MTL Annual Report

Collaborators

• D. Bello, UMass-Lowell
• G. Chen, MIT ME
• H.-M. Duong, National Univ. Singapore
• E. J. Garcia, Gamesa
• K. Goodson, Stanford Univ.
• K. Gleason, MIT ChemE
• R. Guzman deVilloria, MIT XVI Postdoc
• A. J. Hart, Univ. of Michigan
• H. Thomas Hahn, UCLA
• S. Hofmann, Univ. of Cambridge
• K.F. Jensen, MIT Chem. E.
• W.-S. Kim, MIT XVI Postdoc
• S.-G. Kim, MIT ME
• S.-H. Kim, Brown Univ.
• S. Maruyama, Univ. of Tokyo
• A. Miravete, Univ. Zaragoza
• D. Papavassiliou, Univ. Oklahoma
• D. Plata, MIT
• L. Rocha, Univ. of Minho
• M. A. Schmidt, MIT EECS
• J.C. Seferis, Univ. Perugia
• A. H. Slocum, MIT ME
• S.M. Spearing, Univ. Southampton
• C. Thompson, MIT DMSE
• M. Toner, MIT/Harvard/MGH HST
• H. Tuller, MIT DMSE

Graduate Students

• H. Cebeci, Visiting Student, AA
• F. Fachin, Research Assistant, AA
• K. Ishiguro, Visiting Student, AA
• M. Kim, Research Assistant, DMSE
• S. Pont, Visiting Student, AA
• S. Steiner, Research Assistant, AA
• S. Wicks, Research Assistant, AA
• N. Yamamoto, Research Assistant, AA

Undergraduate Students

• D. Barber, AA
• R .Li, AA
• M.S. Tsai, AA

Support Staff

• J. Kane, Research Specialist
• P. Lee, Financial Officer
• M. Prendergast, Admin. Assist. II

Publications

Wardle, B.L., and S.M. Spearing, “Chapter 9, Structural Considerations”, ed. by A. Mitsos and P.I. Barton, Microfabricated Power Generation Devices: Design and Technology, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2009. ISBN: 978-3-527-32081-3.

Yamamoto, N., Quinn, D.J., Wicks, N., Hertz, J.L., Cui, J., Tuller, H.L., and B.L. Wardle. “ Non-linear Design for Microfabricated Large-area Self-supported Thin Plates in the Post-buckling Regime,” J. of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 20 (2010) 035027 (9pp).

Kim, M., Hoegen, M., Dugundji, J., and B.L. Wardle, “Modeling and Experimental Verification of Proof Mass Effects on Vibration Energy Harvester Performance”, Smart Materials and Structures, 19 (2010) 045023 (21pp).

Duong, H.M., Yamamoto, N., Papavassiliou, D.V., Maruyama, S., and B.L. Wardle, “Morphology Effects on Non-isotropic Thermal Conduction of Aligned Single- and Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes in Polymer Nanocomposites,” accepted to J. of Physical Chemistry C, March 2010.

Steiner III, S.A., Baumann, T.F., Bayer, B.C., Blume, R., Worsley, M.A., Moberlychan, W.J., Shaw, E.L., Hart, A.J., Hofmann, S., and B.L. Wardle, “Nanoscale Zirconia as a Nonmetallic Catalyst for Graphitization of Carbon and Growth of Single- and Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes,” J. American Chemical Society (JACS), Vol. 191 (94), 2009, pp. 12144–12154. **

Cebeci, H., Guzmán de Villoria, R., Hart, A.J., and B.L. Wardle, “Multifunctional Properties of High Volume Fraction Aligned Carbon Nanotube Polymer Composites with Controlled Morphology,” Composites Science and Technology, 69 (2009), pp. 2649-2656. **

Guzmán de Villoria, R., Figueredo, S., Hart, A.J., Steiner III, S.A., Slocum, A.H., and B.L. Wardle, “High-Yield Growth of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on a Continuously Moving Substrate,” Nanotechnology, 20 (2009) 405611. **

Vaddiraju, S., Cebeci, H., Gleason, K.K., and B.L. Wardle, “Hierarchical Multifunc-tional Composites By Conformally Coating Aligned CNT Arrays With Conducting Polymer,” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 1, No. 11, 2009, pp. 2565-2572.

Fachin, F., Nikles, S.A., Varghese, M., and B.L. Wardle, “Characterization of the Complete Stress State in Thin Film CMOS Layered Materials Via Postbuckling”, accepted for Oral Presentation to Hilton Head 2010 Solid-State Actuators, Sensors, and Microsystems Workshop, Hilton Head Island, SC, June 6-10, 2010.

Wicks, S.S., Guzmán de Villoria, R., and B.L. Wardle, “Interlaminar and Intralaminar Reinforcement of Composite Laminates with Aligned Carbon Nanotubes,” Composites Science and Technology, 70 (2010), pp. 20–28.

Duong, H.M., Yamamoto, N., Papavassiliou, D.V., Maruyama, S., and B.L. Wardle “Inter Carbon Nanotube Contact in Thermal Transport of Controlled-Morphology Polymer Nanocomposites”, Nanotechnology, Vol. 20, 2009.

Yamamoto, N., Hart, A.J., Garcia, E.J., Wicks, S., Duong, H.M., Slocum, A.H., and B.L. Wardle, “High-yield Growth and Morphology Control of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on Ceramic Fibers for Multifunctional Enhancement of Structural Composites”, Carbon, Vol. 47 (3), March 2009, pp. 551-560.