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Name: Debjyoti Banerjee

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CURRICULUM VITAEDebjyoti Banerjee

Department of Mechanical EngineeringTexas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843.

Tel: (979) 845-4500; Email: [email protected]; Fax: (979) 845-3081

EDUCATION:Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 1999M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 1998M.S. Engineering Science, University of Mississippi, Oxford, M.S. 1995M.S. Computational Science, University of Mississippi, Oxford, M.S. 1995B.S. Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.), Kharagpur 1992

PhD Thesis Title: “Numerical and Experimental Study of Film Boiling on a Horizontal Plate”,Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. V.K. Dhir (currently, Dean, School of Engineering, UCLA). PhD researchreceived the “2001 Best Journal Paper Award” from ASME Heat Transfer Division for 2 paperspublished in the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer.

M.S. Thesis Title: “An experimental investigation of flow separation control using an acousticactive device”, Advisor: Dr. S.K. Sinha. This work was used to patent a MEMS device (USPatent No. 5,961,080) and start a company (www.sinhatech.com).

AWARDS:

3M Corporation “Non Tenured Faculty Award” (2009-2012).Select Young Faculty Award, Texas Engineering Experimentation Station (2008-2009).Faculty Fellow, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, Texas A&M University (2007).Morris-Foster Faculty Fellowship (2007-2009), Texas A&M University.American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Summer Faculty Fellow (2009) –Space and Naval Warfare Center (SPAWAR), Advanced Technology Branch - San Diego;sponsored by Office of Naval Research (ONR).American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Summer Faculty Fellow (2006, 2007)– Air Force Research Lab. (AFRL) Wright Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB); sponsoredby Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR).New Investigator Award (2005), Texas Space Grants Consortium (TSGC).2001 Best Journal Paper Award by the ASME Heat Transfer Division for paper in theJournal of Heat Transfer.Invited to four National Honor Societies: (Phi Kappa Phi for Scientific Research),(Sigma Xi for Academic Excellence), (Gamma Beta Phi for Social Service), (TauBeta Pi for Engineering)."Best Mechanical Engineering Student Award" (Endowment), I.I.T. Kharagpur (1992).Merit Scholarships for Undergraduate Student (3 times), I.I.T., Kharagpur. (1988-1992).J.C. Bose National Science Talent Search Scholar, Government of India (1988).Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) Scholarship, Govt. of India (1988-1992).


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PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER (PE) REGISTRATION:Passed Engineer In Training (E.I.T.) in California in 1995

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:1. Texas A&M University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College Station, TX

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering (09/2011 – present)Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering (01/2005 – 08/2011)Faculty Fellow, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center (09/2007 – present)

2. Space and Naval Warfare Center (SPAWAR), San Diego, CAONR/ ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow (05/2009-07/2009)ONR = Office of Naval Research, ASEE = American Society for Engineering Education

3. Air Force Research Lab. (AFRL), Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OHAFOSR/ ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow (05/2006-08/2006, 05/2007-07/2007)AFOSR = Air Force Office of Scientific Research

4. Applied Biosystems Inc. (Applera), Advanced Research & Technology, Foster City, CA.Manager, Fluidics & Device Engineering Group (02/2004-12/2004),Managed a group of 10 engineers including 6 Ph.D.

5. Santa Clara University, Mechanical Engineering Department, Santa Clara, CA.Adjunct Lecturer (01/2004 – 04/2004).

6. NanoInk Inc., Microfabrication Group, Campbell, CAMicrofluidics Engineer, MEMS Division (11/2002-02/2004) – in a singular capacitydeveloped a commercial microfluidics platform for bio/nanolithography applications.

7. Ciphergen Biosystems Inc., Research Proteomics, Fremont, CASenior Fluidics Research Scientist (04/2002-10/2002)

8. Coventor Inc., Applications and Services Division, (Boston, MA in 1999; San Francisco, CAin 2000 and Irvine, CA in 2001).

Senior Applications and Consulting Engineer (10/99 – 01/02);Project Team Leader for design and fabrication of MEMS and microfluidics devices.

9. University of California (UCLA), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Los Angeles, CA.Graduate Research Fellow and Teaching Assistant/ Associate (06/95 – 09/99)

10. University of Mississippi, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Oxford, MS.Graduate Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant (08/93 – 05/95).

11. Tata Iron & Steel Company (Tata Steel), Energy & Economy Division, Jamshedpur, India.Senior Officer (Management Level: M1) (08/92 – 08/93).

12. Tata Electric & Locomotive Company (Tata Motors), Growth & Machine Building Division.Summer Intern (Paid Internship) (05/91 – 08/91).


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TEACHING EXPERIENCE:Over 15 years of teaching experience: received outstanding reviews from students.

Undergraduate Courses Taught: Heat Transfer; Fluid Mechanics; ThermodynamicsGraduate Courses Taught: Introduction to MEMS, Microfluidics, and Nanotechnology;Two Phase Flow & Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics.

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station.

o MEEN 624 “Two Phase Flow and Heat Transfer”:Spring 2006 (15 students enrolled),Spring 2007 (23 students enrolled),Spring 2009 (32 students enrolled),Spring 2010 (26 students enrolled),Spring 2012 (17 students enrolled).

o MEEN 621 “Fluid Mechanics”:Spring 2008 (27 students enrolled),Fall 2008 (45 students enrolled).

o ENGR/ PHIL 482 “Engineering and Ethics”:Spring 2012 (207 students enrolled).

o MEEN 461 “Heat Transfer”:Spring 2005 (48 students enrolled),Fall 2007 (46 students enrolled),Fall 2009 (53 students enrolled),Summer 2010 (41 students enrolled),Fall 2010 (62 students enrolled),Spring 2011 (45 students enrolled),Fall 2011 (71 students enrolled).

o MEEN 344 “Fluid Mechanics”:Fall 2005 (46 students enrolled),Fall 2006 (68 students enrolled),Spring 2008 (56 students enrolled),Spring, 2009 (64 students enrolled),Fall 2009 (88 students enrolled),Spring 2011 (30 students enrolled).

o MEEN 227 “Principles of Thermodynamics”:Spring 2007 (71 students enrolled).

Adjunct Faculty (Lecturer) of Mechanical Engineering, Santa Clara Universityo MECH 293: Intro. to MEMS, Microfluidics and Nanotechnology

(STACKED GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE COURSE):Winter, 2004 (30 students enrolled).


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ASME Nanotechnology Institute (Emerging Technologies Program): developed an onlineself-study course on “Nanocoatings for Enhanced Thermal Engineering” (2010-2011).

ASME Continuing Education Institute: Instructor for Microfluidics course, 2001.

Senior Applications and Consulting Engineer, Coventor Inc. (1999-2001):o Training diverse clientele of biologists, chemists, physicists and engineers on Finite

Element Methods (FEM), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and NetworkSimulators packages: MEMCAD, FLUMECAD, Coventorware™, SPICE™/ SABER™.

University of Mississippi: Teaching Assistant (1993-1995).

UCLA: Teaching Assistant / Associate (1995-1999).

ABBREVIATIONS:AFOSR = Air Force Office of Scientific ResearchONR = Office of Naval ResearchAFRL = Air Force Research Lab.PRPS = Propulsion Division, Power Systems BranchWPAFB = Wright Patterson Air Force Base (Dayton, Ohio)SPAWAR = Space and Naval Warfare CenterATB = Advanced Technology Branch (San Diego, CA)

SSC = SPAWAR Systems Command


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CONSULTING EXPERIENCE:

1. ASME Nanotechnology Institute (Emerging Technologies Program): developed an onlineself-study course on “Nanocoatings for Enhanced Thermal Engineering” (2010-2011).

2. Space and Naval Warfare Center Systems Command (SPAWAR/ SSC), AdvancedTechnology Branch (ATB)

Nano-Particle Synthesis Using Excimer Laser,Laser Propagation in Atmospheric Aerosols.

3. Air Force Research Labs., Propulsion Directorate, Power Systems Division (AFRL/PRPS)Nanofluids for Thermal Management (2006, 2007).

4. ADA Technologies, Golden, COSynthesis of nanotubes using Dip Pen Nanolithography (DPN) (2011).

5. Aspen Systems, Aspen Thermal Systems, Marlborough, MACarbon Nanotube Coatings for Efficient and Compact Condenser Development (2009).Design for Manufacturing, Development and Testing of Efficient Compact-Condenserusing Carbon Nanotube Coatings (2010-2011).

6. NanoInk Inc., Skokie, IL (MEMS Division, Campbell, CA)

Design of integrated microfluidic apparatus for nanolithographic probe systems(2010-2011)

7. Irvine Sensors Inc., Irvine, CADesign of micropump for electronics chip cooling (AFOSR SBIR Phase II, 2008).

8. Anteon Corporation/ General Dynamics (AFRL Seed Project)Lab-On-Chip for Nano-Particle Synthesis.

9. General Electric, Corporate Research and Development (GE-CRD)Nano-Switch Development using Dip Pen Nanolithography (2007).

10. Lynntech Inc., College Station, TXPortable Boiler/Sterilizer (2007).

11. NanoMEMS Research LLC, Irvine, CA.High power high reliability RF-MEMS switch (May, 2006);High power RF-MEMS/ Microwave tuners for reconfigurable networks (December,2007).Microfluidic Platform to Realize a Reconfigurable Device for Photonic System (May,2009)

12. Invensense Inc., Santa Clara, CA:MEMS Gyroscope design and modeling (2004).


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REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (Total 35):

1. Banerjee, D., and Dhir, V.K., “Study of Subcooled Film Boiling on a Horizontal Disc: PartI: Analysis”, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 123, pp. 271-284, April, 2001. (Thisreceived the “2001 Best Journal Paper Award” from Heat Transfer Division of ASME.)

2. Banerjee, D., and Dhir, V.K., “Study of Subcooled Film Boiling on a Horizontal Disc: PartII: Experiments”, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 123, pp. 285-293, April, 2001. (Thisreceived the “2001 Best Journal Paper Award” from Heat Transfer Division of ASME.).

3. Banerjee, D., Amro, N.A., and Fragala, J., “Optimization of microfluidic ink-deliveryapparatus for Dip Pen Nanolithography™”, SPIE Journal of Microlithography,Microfabrication and Microsystems (“JM3”), vol. 4, pp. 023014-023021, April, 2005.

4. Rosner, B., Duenas, T., Banerjee, D., Shile, R., Amro, N., Rendlen, J., “Functionalextensions of Dip Pen Nanolithography™: active probes and microfluidic ink delivery”,IEEE Journal of Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 15, page S124-S130, 2006.

5. Ahn, H.S*, Sinha N.*, Zhang‡, M., Feng, S. ‡, Banerjee, D., Baughman, R., “Pool boilingexperiments on Multi Walled Carbon Nanotube (MWCNT) Forests”, ASME Journal of HeatTransfer, Vol. 128, No. 12, pp.1335-1342, December, 2006.

6. Rivas-Cordona, J.A.* and Banerjee, D., “Microfluidic device for delivery of multiple inksfor Dip Pen Nanolithography”, SPIE Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS andMOEMS, (“JM3”), Vol. 06, No. 03, pp. 033004-12, 2007.

7. Sathyamurthi, V. *, Banerjee, D., Sakamoto, H., and Kim, J., “Measurement of the fractalorder of wall void fraction during nucleate boiling”, International J. of Heat and Fluid Flow,doi10.1016/2007.03.009, September, 2007.

8. Ahn, H.S.*, Lee, S.W.*, Lau, S.C. and Banerjee, D., “Mass (Heat) Transfer Downstream ofBlockages with Round and Elongated Holes in a Rectangular Channel”, ASME Journal ofHeat Transfer, Vol. 129, pp. 1676 - 1685, December, 2007.

9. Gargate, R.*, and Banerjee, D., “In-Situ synthesis of carbon nanotubes on heated scanningprobes using dip pen techniques”, Scanning: The Journal of Scanning Probe Microscopies,(invited paper for the special issue on Dip Pen Nanolithography), Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 151-158, March/April 2008.

10. Unnikrishnan, V.U. *, Reddy, J.N. and Banerjee, D., “Atomistic-Mesoscale ThermalAnalysis of Carbon Nanotube Systems”, International Journal of Thermal Sciences Volume47, Issue 12, Pages 1602-1609, December, 2008.

11. Unnikrishnan V. U.*, Reddy J. N., Banerjee D., and Rostam-Abadi F., “ThermalCharacteristics of Defective Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Nanocomposites,” Interaction andMultiscale Mechanics, An International Journal, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 397-410, 2008.

12. Sunder, M and Banerjee, D., “Experimental investigation of micro-scale temperaturetransients in sub-cooled flow boiling on a horizontal heater”, International Journal of Heatand Fluid Flow , Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 140-149, doi:10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2008.08.003,February, 2009.


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13. Ahn, H-S.*, Sinha, N.*, Banerjee, D., “Pool Boiling Experiments on a Nano-StructuredSurface”, IEEE Transactions in Components and Packaging Technology, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp.252-260, doi 10.1109/TCAPT.2009.2013980, March, 2009.

14. Ahn, H-S.*, Sinha, N.*, Williams, R.†, Banerjee, D., “Packaging of Surface MicromachinedThin Film Thermocouples (TFT): Comparison of the Resistance Arc Micro-WeldingTechnique with Wire Bonding”, IEEE Transactions in Components and PackagingTechnology, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 252-260, doi 10.1109/TCAPT.2009.2013982, June, 2009.

15. Sathyamurthi, V.*, Ahn, H.S.*, Banerjee, D., Lau, S.C., “Subcooled Pool BoilingExperiments on Horizontal Heaters Coated With Carbon Nanotubes”, Journal of HeatTransfer , doi:10.1115/1.3000595, Vol. 131, No. 7, pp. 071501-1 – 071501-10, July, 2009.

16. Nelson, I.C. *, Banerjee, D., and Rengasamy, P., “Flow Loop Experiments UsingPolyalphaolefin Nanofluids”, AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 23,No. 4, pp.752-761, doi: 10.2514/1.31033, October – December, 2009.

17. Sathyamurthi, V.* and Banerjee, D., “Non-Linear Dynamical Analyses of Transient SurfaceTemperature Fluctuations During Subcooled Pool Boiling”, International Journal of Heatand Mass Transfer, doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2009.06.023, Volume 52, No. 23-24, pp.5608-5623, November, 2009.

