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Nikhil Koratkar- Curriculum Vitae Personal Particulars Name: Nikhil Koratkar Contact Address: Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA Email: koratn@rpi.edu Tel: 518 276 2630 (office) Web-site: www.rpi.edu/~koratn Education Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park, Aerospace Engineering, December 2000 M.S., University of Maryland at College Park, Aerospace Engineering, June 1998 B.S., Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, India, Aerospace Engineering, July 1995

Employment History 2012-Present, John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Endowed Chair Professor 2009-Present, Full Professor 2006-2009, Associate Professor 2001-2006, Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA. 2011-present, Full Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA.

Students Graduated

Doctoral Students Graduated (with Koratkar as Primary Research Advisor)

* Zuankai Wang and Jonghwan Suhr are tenure-track assistant professors (1) Fazel Yavari (2012), “Hierarchical graphene composites”. Fazel is a winner of the

$30,000 MIT-Lemelson student prize for innovation in 2012. Three such prizes were awarded in 2012 to students who have made inventions that show promise to change the world.

(2) Ardavan Zandiatashbar (2012), “Effect of defects on the intrinsic strength and

stiffness of graphene”. (3) Mohammad Rafiee (2011) “Graphene based composite materials”, Mohammad is a

post-doctoral student in the Ajayan Lab at Rice University. Mohammad is a winner of the American Helicopter Society (AHS) Robert L. Lichten Award in 2010. Only one such award is made every year by the AHS to a student for excellence in research.

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(4) Rahul Krishnan (2011) “Silicon based nano-architectures for high power Li-ion battery anodes”, Rahul works for Intel in Portland, Oregan.

(5) Iti Srivastava (2010) “Mechanical properties of polymer nano-composites”, Iti

works for Zyvex in Columbus, Ohio. Iti won the $10,000 Amelia Earhart Fellowship for women in 2010. Only 10 such awards are made every year in the United States.

(6) Ranganath Teki, (2009) “Nanorod structures for energy conversion and storage”,

Teki works for SEMATECH in Albany New York.

(7) Wei Zhang, (2008) “Advanced multifunctional composites featuring carbon nanotube additives”. Wei has joined the General Electric (GE) Global Research Center in Niskayuna, New York.

(8) Zuankai Wang (2008), “Understanding and controlling wetting phenomena at the

micro/nano scale”, Zuankai is an assistant professor at the City University of Hong Kong. Zuankai is also a winner of the 2007 Materials Research Society (MRS) graduate student award (Silver Medal).

(9) Seongyul Kim (2008),“Fundamental study of field-induced gas and water dissociation near nanostructured electrodes”, Kim works for Samsung in Korea (10) Li Chen, (2008) “Field induced adsorption/desorption of gas species to the surfaces of carbon nanotubes”. Li has accepted a non-tenure track teaching position at the Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts, USA.

(11) Jonghwan Suhr, (2005) “Energy dissipation mechanisms in carbon nanotube polymer composites”. Jonghwan is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Delaware. He is a winner of the NSF Career award in 2009.

(12) Jongmin Kim, (2004) “Flow control strategies for improved aerodynamic efficiency of micro-rotorcraft”. Jongmin works for Samsung in Korea. Jongmin is a winner of American Helicopter Society (AHS), Robert Lichten Award (2004).

Masters Students Graduated (with Koratkar as Primary Research Advisor)

(1) Prashant Dhiman (2011), “Flow induced power generation from graphene”, Prashant is pursuing an MBA degree in Canada.

(2) Velibor Peric (2009), “Impact damage mitigation in nanocomposites”, Velibor

works at Boeing Aircraft. (3) Andrew Proper, (2008), “Hierarchical carbon nanotube composites”, Andrew

works for Electric Boat in Connecticut, USA.

(4) Jeremy Nelson, (2004), “Flow control strategies for improvement of micro-air-vehicle performance”, Jeremy works for Dupont in California, USA.

(5) Eric Lass, (2003) “Effect of temperature on the resistivity of aligned multi-walled carbon nanotube films” , Eric works for NIST in Washington DC.

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(6) Ashish Modi, (2003) “Miniaturized gas ionization sensors using carbon nanotubes” , Ashish pursued an MBA degree at Wharten School of Management (University of Pennsylvania) and is now with British Petroleum.

Thesis In Progress

7 Ph.D. students are working with Koratkar as advisor (1) Javad Rafiee, “Fundamental study of water-graphene interactions”, Started Ph.D. in

January (2009). Javad is a winner of the $30,000 MIT-Lemelson student prize for innovation in 2010. Four such prizes were awarded in 2010 to students who made inventions that show promise to change the world.

(2) Abhay Thomas, “Nanofluidic power harvesting using graphene”, Started Ph.D. in August (2009). (3) Ajay Krishnamurthy, “Microbial fuel cells with nanostructrued electrodes”, started Ph.D. in August (2010). (4) Rahul Mukherjee. “Next generation Li-air rechargeable batteries”, started Ph.D. in August (2010). (5) Eklavya Singh, “Graphene based desalination devices”, started Ph.D. in January (2011).

(6) Jian Gao, “Hexagonal boron nitride 2D layers as heat spreaders in micro- electronics devices”, Started August (2012).

(7) Phillipe Chow, “Interfacial engineering in graphene and other 2D materials”, Started August (2012).

Professional Awards/Recognitions and Service

• Appointed Editor of CARBON (Elsevier) in October 2010. • Elected Associate Fellow of American Institute for Aeronautics & Astronautics

(AIAA) in (2010).

• The Electrochemical Society’s SES Young Investigator Award (2009).

• Keynote Address at the Second International Conference on Nanomechanics and Nanocomposites, Beijing, China, October 10-13 (2010).

• Delivered Invited Talks at several prestigious international conferences including International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONSAT)- Calcutta, India (2003), Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2005), American Vacuum Society (AVS) Meeting, San Jose, CA (2009), TMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2009), ICONSAT- Mumbai, India (2010), MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA (2010), ICONSAT-Hyderabad, India (2012) and TMS Annual Meeting, Orlando, Fl (2012).

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• Technical Chair of the steering committee of the NSF-DFG Sponsored Research Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, NY City, October 15-17 (2009).

• Associate Editor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters Journal (2009-2011)

(www.aspbs.com/nnl.htm)

• James M. Tien ‘66 Early Career Award from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2005).

• Technical Chair of the characterization of nano-composites track at the ASME Multifunctional Nanocomposites Conference, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 20-22 October 2006.

• Guest Editor for a special issue of Journal of Intelligent Materials Systems and

Structures. The special issue was focussed on “Nanostructured Materials” and was published in March 2006.

• United States National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award (2004)

• American Helicopter Society (AHS) Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Award (2004)

• Rensselaer School of Engineering Excellence in Research Award (2004)

• AHS Vertical Flight Foundation Award (1999)

• AHS Federal City Chapter’s Joseph P. Cribbin’s Award (1999)

• University of Maryland Minta Martin Fellowship (1998)

• AHS South-East Region Robert Lichten Award (1998)

• University of Maryland, Graduate School Fellowship (1995)

• Member AIAA Adaptive Structures Technical Committee, (2003-2010) • Session Chair at various conferences including Symposium EE at MRS Fall Meeting

(2008), nano-composite session at TMS Annual Meetings (2008-2009), SPIE smart materials and structures conferences (2003-2005), NSF conference on nanoscience and nanotechnology (2009) and International Conference on 1-D Nanomaterials (2009).

