Research Publications

Sung kwon cho

Yizhong Wang, Yuejun Zhao, and Sung Kwon Cho, “Efficient in-droplet separation of magnetic particles for digital microfluidics,” Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 17, pp. 2148-2156, 2007.

Yuejun Zhao, Ui-Chong Yi, and Sung Kwon Cho, “Micro particle concentration and separation by travelling wave dielectrophoresis (twDEP) for digital microfluidics,” Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 1472-1481, 2007.

Ho Il Park, Usman Mushtaq, David Perello, Innam Lee, Sung Kwon Cho, and Minhee Yun, “Effective and low-cost platinum electrodes for microbial fuel cells deposited by electron beam evaporation,” Energy and Fuels, Vol. 21, pp. 2984-2990, 2007.

Sung Kwon Cho, Yuejun Zhao, and Chang-Jin Kim “Concentration and binary separation of micro particles for droplet-based digital microfluidics,” Lab on a Chip, Vol. 7, pp. 490-498, 2007.

Yuejun. Zhao and Sung Kwon Cho, “Micro air bubble manipulation by electrowetting on dielectric (EWOD): transporting, splitting, merging and eliminating of bubbles,” Lab on a Chip, Vol. 7, pp. 273-280, 2007.

Minking K. Chyu

Li, P.-W., Schaefer, L., and Chyu, M. K., “Three-Dimensional Model for the Conjugate Heat and Gas Species Transport in a Planar Type Solid Oxide Fuel Cell,” International Journal of Transport Phenomena, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-18 (2007).

Phuoc, T.X., Soong, Y., Leonard, J.P., Nettleship, I., and Chyu, M.K., “Synthesis of Ag-Deionized Water Nanofluids using Multi-Beam Laser Ablation in Liquids” J. Optics and Laser in Engineering, Vol. 45, 2007, pp. 1009-1106 (2007).

Li, P.-W., Schaefer, L., and Chyu, M. K., 2007, “Three-Dimensional Model for the Conjugate Heat and Gas Species Transport in a Planar Type Solid Oxide Fuel Cell,” International Journal of Transport Phenomena, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-18.

William W. Clark

Muriuki, M. and W. W. Clark, “Analysis of a novel technique for tuning a cantilever beam resonator using shunt switching,” Journal of Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 16 (2007) 1527-1533.

Hensel, J. Peter, Randall S. Gemmen, Brian J. Hetzer, Jimmy D. Thornton, Jeffrey S. Vipperman, William W. Clark, and Brian A. Bucci, “Effects of Cell-to-Cell Fuel Mal-Distribution on Fuel Cell Performance”, Journal of Power Sources, Volume 164, Issue 1, 10 January 2007, Pages 115-125.

Mo, C., R. Wright, and W. W. Clark, “The Effect of Electrode Pattern on the Behavior of Piezoelectric Actuators in a Circular Diaphragm Structure,” Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, May 2007, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 467-476.

Mo, C., Ban, G., Charnegie, D., and Clark, W. W., "Energy Harvesting from a Vibrating Piezoelectric Unimorph Bender," J. of KSIA, Vol. 10(3), pp. 157-163, 2007.

J. Peter Hensel, Randall S. Gemmen, Brian J. Hetzer, Jimmy D. Thornton, Jeffrey S. Vipperman, William W. Clark, Brian A. Bucci, “Effects of Cell-to-Cell Fuel Mal-Distribution on Fuel Cell Performance,” Journal of Power Sources, 164(1), pp. 115-25, Jan. 10 2007.

Daniel G. Cole

M. S. Johannes, D. G. Cole, and R. L. Clark. Atomic force microscope based nanofabrication of master pattern molds for use in soft lithography. Applied Physics Letters, 91(12), 123111, 2007.

