Angelo Bongiorno Assistant Professor Office: MS&E 2100 H Phone: 404-385-5169 Fax: 404-894-7452 E-mail Angelo Bongiorno

B.S., University of Milan, Italy; M.S., University of Milan, Italy; Ph.D., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland; Postdoctoral Associate, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Research Interests

Computational Material Chemistry: Achieving molecular insight on the physicochemical properties of liquids and solids through the use of computer simulations. Methods: Density functional theory and molecular dynamics simulations. Active projects: "Stability of ionic liquids and solids" and "Chemical Reduction of Graphene Oxide Nanostructures".

Representative Publications

"Thermodynamic stability limits of simple monoatomic materials", L.C. Gallington and A. Bongiorno, J. Chem. Phys. 132, 174707 (2010).

"Energy Landscape of an Electron Hole in Hydrated DNA", A. Bongiorno, J. Phys. Chem. B, J. Phys. Chem. B 112, 13945 (2008).

"A Perspective on Modeling Materials in Extreme Conditions: Ultra-High Temperature Oxidation of Ceramics", A. Bongiorno, C. Foerst, R. Kalia, J. Li, J. Marschall, A. Nakano, M. Opeka, I. Talmy, P. Vashishta, and S. Yip, MRS Bulletin 31, 410 (2006).

"Water-Enhanced Catalysis of CO Oxidation on Free and Supported Gold Nanoclusters", A. Bongiorno and U. Landman, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 106102 (2005).

"Reaction of the Oxygen Molecule at the Si(100)-SiO_2 Interface during Silicon Oxidation", A. Bongiorno and A. Pasquarello, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 86102 (2004).

"Transition Structure at the Si(100)-SiO_2 Interface", A. Bongiorno, A. Pasquarello, Mark S. Hybertsen and L. C. Feldman, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 186101 (2003).