Jan Swenson
I earned my PhD in Physics at Chalmers in 1996 on the structure of ion conducting glasses. Thereafter I was a postdoctoral fellow at University College London, UK, where I was working on the structure and stability of clay gels. After returning to Chalmers most of my focus has been on soft materials, particularly with the aim to understand the role of water for biological materials, such as proteins which cannot function without its surrounding water. I have also tried to understand the anomalous properties of supercooled water by performing studies of water in confined geometries where crystallization to ice can be prevented at all temperatures. Since many of my structural and dynamical studies of soft materials are based on neutron scattering I am together with co-workers also working on developing new methods to analyze and model such data. The aim is to use computer simulations to produce models of the materials which exhibit structure and dynamics in consistency with the experimental neutron scattering data. These modelling methods will be used to explore a wide range of scientific problems, such how sugars may be used to mitigate protein aggregation related diseases (e.g. Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s disease) or how the structure of lipid based nanoparticles can be optimized for the delivery of RNA in therapeutic applications.
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Ionic and Electronic Conductivity in Structural Negative Electrodes
The inhibition of fibril formation of lysozyme by sucrose and trehalose
No observable non-thermal effect of microwave radiation on the growth of microtubules
Molecular Dynamics and Self-Assembly in Double Hydrophilic Block and Random Copolymers
New insights into the protein stabilizing effects of trehalose by comparing with sucrose
Influence of ice formation on the dynamic and thermodynamic properties of aqueous solutions
Lipid Sponge Phase as a Matrix for Enzyme Encapsulation: Structure and Dynamics
Atomistic molecular dynamics simulations of tubulin heterodimers explain the motion of a microtubule
Influence of Graphene Oxide on Asphaltene Nanoaggregates
Differentiating bulk nanobubbles from nanodroplets and nanoparticles
Stabilization of proteins embedded in sugars and water as studied by dielectric spectroscopy
Structural Comparison between Sucrose and Trehalose in Aqueous Solution
Dynamical Accuracy of Water Models on Supercooling
Complex modulus and compliance for airway smooth muscle cells
Motions of water and solutes-Slaving versus plasticization phenomena
Mechanism of Trehalose-Induced Protein Stabilization from Neutron Scattering and Modeling
The role of disaccharides for protein–protein interactions – a SANS study
Water dynamics in the hydration shells of biological and non-biological polymers
Molecular Insights into Dipole Relaxation Processes in Water-Lysine Mixtures
GRAPHENE EMBEDDED BITUMINOUS ROADS: A NEW LOOK INTO THE DESIGN OF COMPLEX NANOCOMPOSITES
Possible relations between supercooled and glassy confined water and amorphous bulk ice
Stable Air Nanobubbles in Water: the Importance of Organic Contaminants
Conductivity-Relaxation Relations in Nanocomposite Polymer Electrolytes Containing Ionic Liquid
Dynamics of DiPGME-Water Mixtures in Mesoporous Silica
Evidence of Coupling between the Motions of Water and Peptides
The Role of Trehalose for the Stabilization of Proteins
Confined Water as Model of Supercooled Water
Structure of Aqueous Trehalose Solution by Neutron Diffraction and Structural Modeling
Dynamics of deeply supercooled interfacial water
Dynamics of aqueous binary glass-formers confined in MCM-41
Relation between structural and conductivity relaxation in PEO and PEO based electrolytes
Glass transition and relaxation dynamics of propylene glycol-water solutions confined in clay
Dynamics of supercooled water in a biological model system of the amino acid L-lysine
Impact of long-term frozen storage on the dynamics of water and ice in wheat bread
Dynamics of Poly(ethylene oxide) around Its Melting Temperature
Long-Range Diffusion in Xylitol-Water Mixtures
Why is there no clear glass transition of confined water?
