Dr Asaph Widmer-Cooper

Chief Investigator

Soft Matter Theory and Computation Laboratory

Widmer-Cooper is a computational chemist with expertise in modelling the structure and dynamics of amorphous, crystalline and self-assembled materials. He helps develop solution-processed materials for extracting energy from sunlight and contributes to fundamental studies of exciton behaviour.

ORCID iD: 
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Centre Research Themes: 
1. Excitonic Systems for Solar Energy Conversion
2. Control of Excitons
Summary of any other of your centre responsibilities: 
  • Deputy Champion of the Multiscale Modelling Platform
  • University of Sydney Node Manager
  • Member of the Equity and Diversity Committee

 

Publications

Journal Articles
Lloyd, J. A.; Liu, Y.; Ng, S. Hock; Thai, T.; Gómez, D. E.; Widmer-Cooper, A.; Bach, U. Self-assembly of spherical and rod-shaped nanoparticles with full positional control. Nanoscale 2019, 11 (47), 22841 - 22848 DOI: 10.1039/C9NR06679A. doi: 10.1039/C9NR06679A
Liu, Y.; Widmer-Cooper, A. A versatile simulation method for studying phase behavior and dynamics in colloidal rod and rod-polymer suspensions. The Journal of Chemical Physics 2019, 150 (24), 244508 DOI: 10.1063/1.5096193. doi: 10.1063/1.5096193
Kister, T.; Monego, D.; Mulvaney, P.; Widmer-Cooper, A.; Kraus, T. Colloidal Stability of Apolar Nanoparticles: The Role of Particle Size and Ligand Shell Structure. ACS Nano 2018, 12 (6), 5969 - 5977 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b02202. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.8b02202
Monego, D.; Kister, T.; Kirkwood, N.; Mulvaney, P.; Widmer-Cooper, A.; Kraus, T. Colloidal Stability of Apolar Nanoparticles: Role of Ligand Length. Langmuir 2018, 34 (43), 12982 - 12989 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b02883. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b02883