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B. Wayne Bequette

B. Wayne Bequette
Fri, 2010-08-06 10:37 — bequeb
Name: B. Wayne Bequette
Title:Professor
Department Chemical and Biological Engineering
School Engineering
Center Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS) Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) Center for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Research (CFCHR) Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES)
Website:http://homepages.rpi.edu/~bequeb/bwbres.html
Bio Dr. Bequette served as President of the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) in 2008-9, and currently serves as the AIChE CAST Division Programming Chair (2010-2013). He is a Fellow of the AIChE (May, 2008), was inducted into the Arkansas Academy of Chemical Engineers (April, 2007), received the Rensselaer School of Engineering Research Excellence Award (2008), and was named a Trustee of the CACHE Corporation (2010-2012).

Dr. Bequette is the author of Process Control: Modeling, Design and Simulation (2003) and Process Dynamics: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation (1998), both published by Prentice Hall. He served as the Guest Editor of Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics (February, 2005), and also edited special issues on Process Control for the IEEE Control Systems Magazine (August and December, 2006). He is a founding member of the editorial board of the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, and has co-edited a number of special issues on algorithms for sensors and a closed-loop artificial pancreas.
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Education 1980 B.S. Ch.E. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 1985 M.S.E. University of Texas, Austin 1986 Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin
Scholarly Works:
  • Cameron, F., B.W. Bequette, D.M. Wilson, B.A. Buckingham, H. Lee and G. Niemeyer “A Closed-Loop Artificial Pancreas Based on Risk Management,” J. Diabetes Sci. Technol., 5(2), 368-379 (2011).
  • Kuure-Kinsey, M. and B.W. Bequette “A Multiple Model Predictive Control Strategy for Disturbance Rejection,” Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 49(17), 7983-7989 (2010).
  • Dassau, E., F. Cameron, H. Lee, B.W. Bequette, H. Zisser, L. Jovanovic, H.P. Chase, D.M. Wilson, B.A. Buckingham and F.J. Doyle III. “Real-time Hypoglycemia Prediction Suite Using Continuous Glucose Monitoring: A safety net for the artificial pancreas,” Diabetes Care, 33(6), 1249-1254 (2010).
  • Buckingham, B, H.P. Chase, E. Dassau, E. Cobry, P. Clinton, V. Gage, K. Caswell, J. Wilkinson, F. Cameron, H. Lee, B.W. Bequette, F.J. Doyle III “Prevention of Nocturnal Hypoglycemia Using Predictive Alarm Algorithms and Insulin Pump Suspension,” Diabetes Care, 33(5), 1013-1018 (2010).
  • Bequette, B.W. Continuous Glucose Monitoring: Real-Time Algorithms for Calibration, Filtering and Alarms. J. Diabetes Science and Technology, 4(2), 404-418 (2010).
  • Bequette, B.W. Process Control: Modeling, Design and Simulation, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ (2003).
  • Bequette, B.W. Process Dynamics: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ (1998).
Recognitions:
  • AIChE Fellow (May, 2008)
  • Arkansas Academy of Chemical Engineers (April, 2007)
  • Trustee of the CACHE Corporation (2010-2012)
  • Rensselaer School of Engineering Research Excellence Award (2008)

Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc

Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc
Wed, 2010-10-13 12:25 — borcat
Name: Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc
Title:Associate Professor
Department Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
School Engineering
Center Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS) Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES) Center for Integrated Electronics (CIE) Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center (RNC) Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (ERC)
Website:http://nanotec.meche.rpi.edu/
Bio Upon graduating from Bucharest University, Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc spent several months as a research assistant for The Institute of Physics and Technology of Radiation Devices, also located in Bucharest. He joined Duke University's Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science for over a year as a graduate student research assistant before beginning work on his doctorate at UCLA (PhD 2000).

Dr. Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc has started his academic career in 2001 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and since 2007 he is an associate professor. He is the director of the Nanoscale Thermophysics and Energy Conversion Laboratory (NanoTEC) on the Rensselaer campus. He received the NSF CAREER award (2004), is an associate editor for the Journal of Nanomaterials, and a member of the ASME’s K8 committee on Fundamentals of Heat Transfer. He has organized and chaired symposia and sessions on nanoscale thermal transport and energy conversion with ASME and MRS.

