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Patrick Ilg

Email:
p.ilg@reading.ac.uk
Phone:
+44 (0) 118 378 8544
Job title:
Associate Professor

Office

Room 201

Building location

JJ Thomson

Areas of interest

Structure, dynamics and transport in soft matter systems
Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and systematic coarse graining
Interfaces and boundary phenomena
Systems under study: polymers, liquid-crystals, colloids, glasses, etc.
Computer simulations: Molecular Dynamics, Monte-Carlo, Brownian dynamics and novel, hybrid schemes

Teaching

Current teaching (2023/24):

Research centres and groups

Complex Fluids and Theoretical Polymer Physics

Websites/blogs

Dr Ilg's personal website - see for a complete list of my publications.
arXiv

Publications

Ilg, P. ORCID: 0000-0002-7518-5543 and Kröger, M. (2023) Field- and concentration-dependent relaxation of magnetic nanoparticles and optimality conditions for magnetic fluid hyperthermia. Scientific Reports , 13 ISSN: 2045-2322 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-43140-8

Ilg, P. ORCID: 0000-0002-7518-5543 (2022) Simulating the flow of interacting ferrofluids with multiparticle collision dynamics. Physical Review E , 106 (6). ISSN: 2470-0053 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.106.064605
Ilg, P. ORCID: 0000-0002-7518-5543 and Kröger, M. (2022) Longest relaxation time versus maximum loss peak in the field-dependent longitudinal dynamics of suspended magnetic nanoparticles. Physical Review B , 106 (13). ISSN: 1098-0121 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.106.134433
Kröger, M. and Ilg, P. ORCID: 0000-0002-7518-5543 (2022) Combined dynamics of magnetization and particle rotation of a suspended superparamagnetic particle in the presence of an orienting field: semi-analytical and numerical solution. Mathematical models and methods in applied Sciences (M3AS) , 32 (7). pp. 1349-1383. ISSN: 0218-2025 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0218202522500300
Ilg, P. ORCID: 0000-0002-7518-5543 (2022) Multiparticle collision dynamics for ferrofluids. The Journal of Chemical Physics , 156 (14). ISSN: 0021-9606 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0087981

Kroeger, M. and Ilg, P. (2020) Dynamics of interacting magnetic nanoparticles: effective behavior from competition between Brownian and Néel relaxation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics , 22 (39). pp. 22244-22259. ISSN: 1463-9076 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/D0CP04377J
Moghimikheirabadi, A. , Ilg, P. , Sagis, L. , Kröger, M. (2020) Surface rheology and structure of model triblock copolymers at a liquid-vapor interface: a molecular dynamics study. Macromolecules , 53 (4). pp. 1245-1257. ISSN: 0024-9297 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01995

Ilg, P. (2019) Diffusion-jump model for the combined Brownian and Neel relaxation dynamics of ferrofluids in the presence of external fields and flow. Physical Review E , 100 (2). ISSN: 1539-3755 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.100.022608
Kirk, J. , Wang, Z. , Ilg, P. (2019) Entanglement dynamics at flat surfaces: investigations using multi-chain molecular dynamics and a single-chain slip-spring model. The Journal of Chemical Physics , 150 (9). ISSN: 0021-9606 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5045301
Moghimikheirabadi, A. , Sagis, L. , Kroger, M. , Ilg, P. (2019) Gas–liquid phase equilibrium of a model Langmuir monolayer captured by a multiscale approach. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics , 21 (5). pp. 2295-2306. ISSN: 1463-9076 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8CP05447A
Luo, A. , Vermant, J. , Ilg, P. , Zhang, Z. , Sagis, L. (2019) Self-assembly of ellipsoidal particles at fluid-fluid interfaces with an empirical pair potential. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science , 534 pp. 205-214. ISSN: 0021-9797 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2018.08.114

