Guoqiang Xu

• Appointment in Prof. Mattice's group: Graduate Student, 1999-2002
• Ph. D. Dissertation: "Monte Carlo Simulation of Polyethylene on the Confined Geometryt and Elastomeric Polypropylene", December 2002
• Topic of research with Prof. Mattice: Elastomeric polypropylene, crystallization
• Current position: Postdoc, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, gqxu@yahoo.com

Publications coauthored with Prof. Mattice

• Vao-soongnern V, Xu G, Mattice WL "Structure formation in the crystallization and annealing of tetracontane nanoparticles" Macromol Theory Simul 2004, 13, 539-549
• Xu G, Rane SS, Helfer CA, Mattice WL, Pugh C "Monte Carlo simulation of solvent effects on the threading of poly(ethylene oxide)" Modelling and Simul Mater Sci Eng 2004, 12, S59-S71
• Helfer CA, Xu G, Mattice WL, Pugh C "Monte Carlo simulations investigating the threading of cyclic poly(ethylene oxide) by linear chains in the melt" Macromolecules 2003, 36, 9924-9928
• Xu G; Lin H; Mattice WL "Configuration selection in the simulations of the crystallization of short polyethylene chains in a free-standing thin film" J Chem Phys 2003, 119, 6736-6743
• Xu G; Mattice WL "Energetic and entropic contributions to the surface energy of a free-standing thin film of n-tetracontane" J Phys Chem B 2002, 106, 12776-12781
• Xu G; Mattice WL "Simulation of the initial development of an inhomogeneous structure upon cooling an elastomeric polypropylene from a homogeneous melt" Polymer 2002, 43, 7007-7015
• Xu G; Mattice WL "Monte Carlo simulation on separation and co-crystallization of a mixture of short polyethylene chains in a thin film" J Chem Phys 2002, 117, 3440-3447
• Xu G; Mattice WL "A method for handling branch points in Monte Carlo simulations" Macromol Theory Simul 2002, 11, 649-654
• Xu G; Vao-soongnern V; Mattice WL "Similarities and differences in the rapid crystallization induced in n-tetracontane by an instantaneous deep quench of the free-standing nanofiber and free-standing thin film" Macromol Theory Simul 2002, 11, 494-500
• Xu G; Clancy TC; Mattice WL; Kumar SK "Increase in the chemical potential of syndiotactic polypropylene upon mixing with atactic or isotactic polypropylene in the melt" Macromolecules 2002, 35, 3309-3311
• Xu G; Mattice WL "Monte Carlo simulation of the crystallization and annealing of a free-standing thin film of n-tetracontane" J Chem Phys 2002, 116, 2277-2283
• Xu G; Mattice WL "Study on structure formation of short polyethylene chains via dynamic Monte Carlo simulation" Comput Theor Polym Sci 2001, 11, 405-413