• Referee for over 40 journals including Nature (1 manuscript), Science (1 manuscript),

Nature Materials (5 manuscripts), Nature Communications (3 manuscripts), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Physical Review Letters, Nano Letters, Small, Physical Review B., Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Langmuir, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Chemistry of Materials, Journal of American Chemical Society, ACS Nano, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Applied Physics Letters etc.

• Served on several National Science Foundation Review Panels including, Nanoscale

Interdisciplinary Research Team Program, Nano-Manufacturing Program, Surface Engineering and Materials Design and Kinetics, Catalysis and Molecular Processes Programs.

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Research Grants Approved and Funded

• Koratkar has won 26 grants (totaling ~ $8 Million) from several agencies such as the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Army Research Office, Rotorcraft Center of Excellence (Penn State) and Industry (motorola, advanced energy consortium).

• Thirteen of these awards are from the NSF including highly prestigious awards such as CAREER and two separate Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team (NIRT) awards.

• Koratkar is the Principal Investigator (PI) on 23 of the 26 awards that he was won.

(1) Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF) Title: Fundamental study of wear in graphene composites Funds: $378,418 Period: 08/01/2012 - 08/01/2015 Effort: Principal Investigator Associates: Thierry Blanchet (RPI)

(2) Sponsor: National Research Foundation of Korea (Through KAIST University) Title: Three-dimensional high energy density batteries Funds: $250,000 Period: 01/01/2013 - 01/01/2016 Effort: Principal Investigator Associates: None

(3) Sponsor: New York State Energy Development and Research Authority (NYSERDA) Title: Graphene based anodes for Li-ion batteries with breakthrough improvements in energy density, power density and cycle stability Funds: $118,000 Period: 09/01/2013 - 01/01/2015 (approved for funding) Effort: Principal Investigator Associates: None

(4) Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF) Title: Physics-Based Study of Graphene Colloidal Systems as Metal Working Fluids for Micro-Machining Applications Funds: $393,775 Period: 08/01/2011 - 08/01/2014 Effort: Co-Investigator Associates: Johnson Samuel (Principal Investigator, RPI)

(5) Sponsor: Advanced Energy Consortium (AEC) Title: Nanofluidic Power Generation using Two-Dimensional (Graphene) Nanomaterials Funds: $700,000 Period: 01/01/2010 - 04/01/2013 Effort: Principal Investigator Associates: Yunfeng Shi (RPI) and Pulickel Ajayan (Rice) (6) Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF) Title: Brittle Epoxies Rendered Ductile- Crazing in Thermosetting Epoxy Nanocomposites Funds: $365,740 Period: 09/01/2009 - 09/01/2013 Effort: Principal Investigator Associates: Catalin Picu (RPI) and Rajesh Khare (TTU)

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(7) Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF) Title: Next Generation Li-Ion Batteries Featuring Nano-Engineered Anode Architectures Funds: $396,092 Period: 08/01/2010 - 08/01/2013 Effort: Principal Investigator Associates: Toh-Ming Lu (RPI), Catalin Picu (RPI) (8) Sponsor: NYSERDA Title: Next Generation High C-Rate Lithium-Ion Rechargeable Batteries Funds: $200,000 Period: 09/01/2010 - 09/01/2012 Effort: Principal Investigator Associates: Toh-Ming Lu (RPI) (9) Sponsor: Office of Naval Research (ONR) Title: Hierarchical Nano-Composites: Dramatic Enhancements in Fatigue Resistance and Toughening Funds: $350,000 Period: 09/01/2009 - 09/01/2012 Effort: Principal Investigator Associates: Catalin Picu (RPI) (10) Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF) Title: Fundamental study of nucleate boiling on nanostructured interfaces Funds: $325,000 Period: 09/01/2009 - 09/01/2012 Effort: Co-Investigator Associates: Yoav Peles (Principal Investigator, RPI)

(11) Sponsor: Physical Sciences, Inc. (Army STTR program- Phase 2 funding) Title: PSI Contract # 6257: Self-Healing, Reinforced, Multifunctional Composite Material (Approved by Army; fund is in process of being established) Funds: $112,478 Period: 05/01/2012 - 03/01/2013 Effort: Principal Investigator Associates: None (12) Sponsor: US Army- Penn State Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence (VLRCOE) Title: Next Generation Carbon-Nanotube/Carbon-Fiber Composites for Mechanical Properties Enhancement and Structural Monitoring Funds: $259,000 Period: 06/01/2006 - 06/01/2011 Effort: Principal Investigator Associates: Linda Schadler (RPI) (13) Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF) Title: Fundamental Study of Photo-Thermo-Mechanical Actuation in Carbon Nanotubes and their Composites Funds: $200,000 Period: 08/01/2007 - 07/31/2011 Effort: Principal Investigator Associates: Assad Oberai (RPI)

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(14) Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF) Title: NSF-DFG Research Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Funds: $ 99,325 Period: 09/01/2009 - 08/31/2010 Effort: Principal Investigator Associates: None (15) Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF) Title: CAREER: Advanced Nanostructured Damping Materials Funds: $400,000 Period: 07/01/2004 - 06/31/2009 Effort: Principal Investigator Associates: None (16) Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF) Title: NIRT: Miniaturized Chemical Sensors Featuring Electrical Breakdown near Carbon Nanotube Tips Funds: $1300,000 Period: 09/01/2004 - 08/31/2009 Effort: Principal Investigator Associates: Pulickel Ajayan, Theo Borca-Tasciuc, Saroj Nayak and Steve Cramer (17) Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF) Title: NIRT: Fundamental Study of Electro- and Magneto-Mechanical Nano-Assemblies Funds: $1150,000 Period: 09/01/2005 - 08/31/2009 Effort: Co-Investigator Associates: Toh-Ming Lu (PI), Theo Borca-Tasciuc, Mutsohiro Shima and Gwo-Ching Wang (18) Sponsor: Motorola Title: Carbon Nanotube Devices for RFID Application Funds: $65,000 Period: 01/01/2008 - 04/01/2009 Effort: Principal Investigator Associates: None (19) Sponsor: US Army Aviation & Missile Research, Development & Engineering Center Title: Carbon Nanotube Composites for Structural Health Monitoring Funds: $42,000 Period: 12/01/2007 - 08/30/2008 Effort: Principal Investigator Associates: None (20) Sponsor: Department of Defense Title: DURIP: Nano-Composites Characterization Facilities in Support of US Army Funded Research at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Funds: $150,000 Period: 08/01/2007 - 07/31/2008 Effort: Principal Investigator Associates: None

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(21) Sponsor: US Army Benet Labs Title: Fatigue Crack Growth Suppression in Carbon Nanotube Composites Funds: $15,000 Period: 01/01/2008 - 12/31/2008 Effort: Principal Investigator Associates: None (22) Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF) Title: NER: Water Electrolysis Activated by Nanostructured Electrodes: An Efficient Approach for Hydrogen Production Funds: $100,000 Period: 09/01/2006 - 09/01/2007 Effort: Principal Investigator Associates: Toh-Ming Lu (RPI) (23) Sponsor: Army Research Office Title: Multifuctional Carbon Nanotube Damping Films Funds: $238,552 Period: 04/13/2003 - 04/12/2006 Effort: Principal Investigator Associates: Pulickel Ajayan (RPI), Prabhat Hajela (RPI) (24) Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF) Title: NUE: Thermal and Electrical Transport in Carbon Nanotube Films Funds: $100,000 Period: 08/01/2003 - 04/01/2005 Effort: Principal Investigator Associates: Pulickel Ajayan (RPI), Don Millard (RPI) (25) Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF) Title: NER: Minimally Intrusive Damping Films Featuring Carbon Nanotubes Funds: $100,000 Period: 09/01/2002 - 08/30/2003 Effort: Principal Investigator Associates: Pulickel Ajayan (RPI) (26) Sponsor: Mainstream Engineering Corporation Title: Carbon Nanotube Based Ultracapacitors for High Pulse-Power Applications Funds: $21,000 Period: 07/01/2004 - 02/30/2005 Effort: Principal Investigator Associates: None

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Archival Journal Publications and Book Chapters  

• Nikhil Koratkar has 115 archival journal papers, 1 book and 4 book chapters published.

