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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)