Students: Prof. Nikhil A. Koratkar

1. Masters
1. Andrew Proper

“Health monitoring and enhanced fatigue resistance in composites using carbon nanotube fillers”, Started September (2007).

2. Velibor Peric

“Damage tolerant hybrid nano-composites”, Started June (2008).

2. Doctoral
1. Rahul Krishnan

“Nanocompliant silicon anodes for high performance Li-ion batteries”, Started August (2008).

2. Iti Srivastava

“Gas and liquid chromatography using carbon nanotubes as the stationary phase”, Started December (2007).

3. Ranganath Teki

“Nanorod structures in energy conversion applications”, Started May (2005).

4. Wenwei Zhu

“Acoustic damping in carbon nanotube polymer composites”, Started September (2007).

5. Zuankai Wang

“Wetting and interfacial phenomena at micro and nanoscales”, Started August (2004).

6. Seongyul Kim

“Fundamental study of field-induced gas and water dissociation near nanostructured electrodes”, Started January (2004).

3. Students Graduated
1. Dr. Wei Zhang (Ph.D.- 2008)

“Advanced multifunctional composites featuring carbon nanotube additives”. Wei has joined GE global research in Niskayuna, NY.

2. Dr. Li Chen (Ph.D.- 2008), Co-advised with Prof. Saroj Nayak

“Field induced adsorption/desorption of gas species to the surfaces of carbon nanotubes”. Li is applying for faculty positions.

3. Dr. Jonghwan Suhr (Ph.D.- 2005)

“Energy dissipation mechanisms in carbon nanotube polymer composites”. Jonghwan is an tenure-track assistant professor of mechanical

engineering at the University of Nevada at Reno.

4. Dr. Jongmin Kim (Ph.D. 2004)

“Flow control strategies for improved aerodynamic efficiency of micro-rotorcraft”. Jongmin works for Samsung in Korea.

In addition four M.S. Students (Ashish Modi, Jeremy Nelson, Eric Lass and Sameer Kulkarni) have graduated under Professor Koratkar’s supervision.

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