Escobedo student wins Wormald Prize in Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics
September 25, 2009The British Royal Society of Chemistry’s Christopher Wormald prize for Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics has been awarded to Dr. Francisco Martínez-Verecoechea, a 2009 PhD graduate of Professor Fernando Escobedo’s group in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell. Dr. Martinez was honored for his contribution on “Stabilizing Ordered Bicontinuous Phases in Diblock Copolymer Systems". Francisco’s Ph.D. Thesis entailed primarily the use of molecular simulation and theoretical calculations to characterize the thermodynamics of nano-filled diblock copolymer melts and to understand the formation of bicontinuous phases. Dr. Martinez published 10 papers from his Thesis work, which has been cited 59 times in the last four years.