18. Singh, N.*, Sathyamurthi, V. *, Patterson, W. †, Arendt, J.L. †, and Banerjee, D., “FlowBoiling Enhancement on a Horizontal Heater Using Carbon Nanotube Coatings”,International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, doi:10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2009.11.002,Vol. 31, pp. 201-207, 2010.

19. Siegrist, J. *, Amasia, M. *, Singh, N. *, Banerjee, D., and Madou, M., "NumericalModeling and Experimental Validation of Uniform Microchamber Filling in CentrifugalMicrofluidics", Journal of Lab on a Chip, doi: 10.1039/b917880e, Vol. 10, pp. 876-886,2010.

20. Kang, S.W. *, Banerjee, D., Kaul, A.B., Megerian, K.G., “Nano-Patterning of Catalysts byDip Pen Nanolithography (DPN) for synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes (CNT)”, Scanning: TheJournal of Scanning Probe Microscopies, DOI: 10.1002/sca.20184, Vol. 32, Issue 1, pp. 42-48, January/February, 2010.

21. Shin, D., and Banerjee, D., “Effects of silica nanoparticles on enhancing the specific heatcapacity of carbonate salt eutectic (work in progress)”, International Journal of StructuralChange in Solids – Mechanics and Applications, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 25-31, November, 2010.

22. Shin, D., and Banerjee, D., “Enhanced Specific Heat of Silica Nanofluid”, ASME Journal ofHeat Transfer, doi:10.1115/1.4002600, Volume 133, Issue 2, 024501 (4 pages) , February,2011.

23. Shin, D., and Banerjee, D., “Enhancement of specific heat of high-temperature silicananofluids synthesized in alkali chloride salt eutectics for solar thermal-energy storageapplications”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer,doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2010.11.017, 2011, Volume 54, Issues 5-6, Pages 1064-1070, February 2011.


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24. Kang, S.W.*, and Banerjee, D., "Point-Mass Model for Nano-patterning Using Dip-PenNanolithography (DPN)," Sensors & Transducers Journal, Vol. 11, Special Issue, pp. 64-73,March, 2011.

25. Kang, S-K.*, and Banerjee, D., “Modeling and Simulation of Capillary MicrofluidicNetworks based on Electrical Analogies”, ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, Volume133, Issue 5, 054502 (6 pages), doi:10.1115/1.4004092, May 2011.

26. Singh, N.*, Unnikrishnan, V.‡, Banerjee, D., and Reddy, J.N., “Analysis of ThermalInterfacial Resistance between Nanofins and Various Coolants”, International Journal ofComputational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics, Vol. 12, Issue 5, pp. 254-260, DOI:10.1080/15502287.2011.582475, (accepted, April, 2011, available onlineSeptember 20, 2011), December 2011.

27. Santos, H.J.D.L., Kang, S.-W.*, and Banerjee, D., "Lifshitz Localization-BasedReconfigurable Photonic Crystals," Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Volume 53,Issue 12, pages 2721–2724, DOI: 10.1002/mop.26441 (Accepted, July 2011, first onlinepublication 21 September 2011), December 2011.

28. Shin, D.*, and Banerjee, D., “Enhancement of Heat Capacity of Molten Salt Eutectics usingInorganic Nanoparticles for Solar Thermal Energy Applications”, Developments in StrategicMaterials and Computational Design II, Ceramics Engineering and Science Proceedings,Vol. 32, Issue 10, 2011.

29. Jo, B.*, and Banerjee, D., “Enhanced Viscosity of Aqueous Silica Nanofluids”,Developments in Strategic Materials and Computational Design II, Ceramics Engineeringand Science Proceedings, Vol. 32, Issue 10, 2011.

30. Jung, S.*, and Banerjee, D., “Enhancement of Heat Capacity of Nitrate Salts using MicaNanoparticles”, Developments in Strategic Materials and Computational Design II,Ceramics Engineering and Science Proceedings, Vol. 32, Issue 10, 2011.

31. Yu, J.*, Kang, S.*, Jeon, S.*, Banerjee, D., “Heat transfer measurements for flow ofnanofluids inmicrochannels using temperature nano-sensors”, Frontiers in Heat and MassTransfer (Special Issue on Microchannels), (FHMT), DOI: 10.5098/hmt.v3.1.3004, Vol. 3,No. 1, pp. 013004, 2012.

32. Anoop, K. ‡, Sadr, R., Yu, J.*, Kang, S.*, Jeon, S.*, and Banerjee, D., “Experimental studyof forced convective heat transfer of nanofluids in a microchannel”, InternationalCommunications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 39, Issue 9, Pages 1325–1330, DOI:10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2012.07.023, November 2012.

33. Shin, D.*, and Banerjee, D., “Enhanced specific heat capacity of nanomaterials synthesizedby dispersing silica nanoparticles in eutectic mixtures”, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer(accepted, in print), 2013.

34. Roy, P.*, Anand, N.K., and Banerjee, D., “Numerical Simulation of Flow and Heat Transferin Radially Rotating Microchannels”, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics", accepted (in review),2013.

* Graduate student author, † Undergraduate student author, ‡ Post-doctoral research scholar


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OTHER PUBLICATIONS (3 book chapters):1. Banerjee, D., “Dip pen technologies for bio-molecular devices” (Book Chapter) in Book:

Vol. I: Biological and Biomedical Nanotechnology, 2006, Editor: A. Lee, Publisher:Kluwer, N.Y.

2. Lloyd, S., Banerjee, D., Bejan, A., Beretta, G.P., Chu, S., Geskin, E., Ghoniem, A.,Gutowski, T.G., Gyftopoulos, A.P., Keck, J.C., Lior, N., Miller, S., Nieuwenhuizen,T.H., Peterson, R., Salamon, P., Williamsonk, L., “The Second Law and Energy” (BookChapter) in: MEETING THE ENTROPY CHALLENGE: An InternationalThermodynamics Symposium in Honor and Memory of Professor Joseph H. Keenan;2008, Editor: Beretta, G.P., Publisher: AIP (American Institute of Physics), M.D.doi:10.1063/1.2979062

3. Singh, N.*, Shin, D.*, and Banerjee, D., 2012, “Nano-Scale Effects in Multi-PhaseFlows and Heat Transfer” (Book Chapter), in MEMS and Nanotechnologies: FromScience-to-Electronic Systems, to be published by CRC Press (May, 2012), Editor: Kaul,A.B. (Jet Propulsion Lab., currently Program Manager at National Science Foundation/NSF).

PATENTS (TOTAL ISSUED: 6)1. Banerjee, D., et al., “Electrowetting dispensing devices and related methods”, U.S. Patent

No. 8,163,150 (Issued April 24, 2012).

2. Banerjee, D., et al., “Microfluidic device including a dissolvable structure for flow control”,U.S. Patent No. 8,147,770 (Issued April 3, 2012)

3. Banerjee, D., et al., “Fluid processing device including composite material flow modulator”,U.S. Patent No. 8,062,611 (Issued: November 22, 2011).

4. Banerjee, D., et al., “Methods and apparatus for ink delivery to nanolithographic probesystems”, U.S. Patent No. 7,762,638 (Issued: July 27, 2010).

5. Bahatt, D., and Banerjee, D., “Fluid Processing Device”, U.S. Patent No. 7,378,259 (May27, 2008).

6. Banerjee, D., et al., “Methods and apparatus for ink delivery to nanolithographic probesystems”, U.S. Patent No. 7,034,854 (Issued: April 25, 2006).

PATENTS (TOTAL APPLICATIONS: 13)1. D. Banerjee, et al., 20110126913, “Device Including A Dissolvable Structure For Flow

Control”.


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2. D. Banerjee, et al., 20110114206, “Fluid Processing Device Including Size-ChangingBarrier”.

3. D. Banerjee, et al., 20100242765, “METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INK DELIVERYTO NANOLITHOGRAPHIC PROBE SYSTEMS”.

4. D. Banerjee, et al., 20100236930, “Electrowetting Dispensing Devices and RelatedMethods”.

5. D. Banerjee, et al., 20100136701, “Device including a dissolvable structure for flow control”.

6. D. Banerjee, et al., 20100133104, “Fluid processing device including size-changing barrier”.

7. D. Banerjee, et al., 20070008390, “Methods and apparatus for ink delivery tonanolithographic probe systems”.

8. D. Banerjee, et al., 20060102477, “Electrowetting dispensing devices and related methods”.

9. D. Banerjee, et al., 20060093528, “Device including a dissolvable structure for flow control”.

10. D. Banerjee, et al., 20060093526, “Fluid processing device including composite materialflow modulator”.

11. D. Banerjee, et al., 20060090800, “Fluid processing device including size-changing barrier”.

12. D. Banerjee, et al., 20060013742, “Fluid processing device”.

13. D. Banerjee, et al., 20050035983, “Methods and apparatus for ink delivery tonanolithographic probe systems”.

PATENTS (TOTAL PROVISIONAL APPLICATIONS: 3)1. USPTO Serial Number 60/771,308, Texas A&M University System (TAMUS 2325, 2326):

“Heat Transfer Augmentation on Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Micromachined ThinFilm Thermocouples” (Provisional Patent Filed: February 08, 2006).

2. USPTO Serial Number 60/890,434, Texas A&M University System (TAMUS 2380):“Detection of explosives and energetic materials using heated microcantilever sensors”,(Provisional Patent Filed: February 16, 2007)

3. USPTO Serial Number 60/910,350, Texas A&M University System (TAMUS 2465):“Precise control of size and chirality of individual carbon nanotubes using scanning probelithography and chemical vapor deposition techniques”, (Provisional Patent: April 5, 2007).

INVENTION DISCLOSURES:Texas A&M University: Filed 6 invention disclosures on boiling, micro/nano-thermocouples,MEMS explosives sensors, microfluidics, nanolithography and synthesis of carbon nanotubeswith controlled chirality.

Filed more than 25 invention disclosures at Coventor Inc., NanoInk Inc. and Applied BiosystemsInc. (under non-disclosure agreement).


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Peer Reviewed and Refereed Conference Publications (TOTAL 74)2012:

1. Yang, H.*, and Banerjee, D., “Study of Specific Heat Capacity Enhancement of Molten SaltNanomaterials for Solar Thermal Energy Storage (TES)”, Paper No. MNHMT2012-75338,ASME 2012 3rd Micro/ Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference, Atlanta,GA, Mar. 3-6, 2012.

2011:

2. Niedbalski, N.*, Kang, S.*, and Banerjee, D., “Numerical Study of Microchamber Filling inCentrifugal Microfluidics”, Paper No. IMECE2011-63897, ASME 2011 InternationalMechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Hyatt Regency Denver & ColoradoConvention Center, November 11-17, 2011.

3. Kang, S.*, and Banerjee, D., “Investigation of Microcantilever Sensor for ExplosivesDetection”, Paper No. IMECE2011-63930, ASME 2011 International MechanicalEngineering Congress and Exposition, Hyatt Regency Denver & Colorado ConventionCenter, November 11-17, 2011.

4. Jo, B.*, and Banerjee, D., “Enhanced Specific Heat Capacity of Nanocomposites usingOrganic Nanoparticles”, Paper No. IMECE2011-64001, ASME 2011 InternationalMechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Hyatt Regency Denver & ColoradoConvention Center, November 11-17, 2011.

5. Yu, J.*, Kang, S.*, Jeon, S.*, and Banerjee, D., “Investigation of Convective Heat Transferof Aqueous Nanofluids in Microchannels integrated with Temperature Nanosensors”, PaperNo. IMECE2011-64082, ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress andExposition, Hyatt Regency Denver & Colorado Convention Center, November 11-17, 2011.

6. Jo, B.*, Jung, S.*, Shin, D.*, and Banerjee, D., “Anomalous Rheological Behavior ofComplex Fluids (Nanofluids)”, Paper No. IMECE2011-64091, ASME 2011 InternationalMechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Hyatt Regency Denver & ColoradoConvention Center, November 11-17, 2011.

7. Roy, P.*, Anand, N.K., and Banerjee, D., “A numerical study of unsteady laminar flow andheat transfer through an array of rotating rectangular microchannels”, Paper No.IMECE2011-64745, ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress andExposition, Hyatt Regency Denver & Colorado Convention Center, November 11-17, 2011.

8. Jung, S.*, and Banerjee, D., “A simple analytical model for specific heat of nanofluid withtube shaped and disc shaped nanoparticles”, Paper No. AJTEC2011-44372, ASME/JSME 8th

Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 13-17, 2011.9. Jo, B.*, and Banerjee, D., “Interfacial Thermal Resistance between a Carbon Nanoparticle

and Molten Salt Eutectic: Effect of material properties, particle shapes and sizes”, Paper No.AJTEC2011-44373, ASME/JSME 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, Honolulu,Hawaii, March 13-17, 2011.


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10. Kang, S.*, Jeon, S.*, and Banerjee, D., “Experimental Study of Thermal Performance ofNanofluids During Flow in Microchannels using Surface Temperature-Nano-Sensors”, PaperNo. AJTEC2011-44374, ASME/JSME 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, Honolulu,Hawaii, March 13-17, 2011.

11. Shin, D.*, and Banerjee, D., “Experimental Investigation of molten salt nanofluid for solarthermal energy application”, Paper No. AJTEC2011-44375, ASME/JSME 8th ThermalEngineering Joint Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 13-17, 2011.

12. Jeon, S.*, Jo, B.*, and Banerjee, D., “Enhancement of saturation boiling of PF-5060 onmicroporous surface”, Paper No. AJTEC2011-44408, ASME/JSME 8th Thermal EngineeringJoint Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 13-17, 2011.

13. Shin, D.*, and Banerjee, D., “Enhancement of Heat Capacity of Molten Salt Eutectics UsingInorganic Nanoparticles for Solar Thermal Energy Applications”, Proceedings of the 35thInternational Conference & Exposition on Advanced Ceramics & Composites (ICACC2011), Organized by the Engineering Ceramics Division of The American Ceramic Society,January 23 - 28, 2011, Hilton Daytona Beach Resort and Ocean Center, Daytona Beach,Florida.