K. D. Wulff, D. G. Cole, and R. L. Clark. Servo control of an optical trap. Appl. Opt. 46: 4923--4931, 2007.

M. A. McEver, E. V. Ardelean, D. G. Cole, and R. L. Clark. Active control and closed-loop identification of flutter instability in a typical section airfoil. AIAA J. Guid. Contr. Dyn., 30(3), 733-740, 2007.

M. S. Johannes, D. G. Cole and R. L. Clark. Velocity Controlled Anodization Nanolithography on an Atomic Force Microscope Using Faradaic Current Monitoring. Appl. Phys. Lett. 90: 103106, 2007.

D. G. Cole and R. L. Clark. Fluid-structure interaction in AFM cantilever dynamics and thermal response. J. Appl. Phys., 101: 034303, 2007.

Anthony J. DeArdo

Heejae Kang, C. Isaac Garcia, Kwanggeun Chin and Anthony J. Deardo, “Effect of Aluminum Content on the Mechanical Properties of Dual Stabilized Ti-Nb Interstitial Free High Strength Steel (IF-HSS),” ISIJ International, Vol. 47 (2007) No. 3, pp. 486-492.

Giovanni P. Galdi

Galdi, G. P.; Pileckas, K.; Silvestre, A. L., On the unsteady Poiseuille flow in a pipe. Z. Angew. Math. Phys. 58 (2007), 994-1007.

Galdi, G.P.; Heuveline, V., Lift and sedimentation of particles in the flow of a viscoelastic liquid in a channel. Free and moving boundaries, 75--110, Lect. Notes Pure Appl. Math., 252, Chapman and Hall, 2007.

Galdi, G.P.Further properties of steady-state solutions to the Navier-Stokes problem past a three-dimensional obstacle. J. Math. Phys. 48 (2007), no. 6, 065207, 43 pp.

Galdi, G.P.; Silvestre, A.L., Further results on steady-state flow of a Navier-Stokes liquid around a rigid body. Existence of the wake., Res. Inst. Math. Sci. (RIMS) 127-143, 2007.

Galdi, G.P.; Silvestre, A.L., The steady motion of a Navier-Stokes liquid around a rigid body, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 184 (3) 371-400, 2007.

C. Isaac Garcia

Peyman Givi

M.R.H. Sheikhi, P. Givi and S.B. Pope, ``Joint Velocity-Scalar Filtered Mass Density Function for Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Reacting Flows,'' Physics of Fluids, 19(9), 095106 1-21 (2007).

T.G. Drozda, M.R.H. Sheikhi, C.K. Madnia and P. Givi, "Developments in Formulation and Application of the Filtered Density Function,'' Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 78, 35-67 (2007).

P. Givi, ``Review of Book Combustion, 4th Edition, by J. Warnatz, U. Maas and R.W. Dibble, Springer, Berlin,'' AIAA Journal, 45(10), 2590 (2007).

Brian Gleeson

“Correlation Between the microstructure, Growth Mechanism, and Growth Kinetics of Alumina Scales on a FeCrAlY Alloys”, D. Naumenko, B. Gleeson, E. Wessel, L. Singheiser, and W.J. Quadakkers, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 38 (2007) 2974-2983.

“Effects of Targeted g-Ni + g¢-Ni3Al-based Coating Compositions on Oxidation Behavior”, T. Izumi, N. Mu, L. Zhang, B. Gleeson, Surface & Coatings Technology, 202 (2007) 628-631.

“Creep in α-Al2O3 Thermally Grown on β-NiAl and NiAlPt Alloys”, B.W. Veal, A.P. Paulikas, B. Gleeson, P.Y. Hou, Surface & Coatings Technology, 202 (2007) 608-612.

Prashant N. kumta

O. Velikokhatnyi and Prashant N. Kumta, “Energetics of the lithium-magnesium imide – magnesium amide and lithium hydride reaction for hydrogen storage: An ab-initio study”, Materials Science and Engineering B 140 (2007) 114-122.

