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Pitchumani on cover of Langmuir
The March 13 cover of
Langmuir, the ACS journal of
fundamental interface science,
featured an image by Rahul Jain,
and Ranga Pitchumani, George
R. Goodson Professor. The image Pitchumani
went with their article, "Durable
Multiscale Superhydrophobic Surfaces Under
Dynamic Conditions." Click here to view the
cover and find a link to the article.
Cheng in Nanoscale
Associate Professor Jiangtao
Cheng has had his paper Mech-
anism and Universal Scaling
Law for Contact Line Friction of
Cassie State Droplets on Na-
Cheng
no-structured Ultrahydrophobic
Surfaces published in the Royal
Society of Chemistry journal Nanoscale.
Zuo publication, grant
Professor and John R. Jones III
Faculty Fellow Lei Zuo has had
two papers published in Applied
Energy. Design, simulation and
experiment of a novel high effi-
Zuo
ciency energy harvesting paver
appeared in the February edition,
and Modeling and field testing of an electro-
magnetic energy harvester for rail tracks with
anchorless mounting appeared in March.
Zuo also received a grant from the Office
of Naval Research to build on his backpack
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energy harvesting work previously supported
by the US Army. Zuo is PI of the $528,000
three-year project with Robin Queen, associ-
ate professor in BEAM as co-PI.
Nain NSF grant
Associate Professor Amrinder
Nain received a grant from the
National Science Foundation
for Collaborative Research:
Mechanobiology of Fiber Geom-
etry-RhoGTPase Crosstalk at the
Nain
Leading Edge of Cells Crawling
on Fibers. The collaborative proposal has
Nain working with the University of North
Carolina. The Virginia Tech portion of the
grant is $441,973.
Burdisso in JASA
Professor Ricardo Burdisso had
a paper, A numerical hybrid mod-
el for outdoor sound propagation
in complex urban environments
published in the Journal of the
Acoustical Society of America.
Burdisso
Behkam in Applied Materials and
Interfaces
Associate Professor Bahareh
Behkam recently was published
in the ACS Applied Materials and
Interfaces journal with Design of
Nanofiber Coatings for Mitiga-
tion of Microbial Adhesion: Mod- Behkam
eling and Application to Medical
Catheters. Along with Behkam, other authors
included Associate Professor Amrinder Nain,
as well as several others from the School of
Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, the
Macromolecules Innovation Institute, and the
Department of Chemistry in the College of
Science.
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