14. Jung, S.*. and Banerjee, D., “Enhancement of Heat Capacity of Nitrate Salts Using MicaNanoparticles”, Proceedings of the 35th International Conference & Exposition on AdvancedCeramics & Composites (ICACC 2011), Organized by the Engineering Ceramics Division ofThe American Ceramic Society, January 23 - 28, 2011, Hilton Daytona Beach Resort andOcean Center, Daytona Beach, Florida.

15. Jo, B.*, and Banerjee, D., “Enhanced Viscosity of Aqueous Silica Nanofluids”, Proceedingsof the 35th International Conference & Exposition on Advanced Ceramics & Composites(ICACC 2011), Organized by the Engineering Ceramics Division of The American CeramicSociety, January 23 - 28, 2011, Hilton Daytona Beach Resort and Ocean Center, DaytonaBeach, Florida.

16. Kang, S.*, Niedbalski, N.*, Lane, M.R.**, and Banerjee, D., “Nano-Calorimeter Platformfor Explosives Sensing”, Proceedings of the 35th International Conference & Exposition onAdvanced Ceramics & Composites (ICACC 2011), Organized by the Engineering CeramicsDivision of The American Ceramic Society, January 23 - 28, 2011, Hilton Daytona BeachResort and Ocean Center, Daytona Beach, Florida.

2010:

17. Jung, S.*, Jo, B.*, Shin, D.*, and Banerjee, D., “Experimental Validation of a SimpleAnalytical Model for Specific Heat Capacity of Aqueous Nanofluids”, Paper No. SAE-10PSC-0134, SAE Power Systems Conference, November 2-4, Fort Worth, Texas, 2010.

18. Jeon, S.*, Kang, S.*, and Banerjee, D., “Investigation of Thermal Characteristics ofNanofluids during Flow in a Micro-channel using an Array of Surface Temperature-nano-sensors”, Paper No. SAE-10PSC-0135, SAE Power Systems Conference, November 2-4, FortWorth, Texas, 2010.


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19. Shin, D.*, and Banerjee, D., “Enhanced specific heat capacity of molten salt-metal oxidenanofluid as heat transfer fluid for solar thermal applications”, Paper No. SAE-10PSC-0136,SAE Power Systems Conference, November 2-4, Fort Worth, Texas, 2010.

20. Singh, N.*, and Banerjee, D., “Thermal Analysis of Carbon Nanotubes suspended in PAOMixtures”, Paper No. SAE-10PSC-0137, SAE Power Systems Conference, November 2-4,Fort Worth, Texas, 2010.

21. Jeon, S.*, Roy, P.*, Anand, N.K., and Banerjee, D., “Investigation of Flow Boiling onNanostructured Surfaces”, Paper No. IHTC14-22926, 14th International Heat TransferConference, August 8-13, Washington, D.C., 2010.

22. Singh, N.*, and Banerjee, D., “Investigation of Thermal Interfacial Resistance on Nano-Structures Using Molecular Dynamics”, Paper No. IHTC14-22930, 14th International HeatTransfer Conference, August 8-13, Washington, D.C., 2010.

23. Shin, D.*, Jo, B.*, Kwak, H.*, and Banerjee, D., “Investigation of High TemperatureNanofluids for Solar Thermal Power Conversion and Storage Applications”, Paper No.IHTC14-23296, 14th International Heat Transfer Conference, August 8-13, Washington,D.C., 2010.

24. Sathyamurthi, V. *, and Banerjee, D., “Non-Linear Dynamical Analyses of SurfaceTemperature Data Using Temperature Nano-Sensor During Pool Boiling Experiments”,Paper No. IHTC14-22921, 14th International Heat Transfer Conference, August 8-13,Washington, D.C., 2010.

25. Kang, S.*, De Los Santos, H.J., and Banerjee, D., “Lumped Parameter Modeling forMicrofluidic Networks for Realizing Reconfigurable Nano-Optics Architectures”, Paper No.FEDSM-ICNMM2010-31256; Proceedings of the ASME 2010 Fluids Engineering SummerMeeting (FEDSM2010); European Mechanical Engineering Societies, the InternationalConference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels (ICNMM); and theInternational Symposium on Fluid-Structure Interactions, Flow-Sound Interactions, andFlow-Induced Vibration & Noise (FSI2 & FIV+N), August 1-5, Montreal, Canada, 2010.

26. Shin, D. *, and Banerjee, D., “Enhanced Thermal Properties of PCM Based Nanofluid ForSolar Thermal Energy Storage”, Paper No. ES2010-90293, ASME 4th InternationalConference on Energy Sustainability, May 17-22, Phoenix, AZ, 2010.

27. Kwak, H. *, Shin, D. *, and Banerjee, D., “Enhanced Sensible Heat Capacity of Molten SaltBased Nanofluid For Solar Thermal Energy Storage Application”, Paper No. ES2010-90295,ASME 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, May 17-22, Phoenix, AZ,2010.

28. Jo, B. *, and Banerjee, D., “Study of High Temperature Nanofluids using Carbon Nanotubes(CNT) for Solar Thermal Storage Applications”, Paper No. ES2010-90299, ASME 4th

International Conference on Energy Sustainability, May 17-22, Phoenix, AZ, 2010.

2009:

29. Shin, D. *, and Banerjee, D., “Investigation of Nanofluids for Solar Thermal StorageApplications”, Paper No. ES2009-90465, ASME Energy Sustainability Conference, July 20-25, San Francisco, CA, 2009.


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30. Sathyamurthi V. *, and Banerjee, D., “Investigation of pool boiling on a flat horizontalheater using surface nano-thermocouples: Is Boiling Chaotic or Stochastic?”, BOILING 2009:: 7ht International Conference on Boiling Heat Transfer, May 03 - 07, 2009 - Florianópolis- SC – Brazil, 2009.

31. Gargate, R. *, and Banerjee, D., “Using Dip Pen Techniques for Synthesis of Nano-Structures”, SPIE Paper No. 7318-8, SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, April 15-20,Orlando, FL, 2009.

2008:

32. Gargate, R.*, and Banerjee, D., “Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes at ‘Room Temperature’Using Capillary Microfluidics and Dip Pen Techniques”, Paper No. TAS 2008-1075,Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on .Miniaturized Systems for Chemistryand Life Sciences, San Diego, October 12-16, 2008.

33. Banneyake, B.M.R.U. *, and Banerjee, D., “Microfluidic device for synthesis of lipid bi-layers”, ASME Paper No. FEDSM2008-55219, Proceedings of ASME- Fluids EngineeringDivision Summer Conference 2008, 2008 ASME Summer Heat Transfer, Fluids, Energy &Energy Nano Conferences, August 10-14, 2008, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

34. Singh, N. *, Unnikrishnan, V.U. *, Reddy, J.N., and Banerjee, D., “Molecular Dynamicssimulation of interfacial thermal resistance of nanofins”, ASME Paper No. ENIC2008-53049,Proceedings of ASME- 3rd Energy Nanotechnology International Conference 2008, 2008ASME Summer Heat Transfer, Fluids, Energy & Energy Nano Conferences, August 10-14,2008, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

35. Singh, N. * and Banerjee, D., “Effect of polymer chains on heat transfer on nanofins”,ASME Paper No. HT2008-66390, Proceedings of ASME- Summer Heat Transfer Conference’08, 2008 ASME Summer Heat Transfer, Fluids, Energy & Energy Nano Conferences,August 10-14, 2008, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

36. Sathyamurthi, V. *, and Banerjee, D., “Determination of dimensionality of pool boiling on athin horizontal disk under subcooled conditions using thin film thermocouples”, ASME PaperNo. HT2008-56378, Proceedings of ASME- Summer Heat Transfer Conference 2008, 2008ASME Summer Heat Transfer, Fluids, Energy & Energy Nano Conferences, August 10-14,2008, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

37. Gargate, R.*, and Banerjee, D., “Nanolithographic patterning of catalysts for synthesis ofcarbon nanotubes”, NSTI Nanotechnology 2008, Paper No. 1543, (invited paper in specialsession on Dip Pen Nanolithography), Boston, MA, June 1-5, 2008.

38. Gargate, R.*, and Banerjee, D., “Room temperature synthesis of Carbon Nanotube using DipPen Nanolithography”, SPIE Paper No.6959-19, SPIE Defense and Security Symposium,March 17-20, Orlando, FL, 2008.

39. Singh, N.*, Unnikrishnan, V.*, Banerjee, D., and Reddy, J.N., “Multiscale analyses oftransient thermal interface resistance between CNT Nanofins and various fluids”,International Conference on Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, Indian Institute ofScience, Bangalore, January 2-4, 2008.


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2007:

40. Sathyamurthi, V.*, and Banerjee, D., “Pool boiling studies on nano-textured surfaces:impact of high subcooling”, Paper No. IMECE2007-42508, Proceedings of ASME-IMECE,2007, Nov. 11-15, Seattle, WA.

41. Sriraman, S.R.*, and Banerjee, D., “Pool boiling studies on nano-structured surfaces”, PaperNo. IMECE2007-42581, Proceedings of ASME-IMECE, 2007, Nov. 11-15, Seattle, WA.

42. Datta, S.*, and Banerjee, D., “Characterization of micro-valves for Lab-On-Chip device”,Paper No. IMECE2007-42587, Proceedings of ASME-IMECE, 2007, Nov. 11-15, Seattle,WA.

43. Huitink, D.R.*, Banerjee, D. and Sinha, S.K., “Precise control of carbon nanotube synthesisof a single chirality”, Paper No. IMECE2007-42588, Proceedings of ASME-IMECE, 2007,Nov. 11-15, Seattle, WA.

44. Sathyamurthi, V.*, and Banerjee, D., “Subcooled pool boiling experiments on nano-texturedsurfaces”, Paper No. IPACK 2007-33207, Proceedings of the InterPACK 2007, ASME JSMEJoint Summer Heat Transfer Conference, July 8-12, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

45. Huitink, D.*, Banerjee, D., and Sinha, S.K., “Nanolithography of metal catalysts by Dip PenNanolithography”, SPIE Paper No. 6556-22, Proceedings of the SPIE Defense and SecurityConference (SPIE-DSS 2007), 2007, April 9-13, Orlando, FL.

2006:

46. Ahn, H-S.*, Sinha N., Banerjee, D., and Lau, S.C., “Pool Boiling Experiments UsingSurface Micromachined Thermocouples”, SAE Paper No. 06PSC-44, SAE Power SystemsConference, New Orleans, Nov. 7-9, 2006.

47. Guinn, J.*, and Banerjee, D., “Experimental Study of Nanofluids for Droplet CoolingApplications Using Temperature Microsensors”, Proceedings of the ASME-IMECE 2006,Paper No. 14101, Chicago, IL, Nov. 5-9, 2006.

48. “Boiling on experiments on Carbon Nanotube Forests and using Micromachined Thin FilmThermocouples”, Ahn, H-S.*, Sinha, N.*, Banerjee, D., and Lau, S.C., AIAA-ASME JointThermophysics Conference, San Francisco, CA, June 5-8, 2006.

49. Nelson, I.C. *, Banerjee, D., Rogers, W.J. ‡, Mannan, S., “Detection of Explosives usingHeated Micro-Cantilever Sensors”, SPIE Paper no. 6223-24, SPIE Defense and SecuritySymposium, 2006, Orlando, FL, Paper no. 6223-24.

50. Rivas-Cordona, J.A.*, and Banerjee, D., “Fabrication of a Microfluidic Device forsimultaneous patterning of multiple chemical species by Dip Pen Nanolithography (DPN)”,SPIE Paper no. 6223-26, SPIE Defense and Security Conference, 2006, Orlando, FL.

2005-1995:

51. Boiling”, Ahn, H-S.*, Sinha, N.*, and Banerjee, D., “Micro-Machined Temperature SensorArrays for Studying Micro-Scale Features in Film Proceedings of ASME-InternationalMechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2005, November 5-11, Orlando, FL.


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52. Banerjee, D., “Next Generation Microfluidic Ink Delivery Systems for Dip PenNanolithography applications in Biotechnology”, ASME Biomedicine MiniaturizationConference, Irvine, CA, April, 2005.

53. Banerjee, D., “Experimental validation of macro models for simulating capillary drivenmulti-phase flows used for micro-chamber filling”, ASME Summer Heat TransferConference/ InterPACK2005, San Francisco, CA, July 17-22, 2005.

54. Banerjee, D., “Investigation of Volume-of-Fluids (VOF) Method and System Models forDesign of Microfluidic Ink Delivery Apparatus for Dip Pen Nanolithography (DPN)”, NanoScience and Technology Institute (NSTI) Nanotechnology 2005/ NanoBio2005, Anaheim,CA, May 10-12, 2005.

55. B. Rosner, T. Duenas, Banerjee, D., Shile, R., Amro, N.A., Demers, L., “Active Probes andmicrofluidic ink delivery for Dip Pen Nanolithography™”, Proceedings of the AmericanChemical Society (ACS) National Meeting and Symposium on “Nanoscience andNanotechnology”, 2004, Anaheim, CA, Mar. 28-Apr. 1, 2004.

56. Banerjee, D., Amro, N.A., and Fragala, J., “Optimization of microfluidic ink-deliveryapparatus for Dip Pen Nanolithography™”, Proceedings of the Microfluidics, BioMEMS andMedical Microsystems II (Photonics West 2004), Proceedings of SPIE (The InternationalSociety for Optical Engineering), Vol. 5345, San Jose, CA, Jan 25-29, 2004.

57. Rosner, B., Duenas, T., Banerjee, D., Shile, R., Amro, N.A., “Active Probes and microfluidicink delivery for Dip Pen Nanolithography™”, Proceedings of the SPIE (The InternationalSociety for Optical Engineering) symposium on “Microelectronics, MEMS andNanotechnology, 2003, Perth, Australia, Dec. 9-12, 2003.

58. Banerjee, D., Duenas, T., Shile, R., Fragala, J., “Planar capillary pumped ink deliveryapparatus for Dip Pen Nanolithography™”, Proceedings of the Micro Total Analysis SystemsConference (µTAS 2003), Squaw Valley, CA, Oct. 5-9, 2003.

59. Banerjee, D., and Fragala, J., “Use of VOF Method for design of ink delivery apparatus forDPN™”, Proc. of CFDRC User Conference, Huntsville, Alabama, June 13-14, 2003.

