Thank you for visiting my home page.

A little about myself.

I am a graduate student in Chemical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts. I received my bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California, and my high school diploma from John Marshall High School in Rochester, Minnesota. If you're looking to contact me, try my UGCS address if you don't know the UMass one.

My research advisors here at UMass are Scott Auerbach (who is actually a theoretical chemist, but the chemical engineers of the world will forgive him that), and W. Curt Conner. My project is to model diffusion and catalysis in zeolites; the Auerbach group does the modeling end, and the Conner group does the experimental end. My function is to serve as a human bridge between the two groups, and to (we hope) find some neat results along the way.

I am a rabid fan of the show Futurama, and a slightly less rabid fan of South Park. I've also taken interest in Scrubs, Firefly, and House. As for baseball, Go Twins! As you may have guessed from some of the links below, I am also a fan of the late Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time. His death from amyloidosis will be mourned by everyone who enjoyed his work, which I consider one of the biggest blows to the literary community in decades.

Publications

(In order of submission)

Hammond, K. D., G. A. Tompsett, S. M. Auerbach, and W. C. Conner, “Apparatus for Measuring Physical Adsorption on Intact Supported Porous Membranes,” Journal of Porous Materials 14 (4), 409–416 (2007).
Hammond, K. D., G. A. Tompsett, S. M. Auerbach, and W. C. Conner, “Physical Adsorption Analysis of Intact Supported MFI Zeolite Membranes,” Langmuir 23 (16), 8371–8384 (2007).
Payer, K. R., K. D. Hammond, G. A. Tompsett, L. Krogh, M. N. Pratt, and W. C. Conner, “The Effects of Mechanical and Thermal Perturbations on States Within the Hysteresis of Sorption Isotherms of Mesoporous Materials,” Journal of Porous Materials (in press) DOI: 10.1007/s10934-007-9172-9.
Hammond, K. D., M. Hong, G. A. Tompsett, S. M. Auerbach, J. L. Falconer, and W. C. Conner, “High-Resolution Adsorption on Supported Borosilicate MFI Zeolite Membranes,” Journal of Membrane Science 325 (1): 413–419 (2008).
Hammond, K. D., G. A. Tompsett, F. Dogan, C. P. Grey, W. C. Conner, and S. M. Auerbach, “Spectroscopic Signatures of Nitrogen-Substituted Zeolites,” Journal of the American Chemical Society 130 (45): 14912–14913 (2008).
Hummelshøj, J. S., D. D. Landis, J. Voss, T. Jiang, A. Tekin, N. Bork, M. Dulak, J. J. Mortensen, L. Adamska, J. Andersin, J. Baran, G. D. Barmparis, F. Bell, A. L. Bezanilla, J. Bjork, M. E. Björketun, F. Bleken, F. Buchter, M. Bürkle, P. D. Burton, B. Buus, A. Calborean, F. Calle-Vallejo, S. Casolo, B. Chandler, D. H. Chi, I. Czekaj, S. Datta, A. Datye, A. DeLaRiva, V. Despoja, S. Dobrin, M. Engelund, L. Ferrighi, P. Frondelius, Q. Fu, A. Fuentes, J. Fürst, A. Garcíia-Fuente, J. Gavnholt, R. Goeke, S. Gudmundsdottir, K. D. Hammond, H. A. Hansen, D. Hibbitts, J. G. Howalt, S. L. Hruby, A. Huth, L. Isaeva, J. Jelic, I. J. T. Jensen, E. H. Junior, K. Kacprzak, A. Kelkkanen, D. Kelsey, D. S. Kesanakurthi, J. Kleis, P. J. Klüpfel, I. Konstantinov, R. Korytar, P. Koskinen, C. Krishna, E. Kunkes, A. H. Larsen, J. M. G. Lastra, H. Lin, O. Lopez-Acevedo, M. Mantega, J. I. Martínez, I. N. Mesa, D. J. Mowbray, J. S. G. Mýrdal, Y. Natanzon, A. Nistor, T. Olsen, H. Park, J. W. Pedersen, L. S. Pedroza, V. Petzold, C. Plaisance, J. A. Rasmussen, H. Ren, M. Rizzi, A. S. Ronco, C. Rostgaard, S. Saadi, L. A. Salguero, E. J. G. Santos, A. L. Schoenhalz, J. Shen, M. Smedemand, O. J. Stausholm-Møller, M. Stibius, M. Strange, H. Su, B. Temel, A. Toftelund, V. Tripkovic, M. Vanin, V. Viswanathan, A. Vojvodic, S. Wang, K. S. Thygesen, J. Rossmeisl, T. Bligaard, K. W. Jacobsen, J. K. Nørskov and T. Vegge. “DFT-Based Screening of Novel Alkali-Transition Metal Borohydrides---A Computational Materials Design Project.” Journal of Chemical Physics 131 (1): 014101 (2009).
Hammond, K. D. and S. M. Auerbach. “Modeling the Structure and Spectroscopy of Alkaline Zeolites.” In Silica and Silicates in Modern Catalysis; Halasz, I., Ed. Research Signpost, in press; Chapter 2.
Dogan, F, K. D. Hammond, G. A. Tompsett, W. C. Conner, S. M. Auerbach, and C. P. Grey. “Searching for Microporous, Strongly Basic Catalysts: Experimental and Calculated 29Si NMR Spectra Heavily Nitrogen-Doped Y Zeolites.” Journal of the American Chemical Society (in press, 2009). DOI: 10.1021/ja9031133.
Hammond, K. D., M. Gharibeh, G. A. Tompsett, F. Dogan, A. V. Brown, C. P. Grey, S. M. Auerbach, and W. C. Conner. “Optimizing the Synthesis of Nitrogen Substituted Zeolites.” Intended for Chemistry of Materials (planned for submission in August 2009).

More of my web work

I maintain (sort of) other web sites, which are listed below.

Other people's home pages.