Arthi Jayaraman

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Arthi Jayaraman
Alma mater North Carolina State University
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Scientific career
Institutions University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Delaware
Thesis Computer simulation studies of pattern recognition in biomimetic polymers  (2006)
Website Jayaraman Research Group

Arthi Jayaraman is an Indian-American scientist who is the Centennial Term Professor for Excellence in Research and Education at the University of Delaware. Her research considers the development of computational models to better understand polymer nanocomposites and biomaterials. Jayaraman was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2020.

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Early life and education

Jayaraman earned her undergraduate degree at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. [1] [2] She moved to the United States for her graduate studies, where she majored in chemical engineering. [1] For her doctoral research Jayaraman studied biomimetic polymers and pattern recognition. She moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign for a postdoctoral position, where she worked in the Department of Materials Science. [1]

Research and career

Jayaraman was appointed to the faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she was made Patten Assistant Professor. Her early academic research was supported by the United States Department of Energy (DOE), and considered the use of polymer nanocomposites for electronic devices. In an effort to manipulate their optical and electronic properties, Jayaraman makes use of computational design. She created a comprehensive molecular model that allows her to simulate the (semi-)conducting properties of molecular systems, making use of graphics processing units to inform the design of polymers and additives. These computational models allow Jayaraman to better understand the dispersal of additives through the nanocomposite system, which allows for better control of the mechanical properties. [3]

Amongst the molecular models considered by Jayaraman, she has primarily focussed on coarse-grained modeling. Coarse-grained models incorporate the anisotropic, directional and specific interactions (for example, hydrogen bonding etc. [4] [5] ) of soft materials, including nanocomposites and biomaterials. [6] In 2014 Jayaraman moved to the University of Delaware. [7] Here she oversaw the graduate program in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE). [8] She serves on the editorial boards of the American Chemical Society journals Macromolecules [9] (as Associate Editor) and ACS Polymers Au (Deputy Editor). She currently directs an NSF-funded NRT interdisciplinary graduate traineeship on computing and data science for materials innovation, design, and analytics ( .

Awards and honours

Selected publications

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  4. ↑ Wu, Zijie; Beltran-Villegas, Daniel J.; Jayaraman, Arthi (2020-07-14). "Development of a New Coarse-Grained Model to Simulate Assembly of Cellulose Chains Due to Hydrogen Bonding". Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 16 (7): 4599–4614. doi:10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00225. ISSN   1549-9618. PMID   32484347. S2CID   219172871.
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