Samuel Varner
- Program Year: 4
- Academic Institution: California Institute of Technology
- Field of Study: Chemical Engineering
- Academic Advisor: Zhen-Gang Wang
- Practicum(s):
Argonne National Laboratory (2023) - Degree(s):
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2020 - Personal URL: http://zgwlab.che.caltech.edu/
Summary of Research
Self-consistent field theory and classical density functional theory of ionic liquids and polyelectrolytes for electric double layer capacitors.Publications
Varner, S.; Xu, Y.; Jin, Y.; Wang, Z.-G.; de Pablo, J.J. Revealing the Mechanism of Water Auto-ionization Through Enhanced Sampling and Machine Learning. Nat. Chem. (Pending Submission)Varner, S.; Balzer, C.; Wang, Z.-G. A Jacobian-Free Pseudo-Arclength Continuation Method for Phase Transitions in Inhomogeneous Thermodynamic Systems. The Journal of Chemical Physics 2024, 161 (6), 064107. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0220849.
Zubieta Rico, P. F.; Schneider, L.; Pérez-Lemus, G. R.; Alessandri, R.; Dasetty, S.; Nguyen, T. D.; Menéndez, C. A.; Wu, Y.; Jin, Y.; Xu, Y.; Varner, S.; Parker, J. A.; Ferguson, A. L.; Whitmer, J. K.; de Pablo, J. J. PySAGES: Flexible, Advanced Sampling Methods Accelerated with GPUs. npj Comput Mater 2024, 10 (1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-023-01189-z.
Varner, S.; Balzer, C.; Wang, Z.-G. Entropic Origin of Ionic Interactions in Polar Solvents. J. Phys. Chem. B 2023, 127 (19), 4328–4337. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c00588.
Varner, S.; Wang, Z.-G. Effects of Dilution in Ionic Liquid Supercapacitors. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2022, 24 (44), 27362–27374. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CP03398D.
Awards
Constantin Economou Prize, 2021McCormack Award from AIChE Chicago Chapter, 2020
Summa Cum Laude (Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science), 2020
High Honors at Northwestern all 6 quarters attended (AU2018-SP2020)