Singh, M. , Kang, C. , Ilg, P. , Crockett, R. , Kroger, M. , Spencer, N. (2018) Combined experimental and simulation studies of crosslinked polymer brushes under shear. Macromolecules , 51 (24). pp. 10174-10183. ISSN: 0024-9297 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01363
Kirk, J. , Kroger, M. , Ilg, P. (2018) Surface disentanglement and slip in a polymer melt: a molecular dynamics study. Macromolecules , 51 (21). pp. 8996-9010. ISSN: 0024-9297 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01865
Moghimikheirabadi, A. , Sagis, L. , Ilg, P. (2018) Effective interaction potentials for model amphiphilic surfactants adsorbed at fluid-fluid interfaces. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics , 20 pp. 16238-16246. ISSN: 1463-9076 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8CP01632A
Ilg, P. and Evangelopoulos, A. (2018) Magnetic susceptibility, nanorheology, and magnetoviscosity of magnetic nanoparticles in viscoelastic environments. Physical Review E , 97 (3). ISSN: 1539-3755 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.97.032610

Varghese, A. and Ilg, P. (2017) Time correlation functions in the Lebwohl-Lasher model of liquid crystals. Physical Review E , 96 (3). ISSN: 1539-3755 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.96.032705
Ilg, P. (2017) Equilibrium magnetization and magnetization relaxation of multicore magnetic nanoparticles. Physical Review B , 95 (21). ISSN: 1098-0121 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.214427
Kirk, J. and Ilg, P. (2017) Chain dynamics in polymer melts at flat surfaces. Macromolecules , 50 (9). pp. 3703-3718. ISSN: 0024-9297 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01943
Fuereder, I. and Ilg, P. (2017) Transient inhomogeneous flow patterns in supercooled liquids under shear. Soft Matter , 13 (11). pp. 2192-2200. ISSN: 1744-683X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7SM00178A

Singh, M. , Ilg, P. , Espinosa-Marzal, R. , Spencer, N. , Kroger, M. (2016) Influence of chain stiffness, grafting density and normal load on the tribological and structural behavior of polymer brushes: a nonequilibrium-molecular-dynamics study. Polymers , 8 (7). ISSN: 2073-4360 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym8070254
Singh, M. , Ilg, P. , Espinosa-Marzal, R. , Kroger, M. , Spencer, N. (2016) Effect of crosslinking on the microtribological behavior of model polymer brushes. Tribology Letters , 63 (2). ISSN: 1573-2711 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11249-016-0705-8
Ilg, P. (2016) Hydrodynamics with spin angular momentum from systematic coarse graining: a tutorial example. Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics , 41 (2). pp. 89-97. ISSN: 1437-4358 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jnet-2015-0067

Luo, A. , Wenk, S. , Ilg, P. (2015) Reply to “Comment on ‘Temperature-dependent orientational ordering on a spherical surface modeled with a lattice spin model’ ”. Physical Review E , 91 ISSN: 1539-3755 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.91.046502
Sreekumari, A. and Ilg, P. (2015) Anisotropy of magnetoviscous effect in structure-forming ferrofluids. Physical Review E , 92 (1). ISSN: 1539-3755 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.92.012306
Luo, A. , Sagis, L. , Ottinger, H. , De Michele, C. , Ilg, P. (2015) Modelling the rheology of anisotropic particles adsorbed on a two-dimensional fluid interface. Soft Matter , 11 pp. 4383-4395. ISSN: 1744-683X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C5SM00372E
Fuereder, I. and Ilg, P. (2015) Influence of inherent structure shear stress of supercooled liquids on their shear moduli. The Journal of Chemical Physics , 142 (144505). ISSN: 1089-7690 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4917042
Singh, M. , Ilg, P. , Espinosa-Marzal, R. , Kröger, M. , Spencer, N. (2015) Polymer brushes under shear: molecular dynamics simulations compared to experiments. Langmuir , 31 (16). pp. 4798-4805. ISSN: 1520-5827 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b00641

Luo, A. , Wenk, S. , Ilg, P. (2014) Temperature-dependent orientational ordering on a spherical surface modeled with a lattice spin model. Physical Review E ISSN: 1539-3755 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.90.022502
Luo, A. , Sagis, L. , Ilg, P. (2014) The Landau free energy of hard ellipses obtained from microscopic simulations. The Journal of Chemical Physics , 140 ISSN: 0021-9606 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4868988