Joan Josep Cerdà

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CV

Abbreviated CV (106 KB).

Areas of Research

• Polyelectrolyte Multilayers
• New algorithms for long range interactions
• Ferrofluids
• Other colloidal & polymeric systems.
• Biophysics.

Current research at a glance: most recent capital ships

• Juan J. Cerdà, Vincent Ballenegger, Olaf Lenz, Christian Holm.
  P³M algorithm for dipolar interactions.
  The Journal of Chemical Physics 129:234104, 2008.
  [PDF] (516 KB) [Preprint] [DOI]
• Juan J. Cerdà, Tomás Sintes, C. Holm, C. M. Sorensen, A. Chakrabarti.
  Shear effects on crystal nucleation in colloidal suspensions.
  Physical Review E 78(3):031403, 2008.
  [PDF] (1001 KB) [DOI]
• Sofia Kantorovich, Juan J. Cerdà, Christian Holm.
  Microstructure analyisis of monodisperse ferrofluid monolayers: theory and simulation.
  Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 10(14):1883–1895, 2008.
  [PDF] (1.3 MB) [DOI]

All published works

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Educational Area

Polymer&Colloidal Physics + Simulations

Learn a little bit about Polymers, Colloids and Simulations (read mainly the first 3 chapters of the thesis)

Macrogalleria: "the cyberwonderland of polymer fun"

Statistical Physics and simulations

Thermal and Statistical Physics

Physics in General

The Net Advance of Physics

Fundamental Physics Constants

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Hyperphysics

Physnet, Physnet modules

Mathematical tools for Physicists

The Physics Hypertexbook

Electromagnetic fields and energy book from MIT

Cambridge Teaching and Learning Packages

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On-line basic physics course

Light and Matter series of introductory physics textbooks by B. Crowell (a wonder)

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The Physics Fact Book

Physical Sciences Resource Center

Movies&Physics

comPADRE resource center

Chemistry in General

IUPAC Didactic

IUPAC Polymer Education

Webelements

Course of Chemistry I, II, Chemtutor

Journal of Chemical Education

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Chemical Information sources

IUPAC Gold Book, Green Book, Orange Book

IUPAC Nomenclature I, IUPAC Nomenclature II, Nomenclature III

IUPAC e-resources main page

MSDS I, II, III, IV

NIST Chemistry webbook

Chemical Synthesis Database

Mathematics in General

Introduction to Probability (free open book by C.M.Grinstead and J.L. Snell)

The Probability web

Discover Science

Exploratorium museum

Ask a Scientist

Critical Science

Bad Science

Annals of Improbable Research

Ig Nobels

Free Books and Manuals

NIC-Series: Computational techniques applied to Science

Numerical Recipes, Abramowitz-Stegun, ...

Free books on Science&Technology

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Light and Matter series of introductory physics textbooks by B. Crowell (a wonder)

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Wikibooks

PSU's Electronic Classics Site

Project Gutenberg

Free Software

Useful free software for the Physicist

Links to other webs

Joana&Joan, our personal page