Research papers on materials, heat, forces, and two-dimensional sheets
These publication stories explain the questions, methods, and findings behind my peer-reviewed research.
ACS Applied Nano Materials · 2026
A free-energy comparison finds that gas flow assists edge peeling most strongly. Helium mixtures retain much of the modeled energy transfer.
Advanced Engineering Materials · 2026
Helium at one-quarter of the nitrogen pressure still produced a stronger h-BN exfoliation signal. Following the particles through the nozzle explains why gas acceleration matters more than the spectacle of a shock.
Scientific Reports · 2023
Unequal controlled forces turn a pair of copper nanoparticles into a model refrigerator. The interesting part is the full trade-off: reversing heat flow, paying for it with work, and choosing between efficiency, cooling power, and precision.
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics · 2023
Changing Be to Mg or Pt reshapes a nitrogen-rich monolayer’s directional response. Heat transport keeps one ranking; mechanical stiffness changes its ranking when the loading direction changes.
Journal of Molecular Liquids · 2022
A TiO₂ particle cools rapidly in water—until electrostatic interactions are removed from the model. That comparison reveals a much larger effect than the changes caused by particle size or surface wettability.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C · 2022
A gas stream gives graphene layers room to move sideways before it pulls them far apart. Atomistic trajectories reveal how flow speed, pressure, and carrier-gas identity change that motion.
Journal of Applied Physics · 2021
Machine learning can bring first-principles information into much larger heat-transport calculations. This perspective shows where the agreement is convincing—and why no single success validates every material or condition.
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer · 2021
For C₂N, a learned potential brings heat transport closer to a first-principles reference and changes the predicted failure process. Adding just 2% vacancies then exposes a weakness that early elastic stretching largely conceals.
Computational Materials Science · 2021
Shrink silicon to a few nanometres and its surfaces reshape both heat flow and failure. The most useful story is how length, width, temperature, and the calculation method each change the answer.
Composites Part B: Engineering · 2020
Borophene starts with unequal directional properties. Elliptical pores can bring heat flow or stiffness into balance—but the pore shape that balances one property does not necessarily balance the other.
Materials Today Communications · 2020
Graphene, h-BN, and MoS₂ all lose conductivity under torsion. Wrinkle height gives the comparison a physical scale, and its square captures the reported conductivity trend.
The Journal of chemical physics · 2019
A hot silver nanoparticle disturbs the nearby water for only a few picoseconds. Resolving the first shells reveals both how heat escapes and why a continuum description needs special treatment at the surface.
Journal of Molecular Liquids · 2018
Silver changes the water closest to its surface. Counting that dense nanolayer explains why a conventional mixture rule misses both the fluid’s density and its resistance to flow.