Prof. Jan K.G. Dhont

Senior scientist

Forschungsthemen

Dynamics of maromolecules in equilibrium, and non-equilibrium phenomena (phase separation kinetics, shear flow, electric fields, thermodiffusion, and confinement

Kontakt

+49 2461/61-2160

+49 2461/61-2765

E-Mail

https://www.fz-juelich.de/profile/dhont_j.k.g

orcid:0000-0003-3122-0586

Adresse

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße
52428 Jülich

Institut für Biologische Informationsprozesse (IBI)

Biomakromolekulare Systeme und Prozesse (IBI-4)

Gebäude 04.6 / Raum 77

Vita

since 2001	C4 Professor at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
2000-2022	Director at the Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Complex Systems, ICS-3, now Institute of Biological Information Processing, IBI-4
1987-2000	University of Utrecht as an associate professor in the group of Prof. H. N. W. Lekkerkerker
1985-1987	Postdoc at the University of Konstanz, Theoretical Physics Group of Prof. R. Klein in Konstanz, Germany
1981-1985	I finished my PhD on the subject “Multiple light scattering from colloids” at the van’t Hoff laboratory at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, with Prof. A. Vrij
1971-1975	I followed a study for laboratory chemist during the years 1971-1975, and then went to the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, to study chemistry

Publikationen

Ten most recent publications:

A time resolved static light scattering study on nucleation and crystallization in a colloidal systemJ.K.G. Dhont, C. Smits, H.N.W. Lekkerkerker, J. Coll. Int. Sci.,1992, 152, pp.386-401, DOI: 10.1016/0021-9797(92)90041-J
Experimental phase-diagram of a binary colloidal hard-sphere mixture with a large size ratioA. Imhof, J.K.G. Dhont, Phys. Rev. Lett., 21 1995, 75, pp. 1662-1665, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.1662
Spinodal decomposition of colloids in the initial and intermediate stagesJ.K.G. Dhont, J. Chem. Phys.,1996, 105, pp.5112-5125, DOI: 10.1063/1.472355
A constitutive relation describing the shear-banding transitionJ.K.G. Dhont, Phys. Rev. E, 1999, 60, pp. 4534-4544, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.60.4534
Stresses in inhomogeneous suspensionsJ.K.G. Dhont, W.J. Briels, J. Chem. Phys. 2002, 117, pp. 3992-3999, DOI: 10.1063/1.1495842
Single-particle thermal diffusion of charged colloids: Double-layer theory in a temperature gradientJ.K.G. Dhont, W.J. Briels, Eur. Phys. J. E, 2008, 25, pp.61-76, DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2007-10264-6
Gradient and vorticity bandingJ.K.G. Dhont, W.J. Briels, Rheol. Acta, 2008, 47, pp.257-281, DOI: 10.1007/s00397-007-0245-0
Glass Transition in Suspensions of Charged Rods: Structural Arrest and Texture DynamicsK. Kang, J.K.G. Dhont, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2013, 110, pp. 015901, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.015901
Non-local stresses in highly non-uniformly flowing suspensions:
The shear-curvature viscosityH. Jin (…) J.K.G. Dhont, J. Chem. Phys. 2018, 149, pp. 014903-, DOI: 10.1063/1.5035268
Motility-induced inter-particle correlations and dynamics: a microscopic approach for active Brownian particlesJ.K.G. Dhont, G.W. Park, W.J. Briels, Soft Matter, 2021, 17, pp.5613-5632, DOI: 10.1039/D1SM00426C

A full list of publications is available here.

Letzte Änderung: 04.09.2023