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M. Mercedes Calbi
Teaching
Office Hours
- Moday, Wed, Friday: 12:50 pm - 2:50 pm
Research Interests
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Gases adsorbed on and inside carbon nanotube bundles:
Adsorption and thermodynamical properties,
kinetic and diffusive behavior, quantum effects, phase transitions
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Bose-Einstein condensation in low dimensional systems:
Condensates in optical lattices
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Forces between nanosize particles: Van der Waals forces
between atomic clusters, size and many-body effects; aggregation phenomena
in fluids
My theoretical approaches are based on statistical and quantum mechanical
methods and include density functional techniques for liquid helium, grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations
and kinetic Monte Carlo schemes. An effort is
made to formulate simple models in order to identify the key features of
the problem and provide a general understanding of the investigated
phenomena.
Selected publications:
M.M. Calbi and J.L. Riccardo, "Energy
barriers at the ends of carbon nanotube bundles: Effects on interstitial
adsorption kinetics", Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (24): Art. No. 246103
(2005).
M.M. Calbi, A. Mizel, M.W. Cole, "Lattice dilation near a single hydrogen molecule in an interstitial channel
within a nanotube bundle",
Phys. Rev. B 69: Art. No. 195408 (2004).
M.K. Kostov, M.M. Calbi and M.W. Cole, "Phonons and
specific heat of phases adsorbed on the surface of nanotube bundles",
Phys. Rev. B. 68: 245403 (2003).
M.M. Calbi, S.M. Gatica and M.W.Cole, "Statistical mechanics of
interacting peapods", Phys. Rev. B. 67: 205417 (2003).
M.M. Calbi, S.M. Gatica, D. Velegol, M.W. Cole, "Retarded and non
retarded van der Waals interactions between a cluster and a second cluster
or a conducting surface", Phys. Rev. A. 67: 033201 (2003).
M. Mercedes Calbi and Milton W. Cole,
"Dimensional crossover and
quantum effects of gases adsorbed on nanotube bundles", Phys. Rev. B. 66:
115413 (2002).
M.M. Calbi , M.W. Cole , S.M. Gatica , M.J. Bojan , and G. Stan,
"Colloquium: Condensed phases of gases inside nanotube bundles", Rev. Mod.
Phys. 73: 857-865 (2001).
M.M. Calbi , S.M. Gatica, M.J. Bojan, and M.W. Cole,
"Phases of neon,
xenon, and methane adsorbed on nanotube bundles", Journal of Chemical
Physics 115: 9975-9981 (2001).
M.M. Calbi, F. Toigo, M.W. Cole, "Dilation-induced phases of gases
absorbed within a bundle of carbon nanotubes", Phys. Rev. Lett. 86:
5062-5065 (2001).
More Information at:
http://myprofile.cos.com/mcalbi
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