60. Li, G.P., Bachman, M., Chen, Z., Chen Y., Banerjee, D., “Experimental and Numericalstudy of Electrokinetic and Pressure Driven Flows in Straight and Curved Microchannels”,Proceedings of Micro Total Analyses Systems Conference (µTAS 2001), October 21 – 25.

61. Banerjee, D., and Gilbert, J., “Structured Custom Design of MEMS Devices”, Proceedingsof the Instrumentation, Systems and Automations Society (ISA 2001) Emerging TechnologiesConference 2001, Sep. 10-12, Houston, TX.

62. Banerjee, D., “Structured Custom Design for LOC (Lab On Chip) Applications”,Proceedings of the Microfluidics for Lab On a Chip (LOC) Seminar organized by the(ASME) Continuing Education Institute, 2001, Sep. 9-11, DoubleTree Hotel, Arlington, VA.

63. Banerjee, D., Yano, K., Bart, S.F., “System Model for a Novel No Moving Parts DiffuserValve Based Diaphragm Actuated Micro Pump”, Fourth International Conference onModeling and Simulation of Microsystems (MSM 2001), March, Hilton Head Island, SC..


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64. Zeng, J., Banerjee, D., Deshpande, M., Gilbert, J., Duffy, D.C., Kellogg, G.J., “DesignAnalyses of Capillary Burst Valves”, Proceedings of the Micro-Total Analyses SystemsConference (µTAS 2000), May 14-17, Amsterdam, 2000.

65. Banerjee, D., “Numerical and Experimental Study of Film Boiling on a Horizontal Plate",Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 1999.

66. Banerjee, D., Son, G., and Dhir, V.K., "Natural convection in a cylindrical section with astatic protrusion : numerical simulation relevant to subcooled film boiling ", Proceedings ofthe 11th International Heat Transfer Conference, Kyongju, Korea, Vol. 3, pp.417-422,August, 1998.

67. Dhir, V.K., Son, G., and Banerjee, D., "Review of computational results during filmboiling", Proceedings of the ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, November, 1997.

68. Pal, D., Sinha, S.K., Banerjee, D., Baker, C., Pandey, M., “A compliant wall sensor array fordetecting pressure fluctuation signatures in separating boundary layers", AIAA 35thAerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, January, 1997 (AIAA 97-0391).

69. Banerjee, D., Son, G., and Dhir, V.K., "Conjugate thermal and hydrodynamic analyses ofsaturated film boiling from a horizontal surface", Proceedings of the 1996 InternationalMechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Atlanta, GA, Nov., 1996.

70. Sinha, S.K., Pal, D., Banerjee, D., "Control of flow separation using the EMEMS approach:Proof of concept experiments", Proceedings of the 1996 International MechanicalEngineering Congress and Exposition (ASME-IMECE), Atlanta, GA, November, 1996.

71. Banerjee, D., "An experimental investigation of flow separation control using an acousticactive device", M.S. Thesis, University of Mississippi, June, 1995. (The results of thisresearch work were used to patent a MEMS flow transducer).

72. Banerjee, D., "Flow visualization of flow separation control by acoustic active surface",Proceedings of the AIAA – SERS Conference, Atlanta, 1995.

73. Banerjee, D., "Optimization of Multi-Quadric Interpolator for supercomputing applications",Proceedings of AIAA – SERS Conference, Atlanta, 1995.

74. Banerjee, D., "Flow feature extraction through space-time interpolation of Particle TrackingVelocimetry (PTV) data", Proceedings of AIAA – SERS Conference, Atlanta, 1995.


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2003 12004 32005 82006 182007 620082009

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2010 12011 1TOTAL:(www.webofknowledge.com)

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Research Reports for Sponsors (TOTAL 69)National Science Foundation (NSF/ CBET):

1. “SGER: Effect of Nano-Imprinted Surfaces with Specific Periodicities on Pool Boiling”(submitted August 30, 2007).

2. “FFATA: Exploring New Mechanistic Models for Pool Boiling Experiments on Nano-Fins”, NSF-CBET Grantees Conference, June 5-8, 2012.

SPAWAR (DARPA-MTO):

3. “Carbon Nano-Tubes with Controlled Chirality by Combinatorial Nano-Patterning ofCatalysts: Foundations for Infinite Length Nanotube” (submitted April 2007).

4. “PIMTEM: Platform for In-Situ Microscopy and Transmission Electron Microscopy”(submitted January 2007).

5. “PIMTEM-II: Exploring the Conductivity of the Synthesized CNT” (submittedDecember 2007).

6. “Carbon Nano-Tubes with Controlled Chirality by Combinatorial Nano-Patterning ofCatalysts: Foundations for Infinite Length Nanotube: Final Report” (submitted May2008).

DARPA-MF3:

7. “Numerical simulation of thermo-fluidics actuation for portable vaccine packs” (Februaryand June, 2007).

8. “Numerical simulation of CD-microfluidics using Volume of Fluids (VOF) Method”(February and June, 2008).

9. “Numerical simulation of thermo-fluidics actuation for portable vaccine packs” (August,2008).

10. “Numerical simulation of CD-microfluidics using Volume of Fluids (VOF) Method”(August, 2008).

11. “Numerical simulation of thermo-fluidics actuation for paper microfluidics concentrator”(August, 2009).

12. “Numerical simulation of CD-microfluidics using Volume of Fluids (VOF) Method”(August, 2010).

13. – 15. “Numerical simulation of thermo-fluidics actuation for paper microfluidicsconcentrator” (January, April, July, October, 2011).

16. – 19. “Numerical simulation of CD-microfluidics using Volume of Fluids (VOF)Method” (January, April, July, October, 2011).

20. – 23. “Numerical and Experimental Study of Nano-Calorimeter Platform for ExplosivesSensing” (January, April, July, October, 2011).

General Dynamics/ Anteon Corporation (for Air Force Research Labs.):

24. “Synthesis of Gold Nano-Particles in a Microfluidic Platform for Water QualityMonitoring Applications” (November, 2007).

Air Force Research Labs. (AFRL): ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship

25. “Testing of Nano-Fluids using a Flow Loop and Compact Heat Exchangers” (July, 2007).26. “Testing of Nano-Fluid using Plain Fin Array Cooler” (August, 2006).


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Office of Naval Research:

27. “Investigation of flow boiling using temperature nano-sensors” (August, 2007)28. “Investigation of nanostructured surfaces for flow boiling” (August, 2008)29. “Investigation of nanostructured surfaces for flow boiling” (August, 2009)30. “Investigation of nanostructured surfaces for flow boiling” (March, 2010)31. “Investigation of nanostructured surfaces for flow boiling” (August, 2010)

Nano-MEMS Research LLC:

32. “Design of high power high reliability RF-MEMS Switch” (May, 2007).33. “Design of high power RF-MEMS Tuner Circuit” (December, 2007).

Lyntech Inc.

34. “Design of portable boiler for sterilization of surgical bio-medical instruments” (Sept.,2007).

Aspen Thermal Systems Inc.

35. “Heat Transfer Coefficient and Vapor Quality Calculations for a Compact Condensers”,(July 2008).

36. “Chemical Vapor Deposition of Carbon Nanotubes and Thermal Treatment Studies forCompact Condensers”, (July 2008).

37. “Heat Transfer Coefficient Calculations for the Coolant Side for a Compact HeatExchanger”, (August, 2008).

38. “Heat Transfer Coefficient and Vapor Quality Calculations: Coupling the RefrigerantSide and Water Side”, (September, 2008).

39. “Heat Transfer Coefficient Calculations for a Compact Condenser”, (May 2010).40. “Heat Transfer Coefficient Calculations for a Compact Condenser”, (2011).

Irvine Sensors Inc.

41. “Analysis of gate architectures for a peristaltic positive displacement variable gatemicropump” (April, 2008).

42. “Theoretical and computational analysis of flow through micropump” (June 2008).43. “Sensitivity Analyses for micropump” (July 2008).44. “Stress and warpage analyses for micropump” (August 2008).

NanoInk Inc.

45. “Numerical Analysis of Dip-Pen Nanolithography (DPN) Process Using Probes andProtein Inks” (September 2010).

46. “Numerical Analysis of Dip-Pen Nanolithography (DPN) Process Using Probes andProtein Inks” (October 2010).

47. “Numerical Analysis of Dip-Pen Nanolithography (DPN) Process Using Probes andProtein Inks” (November 2010).

48. “Numerical Analysis of Dip-Pen Nanolithography (DPN) Process Using Probes andProtein Inks” (December 2010).

49. “Numerical Analysis of Dip-Pen Nanolithography (DPN) Process Using Probes andProtein Inks” (January 2011).


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Qatar National Research Foundation (QNRF)50. “An Experimental Investigation of Enhanced Convection Heat Transfer Using

Nanofluids and Nano-Structured Surfaces”, Mid-Term Report (March 2010).51. “An Experimental Investigation of Enhanced Convection Heat Transfer Using

Nanofluids and Nano-Structured Surfaces”, Annual Report (August 2010).52. “An Experimental Investigation of Enhanced Convection Heat Transfer Using

Nanofluids and Nano-Structured Surfaces”, Mid-Term Report (March 2011).53. “An Experimental Investigation of Enhanced Convection Heat Transfer Using

Nanofluids and Nano-Structured Surfaces”, Annual Report (August 2011).54. “An Experimental Investigation of Enhanced Convection Heat Transfer Using

Nanofluids and Nano-Structured Surfaces”, Mid-Term Report (March 2012).

U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technology Program (DOE-SETP)

55. “Molten Salt–Carbon Nanotube Thermal Energy Storage for Concentrating SolarSystems” Quarterly Report (April 2009).

56. “Molten Salt–Carbon Nanotube Thermal Energy Storage for Concentrating SolarSystems” Quarterly Report (June 2009).

57. “Molten Salt–Carbon Nanotube Thermal Energy Storage for Concentrating SolarSystems” Quarterly Report (October 2009).

58. “Molten Salt–Carbon Nanotube Thermal Energy Storage for Concentrating SolarSystems” Quarterly Report (January 2010).

59. “Molten Salt–Carbon Nanotube Thermal Energy Storage for Concentrating SolarSystems” Annual Report (March 2010).


61. “Molten Salt–Carbon Nanotube Thermal Energy Storage for Concentrating SolarSystems” Quarterly Report (June 2010).

62. “Molten Salt–Carbon Nanotube Thermal Energy Storage for Concentrating SolarSystems” Quarterly Report (October 2010).

63. “Molten Salt–Carbon Nanotube Thermal Energy Storage for Concentrating SolarSystems” Quarterly Report (January 2011).


ADA Technologies (ONR/ OSD STTR Phase I) (ONR Contract No. N00014M-11-M-0175;Sub-Recipient Agreement No. 11-0322S; TEES Project Account Number 11-1181)

65. “Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes using DPN: Task 1: Deposition of catalyst particles onsubstrates and their characterization” (September, 2011)

66. “Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes using DPN: Task 2: Synthesis of CNT arrays” (October,2011)

67. “Phase I STTR Project - Highly-controllable, Dense Carbon Nanotube Arrays forUltracapacitor Applications (Mid-Term Review)” (October, 2011)

68. “Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes using DPN: Task 3: Synthesis of CNT arrays”(November, 2011)

69. “Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes using DPN: Task 4: Final Report” (December, 2011)


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Non-Refereed Conference Publications, Posters and Presentations (TOTAL 74)2012:

1. Banerjee, D., (INVITED KEYNOTE PRESENTATION) “Nanoparticle coatings andadditives for enhancing transport phenomena”, Paper No. ICNMM2012-73311 ASME 201210th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels (co-located with ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting; and ASME 2012Summer Heat Transfer Conference), Wyndham Rio Mar Beach Resort, Puerto Rico, USA,July 8-12, 2012.

2. Banerjee, D., “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Sensing and Storage”, Invitedpresentation at the Opal Investment Group, Austin, TX, January 26, 2012.

2011:

3. Banerjee, D. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Sensing and Storage”, Presentation atthe South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, October, 30, 2011, Workshop on CarbonNanomaterials, sponsored by NSF and Army Research Lab. (organized by South DakotaSchool of Mines and Technology).

4. Singh N.*, Shin D. *, Kang S. *, Jeon S. *, Jung S. *, Jo B. *, and Banerjee D., “"ExperimentalValidation of Thermofluidic Models for Micro/Nano-Fluidics", Poster presentation at theSouth Dakota School of Mines and Technology, October, 30, 2011, Workshop on CarbonNanomaterials, sponsored by NSF and Army Research Lab. (organized by South DakotaSchool of Mines and Technology).

5. Shin, D.*, Jo, B.*, Kwak, H.*, and Banerjee, D., “Investigation of High TemperatureNanofluids for Solar Thermal Power Conversion and Storage Applications”, Posterpresentation at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, October, 30, 2011,Workshop on Carbon Nanomaterials, sponsored by NSF and Army Research Lab. (organizedby South Dakota School of Mines and Technology).

2010:

6. Banerjee, D., “Flow Boiling Experiments on Carbon Nanotube Coated Heaters”, ONRThermal Management Review, Portland, OR, June 30, 2010.

7. Banerjee, D., “Molten Salt Carbon Nanotube Thermal Energy Storage Systems forConcentrating Solar Power (CSP)”, DOE Solar Energy Technology Program (SETP) review,Washington, DC, May 26-29, 2010.

8. Banerjee, D., “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Storage and Sensing”, DARPA-MF3

Center Meeting, University of California at Irvine (UCI), Irvine, June 23, CA, 2010.9. Singh N.*, Shin D. *, Kang S. *, Jeon S. *, Jung S. *, Jo B. *, and Banerjee D., “"Experimental

Validation of Thermofluidic Models for Micro/Nano-Fluidics", DARPA Micro/Nano-Fluidics Fundamentals Focus Center Phase II Kickoff Meeting and Review, University ofCalifornia at Irvine, June 23, 2010.

10. Singh N. *, Kang S. *, Martinez A. *, Sathyamurthi V. *, and Banerjee D., "Numericalmodeling of a Paper Microfluidics Concentrator", DARPA Micro/Nano-Fluidics


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Fundamentals Focus Center Phase II Kickoff Meeting and Review, University of Californiaat Irvine, June 23, 2010.

11. Singh N. *, Amasia M. *, Kang S. *, Sathyamurthi V. *, and Banerjee D. *, "NumericalModeling of CD Microfluidics", DARPA Micro/Nano-Fluidics Fundamentals Focus CenterPhase II Kickoff Meeting and Review, University of California at Irvine, June 23, 2010.