Research Description

The main research theme in the Nanoscale Thermophysics and Energy Conversion(NanoTEC) laboratory directed by Dr. Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc is engineering nanoscale thermal transport and thermoelectric energy conversion. His work focuses on experimental investigations in synergy with physical models and materials structure. Features in the investigated samples (thin films, nanoparticles, nanowires, or the nano-domains in nanomaterials) are typically smaller than characteristic length scales of the heat carriers (such as the carrier mean free path), so conduction of heat can strongly deviate from the classical Fourier law. Similarly, nanoscale heat sources could also exhibit non-classical conduction of heat. These are critical issues for the thermal management of nanodevices, nanointerconnects, optoelectronics, or the design of nanocomposites and nanomaterials.
On another hand, nanostructures and nanostructured materials enable novel ways to independently control the thermoelectric properties (Seebeck coefficient and electrical and thermal conductivities) that define the thermoelectric figure of merit Z, a metric important for thermoelectric energy conversion applications ( such as solid state refrigeration and power generation). The enhancement of Z in nanostructures is mainly effected through control of size, interfaces, and doping in the material. The goal is to obtain non-dimensional figures of merit (ZT, T is temperature) that increase to values as high as 1.5-3, from the current values <1, to revolutionize solid state thermoelectric applications for cooling and power generation from waste heat.

Understanding and engineering the thermal and thermoelectric transport at nanoscale is therefore an essential and challenging part of Dr. T. Borca-Tasciuc’s research. A critical role is played by development of experimental techniques able to probe transport properties at nanoscale, in nanomaterials, across-nanointerfaces, or to test the operation of nanoscale thermoelectric devices. These techniques are employed to perform studies of property-structure relationship to understand and optimize thermal and thermoelectric transport as required by specific applications. Selected examples of techniques developed include a scanning thermal microprobe for quantitative characterization of the thermal conductivity and Seebeck coefficient with microscale resolution, a transient method for measurement of all thermoelectric properties as well as electrical and thermal contact resistances in films, a photothermoelectric method to determine the anisotropic thermal conductivity and the interface thermal resistance in thin film on-substrate systems, a Joule heating thermometry method for characterization of thermal transport from nanoscale heat sources.

