Truskett Research Group

Theory of Biological and Nanoscale Materials

Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C0400, Austin, Texas 78712

Thomas Truskett | People | Research | Papers  

Contact Information | Education | Professional Appointments | Honors & Awards | Publications | Recent Courses Taught

Contact Information

Thomas M. Truskett

Associate Professor, Paul D. and Betty Robertson Meek Centennial Fellow,

& Undergraduate Advisor

 

Department of Chemical Engineering

 

truskett@che.utexas.edu

 

 Affiliations:

Institute for Theoretical Chemistry (ITC)

 Texas Materials Institute (TMI)

Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CCBB)

Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology (CNM)

Education and Training

The University of Texas at Austin B.S. 1992-1996 Chemical Engineering
Princeton University M.A. 1996-1998 Chemical Engineering
Princeton University Ph.D. 1998-2001 Chemical Engineering
University of California, San Francisco Postdoctoral Fellow 2001-2002 Biophysics

Professional Appointments

2007- Associate Professor and Paul D. and Betty Robertson Meek Centennial Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
2006-2007 Assistant Professor and Paul D. and Betty Robertson Meek Centennial Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
2005-2006 Assistant Professor and William H. Tonn Professorial Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
2002-2005 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
2001-2002 NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Biophysics Group, University of California, San Francisco

Honors and Awards

  Named Lectureships
2009 Dudley A. Saville Lectureship,
Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University
2008

Ernest W. Thiele Award Lectureship, Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame

2007

Hendrick C. Van Ness Award Lectureship, Dept of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  Major Research Awards
2007

Allan P. Colburn Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Citation:  "For pioneering statistical mechanical theory and computer simulation methods for modeling the structure, kinetics, and thermodynamics of chemical and biophysical systems."

2006 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
2004

Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, David and Lucile Packard Foundation

  Federal Agency Awards for Research and Education
2005 NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
2002

NIH National Research Service Award, National Institutes of Health

1996 NSF Graduate Fellowship, National Science Foundation
  Teaching Awards and University Recognition
2006

Paul D. and Betty Robertson Meek Centennial Fellowship in Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

2005 Cockrell School of Engineering Award for Outstanding Engineering Teaching by an Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
2005 William H. Tonn Professorial Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin
2004

Teaching Excellence Award, Student Engineering Council, The University of Texas at Austin

  Other Honors
2010 Plenary Lecture at the Twelfth International Conference on Properties and
Phase Equilibria for Product and Process Design, Suzhou, China
2009-2010 Member of Organizing Committee, Indo-American Frontiers of Engineering Meeting, Kolkata, India
2008 Invited Speaker (1 of 4), AIChE Centennial Meeting, Future Directions in
Transport Phenomena
2008 Distinguished Alumnus, Longview Independent School District
2006 Invited Participant, German-American Frontiers of Science Symposium, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
2005

Invited Participant, U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium,

National Academy of Engineering

1999

Kristine M. Layn Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research, Princeton University

1999 William R. Schowalter Award, Princeton University
1999 Dean's Travel Award, Princeton University

Publications
(reverse chronological order)


Total number of citations: 1635, mean = 25
h index (20) papers identified in blue

    Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
     
  2010  
(65) W. P. Krekelberg, V. Ganesan, and T. M. Truskett, "Structural signatures of mobility on intermediate time scales in a supercooled fluid", arXiv:0911.0213v1. Submitted.
(64) W. P. Krekelberg, T. M. Truskett, and V. Ganesan, "Relationship between shear viscosity and structure of a model colloidal suspension", Chemical Engineering Communications  197, 63-75 (2010) [special issue in honor of Howard Brenner's 80th birthday].
  2009  
(63) W. P. Krekelberg, M. J. Pond, G. Goel, V. K. Shen, J. R. Errington, and T. M. Truskett, "Generalized Rosenfeld scalings for tracer diffusivities in not-so-simple fluids:  Mixtures and soft particles", Physical Review E 80, 061205 -1 - 061205-13 (2009).
(62) M. J. Pond, W. P. Krekelberg, V. K. Shen, J. R. Errington, and T. M. Truskett, "Composition and concentration anomalies for structure and dynamics of Gaussian-core mixtures", Journal of Chemical Physics 131, 161101-1 - 161101-4 (2009). One of the top 20 downloaded articles in Journal of Chemical Physics for October 2009.
(61) G. Goel, W. P. Krekelberg, M. J. Pond, J. Mittal, V. K. Shen, J. R. Errington, and T. M. Truskett, "Available states and available space: Static properties that predict self diffusivity of confined fluids", Journal of Statistical Mechanics:  Theory and Experiment.  P04006-1 - P04006 - 18 (2009).
link (60) J. E. Yoo, W. P. Krekelberg, Y. Sun, J. D. Tarver, T. M. Truskett, and Y.-L. Loo, "Polymer conductivity through particle connectivity", Chemistry of Materials 21 1948-1954 (2009).
(59) W. P. Krekelberg, T. Kumar, J. Mittal, J. R. Errington, and T. M. Truskett, "Anomalous structure and dynamics of the Gaussian-core fluid", Physical Review E 79, 031203-1 - 031203-6 (2009).
(58) V. K. Shen, J. K. Cheung, J. R. Errington, and T. M. Truskett, "Insights into crowding effects on protein stability from a coarse-grained model", Journal of Biomechanical Engineering 131, 071002-1 - 071002-7 (2009) [special issue on “Nano and multiscale frontiers in biological heat and mass transfer”].
(57) W. P. Krekelberg, V. K. Shen, J. R. Errington, and T. M. Truskett, "Response to Comment on `Residual multiparticle entropy does not generally change sign near freezing' [J. Chem. Phys. 128, 161101 (2008)]", Journal of Chemical Physics 130, 037102-1 - 037102-2 (2009).
  2008  
link (56) G. Goel, M. V. Athawale, S. Garde, and T. M. Truskett, "Attractions, water structure, and thermodynamics of hydrophobic polymer collapse", Journal of Physical Chemistry B 112, 13193-13196 (2008).
(55) W. P. Krekelberg, V. Ganesan, and T. M. Truskett, "Shear-rate-dependent structural order and viscosity of a fluid with short-range attractions", Physical Review E 78, 010201(R)-1 -  010201(R)-4 (2008).
(54) W. P. Krekelberg, V. K. Shen, J. R. Errington, and T. M. Truskett, "Residual multiparticle entropy does not generally change sign near freezing", Journal of Chemical Physics 128, 161101-1 - 161101-3 (2008).
(53) W. P. Krekelberg, J. Mittal, V. Ganesan, and T. M. Truskett, "Structural anomalies of fluids: Origins in second and higher coordination shells", Physical Review E 77, 041201-1 - 041201-10 (2008).
(52) G. Goel, W. P. Krekelberg, J. R. Errington, and T. M. Truskett, "Tuning the density profiles and mobility of inhomogeneous fluids", Physical Review Letters 100, 106001-1 - 106001-4 (2008).
(51) J. Mittal, T. M. Truskett, J. R. Errington, and G. Hummer, "Layering and position-dependent diffusive dynamics of confined fluids", Physical Review Letters 100, 145901-1 - 145901-4 (2008).
  2007  
(50) J. Mittal, V. K. Shen, J. R. Errington, and T. M. Truskett, "Confinement, entropy, and single-particle dynamics of equilibrium hard-sphere mixtures", Journal of Chemical Physics 127, 154513-1 - 154513-8 (2007).
link (49) J. Mittal, J. R. Errington, and T. M. Truskett, "Relationships between self-diffusivity, packing fraction, and excess entropy in simple bulk and confined fluids", Journal of Physical Chemistry B [Feature Article, Cover] 111, 10054 - 10063 (2007).
(48) W. P. Krekelberg, J. Mittal, V. Ganesan, and T. M. Truskett, "How short-range attractions impact the structural order, self-diffusivity, and viscosity of a fluid", Journal of Chemical Physics 127, 044502-1 - 044502-8 (2007).
(47) J. Mittal, J. R. Errington, and T. M. Truskett, "Does confining the hard-sphere fluid between hard walls change its average properties?", Journal of Chemical Physics 126, 244708-1 - 244708-8 (2007). [20 citations].
link (46) S. M. McClure, E. T. Barlow, M. C. Akin, P. L. Tanaka, D. J. Safarik, T. M. Truskett, and C. B. Mullins, "Effect of dilute nitric acid on crystallization and fracture of amorphous solid water films", Journal of Physical Chemistry C 111, 10438 - 10447 (2007).
(45) J. K. Cheung, V. K. Shen, J. R. Errington, and T. M. Truskett, "Coarse-grained strategy for modeling protein stability in concentrated solutions III:  Directional protein interactions", Biophysical Journal 92, 4316–4324 (2007).
(44) M. V. Athawale, G. Goel, T. Ghosh, T. M. Truskett, and S. Garde, "Effects of lengthscales and attractions on the collapse of hydrophobic polymers in water", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 104, 733-738 (2007) [31 citations].
  2006  
(43) J. R. Errington, T. M. Truskett, and J. Mittal, "Excess-entropy-based anomalies for a waterlike fluid", Journal of Chemical Physics 125, 244502-1 – 244502-8 (2006) [38 citations].
link (42) F. N. Braun, W. P. Krekelberg, and T. M. Truskett, "Volatile diffusional character of cytoplasm", Journal of Physical Chemistry B 110, 25606 - 25607 (2006).
(41) J. K. Cheung, P. S. Raverkar, and T. M. Truskett, "Analytical model for studying how environmental factors influence protein conformational stability in solution", Journal of Chemical Physics 125, 224903-1 - 224903-8 (2006). 
(40)

