JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (for publications by research areas click here):

  • C. Cho, P. Kang, A. Taqieddin, Y. Jing, K. Yong, J. M. Kim, M. F. Haque, N. R. Aluru, S. W. Nam, ``Strain-resilient electrical functionality in thin-film metal electrodes using two-dimensional interlayers'', Nature Electronics, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 126-133, 2021. DOI: 10.1038/s41928-021-00538-4 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • S. Faucher, M. Kuehne, V. B. Koman, N. Northrup, D. Kozawa, Z. Yuan, S. X. Li, Y. Zeng, T. Ichihara, R. P. Misra, N. Aluru, D. Blankschtein, and M. S. Strano, ``Diameter Dependence of Water Filling in Lithographically Segmented Isolated Carbon Nanotubes'', ACS Nano, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 2778-2790, 2021. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c08634 [pdf file]

  • Z. Zhang, A. Rayabharam, J. Martis, H. Li, N. R. Aluru and A. Majumdar, ``Prospects for sub-nanometer scale imaging of optical phenomena using electron microscopy'', Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 118, No. 3, Art. No. 033104, 2021. DOI: 10.1063/5.0029979 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • H. Qu, A. Rayabharam, X. Wu, P. Wang, Y. Li, J. Fagan, N. R. Aluru, Y. Wang, ``Selective filling of n-hexane in a tight nanopore'', Nature Communications, Vol. 12, Art. No. 310, 2021. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20587-1 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • P. Priya and N. R. Aluru, ``A multiscale framework to predict electrochemical characteristics of yttrium doped Barium Zirconate based solid oxide cells'', Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 481, Art. No. 228969, 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2020.228969 [pdf file]

  • S. Zhou, K. S. Panse, M. H. Motevaselian, N. R. Aluru, Y. Zhang, ``Three-Dimensional Molecular Mapping of Ionic Liquids at Electrified Interfaces'', ACS Nano, Vol. 14, No. 12, pp. 17515-17523, 2020. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c07957 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • M. H. Motevaselian and N. R. Aluru, ``Confinement-Induced Enhancement of Parallel Dielectric Permittivity: Super Permittivity Under Extreme Confinement'', Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 11, No. 24, pp. 10532-10537, 2020. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c03219 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • C. Choi, J. Leem, M. S. Kim, A. Taqieddin, C. Cho, K. W. Cho, G. J. Lee, H. Seung, H. J. Bae, Y. M. Song, T. Hyeon, N. R. Aluru, S. W. Nam, D.-H. Kim, ``Curved neuromorphic image sensor array using a MoS2-organic heterostructure inspired by the human visual recognition system'', Nature Communications, Vol. 11, Art. No. 5934, 2020. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19806-6 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • M. Heiranian, A. Taqieddin and N. R. Aluru, ``Revisiting Sampson's theory for hydrodynamic transport in ultrathin nanopores'', Physical Review Research, Vol. 2, No. 4, Art. No. 043153, 2020. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.043153 [pdf file]

  • M. H. Motevaselian and N. R. Aluru, ``Universal Reduction in Dielectric Response of Confined Fluids'', ACS Nano, Vol. 14, No. 10, pp. 12761-12770, 2020. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c03173 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • J. H. Park, S. Jung, Y. H. Song, N. R. Aluru, T. Kim, S. B. Lee, U. H. Choi, J. Lee, ``Water-Assisted Increase of Ionic Conductivity of Lithium Poly(acrylic acid)-Based Aqueous Polymer Electrolyte'', ACS Applied Energy Materials, Vol. 3, No. 10, pp. 10119-10130, 2020. DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.0c01765 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • A. Taqieddin, M. Heiranian and N. R. Aluru, ``Interfacial Properties of Water on Hydrogenated and Fluorinated Graphene Surfaces: Parametrization of Nonbonded Interactions'', The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 124, No. 39, pp. 21467-21475, 2020. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c05951 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • S. De, A. van der Zande and N. R. Aluru, ``Intrinsic Dissipation Due to Mode Coupling in Two-Dimensional-Material Resonators Revealed Through a Multiscale Approach'', Physical Review Applied, Vol. 14, No. 3, Art. No. 034062, 2020. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.14.034062 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • Y. Noh and N. R. Aluru, ``Ion Transport in Electrically Imperfect Nanopores'', ACS Nano, Vol. 14, No. 8, pp. 10518-10526, 2020. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c04453 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • P. Snapp, M. Heiranian, M. T. Hwang, R. Bashir, N. R. Aluru, S. Nam, ``Current understanding and emerging applications of 3D crumpling mediated 2D material-liquid interactions'', Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science, Vol. 24, No. 3, Art. No. 100836, 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.cossms.2020.100836 [pdf file]

  • X. Liu, G. Li, A. Lipatov, T. Sun, M. Mehdi Pour, N. R. Aluru, J. W. Lyding, A. Sinitskii, ``Chevron-type graphene nanoribbons with a reduced energy band gap: Solution synthesis, scanning tunneling microscopy and electrical characterization'', Nano Research, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 1713-1722, 2020. DOI: 10.1007/s12274-020-2797-6 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • K. Yong, S. De, E. Y. Hsieh, J. Leem, N. R. Aluru, S. Nam, ``Kirigami-inspired strain-insensitive sensors based on atomically-thin materials'', Materials Today, Vol. 34, pp. 58-65, 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.mattod.2019.08.013 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • M. T. Hwang, M. Heiranian, Y. Kim, S. You, J. Leem, A. Taqieddin, V. Faramarzi, Y. Jing, I. Park, A. M. van der Zande, S. Nam, N. R. Aluru, R. Bashir, ``Ultrasensitive detection of nucleic acids using deformed graphene channel field effect biosensors'', Nature Communications, Vol. 11, Art. No. 1543, 2020. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15330-9 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • M. Heiranian and N. R. Aluru, ``Nanofluidic Transport Theory with Enhancement Factors Approaching One'', ACS Nano, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 272-281, 2020. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b04328 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • Y. Jing and N. R. Aluru, ``The role of A-site ion on proton diffusion in perovskite oxides (ABO3)'', Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 445, No. 1, Art. No. 227327, 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2019.227327 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • S. Shahane, N. Aluru, P. Ferreira, S. G. Kapoor, S. P. Vanka, ``Optimization of solidification in die casting using numerical simulations and machine learning'', Journal of Manufacturing Processes, Vol. 51, pp. 130-141, 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmapro.2020.01.016 [pdf file]

  • A. Moradzadeh and N. R. Aluru, ``Molecular Dynamics Properties without the Full Trajectory: A Denoising Autoencoder Network for Properties of Simple Liquids'', Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 10, No. 24, pp. 7568-7576, 2019. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02820 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • Y.-C. Yao, A. Taqieddin, M. A. Alibakshi, M. Wanunu, N. R. Aluru, A. Noy, ``Strong Electroosmotic Coupling Dominates Ion Conductance of 1.5 nm Diameter Carbon Nanotube Porins'', ACS Nano, Vol. 13, No. 11, pp. 12851-12859, 2019. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b05118 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • S. Faucher, N. Aluru, M. Bazant, D. Blankschtein, A. H. Brozena, J. Cumings, J. Pedro de Souza, M. Elimelech, R. Epsztein, J. T. Fourkas, A. G. Rajan, H. J. Kulik, A. Levy, A. Majumdar, C. Martin, M. McEldrew, R. P. Misra, A. Noy, T. A. Pham, M. Reed, E. Schwegler, Z. Siwy, Y. Wang, M. Strano, ``Critical Knowledge Gaps in Mass Transport through Single-Digit Nanopores: A Review and Perspective'', The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 123, No. 35, pp. 21309-21326, 2019. [pdf file]