Selected investigations include: 1) discovery of a new class of highly scalable, high figure of merit, nanostructured bulk thermoelectric materials (patent pending); 2) implementation of a novel mechanism for formation of high thermal conductivity networks in polymer composites filled with nanoparticles (patent pending); 3)investigations of anisotropic thermal properties in aligned carbon nanotube arrays and aligned carbon-nanotube polymer composites; 4) studies of the interface thermal resistance at the native interface between carbon nanotube arrays and the silicon substrate; 5) investigations of thermal transport in Si/Ge and Si/SiC multilayers; 6) investigations of non-Fourier thermal transport from individual nanoscale heaters to silicon substrates;
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Education Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Scholarly Works:
  • This is a list of selected works. For a full list of publications and additional information please check the NanoTEC laboratory website:http://nanotec.meche.rpi.edu/
  • A New Class of Doped Nanobulk High-Figure-of-Merit Thermoelectrics by Scalable Bottom-up Assembly, R. J. Mehta, Y. Zhang, C. Karthik, B. Singh, R. W. Siegel, T. Borca-Tasciuc & G. Ramanath, Nature Materials, Vol. 11, 233-240, 2012.
  • Enhanced Thermal Conductivity in a Nanostructured Phase Change Composite due to Low Concentration Graphene Additives, F.Yavari, H. Raeisi Fard, K. Pashayi, M. A. Rafiee, A. Zamiri, Z. Yu, R. Ozisik, T. Borca-Tasciuc and N. Koratkar, J. Phys. Chem. C, Vol. 115, 8753, 2011.
  • A non-contact thermal microprobe for local thermal conductivity measurement, Y. Zhang, E. Castillo, R. Mehta, G. Ramanath, and T. Borca-Tasciuc, Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 82, 024902, 2011.
  • Thermoelectric characterization by transient Harman method under non-ideal contact and boundary conditions, E. E. Castillo, C. L. Hapenciuc, and T. Borca-Tasciuc, Review of Scientific instruments, Vol. 81, 044902, 2010.
  • A microprobe technique for simultaneously measuring thermal conductivity and Seebeck coefficient of thin films, Y. Zhang, C. L. Hapenciuc, E. E. Castillo, T. Borca-Tasciuc, R. J. Mehta, C. Karthik, and G. Ramanath, plied Physics Letters, Vol. 96, 062107, 2010.
  • Temperature dependent thermal conductivity of Si/SiC amorphous multilayer films, M. Mazumder, T. Borca-Tasciuc, S. Teehan, H. Efstathiadis, E. Stinzianni, and V. Solovyov, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 96, 093103, 2010.
  • Effect of Nanoparticles on the Liquid-Gas Surface Tension of Bi2Te3 Nanofluids, S. Vafaei, A. Purkayastha, A. Jain, G. Ramanath and T. Borca-Tasciuc, Nanotechnology, Vol. 20, 1855702, 2009.
  • Thermal resistance of the native interface between vertically aligned multiwalled carbon nanotube arrays and their SiO2/Si substrate, Y. Son, S. K. Pal,T. Borca-Tasciuc, P. M. Ajayan, R. W. Siegel, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 103, 024911, 2008.
  • Electrowetting on dielectric-actuation of microdroplets of aqueous bismuth telluride nanoparticle suspensions, Raj K Dash, T Borca-Tasciuc, A Purkayastha and G Ramanath, Nanotechnology, Vol. 18, 475711, 2007.
  • Effect of nanoparticles on sessile droplet contact angle, Vafaei, S., Borca-Tasciuc, T., Podowski, M. Z., Purkayastha, A., Ramanath, G., and Ajayan, P. M., Nanotechnology, Vol. 17, 2523-2527, 2006.
  • Anisotropic Thermal Diffusivity of aligned multiwall carbon nanotube arrays, Borca-Tasciuc, T., Vafae, S., Borca-Tasciuc, D.-A., Wei, B. Q, Vajtai, R., and Ajayan, P., Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 98, 054309, 2005.
  • Data Reduction in 3w Method for Thin-Film Thermal Conductivity Determination, Borca-Tasciuc, T., Kumar, A. R., and Chen, G., Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 72, 2139-2147, 2001.
  • Thermal Conductivity of Symmetrically Strained Si/Ge Superlattices, Borca-Tasciuc, T., Liu, W. L., Liu, J. L., Zeng, T., Song, D. W., Moore, C. D., Chen, G., Wang, K. L., Goorsky, M. S., Radetic, T., Gronsky, R., Sun, X., and Dresselhauss, M. S., Superlattices and Microstructures, Vol. 28, 199-206, 2000.
  • Thin-film Thermophysical Property Characterization by Scanning Laser Thermoelectric Microscope,Borca-Tasciuc, T. and Chen, G., International Journal of Thermophysics, Vol. 19, 557-567, 1998.

Daniel Gall

Daniel Gall
Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — galld
Name: Daniel Gall
Title:Professor
Department Materials Science and Engineering
School Engineering
Center Center for Advanced Interconnect Systems Technologies (CAIST) Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) Center for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Research (CFCHR) Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES) Center for Integrated Electronics (CIE) Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center (RNC) The Focus Center New York Rensselaer: Interconnections for Gigascale Integration
Website:http://www.rpi.edu/~galld
Bio

