Departmental Papers (MEAM)
Papers from 2012
Shape Dynamics and Rheology of Soft Elastic Particles in a Shear Flow, Tong Gao, Howard H. Hu, and Pedro Ponte Castañeda
Magnetohydrodynamic Flow of a Binary Electrolyte in a Concentric Annulus, M. Qin and Haim H. Bau
Papers from 2011
Electro-worming: The behaviors of Caenorhabditis (C.) elegans in DC and AC electric fields, Han-Sheng Chuang, David M. Raizen, Nooreen Dabbish, and Haim H. Bau
In Situ Liquid-Cell Electron Microscopy of Colloid Aggregation and Growth Dynamics, Joseph M. Grogan, Lolita Rotkina, and Haim Bau
Speed Dependence of Atomic Stick-Slip Friction in Optimally Matched Experiments and Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Qunyang Li, Yalin Dong, Danny Perez, Ashlie Martini, and Robert W. Carpick
Undulatory Swimming in Viscoelastic Fluids, Xiaoning Shen and Paulo E. Arratia
Entropically Driven Motion of Polymers in Nonuniform Nanochannels, Tianxiang Su and Prashant K. Purohit
Papers from 2010
Velocity and Stress Autocorrelation Decay in Isothermal Dissipative Particle Dynamics, Anuj Chaudhri and Jennifer R. Lukes
An integrated, self-contained microfluidic cassette for isolation, amplification, and detection of nucleic acids, Dafeng Chen, Michale Mauk, Xianbo Qiu, Changchun Liu, Jitae Kim, Sudhir Ramprasad, Serge Ongagna, William Abrams, Daniel Malamud, Paul Corstjens, and Haim H. Bau
Thermal Stability and Rehybridization of Carbon Bonding in Tetrahedral Amorphous Carbon, David S. Grierson, A V. Sumant, Andrew Konicek, T A. Friedmann, J P. Sullivan, and Robert W. Carpick
Spatially Distributed Tactile Feedback for Kinesthetic Motion Guidance, Pulkit Kapur, Mallory Jensen, Laurel J. Buxbaum, Steven A. Jax, and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Computational Model or Nanocarrier Binding to Endothelium Validated Using in Vivo, in Vitro and Atomic Force Microscopy Experiments, Jin Liu, Gregory E.R. Weller, Blaine Zern, Portonovo S. Ayyaswamy, David M. Eckmann, Vladimir R. Muzykantov, and Ravi Radhakrishnan
High Frequency Acceleration Feedback Significantly Increases the Realism of Haptically Rendered Textured Surfaces, William McMahan, Joseph M. Romano, Amal M. Abdul Rahuman, and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Microfluidic Rheology of Soft Colloids above and below Jamming, Kerstin N. Nordstrom, Paulo E. Arratia, E. Verneuil, Anindita Basu, Zheng Zhang, Arjun G. Yodh, Jerry P. Gollub, and Douglas J. Durian
100 NM Thick Aluminum Nitrade Based Piezoelectric Nano Switches Exhibiting 1 MV Threshold Voltage via Body-Biasing, Nipun Sinha, Zhijun Guo, Valery V. Felmetsger, and Gianluca Piazza
Demonstration of Low Voltage and Functionally Complete Logic Operations Using Body-Biased Complementary and Ultra-Thin ALN Piezoelectric Mechanical Switches, Nipun Sinha, Timothy Jones, Zhijun Guo, and Gianluca Piazza
Effect of a Soluble Surfactant on a Finite-Sized Bubble Motion in a Blood Vessel, Tirumani N. Swaminathan, Karthik Mukundakrishnan, Portonovo S. Ayyaswamy, and David M. Eckmann
Material Properties of Caenorhabditis Elegans Swimming at Low Reynolds Number, Josué Sznitman, Prashant Kishore Purohit, Predrag Krajacic, Samuel Todd Lamitina, and Paulo E. Arratia
Propulsive Force Measurements and Flow Behavior of Undulatory Swimmers at Low Reynolds Number, Josué Sznitman, Xiaoning Shen, Raphael Sznitman, and Paulo E. Arratia
Multi-Environment Model Estimation for Motility Analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans, Raphael Sznitman, Manaswi Gupta, Gregory D. Hager, Paulo E. Arratia, and Josué Sznitman
Papers from 2009
Free Vibration of Microscaled Timoshenko Beams, Saeed Abbasion, Ahmad Rafsanjani, Reza Avazmohammadi, and Anoushiravan Farshidianfar
The effects of polymer molecular weight on filament thinning and drop breakup in microchannels, Paulo E. Arratia, L-A Cramer, Jerry P. Gollub, and Douglas J. Durian