D. Choi and Prashant N. Kumta, “Surfactant Based Sol-Gel Approach to Nanostructured LiFePO4 for High Rate Li-ion Batteries”, J. Power Sources 163 (2007) 1064-1069.

D. Choi and Prashant N. Kumta, “Synthesis, Structure and Electrochemical Characterization of Nanocrystalline Tantalum and Tungsten Nitrides”, J. American Ceramic Society 90 [10] 3113-3120 (2007).

M.K. Datta, and Prashant N. Kumta, “Silicon, Graphite and Resin based Hard Carbon Nanocomposite Anodes for Lithium Ion Batteries”, J. Power Sources 165 (2007) 368-378.

N. Rock, and Prashant N. Kumta, “Synthesis and Characterization of Electrochemically Active Graphite-Silicon-Tin Composite Anodes for Li-ion Applications”, J. Power Sources 164 (2007) 829-838.

D. Olton, Jinhua Li, Mary E. Wilson, Todd Rogers, John Close, Leaf Huang, Prashant N. Kumta and Charles Sfeir, “Nanostructured Calcium Phosphates (NanoCaPs) for Non-Viral Gene Delivery: Influence of the Synthesis Parameters on Transfection Efficiency”, Biomaterials 28 (2007) 1267-1279.

Hsu-Feng Ko, Charles Sfeir and Prashant N. Kumta, “In situ synthesis and characterization of porous polymer-ceramic composites as scaffolds for gene delivery”, Materials Science and Engineering C 27 (2007) 479-483.

D. Choi and P.N. Kumta, “Mechanochemical Synthesis and Characterization of Nanostructured ?-Tri-calcium phosphate (TCP), Materials Science and Engineering C 27 (2007) 377-381.

Wei Wang and Prashant N. Kumta, “Reversible High Capacity Nanocomposite Anodes of Si/C/SWNTs for Rechargeable Li-Ion Batteries”, J. Power Sources 172 (2007) 650-658.

Wei Wang, Moni Kanchan Datta and Prashant N. Kumta, “Silicon based Composite Anodes for Li-Ion Rechargeable Batteries”, J. Materials Chemistry (2007) 17, 1-10. [Invited Contribution for Theme Issue on New Energy Materials].

Jung-Kun Lee

Z. Di, Y. Wang, M. Nastasi, F. Rossi, J.-K. Lee, L. Shao, and P.E. Thompson, “Investigation of stress-induced (100) platelet formation and surface exfoliation in plasma hydrogenated Si,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 244101 (2007).

J.Y. Kim, J.H. Noh, S. Lee, S.-H. Yoon, C. M. Cho, K. S. Hong, H. S. Jung, and J.-K. Lee, “Seed-layer mediated orientation evolution in dielectric Bi–Zn–Ti–Nb–O thin films,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 232903 (2007).

John P. Leonard

A.K. Kulovits, J.P. Leonard and J.M.K. Wiezorek, “Microstructure of Pulsed Laser Deposited FePd Thin Films on amorphous and crystalline Substrates”, Intermetallics (2007) Vol. 15 1606-1611.

Scott X. Mao

Z. Shan, E.A. Stach, J.M.K. Wiezorek, J.A. Knapp, D.M. Follstaedt and S.X. Mao, “Dislocation Dynamics in Nanocrystalline Nickel”, Physical Review Letters (2007) Vol. 98, 095502-1 to 095502-4.

A.Cao, Y. Wei and S.X. Mao, “Deformation mechanisms of face-centered cubic metal nanowires with twin boundaries”, Applied Physics Letter 90, 151909 (2007).

F. Wu, Z.F. Zhang, S.X. Mao, A. Peker and J. Eckert, “Effect of annealing on the mechanical properties and fracture mechanisms of a ZrTiNbCuNiBe bulk-metallic glass composite”, Physical Review B 75, 134201 (2007).

F. Wu, Z.F. Zhang, F. Jiang, J. Sun, J. Shen and S.X. Mao, “Multiplication of shear bands and ductility of metallic glass“, Applied Physics Letters 90, 191909 (2007).

