My research interests are currently focussed on viral self-assembly and nucleation. These processes are studied using molecular simulations and theory in the group of Prof. David Reguera.

UPDATES:

13/02/2009

A new paper on the comparison of differents methods to evaluate nucleation rates from simulations has just been published in the Journal of Chemical Physics:

"Evaluating nucleation rates in direct simulations"

Guram Chkonia, Judith Wolk, Reinhard Strey, Jan Wedekind, and David Reguera

10. J.Chem. Phys. 130, 064505 (2009)
    

DOI:10.1063/1.3072794

A second article on experiments of nucleation of nitrogen is also accepted and will be published shortly.

30/01/2009

I will be giving a talk on the "pressure-effect" in nucleation at this years "Bunsentagung", the anual meeting of the German Physical-Chemistry Society, in Cologne in May. The talk is scheduled for May 23rd.

03/01/2009

An additional list of peer-reviewed articles can now be found on ResearcherID.com, including citation metrics. The lists on talks and posters can still be found here.

21/09/2008

Our paper on the pressure-effect in vapor-liquid nucleation has just been published in Physical Review Letters:

"Unraveling the pressure effect in nucleation"

J. Wedekind, A.-P. Hyvärinen, D. Brus, and D. Reguera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 125703 (2008).

http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v101/e125703

The paper also available as a preprint.

12/08/2008

A new paper on the has just been published online in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

"Kinetic reconstruction of the free-energy landscape"

J. Wedekind and D. Reguera

http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp804014h

15/04/2008

A paper on the "pressure-effect", which I co-authored, was just published in the Journal of Chemical Physics:

"The homogeneous nucleation of 1-pentanol in a laminar flow diffusion chamber: The effect of pressure and kind of carrier gas"

J. Chem. Phys. 128, 134312 (2008)

http://link.aip.org/link/?JCPSA6/128/134312/1

Furthermore, we have published a preprint on the same subject on arxiv.org:

"Unraveling the "Pressure-Effect" in Nucleation"

http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1516v2

The paper is part of the same collaboration with Antti Hyvärinen and David Brus at the Finnish Meteorological Institute.

22/02/2008

Selected conference posters are now available as a PDF dowload in the Publications section.

13/11/2007

Two papers were published in the same issue of the Journal of Chemical Physics:

Nucleation rate isotherms of argon from molecular dynamics simulations

Jan Wedekind, Judith Wölk, David Reguera, and Reinhard Strey

J. Chem. Phys. 127, 154515 (2007).

What is the best definition of a liquid cluster at the molecular scale?

Jan Wedekind and David Reguera

10. J.Chem. Phys. 127, 154516 (2007).
    

In addition, the conference proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols in Galway, Ireland, have been published.

30/08/2007

Our paper on the „Influence of thermostats and carrier gas on simulations“ has just been published in The Journal of Chemical Physics. [link].