J. Mittal, J. R. Errington, and T. M. Truskett, "Using available volume to predict fluid diffusivity in random media", Physical Review E 74 040102-1 - 040102-4 (2006).

link (39) J. Mittal, J. R. Errington, and T. M. Truskett, "Quantitative link between single-particle dynamics and static structure of supercooled liquids", Journal of Physical Chemistry B 110, 18147 -18150 (2006). [33 citations]
(38) J. Mittal, J. R. Errington, and T. M. Truskett, "Relationship between thermodynamics and dynamics of supercooled liquids", Journal of Chemical Physics 125, 076102-1 - 076102-2 (2006) [33 citations].
link (37) S. M. McClure, E. T. Barlow, M. C. Akin, D. J. Safarik, T. M. Truskett, and C. B. Mullins. "Transport in amorphous solid water films:  Implications for self-diffusivity", Journal of Physical Chemistry B 110, 17987 - 17997 (2006).
(36) J. K. Cheung, P. Shah, and T. M. Truskett, "Heteropolymer collapse theory for protein folding in the pressure-temperature plane", Biophysical Journal 91, 2427-2435 (2006).
link (35) S. M. McClure, D. J. Safarik, T. M. Truskett, and C. B. Mullins. "Evidence that amorphous water below 160 K is not a fragile liquid", Journal of Physical Chemistry B 110, 11033-11036 (2006).
(34) W. P. Krekelberg, V. Ganesan, and T. M. Truskett, "Model for the free-volume distributions of equilibrium fluids", Journal of Chemical Physics 124, 214502-1 - 214502-6 (2006).
(33) J. Mittal, J. R. Errington, and T. M. Truskett, "Thermodynamics predicts how confinement modifies the dynamics of the equilibrium hard-sphere fluid", Physical Review Letters 96, 177804-1 - 177804-4 (2006). [28 citations]
(32) P. Shah and T. M. Truskett, "Intrinsic vulnerabilities to mechanical failure in nanoscale films", Mechanics of Materials 38 924-932 (2006) [special issue in honor of Salvatore Torquato].
link (31) W. P. Krekelberg, V. Ganesan, and T. M. Truskett, "Free volumes and the anomalous self-diffusivity of attractive colloids", Journal of Physical Chemistry B 110, 5166-5169 (2006).
(30) V. K. Shen, J. K. Cheung, J. R. Errington, and T. M. Truskett, "Coarse-grained strategy for modeling protein stability in concentrated solutions II:  Phase behavior", Biophysical Journal 90, 1949-1960 (2006).
  2005  
(29) J. K. Cheung and T. M. Truskett, "Coarse-grained strategy for modeling protein stability in concentrated solutions", Biophysical Journal 89, 2372-2384 (2005).
(28) S. Rajamani, T. M. Truskett, and S. Garde, "Hydrophobic hydration from small to large lengthscales:  Understanding and manipulating the crossover", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 102, 9475-9480 (2005).  [70 citations]

