe, D. Perahia and G. S. Grest, Temperature Response of Soft Luminescent Ionizable Polymer Nanoparticles, J. Chem. Phys. 149, 084903 (2018).
• S. Wijesinghe, D. Perahia and G. S. Grest, Temperature Response of Soft Luminescent Ionizable Polymer Nanoparticles, J. Chem. Phys. 149, 084903 (2018).
• Y. Tang, G. S. Grest, and S. Cheng, Stratification in Drying Films Containing Bidisperse Mixtures of Nanoparticles,34, 7161 (2018).
• K. M. Salerno, A. Agrawal, D. Perahia, and G. S. Grest, Resolving Dynamic Properties of Polymers through Coarse-Grained Computational Studies, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 058302 (2016).
• A. Agrawal, D. Perahia and G. S. Grest, Cluster Morphology-Polymer Dynamics Correlations in Sulfonated Polystyrene Melts: Computational Study, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 158001 (2016).
• G. S. Grest, Communication: Polymer Entanglement Dynamics: Role of Attractive Interactions, J. Chem. Phys. 145, 141101 (2016).
• S. Cheng and G. S. Grest, Dispersing Nanoparticles in a Polymer Film via Solvent Evaporation, ACS Macro Lett. 5, 694 (2016).
• D. Aryal, G. S. Grest and D. Perahia, Soft Nanoparticles: Nano Ionic Networks of Structured Ionic Polymers, Nanoscale 9, 2117 (2017).
• T. Ge, J. T. Kalathi, J. D. Halverson, G. S. 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 G. S. Grest, Structure and Dynamics Ionic Block Copolymer Melts: Computational Study, Macromolecules 50, 7388 (2017).
• T. Ge, G. S. Grest, and M. Rubinstein, Nanorheology of Entangled Polymer Melts, Physical Review Letters 120, 057801 (2018).