Dr Zak Elliot Hughes

Field of interest

Molecular simulation of liquid matter, especially liquid crystals. Coarse-grained simulations of macromolecules

Biography

• 1999-2003 MChem degree from Durham University, England
• 2003-2006 PhD , Department of Chemistry, Durham University, England – “New Methods For the simulations of Macromolecular Liquid Crystals”
• 2006-2007 Postdoctoral research fellow at Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario

Publications

• Wilson M.R., Ilnytskyi J.M., Stimson L.M. and Hughes Z.E., Computer Simulations of liquid crystal polymers and dendrimers. In Computer Simulations of Liquid Crystals and Polymers, eds Pasini P., Zannoni C. and Zumer S., (Klumer 2004), 57-78.
• Hughes Z.E., Wilson M.R. and Stimson L.M., Coarse-grained simulation studies of a liquid crystal dendrimer: towards computational predictions of nanoscale structure through microphase separation. Soft Matter, 2005, 1(6), 436-443.
• Hughes Z.E., et al., An Investigation of soft-core potentials of mesogenic molcules and molecules composed of rigid and flexible segements. Comp. Phys. Comm., 2008, DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2008.01.047 (Article in Press)