(27) K. A. Dill, T. M. Truskett, V. Vlachy, and B. Hribar-Lee, "Modeling water, the hydrophobic effect, and ion solvation", Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure 34, 173-199 (2005).  [84 citations]
  2004  
link (26) J. Mittal, P. Shah, and T. M. Truskett , "Using energy landscapes to predict the properties of thin films", Journal of Physical Chemistry B 108, 19769-19779 (2004) [Frank Stillinger Feschrift].
  2003  
(25) T. M. Truskett, "The subtleties of water in small spaces", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 100, 10139-10140 (2003).
(24) T. M. Truskett and V. Ganesan, "Ideal glass transitions in thin films:  An energy landscape perspective", Journal of Chemical Physics 119, 1897-1900 (2003).
(23) H. S. Ashbaugh, T. M. Truskett, and P. G. Debenedetti, "Response to Comment on 'A simple molecular thermodynamic theory for hydrophobic hydration'", Journal of Chemical Physics 119, 10450-10451 (2003).
(22) T. M. Truskett and K. A. Dill, "A simple analytical model of water", Biophysical Chemistry 105,  447-457 (2003).
  2002  
(21) T. M. Truskett, P. G. Debenedetti, and S. Torquato, "Comment on 'Observations on an equation of state for water confined in narrow slit-pores' [J. Chem. Phys. 116, 2565 (2002)]", Journal of Chemical Physics 117, 8162-8163 (2002).

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(20) T. M. Truskett and K. A. Dill, "A simple statistical mechanical model of water", Journal of Physical Chemistry B 106 11829-11842 (2002). [22 citations]
(19) T. M. Truskett and K. A. Dill, "Predicting water's phase diagram and liquid-state anomalies", Journal of Chemical Physics 117, 5101-5104 (2002).  [24 citations]
(18) H. S. Ashbaugh, T. M. Truskett, and P. G. Debenedetti, "A simple molecular thermodynamic theory for hydrophobic hydration", Journal of Chemical Physics 116, 2907-2921 (2002). [60 citations]
  2001  

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(17) F. H. Stillinger, P. G. Debenedetti, and T. M. Truskett, "The Kauzmann paradox revisited", Journal of Physical Chemistry B 105, 11809-11816 (2001) . [55 citations]
  (16) P. G. Debenedetti, F. H. Stillinger, T. M. Truskett, and C. P. Lewis, "Theory of supercooled liquids and glasses:  Statistical geometry and energy landscape perspectives", Advances in Chemical Engineering 28, 21-79 (2001). [26 citations]

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(15) F. H. Stillinger, S. Torquato, J. M. Eroles, and T. M. Truskett, "Iso-g(2) processes in equilibrium statistical mechanics", Journal of Physical Chemistry B 105 6592-6597 (2001).
(14) T. M. Truskett, P. G. Debenedetti, and S. Torquato, "Thermodynamic implications of confinement for a waterlike fluid", Journal of Chemical Physics 114, 2401-2418 (2001). [89 citations]
  2000  