  • S. S. Kwon, J. Choi, M. Heiranian, Y. Kim, W. J. Chang, P. M. Knapp, M. C. Wang, J. M. Kim, N. R. Aluru, W. Il Park, S. Nam, ``Electrical Double Layer of Supported Atomically Thin Materials'', Nano Letters, Vol. 19, No. 7, pp. 4588-4593, 2019. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01563 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • E. Rigo, Z. Dong, J.H. Park, E. Kennedy, M. Hokmabadi, L. Almonte-Garcia, L. Ding, N. Aluru, G. Timp, ``Measurements of the size and correlations between ions using an electrolytic point contact'', Nature Communications, Vol. 10, Art. No. 2382, 2019. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10265-2 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • S. Shahane, N. R. Aluru, S. P. Vanka, ``Uncertainty quantification in three dimensional natural convection using polynomial chaos expansion and deep neural networks'', International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 139, pp. 613-631, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2019.05.014 [pdf file]

  • B. Ouyang, T. Chakraborty, N. Kim, N. H. Perry, T. Mueller, N. R. Aluru, E. Ertekin, ``Cluster Expansion Framework for the Sr(Ti1-xFex)O3-x/2 (0 < x < 1) Mixed Ionic Electronic Conductor: Properties Based on Realistic Configurations'', Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 31, No. 9, pp. 3144-3153, 2019. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b04285 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • V. Nandigana, M. Heiranian, N. R. Aluru, ``Single Ion Transport with a Single-Layer Graphene Nanopore'', International Journal of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 7, pp. 479-483, 2019. [pdf file]

  • S. Shahane, N. R. Aluru, P. Ferreira, S. G. Kapoor, S. P. Vanka, ``Finite volume simulation framework for die casting with uncertainty quantification'', Applied Mathematical Modelling, Vol. 74, pp. 132-150, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2019.04.045 [pdf file]

  • N. Kim, C. Yang, H. Lee and N. R. Aluru, ``Spatial Uncertainty Modeling for Surface Roughness of Additively Manufactured Microstructures via Image Segmentation'', Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, No. 6, Art. No. 1093, 2019. DOI: 10.3390/app9061093 [pdf file]

  • T. Fujisaki, A. T. Staykov, Y. H. Jing, K. Leonard, N. R. Aluru, H. Matsumoto, ``Understanding the effect of Ce and Zr on chemical expansion in yttrium doped strontium cerate and zirconate by high temperature X-ray analysis and density functional theory'', Solid State Ionics, Vol. 333, pp. 1-8, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.ssi.2019.01.009 [pdf file]

  • S. Shahane, S. Mujumdar, N. Kim, P. Priya, N. R. Aluru, P. Ferreira, S. G. Kapoor, S. Vanka, ``Simulations of Die Casting With Uncertainty Quantification'', Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering - Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 141, No. 4, Art. No. 041003, 2019. DOI: 10.1115/1.4042583 [pdf file]

  • A. Moradzadeh and N. R. Aluru, ``Transfer-Learning-Based Coarse-Graining Method for Simple Fluids: Toward Deep Inverse Liquid-State Theory'', Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 10, No. 6, pp. 1242-1250, 2019. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b03872 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • M. Asadi, M. H. Motevaselian, A. Moradzadeh, L. Majidi, M. Esmaeilirad, T. Sun, C. Liu, R. Bose, P. Abbasi, P. Zapol, A. P. Khodadoust, L. A. Curtiss, N. R. Aluru, A. Salehi-Khojin, ``Highly Efficient Solar-Driven Carbon Dioxide Reduction on Molybdenum Disulfide Catalyst Using Choline Chloride-Based Electrolyte'', Advanced Energy Materials, Vol. 9, No. 9, Art. No. 1803536, 2019. DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201803536 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • S. De and N. R. Aluru, ``Anomalous scaling of flexural phonon damping in nanoresonators with confined fluid'', Microsystems & Nanoengineering, Vol. 5, Art. No. 2, 2019. DOI: 10.1038/s41378-018-0041-2 [pdf file]

  • M. H. Motevaselian, S. Y. Mashayak, and N. R. Aluru, ``Extended coarse-grained dipole model for polar liquids: Application to bulk and confined water'', Physical Review E, Vol. 98, No. 5, Art. No. 052135, 2018. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.98.052135 [pdf file]

  • L. Ma, P. Priya and N. R. Aluru, ``A Multiscale Model for Electrochemical Reactions in LSCF Based Solid Oxide Cells'', Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Vol. 165, No. 14, pp. F1232-F1241, 2018. DOI: 10.1149/2.0921814jes [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • H. Niu, Y. Jing, Y. Sun and N. R. Aluru, ``Ab initio based interionic potential for silver iodide'', Solid State Ionics, Vol. 325, pp. 102-111, 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.ssi.2018.07.027 [pdf file]

  • V. Nandigana, K. Jo, A. Timperman and N. R. Aluru, ``Asymmetric-Fluidic-Reservoirs Induced High Rectification Nanofluidic Diode'', Scientific Reports, Vol. 8, Art. No. 13941, 2018. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-32284-7 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • A. Moradzadeh, M. H. Motevaselian, S. Y. Mashayak and N. R. Aluru, ``Coarse-Grained Force Field for Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids'', Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, Vol. 14, No. 6, pp. 3252-3261, 2018. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b01293 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • S. Mashayak, L. Miao and N. R. Aluru, ``Integral equation theory based direct and accelerated systematic coarse-graining approaches'', Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 148, No. 21, Art. No. 214105, 2018. DOI: 10.1063/1.5020321 [pdf file]

  • S. Mashayak and N. R. Aluru, ``A multiscale model for charge inversion in electric double layers'', Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 148, No. 21, Art. No. 214102, 2018. DOI: 10.1063/1.5026975 [pdf file]

  • A. Barati Farimani, M. Heiranian and N. R. Aluru, ``Identification of amino acids with sensitive nanoporous MoS2: towards machine learning-based prediction'', npj 2D Materials and Applications, Vol. 2, Art. No. 14, 2018. DOI: 10.1038/s41699-018-0060-8 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • Y. Zhang, M. Heiranian, B. Janicek, Z. Budrikis, S. Zapperi, P. Y. Huang, H. T. Johnson, N. R. Aluru, J. W. Lyding, and N. Mason, ``Strain Modulation of Graphene by Nanoscale Substrate Curvatures: A Molecular View'', Nano Letters, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 2098-2104, 2018. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b00273 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • S. De and N. R. Aluru, ``Energy dissipation in fluid coupled nanoresonators: The effect of phonon-fluid coupling'', ACS Nano, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 368-377, 2018. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b06469 [pdf file]

  • Y. Jing, H. Matsumoto and N. R. Aluru, ``Mechanistic Insights into Hydration of Solid Oxides'', Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 138-144, 2018. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b03476 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • Y. K. Lee, K. J. Yu, E. Song, A. Barati Farimani, F. Vitale, Z. Xie, Y. Yoon, Y. Kim, A. Richardson, H. Luan, Y. Wu, X. Xie, T. H. Lucas, K. Crawford, Y. Mei, X. Feng, Y. Huang, B. Litt, N. R. Aluru, L. Yin, and J. A. Rogers, ``Dissolution of monocrystalline silicon nanomembranes and their use as encapsulation layers and electrical interfaces in water-soluble electronics'', ACS Nano, Vol. 11, No. 12, pp. 12562-12572, 2017. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b06697 [pdf file]

  • J. H. Park, R. Murugesan, J. Lee and N. R. Aluru, ``Anomalous characteristics of pore formation in Graphene induced by Si-nanoparticle bombardment'', MRS Communications, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 840-847, 2017. DOI: 10.1557/mrc.2017.123 [pdf file]

  • R. Bhadauria and N. R. Aluru, ``A multiscale transport model for non-classical nanochannel electroosmosis'', Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 147, No. 21, Art. No. 214105, 2017. DOI: 10.1063/1.5005127 [pdf file]

  • M. E. Suk and N. R. Aluru, ``Modeling water flow through carbon nanotube membranes with extrance/exit effects'', Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 247-262, 2017. DOI: 10.1080/15567265.2017.1355949 [pdf file]