Using electrical and optical tweezers to facilitate studies of molecular motors, Mark E. Arsenault, Yujie Sun, Haim H. Bau, and Yale E. Goldman
A Timer-Actuated Immunoassay Cassette for Detecting Molecular Markers in Oral Fluids, Liu Changchun, Xianbo Qiu, Serge Ongagna, Dafeng Chen, Zongyuan Chen, Williams R. Abrams, Daniel Malamud, Paul L.A.M. Corstjens, and Haim H. Bau
Stiffness Discrimination with Visual and Proprioceptive Cues, Netta Gurari, Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, and Allison M. Okamura
Stochastic Modeling and Control of Biological Systems: The Lactose Regulation System of Escherichia Coli, Agung Julius, Ádám Halász, M Selman Sakar, Harvey Rubin, Vijay Kumar, and George J. Pappas
An Automated, Pre-Programmed, Multiplexed, Hydraulic Microvalve, Jitae Kim, Dafeng Chen, and Haim H. Bau
Haptography: Capturing and Recreating the Rich Feel of Real Surfaces, Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Joseph Romano, and William McMahan
Haptic Displayof Realistic Tool Contact via Dynamically Compensated Control of a Dedicated Actuator, William McMahan and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Octopus-Inspired Grasp-Synergies for Continuum Manipulators, William McMahan and Ian D. Walker
Advantages of Using a Block Unstructured Grid in a Casting Scenario, Eliseu Monteiro, Regina De Almeida, Lio Gonsalves, and Abel Rouboa
The AirWand: Design and Characterization of a Large-Workspace Haptic Device, Joseph M. Romano and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Flagellar dynamics in viscous fluids, Mahmut-Selman Sakar, C. Lee, and Paulo E. Arratia
Body-Biased Complementary Logic Implemented Using AIN Piezoelectric MEMS Switches, Nipun Sinha, Timothy S. Jones, Zhijun Guo, and Gianluca Piazza
Piezoelectric aluminum nitride nanoelectromechanical actuators, Nipun Sinha, Graham E. Wabiszewski, Rashed Mahameed, Valery V. Felmetsger, Shawn M. Tanner, Robert W. Carpick, and Gianluca piazza
GPU Methods for Real-Time Haptic Interaction with 3D Fluids, Meng Yang, Jingwan Lu, Alla Safonova, and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Papers from 2008
Multigrid Algorithms for Inverse Problems with Linear Parabolic PDE Constraints, Santi S. Adavani and George Biros
Polymeric filament thinning and breakup in microchannels, Paulo E. Arratia, Jerry P. Gollub, and Douglas J. Durian
Guided Assembly of Nanostructures via Elastic Interactions, John L. Bassani and Youcun Lou
Effects of Proprioceptive Motion Feedback on Sighted and Non-Sighted Control of a Virtual Hand Prosthesis, Amy Blank, Allison M. Okamura, and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Electrospray on superhydrophobic nozzles treated with argon and oxygen plasma, Doyoung Byun, Youngjong Lee, Si Bui Quang Tran, Vu Dat Nugyen, Sanghoon Kim, Baehoo Park, Sukhan Lee, Niraj Inamdar, and Haim H. Bau
Synthesis and characterization of smooth ultrananocrystalline diamond films via low pressure bias-enhanced nucleation and growth, Y. C. Chen, X. Y. Zhong, A. R. Konicek, D. S. Grierson, N. H. Tai, I. N. Lin, Bernd Kabius, Jon M. Hiller, A. V. Sumant, Robert W. Carpick, and Orlando Auciello
A Variational Shape Optimization Approach for Image Segmentation with a Mumford-Shah Functional, Günay Doğam, Pedro Morin, and Ricardo H. Nochetto
Brain-Tumor Interaction Biophysical Models for Medical Image Registration, Cosmina Hogea, Christos Davatzikos, and George Biros
Maintaining network connectivity and performance in robot teams, M. Ani Hsieh, Anthony Cowley, R. Vijay Kumar, and Camillo J. Taylor
Decentralized Controllers for Shape Generation with Robotic Swarms, Mong-Ying Ani Hsieh, Vijay Kumar, and Luiz Chaimowicz
A Coupled Electrochemical and Hydrodynamical Two-Phase Model for the Electrolytic Pickling of Steel, Nulifer Ipek, Michael Vynnycky, and A. Cornell