Professor Gall is member of the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his Diploma from the University of Basel, Switzerland, in 1994, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. Prof. Gall has been a Visiting Scientist at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, Illinois, and a Visiting Professor at the Ecole Polytechnic Federal Lausanne. He has served as Assistant Editor and Editorial Board Member for Thin Solid Films, as Associate Editor for the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A, as chair for the AVS Advanced Surface Engineering Division, as proceedings editor, session, symposium, and program chair for the AVS International Symposium and the International Conference for Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films.
Prof. Gall’s research focuses on the development of an atomistic understanding for thin film growth, with particular interest in transition-metal nitride coatings, ion-surface interactions, and glancing angle deposition. He has pioneered a multiple length-scale approach to explain texture evolution in hard-coatings, has shown how low-energy ion-irradiation can be employed to control surface diffusion processes and resulting microstructures, and has developed a variety of uniquely shaped nanostructure architectures by exploiting atomic shadowing effects during physical vapor deposition. His research on novel transition-metal nitrides was identified as one of “the 100 most important scientific discoveries during the past two and a half decades, supported by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science”. He also won the 2006 Alfred H. Geisler Memorial Award for “Outstanding Contributions in Education and Thin Film Growth Research,” the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation, the 2007 Outstanding Research Award from the Rensselaer School of Engineering, the 2008 Early Career Award for “Excellence in Education and Outstanding Research in the Field of Thin Film and Nanostructure Growth,” and the 2008 IBM Faculty Award for research on “Post-CMOS Nanoelectronics.” Professor Gall holds one US patent, has authored 3 book chapters and over 90 peer-reviewed journal articles, and has presented his research results in over 40 invited lectures in North America and Europe. His students won numerous poster competitions, best paper awards, and best microscopy awards. Prof. Gall’s research is funded by the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Defense, the Semiconductor Research Corporation, the ACS Petroleum Research Fund, IBM, and the State of New York.
http://www.rpi.edu/~galld

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Education Ph.D. Physics (University of Illinois, 2000), M.S. Physics (University of Basel, Switzerland, 1994), B.S. Physics (University of Basel, Switzerland)
Scholarly Works:
  • J. S. Chawla and D. Gall, “Effective Electron Mean Free Path in TiN(001),” J. Appl. Phys. submitted (2012)
  • S. Mukherjee and D. Gall, “Structure Zone Model for Extreme Shadowing Conditions,” Thin Solid Films, 525, (2012)
  • C.P. Mulligan, P.A. Papi, and D. Gall, “Ag transport in CrN-Ag nanocomposite coatings,” Thin Solid Films 520, 6774 (2012)
  • R.P. Deng, P. Muralt, and D. Gall, “Bi-axial texture development in AlN layers during off-axis sputter deposition,” J. Vac. Sci. Tech. A, 30, 051501 (2012)
  • For a complete list of Dr Galls publications please click here http://www.rpi.edu/~galld/publications/publications.htm
Recognitions:
  • 2008 IBM Faculty Award for research on “Post-CMOS Nanoelectronics.”
  • 2006 ASM International Young Researcher Award

Liping Huang

Liping Huang
Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — huangl5
Name: Liping Huang
Title:Assistant Professor
Department Materials Science and Engineering
School Engineering
Center Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES)
Website:http://www.rpi.edu/~huangl5/
Bio Dr. Huang received her B.E. and M.E. degrees from Zhejiang University, China in 1996 and 1999, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Materials Science and Engineering in 2004. She did her postdoctoral work at the University of Michigan and North Carolina State University before joining the faculty at RPI in 2008. She has won Norbert J. Kreidl Award, The highest honor bestowed upon a student by the Glass and Optical Materials Division of the American Ceramic Society in 2003.

 