  • M. Mehdi Pour, A. Lashkov, A. Radocea, X. Liu, T. Sun, A. Lipatov, R. A. Korlacki, M. Shekhirev, N. R. Aluru, J. W. Lyding, V. Sysoev and A. Sinitskii, ``Laterally extended atomically precise graphene nanoribbons with improved electrical conductivity for efficient gas sensing'', Nature Communications, Vol. 8, Art. No. 820, 2017. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00692-4 [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • M. Heiranian, Y. Wu and N. R. Aluru, ``Molybdenum disulfide and water interaction parameters'', Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 147, No. 10, Art. No. 104706, 2017. DOI: 10.1063/1.5001264 [pdf file]

  • V. V. R. Nandigana and N. R. Aluru, ``1/f pink chaos in nanopores'', RSC Advances, Vol. 7, No. 73, pp. 46092-46100, 2017. DOI: 10.1039/c7ra06323g [pdf file]

  • Y. Jing and N. R. Aluru, ``Size effect on brittle and ductile fracture of two-dimensional interlinked carbon nanotube network'', Physica B: Condensed Matter, Vol. 520, pp. 82-88, 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.physb.2017.06.026 [pdf file]

  • R. Bhadauria and N. R. Aluru, ``Multiscale modeling of electroosmotic flow: Effects of discrete ion, enhanced viscosity, and surface friction'', Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 146, No. 18, Art. No. 184106, 2017. [pdf file]

  • M. H. Motevaselian and N. R. Aluru, ``An EQT-based cDFT approach for thermodynamic properties of confined fluid mixtures'', Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 146, No. 15, Art. No. 154102, 2017. [pdf file]

  • A. Barati Farimani, M. Heiranian, K. Min and N. R. Aluru, ``Antibody subclass detection using graphene nanopores'', Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 8, No. 7, pp. 1670-1676, 2017. [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • M. K. Gelber, M. R. Cole, N. Kim, N. R. Aluru and R. Bhargava, ``Quantitative chemical imaging of nonplanar microfluidics'', Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 89, No. 3, pp. 1716-1723, 2017. [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • S. Y. Mashayak and N. R. Aluru, ``Langevin-Poisson-EQT: A dipolar solvent based quasi-continuum approach for electric double layers'', Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 146, No. 4, Art. No. 044108, 2017. [pdf file]

  • S. De, K. Kunal and N. R. Aluru, ``Nonlinear intrinsic dissipation in single layer MoS2 resonators'', RSC Advances, Vol. 7, No. 11, pp. 6403-6410, 2017. [pdf file]

  • A. Barati Farimani, P. Dibaeinia and N. R. Aluru, ``DNA origami-graphene hybrid nanopore for DNA detection'', ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 92-100, 2017. [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • A. Radocea, T. Sun, T. H. Vo, A. Sinitskii, N. R. Aluru and J. W. Lyding, ``Solution-synthesized chevron graphene nanoribbons exfoliated onto H:Si(100)'', Nano Letters, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 170-178, 2017. [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • A. Barati Farimani and N. R. Aluru, ``Existence of multiple phases of water at nanotube interfaces'', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 120, No. 41, pp. 23763-23771, 2016. [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • H. Fang, J. Zhao, K. J. Yu, E. Song, A. Barati Farimani, C.-H. Chiang, X. Jin, Y. Xue, D. Xu, W. Du, K. J. Seo, Y. Zhong, Z. Yang, S. M. Won, G. Fang, S. W. Choi, S. Chaudhuri, Y. Huang, M. A. Alam, J. Viventi, N. R. Aluru, and J. A. Rogers, ``Ultrathin, transferred layers of thermally grown silicon dioxide as biofluid barriers for biointegrated flexible electronic systems'', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 113, No. 42, pp. 11682-11687, 2016. [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • T. Sanghi, R. Bhadauria and N. R. Aluru, ``Memory effects in nanoparticle dynamics and transport'', Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 145, No. 13, Art. No. 134108, 2016. [pdf file]

  • R. Bhadauria and N. R. Aluru, ``A multiscale transport model for Lennard-Jones binary mixtures based on interfacial friction'', Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 145, No. 7, Art. No. 074115, 2016. [pdf file]

  • J. Feng, M. Graf, K. Liu, D. Ovchinnikov, D. Dumcenco, M. Heiranian, V. Nandigana, N. R. Aluru, A. Kis and A. Radenovic, ``Single-layer MoS2 nanopores as nanopower generators'', Nature, Vol. 536, No. 7615, pp. 197-200, 2016. [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • K. Kunal and N. R. Aluru, ``Multiscale approach to modeling intrinsic dissipation in solids'', Physical Review B, Vol. 94, No. 6, Art. No. 064103, 2016. [pdf file]

  • A. Alwan and N. R. Aluru, ``Analysis of the effect of spatial uncertainties on the dynamic behavior of electrostatic microactuators'', Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 279-300, 2016. [pdf file]

  • A. Ashraf, Y. Wu, M. C. Wang, K. Yong, T. Sun, Y. Jing, R. T. Haasch, N. R. Aluru and S. Nam, ``Doping-induced tunable wettability and adhesion of graphene'', Nano Letters, Vol. 16, No. 7, pp. 4708-4712, 2016. [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • V. V. R. Nandigana and N. R. Aluru, ``Avalanche effects near nanojunctions'', Physical Review E, Vol. 94, No. 1, Art. No. 012402, 2016. [pdf file]

  • A. Barati Farimani, M. Heiranian and N. R. Aluru, ``Nano-electro-mechanical pump: Giant pumping of water in carbon nanotubes'', Scientific Reports, Vol. 6, Art. No. 26211, 2016. [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • Y. Wu, L. K. Wagner and N. R. Aluru, ``Hexagonal boron nitride and water interaction parameters'', Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 144, No. 16, Art. No. 164118, 2016. [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • K. Kunal and N. R. Aluru, ``Characterizing phonon dynamics using stochastic sampling'', Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 119, No. 11, Art. No. 115101, 2016. [pdf file]

  • S. De, K. Kunal and N. R. Aluru, ``Mixed role of surface on intrinsic losses in silicon nanostructures'', Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 119, No. 11, Art. No. 114304, 2016. [pdf file]

  • G. A. Venkatesan, J. Lee, A. Barati Farimani, M. Heiranian, C. P. Collier, N. R. Aluru and S. A. Sarles, ``Adsorption kinetics dictate monolayer self-assembly for both lipid-in and lipid-out approaches to droplet interface bilayer formation'', Langmuir, Vol. 31, No. 47, pp. 12883-12893, 2015. [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • E. J. Olson, R. Ma, T. Sun, M. A. Ebrish, N. Haratipour, K. Min, N. R. Aluru and S. J. Koester, ``Capacitive sensing of intercalated H2O molecules using graphene'', ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 7, No. 46, pp. 25804-25812, 2015. [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • E. C. Freeman, A. Barati Farimani, N. R. Aluru and M. K. Philen, ``Multiscale modeling of droplet interface bilayer membrane networks'', Biomicrofluidics, Vol. 9, No. 6, Art. No. 064101, 2015. [pdf file]

  • R. Bhadauria, T. Sanghi and N. R. Aluru, ``Interfacial friction based quasi-continuum hydrodynamical model for nanofluidic transport of water'', Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 143, No. 17, Art. No. 174702, 2015. [pdf file]

  • M. Heiranian, A. Barati Farimani and N. R. Aluru, ``Water desalination with a single-layer MoS2 nanopore'', Nature Communications, Vol. 6, Art. No. 8616, 2015. [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • A. Alwan and N. R. Aluru, ``Data-driven stochastic models for spatial uncertainties in micromechanical systems'', Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 25, No. 11, Art. No. 115009, 2015. [pdf file]

  • M. H. Motevaselian, S. Y. Mashayak and N. R. Aluru, ``An EQT-based cDFT approach for a confined Lennard-Jones fluid mixture'', Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 143, No. 12, Art. No. 124106, 2015. [pdf file]