• > 3,800 Citations (www.scopus.com) with an H-index of 33.

• Publications include one in Nature (Impact Factor: 38.6), two in Nature Materials (Impact Factor: 35.74), one in Nature Communications (Impact Factor: 10.01), three in Advanced Materials (Impact factor: 14.82), four in Nano Letters (Impact Factor: 13.02), six in ACS Nano (Impact Factor: 12.06), one in Advanced Functional Materials (Impact Factor: 9.76), seven in Small (Impact Factor: 7.82), one in Physical Review Letters (Impact Factor: 7.94), one in Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (Impact Factor: 6.58), eight in Carbon (Impact Factor: 5.86) and twelve in Applied Physics Letters (Impact Factor: 3.79).

Book: Nikhil Koratkar, “Graphene in Composite Materials- Synthesis, Characterization and Applications”, ISBN No. 978-1-60595-056-3, DEStech Publications, Inc. Lancaster, PA, USA. Book Chapters:

Zuankai Wang, Nikhil Koratkar. "Understanding and Controlling Wetting Phenomena at the Micro and Nanoscales" in Nano-structured Thin Films and Surfaces, Wiley-VCH (2010). ISBN-10: 3-527-32155-1

Nikhil Koratkar, Jonghwan Suhr. “Mechanical Damping in Nanocomposites” in Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, American Scientific Publishers (2011), Edited by H. S. Nalwa, Volume 16: Pages (127-146), ISBN:1-58883-165-5.

Iti Srivastava, Mohammad A. Rafiee, Fazel Yavari, Javad Rafiee and Nikhil Koratkar, “Epoxy Nanocomposites – Graphene a promising filler” in Graphene Based Polymer Nanocomposites, Edited by Prithu Mukhopadhyay and Rakesh Gupta, CRC Press, book in-press (2012).

Rahul Krishnan, Rahul Mukherjee, Toh-Ming Lu and Nikhil Koratkar, “Nano-engineered Silicon Anodes for Lithium-Ion Rechargeable Batteries” in Nanotechnology for Li-ion Batteries, Edited by David Lockwood, Springer, book in-press (2012). Journal Papers:

1997-2001

1. N. Koratkar, and I. Chopra, “Wind tunnel testing of a Mach-scaled rotor model with trailing-edge flaps”, Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 1-14, (2001).

2. N. Koratkar, and I. Chopra, “Analysis and testing of a Mach-scaled rotor with trailing-

edge flaps”, AIAA Journal, Vol. 38, No. 7, pp. 1113-1124, (2000).

3. N. Koratkar, and I. Chopra, “Analysis and testing of a Froude-scaled helicopter rotor with piezoelectric bender actuated trailing-edge flaps”, Intelligent Material Systems & Structures, Vol. 8, No. 7, pp. 553-630, (1997).

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2002

4. N. Koratkar, B. Wei, and P. Ajayan, “Carbon nanotube films for damping applications”,

Advanced Materials, Vol. 14, No. 13, pp. 997-1000, (2002). Cited 98 times

5. N. Koratkar, and I. Chopra, “Closed-loop wind tunnel testing of a smart rotor model with trailing-edge flaps”, Journal of the American Helicopter Society, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 263-272, (2002). Cited 86 times

6. N. Koratkar, and I. Chopra, “Open-loop hover testing of a smart rotor model”,

AIAA Journal, Vol. 40, No. 8, pp. 1495-1502, (2002).

2003

7. A. Modi, N. Koratkar, E. Lass, B. Wei and P. Ajayan, “Miniaturized gas ionization sensors using carbon nanotubes”, Nature, 424, 171-174, (2003). Cited 530 times

8. N. Koratkar, B. Wei and P. Ajayan, “Multifunctional structural reinforcement featuring

carbon nanotube films”, Composites Science and Technology, Vol. 63, No. 11, pp. 1525-1531, (2003).

9. W. Zhang, J. Kim and N. Koratkar, “Energy-absorbent composites featuring embedded

shape memory alloys” Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 12, pp. 642-646, (2003).

10. J. Kim, Z. Rusak, and N. Koratkar, “Small-scale airfoil aerodynamic efficiency improvement by surface temperature and heat transfer” AIAA Journal, Vol. 41, No. 11, pp. 2105-2113, (2003).

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11. J. P. Singh, N. Koratkar, T. Karabacak, T.-M. Lu and G.-C. Wang, “Field ionization of argon using β-phase W nanorods,” Applied Physics Letters 85, 15, pp. 3226-3228, (2004).

12. N. Koratkar, A. Modi, J. Kim, B. Wei, R. Vajtai, S. Talapatra and P. Ajayan, “Mobility

of carbon nanotubes in high electric fields,” Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol. 4, No. 1/2, pp. 69-71, (2004).

13. N. Koratkar, A. Modi, E. Lass, and P. Ajayan, “Temperature effects on resistance of

aligned multi-walled carbon nanotube films,” Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol. 4, No. 7, pp. 744-748, (2004).

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2005

14. N. Koratkar, “Nanoscale field ionization sensors- a review”, International Journal of Nanoscience, Vol. 4, pp. 945-949 (2005).

15. J. Suhr, N. Koratkar, P. Keblinski and P. Ajayan, “Viscoelasticity in carbon nanotube

composites,” Nature Materials, Vol. 4, pp. 134-137, (2005). Cited 214 times

16. N. Koratkar, J. Suhr, A. Joshi, R. Kane, L. Schadler, P. Ajayan, and S. Bartolucci, “Characterizing energy dissipation in single-walled carbon nanotube polycarbonate composites”, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 87, No. 6, 063102 (2005). Cited 64 times

17. J. Kim and N. Koratkar, “Feasibility study to develop a Mach-scaled swashplateless rotor

model,” Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 79-86, (2005).

18. J. Kim and N. Koratkar, “Effect of unsteady blade pitching motion on aerodynamic performance of micro-rotorcraft,” Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 874-881, (2005).

19. J. Nelson and N. Koratkar, “Eng. Note: Effect of miniaturized Gurney flaps on

aerodynamic performance of micro-scale rotors,” Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 557-561, (2005).

2006 20. W. Zhang, J. Suhr and N. Koratkar, “Observation of high buckling stability in carbon

nanotube polymer composites”, Advanced Materials, Vol. 18, pp. 452-456 (2006). Cited 32 times.

