Zachariah Vicars
Email
orcid.org/0000-0002-7730-3849
Research interests
My research focuses on understanding wetting/dewetting transitions on nanotextured surfaces in order to aid in the rational design of super-hydrophobic, anti-fouling, and water-harvesting devices. To this end, I employ a combination of molecular dynamics (MD) and a coarse-grained lattice model (CGLM) to characterize the free energetics and dewetting pathways of interfacial water.
Publications
- Z Vicars*, J Choi*, S Marks, R Remsing and AJ Patel. Interfacial Ice Density Fluctuations Inform Surface Ice-philicity, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2024).
- AU Thosar, Y Cai, SM Marks, Z Vicars, J Choi, A Pallath, and AJ Patel. On the Engulfment of Antifreeze Proteins by Ice, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024).
- SM Marks*, Z Vicars*, AU Thosar and AJ Patel. Characterizing Surface Ice-philicity Using Molecular Simulations and Enhanced Sampling, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2023).
- UR Gabinet, C Lee, R Poling-Skutvik, D Keane, NK Kim, R Dong, Z Vicars, Y Cai, AU Thosar, A Grun, SM Thompson, AJ Patel, CR Kagan, RJ Composto, and CO Osuji. Nanocomposites of 2D-MoS2 Exfoliated in Thermotropic Liquid Crystals, ACS Materials Letters (2021).
- H Jiang, S Fialoke, Z Vicars, AJ Patel. "Characterizing Surface Wetting and Interfacial Properties using Enhanced Sampling (SWIPES)", Soft Matter, 15, 860-869 (2019). arXiv