Institute of High Performance Computing

• Directors
• Computing Science (CS)
• Electronics & Photonics (EP)
• Engineering Mechanics (EM)
• Fluid Dynamics (FD)
• Material Science & Engineering (MSE)
• IHPC Independent Investigatorship (I³)

Material Science & Engineering (MSE)

Dr Daniel CHEONG Wee Loong

• Title: Scientist
• Tel: 64191542
• Email: dcheong@ihpc.a-star.edu.sg

Research Interests:

  Molecular modeling of soft matter systems, self-assembly, surfactants, polymers, peptides, hair surface modeling  

Qualifications:

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, 2006 B.S., Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 1997

Published Journals/ Articles:

Journals

 

(1)      Lakshmanan, A.; Cheong, D. W.; Accardo, A.; Di Fabrizio, E.; Riekel, C.; Hauser, C. a E. Aliphatic peptides show similar self-assembly to amyloid core sequences, challenging the importance of aromatic interactions in amyloidosis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2013, 110, 519–524.
(2)      Cheong, D. W.; Lim, F. C. H.; Zhang, L. Insights into the structure of covalently bound Fatty Acid monolayers on a simplified model of the hair epicuticle from molecular dynamics simulations. Langmuir 2012, 28, 13008–13017.
(3)      Hauser, C. A. E.; Deng, R.; Mishra, A.; Loo, Y.; Khoe, U.; Zhuang, F.; Cheong, D. W.; Accardo, A.; Sullivan, M. B.; Riekel, C.; Ying, J. Y.; Hauser, U. A. Natural tri- to hexapeptides self-assemble in water to amyloid {beta}-type fiber aggregates by unexpected {alpha}-helical intermediate structures. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2011, 108, 1361–1366.
(4)      Cheong, D. W.; Boon, Y. Di Comparative Study of Force Fields for Molecular Dynamics Simulations of α-Glycine Crystal Growth from Solution. Cryst. Growth Des. 2010, 10, 5146–5158.
(5)      Cheong, D. W.; Panagiotopoulos, A. Z. Monte carlo simulations of micellization in model ionic surfactants: application to sodium dodecyl sulfate. Langmuir 2006, 22, 4076–4083.
(6)      Cheong, D. W.; Panagiotopoulos, A. Z. Phase behaviour of polyampholyte chains from grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations. Mol. Phys. 2005, 103, 3031–3044.
(7)      Cheong, D. W.; Panagiotopoulos, A. Z. Critical parameters of unrestricted primitive model electrolytes with charge asymmetries up to 10:1. J. Chem. Phys. 2003, 119, 8526.