21. R. Teki, N. Koratkar, T. Karabacak and T.-M. Lu, “Enhanced photo-emission from

nanostructured surface topologies”, Applied Physics Letters 89, pp. 193116:1-3 (2006).

22. S. Kim, T. Karabacak, T.-M. Lu and N. Koratkar, “Water Electrolysis Activated by Ru Nanorod Array Electrodes”, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 88, pp. 263106:1-3 (2006).

23. Z. Wang, N. Koratkar, “Suppressing electrostatic screening in nanostructured electrode

arrays”, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol. 6, pp. 1979-1984 (2006).

24. J. Suhr, W. Zhang, P. Ajayan and N. Koratkar, “Temperature activated interfacial friction damping in carbon nanotube polymer composites”, Nano Letters, 6, 219-223 (2006). Cited 49 times

25. W. Zhang, J. Suhr and N. Koratkar, “Carbon nanotube/polycarbonate composites as

multifunctional strain sensors”, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol. 6, pp. 960-964 (2006). Cited 102 times

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26. J. Suhr and N. Koratkar, “Effect of pre-strain on interfacial friction damping in carbon nanotube polymer composites”, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol. 6, pp. 1-4 (2006).

27. D.-B. Cho, J. Suhr and N. Koratkar, “Carbon nanotube thin film coating for improved

thermal management in piezoceramic sheet actuators”, Intelligent Materials Systems and Structures, Vol. 17, pp. 209-216 (2006).

28. J. Suhr, N. Koratkar, D.-X. Ye and T.-M. Lu, “Damping properties of epoxy films with

nanoscale fillers”, Intelligent Materials Systems and Structures, Vol. 17, pp. 255-260. (2006).

29. P. Ajayan, J. Suhr and N. Koratkar, “Utilizing interfaces in carbon nanotube reinforced

polymer composites for structural damping”, Journal of Materials Science 41, 7824-7829 (2006).

2007

30. Z. Wang, L. Ci, L. Chen, S. Nayak, P. Ajayan and N. Koratkar, “Polarity-dependent electrochemically controlled transport of water through carbon nanotube membranes”, Nano Letters 7, 697 (2007). Cited 83 times

31. W. Zhang, V. Sakalkar, and N. Koratkar, “In situ health monitoring and repair in

composites using carbon nanotube additives”, Applied Physics Letters 91, 133102 (2007).

32. Z. Wang, C. Lopez, A. Hirsa and N. Koratkar, “Impact dynamics and rebound of water droplets on superhydrophobic carbon nanotube arrays”, Applied Physics Letters 91, 023105 (2007). Cited 56 times

33. Z. Wang, Y. Ou, T.-M. Lu and N. Koratkar, “Wetting and electrowetting properties of

carbon nanotube templated parylene films”, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 111, 4296 (2007).

34. Z. Wang, L. Ci, P. Ajayan and N. Koratkar, “Combined micro/nanoscale surface

roughness for enhanced hydrophobic stability in carbon nanotube arrays”, Applied Physics Letters 90, 143117 (2007). Cited 49 times

35. L. Chen, Y. Zhang, N. Koratkar, P. Jena, and S. K. Nayak, “First principles study of

interaction of molecular hydrogen with Li doped carbon nano peapod”, Physical Review B, 77, 033405 (2007).

36. W. Zhang, R. C. Picu and N. Koratkar, “Suppression of fatigue crack growth in carbon

nanotube composites”, Applied Physics Letters 91, 193109 (2007). Cited 44 times.

37. Z. Wang, A. Joshi, R. Kane and N. Koratkar, “Creep mitigation in composites using carbon nanotube additives”, Nanotechnology 18, 185703 (2007).

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38. J. Suhr, A. Joshi, L. Schadler, R. Kane and N. Koratkar, “Effect of filler geometry on

interfacial friction damping in polymer nano-composites”, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 7, 1684 (2007).

39. J. Ryoo, P. Hajela, J. Suhr and N. Koratkar, “Estimation of Young’s modulus of

singlewalled carbon nanotubes using cellular automata”, Advances in Engineering Software 38, 531 (2007).

2008

40. C. Li, Z. Wang, P.-I. Wang, Y. Peles, N. Koratkar and G. P. Peterson, “Nanostructured copper interfaces for enhanced boiling”, Small 4, 1084-1088 (2008). This work was featured by Nature News (04 July 2008), doi: 10.1038/news.2008.935

Cited 107 times

41. C. Ma, L.J. Ji, R.P. Zhang, Y.F. Zhu, W. Zhang and N. Koratkar, “Alignment and dispersion of functionalized carbon nanotubes in polymer composites induced by an electric field”, Carbon 46, 706-710 (2008). Cited 59 times

42. J. P. Singh, R. Teki, L. Ci, P. Ajayan and N. Koratkar, “Detecting mechanical resonance

in carbon nanotubes via inter-tube electrical transport measurements”, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 8, 436-438 (2008).

43. W. Zhang, R.C. Picu and N. Koratkar, “Effect of carbon nanotube dimensions and

dispersion on the fatigue behavior of epoxy nanocomposites” Nanotechnology, 19, 285709 (2008). Cited 30 times

44. S. Kim, S. Pal, P. Ajayan, T. Borca-Tasciuc and N. Koratkar, “Electrical breakdown gas

detector featuring carbon nanotube array electrodes”, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 8, 416-419 (2008).

45. R. Teki, T. C. Parker, H. Li, N. Koratkar, T.-M. Lu, and S. Li, “Low temperature

synthesis of single crystalline ZnO nanorods by oblique angle deposition”, Thin Solid Films, 516, 4993–4996 (2008).

46. Z. Wang and N. Koratkar, “Electrically Controlled Wetting and Dewetting Transition on

Silicon Micro-Pillar Arrays”, Advanced Science Letters 1, 222-225 (2008).

47. J. Suhr and N. Koratkar, “Energy dissipation in carbon nanotube composites- A review” Journal of Materials Science 43, 4370-4382 (2008). Cited 45 times

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2009

48. W. Zhang, I. Srivastava, Y.-F. Zhu, C. R. Picu, and N. Koratkar, “Heterogeneity in Epoxy Nanocomposites Initiates Crazing: Significant Improvements in Fatigue Resistance and Toughening”, Small 5, 1403-1407 (2009). Cited 40 times

49. A. Proper, W. Zhang, S. Bartolucci, A. Oberai and N. Koratkar, “In situ detection of

impact damage in composites using carbon nanotube sensor networks”, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters 1, 3-7 (2009).

50. M. A. Rafiee, J. Rafiee, Z. Wang, H. Song, Z.-Z. Yu and N. Koratkar, “Enhanced

Mechanical Properties of Nanocomposites at Low Graphene Content“, ACS Nano 3, 3884-3890 (2009). Cited 325 times

[This paper was highlighted by 2010 Nobel Laureate Dr. Konstantin Novoselov in his 2010 Keynote Address to the MRS Fall Meeting]

51. R. Teki, M. K. Datta, R. Krishnan, T. C. Parker, T.-M. Lu, P. N. Kumta and N. Koratkar, “Nanostructured Silicon Anodes for Lithium-Ion Rechargeable Batteries”, Small 5, 2236-2242 (2009). Cited 107 times

52. M. A. Rafiee, J. Rafiee, Z.-Z. Yu and N. Koratkar, “Buckling Resistant Graphene

Nanocomposites”, Applied Physics Letters 95, 223103 (2009).