Origin of Ultralow Friction and Wear in Ultrananocrystalline Diamond, Andrew R. Konicek, D. S. Grierson, P.U.P.A. Gilbert, W. G. Sawyer, A. V. Sumant, and Robert W. Carpick
Origin of Ultralow Friction andWear in Ultrananocrystalline Diamond, A. R. Konicek, D. S. Grierson, P. U. P. A. Gilbert, W. G. Sawyer, A. V. Sumant, and Robert W. Carpick
The Exergy Fields in Processes, Noam Lior
Experimental Testbed for Large Multirobot Teams, Nathan Michael, Jonathan Fick, and Vijay Kumar
Experimental Testbed for Large Multirobot Teams, Nathan Michael, Jonathan Fink, and R. Vijay Kumar
Finite-sized gas bubble motion in a blood vessel: Non-Newtonian effects, Karthik Mukundakrishnan, Portonovo S. Ayyaswamy, and David M. Eckmann
The Dynamics of Two Spherical Particles in a Confined Rotating Flow: Pedalling Motion, Karthik Mukundakrishnan, Howard H. Hu, and Portonovo S. Ayyaswamy
Automatic Configuration Recognition Methods in Modular Robots, Michael Park, Sachin Chitta, Alex Teichman, and Mark Yim
Plectoneme formation in twisted fluctuating rods, Prashant K. Purohit
The mechanics of short rod-like molecules in tension, Prashant K. Purohit, Mark E. Arsenault, Yale Goldman, and Haim H. Bau
Carbon Nanopipettes Characterize Calcium Release Pathways in Breast Cancer Cells, Michael G. Schrlau, Eugen Brailiou, Sandip Patel, Yury Gogotsi, Nae J. Dun, and Haim H. Bau
Carbon nanopipettes for cell probes and intracellular injection, Michael G. Schrlau, Erica M. Falls, Barry L. Ziober, and Haim H. Bau
Snap Transitions in Adhesion, Richard M. Springman and John L. Bassani
Bottom Up Construction and 2:1 Balance Refinement of Linear Octrees in Parallel, Hari Sundar, Rahul S. Sampath, and George Biros
Stretching fields and mixing near the transition to nonperiodic two-dimensional flow, M. J. Twardos, Paulo E. Arratia, M. K. Rivera, G. A. Voth, Jerry P. Gollub, and R. E. Ecke
Stretching fields and mixing near the transition to nonperiodic two-dimensional flow, M. J. Twardos, Paulo E. Arratia, M. K. Rivera, G. A. Voth, J. P. Gollub, and R. E. Ecke
Effective-medium theory for infinite-contrast two-dimensionally periodic linear composites with strongly anisotropic matrix behavior: Dilute limit and crossover behavior, François Willot, Yves-Patrick Pellegrini, Martín I. Idiart, and Pedro Ponte Castañeda
Negative stiffness and enhanced damping of individual multiwalled carbon nanotubes, H W. Yap, R S. Lakes, and Robert W. Carpick
A Comparative Study of Biomechanical Simulators in Deformable Registration of Brain Tumor Images, Evangelia Zacharaki, Cosmina S. Hogea, George Biros, and Christos Davatzikos
Lab-On-A-Chip for Oral Cancer Screening and Diagnosis, Barry L. Ziober, Michael G. Mauk, Erica M. Falls, Zongyuan Chen, Amy F. Ziober, and Haim H. Bau
Acoustic phonon scattering from particles embedded in an anisotropic medium: A molecular dynamics study, Neil Zuckerman and Jennifer R. Lukes
Papers from 2007
Polymer drop breakup in microchannels, Paulo E. Arratia, Jerry P. Gollub, and Douglas J. Durian
Confinement and Manipulation of Actin Filaments by Electric Fields, Mark E. Arsenault, Hui Zhao, Prashant Purohit, Yale E. Goldman, and Haim H. Bau
Confinement and Manipulation of Actin Filaments by Electric Fields, Mark E. Arsenault, Hui Zhao, Prashant K. Purohit, Yale E. Goodman, and Haim H. Bau
Are diamonds a MEMS' best friend?, Orlando Auciello, Sergio Pacheco, Anirudha V. Sumant, Chris Gudeman, Suresh Sampath, Arindom Datta, Robert W. Carpick, Vivekananda P. Adiga, Peter Zurcher, Zhenqiang Ma, Hao-Chih Yuan, John A. Carlisle, Bernd Kabius, Jon Hiller, and Sudarsan Srinivasan
Small Amplitude Reciprocating Wear Performance of Diamond-like Carbon Films: Dependence of Film Composition and Counterface Material, Jason A. Bares, Anirudha V. Sumant, David S. Grierson, Robert W. Carpick, and Kumar Sridharan