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Education Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004), M.S. Materials Science and Engineering (Zhejiang University, China, 1999), B.S. Materials Science and Engineering (Zhejiang University, China, 1996)
Scholarly Works:
  • Lang Sui, Liping Huang, Paul Podsiadlo, Nicholas Kotov, John Kieffer, "Brillouin Light Scattering Investigation of the Mechanical Properties of Layer-by-Layer Assembled Cellulose Nanocrystal Films", Macromolecules, 43, 9541 (2010).
  • Ying-Chun Liu, Liping Huang, Keith E. Gubbins and Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, "Dissociation of Water Over Ti-Decorated C60", Journal of Chemical Physics, 133, 084510 (2010).
  • Liping Huang, Ying-Chun Liu, Keith E. Gubbins and Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, "Ti-decorated C60 as catalyst for hydrogen generation and storage ", Applied Physics Letters, 96, 063111 (2010). Reprinted in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (March 1, 2010).
  • Junwei Wang and Liping Huang, "Thermometry based on phonon confinement effect in nanoparticles", Applied Physics Letters, 98, 113102 (2011). Reprinted in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (March 28, 2011).
  • Qing Zhao, Michael Guerette and Liping Huang, "Nanoindentation and Brillouin Light Scattering Studies of Elastic Moduli of Sodium Silicate Glasses", Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 358, 652 (2012).
  • Fenglin Yuan and Liping Huang, "alpha-beta transformation and disorder in beta-cristobalite silica", Physical Review B, 85, 134114 (2012)
  • Morten M. Smedskjaer, Liping Huang, Garth Scannell, John C. Mauro, "Elastic interpretation of the glass transition in aluminosilicate liquids", Physical Review B, 85, 144203 (2012).
  • Michael Guerette and Liping Huang, "A simple and convenient set-up for high temperature Brillouin light scattering", Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 45, 275302 (2012).
Recognitions:
  • Defense Treat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Young Investigator Award, 2009
  • RAMP-UP Career Campaign Award, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2009

Michael K. Jensen

Michael K. Jensen
Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — jensem
Name: Michael K. Jensen
Title:Professor
Department Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
School Engineering
Center Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS) Center for Flow Physics and Control (CeFPaC) Center for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Research (CFCHR) Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES) Center for Multiphase Research
Website:http://www.eng.rpi.edu/soe/index.php/faculty/154?soeid=jensem
Bio Michael Jensen received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1972 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Iowa State University in 1976 and 1980, respectively. He began his teaching and research career at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and moved to Rensselaer in 1987. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering and holds a Professional Engineers license. Among many other university activities, he has served as Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the department, been on the executive committee of the Faculty Senate, and served as the student-elected member on the Institute-wide Promotion and Tenure Committee.

As principal investigator on 41 sponsored programs, including 19 multi-year grants from NSF, DOE, NIST, NYSERDA, and industry, and consultant to 25 industry and government organizations, Michael’s research interests have been directed toward convective single- and two-phase heat transfer and the associated fluid flows with an emphasis on these processes in heat exchangers and using enhanced heat transfer techniques. Recent research has focused on microchannel flows and thermal management of electronic systems, solar energy, and fuel cells. With his graduate students (32 MS, 18 PhD), he has performed both fundamental and applied research and has conducted both experimentally and numerically based research on a wide range of topics. Dr. Jensen has published over 180 technical papers, edited 10 volumes, 30 other assorted reports, and has published an undergraduate textbook on thermal and fluids engineering. He has two patents.

Michael has been honored as a Fellow of ASME, twice received the student-chosen Lewis T. Assini Undergraduate Teaching and Counseling Award, received the Ralph R. Teetor Award of SAE, and was awarded the RPI School of Engineering Research Excellence Award. He is active in his profession, having served or is serving on editorial boards of four international journals (Journal of Heat Transfer, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science; Applied Thermal Engineering, Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology), recently was named as Founding Editor-in-Chief of ASME’s newest journal, Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, led the ASME Heat Transfer Division, and appointed as Alternate Delegate to Assembly for International Heat Transfer Conferences. He has been chair or co-chair of six international conferences (including the National Heat Transfer Conference) and has been invited to be on numerous scientific committees for other national and international conferences. He is an active reviewer for numerous international journals and conferences and NSF, DOE, NASA, and NYSERDA proposals.

