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  1. Long-term memory in lipid assemblies: Rate-independent hysteresis in the ripple-to-liquid-disordered transition of sphingomyelin bilayers

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, April 2025, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  2. Confinement enhanced viscosity vs shear thinning in lubricated ice friction

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, February 2024, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  3. Ice friction at the nanoscale

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Luis G, MacDowell

  4. Intermolecular forces at ice and water interfaces: Premelting, surface freezing, and regelation

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, July 2022, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  5. Rounded Layering Transitions on the Surface of Ice

    Article • Physical Review Letters, February 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Luis G, MacDowell

  6. Premelting of ice adsorbed on a rock surface

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Luis G, MacDowell

  7. Structural transitions and bilayer formation of CTAB aggregates

    Article • Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, November 2019, Elsevier

    Luis G, MacDowell

  8. Disconnecting Symmetry Breaking from Seeded Growth for the Reproducible Synthesis of High Quality Gold Nanorods

    Article • ACS Nano, April 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Luis G, MacDowell

  9. Structure and fluctuations of the premelted liquid film of ice at the triple point

    Article • Molecular Physics, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Luis G, MacDowell

  10. Surface van der Waals forces in a nutshell

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, February 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  11. Structure and water attachment rates of ice in the atmosphere: role of nitrogen

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Luis G, MacDowell

  12. The vicinity of an equilibrium three-phase contact line using density-functional theory: density profiles normal to the fluid interface

    Article • Molecular Physics, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Luis G, MacDowell, Ben Goddard

  13. Nanocapillarity and Liquid Bridge-Mediated Force between Colloidal Nanoparticles

    Article • ACS Omega, January 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Luis G, MacDowell

  14. Femtosecond laser reshaping yields gold nanorods with ultranarrow surface plasmon resonances

    Article • Science, November 2017, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Luis G, MacDowell, Mauricio Alcolea Palafox

  15. Capillary wave theory of adsorbed liquid films and the structure of the liquid-vapor interface

    Article • August 2017, American Physical Society (APS)

    Luis G, MacDowell

  16. Vapour–liquid interfacial properties of square-well chains from density functional theory and Monte Carlo simulation

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Luis G, MacDowell

  17. Premelting-Induced Smoothening of the Ice-Vapor Interface

    Article • Physical Review Letters, August 2016, American Physical Society (APS)

    Luis G, MacDowell

  18. Mesoscopic Hamiltonian for the fluctuations of adsorbed Lennard-Jones liquid films

    Article • Physical Review E, June 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Luis G, MacDowell

  19. Interfacial free energy of the NaCl crystal-melt interface from capillary wave fluctuations

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, April 2015, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  20. Analytic perturbative FMSA equation of state and thermodynamic properties from Monte Carlo simulation of the Kihara potential with a spherical core

    Article • Molecular Physics, February 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Luis G, MacDowell

  21. Damped reaction field method and the accelerated convergence of the real space Ewald summation

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, October 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  22. Disjoining Pressure, Healing Distance, and Film Height Dependent Surface Tension of Thin Wetting Films

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, September 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Luis G, MacDowell

  23. Computer simulation study of surface wave dynamics at the crystal-melt interface

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, July 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  24. Disjoining pressure and the film-height-dependent surface tension of thin liquid films: New insight from capillary wave fluctuations

    Article • Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, April 2014, Elsevier

    Luis G, MacDowell

  25. Effect of molecular flexibility of Lennard-Jones chains on vapor-liquid interfacial properties

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, March 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  26. A study of the ice–water interface using the TIP4P/2005 water model

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Luis G, MacDowell

  27. Capillary Fluctuations and Film-Height-Dependent Surface Tension of an Adsorbed Liquid Film

    Article • Physical Review Letters, July 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Luis G, MacDowell

  28. Vapor-liquid interfacial properties of rigid-linear Lennard-Jones chains

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, August 2012, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  29. Universal scaling behaviour of surface tension of molecular chains

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, July 2012, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  30. Semiinfinite boundary conditions

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, March 2012, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  31. Solvation effects for polymers at an interface: A hybrid self-consistent field–density functional theory approach

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, November 2011, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  32. Phase Diagram of Water under an Applied Electric Field

    Article • Physical Review Letters, October 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Luis G, MacDowell

  33. Dielectric Constant of Ices and Water: A Lesson about Water Interactions

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, June 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Luis G, MacDowell

  34. Liquid−Vapor Phase Equilibria and Surface Tension of Ethane As Predicted by the TraPPE and OPLS Models

    Article • Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, August 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Luis G, MacDowell

  35. Dielectric Constant of Ice Ih and Ice V: A Computer Simulation Study

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, April 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Luis G, MacDowell

  36. Surface tension of fully flexible Lennard-Jones chains: Role of long-range corrections

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, August 2009, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  37. Towards the Quantitative Prediction of the Phase Behavior of Polymer Solutions by Computer Simulation

    Article • Macromolecular Symposia, March 2009, Wiley

    Luis G, MacDowell

  38. Coarse-grained models for fluids and their mixtures: Comparison of Monte Carlo studies of their phase behavior with perturbation theory and experiment

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, January 2009, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  39. Coarse-graining dipolar interactions in simple fluids and polymer solutions: Monte Carlo studies of the phase behavior

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2009, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Luis G, MacDowell

  40. Vapor-liquid interfacial properties of fully flexible Lennard-Jones chains

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, October 2008, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell, George Jackson

  41. From Atomistic Modeling of Macromolecules Toward Equations of State for Polymer Solutions and Melts

    Article • September 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Luis G, MacDowell

  42. Self-consistent field/density functional study of conformational properties of polymers at interfaces: Role of intramolecular interactions