12. Banerjee, D., “Experimental Validation of Numerical Predictions for Micro/Nano-Fluidics”,invited presentation at 3M Science Day, 3M Innovation Center, Minneapolis, MN, June 16,2010.

2009:

13. Banerjee, D., “Synthesis of Lipid Bi-Layer Sensor using Microfluidics (InvitedPresentation)”, LifeChips 2009, January 8-10, University of California, Irvine.

14. Banerjee, D., “Using Nanotechnology for Enhanced Cooling, Storage and Sensing (InvitedPresentation)”, SPIE Photonics West 2009, January 28 (Panel Discussion on Progress andProspects in Microfluidics), San Jose, CA.

15. Banerjee, D., “Experimental Validation of Thermo-Fluidic Models for Micro/Nano-FluidicsApplications”, Poster presentation at DARPA Micro/Nano-Fluidics Fundamentals FocusCenter meeting, Napa Valley, CA, January 14.

16. Sathyamurthi, V., Singh, N., Patil, A., Banerjee, D., “Thermal Simulation of PaperMicrofluidics Concentrator”, presentation/ poster at DARPA MF3 Center meeting, NapaValley, CA, January 14.

17. Sathyamurthi, V., Singh, N., Patil, A., Banerjee, D., “Validation of Numerical Simulationsfor PCR Micro-Chamber Filling Using Centrifugal Microfluidics”, presentation at DARPAMF3 Center meeting, Napa Valley, CA, January 14.

2008:

18. Gauntt , S.*, and Banerjee, D., “Contact angle dependence of viscosity for micro-scaleflows”, American Physical Society, Division for Fluid Dynamics (DFD) meeting, Nov. 25,San Antonio, TX.

19. Banerjee, D., “Nano-Structured Interfacial Materials for Thermal Management: FromNanofluids to Nanofins”, ASME Paper No. IMECE2008-69254.

20. Gargate, R.*, and Banerjee, D., “Carbon Nanotube synthesis on heated scanning probesusing Dip Pen techniques”, ASME Paper No. ENIC2008-53047, Proceedings of ASME- 3rdEnergy Nanotechnology International Conference 2008, 2008 ASME Summer Heat Transfer,Fluids, Energy & Energy Nano Conferences, August 10-14, 2008, Jacksonville, Florida,USA.

21. Sravani, S.*, and Banerjee, D., “Carbon Nanotube synthesis using Thermal ScanningMicroscopy Probe”, ASME Paper No.ENIC2008-53048, Proceedings of ASME- 3rd EnergyNanotechnology International Conference 2008, 2008 ASME Summer Heat Transfer, Fluids,Energy & Energy Nano Conferences, August 10-14, 2008, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

22. Gauntt, S.*, and Banerjee, D., “Micro-chamber filling experiments with applications incapillary driven microfluidics”, ASME Paper No. FEDSM2008-55216, Proceedings ofASME- Fluids Engineering Division Summer Conference 2008, 2008 ASME Summer HeatTransfer, Fluids, Energy & Energy Nano Conferences, August 10-14, 2008, Jacksonville,Florida, USA.


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23. Datta, S.*, and Banerjee, D., “Paper microfluidics platform for gold nano-particlesynthesis”, ASME Paper No. FEDSM2008-55214, Proceedings of ASME- FluidsEngineering Division Summer Conference 2008, 2008 ASME Summer Heat Transfer, Fluids,Energy & Energy Nano Conferences, August 10-14, 2008, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

24. Sriraman, S.*, and Banerjee, D., “Subcooled and Saturated Pool Boiling on Nano-FinnedSurfaces”, ASME Paper No. HT2008-56393, ASME Paper No. HT2008-66390, Proceedingsof ASME- Summer Heat Transfer Conference ’08, 2008 ASME Summer Heat Transfer,Fluids, Energy & Energy Nano Conferences, August 10-14, 2008, Jacksonville, Florida,USA.

25. Mukkisa, S.*, and Banerjee, D., “Using scanning thermal microscopy techniques for in situsynthesis of carbon nanotubes at room temperature conditions”, NSTI Nanotechnology 2008,Paper No. 1543, (poster in special session on Dip Pen Nanolithography), Boston, MA, June1-5, 2008.

2007:

26. Banerjee, D., “Nano-devices for enhanced cooling and explosives sensing”, Invited panelistand presenter at the “Meeting the Entropy Challenge, MIT Keenan Symposium”, 2007,October 4-5, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA. (Proceedings ofthe symposium to be published by the American Institute of Physics in 2008).

27. Banerjee, D., “Flow loop experiments using Nanofluid coolants”, Invited presentation atNanofluids: Fundamentals and Applications (Engineering Conferences International), 2007,September 16 - 20, Copper Conference Center, Copper Mountain, CO.

28. Huitink, D.*, Ganguly, S., Banerjee, D., and Yerkes, K., “Convective heat transferenhancements using Nanofluids, Proceedings of the Nanofluids: Fundamentals andApplications (Engineering Conferences International), 2007, September 16 - 20, CopperConference Center, Copper Mountain, CO.

29. Banerjee, D., “Boiling Phenomena on Nanostructures”, invited panelist at NSF Workshopon Frontiers in Transport Phenomena Research and Education: Energy Systems, BiologicalSystems, Security, Information Technology & Nanotechnology, 2007, May 17-18, Universityof Connecticut, Storrs.

30. Banerjee, D., “Nano-Devices for Cooling and Explosives Detection”, invited speaker atNaTex (The Texas and Southwest Thermal Analysis and Rheology Forum), 2007, April 19,Dallas, TX.

31. Huitink, D.*, and Banerjee, D., “Carbon Nanotube Synthesis of a single chirality”, NANO-SUMMIT 2007, August 7-8, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

32. Datta, S., * and Banerjee, D., “Nano-particle synthesis using peptide assay in a microfluidicplatform for water quality monitoring”, NANO-SUMMIT 2007, August 7-8, Texas A&MUniversity, College Station, TX.

33. Koss, J.R. **, and Banerjee, D., “Detection of explosives using a nano-calorimeter”, NANO-SUMMIT 2007, August 7-8, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

34. Sathyamurthi, V. *, and Banerjee, D., “Pool boiling studies on nano-textures surfaces:impact of sub-cooling”, NANO-SUMMIT 2007, August 7-8, Texas A&M University, CollegeStation, TX.


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35. Banneyake, R. *, and Banerjee, D., “Microfluidic synthesis of lipid bi-layers for studyingmembrane proteins”, NANO-SUMMIT 2007, August 7-8, Texas A&M University, CollegeStation, TX.

36. Nelson, I.C. *, and Banerjee, D., “Nanofluids for Thermal Management”, Best Little Nano-Conference in Texas, April 4-5, Austin, TX.

37. Datta, S. *, and Banerjee, D., “Passive microvalve for lab on chip applications”, Best LittleNano-Conference in Texas, April 4-5, Austin, TX.

38. Koss, J.R. **, Nelson, I.C. *, and Banerjee, D., “Detection of explosives using a nano-calorimeter”, Best Little Nano-Conference in Texas, April 4-5, Austin, TX.

39. Sathyamurthi, V. *, and Banerjee, D., “Pool boiling studies on nano-textures surfaces”, BestLittle Nano-Conference in Texas, April 4-5, Austin, TX.

40. Sriraman, S.R. *, and Banerjee, D., “Pool boiling studies on nano-structured surfaces”, BestLittle Nano-Conference in Texas, April 4-5, Austin, TX.

41. Glenn, S. *, and Banerjee, D., “Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes for Thermal ManagementApplications”, Best Little Nano-Conference in Texas, April 4-5, Austin, TX.

42. Nelson, I.C.*, Banerjee, D., and Ponnappan, R., “Flow loop experiments using nanofluidcoolants”, Invited Presentation, Proceedings of the 4th U.S. Air Force-Taiwan NanoscienceInitiative Workshop, 2007, February 8-9, Houston, TX.

43. Sathyamurthi, V.*, and Banerjee, D., “Pool boiling experiments on carbon nanotubeforests”, International Symposium on Nanotechnology, 2007, Jan. 10-11, University of Texasat Dallas, Richardson, TX.

44. Huitink, D.*, and Banerjee, D., “Nanolithography of metal catalysts by Dip PenNanolithography”, International Symposium on Nanotechnology, 2007, Jan. 10-11,University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX.

2006:

45. Khoo, N-C., Sinha, S.K., Luzik, E.*, Rivas-Cordona J.A.*, and Banerjee, D., “Simpleinexpensive technique for the synthesis of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Films byChemical Vapor Deposition (CVD)”, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference onTechnological Advances in Thin Films & Surface Coatings (THINFILMS 2006), 2006, Nov.1st, Singapore.

46. Sriraman, S.*, Banerjee, D., and H.J. de Los Santos, “Design of High Power High ReliabilityRF MEMS Switch”, Proceedings of the TexMEMS VIII Conference, University of Texas atDallas, Richardson, TX, October 9, 2006.

47. Banerjee, D., “Exploring Carbon Nanotubes for Cooling Applications”, Invited panelist atITHERM 06, San Diego, CA, June 5-8, 2006.

2005:

48. Banerjee, D., “Next Generation Microfluidic Ink Delivery systems for Dip PenNanolithography (DPN): Applications in Biotechnology”, Nanoscience for AdvancedApplications: On Cross Roads of Discipline, SPRING 2005, US-Mexico Workshop, Feb.,Guanajuato, Mexico, 2005.


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49. Banerjee, D., “Nano-Bio Lithography”, NANOBIO 2005, ASME Nanotechnology Institute:Nanotechnology Growth Opportunities for the Biotech. And Medical Devices Sector ImpactForum, Irvine, CA, April, 2005.

50. Rivas-Cordona, J.A. *, Sathyamurthi, V. *, Ko, M-S. *, and Banerjee, D., “Microfluidic InkDelivery Systems for Dip Pen Nanolithography (DPN)”, NANO-SUMMIT 2005,Nanotechnology Foundation, Houston, TX, July, 2005.

51. “Micro-Machined Temperature Sensor Arrays for Studying Micro-Scale Features in FilmBoiling”, Ahn, H-S.*, Sinha, N.*, and Banerjee, D., Proceedings of ASME-InternationalMechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2005, November 5-11, Orlando, FL.

52. “Next Generation Microfluidic Ink Delivery Systems for Dip Pen Nanolithographyapplications in Biotechnology”, Banerjee, D., ASME Biomedicine MiniaturizationConference, Irvine, CA, April, 2005.

53. “Experimental validation of macro models for simulating capillary driven multi-phase flowsused for micro-chamber filling”, Banerjee, D., ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference/InterPACK2005, San Francisco, CA, July 17-22, 2005.

54. “Investigation of Volume-of-Fluids (VOF) Method and System Models for Design ofMicrofluidic Ink Delivery Apparatus for Dip Pen Nanolithography (DPN)”, Banerjee, D.,Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI) Nanotechnology 2005/ NanoBio2005,Anaheim, CA, May 10-12, 2005.

2004-1995:

55. “Active Probes and microfluidic ink delivery for Dip Pen Nanolithography™”, B. Rosner, T.Duenas, Banerjee, D., Shile, R., Amro, N.A., Demers, L., Proceedings of the AmericanChemical Society (ACS) National Meeting and Symposium on “Nanoscience andNanotechnology”, 2004, Anaheim, CA, Mar. 28-Apr. 1, 2004.

56. “Optimization of microfluidic ink-delivery apparatus for Dip Pen Nanolithography™”,Banerjee, D., Amro, N.A., and Fragala, J., Proceedings of the Microfluidics, BioMEMS andMedical Microsystems II (Photonics West 2004), Proceedings of SPIE (The InternationalSociety for Optical Engineering), Vol. 5345, San Jose, CA, Jan 25-29, 2004.

57. “Active Probes and microfluidic ink delivery for Dip Pen Nanolithography™”, Rosner, B.,Duenas, T., Banerjee, D., Shile, R., Amro, N.A., Proceedings of the SPIE (The InternationalSociety for Optical Engineering) symposium on “Microelectronics, MEMS andNanotechnology, 2003, Perth, Australia, Dec. 9-12, 2003.

58. “Planar capillary pumped ink delivery apparatus for Dip Pen Nanolithography™”, Banerjee,D., Duenas, T., Shile, R., Fragala, J., Proceedings of the Micro Total Analysis SystemsConference (µTAS 2003), Squaw Valley, CA, Oct. 5-9, 2003.

59. “Use of VOF Method for design of ink delivery apparatus for DPN™”, Banerjee, D., andFragala, J., Proc. of CFDRC User Conference, Huntsville, Alabama, June 13-14, 2003.

60. “Experimental and Numerical study of Electrokinetic and Pressure Driven Flows in Straightand Curved Microchannels”, Li, G.P., Bachman, M., Chen, Z., Chen Y., Banerjee, D.,Proceedings of Micro Total Analyses Systems Conference (µTAS 2001), October 21 – 25.

61. “Structured Custom Design of MEMS Devices”, Banerjee, D., and Gilbert, J., Proceedingsof the Instrumentation, Systems and Automations Society (ISA 2001) Emerging TechnologiesConference 2001, Sep. 10-12, Houston, TX.


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62. “Structured Custom Design for LOC (Lab On Chip) Applications”, Banerjee, D.,Proceedings of the Microfluidics for Lab On a Chip (LOC) Seminar organized by the(ASME) Continuing Education Institute, 2001, Sep. 9-11, DoubleTree Hotel, Arlington, VA.

63. System Model for a Novel No Moving Parts Diffuser Valve Based Diaphragm ActuatedMicro Pump”, Banerjee, D., Yano, K., Bart, S.F., Fourth International Conference onModeling and Simulation of Microsystems (MSM 2001), March, Hilton Head Island, SC..

64. “Design Analyses of Capillary Burst Valves”, Zeng, J., Banerjee, D., Deshpande, M.,Gilbert, J., Duffy, D.C., Kellogg, G.J., Proceedings of the Micro-Total Analyses SystemsConference (µTAS 2000), May 14-17, Amsterdam, 2000.

65. “Numerical and Experimental Study of Film Boiling on a Horizontal Plate", Banerjee, D.,Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 1999.