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Education Ph.D. Iowa State University
Scholarly Works:
  • Christman, K. and Jensen, M.K., 2011, “Effect of Cross Flow Roughness on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells,” Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology, Vol. 8 / 024501-1.
  • Gathright, W., Jensen, M.K., and Lewis, D., 2011, “Phase-field model of chemical reactions with an example of a solid electrolyte gas sensor,” Electrochemistry Communications, 13 pp. 520–523.
  • Michna, G.J., Browne, E.A., Jensen, M.K., and Peles, Y., 2011. The effect of area ratio on microjet array heat transfer, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 54 (9-10), pp.1782-1790, April.
  • Basu, S., Ndaos, S., Michna, G. J., Peles, Y., and Jensen, M. K., 2011, “Flow boiling of R134a in circular microtubes. Part II: Study of critical heat flux condition,” ASME Journal of Heat and Transfer, 133(5), 051503.
  • Basu, S., Ndaos, S., Michna, G. J., Peles, Y., and Jensen, M. K., 2011, “Flow boiling of R134a in circular microtubes. Part I: Study of heat transfer characteristics,” ASME Journal of Heat and Transfer, 133(5), 051502.
  • Zhang, T.J., Wen, J.T., Julius, A., Peles, Y., and Jensen, M.K., 2011, “Stability analysis and maldistribution control of two-phase flow in parallel evaporating channels,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, submitted, March.
  • Zhang, T.J., Wen, J.T., Peles, Y., Catano, J., Zhou, R.L., Jensen, M.K., 2011, “Two-phase refrigerant flow instability analysis and active control in transient electronics cooling systems,” International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 37, pp.84-97.
  • Zhou, R.L., Zhang, T.J., Catano, J., Wen, J.T., Michna, G.J., Peles, Y., Jensen, M.K., 2010, “The steady-state modeling and optimization of a two-loop refrigeration system for high heat flux electronics cooling,” Applied Thermal Engineering, 30, pp.2347-2356.
  • Phelan, P.E., Gupta, Y., Tyagi, H., Prasher, R., Cattano, J., Michna, G., Zhou, R., Wen, J.T., Jensen, M.K., and Peles, Y., 2010, “Energy efficiency of refrigeration systems for high-heat-flux microelectronics,” Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, 2, 031004, Sep.
  • “Browne, E.A., Michna, G.J., Jensen, M.K., and Peles, Y., “Microjet Array Single-Phase and Flow Boiling Heat Transfer with R134a,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 53 (2010) 5027–5034.

Nikhil Koratkar

Nikhil Koratkar
Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — koratn
Name: Nikhil Koratkar
Title:John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Chair Professor
Department Materials Science and Engineering Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
School Engineering
Center Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES) Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center (RNC)
Website:http://www.rpi.edu/~koratn/
Bio

Nikhil Koratkar received his B.Tech degree from IIT-Bombay in 1995, followed my MS and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1998 and 2000. His research interests lie in the development and characterization of advanced
nanostructured materials and devices. He has published his work in top journals such as Nature, Nature Materials, Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, Applied Physics Letters and Small to name a few. He is a recipient of the US National Science Foundation's faculty CAREER development award and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Early Career Award. He is also an Associate Editor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters journal.   

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Scholarly Works:
  • NATURE- Carbon nanotubes for gas sensing
  • ADV MAT- Carbon nanotubes for structural damping applications

Daniel Lewis

Daniel Lewis
Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — lewisd2
Name: Daniel Lewis
Title:Associate Professor
Department Materials Science and Engineering
School Engineering
Center Center for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Research (CFCHR) Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES)
Website:http://www.rpi.edu/~lewisd2
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Prior to joining Rensselaer, Dr. Lewis was a researcher at GE Global Research. His work focused on oxidation performance and deformation processing of advanced ferritic materials for SOFC interconnects. In addition, he studied the metallurgy and electrical properties of amorphous and nano-crystalline soft magnetic materials, oxidation resistant coatings for superalloys, and infrared heating technology development.

Prior to joining GE Global Research, he was awarded a two-year National Research Council post-doctoral fellowship. Under this award, he worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to study eutectic solidification microstructures using experimental and computational techniques. While at NIST he co-developed a technique for quantifying solidification microstructures in ternary eutectics. He also studied the effect of solidification velocity on the phase distribution in low-volume fraction ternary eutectics containing intermetallic phases. His computational work involve

