RICHARD B. MCCLURG

Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Contact Info: Phone: (612) 624-9056 Office: 204 Amundson Hall Email: mcclurg@cems.umn.edu

Professional Preparation Northwestern University, Chemical Engineering, B.S., 1992 California Institute of Technology, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D., 1997 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois, 1997-1998 Professional Appointments Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, UMN, 1998-present Alternating Term COOP, Dow Chemical Company, 1989-1991 Selected Publications R.B. McClurg, “Steady State Homogeneous Nucleation Rate and Primary Particle Size Distribution,” In Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols 2000, (American Institute of Physics, New York) 88-90 R.B. McClurg, “Effect of Magic Numbered Clusters on the Rate of Homogeneous Nucleation,” J. Aerosol Sci. 29, S43 (1998) R.B. McClurg, R.C. Flagan, “Critical Comparison of Droplet Models in Homogeneous Nucleation Theory,” J. Colloid Interface Sci. 201, 194 (1998) R.B. McClurg, R.C. Flagan, W.A. Goddard, III, “Influences of Binding Transitions on the Homogeneous Nucleation of Mercury,” Nanostruct. Mater. 9, 53 (1997) R.B. McClurg, R.C. Flagan, “Statistical-mechanical Basis for the 1/S Correction to Classical Homogeneous Nucleation Theory,” In Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols, M. Kulmala and P.E. Wagner, Eds. (Pergamon, Oxford) 81 (1996) R.B. McClurg, C.F. Zukoski, “The Electrostatic Interaction of Rigid, Globular Proteins with Arbitrary Charge Distributions,” J. Colloid Interface Sci. 208, 529 (1998) R.B. McClurg, “The Hindered Rotor Density-of-states,” J. Chem. Phys. 108, 1748 (1998) R.B. McClurg, R.C. Flagan, W.A. Goddard, III, “The Hindered Rotor Density-of-states Interpolation Function,” J. Chem. Phys. 106, 6675 (1997) R.B. McClurg, R.C. Flagan, W.A. Goddard, III, “Thermodynamic Properties and Homogeneous Nucleation Rates for Surface-melted Physical Clusters,” J. Chem. Phys. 105, 7648 (1996) R.B. McClurg, R.C. Flagan, W.A. Goddard, III, “Free Energy and Surface Tension of Arbitrarily Large Mackay Icosahedral Clusters,” J. Chem. Phys. 102, 3322 (1995) Synergistic Activities Co-chair, Session on "Industrial Processes for Particle Formation," AIChE National Meeting, November 2002 Co-chair, Session on "Theory, Modeling and Simulation of Nanoscale Systems," AIChE National Meeting, November 2002 Co-organizer of "Midwest Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics Conference," May 2000 (with Ilja Siepmann) NSF Engineering Education Scholars Workshop Participant, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 1997