I employ both analytical theory and computer simulation methods to study the structural and dynamical properties of soft matter, including single-polymer chain systems, liquid crystals, Langmuir monolayers, and biomembranes.
Research Interests:
Structural and dynamic properties of polymeric systems, such as Langmuir
monolayers, liquid crystals, and polypeptides - simulation techniques used,
include parallel-tempering, discontinuous molecular dynamics (DMD) and
transition path sampling
Citations:
S.B.
Opps, N. Abou-Risk, and J.M. Polson, Discontinuous molecular dynamics simulation
study of polymer collapse, J. Chem. Phys. Accepted for publication, Oct 12,
2006. Funding: (NSERC), Major Research Grant (MRG) -UPEI.
S.B.
Opps, N. Saad, H.M. Srivastava, Some Reduction and Transformation Formulas for
the Appell Hypergeometric Function F2, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 302 180-195 (2005).
Funding: (NSERC).
M.
Silva, L. Hartling, and S.B. Opps, Small mammals in agricultural landscapes of
PEI: Effects of habitat characteristics at three different spatial scales, Biol.
Conserv., 126, 556-568 (2005). Funding: (NSERC).
R.
Diplock, D.E. Sullivan, K.M. Jaffer, and S.B. Opps, Nematic-isotropic phase
transition in diblock fused-sphere chain fluids, Phys. Rev. E, 69, 046406 (4
pages) (2004). Funding: (NSERC).
Extended-state
space Monte Carlo methods, S.B. Opps and J. Schofield, Phys. Rev. E, 63, 056701
(11 pages) (2001). Funding: (NSERC).
Current Collaborators (non-UPEI):
Drs.
Jeremy Schofield and Ramses van Zon, Dept. of Chemistry, UofT.
Drs.
John Katsaras and Jeremy Penser, NRC, Chalk River, ON.
Dr.
Don Sullivan, Dept. of Physics, Uof Guelph.
Dr.
Anirban Sain, India Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.