Bio-Inspired Group Behaviors for the Deployment of a Swarm of Robots to Multiple Destinations, Spring Berman, Ádám Halász, R. Vijay Kumar, and Stephen Pratt
Shaping Event-Based Haptic Transients Via an Improved Understanding of Real Contact Dynamics, Jonathan P. Fiene and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Stabilization of Multiple Robots on Stable Orbits via Local Sensing, Mong-Ying A. Hsieh, Savvas Loizou, and R. Vijay Kumar
Controlling Biological Systems: The Lactose Regulation System of Escherichia Coli, Anak Agung Julius, Ádam Halasz, Vijay Kumar, and George Pappas
Effects of Visual and Proprioceptive Motion Feedback on Human Control of Targeted Movement, Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Netta Gurari, and Allison M. Okamura
Quantifying the Value of Visual and Haptic Position Feedback During Force-Based Motion Control, Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Netta Gurari, and Allison M. Okamura
Dielectric properties of hydrogen-incorporated chemical vapor deposited diamond thin films, Chao Liu, Xingcheng Xiao, Jian Wang, Bing Shi, Vivekananda P. Adiga, and Robert W. Carpick
The Effect of Translocating Cylindrical Particles on the Ionic Current through a Nano-Pore, Hui Liu, Shizhi Qian, and Haim H. Bau
Numerical study of wall effects on buoyant gas-bubble rise in a liquid-filled finite cylinder, Karthik Mukundakrishnan, Portonovo S. Ayyaswamy, Shaoping Quan, and David M. Eckmann
Special Issue on the Grand Challenges of Robotics, James Ostrowski, Adriana Tapus, and Mark Yim
Integrating Human Inputs with Autonomous Behaviors on an Intelligent Wheelchair Platform, Saranghi P. Parikh, Valdir Grassi Jr., R. Vijay Kumar, and Jun Okamoto Jr.
Suppression of Rayleigh-Benard Convection with Proportional-Derivative Controller, Marcel C. Remillieux, Hui Zhao, and Haim H. Bau
Induction and measurement of minute flow rates through nanopipes, Shashank Sinha, Maria Pia Rossi, D. Mattia, Yury Gogotsi, and Haim H. Bau
A High-Order Solver for the Heat Equation in 1D Domains with Moving Boundaries, Shravan K. Veerapaneni and George Biros
A High-Order Solver for the Heat Equation in 1d Domains with Moving Boundaries, Shravan K. Veerapaneni and George Biros
A novel high-performance low-NOx fuel-rich/fuel-lean two-stage combustion gas and steam turbine system for power and heat generation, T. Yamamoto, Noam Lior, Tomohiko Furuhata, and N. Arai
Towards Robotic Self-reassembly After Explosion, Mark Yim, Babak Shirmohammadi, Jimmy Sastra, Michael Park, Michael Dugan, and Camillo J. Taylor
Microfluidic chaotic stirrer utilizing induced-charge electro-osmosis, Hui Zhao and Haim H. Bau
Papers from 2006
Inversion of Airborne Contaminants in a Regional Model, Volkan Akcelik, George Biros, Andrei Draganescu, Omar Ghattas, Judith Hill, and Bart van Bloemen Waanders
Elastic Instabilities of Polymer Solutions in Cross-Channel Flow, Paulo E. Arratia, C. C. Thomas, J. Diorio, and J. P. Gollub
Vibrations of the "beetle" scanning probe microscope: Identification of a new mode, generalized analysis, and characterization methodology, Matthew J. Brukman and Robert W. Carpick
Lateral force calibration in atomic force microscopy: A new lateral force calibration method and general guidelines for optimization, Rachel J. Cannara, Michael Eglin, and Robert W. Carpick
Microparticle manipulation using inertial forces, Michael Eglin , Mark A. Eriksson, and Robert W. Carpick
Cooperative Air and Ground Surveillance, Ben Grocholsky, James Keller, R. Vijay Kumar, and George J. Pappas
Cooperative Air and Ground Survaillance, Ben Grocholsky, James Keller, Vijay Kumar, and George J. Pappas
Finite state abstraction of a stochastic model of the lactose regulation system of Escherichia coli, Agung Julius, Ádám Halász, R. Vijay Kumar, and George J. Pappas
Sampling-Based Algorithm for Testing and Validating Robot Controllers, Jongwoo Kim, Joel M. Esposito, and R. Vijay Kumar