53. R. Teki, T.-M. Lu and N. Koratkar, “Effect of Tip Geometry on Photo-Electron-Emission from Nanostructures”, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 9, 1749-1753 (2009).

54. Y.-F. Zhu, C. Ma, W. Zhang, R.P. Zhang, N. Koratkar, J. Liang, “Alignment of

multiwalled carbon nanotubes in bulk epoxy composites via electric field”, Journal of Applied Physics 105, 054319 (2009). Cited 44 times

55. M. Gasda, R. Teki, T.-M. Lu, N. Koratkar, G. A. Eisman, D. Gall, “Sputter-Deposited Pt

PEM Fuel Cell Electrodes: Particles vs Layers”, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 156, B614-B619 (2009).

2010

56. M. A. Rafiee, J. Rafiee, I. Srivastava, Z. Wang, H. Song, Z.-Z. Yu and N. Koratkar, “Fracture and Fatigue in Graphene Nanocomposites”, Small 6, 179–183 (2010).

Cited 143 times

57. I. Srivastava, A. Proper, M. A. Rafiee and N. Koratkar, “Three-Phase Textile Nanocomposites: Significant Improvements in Strength, Toughness and Ductility”, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 10, 1025-1029 (2010).

58. I. Srivastava and N. Koratkar, “Fatigue and Fracture toughness of Epoxy Nano-

composites”, JOM 62, 50-57 (2010).

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59. J. Rafiee, M. A. Rafiee, Z.-Z. Yu & N. Koratkar, “Super-hydrophobic to Super-hydrophilic wetting control in Graphene Films”, Advanced Materials 22, 2151-2154 (2010). Cited 103 times

60. P.K. Dubey, A.S.K. Sinha, S. Talapatra, N. Koratkar, P.M. Ajayan, O.N. Srivastava,

“Hydrogen generation by water electrolysis using carbon nanotube anode”, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 35, 3945-3950 (2010).

61. Z. Zhao, R. Teki, N. Koratkar, H. Efstathiadis, P. Haldar, ” Metal oxide buffer layer for

improving performance of polymer solar cells”, Applied Surface Science 256, 6053-6056 (2010).

62. B. A. Malouin, Z. Wang, N. Koratkar and A. Hirsa, “Directed rebounding of droplets by

microscale surface roughness gradients”, Applied Physics Letters 96, 234103 (2010).

63. R. Nagar, B. R. Mehta, R. Teki, N. Koratkar, V. G. Sathe, D. Kanjilal, J. P. Singh, “Radiation induced modification in nano-mechanical hardness of ZnO cone structures”, Journal of Applied Physics 108, 063519 (2010).

64. F. Yavari, C. Kritzinger, C. Gaire, L. Song, H. Gulapalli, T. Borca-Tasciuc, P. M. Ajayan

and N. Koratkar, “Tunable band gap in graphene by the controlled adsorption of water molecules”, Small 6, 2535-2538 (2010). Cited 75 times

65. F. Yavari, M. A. Rafiee, J. Rafiee, Z.-Z. Yu and N. Koratkar, “Dramatic Increase in

Fatigue Life in Hierarchical Graphene Composites”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2, 2738–2743 (2010).

66. M. A. Rafiee, W. Lu, A. V. Thomas, A. Zandiatashbar, J. Rafiee, J. M. Tour and

N. Koratkar, “Graphene Nano-ribbon Composites”, ACS Nano 4, 7415–7420 (2010). Cited 48 times

2011

67. K. S. Hazra, J. Rafiee, M. A. Rafiee, A. Mathur, S. S. Roy, J. McLauhglin, N. Koratkar and D. S. Misra, “Thinning of multilayer graphene to monolayer graphene in a plasma environment”, Nanotechnology 22, 025704 (2011). This research study was featured by Nature India (31 December 2010), doi:10.1038/nindia.2010.187

68. X.-Z. Tang, W. Li, Z.-Z. Yu, M. A. Rafiee, J. Rafiee, F. Yavari and N. Koratkar,

“Enhanced thermal stability in graphene oxide covalently functionalized with 2-amino-4, 6-didodecylamino-1, 3, 5-triazine”, Carbon 49, 1258-1265 (2011).

69. R. Nagar, R. Teki, I. Srivastava, J. P. Singh and N. Koratkar, ” Carbon Nanotube Photo-

Thermo-Mechanical Actuator”, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 11, 935-940 (2011).

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70. I.Srivastava, R. J. Mehta, Z.-Z. Yu, L. Schadler, and N. Koratkar, “Raman Study of Interfacial Load Transfer in Graphene Nanocomposites”, Applied Physics Letters 98, 063102 (2011).

71. R. Krishnan, T.-M. Lu and N. Koratkar, “Functionally strain graded nanoscoops for high

power Li-ion battery anodes”, Nano Letters 11, 377-384 (2011). Cited 36 times

[5th most downloaded Nano Letters paper in January/February 2011]

72. M.A. Rafiee, J. Rafiee, F. Yavari and N. Koratkar, “Fullerene/Epoxy Nanocomposites- Enhanced Mechanical Properties at Low Nanofiller Loading”, Journal of Nanoparticle Research 13:733–737 (2011)

73. J. Samuel, J. Rafiee, P. Dhiman, Z.-Z. Yu and N. Koratkar, “Graphene Colloidal

Suspensions as High Performance Semi-Synthetic Metal-Working Fluids”, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 115, 3410-3415 (2011).

74. L. S. Walker, V. R. Marotto, M. A. Rafiee, N. Koratkar, E. L. Corral, “Toughening in

Graphene Ceramic Composites”, ACS Nano 5, 3182–3190 (2011). Cited 62 times

75. F. Yavari, H. R. Fard, K. Pashayi, M. A. Rafiee, A. Zamiri, Z.-Z. Yu, R. Ozisik, T. Borca-Tasciuc, N. Koratkar, “Enhanced Thermal Conductivity in a Nanostructured Phase Change Composite due to Low Concentration Graphene Additives”, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 115, 8753–8758 (2011). Cited 40 times

76. X. Chen, J. Wu, R. Ma, M. Hua, N. Koratkar, S. Yao, and Z. Wang, “Nanograssed

Micropyramidal Architectures for Continuous Dropwise Condensation”, Advanced Functional Materials 21, 4617-4623 (2011). Featured on the Cover, Cited 49 times

77. K. S. Hazra, N. Koratkar and D. S. Misra, “Improved Field emission from multiwall

carbon nanotubes with nano-size defects produced by ultra-low energy ion bombardment”, Carbon 49, 4760-4766 (2011).

78. P. Dhiman, F. Yavari, X. Mi, H. Gullapalli, Y. Shi, P. M. Ajayan and N. Koratkar,

“Harvesting Energy from Water Flow over Graphene”, Nano Letters 11, 3123-3127 (2011).

Most downloaded Nano Letters paper in the entire 3rd quarter of 2011.

This study was also featured by Nature (Volume 476, Page 255, 2011) in their research highlights section (doi:10.1038/476255f).

