Sandia Energy > Programs > Energy Storage > Staff > Amalie Frischknecht Amalie Frischknecht Physicist Contact Information Amalie Frischknecht / (505) 977-4290 Biography Amalie L. Frischknecht is a Principle Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, and a staff scientist at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT), a DOE Nanoscale Science Research Center and user facility at Sandia and Los Alamos National Labs. She received her PhD in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1998, and went on to postdocs at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (1998-2000) and at Sandia National Laboratories (2000-2003), before becoming a member of technical staff at Sandia in 2003. Amalie is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), and is currently serving as Chair of the APS Division of Polymer Physics. She previously chaired the Gordon Research Conference on Polymer Physics (2018). Her research interests are in the statistical mechanics and molecular simulation of complex fluids, including polymer nanocomposites, ion-containing polymers, and charged soft matter systems. Her recent work has included a focus on understanding ion transport in polymer membranes for energy applications. Research Interests Morphology and ion transport properties of polymeric membranes Properties of polymer nanocomposites Phase behavior of polymer brushes Behavior of ions in soft matter systems Education Ph.D. in Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998 B.A. in Physics and Mathematics, Pomona College, Claremont, California, 1992 Google Scholar Amalie Frischknecht Sandia Technical Library Amalie Frischknecht Key Publications L.M. Hall, M.E. Seitz, K.I. Winey, K.L. Opper, K.B. Wagener, M.J. Stevens, A.L. Frischknecht “Ionic Aggregate Structure in Ionomer Melts: Effect of Molecular Architecture on Aggregates and the Ionomer Peak, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 1, 574–587, DOI: 10.1021/ja209142b. A.L. Frischknecht, S.T. Milner, A. Pryke, R.N. Young, R. Hawkins, T.C.B. McLeish “Rheology of three-arm asymmetric star polymer melts” Macromolecules 35 (12), 4801-4820, DOI: 10.1021/ma0101411. M.J.A. Hore, A.L. Frischknecht, R.J. Composto “Nanorod Assemblies in Polymer Films and Their Dispersion-Dependent Optical Properties” ACS Macro Letters 1 (1), 115-121, DOI: 10.1021/mz200031g. A.L. Frischknecht, M.J.A. Hore, J. Ford, R.J. Composto “Dispersion of Polymer-Grafted Nanorods in Homopolymer Films: Theory and Experiment” Macromolecules 2013, 46, 7, 2856–2869, DOI: 10.1021/ma302461h. L.M. Hall, M.J. Stevens, A.L. Frischknecht “Dynamics of Model Ionomer Melts of Various Architectures” Macromolecules 2012, 45, 19, 8097–8108, DOI: 10.1021/ma301308n. L.M. Hall, M.J. Stevens, A.L. Frischknecht “Effect of Polymer Architecture and Ionic Aggregation on the Scattering Peak in Model Ionomers” Physical Review Letters 106 (12), 127801, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.127801. L.J.D. Frink, A.G. Salinger, M.P. Sears, J.D. Weinhold, A.L. Frischknecht “Numerical Challenges in the Application of Density Functional Theory to Biology and Nanotechnology” J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 14 12167, DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/14/46/320. Key Patents D.L. Huber and A. Frischknecht “Nanopatterns by phase separation of patterned mixed polymer monolayers” U.S. Patent 8652768 B1, February 18, 2014.