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Michael R. Salazar

Chair and Professor of Chemistry

Education

  • Additional Study, Los Alamos Laboratory

  • Ph.D, University of Utah (1998)

  • B.S., New Mexico State University (1993)

Scholarship

Articles

  • Energy-Conserving Microcanonical Simulations from a Discontinuous Total Potential Formulated in Terms of Adaptive, Multilevel QM Groups (2010)

    Journal of Chemical Physics

  • Properties of a method for performing adaptive, multilevel QM simulations of complex chemical reactions in the gas-phase (2010)

    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

  • Properties of a Method for Performing Adaptive, Multilevel QM Simulations of Complex Chemical Reaction in the Gas-Phase (2010)

    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

  • Aging of the Binder in Plastic-Bonded Exploxive PBX 9501 and Free-Radical Oxidation (2008)

    Trends in Polymer Degradaton and Performance, American Chemical Society Symposium Series

  • Aging of the Binder in Plastic-Bonded Explosive PBX 9501 and Free-Radical Oxidation (2008)

    Trends in Polymer Degradation and Performance (American Chemical Society Symposium Series)

  • Degradation of a Poly(ester urethane) Elastomer. IV. The Absorption and Diffusion of Water in the Components of PBX 9501 (2007)

    Journal of Applied Polymer Science

  • Molecular dynamics of complex gas-phase reactive systems by time-dependent groups (2005)

    Journal of Physical Chemistry A

  • Global potential energy surfaces for the Al+(1S) + H2 system (2004)

    Journal of Chemical Physics

  • Methodology for the Modeling of Chemical Reactions on Accurate Potential Energy Surfaces (2004)

    American Chemical Society, Division of Fuel Chemistry

  • The Degradation of a Poly(ester urethane) Elastomer. III. Kinetic Modeling of Estane 5703 Hydrolysis (2003)

    Journal of Polymer Science

Presentations

  • Simulations of Complex Chemical Processes by Adaptive, Multilevel QM/MM Theory (2010)

    Department of Chemistry, New Mexico State University

  • Multilevel QM/MM Simulations of Complex Chemical Reactions (2008)

    Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama

  • Theoretical Structures and Electrical Analysis of 7-Coordinated and Octahedral Systems Using GAMESS (2007)

    The 27th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference

  • Method for Performing Molecular Dynamic Studies of Systems with High Chemical Reactivity (2006)

    Department of Chemistry, University of Mississippi

  • Aging of PBX 9501: Hydrolysis and Free-Radical Oxidation (2006)

    Fall American Chemical Society National Meeting

  • Methodology for the Molecular Dynamic Studies of Complex Chemical Reactions on Ab Initio Potential Engery Surfaces (2006)

    Fall American Chemical Society National Meeting

  • 231st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society

  • Innovative Methodology for Performing Molecular Dynamic Studies of Systems with High Chemical Reactivity (2006)

    Fall American Chemical Society National Meeting

  • Molecular Dynamic Studies of the Unusual Isotope Effect in the Reaction of A1+ with Isotopic Hydrogen (2005)

    Joint Southwest/Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society

  • Toward Molecular Dynamic Simulations of Complex Gas-Phase Reactive Systems on Ab Initio PESs (2005)

    Jack Simon's Symposium

  • A Completely General Methods for Utilizing Highly Accurate Ab Initio Potentials in Dynamical Calculations (2004)

    National Meeting of the American Chemical Society

  • Methodology for the Modeling of Chemical Reactions on Accurate Potential Energy Surfaces (2004)

    National Meeting of the American Chemical Society

  • Probing the Interactions of Ion-Molecule Bimolecular Reactions (2004)

    227th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society

Awards

  • Provisional Patent (with Michael Johnson, Wendell Duncan, and Jerome Soller (2010)

    Methods for performing molecular dynamic simulations using ab initio quantum mechanical potentials

  • $65,000 Grant from the Petroleum Research Foundation (2008)

    For the development of accelerated quantum molecular dynamics for complex gas-phase reactive systems

  • $100,000 Grant from the National Science Foundation (2004)

    For innovative methodology for accelerated quantum molecular dynamics (contributor)