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My name is George Schoendorff. Currently, I am a Ph.D. student at Iowa State University studying physical chemistry. Since my research is purely theoretical, I understand the need for computing resources. Thus, I am of the opinion that a processor should never be idle.
My current research involves the study of the reactivity of actinides. At the moment, I am studying uranyl complexes using density functional theory and using effective core potentials to minimize the computational costs. In the future, I plan to replace the effective core potentials (ECPs) with model core potentials (MCPs). The advantage of the MCPs is that they incorporate the nodal structure of the core electrons as opposed to the ECPs model of spherical potentials for the core electrons. Additionally, I plan to extend my research to other actinides -- particularly thorium, plutonium, and americium.
My previous research (as an undergraduate) included the energetics of concanavalin A and streptavidin/biotin at the solid-liquid interface using atomic force microscopy (AFM); modelling the diffusion of pollutants through an aquifer; theoretical studies of the selective reduction of NOx with copper exchanged zeolite (ZSM-5); theoretical studies of heterofullerenes (primarily C28 and C30 and their analogues); and theoretical studies of the excited states of NiO2 using second-order generalized van Vleck perturbation theory (GVVPT2). |
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