Dr. Ras B. Pandey 

Ras B. Pandey, Professor Ph.D., Physics, I.I.T. Roorkee, 1981 Bobby Chain Technology Office Location: 229 C Phone: 601-266-4485 Details

Research Interests

(1) Biomolecular Systems: Proteins (Conformation and Dynamics) and Membranes. (2(a)) Polymer I: Polymer Chains in Solvent and Porous Media: Transport, Flow, and Conformation . (2(b)) Polymer II: Sol-Gel Systems; Microemulsion and Lipid. (3) Surfaces and Roughness, Polymer chains near adsorbing walls. (4) Percolation, Growth Models, Random Fractals, and Porous systems. (5) Transport in Interacting Systems, Lattice gas, Anomalous diffusion. (6) Interfacial Dynamics, Fluid Flow, Mixing-Demixing, Phase Separation. (7) Modeling Composite Materials. (8) Immune Response: Discrete Models; Cellular Automata. (9) Econophysics: Theoretical modeling of stock market. (10) Phase Transition and Critical Phenomena (thermal and geometrical).

Recent Publications

2009:

Residues energy and mobility in-sequence to global structure and dynamics of a HIV-1 protease (1DIFA) by a coarse-grained Monte Carlo simulation, R.B. Pandey and B.L. Farmer, J. Chem. Phys. 130, 044906 (2009).

Adsorption of peptides (A3, Flg, Pd2, Pd4) on gold and palladium surfaces by a coarse-grained Monte Carlo simulation, R.B. Pandey, H. Heinz, J. Feng, B.L. Farmer, J.M. Slocik, L.F. Drummy, and R.R. Naik, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 11, 1989 (2009).

2008:

Exfoliation of a stack of platelets and intercalation of polymer chains: effects of molecular weight, entanglement, and interaction with the polymer matrix, R.B. Pandey and B.L. Farmer, J. Poly. Sci. Part B, Polymer Physics 46, 2696 (2008).

Sheets: Entropy dissipation, multi-scale dynamics, dispersion, and intercalation, R.B. Pandey, K.L. Anderson, and B.L. Farmer, Comp. Sci. Engg. 10, 90 (2008).**

Conformation of a coarse-grained protein chain (an aspartic acid protease) model in effective solvent by a bond-fluctuating Monte Carlo simulation, R.B. Pandey and B.L. Farmer, Phys. Rev. E 77, 031902 (2008).

Effect of temperature and solvent on dispersion of layered platelets by Monte Carlo simulations, R.B. Pandey and B.L. Farmer, Macromol. Ther. Sim. 17, 208 (2008).

Can a difference in molecular weights cause an eruption in a driven flow of self-organizing immiscible system? R.B. Pandey and J.F. Gettrust, Eur. Phys. J. B 61, 83 (2008).