Alec Glisman

Alec Glisman

I am a fifth-year chemical engineering Ph.D. candidate at Caltech in the Zhen-Gang Wang group.

Talks and presentations

Structure of polyelectrolyte and multi-valent ion complexes

March 06, 2023

Conference proceedings talk, American Physical Society March Meeting, Las Vegas, NV

We present our findings on the polyelectrolyte-calcium binding energetics, comment on the preferential calcium binding sites on a polyelectrolyte backbone, and present a technique to calculate the calcium adsorption isotherm.

Divalent cation-mediated polyanion attraction in an aqueous solution

March 06, 2023

Conference proceedings talk, American Physical Society March Meeting, Las Vegas, NV

We clarify the mechanism through which multi-valent ions result in polyelectrolyte precipitation and present design principles for polyelectrolytes with higher calcium tolerance values.