People

Collaborators

Dr. Daeyeon Lee at U. Penn 

• The synthesis and characterization of nanoparticle thin film
• The characterization of microbubble

Dr. Dan Gianola at U. Penn.

• The characterization of metallic thin films

Dr. Robert Carpick at U. Penn. and Dr. Frank Pfefferkorn at U. of Wisconsin-Madison

• The characterization of Micro End Mills

Dr. Xuemei Cheng at Bryn Mawr College

• The synthesis and characterization of nanoporous materials

Dr. Seung Min Han at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

• The characterization of nanopillars

Dr. Aaron Wemhoff at Villanova

• The synthesis and characterization of nano-energy-storage materials

Current Ph.D. Students

Lu An (Ph.D. Candidate, 08/2015-06/2019 (expected), lan@villanova.edu
Project: Synthesis and nanomechanical characterization of nanostructures.

Lin Zhang (Ph.D. Candidate, 01/2017-05/2020 (expected), lzhang5@villanova.edu 
Project: Synthesis and nanomechanical characterization of nanostructured thermal energy storage materials

Current Undergraduate Students

Andrew Lee ’19 ME, alee60@villanova.edu
Project: Nanomechanical characterization of nanoparticles.

Former Visiting Scholars

Yuanhang Yang, (Visiting Research Graduate Scholar, 01/2017-05/2017)
Current position: Graduate Student, College of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology.
Project: (Collaborative Project with Dr. Yanhong Gu) Nanomechanical characterization of anti-corrosion coatings.

Lei Zhang, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Research Associate, 09/2011-08/2013)
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Former Project: (Collaborative Project with Dr. Daeyeon Lee at Penn) Nanomechanical characterization of nanoparticle thin films.

Liangping Shen, Ph.D. (Visiting Associate Professor, 09/2014-02/2015)
Current position: Associate Professor, Faculty of Physics and Electronic Technology, Hubei University, China.
Former Project: The behavior of nanofluid.

Davood Askari, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Research Associate, 02/2009-08/2009)
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wichita State University.
Former Project: Nanomechanical characterization of nanowires, polymer nanocomposites, and biomaterials.

Former Graduate Students

Di Zhang (Ph.D., 08/2011-05/2016)
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Valparaiso University
PhD Project: Synthesis and nanomechanical characterization of nanostructures.

Yue Xu (Ph.D., 06/2013-05/2017)
Project:  (Collaborative Project with Dr. Amy Fleisher and Dr. Aaron Wemhoff at Villanova) Synthesis and nanomechanical characterization of carbon-nanofiber-structured energy storage materials.

Timothy Montalbano, (M.S., 08/2008-06/2010)
Current address: The University of California at Irvine
Former Project: Nanomechanical characterization of biomaterials, including bone.

Dalmas Wambura, (M.S., 08/2010-06/2012)
Former Project: Nanomechanical characterization of nanomaterials, polymer nanocomposites, and biomaterials.

Harshini Areti, (M.S., 08/2011-06/2012)
Former Project: Nanomechanical characterization of biosensing chips.

Bala Bharat Guduru, (M.S., 08/2011-06/2012)
Former Project: Finite element modeling of nanoparticle nanoindentation.

Former Undergraduate Students

Erik Koehr ’17 ME
Project: Nanomechanical characterization of nanoparticles.

Lindsay Ellerthorpe ’16 ME
Project: (Collaborative Project with Dr. Shu Yang at Penn) Nanomechanical characterization of functional nanoporous thin films.

Chris Cho ’11 ME
Former Project: Nanomechanical characterization of nanomaterials, lead-free solder materials, and biomaterials.

William Albert ’12 ME
Former Project: Nanomechanical characterization of individual nanoparticles.

Scott Deady ’12 ME
Former Project: Nanomechanical characterization of nanomaterials biomaterials.

Robert Floyd ’12 ME
Former Project: Nanomechanical characterization of nanomaterials.

Christopher Gere ’12 ME
Former Project: Nanomechanical characterization of biomaterials.

Gregory Campbell ’14 ME
Project: Nanomechanical characterization of nanoparticles.