  • S. Y. Mashayak, M. N. Jochum, K. Koschke, N. R. Aluru, V. Ruhle and C. Junghans, ``Relative entropy and optimization-driven coarse-graining methods in VOTCA'', PLoS ONE, Vol. 10, No. 7, pp. e0131754, 2015. [pdf file]

  • K. Min. A. Barati Farimani and N. R. Aluru, ``Mechanically modulated electronic properties of water-filled fullerenes'', MRS Communications, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 305-310, 2015. [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • S. Y. Mashayak, M. H. Motevaselian and N. R. Aluru, ``An EQT-cDFT approach to determine thermodynamic properties of confined fluids'', Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 142, No. 24, Art. No. 244116, 2015. [pdf file]

  • Y. Wu, L. K. Wagner and N. R. Aluru, ``The interaction between hexagonal boron nitride and water from first principles'', Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 142, No. 23, Art. No. 234702, 2015. [pdf file]

  • A. Alwan and N. R. Aluru, ``A nonstationary covariance function model for spatial uncertainties in electrostatically actuated microsystems'', International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 99-121, 2015. [pdf file]

  • H. Wang, V. Nandigana, K. D. Jo, N. R. Aluru and A. T. Timperman, ``Controlling the ionic current rectification factor of a nanofluidic/microfluidic interface with symmetric nanocapillary interconnects'', Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 87, No. 7, pp. 3598-3605, 2015. [pdf file]

  • L. Yin, A. Barati Farimani, K. Min, V. Nandigana, J. Lam. Y. K. Lee, N. R. Aluru and J. A. Rogers, ``Silicon nanomembranes: Mechanisms for hydrolysis of silicon nanomembranes as used in bioresorbable electronics'', Advanced Materials, Vol. 27, No. 11, pp. 1857-1864, 2015. [pdf file]

  • A. Barati Farimani, M. Heiranian and N. R. Aluru, ``Electromechanical signatures for DNA sequencing through a mechanosensitive nanopore'', Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 650-657, 2015. [pdf file]; Correction [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • N. Kim and N. R. Aluru, ``Effect of intermolecular force on the static/dynamic behavior of M/NEM devices'', Nanotechnology, Vol. 25, No. 48, Art. No. 485204, 2014. [pdf file]

  • T. Sanghi and N. R. Aluru, ``Thermal noise in confined fluids'', Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 141, No. 17, Art. No. 174707, 2014. [pdf file]

  • A. Ashraf, Y. Wu, M. C. Wang, N. R. Aluru, S. A. Dastgheib, S. Nam, ``Spectroscopic investigation of the wettability of multilayer graphene using highly ordered pyrolytic graphite as a model material'', Langmuir, Vol. 30, No. 43, pp. 12827-12836, 2014. [pdf file]

  • K. Kunal and N. R. Aluru, ``Intrinsic dissipation in a nano-mechanical resonator'', Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 116, No. 9, Art. No. 094304, 2014. [pdf file]

  • A. Barati Farimani, K. Min and N. R. Aluru, ``DNA base detection using a single-layer MoS2'', ACS Nano, Vol. 8, No. 8, pp. 7914-7922, 2014. [pdf file]; Supporting information [pdf file]

  • A. Barati Farimani, N. R. Aluru and E. Tajkhorshid, ``Thermodynamic insight into spontaneous hydration and rapid water permeation in aquaporins'', Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 105, No. 8, Art. No. 083702, 2014. [pdf file]

  • M. E. Suk and N. R. Aluru, ``Ion transport in sub-5-nm graphene nanopores'', Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 140, No. 8, Art. No. 084707, 2014. [pdf file]

  • K. Min, M. Silberstein and N. R. Aluru, ``Crosslinking PMMA: Molecular dynamics investigation of the shear response'', Journal of Polymer Science Part B - Polymer Physics, Vol. 52, No. 6, pp. 444-449, 2014. [pdf file]

  • K. Min, A. Barati Farimani and N. R. Aluru, ``Mechanical behavior of water filled C60'', Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 103, No. 26, Art. No. 263112, 2013. [pdf file]; Supplementary information [pdf file]

  • A. Barati Farimani, Y. Wu and N. R. Aluru, ``Rotational motion of a single water molecule in a buckyball'', Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 15, No. 41, pp. 17993-18000, 2013. [pdf file]; Supplementary information [pdf file]

  • A. Alwan and N. R. Aluru, ``Improved statistical models for limited datasets in uncertainty quantification using stochastic collocation'', Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 255, pp. 521-539, 2013. [pdf file]

  • K. Kunal and N. R. Aluru, ``Phonon mediated loss in a graphene nanoribbon'', Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 114, No. 8, Art. No. 084302, 2013. [pdf file]

  • R. Bhadauria and N. R. Aluru, ``A quasi-continuum hydrodynamic model for slit shaped nanochannel flow'', Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 139, No. 7, Art. No. 074109, 2013. [pdf file]

  • Y. Wu and N. R. Aluru, ``Graphitic carbon-water nonbonded interaction parameters'', Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 117, No. 29, pp. 8802-8813, 2013. [pdf file]

  • V. V. R. Nandigana and N. R. Aluru, ``Characterization of electrochemical properties of a micro-nanochannel integrated system using computational impedance spectroscopy (CIS)'', Electrochimica Acta, Vol. 105, pp. 514-523, 2013. [pdf file]; Supplementary information [pdf file]

  • M. N. Silberstein, K. Min, L. D. Cremar, C. M. Degen, T. M. Martinez, N. R. Aluru, S. R. White and N. R. Sottos, ``Modeling mechanophore activation within a crosslinked glassy matrix'', Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 114, No. 2, Art. No. 023504, 2013. [pdf file]

  • K. Kunal and N. R. Aluru, ``Intrinsic loss due to unstable modes in graphene'', Nanotechnology, Vol. 27, No. 24, Art. No. 275701, 2013. [pdf file]

  • M. E. Suk and N. R. Aluru, ``Molecular and continuum hydrodynamics in graphene nanopores'', RSC Advances, Vol. 3, No. 24, pp. 9365-9372, 2013. [pdf file]; Supplementary information [pdf file]

  • C. Cheng, K. Y. Ng, N. R. Aluru and A. H. W. Ngan, ``Simulation and experiment of substrate aluminum grain orientation dependent self-ordering in anodic porous alumina'', Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 113, No. 20, Art. No. 204903, 2013. [pdf file]

  • B. Kumar, K. Min, M. Bashirzadeh, A. Barati Farimani, M.-H. Bae, D. Estrada, Y. D. Kim, P. Yassei, Y. D. Park, E. Pop, N. R. Aluru and A. Salehi-Khojin, ``The role of external defects in chemical sensing of graphene field-effect transistors'', Nano Letters, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 1962-1968, 2013. [pdf file]

  • Y. Jing, L. Guo, Y. Sun, J. Shen and N. R. Aluru, ``Mechanical properties of a silicon nanofilm covered with defective graphene'', Surface Science, Vol. 611, pp. 80-85, 2013. [pdf file]

  • T. Sanghi and N. R. Aluru, ``A combined quasi-continuum/Langevin equation approach to study the self-diffusion dynamics of confined fluids'', Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 138, No. 12, Art. No. 124109, 2013. [pdf file]

  • W. Ye, K. Min, P. M. Martin, A. Rockett, N. R. Aluru and J. W. Lyding, ``Scanning tunneling spectroscopy and density functional calculation of silicon dangling bonds on the Si(100)-2x1:H surface'', Surface Science, Vol. 609, pp. 147-151, 2013. [pdf file]

  • V. V. R. Nandigana and N. R. Aluru, ``Nonlinear electrokinetic transport under combined AC and DC fields in micro/nanofluidic interface devices'', Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 135, No. 2, pp. Art. No. 021201, 2013. [pdf file]

  • J. Lee and N. R. Aluru, ``Water-solubility-driven separation of gases using graphene membrane'', Journal of Membrane Science, Vol. 428, pp. 546-553, 2013. [pdf file]

