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OPTS (Optim i/.ed Potentials for Liquid Simulations) is based on a force field developed by the research group of Bill Jorgensen now at Yale University and previously at Purdue University. Like AMBER, the OPLS force field is designed for calculations on proteins an d nucleic acids. It in troduces non bonded in leraclion parameters that have been carefully developed from extensive Monte Carlo liquid sim u lation s of small molecules. These n on-bonded interactions have been added to the bonding interactions of AMBER to produce a new force field that is expected to be better than AMBER at describing simulations w here the solvent isexplic-... 

White 1991, Second-Order Inelastic Analysis for Frame Design A Report to SSRC Task Group 29 on Recent Research and the Perceived Staie-of-the-Art, D. W. White, J. Y R. Liew, and W. F. Chen, Report No CE-STR-91-12, School of Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 1991... 

Figure 3.18 Different research strategies of Delgass s group (Purdue University) and Haruta s group (TMU) for propylene epoxidation. Also shown are the catalysts used by Guo s group (Dalian U. Tech.).

VERSE (The Bioseparations Group, School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette) http //atom.ecn.purdue.edu/ biosep/research.html... 

The use of polymer-coated cantilevers such as microfabricated beams of silicon is becoming more popular as the basis of nanomechanical sensors [11]. These devices detect physical and chemical interactions between the reactive layer on the surface and the environment [8]. When the polymer interacts with a gaseous species, it swells and causes the cantilever to bend as a result of surface stresses when used in the static mode. In the dynamic mode, the cantilever acts as a microbalance, which responds to changes in resonance frequency. Savran s group at Purdue University has been researching the micromechanical detection of proteins by use of aptamer-based receptor molecules [12]. 

In 1946, after World War II had ended, Dr. Whistler accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Chemistry (now the Department of Biochemistry) at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. There his career blossomed. It was a time of the famous carbohydrate laboratories, such as those of J. E. Courtois, K. Heyns, F. Micheel, M. Stacey, M. L. Wolfrom, and others, and the estabhshment of the laboratories of D. French, J. K. N. Jones, N. K. Kochetkov, R. U. Lemieux, B. Lindberg, H. Paulsen, and others. He made himself one of the established group of carbohydrate chemists in the world, something I think he could do because he stood out even at that age. For example, in 1951, Professor Wolfi om, who chaired the U.S. carbohydrate nomenclature committee, asked Dr. Whistler to join the committee, upon which he immediately developed an interest in systematic rules for polysaccharide nomenclature, which he developed and incorporated into his book on Polysaccharide Chemistry (1953) and promoted strongly. He also chaired the Polysaccharide Nomenclature subcommittee of the National Research Council Committee on Nomenclature. 

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