| Nov 05, 2025 | NJC presents the talk Accelerated Prediction of Adsorption-Induced Deformation in Nanoporous Carbons Using Classical Density Functional Theory at the 2025 AIChE Annual Meeting. |
| Nov 04, 2025 | NJC is awarded the Graduate Student Research Award for Adsorption & Ion Exchange by the Separations Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers at the AIChE Annual Meeting. |
| Sep 01, 2025 | NJC is promoted to Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers University. |
| May 23, 2025 | NJC presents the talk From Model Pores to 3D Structures: Recent Advances in Classical Density Functional Theory for Adsorption and Deformation Predictions – A love letter to classical DFT at the 15th Fundamentals of Adsorption conference. |
| May 16, 2025 | NJC is awarded Rutgers University CBE-GSO Researcher-Scholar Award for the second year in a row. |
| Apr 19, 2025 | NJC is awarded the Rutgers University Engineering Governing Council Professor of the Year Award for the third year in a row. |
| Dec 18, 2024 | NJC successfully defends his dissertation titled “Coupling Structural, Adsorption, and Mechanical Properties of Nanoporous Carbons Using Advanced Molecular Simulation Methods.” |
| Sep 01, 2024 | NJC appointed as a full-time Teaching Instructor in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers University. |
| May 21, 2024 | NJC won the 1st-place best poster award for “SAFT-DFT Studies of Nanoporous Carbon Deformation Induced by Multicomponent Adsorption””, presented at the 9th Characterization of Porous Materials Conference. |
| Apr 11, 2024 | Our cover art associated with the manuscript, Deformation of Nanoporous Carbons Induced By Multicomponent Adsorption: Insight from the SAFT-DFT Model has been selected as a front cover for the Journal of Physical Chemistry C. (see cover) |