Mesfin Tsige

• Position: Assistant Professor (Starting Fall 2005)
• Field: Soft Condensed Matter Physics, Modeling and simulation. 
• Degree: PhD. Case Western University, 2001
• At SIUC Since: 2005
• Office: Neckers 462
• Mailcode: 4401
• Phone: (618) 453-2272
• Fax: 618-453-1056
• E-mail: mtsige@physics.siu.edu
• Personal : http://www.physics.siu.edu/people/tsige/
• Group :http://www.physics.siu.edu/people/tsige/group

Office Hours

• MWF 4:00-6:00pm

Teaching

• PHYS 205B, University Physics
• PHYS 530B, Quantum Mechanics II
• PHYS 565A, Solid State Physics II
• PHYS 205A, University Physics

Research Interests

In Materials Physics with particular focus on molecular modelling, design, and implementation of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to study liquid crystal and polymer surfaces and interfaces at the nanometer scale.

Recent Selected Publications (Total 28)  

1.      “Simulations study of the glass transition temperature in poly(methyl methacrylate)”, M. Tsige and P. L. Taylor, Phys. Rev. E, 65, 21805-21812 (2002).

2.      “Interactions and strucuture of poly(dimethylsiloxane) at silicon dioxide surfaces: electronic structure and molecular dynamics studies”, M. Tsige, T. Soddemann, S. B. Rempe, G. S. Grest, J. D. Kress, M. O. Robbins, S. W. Sides, M. J. Stevens, and E. Webb, J. Chem. Phys., 118, 5132-5141 (2003).

3.      “Interdiffusion of solvent into glassy polymer films: A molecular dynamics study”, M. Tsige and G. S. Grest, J. Chem. Phys., 121, 7513-7519 (2004).

4.      “Role of network connectivity on the mechanical properties of highly cross-linked polymers”, M. Tsige, C. D. Lorenz, and M. J. Stevens, Macromolecules, 37, 8466-8472 (2004).

5.      “Morphology of Evaporated Multiblock Copolymer Membranes Studied by Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, M. Tsige, T. R. Mattson, and G. S. Grest, Macromolecules, 37, 9132-9138 (2004).

6.      “Template-induced enhanced ordering under confinment,” B. Yurdurmakan, G. P. Harp, M. Tsige, A. Dhinojwala, Langmuir, 21, 10316 (2005).