66. "Natural convection in a cylindrical section with a static protrusion : numerical simulationrelevant to subcooled film boiling ", Banerjee, D., Son, G., and Dhir, V.K., Proceedings ofthe 11th International Heat Transfer Conference, Kyongju, Korea, Vol. 3, pp.417-422,August, 1998.

67. "Review of computational results during film boiling", Dhir, V.K., Son, G., and Banerjee,D., Proceedings of the ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, November, 1997.

68. “A compliant wall sensor array for detecting pressure fluctuation signatures in separatingboundary layers", Pal, D., Sinha, S.K., Banerjee, D., Baker, C., Pandey, M., AIAA 35thAerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, January, 1997 (AIAA 97-0391).

69. "Conjugate thermal and hydrodynamic analyses of saturated film boiling from a horizontalsurface", Banerjee, D., Son, G., and Dhir, V.K., Proceedings of the 1996 InternationalMechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Atlanta, GA, Nov., 1996.

70. "Control of flow separation using the EMEMS approach: Proof of concept experiments",Sinha, S.K., Pal, D., Banerjee, D., Proceedings of the 1996 International MechanicalEngineering Congress and Exposition (ASME-IMECE), Atlanta, GA, November, 1996.

71. "An experimental investigation of flow separation control using an acoustic active device",Banerjee, D., M.S. Thesis, University of Mississippi, June, 1995. (The results of this researchwork were used to patent a MEMS flow transducer).

72. "Flow visualization of flow separation control by acoustic active surface", Banerjee, D.,Proceedings of the AIAA – SERS Conference, Atlanta, 1995.

73. "Optimization of Multi-Quadric Interpolator for supercomputing applications", Banerjee, D.,Proceedings of AIAA – SERS Conference, Atlanta, 1995.

74. "Flow feature extraction through space-time interpolation of Particle Tracking Velocimetry(PTV) data", Banerjee, D., Proceedings of AIAA – SERS Conference, Atlanta, 1995.

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Invited Presentations (Total 103):1. "Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Sensing and Storage", Invited Presentation at IIT-

Gandhinagar, India, October 9, 2012.2. "Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Sensing and Storage", Invited Presentation at IIT-

Guwahati, India, October 29, 2012.3. "Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Sensing and Storage", Invited Presentation at CMERI,

Durgapur, India, December 6, 2012.4. "Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Sensing and Storage", Invited Presentation at IWon

(Jadavpur University), India, December 15, 2012.5. "Bio-Microfluidics and Nanomanufacturing", Invited Presentation at Indo-US Workshop,

CMERI, Durgapur, India, December 24, 2012.6. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Sensing and Storage”, Invited Presentation at the

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), San Antonio, TX, August 28, 2012.7. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Sensing and Storage”, Invited Presentation at the

Advanced Technology Branch, SPAWAR, San Diego, CA, August 21, 2012.8. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Sensing and Storage”, Invited Presentation at the ESI

Corporation, San Jose, CA, August 18, 2012.9. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Sensing and Storage”, Invited Presentation at the

Mechanical Engineering Department, Texas Tech. University, May 29, 2012.10. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Sensing and Storage”, Invited Presentation at the

Mechanical Engineering Department, Texas Tech. University, May 29, 2012.11. (INVITED KEYNOTE PRESENTATION) “Nanoparticle coatings and additives for

enhancing transport phenomena”, Paper No. ICNMM2012-73311 ASME 2012 10th

International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels (co-locatedwith ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting; and ASME 2012 SummerHeat Transfer Conference), Wyndham Rio Mar Beach Resort, Puerto Rico, USA, July 8-12,2012.

12. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Sensing and Storage”, Invited Presentation at theMechanical Engineering Department, Texas Tech. University, May 29, 2012.

13. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Sensing and Storage”, Invited Presentation at theMechanical Engineering Department, University of Houston, February 26, 2012.

14. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Sensing and Storage”, Invited presentation at the OpalInvestment Group, Austin, TX, January 26, 2012.

15. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Sensing and Storage”, Invited presentation at theMechanical Engineering Department, Rice University, TX, January 25, 2012.

16. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Sensing and Storage”, Invited Presentation at theArmy Research Lab. (ARL), Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD, December, 15, 2011.

17. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Sensing and Storage”, Invited Presentation at theMechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Texas at Arlington(UTA), September, 30, 2011.

18. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Sensing and Storage”, Invited Presentation at theMechanical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, (I.I.T.) , Kharagpur,June 14, 2011.

19. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Sensing and Storage”, Invited Presentation at theMechanical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, (I.I.T.) , Patna, August6, 2011.


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20. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Sensing and Storage”, Invited Presentation at theMechanical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, (I.I.T.) , Chennai,August 10, 2011.

21. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Sensing and Storage”, Invited Presentation at theMechanical Engineering Department, Bengal Engineering and Science University (BESU),August 12, 2011.

22. “Nanofluids and Nanocoatings for Enhancing Solar Thermal Energy Storage and EnergyEfficiency”, Invited Presentation at the Young Engineers and Scientists Symposium 2011:Alternative Energies – A Global Perspective, Pebble Creek Country Club, College Station,TX, January 10-12, 2011.

23. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Sensing and Storage”, Invited Presentation at theMaterials Directorate, AFRL-WPAFB, 9, December 2010, organized by Air Force ResearchLab. (AFRL), Materials Directorate (RX), Wright Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB).

24. “Soft Microfluidics using Paper Substrates and Bio-MEMS”, Invited Presentation at theNano/Bio Interface Workshop, 17-18, August 2010, Skamania Lodge, Stevenson, WA(organized by Air Force Research Lab., Materials Directorate).

25. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Sensing and Storage”, Thermal and Fluids AnalysisWorkshop (TFAWS), Invited Presentation and Paper, NASA Johnson Space Center, August16, 2010.

26. “Flow Boiling Experiments on Carbon Nanotube Coated Heaters”, ONR ThermalManagement Review, Portland, OR, June 30, 2009.

27. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Storage and Sensing”, DARPA-MF3 Center Meeting,University of California at Irvine (UCI), Irvine, June 23, CA, 2010.

28. “Experimental Validation of Numerical Predictions for Micro/Nano-Fluidics”, invitedpresentation at 3M Science Day, 3M Innovation Center, Minneapolis, MN, June 16, 2010.

29. “Molten Salt Carbon Nanotube Thermal Energy Storage Systems for Concentrating SolarPower (CSP)”, DOE Solar Energy Technology Program (SETP) review, Washington, DC,May 26-29, 2010.

30. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Storage and Sensing”, Mechanical EngineeringDepartment, Arizona State University (ASU), Phoenix, AZ, May 17, 2010.

31. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Storage and Sensing”, Mechanical EngineeringDepartment, University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), TX, February 12, 2010.

32. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Storage and Sensing”, Mechanical EngineeringDepartment, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, February 1, 2010.

33. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Storage and Sensing”, Mechanical EngineeringDepartment, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, October 9, 2009.

34. “Flow Boiling Experiments on Carbon Nanotube Coated Heaters”, ONR ThermalManagement Review, Denver, CO, September 17, 2009.

35. “Age of Nanotechnology”, Space and Naval Warfare Center (SPAWAR)- SystemsCommand (SSC), Advanced Technology Branch, San Diego, CA, July 28-29, 2009.

36. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Storage and Sensing”, Hughes Research Labs. (HRL),Malibu, CA, July 24, 2009.

37. “Nanofluids for Energy/ Power Storage”, Micro/Nano Systems Horizon (MNS) – NSFWorkshop, Denver, CO, June 21, 2009.

38. “Experimental Validation of Numerical Predictions for Micro/Nano-Fluidics”, invitedpresentation at 3M Science Day, 3M Innovation Center, Minneapolis, MN, June 16, 2009.


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39. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling, Storage and Sensing”, invited presentation atDepartment of Biomedical Engineering at Wright State University, May 20, 2009.

40. “Investigation of Thermo-Fluidic Models for Micro/Nano-Fluidics”, University of Florida,Gainesville, April 23, 2009.

41. “Micro/Nano-Scale Transport Phenomena in Boiling”, invited presentation at 3M Co.,Austin, TX, December 15, 2008.

42. “Micro/Nano-Scale Transport Phenomena in Boiling”, invited presentation at VillanovaUniversity, PA, December 2, 2008.

43. “Micro/Nano-Scale Transport Phenomena in Flow Boiling”, Thermal Management ReviewMeeting, Office of Naval Research (ONR), Santa Rosa, CA, October 22, 2008.

44. “Using Nano-Structured Surfaces and Nanofluids for Enhanced Cooling: Experimental andNumerical Study”, Thermal Management Materials Workshop (organized by AFRL),National Composite Center (NCC), Kettering, OH, September 16-17, 2008.

45. “Numerical simulation of thermo-fluidics actuation for portable vaccine packs” and“Numerical simulation of CD-microfluidics using Volume of Fluids (VOF) Method”,University of California, Irvine (DARPA-MF3 center meeting), August 6, 2007.

46. “Micro/Nano-Scale Transport Phenomena in Boiling”, Air Force Research Laboratory(AFRL), Wright Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), Dayton, OH, July 8, 2008.

47. “Nano-Structured Surfaces for Compact Condenser Development”, Office of Naval Research(ONR), Arlington, VA, June 16, 2008.

48. “Nano-Devices for enhanced cooling and renewable technologies”, National RenewableEnergy Lab. (NREL), Department of Energy (DOE), Golden, CO, June 9, 2008.

49. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling and Materials Synthesis”, General Electric CorporateResearch and Development (GE-CRD), Niskayuna, May 20, 2008.

50. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling and Materials Synthesis”, Space and Air WarfareCenter, US Navy, San Diego, May 7, 2008.

51. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling and Materials Synthesis”, Department ofNanotechnology, University of California at San Diego, UCSD, May 6, 2008.

52. “Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling and Materials Synthesis”, Institute for MolecularMedicine, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, TX, March 24, 2008.

53. “Nano-devices for enhanced cooling and explosives sensing”, Prairie View A&M University,Prairie View, February 27, 2008.

54. “Nano-devices for enhanced cooling and materials synthesis”, Department of MechanicalEngineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, February 22, 2008.

55. “Nano-devices for enhanced cooling and explosives sensing”, Department of MechanicalEngineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, January 31, 2008.

56. “Nano-devices for enhanced cooling and explosives sensing”, Invited panelist and presenterat the “Meeting the Entropy Challenge, MIT Keenan Symposium”, 2007, October 4-5,Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA. (Proceedings of thesymposium to be published by the American Institute of Physics in 2008).

57. “Nano-Devices for enhanced cooling and explosives sensing”, invited seminar at MechanicalEngineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA,October 2, 2007.

58. “Nano-Devices for enhanced cooling and explosives sensing”, MECE 611 Seminar Speakerat the Mechanical Engineering Department at University of Houston, TX, September, 12,2007.


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59. Flow loop experiments using Nanofluid coolants”, Invited presentation at Nanofluids:Fundamentals and Applications (Engineering Conferences International), 2007, September16 - 20, Copper Conference Center, Copper Mountain, CO (presented by D. Huitink,graduate student in absentia).

60. “Numerical simulation of thermo-fluidics actuation for portable vaccine packs” and“Numerical simulation of CD-microfluidics using Volume of Fluids (VOF) Method”,University of California, Irvine (DARPA-MF3 center meeting), February 1, 2007.

61. “Nano-Devices for enhanced cooling and explosives sensing”, invited seminar at MechanicalEngineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, August 10, 2007.

62. “Nano-Devices for enhanced cooling and explosives sensing”, invited seminar at MechanicalEngineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, August 1, 2007.

63. “Nano-Devices for enhanced cooling and explosives sensing”, invited seminar at Air ForceResearch Labs. (AFRL) Materials Directorate, Wright Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB),Dayton, OH, May 29, 2007.

64. “Boiling Phenomena on Nanostructures”, invited panelist at NSF Workshop on Frontiers inTransport Phenomena Research and Education: Energy Systems, Biological Systems,Security, Information Technology & Nanotechnology, 2007, May 17-18, University ofConnecticut, Storrs.

65. “Nano-Devices for Cooling and Explosives Detection”, invited speaker at NaTex (The Texasand Southwest Thermal Analysis and Rheology Forum), 2007, April 19, Dallas, TX.

66. “Nano-Devices for thermal management”, invited to the US Air Force Technical Workshopon Thermal Management, Fairborn, OH, March 29, 2007.

67. “Nano-Devices for enhanced cooling and explosives sensing”, invited presentation at the webcasting of Nanotechnology Colloquium, organized by Nanomaterials Applications Center(NAC), Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, March 26, 2007.

68. “Nano-Devices for enhanced cooling and explosives sensing”, invited seminar at RaytheonCorp., Dallas, TX, March 8, 2007.

69. “Nano-Devices for enhanced cooling and explosives sensing”, Department of BiomedicalEngineering, University of California at Irvine, DARPA MF3 Center Meeting, Irvine, CA,January 31- February 2, 2007.

70. “Thermal Management using Nanostructured Surfaces”, Power Systems Group – PropulsionDivision (PRPS), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Wright Patterson Air Force Base(WPAFB), Dayton, OH, Feb. 22, 2006.

71. “Micro/Nano-Fluidics for Thermal Management Applications”, Department of MechanicalEngineering, University of California, Irvine, CA, March, 7th 2006.

72. “Thermal Management using Nanostructured Surfaces”, Research and DevelopmentDivision of Halliburton Corporation, Houston, TX, March 10, 2006.

73. “Thermal Management using Nanostructured Surfaces”, Research and Development Divisionof Lucent Technologies – Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, March 24, 2006.

74. “Thermal Management using Nanostructured Surfaces”, Client Thermal Acoustics Group,Dell Inc., Austin, TX, May 10, 2006.

75. “Micro/Nano-Fluidics for Thermal Management Applications”, Department of MechanicalEngineering, University of Minnesota, DARPA MF3 kickoff meeting, Minneapolis, MN,October 25-27, 2006.

76. “Using Microfluidics for DPN”, Lockheed Martin corporate visit at Texas A&M University,Feb., 2nd 2005.


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77. Invited speaker, US-Mexico Workshop, “Nanoscience for advanced applications: On crossroads of discipline”, University of Guanajuato, Mexico, February 16-19, 2005, Organized byUniversity of Texas (Dallas) under “SPRING: Strategic Partnership for Research InNanotechnology”. Topic: “Next Generation Microfluidic Ink Delivery Systems for Dip PenNanolithography Applications in Biotechnology”.