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Education Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering (Lehigh University, 2001), M.S. Materials Science and Engineering (Lehigh University, 1997), B.S. Materials Science and Engineering (Lehigh University, 1995)
Scholarly Works:
  • M. Casteel, D. Lewis, P. Willson, and M. Alinger. "Ionic Conductivity Method for measuring vaporized chromium species from solid oxide fuel cell interconnects," International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2012.01.016 (2012)
  • A. Gennett, D. Lewis, and P. Dutta, “Low Temperature Growth of GaxIn1-x Bulk Crystals from InSn-rich Melt,” Journal of Crystal Growth, 312(8), p. 1080-1084, (2010)
  • C. Calebrese, L. Schadler, and D. Lewis, “Modelling of single bubble growth in carbon nanofibre filled mesophase pitch during carbonization,” Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 18(4), 045001 (2010)
  • C. Calebrese, G. Eisman, D. Lewis, and L. Schadler, “Swelling and related mechanical and physical properties of carbon nanofiber filled mesophase pitch for use as a bipolar plate material,” Carbon 48(13), p. 3939-3946 (2010)
  • M. Casteel, P. Willson, T. Goren, P. O'Brien, and D. Lewis, “Novel Method for Measuring Chromia Evaporation from SOFC Interconnect Materials,” ECS Transactions, 25(2), p. 1411-1416 (2009)
  • M. Glicksman, P. Rios, and D. Lewis, “Linear Measures for Polyhedral Networks,” International Journal of Materials Research, 100(4), p. 536-542 (2009)
  • M. Glicksman, P. Rios, and D. Lewis, “Mean-width and Caliper Characteristics of Network Polyhedra,” Philosophical Magazine, 89(4), p. 389-403 (2009)

Yunfeng Shi

Yunfeng Shi
Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — shiy2
Name: Yunfeng Shi
Title:Assistant Professor
Department Materials Science and Engineering
School Engineering
Center Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES) Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC)
Website:http://shigroup.simreplay.org
Bio

Dr. Shi received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2006. Prior to joining Rensselaer, he spent two years in North Carolina State University as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Dr. Shi's research focuses on simulation and modeling of advanced materials systems. His recent interests include nanoporous carbon, molecular motors and energetic materials. Dr. Shi also received the Best Poster Award from the Materials Research Society in 2002 and the Albert Yee Award from the University of Michigan in 2005.

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Education Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2006) M.S. Materials Science and Engineering (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 2002) B.S. Materials Science and Engineering (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2000)
Scholarly Works:
  • X. Mi, V. Meunier, N. A. Koratkar, and Y. F. Shi, “Facet-insensitive Graphene Growth on Copper”, Phys. Rev. B., accepted (2012).
  • L. Li, X. Mi, Y. F. Shi, G. W. Zhou, “Precursor to the onset of the bulk oxidation of Cu(100)”, Phys. Rev. Lett., accepted (2012).
  • A. Morelos-Gómez, S. Vega-Díaz, V. González, F. Tristán-López, R. Cruz-Silva, K. Fujisawa, H. Muramatsu, T. Hayashi, X. Mi, Y. F. Shi, H. Sakamoto, F. Khoerunnisa, K. Kaneko, B. Sumpter, Y. Kim, V. Meunier, M. Endo, E. Muñoz-Sandoval, M. Terrones, “Clean Nanotube Unzipping by Abrupt Thermal Expansion of Molecular Nitrogen: Graphene Nanoribbons with Atomically Smooth Edges”, ACS Nano, accepted (2012).
  • J. Rafiee†, X. Mi†, H. Gulapalli, A. V. Thomas, F. Yavari, Y. F. Shi, P. M. Ajayan and N. A. Koratkar, “Wetting Transparency of Graphene”, Nature Materials, accepted (2012). †Co-first author
  • Q. R. Xiao, H. W. Sheng, Y. F. Shi, “Dominant Shear Band Observed in Amorphous ZrCuAl Nanowires under Simulated Compression”, MRS Communications, 2, 13-16 (2012).
  • X, Mi, Y. F. Shi, “On the Measurement of Surface Diffusivity in Disordered Nanoporous Carbon via Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, Diffusion-Fundamentals.org 16, 84 (1-8) (2011).
  • Y. P. Chen, Y. F. Shi, “Characterizing the Autonomous Motions of Linear Catalytic Nanomotors using Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 115, 19588-19597 (2011).
  • Y. F. Shi, D. Louca, G. Y. Wang, P. K. Liaw, “Compression-compression Fatigue Study on Model Metallic Glass Nanowires by Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, Journal of Applied Physics, 110, 023523 (2011).
  • P. Dhiman, F. Yavari, X. Mi, H, Gullapalli, Y. F. Shi, P. Ajayan, N. Koratkar, “Harvesting Energy from Water Flow over Graphene”, Nano Letters, 11, 3123-3127 (2011).
  • M. Tungare, Y. F. Shi, N. Tripathi, P. Suvarna, F. Shahedipour-Sandvik, “A Tersoff-based interatomic potential for wurtzite AlN”, Physica Status Solidi A, 208, 1569 (2011)
  • Y. Hu, D. W. Brenner, Y. F. Shi, "Detonation Initiation from Spontaneous Hotspots Formed During Cook-Off Observed in Molecular Dynamics Simulations ", Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 115, 2416–2422 (2011).
  • Y. F. Shi, "Size-independent shear band formation in amorphous nanowires made from simulated casting", Applied Physics Letters, 96, 121909 (1-3) (2010)
  • R. J. Mehta, C. Karthik, W. Jiang, B. Singh, Y. F. Shi, R. W. Siegel, T. Borca-Tasciuc, G. Ramanath, "High electric conductivity antimony selenide nanocrystals and assemblies", Nano Letters, 10, 4417-4422 (2010).
  • J. C. Palmer, A. Llobet, S. H. Yeon, J. E. Fischer, Y. F. Shi, Y. Gogotsi, K. E. Gubbins, "Modeling the structural evolution of carbide-derived carbons using quenched molecular dynamics", Carbon, 48, 1116-1123 (2010).
  • E. A. Anumol, B. Viswanath, P. G. Ganesan, Y. F. Shi, G. Ramanath, N. Ravishankar, "Surface diffusion driven nanoshell formation by controlled sintering of mesoporous nanoparticle aggregates", Nanoscale, 2, 1423-1425 (2010).
  • Y. F. Shi, L. P. Huang and D. W. Brenner, "Computational Study of Nanometer-Scale Self-Propulsion Enabled by Asymmetric Chemical Catalysis", Journal of Chemical Physics, 131, 014705 (1-12) (2009).

