Robin L. Blumberg Selinger
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Associate Professor
The Catholic University of America
Department of Physics
Hannan 200
Washington, DC 20064
Phone: 202-319-6740 FAX: 202-319-4448 
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Members of Selinger research group, 2004
Scott Weingarten, grad student
Matt Davidson, undergraduate
Instructions to Hannan Hall from the Brookland Metro
Station can be found here.
Research interests:
I. Theory/simulation of deformation and fracture in crystalline
solids-- supported by the National Science
Foundation
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Dislocation dynamics and patterning in 2-d and 3-d
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Size effects in plasticity
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Instabilities in crack propagation in elastic solids
II. Theory/simulation of complex fluids--supported
by the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory
and the Petroleum
Research Fund of the American Chemical Society
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Mesoscale simulation of self-assembled chiral structures
including tubules and twisted/helical ribbons.
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Molecular simulation studies of liquid crystals to probe
structure-property relationships in smectics and nematics
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Mesoscale simulation studies of liquid crystals to model
formation and properties of larger-scale structures in smectic liquid crystals
and monolayers.
Recent and upcoming publications:
- Diana Farkas and Robin L. B. Selinger, "Atomistics of
Fracture," pre-print; to be published in Handbook of Materials
Modeling, Vol. 1 (Methods and Models,) edited by S. Yip.
- Robin L. B. Selinger, Jonathan V. Selinger, Anthony
P. Malanoski, and Joel M. Schnur, "Shape
Selection in Chiral Self-Assembly," pre-print. Click here
for online access.
- Nurit Baytch, Robin L. B. Selinger, Jonathan V. Selinger,
and R. Shashidhar, "Simulations of Helix Unwinding in Ferroelectric
Liquid Crystals," Phys. Rev. E 68, 041702 (2003). Click here
for online access, and here
for the pre-print.
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Ming Li and Robin L. B. Selinger, "Molecular dynamics
simulation of dislocation instability in a stress gradient," Phys. Rev. B 67,
134108 (2003). Click here
for online access.
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Robin L. B. Selinger, ``Diffusion in a smectic liquid crystal
with screw dislocations,'' Phys. Rev. E. 65, 51702 (2002). Click
here
for online access.
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Monte Carlo Simulation of Liquid-Crystal Alignment and of
Chiral Symmetry-Breaking. J. Xu, R. L. B. Selinger, J. V. Selinger, and
R. Shashidhar, J. Chem. Phys. 115, 4333 (2001). Click here
for
online access, and here
for the preprint.
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Robin L. B. Selinger, B. B. Smith, and Wei-Dong Luo, ``Dynamics
and Patterning of Screw Dislocations in Two Dimensions,'' MRS Proc. V. 653
(2001). Click here for online access.
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Jonathan V. Selinger, Jianling Xu, Robin L. B. Selinger,
B. R. Ratna. R. Shashidhar, ``Chiral Modulations in Smectic-A
Liquid Crystals Under an Electric Field,'' Phys. Rev E 62, 666 (2000).
Click here for
online access.
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R. L. B. Selinger and J. M. Corbett, ``Dynamic Fracture in
Disordered Media,'' MRS Bulletin 25, 46 (2000). Click here
for online access.
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M. M. Green, J. W. Park, T. Sato, A. Teramoto, S. Lifson,
Robin L. B. Selinger, and J. V. Selinger, ``The Macromolecular Route to
Chiral Amplification'' Angewandte Chemie 111, 3306 (1999).
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Jianling Xu, Robin L. B. Selinger, Jonathan V. Selinger,
B. R. Ratna, and R. Shashidhar, ``Monte Carlo simulation of smectic liquid
crystals and the electroclinic effect: The role of molecular
shape,'' Phys. Rev. E 60, 5584 (1999). Click here
for online access.
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John M. Corbett and Robin L. B. Selinger, ``Molecular Dynamics
Studies of Interfacial Crack Propagation in Heterogeneous Media,''
MRS Proceedings
539, 209 (1999).
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Ming Li, Brian B. Smith, Robin L. B. Selinger, ``Fingering
Instability of Dislocations and Related Defects,'' Phys. Rev. Lett. 82,
2306 (1999). Click here
for online access.
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J. V. Selinger, R. L. B. Selinger, S K. Jha, and M. M. Green,
``A Chiral Polymeric Analogy to a One Dimensional Paramagnetic Material,''
Chirality 10, 41 (1998).
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J. V. Selinger and R. L. B. Selinger, ``Cooperative Chiral
Order in Polyisocyanates: New Statistical Problems.'' Macromolecules 31,
2488-2492 (1998). Click
here
for
online access.
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J. V. Selinger and R. L. B. Selinger, ``Chiral Order in Copolymers
of Chiral and Achiral Units,'' Phys.Rev. E, 55, 1728 (1997). Click here
for
online access.
For a complete publication list with online links,
click here.
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Robin's Music Pages....
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free mp3 and RealAudio, free sheet music
HotShabbat.com Music of, by, and
for members of the Hava Nashira songleaders' community
Joseph and David
and here is a picture of my husband Jonathan Selinger: 
...and a link to Jonathan
Selinger's web page.
Last updated April 29, 2004
