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J. Woods Halley

Professor

350C Tate, 624-0395, email woods @ woods1.spa.umn.edu
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Bush Fellowship, 1983-84, IBM Paul J. Flory Sabbatical, 1987,Fellow of the Supercomputer Institute, University of Minnesota,1989-present,Graduate Faculty of Materials Science, University of Minnesota,1989- present, APS Fellow, 1998-present

Synergistic Activities: Symposium on Global Climate Change and the Chemical Industry, American Institute of Chemical Engineers New Orleans, 2002, session organizer and chair; Basic Energy Sciences adviser Committee Workshop on Future of Energy Research, Department of Energy, Gaithersburg, MD, 2003; Workshop on Hydrogen Economy, Department of Energy, Rockville, MD, 2003; NSF MRSEC Review Panel, Northwestern University 2003.

Books:
Statistical Mechanics, Cambridge University Press (2006)
How Likely Is Extraterrestrial Life? Springer-Verlag (2012)

Research Areas
Condensed matter and chemical physics theory, simulation and experiment with an emphasis on interfaces and models of prebiotic evolution.

Current Research

Professor Halley's group studies transport and nonequilibirum processes in solids and fluids using theoretical, simulation and experimental methods. Specific studies include:

Studies of electrode-electrolyte interfaces, including electron transfer and the electronic structure of oxides and metals with applications to electrolysis and catalysis in nanophase as well as macroscopic systems.

Studies of solvation, transport and ion pairing in polymers and ionic liquids of relevance to batteries and fuel cells.

Studies of the interaction of vapor pulses with Bose-Einstein condensed helium four liquid and alkali gases.

Chemical kinetic studies of models of prebiotic evolution.

Advisees and Collaborators

Ivan Fedorov, Teaching Assistant
Yaroslav Lutsyshyn, Research Fellow

Selected Publications

You Lin, Aaron Wynveen, J. Halley, Larry Curtiss, and Paul Redfern, Self consistent tight binding model for dissociable water, Journal of Chemical Physics 136, 174507 (2012)

A. Tchernatinsky and J. W. Halley,  Relativistic tight-binding model: Application to Pt surfaces, Physical Review B 83, 205431 (2011)

Lingling Jia, Dat Nguyen, J. W. Halley, Phat Pham, William Lamanna and Steven Hamrock, Proton Transport in HTFSI-EMI-TFSI Mixtures: Experiment and Theory, Journ. of the Electrochemical Society 156(1) B136-B151 (2009)

Y. Lutsyshyn and J. W. Halley, Diffusion Monte Carlo calculation of rate of elastic transmission of a helium vapor beam through a slab of superfluid helium, Physical Review B 83, 014504 (2011)

Chien-Yu Tsau, Diu Nghiem, R. Joynt and J. Woods Halley, J, Energy Level Statistics of Quantum Dots, Phys.: Condens. Matter 19, 186215 (2007)

J. Woods Halley, Serkan Erdin, You Lin, Peter Zapol,, Self Consistent Tight Binding Molecular Dynamics Study of TiO_2 Nanoclusters in Water, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 607, 147 (2007)

A.Wynveen, K.A.Lidke, Y.Lutsyshyn and J.W.Halley, Possible Transmission Experiments with Low Velocity Helium Droplets, Phys.Rev B 75, 054506 (2007)

A. S. Barnard, S. Erdin, Y. Lin, P. Zapol and J. W. Halley, Modeling of TiO_2 Nanoparticles, Phys. Rev B 73, 205405 (2006)

Serkan Erdin, You Lin and J. Woods Halley, Self-consistent tight-binding study of low-index titanium surfaces, Phys. Rev B 72, 035405 (2005)

Yuhua Duan, J. W. Halley,Larry Curtiss, Paul Redfern, Mechanisms of Lithium Transport in Amorphous Polytethylene Oxide, Journal of Chemical Physics 122, 054702 (2005)

Education

NSF postdoctoral fellow (P.G. de Gennes), University of Paris Orsay,1966
Ph.D. (C. Kittel), Physics, U. California, Berkeley, 1965.
B.S., mathematics, MIT, 1961.