Jian Sun

Jian Sun
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Name: Jian Sun
Title:Associate Professor and Director, CFES
Department Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
School Engineering
Center Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES)
Website:http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~jsun/
Bio Sun began his professional career in 1984, designing aircraft electrical systems at the research and development center of the Xian Aircraft Company in Xian, China. Beginning in 1991, he spent five years at the Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Devices at the University of Paderborn, in Paderborn, Germany. He served as a research assistant, then as a research associate, while pursuing a doctoral degree. Following completion of his degree, Sun was a post-doctoral fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1996 to 1997. He then worked at the Advanced Technology Center at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, IA, as a senior engineer from 1997 to 1999. Sun was promoted to principal engineer in 2000, and became a member of the Rensselaer faculty in 2002.
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Education Ph.D. (University of Paderborn, Germany, 1995), M.S. Electrical Engineering (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1989), B.S. Electrical Engineering (Nanjing Institute of Aeronautics, 1984)
Scholarly Works:
  • Small-signal modeling of variable-frequency pulse-width modulators, (2002)
  • Averaged modeling of PWM converters operating in discontinuous conduction mode (2001)
  • Input impedance analysis of single-phase PFC converters, (2003)
  • Ultra compact dc-dc converters for the digital age, (2002)
  • Demystifying zero-crossing distortion in single-phase PFC converters, (2002)
  • Bilinear discrete-time modeling for enhanced stability prediction and control design, (2002)
  • Bilinear discrete-time modeling for enhanced stability prediction and control design, (2002)
  • A new matrix integrated magnetics (MIM) structure for low voltage, high current DC-DC converters, (2002)
  • An improved current-doubler rectifier with integrated magnetics, (2002)
  • DCM analysis and modeling of half-bridge converters with current-doubler rectifier, (2001)
  • A unified analysis of half-bridge converters with current-doubler rectifier, (2001)
  • , Practical design issues for PFC converters with input filters, (2000)
  • Single-stage thr