Different behavior of water in confined solutions of high and low solute concentrations
A dielectric relaxation study of nanocomposite polymer electrolytes
Formation and distribution of ice upon freezing of different formulations of wheat bread
Glass Transition and Relaxation Processes of Nanocomposite Polymer Electrolytes
Calorimetric and relaxation properties of xylitol-water mixtures
Mechanistic Insight into the Structure and Dynamics of Entangled and Hydrated lambda-Phage DNA
The slow dielectric Debye relaxation of monoalcohols in confined geometries
Interplay between Hydration Water and Headgroup Dynamics in Lipid Bilayers
Effects of Water Contamination on the Supercooled Dynamics of a Hydrogen-Bonded Model Glass Former
Role of Solvent for the Dynamics and the Glass Transition of Proteins
Slow dielectric response of Debye-type in water and other hydrogen bonded liquids
The glass transition and relaxation behavior of bulk water and a possible relation to confined water
Slow Debye-type peak observed in the dielectric response of polyalcohols
Biomechanical effects of environmental and engineered particles on human airway smooth muscle cells
Comment on "Hidden Slow Dynamics in Water'' Jansson, Bergman, and Swenson Reply
Dielectric secondary relaxation of water in aqueous binary glass-formers
Structural relaxations of phospholipids and water in planar membranes
Structure of glasses near the glass transition temperature
A unified model of protein dynamics
Diffraction and IR/Raman data do not prove tetrahedral water
Anomalous behaviour of supercooled water and its implication for protein dymamics
Mixed mobile ion effect and cooperative motions in silver-sodium phosphate glasses
Protein fluctuations explored by inelastic neutron scattering and dielectric relaxation spectroscopy
Solvent and lipid dynamics of hydrated lipid-bilayers by quasielastic neutron scattering
Effect of Glycation on the Structure and Dynamics of DNA: A Critical Spectroscopic Approach
Does confined water exhibit a fragile-to-strong transition?
Properties of hydration water and its role in protein dynamics
Structure of AgxNa1-xPO3 glasses by neutron diffraction and reverse Monte Carlo modelling
The dynamics of water in hydrated white bread by quasielastic neutron scattering
Dynamics of hemoglobin in different solvents as studied by QENS and Dielectric Spectroscopy
Relaxation processes in supercooled confined water and implications for protein dynamics
The structure and dynamics of 2-dimensional fluids in swelling clays
Reply to ”Comment on ’Dynamics of water in a molecular sieve by quasielastic neutron scattering’”
Dynamics of fresh and freeze-dried strawberry and red onion by quasi-electric neutron scattering
Water dynamics in n-propylene glycol aqueous solutions
Comparative study of ion conduction pathways in borate glasses
Dynamics of propylene glycol and its oligomers confined to a single molecular layer
Relaxational dynamics in polymer gel electrolytes investigated by quasi-elastic neutron scattering
Diffusive solvent dynamics in a polymer gel electrolyte studied by quasi-elastic neutron scattering
Dynamics of sugar solutions as studied by dielectric spectroscopy
A SANS study of 3PEG-LiClO4-TiO2 nanocompostive polymer electrolytes
Dynamics of water in strawberries and red onion by dielectric spectroscopy
Dynamics of water in a molecular sieve by quasi-elastic neutron scattering
Properties of normal and glycated human hemoglobin in presence and absence of antioxidant
Dielectric and calorimetric studies of hydrated purple membrane
Relation between solvent and protein dynamics as studied by dielectric spectroscopy
Predictability of ion transport properties from the structure of solid electrolytes
Frequency dependent conductivity of single alkali and mixed alkali phosphate glasses
Structural properties determining the ionic conductivity of CsI-doped AgPO3 glasses
Glass transition and fragility of supercooled confined water
The nature of conduction pathways in mixed alkali phosphate glasses
Relaxations of hydrogen bonded liquids confined in two dimensional vermiculite clay
Relaxation dynamics of a polymer in a 2D confinement
Structure-conductivity correlation in reverse Monte Carlo models of single and mixed alkali glasses
Glass transition and relaxation processes in supercooled water
Microscopic structure of tin-borate and tin-boratephosphate glasses
Dielectric study of supercooled 2D-water in a vermiculite clay
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Sockers roll för stabilisering och kryokonservering av proteiner
Water in "Green" Cementitious Materials
Activation of thermal energy storage materials: measurement techniques
A New Method to Model the Dynamic Structure Factor by Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Organic batteries for sustainable and increased energy efficiency in local energy storage
Coherent cytoskeleton dynamics captured with cutting Edge X-ray methods
Structure and dynamics of soft and biological materials. I & II
Förståelse av jonledningsmekanismen i polymerbaserade fasta elektrolyter