F. Wu, Z. Feng and S.X. Mao, “Compressive properties of bulk metallic glass with small aspect ratio”, J. Mater. Res. Vol. 22. No.2 (2007).

Q. Meng, C. Jiang and S.X. Mao, “Three-Dimensional Dendrite-like Nanostructures of Gallium Nitride”, J. of Crystal Growth, vol. 308/1 pp. 166-169 (2007).

Fan J. T., Wu F. F., Zhang Z. F., Jiang F., Sun J., and Mao S. X. Deformation and fracture behavior of Zr47Cu46Al7 bulk metallic glassy composes with different microstructures, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 353 (2007) 4707.

Fan J. T., Zhang Z. F., Mao S. X., Shen B. L., and Inoue A. Nanocrystallization during quasi-static compression of bulk metallic glass alloy at room temperature. Philosophical Magazine Letters, (accepted).

Gerald H. Meier

J. E. Hammer, S. J. Laney, R. W. Jackson, K. Coyne, F. S. Pettit, and G. H. Meier, “The Oxidation of Ferritic Stainless Steels in Simulated Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Atmospheres”, Oxid. Metals, 67, 1 (2007).

M. J. Stiger, N. M. Yanar, R. W. Jackson, S. J. Laney, F. S Pettit, G. H. Meier, A. S. Gandhi and C. G. Levi, “Development of Intermixed Zones of Alumina/Zirconia in Thermal Barrier Coatings”, Metallurgical and Materials Trans. A, 38A, 848 (2007).

E. Essuman, G. H. Meier, J. Zurek, M. Hänsel, L. Singheiser, and W. J. Quadakkers, “Enhanced Internal Oxidation as a Trigger for Breakaway Oxidation of Fe-Cr Alloys in Gases Containing Water Vapor” Scripta Materialia, 57, 845 (2007).

Mark C. Miller

Galik, K, Baratz, ME, Butler, AL, Dougherty, J, Cohen, MS, Miller, MC, “The effect of annular ligament transection on radial head travel”, Journal of Hand Surgery, Vol 32A, No. 8, p1218-1224, 2007.

Ian Nettleship

O. Dengiz, R.J. McAfee, I. Nettleship and A.E. Smith,“The Application of Automated Image Analysis to Dense Heterogeneities in Partially Sintered Alumna,” J. Euro. Ceram. Soc., 27 1927-1933 (2007).

I. Nettleship, T. Chen and K. Ewsuk “Characterization of Heterogeneous Microstructure Evolution in ZrO2-3mol%Y2O3 during Isothermal Sintering,” J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 90 3793-3799 (2007).

Frederick S. Pettit

Anne M. Robertson

R. Kadirvel, Y. H. Ding, D. Dai, H. Zakaria, A. M. Robertson, M. A. Danielson, D. A. Lewis, D. F. Kallmes, The influence of hemodynamic forces on biomarkers in the walls of elastase-induced aneurysm in rabbits, Neuroradiology, 49(12), p 1041-1053, 2007.

A.M. Robertson, Chapter Title: Review of Relevant Continuum Mechanics, in Hemodynamical Flows: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation, Birkhauswer, ISBN: 978-3-7643-7805, 2008 Raja Ramini, et al., “Review of the NIOSH Mining Safety and Health Research Program,”The National Academies Press, 2007.

Laura Schaefer

Zink, F., Lu, Y., and Schaefer, L., 2007, “A Solid Oxide Fuel Cell System For Buildings,” Energy Conversion and Management, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 809-818.

William S. Slaughter

De Vita, R. and Slaughter, W.S. (2007). A constitutive law for the failure behavior of medial collateral ligaments. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology 6, 189–197.

