• Congratulations to Rong-Guang for receiving Tribology Gordon Research Conference (GRC) 2016 Student Travel Award. This year the GRC Tribology will be held at Bates College, Lewiston, ME, from June 26 - July 1 (6/7/2016)

• Our recent simulation studies of CO2 in clay interlayers (Qi and PI), liquid films in dynamic AFM (Rong-Guang and PI), and antifouling of PEG coating on polyamide membrane (Yuan, Rong-Guang, and PI) have been published in J. Phys. Chem. C, J. Chem. Phys., and Langmuir (5/1/2016)

• Congratulations to Yuan Xiang for receiving ICBZM 2015 Student Travel Award. This award was issued by the 2nd International Conference on Bioinspired and Zwitterionic Materials to support outstanding graduate students in the membrane science and technology area and to provide reimbursement for reasonable expenses for attending the ICMZM 2015 meeting in Seattle, Washington (8/1/2015)

• Our recent computational study on the structural and mechanical properties of metal-organic molecular junctions has been highlighted in June 2015 Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN): Molecular Device Simulations Spring Up, http://cen.acs.org/articles/93/i24/Molecular-Device-Simulations-Spring.html?h=1153641086

• Huachuan’s paper "Gold/Benzenedithiolate/Gold Molecular Junction: A Driven Dynamics Simulation on Structural Evolution and Breaking Force under Pulling” has been published in J. Phys. Chem. C, congratulations (6/5/2015)

• Qi's paper "Methane Aqueous Fluids in Montmorillonite Clay Interlayer under Near-Surface Geological Conditions: A Grand Canonical Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study " was published in J. Phys. Chem. B, congratulations (8/28/2014)

• Yuan's paper "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Polyamide Membrane, Calcium Alginate Gel, and Their Interactions in Aqueous Solution” was published in Langmuir, congratulations (7/14/2014)

• Rong-guang’s paper “Solvation force simulations in atomic force microscopy” was published in J. Chem. Phys., congratulations (6/2/2014)

• Congratulations to Rong-guang Xu on winning the Outstanding Poster Competition at the Transformational Technologies in Molecular Simulations (TTMS) 2014 Summer School, May 19-24, University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI (5/23/2014)

• Prof. Leng obtained GW's 2013-2014 Writing in the Disciplines (WID) Distinguished Teaching Award, Congratulations (4/2/2014)

• Yuan's paper "Hydrated Polyamide Membrane and Its Interaction with Alginate: A Molecular Dynamics Study” was published in Langmuir, congratulations (8/13/2013)

• Qi's paper "Molecular Simulations on the Structure and Dynamics of Water-Methane Fluids between Na-Montmorillonite Clay Surfaces at Elevated Temperature and Pressure" was published in J. Phys. Chem. C, congratulations (6/12/2013)

• Congratulations to Huachuan Wang on winning the Outstanding Paper Awards at The Second Global Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology (2/2013)

• Congratulations to Huachuan Wang on winning IUTAM Bureau Prize for the best seminar presentation by a young scientist at the 23rd International Conference of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM) (Beijing, China) (8/2012)

• Prof. Leng obtained NSF Career award, Congratulations (2/2/2012)

• Yajie’s paper "Hydrophobic drying and hysteresis at different length scales by molecular dynamics simulations” was published in Langmuir, congratulations (1/13/2012)

• Huachuan's paper "Molecular dynamics simulations of the stable structures of single atomic contacts in gold nanojunctions” was published in Phys. Rev. B, congratulations (12/13/2011)

• Yajie’s paper "Slick-slip Friction and Energy Dissipation in Boundary Lubrication” was published in Phys. Rev. Lett., congratulations (9/30/2011)

• Yajie’s paper "Force oscillation and phase transition of simple fluids under confinement” was published in Phys. Rev. E as a Rapid Communication, congratulations (10/11/2010)