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Dr. Rob Phillips

Professor of Applied Physics and Mechanical Engineering
Option Representative for Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (BMB)


159 Broad
MC 114-96
(626) 395-3374


B.A., University of Minnesota, 1986
Ph.D., Washington University, 1989

Research Group

Rob Phillips

Expertise
Biophysics of macromolecules and their assemblies


Selected Publications

Analytic Models for Mechanotransduction: Gating a Mechanosensitive Channel
, P. W. Wiggins and R. Phillips, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 101, 4071, 2004.

Mechanics of DNA Packaging in Viruses
, Purohit PK, Kondev J, Phillips R., Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 100, 3173, 2003.

Force Steps During Viral DNA Packaging?
Purohit PK, Kondev J, Phillips R Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 51 (11-12): 2239-2257 Nov-Dec, 2003.

Mechanics of Biological Nanotechnology,
Purohit PK, Kondev J. and Phillips R., Handbook of Nanotechnology, Springer, 2004, edited by B. Bhushan.

Crystals, Defects and Microstructures Cambridge University Press,
2001.

Mesoscopic Analysis of Structure and Strength of Dislocation Junctions in FCC Metals
(with V. B. Shenoy and R. V. Kukta), Physical Reveiw Letters, 84, pp. 1491-1494, 2000.

An Adaptive Finite Element Approach to Atomic-Scale Mechanics The Quasicontinuum Method
(with V. B. Shenoy, R. Miller, E. B. Tadmor, D. Rodney, and M. Ortiz), Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 47, pp. 611-642, 1999.

Nanomechanics of Defects in Solids
(with M. Ortiz), Advances in Applied Mechanics, 36, pp. 1-79, 1999.

Critical Analysis of Local Constitutive Models for Slip and Decohesion
(with R. Miller), Philosophical Magazine, A73, p. 803-827, 1996.


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