Kimberly Chenoweth

Ph.D., Purdue University, 2002

B.S., College of Saint Elizabeth, 1996

Smith College, 2008- 
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry

California Institute of Technology, 2003-2008
Post-doctoral fellow with Willian A. Goddard, III

Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. Indianapolis (IUPUI) 2002-2003
Post-doctoral fellow with Clifford E. Dykstra

Fall, 2008: CHM 347: Instrumental Methods of Analysis
Spring 2009: CHM 346: Light and Spectroscopy

My research involves the development and application of computational methods to gain fundamental insight into chemical systems in order to predict their behavior. I am currently interested in investigating systems at the interface between biology, chemistry and materials science. . 

Chenoweth, K., van Duin, A.C.T., Persson, P., Cheng, M.-J., Oxgaard, J., Goddard III, W.A. "Development and Application of a ReaxFF Reactive Force Field for Oxidative Dehydrogenation on Vanadium Oxide Catalysts," Journal of Physical Chemistry C, accepted.

Goddard III, W.A., Chenoweth, K., Pudar, S., van Duin, A.C.T., Cheng, M.-J. "Structures, Mechanisms, and Kinetics of Ammoxidation and Selective Oxidation of Propane over Multi-Metal Oxide Catalysts" Topics in Catalysis, Published online: June 10, 2008, DOI 10.1007/ s11244-008-9096-x. . 

Chenoweth, K., van Duin, A.C.T., Goddard, III, W.A. "A ReaxFF Reactive Force Field for Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Hydrocarbon Oxidation," Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2008, 112, 1040. 

Chenoweth, K., Cheung, S., van Duin, A.C.T., Goddard III, W.A., Kober, E., "Simulations on the Thermal Decomposition of a Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Polymer Using the ReaxFF Reactive Force Field," Journal of the American Chemical Society 2005, 127, 7192. .