  • S. Banerjee, J. Shim, J. Rivera, X. Jin, D. Estrada, V. Solovyeva, X. You, J. Pak, E. Pop, N. R. Aluru and R. Bashir, ``Electrochemistry at the edge of a single graphene layer in a nanopore'', ACS Nano, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 834-843, 2013. [pdf file]

  • S. Y. Mashayak and N. R. Aluru, ``Thermodynamic state-dependent structure-based coarse-graining of confined water'', Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 137, No. 21, Art. No. 214707, 2012. [pdf file]

  • V. V. R. Nandigana and N. R. Aluru, ``Understanding anomalous current-voltage characteristics in microchannel-nanochannel interconnect devices'', Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Vol. 384, No. 1, pp. 162-171, 2012. [pdf file]

  • K. Park, N. Kim, D. T. Morisette, N. R. Aluru and R. Bashir, ``Resonant MEMS mass sensors for measurement of microdroplet evaporation'', Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 702-711, 2012. [pdf file]

  • S. Y. Mashayak and N. R. Aluru, ``Coarse-grained potential model for structural prediction of confined water'', Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, Vol. 8, No. 5, pp. 1828-1840, 2012. [pdf file]

  • B. M. Venkatesan, D. Estrada, S. Banerjee, X. Jin, V. E. Dorgan, M. Bae, N. R. Aluru, E. Pop, R. Bashir, ``Stacked graphene-Al2O3 nanopore sensors for sensitive detection of DNA and DNA-protein complexes'', ACS Nano, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 441-450, 2012. [pdf file]

  • T. Sanghi and N. R. Aluru, ``Coarse-grained potential models for structural prediction of carbon dioxide (CO2) in confined environments'', Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 136, No. 2, Art. No. 024102, 2012. [pdf file]

  • P. Sumant, H. Wu, A. Cangellaris, and N. R. Aluru, ``Reduced-order models of finite element approximations of electromagnetic devices exhibiting statistical variability'', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 301-309, 2012. [pdf file]

  • K. Kunal and N. R. Aluru, ``Akhiezer damping in nanostructures'', Physical Review B, Vol. 84, No. 24, Art. No. 245450, 2011. [pdf file]

  • A. Barati Farimani and N. R. Aluru, ``Spatial diffusion of water in carbon nanotubes: From Fickian to ballistic motion'', Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 115, No. 42, pp. 12145-12149, 2011. [pdf file]

  • A. Alwan and N. R. Aluru, ``Uncertainty quantification of MEMS using a data-dependent adaptive stochastic collocation method'', Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 200, No. 45-46, pp. 3169-3182, 2011. [pdf file]

  • J. Lee and N. R. Aluru, ``Mechanistic analysis of gas enrichment in gas-water mixtures near extended surfaces'', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 115, No. 35, pp. 17495-17502, 2011. [pdf file]

  • X. Jin and N. R. Aluru, ``Gated transport in nanofluidic devices'', Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 297-306, 2011. [pdf file]

  • J. Park and N. R. Aluru, ``Self-assembly of graphenes'', Surface Science, Vol. 605, No. 17-18, pp. 1616-1620, 2011. [pdf file]

  • Y. Xu, K. T. He, S. W. Schmucker, Z. Guo, J. C. Koepke, J. D. Wood, J. W. Lyding, and N. R. Aluru, ``Inducing Electronic Changes in Graphene through Silicon (100) Substrate Modification'', Nano Letters, Vol. 11, No. 7, pp. 2735-2742, 2011. [pdf file]

  • Y. Jing and N. R. Aluru, ``Atomistic simulations on the mechanical properties of a silicon nanofilm covered with graphene'', Computational Materials Science, Vol. 50, No. 10, pp. 3063-3066, 2011. [pdf file]

  • N. Agarwal and N. R. Aluru, ``Weighted Smolyak algorithm for solution of stochastic differential equations on non-uniform probability measures'', International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 85, No. 11, pp. 1365-1389, 2011. [pdf file]

  • P. S. Sumant, A. C. Cangellaris and N. R. Aluru, ``A conformal mapping-based approach for fast two-dimensional FEM electrostatic analysis of MEMS devices'', International Journal of Numerical Modeling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 194-206, 2011. [pdf file]

  • K. Min and N. R. Aluru, ``Mechanical properties of graphene under shear deformation'', Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 98, No. 1, Art. No. 013113, 2011. [pdf file]

  • K. Park, L. J. Millet, N. Kim, H. Li, X. Jin, G. Popescu, N. R. Aluru, K. J. Hsia, R. S. Bashir, ``Measurement of adherent cell mass and growth'', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 107, No. 48, pp. 20691-20696, 2010. [pdf file]

  • H. Zhao and N. R. Aluru, ``Temperature and strain-rate dependent strength of graphene'', Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 108, No. 6, Art. No. 064321, 2010. [pdf file]

  • Z. Chen, Y. Jiang, D. Dunphy, D. Adams, C. Hodges, N. Liu, N. Zhang, G. Xomeritakis, X. Jin, N. R. Aluru, S. Gaik, H. Hillhouse, C. J. Brinker, ``DNA translocation through an array of kinked nanopores'', Nature Materials, Vol. 9, No. 8, pp. 667-675, 2010. [pdf file]

  • N. Agarwal and N. R. Aluru, ``A data-driven stochastic collocation approach for uncertainty quantification in MEMS'', International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 83, No. 5, pp. 575-597, 2010. [pdf file]

  • M. E. Suk and N. R. Aluru, ``Water transport through ultrathin graphene'', Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 1, No. 10, pp. 1590-1594, 2010. [pdf file]

  • J. Lee and N. R. Aluru, ``Separation of gases from gas-water mixtures using carbon nanotubes'', Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 96, No. 13, Art. No. 133108, 2010. [pdf file]

  • J. Park and N. R. Aluru, ``Water film thickness-dependent conformation and diffusion of single-strand DNA on poly(ethylene glycol)-silane surface'', Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 96, No. 12, Art. No. 123703, 2010. [pdf file]

  • J. Park and N. R. Aluru, ``Ordering-induced fast diffusion of nanoscale water film on graphene'', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 114, No. 6, pp. 2595-2599, 2010. [pdf file]

  • T. Sanghi and N. R. Aluru, ``A transferable coarse-grained potential to study the structure of confined, supercritical Lennard-Jones fluids'', Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 132, No. 4, Art. No. 044703, 2010. [pdf file]

  • N. Agarwal and N. R. Aluru, ``Stochastic analysis of electrostatic MEMS subjected to parameter variations'', Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 18, No. 6, pp. 1454-1468, 2009. [pdf file]

  • A. Alwan and N. R. Aluru, ``Analysis of hybrid electrothermomechanical microactuators with integrated electrothermal and electrostatic actuation'', Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 1126-1136, 2009. [pdf file]

  • M. E. Suk and N. R. Aluru, ``Effect of induced electric field on single-file reverse osmosis'', Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 11, No. 38, pp. 8614-8619, 2009. [pdf file]

  • Y. Xu, X. Mi and N. R. Aluru, ``Detection of defective DNA in carbon nanotubes by combined molecular dynamics/tight-binding technique'', Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 95, No. 11, Art. No. 113116, 2009. [pdf file]

  • N. Agarwal and N. R. Aluru, ``A domain adaptive stochastic collocation approach for analysis of MEMS under uncertainties'', Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 228, No. 20, pp. 7662-7688, 2009. [pdf file]

  • C. Y. Won and N. R. Aluru, ``A chloride ion-selective boron nitride nanotube'', Chemical Physics Letters, Vol. 478, No. 4-6, pp. 185-190, 2009. [pdf file]

  • Y. Xu and N. R. Aluru, ``Pull-in/out analysis of nano/microelectromechanical switches with defective oxide layers'', Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 95, No. 7, Art. No. 073112, 2009. [pdf file]

