Michael L. Greenfield

  • Associate Professor and ABET Coordinator
  • Chemical, Biomolecular, and Materials Engineering
  • Phone: 401.874.9289
  • Email: greenfield@uri.edu
  • Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering, Rm 313
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Research

  • Molecular Dynamics and Molecular Simulation of Fluid Systems, Including Polymers, Liquids, Asphalt, Bitumen, Lipid Bilayers
  • Chemical Effects on Mechanical Properties, Chemo Mechanics
  • Diffusion Within Amorphous Materials
  • Voids and Void Dynamics In Amorphous Materials
  • Molecular-Scale Packing Effects in Amorphous Materials and Proteins
  • Molecular Stimulation of Mechanics and Viscoelasticity
  • Statistical Mechanics of Polymers, Including Unfilled and Filled Elastomers

Education

  • Ph.D., Chemical Engineering. University of California, Berkeley, 1996
  • B.S., Chemical Engineering. Johns Hopkins University, 1990

Selected Publications

Ma L, Salehi HS, Jing R, Erkens S, Vlugt TJH, Othonas A. Moultos OA, Greenfield ML, Varveri A. Water diffusion mechanisms in bitumen studied through molecular dynamics simulations. Constr. Build. Mater, 2023; 409, 133828 doi: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2023.133828
Kar S, Cuddigan JL, Greenfield ML. Stimulating Stress-Strain Behavior by Using Individual Chains: Uniaxial Deformation of Amorphous Cis-and Trans-1, 4-Polybutadiene. Polymers, 2023; 15(6), 1441. doi: 10.3390/polym15061441
Greenfield ML, Martin LM, Joodaki F. Computing Individual Area per Head Group Reveals Lipid Bilayer Dynamics. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2022. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c04633
Joodaki F, Martin LM, Greenfield ML. Generation and Computational Characterization of a Complex Staphylococcus Aureus Lipid Bilayer. Langmuir, 2022. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c00483
Joodaki F, Martin LM., Greenfield ML. Computational Study of Helical and Helix-Hinge-Helix Conformations of an Anti-Microbial Peptide in Solution by Molecular Dynamics and Vibrational Analysis. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2021; 125(3), 703-721. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c07988
Greenfield ML. Representing polymer molecular structure using molecular simulations for the study of liquid sorption and diffusion. Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, 2020; 28, 144-151. doi: 10.1016/j.coche.2020.02.003
Greenfield ML, Ohtani H. Friction and normal forces of model friction modifier additives in simulations of boundary lubrication. Molecular Physics, 2019; 117(23-24), 3871-3883. doi: 10.1080/00268976.2019.1670876
Kfoury R, Marzban B, Makki E, Greenfield ML, Yuan H. Effect of Pressure Profile of Shock Waves on Lipid Membrane Deformation. PLoS ONE. 2019; 14(2), e0212566. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0212566
Joodaki F, Martin LM, Greenfield ML. Planarity and Out-of-Plane Vibrational Modes of Tryptophan and Tyrosine in Biomolecular Modeling. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2019; 21(43). doi: 10.1039/C9CP04798K
Lemarchand C, Greenfield M, Dyre JC, Hansen JS. ROSE bitumen: Mesoscopic Model of Bitumen and Bituminous Mixtures. Journal of Chemical Physics. 2018; 149, 214901. doi: 10.1063/1.5047461
Hansen JS, Greenfield ML, Dyre JC. Hydrodynamic Relaxations in Dissipative Particle Dynamics. Journal of Chemical Physics. 2018; 148(3). doi: 10.1063/1.4986569

Patents

  • Wojan S, Greenfield ML, Wallington TJ, Krause EK, Inventors; Ford Global Technologies LLC, Assignee. Automotive Washer System with a Purge Apparatus and a Method Therefore. US Patent 6561209. May 13, 2003
  • Greenfield ML, Meyer JJ, Mozurkewich Jr. G, Schneider WF, Stiel LI, Inventors; Ford Motor Company, Ford Global Technologies LLC, Visteon Global Technologies Inc., Assignees. Cofluids for Use With Carbon Dioxide Refrigerant. US Patent 6415614. July 7, 2002

Honors and Awards

  • Fulbright Global Scholar Award, 2016-2017
  • International Road Federation, 2011 Global Road Achievement Award in Research

Recent Grants

9/23/2022. PI. University of Maine. “Assessing Presence and Impact of REOB (Recycled Engine Oil Bottoms) on Asphalt.”
10/10/2018. Co-PI. University of Maine. “University Transportation Center Regional 1.”
3/9/2018. PI. North Carolina State. “INSPIRE: An Evolutionary Paradigm in Design and Engineering of Bio-Adhesives from Bio-Mass.”

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