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(13) P. J. in 't Veld, M. T. Stone, T. M. Truskett, and I. C. Sanchez, "Liquid structure via cavity size distributions", Journal of Physical Chemistry B 104, 12028-12034  (2000).
(12) F. H. Stillinger, D. K. Stillinger, S. Torquato, T. M. Truskett, and P. G. Debenedetti, "Equation of state of the rigid disk fluid from its triangle distribution", Journal of Chemical Physics 113, 10186-10190 (2000).
(11) A. R. Kansal, T. M. Truskett, and S. Torquato "Non-equilibrium hard-disk packings with controlled orientational order", Journal of Chemical Physics 113, 4844-4851 (2000). 
(10) T. M. Truskett, S. Torquato, and P. G. Debenedetti, "Towards a quantification of disorder in materials: Distinguishing equilibrium and glassy sphere packings", Physical Review E 62, 993-1001 (2000). [95 citations]
(9) D. K. Stillinger, F. H. Stillinger, S. Torquato, T. M. Truskett, and P. G. Debenedetti, "Triangle distribution and equation of state for classical rigid disks", Journal of Statistical Physics 100, 49-72 (2000).
(8) S. Torquato, T. M. Truskett, and P. G. Debenedetti, "Is random close packing of spheres well defined?", Physical Review Letters 84, 2064-2067 (2000).  [337 citations]
  1999  

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(7) P. G. Debenedetti, F. H. Stillinger, T. M. Truskett and C. J. Roberts, "The equation of state of an energy landscape", Journal of Physical Chemistry B [Feature Article] 103, 7390-7397 (1999).  [71 citations]
(6) T. M. Truskett, P. G. Debenedetti, S. Sastry, and S. Torquato "A single-bond approach to orientation-dependent interactions and its implications for liquid water", Journal of Chemical Physics 111, 2647-2656 (1999). [90 citations]

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(5)  I. C. Sanchez, T. M. Truskett, and P. J. in 't Veld, "Configurational properties and corresponding states in simple fluids and water", Journal of Physical Chemistry B 103, 5106-5116 (1999).
(4) P. G. Debenedetti and T. M. Truskett, "The statistical geometry of voids in liquids", Fluid Phase Equilibria 160, 549-556 (1999).
  1998  
(3) T. M. Truskett, S. Torquato, and P. G. Debenedetti, "Density fluctuations in many-body systems", Physical Review E 58, 7369-7380 (1998). [22 citations]
(2) S. Sastry, T. M. Truskett, P. G. Debenedetti, S. Torquato, and F. H. Stillinger, "Free volume in the hard sphere liquid", Molecular Physics 95, 289-297 (1998) [46 citations]
(1) T. M. Truskett, S. Torquato, S. Sastry, P. G. Debenedetti, and F. H. Stillinger, "Structural precursor to freezing in the hard-disk and hard-sphere systems", Physical Review E 58, 3083-3088 (1998). [61 citations]
     
    Invited Review Articles and Book Chapters
  2009  
  (R2)

J. K. Cheung, V. K. Shen, J. R. Errington, and T. M. Truskett, "Concentration and crowding effects on protein stability from a coarse-grained model", in Statistical Mechanics of Cellular Systems and Processes, M. H. Zaman, ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge pp. 1-25 (2009).

  2007  
  (R1)

J. Mittal, W. P. Krekelberg, J. R. Errington, and T. M. Truskett, "Computing free volume, structural order, and entropy of liquids and glasses", Reviews in Computational Chemistry 25, 125 - 158 (2007).

     

Recent Courses Taught

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ChE 381N Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer Fall 2008, Fall 2009
ChE 353 Transport Phenomena

Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Fall 2006

ChE 384 Theoretical Methods for Soft Matter 

Spring 2004, Fall 2007

ChE 379 Molecular Driving Forces in Biology Spring 2005, Spring 2006
ChE 339P, 384 Intro to Biological Physics Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009
ChE 253K Applied Statistics

Fall 2005