{"id":6775,"date":"2012-07-18T22:30:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T22:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2012\/?p=6775"},"modified":"2012-08-31T17:28:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T17:28:57","slug":"kripa-varanasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2012\/kripa-varanasi\/","title":{"rendered":"Kripa Varanasi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h3>Collaborators<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Prof. Gareth McKinley, MIT<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Robert Cohen, MIT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Postdoctoral Associates<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Sushant Anand<\/li>\n<li>Gisele Azimi<\/li>\n<li>Yuehua Cui<\/li>\n<li>Rajeev Dhiman<\/li>\n<li>Navdeep Dhillon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Graduate Students<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ingrid Guha (EECS)<\/li>\n<li>Christopher Love (ME)<\/li>\n<li>Adam Paxson (ME)<\/li>\n<li>Hyukmin Kwon (ME)<\/li>\n<li>J. David Smith (ME)<\/li>\n<li>Srinivas Subramaniam (DMSE)<\/li>\n<li>Alex Slocum Jr. (ME, MD Marshall Univ.)<\/li>\n<li>Karim Khalil (ME)<\/li>\n<li>Brian Solomon (ME)<\/li>\n<li>Divya Panchanathan (ME)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Research Staff<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Konrad Rykaczewki, Research Scientist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Support Staff<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Lauren Wolinsky, Administrative Assistant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Publications<\/h3>\n<p>(see <a href=\"http:\/\/varanasi.mit.edu\" target=\"_blank\">varanasi.mit.edu<\/a> for full listing)<\/p>\n<p>Varanasi, K. K., Hsu, M., Bhate, N., Yang, W., and Deng, T., \u201cSpatial Control in the Heterogeneous Nucleation of Water,\u201d Applied Physics Letters, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">95<\/span>, 094101, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Deng, T., Varanasi, K. K., Hsu, M., and Bhate, N., \u201cNonwetting of Impinging Droplets on Textured Surfaces,\u201d Applied Physics Letters, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">94<\/span>, 133109, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Meuler, A. J., Smith, J. D., Varanasi, K. K., Mabry, J. M., McKinley, G. H., and Cohen, R. E., \u201cRelationships between Water Wettability and Ice Adhesion,\u201d ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2<\/span>, 3100, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Varanasi, K. K., Deng, T., Smith, J. D., Hsu, M., and Bhate, N., \u201cFrost Formation and Ice Adhesion on Superhydrophobic Surfaces,\u201d Applied Physics Letters, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">97<\/span>, 234102, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Kwon, H-M., Paxson, A., Varanasi, K. K., and Patankar, N. A., \u201cRapid Deceleration Driven Wetting\u00a0 Transition During Pendant Drop Deposition on Superhydrophobic Surfaces,\u201d Physical Review Letters, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">106<\/span>, 036102, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Love, C. J., Smith, J. D., Cui, Y., Varanasi, K. K., \u201cSize-dependent Thermal Oxidation of Copper: Single-Step Synthesis of Hierarchical Nanostructures,\u201d RSC Nanoscale, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">3<\/span>, 4972, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Cui, Y., Paxson, A., Smyth, K., Varanasi, K. K., \u201cHierarchical Polymeric Textures via Solvent-Induced Phase Transformation: A Single-Step Production of Large-Area Superhydrophobic Surfaces,\u201d Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">394<\/span>, 8, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Smith, J. D., Meuler, A., Bralower, H., Venkatesan, R., Subramanian, S., Cohen, R. E., McKinley, G. H., Varanasi, K. K., \u201cHydrate-phobic Surfaces: Fundamental Studies in Clathrate Hydrate Adhesion Reduction,\u201d Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Slocum, Jr., A. H., Cervantes, T. M., Seldin, E. B., Varanasi, K. K., &#8220;Analysis and Design of Rolling-Contact Joints for Evaluating Bone Plate Performance&#8221;. Accepted to Medical Engineering &amp; Physics, 2012<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intersection of Manufacturing, Materials and Thermal-Fluids.  Design and manufacturing of Nanoengineered Surfaces and their applications to Energy, Water, Oil &#038; Gas, Agriculture, Transportation, Electronics Cooling Systems for significant efficiency enhancements. 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