  • H. Zhao, K. Min and N. R. Aluru, ``Size and chirality dependent elastic properties of graphene nanoribbons under uniaxial tension'', Nano Letters, Vol. 9, No. 8, pp. 3012-3015, 2009. [pdf file]

  • H. Zhao and N. R. Aluru, ``Size and surface orientation effects on thermal expansion coefficient of one-dimensional silicon nanostructures'', Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 105, No. 10, Art. No. 104309, 2009. [pdf file]

  • P. S. Sumant, N. R. Aluru and A. C. Cangellaris, ``A compact model for dielectric charging in RF MEMS capacitive switches'', International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 197-203, 2009. [pdf file]

  • P. S. Sumant, N. R. Aluru and A. C. Cangellaris, ``A methodology for fast finite element modeling of electrostatically actuated MEMS'', International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 77, No. 13, pp. 1789-1808, 2009. [pdf file]

  • Y. Wu, S. Joseph and N. R. Aluru, ``Effect of cross-linking on the diffusion of water, ions, and small molecules in hydrogels'', Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 113, No. 11, pp. 3512-3520, 2009. [pdf file]

  • P.S. Sumant, A. C. Cangellaris and N. R. Aluru, ``A node-based agglomeration AMG solver for linear elasticity in thin bodies'', Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 219-236, 2009. [pdf file]

  • J.H. Park and N. R. Aluru, ``Temperature-dependent wettability on a titanium dioxide surface'', Molecular Simulation, Vol. 35, No. 1-2, pp. 31-37, 2009. [pdf file]

  • J.H. Park and N. R. Aluru, ``Diffusion of water submonolayers on hydrophilic surfaces'', Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 93, No. 25, Art. No. 253104, 2008. [pdf file]

  • E. N. Gatimu, X. Jin, N. R. Aluru and P. W. Bohn, ``Perturbation of microfluidic transport following electrokinetic injection through a nanocapillary array membrane: Injection and biphasic recovery'', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 112, No. 49, pp. 19242-19247, 2008. [pdf file]

  • C. Y. Won and N. R. Aluru, ``Water phase transition induced by a Stone-Wales defect in a boron nitride nanotube'', Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 130, No. 41, pp. 13649-13652, 2008. [pdf file]; See also the supplementary information [pdf file]

  • S. Joseph and N. R. Aluru, ``Pumping of confined water in carbon nanotubes by rotation-translation coupling'', Physical Review Letters, Vol. 101, No. 6, Art. No. 064502, 2008. [pdf file]

  • N. Agarwal and N. R. Aluru, ``Stochastic modeling of coupled electromechanical interaction for uncertainty quantification in electrostatically actuated MEMS'', Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 197, No. 43-44, pp. 3456-3471, 2008. [pdf file]

  • Y. Xu and N. R. Aluru, ``Carbon nanotube screening effects on the water-ion channels'', Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 93, No. 4, Art. No. 043122, 2008. [pdf file]

  • H. Chen, S. Mukherjee and N. R. Aluru, ``Charge distribution on thin semiconducting silicon nanowires'', Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 197, No. 41-42, pp. 3366-3377, 2008. [pdf file]

  • Z. Tang and N. R. Aluru, ``Multiscale mechanical analysis of silicon nanostructures by combined finite temperature models'', Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 197, No. 41-42, pp. 3215-3224, 2008. [pdf file]

  • H. Zhao and N. R. Aluru, ``Molecular dynamics simulation of bulk silicon under strain'', Interaction and Multiscale Mechanics, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 303-315, 2008. [pdf file]

  • M. E. Suk, A. V. Raghunathan and N. R. Aluru, ``Fast reverse osmosis using boron nitride and carbon nanotubes'', Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 92, No. 13, Art. No. 133120, 2008. [pdf file]

  • Y. Xu and N. R. Aluru, ``Multiscale electrostatic analysis of silicon nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) via heterogeneous quantum models'', Physical Review B, Vol. 77, No. 7, Art. No. 075313, 2008. [pdf file]

  • C. Y. Won and N. R. Aluru, ``Structure and dynamics of water confined in a boron nitride nanotube'', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 112, No. 6, pp. 1812-1818, 2008. [pdf file]

  • S. Joseph and N. R. Aluru, ``Why are carbon nanotubes fast transporters of water?'', Nano Letters, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 452-458, 2008. [pdf file]

  • X. Jin, S. Joseph, E. N. Gatimu, P. W. Bohn and N. R. Aluru, ``Induced electrokinetic transport in micro-nanofluidic interconnect devices'', Langmuir, Vol. 23, No. 26, pp. 13209-13222, 2007. [pdf file]

  • P. S. Sumant, A. C. Cangellaris and N. R. Aluru, ``Modeling of dielectric charging in RF MEMS capacitive switches'', Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 49, No. 12, pp. 3188-3192, 2007. [pdf file]

  • A. V. Raghunathan, J. H. Park and N. R. Aluru, ``Interatomic potential-based semiclassical theory for Lennard-Jones fluids'', Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 127, No. 17, Art. No. 174701, 2007. [pdf file]

  • J. H. Park and N. R. Aluru, ``Surface diffusion of n-alkanes: Mechanism and anomalous behavior'', Chemical Physics Letters, Vol. 447, Nos. 4-6, pp. 310-315, 2007. [pdf file]

  • N. Agarwal and N. R. Aluru, ``A stochastic Lagrangian approach for geometrical uncertainties in electrostatics'', Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 226, No. 1, pp. 156-179, 2007. [pdf file]

  • Y. Xu and N. R. Aluru, ``Combined semiclassical and effective-mass Schrodinger approach for multiscale analysis of semiconductor nanostructures'', Physical Review B, Vol. 76, No. 7, Art. No. 075304, 2007. [pdf file]

  • A. V. Raghunathan and N. R. Aluru, ``Self-consistent molecular dynamics formulation for electric-field-mediated electrolyte transport through nanochannels'', Physical Review E, Vol. 76, No. 1, Art. No. 011202, 2007. [pdf file]

  • H. Zhao and N. R. Aluru, ``A semi-local quasi-harmonic model to compute the thermodynamic and mechanical properties of silicon nanostructures'', Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 19, No. 22, Art. No. 226202, 2007. [pdf file]

  • C. Won and N. R. Aluru, ``Water permeation through a subnanometer boron nitride nanotube'', Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 129, No. 10, pp. 2748-2749, 2007. [pdf file]; See also the supplementary information [pdf file]

  • Z. Tang and N. R. Aluru, ``Calculation of thermodynamic and mechanical properties of silicon nanostructures using the local phonon density of states'', Physical Review B, Vol. 74, No. 23, Art. No. 235441, 2006. [pdf file]

  • S. K. De and N. R. Aluru, ``A hybrid full-Lagrangian technique for the static and dynamic analysis of magnetostatic MEMS'', Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 16, No. 12, pp. 2646-2658, 2006. [pdf file]

  • S. K. De and N. R. Aluru, ``U-sequence in electrostatic microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)'', Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences Vol. 462, No. 2075, pp. 3435 - 3464, 2006. [pdf file]

  • G. Li and N. R. Aluru, ``A Lagrangian approach for quantum-mechanical electrostatic analysis of deformable silicon nanostructures'', Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, Vol. 30, No. 11, pp. 925-939, 2006. [pdf file]; See also the preface [pdf file]

  • S. Joseph and N. R. Aluru, ``Hierarchical multiscale simulation of electrokinetic transport in silica nanochannels at the point of zero charge'', Langmuir, Vol. 22, No. 21, pp. 9041-9051, 2006. [pdf file]

  • S. K. De and N. R. Aluru, ``Theory of thermoelastic damping in electrostatically actuated microstructures'', Physical Review B, Vol. 74, No. 14, Art. No. 144305, 2006. [pdf file]

  • C. Y. Won, S. Joseph and N. R. Aluru, ``Effect of quantum partial charges on the structure and dynamics of water in single-walled carbon nanotubes'', Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 125, No. 11, Art. No. 114701, 2006. [pdf file]