78. “Using Microfluidics for DPN”, Graduate Invitational Day, Mechanical Engineering Dept.,Texas A&M University, April 26th 2005.

79. “Using Microfluidics for DPN”, Intel corporate visit at Texas A&M University, April 26th2005.

80. “Nano-Bio Lithography”, NANOBIO 2005, ASME Nanotechnology Institute:Nanotechnology Growth Opportunities for the Biotech. And Medical Devices Sector ImpactForum, University of California at Irvine, CA, April, 2005.

81. “Current Research in Thermal, Microfluidics and Scanning Probe Technologies”, invitedlecture at Jet Propulsion Labs (JPL), Pasadena, CA, April 7, 2005.

82. “Using Microfluidics for DPN”, invited lecture at Applied Materials, Austin, TX, May 5,2005.

83. “Current Research in Thermal, Microfluidics and Scanning Probe Technologies”, invitedlecture at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, September 7, 2005.

84. “Using Microfluidics for DPN”, invited lecture at Center for Integrated MicrochemicalSystems- Materials Characterization Facility (CIMS/ MCF), Texas A&M University, CollegeStation, TX, April 19, 2005.

85. “Using Microfluidics for DPN”, invited lecture at Mary Kay O’ Connor Process SafetyCenter, College Station, TX, May 3, 2005.

86. “Using Microfluidics for DPN”, invited lecture at Nano-Bio Committee Meeting, College ofEngineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, May 3, 2005.

87. “Current Research in Thermal, Microfluidics and Scanning Probe Technologies” lecture atNational Cancer Institute(NCI), National Institute of Health(NIH), Bethesda, MD, May 17,2005.

88. “Using Microfluidics for DPN”, invited lecture at Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA,July 19, 2005.

89. “Using Microfluidics for DPN”, invited lecture at Intel, Santa Clara, CA, July 20, 2005.90. “Using DPN for nano-sensors”, invited lecture at NanoInk Inc., Campbell, CA, July 20,

2005.91. “Using Microfluidics for DPN”, invited lecture at Intel, Santa Clara, CA, July 20, 2005.92. “Using Microfluidics for DPN”, invited lecture at Nanotech Institute, UT-Dallas,

Richardson, TX, August 1st, 2005.93. “Using Microfluidics for DPN”, Graduate Seminar, Mechanical Engineering Dept., Texas

A&M University, September 28th, 2005.94. “Pool Boiling on Carbon Nanotubes for Thermal Management Applications”, invited lecture

at Dell Inc., Austin, TX, November 16th, 2005.95. “Using Microfluidics for DPN”, Graduate Seminar, Dept. of Chemistry, University of

Texas El Paso, November 17th, 2005.96. “Current Research in Thermal, Microfluidics and Scanning Probe Technologies”, invited

lecture at Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, December 15th, 2005.97. “Nano-bio lithography”, Invited speaker at ASME Bio-Nano Conference, “Biomedicine

Miniaturization”, University of California, Irvine, April 15-16, 2004.


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98. Panel Discussion Participant on Nanotechnology: at the IMECE 2002 (ASME).99. Instructor at the ASME workshop: “Microfluidics for Lab On a Chip (LOC)” organized by

the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Continuing Education Institute, September10, 2001. Topic: “Structured Custom Design for Lab-On-Chip Applications”

100. Invited speaker at School of Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 21,2001. Topic: “Simulation for Biotech. Microfluidics”

101. Invited speaker at School of Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, Feb. 20,2001. Topic: “Simulation for Biotech. Microfluidics”.

102. Invited speaker at Corporate R& D Head Office, Samsung Electronics, Seoul/ Suwon,Korea, Feb. 14, 2001. Topic: “Computational Modeling of Inkjets and Microfluidics”.

103. Invited speaker at the Southern California MEMS Journal Club, University of California,Irvine, June 5, 2001. Topic: “Simulation for Biotech. Microfluidics”.

Graduate Student Research & AdvisingDoctorate (Graduated): TOTAL: 9; Chair (8), Co-Chair (1):

1. H.S. Ahn (May, 2007): Industry, Dissertation: “Heat Transfer Enhancement in Single-PhaseForced Convection with Blockages and in Two-Phase Boiling with Nano-StructuredSurfaces” (Co-Chair: Dr. S.C. Lau, MEEN).

2. Vijaykumar Sathyamurthi (December, 2009): Industry (Heat Transfer Research Inc.),Dissertation: “Dynamics of Pool Boiling: Impact of Surface Texturing and Subcooling”.

3. Navdeep Singh (March, 2010): Academia (received offer for tenure track AssistantProfessor, Tennessee State University), Dissertation: “Computational Analysis of Thermo-Fluidic Performance of a Nano-Fin”.

4. Donghyun Shin (July 2011): Academia (Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Arlington),Dissertation: “Molten Salt Nanomaterials for Thermal Energy Storage and ConcentratedSolar Power Applications”.

5. Saeil Jeon (July 2011): Industry (Volvo R&D Center), Dissertation: “Development ofMicro/Nano-Scale Sensors for Investigation of Heat Transfer in Multi-Phase Flows”.

6. Seokwon Kang (January 2012): Industry (Senior Researcher, New Transportation SystemsResearch Center, Korea Railroad Research Institute, Korea), Dissertation: “Thermal BimorphMicro-cantilever Based Nano-Calorimeter for sensing of energetic materials.”

7. Seunghwan Jung (January 2012): Industry (Samsung, Korea), Dissertation: “Numerical andExperimental Investigation of Inorganic Nanomaterials for Thermal Energy Storage (TES)and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Applications”.

8. Byeongnam Jo (defended January 2012, graduated August 2012): Industry (Samsung,Korea), Dissertation: “Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Organic Nanomaterialsfor Thermal Energy Storage and for Concentrating Solar Power Applications”.

9. Jiwon Yu (defended September 2012, graduated December 2012): Industry, Dissertation:“Experimental Investigation of Heat Transfer of Nanofluids in a Microchannel usingTemperature Nanosensors”.


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Masters (Graduated): TOTAL: 16; Chair (13) / Co-Chair (3)

1. Sinha, N. (August, 2006): Industry (Intel Corp.), Thesis Title: “Design, Fabrication, andTesting of Thin Film Thermocouples for Boiling Studies”.

2. Shenoy, S. (Co-Chair, 2006), Academia, PhD Student at Rice University, Thesis Title:“Molecular Dynamics Simulation of nano-channels” (Co-Chair: Dr. J. Seminario, CHEN)

3. Rupakula, V. (Co-Chair, 2005), Industry, Thesis Title: “Impact of blockages on turbine bladecooling” (Co-Chair: Dr. S.C. Lau, MEEN).

4. Rivas-Cordona, J.A. (August, 2006): Academia, PhD Student at Texas A&M University,Thesis Title: “Development of a Microfluidic Device for Patterning Multiple Species byScanning Probe Lithography”.

5. Sathyamurthi, V. (December, 2006): Academia, PhD Student at Texas A&M University,Thesis Title: “Pool Boiling Studies on Nanotextured Surfaces under Highly SubcooledConditions”.

6. Nelson I.C., (August, 2007): Academia, PhD Student at Texas A&M University, ThesisTitle: “Characterization of Thermo-Physical Properties and Forced Convective Heat Transferof Poly-Alpha-Olefin (PAO) Nanofluids”.

7. Huitink, D. (December, 2007): Academia, PhD student at Texas A&M University, ThesisTitle: “Nano-Lithographic Control of Carbon Nanotube Synthesis”.

8. Sriraman, S.R. (December, 2007): Industry, Thesis Title: “Pool Boiling on Nano-FinnedSurfaces”.

9. Gauntt, S.B. (December, 2007): Industry, Thesis Title: “Micro-Chamber Filling Experimentsfor Validation of Macro Models with Applications in Capillary Driven Microfluidics”.

10. Ranil Banneyake, (December, 2008): Industry, Thesis Title: “Microfluidics device forsynthesis and testing of Lipid Bi-Layers”.

11. Dutta, S., (December, 2008): Industry, Thesis Title: “Synthesis of gold nano-particles in amicrofluidic platform for water quality monitoring applications”.

12. Gargate, R. (December 2008): Industry, Thesis Title: “Synthesis of carbon nanotubes usingDip Pen Nanolithography”.

13. Glenn, S. (Spring, 2009): Industry, Thesis Title: “Effects of Carbon Nanotube Coating onBubble Departure Diameter and Frequency in Pool Boiling on a Flat, Horizontal Heater”.

14. Lin, Y. (Co-Chair, Summer 2010): Academia, PhD Student at Georgia Instt. of Technology,Thesis Title: “Droplet Impingement Cooling Experiments on Nano-structured Surfaces” (Co-Chair: Dr. J. Alvarado, ETID).

15. Hansen, S. (Spring 2012): Federal Lab. (NASA-JSC), Thesis Title: “Experimental Study ofDroplet Impingement Using Photo-Activated Nano-Coatings and Temperature Nano-SensorsIntegrated with High-Speed Visualization”.

16. Niedbalski, N. (Spring 2012): Federal Lab. (AFRL), Thesis Title: “A Reduced Order Modelof a Chevron Plate Heat Exchanger for Rapid Thermal Management by Using Thermo-Chemical Energy Storage”.


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Doctorate (in progress): TOTAL: 4; Chair (3), Co-Chair (1)Yang, H. (expected Fall, 2014); Niedbalski, N. (expected Fall, 2014); Y. Hu*** (expected

Spring, 2015); Roy, P. (2013, Co-Chair: Dr. N.K. Anand).

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FUNDED RESEARCH PROGRAMS:External

1. “Fountain Pen Nanolithography (FPN): A New Paradigm for Bio-Nanofabrication byIntegrating Microfluidics and Scanning Probe Lithography”, Sponsor: Texas Space GrantsConsortium (New Investigator Program), PI: D. Banerjee, Number of Graduate StudentsSupported: 1, Inclusive Dates: Sept. 2005 – Aug. 2007, Total Value: $10,000 (Prorated for PIBanerjee, no overheads).

2. “High Power, High Reliability, RF-MEMS Switch”, Sponsor: National Science Foundation(SBIR), PI: H.J. De Los Santos (NanoMEMS Research LLC), Co-PI: D. Banerjee, Numberof graduate students supported: 1, Inclusive Dates: Jan. 2006 – June 2006, Total Value:$100,000, TAMU Prorated for Co-PI Banerjee: $9,955 (including overheads).

3. “High power RF-MEMS/ Microwave tuners for reconfigurable matching networks”,Sponsor: National Science Foundation (SBIR), PI: H.J. De Los Santos (NanoMEMSResearch LLC), Co-PI: D. Banerjee, Number of graduate students supported: 1, InclusiveDates: July 2007 – December 2007, Total Value: $100,000, TAMU Prorated for Co-PIBanerjee: $14,933 (including overheads).

4. “Development of Numerical Models to Estimate Boiling Heat Transfer Coefficients(SBIR)”, Sponsor: Army Research Office (ARO) SBIR Phase II – Subcontract throughLynntech Inc., Co-PI: D. Banerjee, Number of graduate students supported: 1, InclusiveDates: April 2007 – December 2007, Total Value: $100,000, TAMU Prorated for Co-PIBanerjee: $20,636 (including overheads).

5. “SGER: Effect of Nano-Imprinted Surfaces with Specific Periodicities on Pool Boiling”,Sponsor: National Science Foundation, PI: D. Banerjee, Inclusive Dates: June 2006 – May2007, Number of graduate students supported: 1, Total Value: $58,091 (Prorated for Co-PIBanerjee).

6. “Carbon Nano-tubes with Controlled Chirality by Combinatorial Nano-Pattering ofCatalysts: Foundations For Infinite Length Nanotube”, Sponsor: DARPA-MTO/ SPAWAR,PI: D. Banerjee, Dates: September 2006 – May, 2008, Number of graduate studentssupported: 2, Number of Undergraduate students supported: 3, Total Value: $226,088(including overheads), Prorated for Co-PI Banerjee: $226,088 (including overheads).

7. “Investigation of System Models for Micro/Nanofluidics”, Sponsor: DARPA MF3Consortium grant, PI: A. Lee (UC-Irvine), Dates: Sep. 2006 – April 2010, Number ofgraduate students supported: 1, Total Value: $2.4 Million (including overheads, Total $7.225million over 3 years, DARPA-MTO share: $4.3 million), TAMU Prorated for Co-PIBanerjee: $69,414 (including overheads).

8. “Investigation of System Models for Micro/Nanofluidics”, Sponsor: DARPA MF3Consortium grant, PI: A. Lee (UC-Irvine), Dates: Sep. 2006 – April 2010, Number ofgraduate students supported: 1, Total Value: $2.4 Million (including overheads, Total $7.225million over 3 years, DARPA-MTO share: $4.3 million), TAMU Prorated for Co-PIBanerjee: $52,121 (including overheads).

9. “Investigation of System Models for Micro/Nanofluidics”, Sponsor: DARPA MF3Consortium grant, PI: A. Lee (UC-Irvine), Dates: Sep. 2006 – April 2010, Number of


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graduate students supported: 1, Total Value: $2.4 Million (including overheads, Total $7.225million over 3 years, DARPA-MTO share: $4.3 million), TAMU Prorated for Co-PIBanerjee: $33,438 (including overheads).

10. “Synthesis of gold nano-particles using a novel microfluidics platform”, Sponsor: AnteonCorporation (General Dynamics), PI: D. Banerjee, Number of graduate students supported: 1,Date: November 2006 – October 2007, Total Value: $10,000 (Prorated for PI Banerjee,including overheads).

11. “Investigation of nano-structured surface for flow boiling”, Sponsor: Office of NavalResearch (ONR), PI: D. Banerjee, Number of graduate students supported: 1, Date: January2007 – February 2010, Value: $220,331 (prorated for PI Banerjee, including overheads).

12. “Micropump for electronics cooling”, Sponsor: Air Force Research Lab. (AFRL/SBIR PhaseII), PI: Ying Hsu (Irvine Sensors Corp.), Co-PI: D. Banerjee, Number of graduate studentssupported: 1, Inclusive Dates: April 2008 – July 2008, Total Value: $500,000, TAMUProrated for Co-PI Banerjee: $23,285 (including overheads).