O. B. Ojo, S. N. Wosu, D.Onipede, W. Slaughter, “Effect of Penetrator Size on the Dynamic failure Response of Woven Graphite Epoxy Composites around the critical Perforation Energy” J. ASTM International, Vol. 4, No. 4, 2007.

Jeffrey S. Vipperman

Li, D., L. Cheng, G. H. Yu , and J.S. Vipperman, “Noise control in enclosures: Modeling and experiments with T-shaped acoustic resonators,” J. of Acoust. Soc. of Am (AIP Journal) , 122(5), Nov. 2007.

Brian A. Bucci, Jeffrey S. Vipperman, “Development of an artificial neural network-based classifier to identify military noise,” J of Acoust. Soc. of Am. (AIP Journal), 122(3), pp. 1602-10, Sep. 2007.

Vipperman, J.S., E.R. Bauer, D. R. Babich “Survey of Noise in Coal Preparation Plants,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (AIP Journal), 121(1), pp. 206-12, Jan. 2007.

El-Kurdi, Mohammed. S., Jeffrey S. Vipperman, and David A. Vorp, “Design and Subspace System Identification of an Ex vivo Vascular Perfusion System,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Jan. 2007.

James H-C Wang

Thampatty, BP.; Im, HJ.; Wang JH-C. EP4 receptor regulates collagen type-I, MMP-1, and MMP-3 gene expression in human tendon fibroblasts in response to IL-1? treatment. Gene 386(1-2):154-161, 2007.

Li, F.; Wang, JH-C.; Wang, Q.M. Monitoring cell adhesion by using thickness shear mode acoustic wave sensors. Biosensors and Bioelectronics 23(1): 42-50, 2007.

Chen, J.; Li, H.; SundarRaj, N.; Wang, JH-C. ?-smooth muscle actin expression enhances cell traction force. Cell Motility & Cytoskeleton 64(4):248-57, 2007.

Li, B.; Xie, L.; Starr, Z.C.; Yang, Z.C.; Lin, J-S.; Wang, JH-C. Development of micropost force sensor array with culture experiments for determination of cell traction forces. Cell Motility & Cytoskeleton 64(7): 509-18, 2007.

Li, F.; Wang, JH-C.; Wang, Q.M. Characterization of viscoelastic properties of cell layer by using acoustic wave resonator sensors. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, in press (online available), 2007.

Wang, JH-C.; Lin, J-S. Cell traction force and measurement methods (invited review), Biomech Model Mechanobiol 6(6): 361-71, 2007.

Wang, JH-C.; Thampatty, B.P.; Im, HJ. Mechano-regulation of gene expression in fibroblasts, Gene 391:1-15, 2007.

Fang Li, James H.-C. Wang, Qing-Ming Wang, “Monitoring Cell Adhesion by Using Thickness Shear Mode Acoustic Wave Sensors”, Biosensors and Bioelectronics 23 (2007) 42–50.

Thampatty, B.P.; Wang, JH-C. “Mechanobiology of fibroblasts.” Chapter 16 in the Mechanosensitivity in Cells and Tissues, p351-378; edited by Kamkin, A. and Kiseleva, I. Springer Netherlands, Oct. 6, 2007.

Wang, JH-C.; Lin, J-S.; Yang, Z.C. “Cell traction force microscopy.” Chapter in the book of Advanced Bioimaging Technologies in Assessment of Quality of Bone and Scaffold Biomaterials, p227-235; edited by Qing, L.; Genant, H.K.; Griffith, J.; and Leung, K.S. 2007.

Qing-Ming Wang

Li, F.; Wang, JH-C.; Wang, Q.M. Monitoring cell adhesion by using thickness shear mode acoustic wave sensors. Biosensors and Bioelectronics 23(1): 42-50, 2007.

Fang Li, James H.-C. Wang, Qing-Ming Wang, “Monitoring Cell Adhesion by Using Thickness Shear Mode Acoustic Wave Sensors”, Biosensors and Bioelectronics 23 (2007) 42–50.