79. X.-Y. Qi, D. Yan, Z. Jiang, Y.-K. Cao, Z.-Z. Yu, F. Yavari, N. Koratkar, “Enhanced

Electrical Conductivity in Polystyrene Nanocomposites at Ultra-Low Graphene Content”, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 3, 3130-3133 (2011).

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80. Stephen F. Bartolucci, Joseph Paras, Mohammad A. Rafiee, Javad Rafiee, Sabrina Lee, Deepak Kapoor, Nikhil Koratkar, “Graphene-Aluminum Nanocomposites”, Materials Science & Engineering A 528, 7933– 7937 (2011).

81. R. Bajpai, S. Roy, P. Kumar, P. Bajpai, N. Kulshrestha, J. Rafiee, N. Koratkar, and D. S.

Misra, “Graphene Supported Platinum Nanoparticle Counter-Electrode for Enhanced Performance of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 3, 3884–3889 (2011). Cited 42 times

82. F. Yavari, Z. Chen, A. V. Thomas, W. Ren, H.-M. Cheng and N. Koratkar, “High

sensitivity gas detection using a macroscopic three-dimensional graphene foam network”, Scientific Reports 1, 166; DOI:10.1038/srep00166 (2011).

2012

83. D. Zheng, G. Tang, H.-B. Zhang, Z.-Z. Yu, F. Yavari, N. Koratkar, S.-H. Lim, and M.-W. Lee, “In-situ thermal reduction of graphene oxide for high electrical conductivity and low percolation threshold in polyamide 6 composites”, Composites Science and Technology, 72, 284-289 (2012).

84. V. Gadhamshetty and N. Koratkar, “Nano-Engineered Biocatalyst-Electrode Structures

for Next Generation Microbial Fuel Cells”, Nano Energy 1, 3-5 (2012).

85. A. Zandiatashbar, C. R. Picu, and N. Koratkar, “Control of Epoxy Creep using Graphene”, Small, 8, 1676-1682 (2012).

86. R. Bajpai, S. Roy, P. Kumar, P. Bajpai, N. Kulshrestha, J. Rafiee, Nikhil Koratkar, D. S.

Misra, “Graphene supported Nickel nanoparticle as a viable replacement for Platinum in dye sensitized solar cells”, Nanoscale 4, 926-930 (2012).

87. J. Rafiee, X. Mi, H. Gullapalli, A. Thomas, F. Yavari, Y. Shi, P. Ajayan, and

N. Koratkar, ”Wetting transparency of graphene”, Nature Materials 11, 217-222 (2012). Cited 103 times

This paper was also featured in their News and Views Section: “Unobstrusive Graphene Coatings” Nature Materials 11, 182-183 (2012).

88. M. Kumar, V. N. Singh, B. R. Mehta, N. Koratkar, and J. P. Singh, “Electron beam

induced real time rocket-type propulsion effect in indium metal filled indium oxide nanotubes”, Materials Letters 68, 47-50 (2012).

89. A. Bush, A. Thomas, Z.-Z.Yu and N. Koratkar, “Wetting Behavior of Graphene Chitosan

Nanocomposites for 3D Scaffold Structures”, Adv. Sci. Eng. Med. 4, 15-18 (2012)

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90. S. S. Kandanur, M. A. Rafiee, F. Yavari, M. Schrameyer, Z.-Z. Yu, T. A. Blanchet and N.

Koratkar, “Suppression of wear in graphene polymer composites”, Carbon 50, 3178–3183 (2012).

91. R. Mukherjee, A. V. Thomas, A. Krishnamurthy, N. Koratkar, “Photo-Thermally

Reduced Graphene As High Power Anodes for Lithium Ion Batteries”, ACS Nano 6, 7867-7878 (2012). Cited 36 times

92. I. Srivastava, Z.-Z. Yu and N. A. Koratkar, ”Viscoelastic Properties of Graphene Polymer

Composites”, Adv. Sci. Eng. Med. 4, 10-14 (2012). 93. X. Mi, V. Meunier, N. Koratkar and Y. Shi, “Facet-insensitive Graphene Growth on

Copper”, Physical Review B 85, 155436 (2012).

94. F. Yavari and N. Koratkar, “Graphene based chemical sensors”, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 3, 1746-1753 (2012). Featured on the Cover.

95. F. Yavari, L. Chen, A. Zandiatashbar, Z.-Z. Yu and N. Koratkar, “Synergy derived by

combining graphene and carbon nanotubes as nanofillers in composites”, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 12, 3165-3169 (2012).

96. A. Zandiatashbar, R.C. Picu and N. Koratkar, “Mechanical Behavior of Epoxy-Graphene

Platelets Nanocomposites”, ASME Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, 134, 031011 (2012).

97. R. Mukherjee, R. Krishnan, L.-M. Lu and N. Koratkar, “Nanostructured Electrodes for

High-Power Lithium Ion Batteries”, Nano Energy 1, 518-533 (2012). Cited 37 times

98. G. Chatterjee, P. K. Singh, S. Ahmed, A. P. L. Robinson, A. D. Lad, S. Mondal, V. Narayanan, I. Srivastava, N. Koratkar, J. Pasley, A. K. Sood, and G. R. Kumar, “Macroscopic Transport of Megaampere Electron Currents in Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays”, Physical Review Letters 108, 235005 (2012).

[This paper was featured in Nature Nanotechnology: “Going to new lengths” Nature Nanotechnology 7, 413 (2012).]

99. F. Yavari, E. Castillo, H. Gullapalli, P. M. Ajayan, and N. Koratkar, “High Sensitivity

Detection of NO2 and NH3 in Air using Chemical Vapor Deposition grown Graphene”, Applied Physics letters 100, 203120 (2012).

100. A. Thomas, N. Koratkar and Y. Peles, “Dehumidification heat transfer on copper

surfaces”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 55, 7858-7864 (2012).

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2013

101. B. Chu, E. Singh, N. Koratkar, and J. Samuel, “Graphene-Enhanced Environmentally-Benign Cutting Fluids for High-Performance Micro-Machining Applications”, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 13, 5500-5504 (2013).

102. E. Singh, Z. Chen, F. Houshmand, W. Ren, Y. Peles, H.-M. Cheng, N. Koratkar,

“Superhydrophobic graphene foams”, Small 9, 75–80 (2013). Featured on the inside Cover.

103. A. Krishnamurthy, V. Gadhamshetty, R. Mukherjee, Z. Chen, W. Ren, H-M. Cheng,

and N. Koratkar, “Passivation of Microbial Corrosion Using a Graphene Coating”, Carbon 56, 45-49 (2013).

104. R. Bajpai, S. Roy, N. Koratkar and D. S. Misra, “NiO nanoparticles deposited on

graphene platelets as a cost-effective counter electrode in a dye sensitized solar cell”, Carbon 56, 56-63 (2013).

105. E. Singh , A. V. Thomas , R. Mukherjee , X. Mi , F. Houshmand , Y. Peles , Y. Shi , and

N. Koratkar, “Graphene Drape Minimizes the Pinning and Hysteresis of Water Drops on Nanotextured Rough Surfaces”, ACS Nano 7, 3512–3521 (2013).

106. N. Kulshrestha, A. Misra, N. Koratkar, and D. S. Misra, ” Electrical Transport and

Breakdown in Graphene Multilayers loaded with Electron Beam Induced deposited Platinum”, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 5, 3424−3430 (2013).