  • S. K. De and N. R. Aluru, ``Coupling of hierarchical fluid models with electrostatic and mechanical models for the dynamic analysis of MEMS'', Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 16, No. 8, pp. 1705-1719, 2006. [pdf file]

  • A. V. Raghunathan and N. R. Aluru, ``Effect of size-asymmetric electrolyte on single-file osmosis'', Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 89, No. 6, Art. No. 064107, 2006. [pdf file]

  • Z. Tang, H. Zhao, G. Li and N. R. Aluru, ``Finite-temperature quasicontinuum method for multiscale analysis of silicon nanostructures'', Physical Review B, Vol. 74, No. 6, Art. No. 064110, 2006. [pdf file]

  • A. V. Raghunathan and N. R. Aluru, ``Molecular understanding of osmosis in semipermeable membranes'', Physical Review Letters, Vol. 97, No. 2, Art. No. 024501, 2006. [pdf file]

  • R. Qiao, J. G. Georgiadis and N. R. Aluru, ``Differential ion transport induced electroosmosis and internal recirculation in heterogeneous osmosis membranes'', Nano Letters, Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 995-999, 2006. [pdf file]

  • S. De and N. R. Aluru, ``Complex nonlinear oscillations in electrostatically actuated microstructures'', Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 355-369, 2006. [pdf file]

  • H. Zhao, Z. Tang, G. Li and N. R. Aluru, ``Quasiharmonic models for the calculation of thermodynamic properties of crystalline silicon under strain'', Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 99, No. 6, Art. No. 064314, 2006. [pdf file]

  • X. Wang, J. kanapka, W. Ye, N. R. Aluru and J. White, ``Algorithms in FastStokes and its application to micromachined device simulation'', IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 248-257, 2006. [pdf file]

  • J.H. Park, S. B. Sinnott and N. R. Aluru, ``Ion separation using a Y-junction carbon nanotube'', Nanotechnology, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 895-900, 2006. [pdf file]

  • W. Zhou, Y. Huang, E. Menard, N. R. Aluru, J. A. Rogers and A. G. Alleyne, ``Mechanism for stamp collapse in soft lithography'', Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 87, No. 25, Art. No. 251925, 2005. [pdf file]

  • M. J. Bassetti, A. N. Chatterjee, N. R. Aluru and D. J. Beebe, ``Development and modeling of electrically triggered hydrogels for microfluidic applications'', Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 1198-1207, 2005. [pdf file]

  • R. Qiao and N. R. Aluru, ``Atomistic simulation of KCl transport in charged silicon nanochannels: Interfacial effects'', Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, Vol. 267, No. 1-3, pp. 103-109, 2005. [pdf file]

  • A. N. Chatterjee, D. M. Cannon, E. N. Gatimu, J. V. Sweedler, N. R. Aluru and P. W. Bohn, ``Modeling and simulation of ionic currents in three-dimensional microfluidic devices with nanofluidic interconnects'', Journal of Nanoparticle Research, Vol. 7, No. 4-5, pp. 507-516, 2005. [pdf file]

  • R. Qiao and N. R. Aluru, ``Scaling of electrokinetic transport in nanometer channels'', Langmuir, Vol. 21, No. 19, pp. 8972-8977, 2005. [pdf file]

  • C. Ho, R. Qiao, J. B. Heng, A. Chatterjee, R. J. Timp, N. R. Aluru and G. Timp, ``Electrolytic transport through a synthetic nanometer-diameter pore'', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 102, No. 30, pp. 10445-10450, 2005. [pdf file]

  • Z. Tang, Y. Xu, G. Li and N. R. Aluru, ``Physical models for coupled electromechanical analysis of silicon nanoelectromechanical systems'', Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 97, No. 11, Art. No. 114304, 2005. [pdf file]

  • X. Jin, G. Li and N. R. Aluru, ``New approximations and collocation schemes in the finite cloud method'', Computers and Structures, Vol. 83, No. 17-18, pp. 1366-1385, 2005. [pdf file]

  • S. K. De and N. R. Aluru, ''Complex oscillations and chaos in electrostatic microelectromechanical systems under superharmonic excitations'', Physical Review Letters, Vol. 94, No. 20, Art. No. 204101, 2005. [pdf file]

  • M. Behera, V. Kratyuk, S. K. De, N. R. Aluru, Y. Hu and K. Mayaram, ``Accurate simulation of RF MEMS VCO performance including phase noise'', Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 313-325, 2005. [pdf file]

  • R. Qiao and N. R. Aluru, ''Surface-charge-induced asymmetric electrokinetic transport in confined silicon nanochannels'', Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 86, No. 14, 143105, 2005. [pdf file]

  • A. N. Chatterjee and N. R. Aluru, ''Combined circuit/device modeling and simulation of integrated microfluidic systems'', Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 81-95, 2005. [pdf file]

  • R. Qiao and N. R. Aluru, ``Multiscale simulation of electroosmotic transport using embedding techniques'', International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 173-188, 2004. [pdf file]; See also the preface [pdf file]

  • S. K. De, and N. R. Aluru, ``Full-Lagrangian schemes for dynamic analysis of electrostatic MEMS'', Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 737-758, 2004. [pdf file]

  • G. Li and N. R. Aluru, ``Hybrid techniques for electrostatic analysis of nanoelectromechanical systems'', Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 96, No. 4, pp. 2221-2231, 2004. [pdf file]

  • M. Dequesnes, Z. Tang, and N. R. Aluru, ``Static and dynamic analysis of carbon nanotube-based switches'', Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, Vol. 126, No. 3, pp. 230-237, 2004. [pdf file]

  • V. Shrivastava, N. R. Aluru and S. Mukherjee, ``Numerical analysis of 3D electrostatics of deformable conductors using a Lagrangian approach'', Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, Vol. 28, No. 6, pp. 583-591, 2004. [pdf file]

  • R. Qiao and N. R. Aluru, ``Charge inversion and flow reversal in a nanochannel electro-osmotic flow'', Physical Review Letters, Vol. 92, No. 19, Art. No. 198301, 14 May 2004. [pdf file]

  • V. Shrivastava and N. R. Aluru, ``A fast boundary cloud method for 3D exterior electrostatic analysis'', International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 59, No. 15, pp. 2019-2046, 2004. [pdf file]

  • S. K. De and N. R. Aluru, ``A chemo-electro-mechanical mathematical model for simulation of pH sensitive hydrogels'', Mechanics of Materials, Vol. 36, No. 5-6, pp. 395-410, 2004. [pdf file]

  • X. Jin, G. Li and N. R. Aluru, ``Positivity conditions in meshless collocation methods'', Computer Methods in Applied Methods and Engineering, Vol. 193, No. 12-14, pp. 1171-1202, 2004. [pdf file]

  • K. N. Plunkett, A. N. Chatterjee, N. R. Aluru and J. S. Moore, ``Surface-modified hydrogels for chemoselective bioconjugation'', Macromolecules, Vol. 36, No. 23, pp. 8846-8852, 2003. [pdf file]

  • S. Joseph, R. J. Mashl, E. Jakobsson and N. R. Aluru, ``Electrolytic transport in modified carbon nanotubes'', Nano Letters, Vol. 3, No. 10, pp. 1399-1403, 2003. [pdf file]

  • G. Li and N. R. Aluru, ``Efficient mixed-domain analysis of electrostatic MEMS'', IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 22, No. 9, pp. 1228-1242, 2003. [pdf file]

  • J. Y. Kim, N. R. Aluru and D. A. Tortorelli, ``Improved multi-level Newton solvers for fully-coupled multi-physics problems'', International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 58, No. 3, pp. 463-480, 2003. [pdf file]

  • R. Qiao and N. R. Aluru, ``Atypical dependence of electroosmotic transport on surface charge in a single-wall carbon nanotube'', Nano Letters, Vol. 3, No. 8, pp. 1013-1017, 2003. [pdf file]

