Dr. Elizabeth Lupton

Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA

+1-801-581-6613

lupton at eng.utah.edu

Portrait

Research

First principles electronic structure calculations of semi-conducting polymers.

Determination of bond rupture forces in AFM experiments using Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics simulations.
(Postdoc, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany)

My overview CV

Publications

Published papers:

E.M. Lupton, F. Achenbach, J. Weis, C. Braeuchle, I. Frank:
Origins of Crack Formation in Siloxane Elastomers from First Principles
CHEMPHYSCHEM 10 119 (2009).

D. Yu, E.M. Lupton, H. Gao, C. Zhang, F. Liu:
A Unified Geometric Rule for Designing Nanomagnetism in Graphene
NANO RESEARCH 1 497 (2008).

D. Yu, E.M. Lupton, M. Liu, W. Liu, F. Liu:
Collective Magnetic Behavior of Graphene Nanohole Superlattices
NANO RESEARCH 1 56 (2008).

E.M. Lupton, F. Achenbach, J. Weis, C. Braeuchle, I. Frank:
Molecular Origins of Adhesive Failure: Siloxane Elastomers Pulled from a Silica Surface
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 76 125420 (2007).

E.M. Lupton, F. Achenbach, J. Weis, C. Braeuchle, I. Frank:
Modified Chemistry of Siloxanes under Tensile Stress: Interaction with Environment
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B 110 14557-14563 (2006).

E.M. Lupton, C. Nonnenberg, I. Frank, F. Achenbach, J. Weis, C. Braeuchle:
Stretching Siloxanes: An ab-initio Molecular Dynamics Study
CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS 414 132-137 (2005).

E.M. King (Lupton), S.J. Clark, C.F. Verdozzi, G.J. Ackland:
Interaction between Metallic p Orbitals and the Orbitals of Organic Molecules: The Binding between Ethylene and Aluminium
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B 105 641-645 (2001).

Links

Computational Materials at Utah here
Materials Science and Engineering at Utah here
University of Utah here

Quantum Chemistry at the Leibniz University Hannover (formally at the LMU Munich) here
Chemistry at the LMU Munich here
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich here

Last modified: 20 Jan 2009