107. S.-H. Lee, V. Sridhar, J.-H. Jung, K. Karthikeyan, Y.-S. Lee, R. Mukherjee,

N. Koratkar and I.-K. Oh, “Graphene-Nanotube-Iron Hierarchical Nanostructure as a Lithium Ion Battery Anode”, ACS Nano 7, 4242–4251 (2013).

108. J. Zhong, Z. Yang, R. Mukherjee, A. V. Thomas, K. Zhu, P. Sun, J. Lian, H. Zhu and

N. Koratkar, “Carbon Nanotube Sponges as Conductive Networks for Supercapacitor Devices”, Nano Energy 2, 1025-1030 (2013).

109. I. Arora, J. Samuel and N. Koratkar, “Experimental Investigation of the Machinability of

Epoxy Reinforced with Graphene Platelets”, ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering 135, 041007 (2013).

110. S. A. Shojaee, A. Zandiatashbar, N. Koratkar, D. A. Lucca, “Raman Spectroscopic Imaging of Graphene Dispersion in Polymer Composites”, Carbon 62, 510-513 (2013).

111. J. Dang, F. Xiang, N. Gu, R. Zhang, R. Mukherjee; I. Oh, N. Koratkar, Z. Yang,

“Synthesis and Electrochemical Performance Characterization of Ce-doped Li3V2(PO4)3/C as Cathodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries”, Journal of Power Sources 243, 33-39 (2013).

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112. A. Bianco, H.M. Cheng, T. Enoki, Y. Gogotsi, R. H. Hurt, N. Koratkar, T. Kyotani, M. Monthioux, C. R. Park, J. M. D. Tascon, J. Zhang, “All in the graphene family - A recommended nomenclature for two-dimensional carbon materials”, Carbon 65, 1-6 (2013).

2014 113. P. K. Chow, O. Eksik and N. Koratkar, “Mechanical Property Enhancement of Layered

Reduced Graphene Oxide Papers by Non-Covalent Modification with Terephthalic Acid”, Particles and Particle Systems Characterization DOI: 10.1002/ppsc.201300206 (2014).

114. N. K. Naik, K. S. Pandya, V. R. Kavala, W. Zhang and N. Koratkar, “Alumina

nanoparticle filled epoxy resin: High strain rate compressive behavior”, Polymer Engineering and Science, DOI: 10.1002/pen.23850 (2014).

115. A. Zandiatashbar, G.-H. Lee, S. J. An, S. Lee, N. Mathew, M. Terrones, T. Hayashi,

R. C. Picu, J. Hone, N. Koratkar, “Effect of defects on the intrinsic strength and stiffness of graphene”, Nature Communications 5, 3186 (2014).

Achievements/Awards of Koratkar’s Ph.D. Students

• Zuankai Wang (Ph.D. 2008) is a tenure-track assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the City University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, China.

• Jonghwan Suhr, (Ph.D. 2005) is a tenure track assistant professor in the department of mechanical engineering at the University of Delaware in the United States of America.

• Jonghwan Suhr (Ph.D. 2005) won the NSF Career Award in 2009.

• Zuankai Wang (Ph.D. 2008) won the Materials Research Society Graduate Student Silver Award at MRS Fall Meeting (2007)

• Zuankai Wang (Ph.D. 2008) won the Chinese Government Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad Award (2007).

• Javad Rafiee (Ph.D. expected 2012) won the $30,000 MIT-Lemelson student award (2010).

• Mohammad Rafiee (Ph.D. 2011) won the American Helicopter Society (AHS), Robert Lichten Award at the national level (2010).

• Iti Srivastava (Ph.D. 2010) won the $10,000 Amelia Earhart Fellowship for

women researchers in aerospace engineering (2010).

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• Jongmin Kim, (Ph.D. 2004) is a winner of American Helicopter Society (AHS), Robert Lichten Award at the national level (2004).

• Fazel Yavari (Ph.D. expected 2012) won the $30,000 MIT-Lemelson student award (2012).

Sample Media Reports and Magazine Articles

• Over 500 Reports citing Koratkar’s work have appeared in top media outlets including Nature, NY times, USA today, MSNBC, Scientific American, Popular Science, Wikipedia and the US News and World Report.

• Koratkar has been interviewed by BBC Radio and Northeast Public Radio and by

CBS and ABC TV News in Albany, NY. • The National Science Foundation has also issued three Press Releases based on his

work in nano-composites, lithium-ion batteries and graphene. Few sample media reports are given below: (1) “Water + acid + graphene = power”, Nature, Volume: 476, Page: 255, Date

published: (18 August 2011), DOI: doi:10.1038/476255f (Research Highlight) (2) “Nanorods make boiling better”, Published by Nature in their News Section

(doi:10.1038/news.2008.935), July 4, 2008. (3) “Nanorods enhance boiling”, BBC Radio’s Science in Action Program, July 4,

2008. (4) “Pot boiler: a new, faster way to heat water”, Scientific American, July 8, 2008. (5) “Carbon nanotube 'shock absorbers' excel at dampening vibration”, Press Release

issued by the National Science Foundation, January 2005. (6) “Leap in sniffing: nanotubes can name that gas”, New York Times, Aug 19, 2003. (7) “Handheld bioterror detectors in the works”, Article in USA Today, July 7, 2003. (8) “'Nanoscoops' Could Spark New Generation of Electric Automobile Batteries”,

US News and World Report, January 5, 2011. (9) “Graphene-coated sensors to strike oil”, MSNBC, July 2011.

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(10) “Miracle Material”, Press release by the National Science Foundation, May 19, 2011.

(11) “'Nanoscoops Could Spark New Generation of Electric Automobile Batteries”,

Press release issued by the National Science Foundation, January 4, 2011. (12) “Graphene’s other transparency”, Nature Asia-Pacific, January 23, 2012. (13) “Graphene Foam Sensors Cheaply Detect Trace Particles in Air Better Than

Current Technology”, Popular Science, 23rd November, 2011. (14) “Controlling the movement of water through nanotube membranes”, Wikipedia,

the free encyclopedia, 2007. (15) “Graphene nanomesh”, Research highlight, Nature India, December 31, 2010.

Keynote and Invited Lectures: Keynote Address: “Graphene based composite materials”, Second International Conference on Nanomechanics and Nanocomposites, Beijing, China, October 11 (2010). Invited Talks (at Conferences and Workshops):

1. “Wetting transparency of graphene”, Invited lecture at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Workshop, University of Dayton Research Institute, November 5 (2012).

2. “Wetting transparency of graphene”, Invited lecture at the Crystal &

Graphene Science Symposium-2012, September 5 (2012). 3. “Graphene based chemical sensors”, Invited lecture at the SPIE Defense,

Security and Sensing Conference, April 23 (2012). 4. “Graphene based composite materials”, Invited lecture at the TMS Annual

Meeting, Orlando, Florida, March 12 (2012). 5. “Wetting transparency in graphene”, Invited lecture at the International

Conference on Nanoscience and Technology (ICONSAT), Hyderabad, India, January 22 (2012).

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6. “Graphene based composite materials”, Invited lecture at the SME’s 4th Annual Advanced Lightweight Materials Summit, Detroit, MI, August 10 (2011).

7. “Graphene based composite materials”, Invited lecture at the Society of

Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, June 6 (2011).

