Brian L. Wardle

  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Department: Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Collaborators

  • D. Bello, UMass-Lowell
  • S. Buschhorn, Postdoc MIT AA
  • H. Cebeci, ITU
  • R.E. Cohen, MIT ChemE
  • H.-M. Duong, NUS
  • F. Fachin, MIT/Harvard/MGH HST
  • E. J. Garcia, Gamesa
  • K.E. Goodson, Stanford Univ.
  • K. Gleason, MIT ChemE
  • R. Guzman deVilloria, IMDEA
  • A. J. Hart, Univ. of Michigan
  • H. Thomas Hahn, UCLA
  • S. Hofmann, Univ. of Cambridge
  • S. Hong, Argonne Nat. Lab.
  • S.S. Kessler, Metis Design Corp.
  • S.-G. Kim, MIT ME
  • S.-H. Kim, Brown Univ.
  • N. Lachmann, Postdoc MIT AA
  • S. Maruyama, Univ. of Tokyo
  • G. McKinley, MIT ME
  • A. Miravete, Univ. Zaragoza
  • G. Nogueira, Postdoc MIT DMSE
  • D. Papavassiliou, Univ. Oklahoma
  • D. Plata, Duke
  • M.F. Rubner, MIT DMSE
  • L. Rocha, Univ. of Minho
  • M. A. Schmidt, MIT EECS
  • J.C. Seferis, Univ. Washington
  • K. Schulte, TUHH
  • J. Shiomi, Univ. of Tokyo
  • A. H. Slocum, MIT ME
  • S. Socrate, MIT ME
  • K. Takahashi, UCLA
  • C. Thompson, MIT DMSE
  • M. Toner, MIT/Harvard/MGH HST
  • D. Wagner, Weizmann Inst. of Sci.
  • N. Yamamoto, MIT AA Postdoc
  • Q. Zhang, Penn State Univ.

Graduate Students

  • E. Colombini, Visiting AA
  • D. Handlin, Res. Assistant, AA
  • M. Kim, Res. Assistant, DMSE
  • A. Kudo, Res. Assistant, DMSE
  • R Li, Res. Assistant, AA
  • A. Sepulveda, Visiting Student
  • I. Stein, Res. Assistant, ME
  • S.A. Steiner III, Res. Assistant, AA
  • S. Wicks, Research Assistant, AA
  • K. Takahashi , Visiting Student, AA

Undergraduate Students

  • S. Chan, Visiting DMSE
  • P. Florin, AA
  • D. Lindston, AA
  • H. Jethani, AA
  • S. Kalamoun, Visiting AA
  • H. Vincent, DMSE
  • W. Wang, DMSE
  • M. Williams, AA

Support Staff

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

Publications

Fachin, F., Chen, G.D., M. Toner, and B.L. Wardle, “Integration of Bulk Nanoporous Elements in Microfluidic Devices with Application to Biomedical Diagnostics,” J. of Microelectromechanical Systems (JMEMS), Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 1428 – 1438, 2011.

Fachin, F., Nikles, S.A., Dugundji, J., and B.L. Wardle, “Analytical Extraction of Residual Stresses and Gradients in MEMS Structures with Application to CMOS Layered Materials,” J. of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 21 (2011) 095017 (12pp).

Kim, M., Hong, S., Miller, D.J., Dugundji, J., and B.L. Wardle, “Size Effect of Flexible Proof Mass on the Mechanical Behavior of Micron-scale Cantilevers for Energy Harvesting Applications,” Applied Physics Letters, 99, 243506 (2011).

Fachin, F., Nikles, S.A., and B.L. Wardle, “Mechanics of Out-of-Plane MEMS via Postbuckling: Model-Experiment Demonstration Using CMOS,” JMEMS, Vol. PP, Issue 99, 2012.

A.M. Marconnet, N. Yamamoto, M. Panzer, B.L. Wardle, and K.E. Goodson, “Thermal Conduction in Aligned Carbon Nanotube–Polymer Nanocomposites with High Packing Density,” NanoLetters, Vol. 5, No. 6, 2011, pp. 4818–4825.

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,” J. Phys. Chem. C, (2011), 115 (10), 3872

Guzmán de Villoria, R., Hart, A.J., and B.L. Wardle, “Continuous High-Yield Production of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on 2D and 3D Substrates,” ACSNano, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 4850–4857, 2011.

G.D. Chen,F. Fachin, M. Fernandez-Suarez, B. L. Wardle, M. Toner, “Nanoporous Elements in Microfluidics for Multiscale Manipulation of Bioparticles”, Small, Vol.7 (8),2011,pp. 1061–1067.

R. Guzman de Villoria, N. Yamamoto, A. Miravete, and B.L. Wardle, “Multi-Physics Damage Sensing in Nano-Engineered Structural Composites,” Nanotechnology, vol. 22, 2011, p. 185502 (7pp).

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