Huan Xue, Yuantai Hu, Qing-Ming Wang, and Jiashi Yang, “Analysis of Temperature Compensation in a Plate Thickness Mode Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonator”, IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2007 Sep ;54 (9):1826-33 (2007).

Qingming Chen, Lifeng Qin, and Qing-Ming Wang, “Property characterization of AlN thin films in composite resonator structure”, J. Appl. Phys. 101, 084103 (2007).

Lifeng Qin, Hongbin Cheng, Jacob M. Li, Qing-Ming Wang, “Characterization of Polymer Nanocomposite Films Using Quartz Thickness Shear Mode (TSM) Acoustic Wave Sensor,” Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, Volume 136, issue 1, pp. 111-117, 2007.

Hongbin Cheng, Jiping Cheng, Yunjin Zhang, and Qing-Ming Wang, “Large-scale Fabrication of ZnO Micro-and Nano-Structures by Microwave Thermal Evaporation-Deposition”, Journal of Crystal Growth, Volume 299, Issue 1, 1 Feb. 2007, pp. 34-40.

Jorg. M. K. Wiezorek

J.M.K. Wiezorek, "Cold-working and Annealing of L1o-ordering Fe-Pd base intermetallics ", INVITED, Materials Science Forum (2007) Vol. 539-543 1487-1494.

Z. Shan, E.A. Stach, J.M.K. Wiezorek, J.A. Knapp, D.M. Follstaedt and S.X. Mao, “Dislocation Dynamics in Nanocrystalline Nickel”, Physical Review Letters (2007) Vol. 98, 095502-1 to 095502-4.

P. Ohodnicki, B. Webler, J.M.K. Wiezorek, “Interpretation of Magnetic Force Microscopy Contrast using Commercially Available Batch Tips for Investigation of Surface Magnetic Domain Structure in Polycrystaline Bulk Equiatomic L1o FePd “, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A (2007) Vol. 38 2479-2487.

A.K. Kulovits, J.P. Leonard and J.M.K. Wiezorek, “Microstructure of Pulsed Laser Deposited FePd Thin Films on amorphous and crystalline Substrates”, Intermetallics (2007) Vol. 15 1606-1611.

“Advanced Intermetallics-Based Alloys”, MRS Symposium Proceedings Vol. 980 (2007), Editors – J.M.K Wiezorek (lead), C.L. Fu, D.G. Morris, H. Clemens, M. Takeyama, (MRS: Warrendale, PA) pages 1-588.

Sylvanus N. Wosu

S. N. Wosu, “Anodic Oxidation of Tantalum in Water and Biological Solutions Using Current Limiting Constant Voltage Method,” Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 42, No, 11, June 2007 , pp. 4087-4097(11).

P. V. Deshmukh, S. N. Wosu, and L. Daniel, Finite Element Modeling Of The Effects Of Delamination Damage On The Natural Frequency, J. ASTM International, Vol. 5, No. 5, 2008.

M.R Allazadeh, M. K. Itani, S. N. Wosu , Characterization of Compressive Damage Behavior of Steel, Aluminum, Wood and Woven Graphite Epoxy Composites, J. ASTM.

Meltem Yanar

Judith C. Yang

G.W. Zhou, L. Wang, R.C. Birtcher, P.M. Baldo, J.E. Pearson, J.C. Yang, J.A. Eastman, "Effect of composition on the early-stage oxidation of (100)Cu-Au alloys”, Journal of Applied Physics, 101, 033521(2007).

L. Long, T, Minton and J. C. Yang, "Morphological Changes at a Silver Surface Resulting from Exposure to Hyperthermal Atomic Oxygen”, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 111 (18), 6763-6771 (2007), cover article.

X. Han, R. McAfee, J. C. Yang, "Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations of the Dramatic Effects of Attachment Probability and Potential Gradients on Island Morphology Variations under Heteroepitaxial Growth Conditions", J. Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, 4, 1-12 (2007).