  • T.A. Van Der Straaten, J. M. Tang, U. Ravaioli, R. S. Eisenberg and N. R. Aluru, ``Simulating ion permeation through the ompF porin ion channel using three-dimensional drift-diffusion theory'', Journal of Computational Electronics, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 29-47, 2003. [pdf file]

  • G. Li, G. H. Paulino and N. R. Aluru, ``Coupling of the meshfree finite cloud method with the boundary element method: A collocation approach'', Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 192, No. 20-21, pp. 2355-2375, 2003. [pdf file]

  • R. Qiao and N. R. Aluru, ``Dispersion control in nano-channel systems by localized zeta-potential variations'', Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, Vol. 104, No. 3, pp. 268-274, 2003. [pdf file]

  • R. J. Mashl, S. Joseph, N. R. Aluru and E. Jakobsson, ``Anomalously immobilized water: A new water phase induced by confinement in nanotubes'', Nano Letters, Vol. 3, No. 5, pp. 589-592, 2003. [pdf file]

  • A. N. Chatterjee, Q. Yu, J. S. Moore and N. R. Aluru, ``Mathematical modeling and simulation of dissolvable hydrogels'', Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 55-64, 2003. [pdf file]

  • R. Qiao and N. R. Aluru, ``Ion concentrations and velocity profiles in nanochannel electroosmotic flows'', Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 118, No. 10, pp. 4692-4701, 2003. [pdf file]

  • R. Qiao and N. R. Aluru, ``Transient analysis of electro-osmotic transport by a reduced-order modeling approach'', International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 56, No. 7, pp. 1023-1050, 2003. [pdf file]

  • G. Li and N. R. Aluru, ``A boundary cloud method with a cloud-by-cloud polynomial basis'', Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 57-71, 2003. [pdf file]

  • V. Shrivastava and N. R. Aluru, ``A fast boundary cloud method for exterior 2D electrostatic analysis'', International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 239-260, 2003. [pdf file]

  • S. K. De, N. R. Aluru, B. Johnson, W. C. Crone, D. J. Beebe and J. S. Moore, ``Equilibrium swelling and kinetics of pH-responsive hydrogels: Models, experiments and simulations'', Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 544-555, October 2002. [pdf file]

  • T. A. van der Straaten, J. Tang, R. S. Eisenberg, U. Ravaioli and N. R. Aluru, ``Three-dimensional continuum simulations of ion transport through biological ion channels: Effect of charge distribution in the constriction region of porin'', Journal of Computational Electronics, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 335-340, October 2002. [pdf file]

  • M. Dequesnes, S. V. Rotkin and N. R. Aluru, ``Parameterization of continuum theories for single wall carbon nanotube switches by molecular dynamics simulations'', Journal of Computational Electronics, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 313-316, October 2002. [pdf file]

  • R. Qiao and N. R. Aluru, ``A compact model for electroosmotic flows in microfluidic devices'', Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 625-635, September 2002. [pdf file]

  • S. V. Rotkin, V. Shrivastava, K. A. Bulashevich and N. R. Aluru, ``Atomistic capacitance of a nanotube electromechanical device'', International Journal of Nanoscience, Vol. 1, Nos. 3/4, pp. 337-346, 2002.

  • G. Li and N. R. Aluru, ``A Lagrangian approach for electrostatic analysis of deformable conductors'', Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 245-254, June 2002. [pdf file]

  • O. Aktas and N. R. Aluru, ``A combined continuum/DSMC technique for multiscale analysis of microfluidic filters'', Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 178, No. 2, pp. 342-372, 20 May 2002. [pdf file]

  • G. Li and N. R. Aluru, ``Boundary cloud method: a combined scattered point/boundary integral approach for boundary-only analysis'', Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 191, No. 21-22, pp. 2337-2370, 15 March 2002. [pdf file]

  • M. Dequesnes, S. Rotkin and N. R. Aluru, ``Calculation of pull-in voltages for carbon-nanotube-based nanoelectromechanical switches'', Nanotechnology, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 120-131, February 2002. [pdf file]

  • K. Hess, U. Ravaioli, M. Gupta, N. R. Aluru, T. van der Straaten and R. S. Eisenberg, ``Simulation of biological ionic channels by technology computer-aided design'', VLSI Design, Vol. 13, No. 1-4, pp. 179-187, 2001. [pdf file]

  • O. Aktas, N. R. Aluru and U. Ravaioli, ``Application of a parallel DSMC technique to predict flow characteristics in microfluidic filters'', Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 538-549, December 2001. [pdf file]

  • X. Jin, G. Li and N. R. Aluru, ``On the equivalence between least-squares and kernel approximations in meshless methods'', CMES:Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 447-462, 2001. [pdf file]

  • N. R. Aluru, ``CAD enabled MEMS innovation'', Journal of Materials Processing & Manufacturing Science, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 325-327, April 2001.

  • G. Li and N. R. Aluru, ``Linear, nonlinear and mixed-regime analysis of electrostatic MEMS'', Sensors and Actuators A, Vol. 91, No. 3, pp. 278-291, 2001. [pdf file]

  • N. R. Aluru and G. Li, ``Finite cloud method: A true meshless technique based on a fixed reproducing kernel approximation'', International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 50, No. 10, pp. 2373-2410, 2001. [pdf file]

  • R. R. Ohs and N. R. Aluru, ``Meshless analysis of piezoelectric devices'', Computational Mechanics, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 23-36, 2001. [pdf file]

  • M. J. Mitchell, R. Qiao and N. R. Aluru, ``Meshless analysis of steady-state electro-osmotic transport'', Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 435-449, December 2000. [pdf file]

  • N. R. Aluru, ``A point collocation method based on reproducing kernel approximations'', International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 47:1083-1121, 2000. [pdf file]

  • C. Wordelman, N. R. Aluru and U. Ravaioli, ``A meshless method for the numerical solution of the 2- and 3-D semiconductor Poisson equation'', CMES:Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, 1:123-128, 2000. [pdf file]

  • N. R. Aluru, ``A reproducing kernel particle method for meshless analysis of microelectromechanical systems'', Computational Mechanics , Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 324-338, 1999. [pdf file]

  • N. R. Aluru, and J. White, ``A multilevel Newton method for mixed-energy domain simulation of MEMS'', Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems , Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 299-308, September 1999. [pdf file]

  • N. R. Aluru and J. White, `` An efficient numerical technique for electromechanical simulation of complicated microelectromechanical structures'', Sensors and Actuators A, 58, 1-11, 1997. [pdf file]

  • S. D. Senturia, N. R. Aluru, and J. White, ``Simulating the behavior of MEMS devices: Computational methods and needs'', IEEE Computational Science and Engineering, 4:1, 30-43, Jan-Mar 1997. [pdf file]

  • N. R. Aluru, K. Law and R. Dutton, ``Simulation of the hydrodynamic device Model on distributed memory parallel computers'',. IEEE Trans. on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 15:9, 1029-1047, 1996. [pdf file]

  • N. R. Aluru, K. Law, P. Pinsky, and R. Dutton, ``An analysis of the hydrodynamic semiconductor device model - Boundary conditions and simulations'', The International Journal for Computation and mathematics in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (COMPEL), Vol. 14, No. 2/3, pp. 157-185, 1995.

  • N. R. Aluru, K. Law, A. Raefsky, P. Pinsky and R. Dutton, ``Numerical solution of two-carrier hydrodynamic semiconductor device equations employing a stabilized finite element method'', Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 125, 187-220, 1995. [pdf file]

  • N. R. Aluru, K. Law, P. Pinsky, A. Raefsky, R. Goossens and R. Dutton, ``Space-time Galerkin/least-squares finite-element formulation for the hydrodynamic device equations'', IEICE Trans. Electronics, Vol. E77-C, No. 2, 227-235, 1994.

  • N. R. Aluru, A. Raefsky, P. Pinsky, K. Law, R. Goossens and R. Dutton, ``A finite element formulation for the hydrodynamic semiconductor device equations'', Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 107, 269-298, 1993. [pdf file]