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, September 2008, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  43. Efficient prediction of thermodynamic properties of quadrupolar fluids from simulation of a coarse-grained model: The case of carbon dioxide

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, March 2008, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  44. Direct calculation of interfacial tensions from computer simulation: Results for freely jointed tangent hard sphere chains

    Article • Physical Review E, June 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Luis G, MacDowell

  45. Computer simulation of two new solid phases of water: Ice XIII and ice XIV

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, September 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  46. Nucleation and cavitation of spherical, cylindrical, and slablike droplets and bubbles in small systems

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, July 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  47. Adsorption of polymers on a brush: Tuning the order of the wetting phase transition

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, February 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  48. Observation of autophobic dewetting on polymer brushes from computer simulation

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, October 2005, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Luis G, MacDowell, Marcus Müller

  49. Polymer + Solvent Systems: Phase Diagrams, Interface Free Energies, and Nucleation

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Luis G, MacDowell, Marcus Müller

  50. The range of meta stability of ice-water melting for two simple models of water

    Article • Molecular Physics, January 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Luis G, MacDowell

  51. Combinatorial entropy and phase diagram of partially ordered ice phases

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, November 2004, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  52. Phase behavior of n-alkanes in supercritical solution: A Monte Carlo study

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, August 2004, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  53. Tracing the phase diagram of the four-site water potential (TIP4P)

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, July 2004, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  54. Phase Diagram of Water from Computer Simulation

    Article • Physical Review Letters, June 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Luis G, MacDowell

  55. The evaporation/condensation transition of liquid droplets

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, March 2004, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  56. Computer simulation study of the global phase behavior of linear rigid Lennard-Jones chain molecules: Comparison with flexible models

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, February 2004, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  57. Phase separation kinetics in compressible polymer solutions: computer simulation of the early stages

    Article • New Journal of Physics, January 2004, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Marcus Müller, Luis G, MacDowell

  58. Formal study of nucleation as described by fluctuation theory

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, July 2003, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  59. Wetting of polymer liquids: Monte Carlo simulations and self-consistent field calculations

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, May 2003, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Luis G, MacDowell

  60. Third virial coefficients and critical properties of quadrupolar two center Lennard-Jones models

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2003, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Luis G, MacDowell

  61. How Do Droplets Depend on the System Size? Droplet Condensation and Nucleation in Small Simulation Cells

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Luis G, MacDowell

  62. Short chains at surfaces and interfaces: A quantitative comparison between density-functional theories and Monte Carlo simulations

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, January 2003, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  63. Critical lines and phase coexistence of polymer solutions: A quantitative comparison between Wertheim’s thermodynamic perturbation theory and computer simulations

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, October 2002, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  64. Interface properties and bubble nucleation in compressible mixtures containing polymers

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, September 2002, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  65. A computer simulation study of racemic mixtures

    Article • Molecular Physics, August 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Luis G, MacDowell

  66. Phase diagrams of hexadecane–CO2 mixtures from histogram-reweighting Monte Carlo

    Article • Computer Physics Communications, August 2002, Elsevier

    Luis G, MacDowell

  67. How do droplets on a surface depend on the system size?

    Article • Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, July 2002, Elsevier

    Luis G, MacDowell

  68. The effect of flexibility on the phase diagram of simple molecular models

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2002, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Luis G, MacDowell

  69. Equation of state of model branched alkanes: Theoretical predictions and configurational bias Monte Carlo simulations

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, October 2001, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  70. Liquid crystal phase formation for the linear tangent hard sphere model from Monte Carlo simulations

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, September 2001, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  71. Wetting of a short chain liquid on a brush: First-order and critical wetting transitions

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), July 2001, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Luis G, MacDowell

  72. Extending Wertheim’s perturbation theory to the solid phase: The freezing of the pearl-necklace model

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, June 2001, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  73. Isotropic-nematic phase transition: Influence of intramolecular flexibility using a fused hard sphere model

    Article • June 2001, American Physical Society (APS)

    Luis G, MacDowell

  74. The virial coefficients of the pearl-necklace model

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, December 2000, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  75. Critical temperature of infinitely long chains from Wertheim's perturbation theory

    Article • Molecular Physics, September 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Luis G, MacDowell

  76. Interface and Surface Properties of Short Polymers in Solution:  Monte Carlo Simulations and Self-Consistent Field Theory

    Article • Macromolecules, May 2000, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Luis G, MacDowell

  77. Critical properties of mixtures of alkanes from perturbation theory

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, August 1999, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  78. Excess properties of mixtures of n-alkanes from perturbation theory

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, August 1999, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  79. On the calculation of the frequency sum rules of the heat flux correlation function

    Article • Molecular Physics, March 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Luis G, MacDowell

  80. RESEARCH NOTE On the calculation of the frequency sum rules of the heat flux correlation function

    Article • Molecular Physics, March 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Luis G, MacDowell

  81. The second virial coefficient of hard alkane models

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, October 1998, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  82. Vapor–liquid equilibria of linear and branched alkanes from perturbation theory

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, October 1998, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  83. Nonequilibrium properties of linear polar Kihara fluids from molecular dynamics. Results for models and for liquid acetonitrile

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, August 1997, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  84. Dynamical properties and transport coefficients of Kihara linear fluids

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, March 1997, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  85. The vapour - liquid equilibrium ofn-alkanes

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, November 1996, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Luis G, MacDowell

  86. Understanding the critical properties of chain molecules

    Article • Molecular Physics, August 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Luis G, MacDowell

  87. Equation of state for hardn‐alkane models: Long chains

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, January 1996, American Institute of Physics

    Luis G, MacDowell

  88. Vapour-liquid equilibria of propane and n-alkane conformers

    Article • Molecular Physics, July 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Luis G, MacDowell