8. “Graphene based composite materials”, Invited lecture at Materials Research

Society (MRS) Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, December 2 (2010). 9. “Wetting and electro-wetting of carbon nanotube and graphene films”, Invited

lecture at the Electro-Chemical Society (ECS) Spring Meeting, April 27 (2010).

10. “Fracture and Fatigue in Graphene Nanocomposites”, Invited lecture at the

Gordan Research Conference (GRC) entitled ‘Toward the Development of Sustainable and Nanotechnology Inspired Multi-Functional Composites’, Ventura, CA, January 18 (2010).

11. “Fracture and fatigue in graphene nanocomposites”, Invited lecture at the International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology (ICONSAT), Bombay, India, February 18 (2010).

12. “Nanorod structures for energy conversion”, Invited lecture at the American

Vacuum Society (AVS) 56th International Symposium and Exhibition, San Jose, CA, November 10 (2009).

13. “Fracture and fatigue in graphene nanocomposites”, Invited talk at the NSF-

DFG Sponsored Research Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, NY City, October 16 (2009).

14. “Damping in carbon nanotube composites”, Invited lecture at the TMS Annual

Meeting, San Francisco, CA, February 18 (2009).

15. “Fracture and Fatigue in graphene nanocomposites”, Invited talk at the Annual ASME Congress, Orlando, Fl, November 18 (2009).

16. “Hierarchical multiscale nanocomposite materials: dramatic improvements in

toughness and fatigue resistance”, Invited lecture at the 2nd Bangalore Nano Conference, 11th December (2008).

17. “Characterizing energy dissipation in carbon nanotube composites”, Invited

lecture at the Advanced Nanomaterials, ANM-2007 symposium, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Jan 3-7 (2007)

18. “Water electrolysis using carbon nanotube array electrodes”, Invited Talk at

the ASME Applied Mechnaics and Materials Conference, Austin, TX, June 7 (2007).

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19. “Damping properties of carbon nanotube composites”, Invited lecture for the carbon nanotube session at the Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Symposium in San Francisco, CA, March 28 (2005).

20. “Flow control strategies for improved aerodynamic performance of micro-

scale rotors”, Invited lecture at the Indo-US Forum on Science & Technology’s Workshop on Micro-Air-Vehicles, National Aeronautics Laboratories (NAL), Bangalore, India, Aug 1 (2005).

21. Presented a seminar on Nanoscale Science and Technology at the DARPA

Sponsored Workshop entitled, “Nano Air Vehicles for Sensor Emplacement”, Lansdowne, VA, March 2-3, (2004). The presentation was attended by leading scientists from academia, industry and army research laboratories.

22. “Multiwalled carbon nanotube electrode films for gas sensing”, Invited lecture

at the Knowledge Foundation’s 4th International Symposium on Detection Technologies: New Developments in Identification of Microorganisms and Chemicals, Arlington, VA, December 9, (2003).

23. “State-of-art of chemical sensing using carbon nanotube technology”, Invited

lecture at the International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONSAT), Organized by the department of Science and Technology, Government of India, Kolkata, India, December 17-20, (2003).

24. “Development of a smart rotor for active control of helicopter vibration”,

Invited lecture at the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Structures (ICAST), University of Maryland, College Park, October 15 (2001)

Invited Talks (at Universities):

25. “Graphene based composite materials”, Invited lecture hosted by the department of mechanical engineering, Columbia University, September 23 (2011).

26. “Carbon-Aluminum-Silicon Nanoscoops for High Power Li-Ion Batteries”,

Invited lecture hosted by the department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Florida International University (FIU), November 18 (2011).

27. “Graphene based composite materials”, Invited lecture hosted by the

department of physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, November 24 (2010).

28. “Graphene based composite materials”, Invited lecture hosted by the

department of mechanical and materials engineering, Rice University, March 17 (2010).

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29. “Exploiting Interfacial Slip in Carbon Nanotube Polymer Composites for Enhanced Damping and Fatigue Resistance”, Invited seminar hosted by the department of aerospace engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, July 29 (2008).

30. “Exploiting Interfacial Slip in Carbon Nanotube Polymer Composites for

Enhanced Damping and Fatigue Resistance”, Invited seminar hosted by the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, June 26 (2008).

31. “Interfacial and transport phenomena in micro and nano systems”, Invited

seminar hosted by the department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, December 14 (2007).

32. “Nanostructured Materials- Synthesis, Patterning and Selected Engineering

Applications”, seminar at the Arizona State University, December 1, (2006).

33. “Carbon Nanotubes- Science, Engineering and Applications”, Invited lecture, Dept. of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Clarkson University, October 14 (2005).

34. “Selected Engineering Applications of Nanostructured Materials”, Invited

lecture to the students and faculty of the Materials Science and Engineering Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 15th April (2004).

35. “Nanoscale ionization gas sensors”, Invited lecture at Agharkar Research

Institute, Pune, India, January 3, (2004)

36. “Carbon nanotube ionization gas sensors”, Invited lecture at the University of Pune, India, January 8 (2004).

37. “Nanoscale devices for thermal, mechanical and chemical sensing”, City College of

New York, September 18, (2003).

38. “Nano-technology applications to multi-scale systems”, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, December 26 (2001).

39. “Development of a smart rotor with piezoelectric bender actuated trailing-edge flaps

for active vibration and noise control” Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, September 30 (1998).

Service to the University University, School and Departmental Committees - AE curriculum coordinator: 2007-present - Member Department Committee on AE Curriculum: 2001-Present

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- Member Department ABET Committee for AE: 2001-Present - Member Institute Wide Curriculum Committee: 2009-2010 - Member Department Chair Search Committee: 2004-2005 - Member Institute Research Financial Information Committee: 2004-2005 - Member Department Chair Search Committee: 2011-2012 - Chair of Rosalind and Redfern Chair Search Committee: 2011-2012 Other Service and Administration Activities

- Represented RPI at the coalition for national science funding exhibition at

the Capitol Hill in Washington DC June 21, (2005). Described NSF funded nanotechnology research at RPI to Members of Congress and their staff.

- Provided nanotechnology review to members of the nanotechnology

commercialization group and NanoHoldings LLC on behalf of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s office of technology commercialization, September 13, (2005).

- Delivered nanotechnology related presentation to Mr. Adam Aston,

Industries Editor of BuisinessWeek on behalf of the RPI Office of Research, May 20, (2005).

- Delivered nanotechnology related presentation to Dr. John Brighton

(National Science Foundation’s Assistant Director of Engineering) and Dr. Michael Reischman (National Science Foundation’s Deputy Assistant Director of Engineering) on behalf of the RPI Office of Research on Nov. 22, (2004).

- Delivered nanotechnology presentation to Ms. Carolyn Hanna

(Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate) on behalf of the RPI Office of Research on October 30, (2004).

- Presented an overview of the MANE Department to students and their

parents at the “Discover Day” and “Medalist Day” events, in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006 and 2007.

- Presented RPI Micro-Air-Vehicle Initiative to Mr Dennis Tito on May 17,

(2002.). - Presented research overview to MANE Department Advisory Board on

August 24, (2002).

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- Presentation to DARPA industry representatives, April 6 2005.

- Presentation to FedEx, May 16 (2007).

- Presented curriculum revision plans to MANE Department Advisory

Board (2008).