Joakim Löfgren

Research

Joakim’s research is focused on understanding the properties of surfactant layers in nanoparticle growth as well as on mesoscale modeling of nanoparticle assembly.

Education

• 2019: Doctorate in Physics
  Modeling colloidal nanoparticles: From growth to deposition
  Chalmers University of Technology; also see here

• 2017: Licentiate in Physics
  Elements of Modeling Nanoparticle Growth: Surface Thermodynamics and Dispersive Interactions
  Chalmers University of Technology

• 2014: M.Sc. in Applied Physics
  The Monte Carlo Method and Quantum Path Integrals
  Chalmers University of Technology

• 2012: B.Sc. in Applied Physics
  Configuration Interaction Methods and Large-scale Matrix Diagonalization
  Chalmers University of Technology

Publications

• Electric-field-controlled reversible order-disorder switching of a metal tip surface Permalink
  L. de Knoop, M. J. Kuisma, J. Löfgren, K. Lodewijks, M. Thuvander, P. Erhart, A. Dmitriev, and E. Olsson
  Physical Review Materials 2, 085006 (2018)
• libvdwxc: A library for exchange-correlation functionals in the vdW-DF family Permalink
  A. H. Larsen, M. Kuisma, J. Löfgren, Y. Pouillon, P. Erhart, and P. Hyldgaard
  Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering 25, 27140 (2017)
• Understanding the Phase Diagram of Self-Assembled Monolayers of Alkanethiolates on Gold Permalink
  J. Löfgren, H. Grönbeck, K. Moth-Poulsen, and P. Erhart
  The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 120, 12059 (2016)