Contact information:

Department of Chemistry,
151 Cornell Street Stop 9024,
University of North Dakota,
Grand Forks, ND 58202

Phone: 701.777.2495  
Fax: 701.777.2331

Website: http://www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/delhomjp

Email: jdelhommelle@chem.und.edu


I. Education

2004: Habilitation in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University Henri Poincare Nancy 1 (France).

2000: PhD in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University Paris XI-Orsay (France).

1997: MS in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University Paris XI-Orsay (France).

1997: Agregation in Physical Sciences (national rank : 12th).

1994: BS in Chemistry, University Paris XI-Orsay (France).

1993: Ecole Normale Superieure (Cachan, France).


II. Employment

2008-now: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of North Dakota (United States) and, since 2009, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of North Dakota (United States).

2005-2008: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, and, since 2007, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina (United States).

2004-2005: Senior Research Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University (United States).

2001-2004: Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Chemistry, University Henri Poincaré Nancy 1 (France).

2000-2001: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University (Australia).

 
III. Research Highlights


    Self-assembly at the nanoscale

• First molecular mechanism proposed for the experimental observation of cross-nucleation between polymorphs
     C. Desgranges and J. Delhommelle, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 10368 (2006).

• Demonstration of a control of cross-nucleation; complete polymorphism control for a simple Lennard-Jones fluid
     C. Desgranges and J. Delhommelle, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 235502 (2007).

• Insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying polymorph selection in charge-stabilized colloidal suspensions
     C. Desgranges and J. Delhommelle, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 15104 (2006).

• Numerical evidence for a structural evolution of α-N₂ critical nuclei into β-N₂ crystallites
      J.-M. Leyssale, J. Delhommelle and C. Millot, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 12286 (2004).

• Elucidation of the pathway to crystallization of Aluminum; analysis of the differences with the crystallization mechanism of a simple fluid
      C. Desgranges and J. Delhommelle, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129, 7012 (2007).


    Nanofluidics


• First evaluation of the conductivity of a nanoconfined liquid subjected to experimentally accessible external fields
      C. Desgranges and J. Delhommelle, Phys. Rev. E 77, 027701 (2008).

• First simulation of the frictional response of a nanoconfined liquid subjected to experimentally accessible shear rates
      J. Delhommelle and P. T. Cummings, Phys. Rev. B 72, 172201 (2005).

• Application of configurational expressions for the temperature to determine temperature profiles in nanoconfined liquids undergoing Poiseuille flow
      J. Delhommelle and D. J. Evans, J. Chem. Phys. 114, 6229 (2001).

• Simulation of the Poiseuille flow of a micropolar fluid in a nanochannel; comparison with an extended Navier-Stokes theory
      J. Delhommelle and D. J. Evans, Mol. Phys. 100, 2857 (2002).


    Development of simulation methods and potential models

• Transport coefficients; non-linear generalization of the Green-Kubo relations e. g. conductivity of molten NaCl
      J. Delhommelle et al. J. Chem. Phys. 123, 114505 (2005).

• Configurational thermostats for flowing systems:
    -    Interplay between shear and the hydrogen bond network in hydrogen bonded fluids
           J. Petravic and J. Delhommelle, J. Chem. Phys. 122, 234509 (2005).
    -    Shear-thickening in model colloidal suspensions
           J. Delhommellle and J. Petravic, J. Chem. Phys. 123, 074707 (2005).
    -    Ordering/jamming in strongly driven systems
           J. Delhommelle, Phys. Rev. E 71, 016705 (2005).
    -    Shear-induced melting in 2D systems
           J. Delhommelle, Phys. Rev. B 69, 144117 (2004).

• Parametrization of molecular models for alkanes; prediction of the vapour-liquid coexistence curve
     P. Ungerer, J. Delhommelle et al. J. Chem. Phys. 112, 5499 (2000).

• Charge fitting procedure to reproduce the ab initio electrostatic potential of sulfides and thiols; prediction of the vapour-liquid coexistence curve
      J. Delhommelle et al. J. Phys. Chem. B 104, 4745 (2000).