13. “Carbon Nanotube Coatings and Design of Compact Condensers for Electronics Cooling”,Sponsor: Office of Naval Research, (SBIR Phase I), PI: Steve Casey (Aspen ThermalSystems), Co-PI: D. Banerjee, Number of graduate students supported: 1, Inclusive Dates:June 2008 – December 2008, Total Value: $100,000, TAMU Prorated for Co-PI Banerjee:$15,369.

14. “Carbon Nanotube Coatings and Design of Compact Condensers for Electronics Cooling”,Sponsor: Office of Naval Research, (SBIR Phase II), PI: Steve Casey (Aspen ThermalSystems), Co-PI: D. Banerjee, Number of graduate students supported: 1, Inclusive Dates:May 2010 – April 2010, Total Value: $600,000, TAMU Prorated for Co-PI Banerjee:$95,369.

15. “Microfluidic Platform to Realize a Reconfigurable Device for Photonic System”, Sponsor:AFOSR, (STTR Phase I), PI: Dr. Hector J. De Los Santos (NanoMEMS Research LLC), Co-PI: D. Banerjee, Number of graduate students supported: 1, Inclusive Dates: January 2009 –May 2009, Total Value: $100,000, TAMU Prorated for Co-PI Banerjee: $30,000.

16. “Investigation of System Models for Micro/Nanofluidics (Phase II)”, Sponsor: DARPA MF3

Consortium grant, PI: A. Lee (UC-Irvine), Dates: June 2010 – May 2013, Number ofgraduate students supported: 1, Total Value: $5,328,284 (including overheads), TAMUProrated for Co-PI Banerjee: $152,121 (including overheads).

17. “Nano-Calorimeter Platform for Explosives Detection”, Sponsor: DARPA MF3 Consortiumgrant, PI: D. Banerjee, Dates: Sept. 2009 – April 2010, Number of graduate studentssupported: 1, Total Value: $50,000; TAMU Prorated for Co-PI Banerjee: $50,000 (includingoverheads).

18. “Molten Salt –Carbon Nanotube Thermal Energy Storage for Concentrating Solar Systems”,Sponsor: Department of Energy (DOE), PI: M. Schuller, Co-PI: D. Banerjee, Number ofgraduate students supported: 6, Inclusive Dates: February 2009 – January 2012; Total Value:$1,875,000 (DOE: $1,500,000; Cost Share: $375,000), Pro-rated for Co-PI (Banerjee):$684,657 (including overhead, cost share and fringe benefits).


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19. “An Experimental Investigation of Enhanced Convection Heat Transfer Using Nano-fluidsand Nano-Structured Surfaces”, Sponsor: Qatar National Research Fund, PI: Dr. Reza Sadr(Texas A&M University, Qatar), Co-PI: D. Banerjee, Number of graduate studentssupported: 1, Inclusive dates: September 2009 – August 2012, Total Value: $1,039,350,TAMU Prorated for Co-PI Banerjee: $244,988.

20. “Computational Analysis of Nanoparticles-Molten Salt Thermal Energy Storage forConcentrated Solar Power Systems”, Sponsor: Department of Energy (DOE), PI: V. Kumar(University of Texas El Paso), Co-PI: D. Banerjee, Number of graduate students supported:1, Inclusive Dates: January 2011 – December 2013, Total Value: $300,000; TAMU Pro-rated for Co-PI Banerjee: $63,172.

21. “Simulation of Liquid Motion for Specified Geometries”, Sponsor: NanoInk Inc., PI: D.Banerjee, August, 2010 – January, 2011, Total Value: $24,884; TAMU Prorated for PIBanerjee: $24,884.

22. “Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes using Dip Pen Nanolithography (DPN)”, Sponsor:ONR/OSD STTR Phase I through PI: ADA Technologies Inc., Co-PI: D. Banerjee, July –December, 2011, Total Value: $100,000; TAMU Prorated for PI Banerjee: $35,031.

23. “FFATA: Exploring New Mechanistic Models for Pool Boiling Experiments on Nano-Fins(Travel Grant)”, Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF-TTTP), PI: D. Banerjee, May2012, Total Value: $1,975; TAMU Prorated for PI Banerjee: $1,975.

24. “FFATA: Exploring New Mechanistic Models for Pool Boiling Experiments on Nano-Fins”,Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF-TTTP), PI: D. Banerjee, January 2012 –December 2014, Total Value: $266,518; TAMU Prorated for PI Banerjee: $266,518.

External, Other:

25. “Investigation of Nanofluids for Thermal Management”, Sponsor: ASEE (AFOSR, AFRL),PI: D. Banerjee, Dates: May – August, 2006, Number of graduate students supported: 1,Value: $24,594 (prorated for PI Banerjee, no overheads).

26. “Investigation of Nanofluids for Thermal Management”, Sponsor: ASEE (AFOSR, AFRL),PI: D. Banerjee, Dates: May – July, 2007, Number of graduate students supported: 1, Value:$23,764 (prorated for PI Banerjee, no overheads).

27. “Investigation of System Models for Micro/Nanofluidics: Travel Grant for 2007-2009”,Sponsor: DARPA MF3 Consortium grant, PI: D. Banerjee, Dates: November 2006 – July,2010, Total Value: TAMU Prorated for Co-PI Banerjee: $18,029.45 (no overheads).

28. “Using Dip Pen Techniques for Nano-Synthesis”, Sponsor: ASEE (ONR, SPAWAR), PI: D.Banerjee, Dates: May – July 2009, Number of graduate students supported: 0, Value:$20,000 (prorated for PI Banerjee, no overheads).

29. “DPN Research at Texas A&M University by Dr. Deb Banerjee (Video)”, Sponsor: NanoInkInc., Date: May 2009, Number of graduate students supported: 0; Value: $10,000 (amountexpended by NanoInk in producing the video that was subsequently posted on the internet:

http://www.azonano.com/nanotechnology-video-details.asp?VidID=359


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http://www.azom.com/materials-video-details.asp?VidID=293)30. “3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award”, Sponsor: 3M Corp., PI: D. Banerjee, Dates: May 2009 –

July, 2012, Number of graduate students supported: 0, Value: $45,000 (prorated for PIBanerjee, no overheads).

Internal:

31. “Nano-sensors for explosives detection”, Sponsor: Mary Kay O’ Connor Process SafetyCenter, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3122, PI: D. Banerjee, Numberof Graduate Students Supported: None, Inclusive Dates: June, 2005, Value: $12,623 (1month summer salary for PI Banerjee, prorated for PI Banerjee, including overheads).

32. Morris Foster Faculty Fellowship, Sponsor: Department of Mechanical Engineering, TexasA&M University, PI: D. Banerjee, Number of Graduate Students Supported: None, Dates:May 1, 2007 – April 30, 2009, Value: $5,000 (prorated for PI Banerjee, no overheads).

33. “PEER Review of Teaching Project: Developing an introductory survey course on MEMS,Microfluidics and Nanotechnology”, Sponsor: PEW Charitable Trust (through the TexasA&M Center for Teaching Excellence), Number of Graduate students supported: 0, PI: D.Banerjee, Value: $1,000 (prorated for PI Banerjee, no overheads).

34. “Fabrication of Life Sensors: Combining microfluidics technology with protein nano-pores”,Sponsor: NASA/ Texas Institute for Intelligent Bio-Nano Materials and Structures (TiiMS),Sub-Contract through the Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center, PI: Alison Ficht,Co-PI: A. Beskok (Co-PI: D. Banerjee), Value: $74,697; Amount Disbursed to Co-PI(Banerjee): $4,900 (prorated for PI Banerjee, no overheads).

35. “TEES Select Young Faculty Award”, Sponsor: Texas Engineering Experimentation Station(TEES), Inclusive Dates: June 2009 – May 2010, Number of graduate students supported: 0,PI: D. Banerjee, Value: $5,000 (prorated for PI Banerjee, no overheads).

Grand Total Awarded, for PI/Co-PI Banerjee: $ 2,614,000*Grand Total Accrued, for PI/Co-PI Banerjee: $ 1,802,000*Grand Total (participation as PI/Co-PI) in funded research programs $ 20,208,000** Accrual period from January 2005 to March 2012 (these are approximate estimates)


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PROJECTS MANAGED IN THE INDUSTRY:1. Development of reduced order models for microfluidic devices, (Applied Biosystems).2. Development of genomic analyzer, (Applied Biosystems Inc.).3. Development centrifugal microfluidics platform, (Applied Biosystems).4. Development of disposable microfluidic sampler, (Applied Biosystems).5. “Investigation of ink delivery methods for Dip Pen Nano-Lithography™ (DPN)”,sponsored project at NanoInk Inc. Collaboration with molecular-biologists at the Naval Institutefor Dental and Biomedical Research (NIDBR) for bio-marker discovery of tuberculosis andrelated applications in genomics, proteomics and bio-terror detection.6. “DNA Nano-arrays printed via Dip Pen Nanolithography”, co-Principal Investigator (co-PI) for SBIR project funded by National Institute of Health (NIH) program on “Trans NIHBioengineering Consortium (BECON) on Nanotechnologies Useful for Biomedicine” (ProgramNumber: PA-02-125).7. “Design Analyses of Capillary Burst Valves”, Microfluidics design and developmentproject in collaboration with Gamera BioSciences.• Collaborated with biochemists to develop and optimize the LabCD™ platform.8. “Experimental and Numerical study of Electrokinetic and Pressure Driven Flows inStraight and Curved Microchannels”, in collaboration with Department of BiomedicalEngineering and Beckman Laser Institute, University of California, Irvine• Microfluidics project for validation of numerical results with experimental data of flowfields under electro-osmosis using optical tomography techniques.9. “Modeling and Analyses of High Speed Diaphragm Micro-Pump for ink-jet applications”– Professional services project (executed for Fuji Films, Japan).• Developed system model of micropumps for inkjet applications.10. “Development of system model software for microfluidic applications”- Softwaredevelopment project at Coventor Inc.11. “Thermo-Mechanical and Electro-Thermal modeling of compact high frequencyelectronic devices and packages”, sponsored project at Coventor Inc. (for Intel)13. “Investigation of various heat pipe configurations for chip cooling in laptop computers”,sponsored project at Coventor Inc. (for Samsung, Korea).14. “Design and Fabrication of a MEMS Bi-Axial Mirror Array” – Intellectual Property (IP)development platform in collaboration with Capella Photonics Inc. and Colibrys, Switzerland.15. “Design and Fabrication of a microfluidic actuated MEMS Optical switch” – sponsoredproject at Coventor Inc. (in collaboration with LightPath Inc.).16. “Design and Fabrication of Radio-Frequency (RF) MEMS switches, varactors, inductors,filters for wireless applications” – Intellectual Property (IP) development platform - projectfunded internally by Coventor Inc.


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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (SERVICE):Invited to Editorial Boards of International Journals

Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine (JNEM/ ASME): Nominated tothe Advisory Board on behalf of ASME Heat Transfer Division (ASME-HTD),nominated to the Editorial Board as Associate-Editor; March 2012 – 2015.

Journal of Nanofluids (JON)

Journal of Nanoengineering and Nanomanufacturing (JNAN): December, 2010 – present;http://www.aspbs.com/jnan/

Journal of Chemical Engineering & Process Technology (JCEPT): August 2010 –present; http://omicsonline.org/jcepthome.php

Journal of Advances in Nanoparticles (ANP): October 2012 – presenthttp://www.scirp.org/journal/anp/

Journal of Advances in Automobile Engineering (JAE) : October 2012 – presenthttp://omicsgroup.org/journals/aaehome.php

Open Journal of Fluid Dynamics (OJFD) : October 2012 – presentwww.scirp.org/journal/ojfd

International

ASME, CANEUS

“Micro-Nanotechnologies for Aerospace Applications” (CANEUS 2007, Joint conferencewith ASME), August 27 – Sept. 1st, 2006, Toulouse, France: Organized 2 day workshopsession on “Dip Pen Nanolithography (DPN) for composite materials”(http://www.caneus.org/CANEUS06/wp1/index.html) sponsored by Airbus, AFOSR.Attendees included: NASA, NASA-LaRC, AFOSR, EU Aerospace Agency (ESA,CNES), ONERA, Boeing, MBDA, JAXA (Japan), Bell Labs (Ireland), Atrium SpaceCorporation (EU).

Indo-US Science and Technology Forum/ Smithsonian Institution: Reviewer for grant proposals(2007-2008).

Israel Science Foundation, Reviewer for grant proposals (2005-2006).

Korean Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology (MEST):Reviewer for the World Class University (WCU) Program annual progress report.

National

Louisiana Board of Regents: Reviewer for grant proposals (2011-2012)


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Gulf Coast Regional Center for Innovation and Collaboration (GCRCIC): reviewer for grantproposals for the State of Texas programs.

National Public Radio (NPR)Reviewer for Nanotechnology news for Earth & Sky weekly science program (’06 – present)

ASMEMember, ASME (1993-1998, 2000 – present)Member, ASME Energy Systems Committee (2008 – present)

o Track Chair for Energy Nanotechnology symposium at the Energy SustainabilityConference 2009.

o Co-Chair for Session on Concentrated Solar Power at the Energy SustainabilityConference 2010.

o Session Organizer for Concentrated Solar Power at the Energy SustainabilityConference 2011.

Member, ASME K-13 Committee (Heat Transfer in Multiphase Systems), 2005 – presento Co-Chair for K-13 session in ASME-IMECE 2006o Chair for K-13 session in ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, 2006o Chair for K-13 session in ASME-IMECE 2007o Chair for K-13 session in ASME-IMECE 2008o Co-Chair for K-13 session in ASME-IMECE 2009o Co-Chair for K-13 session in ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, 2009o Chair for K-13 session in ASME International Heat Transfer Conference, 2010o Topic Organizer, Chair for sessions in ASME-AJTEC 2011 (Waikiki, Hawaii).o Topic Organizer, Chair for sessions in ASME-IMECE 2011 (Denver, CO).o Topic Organizer, Chair for sessions in ASME (HTD) Summer Heat Transfer

Conference 2012 (Puerto Rico).o Invited Keynote speaker for ICNMM 2012 (International Conference on Nano-

,Micro-, Mini-Channels 2012), Puerto Rico.o Topic Organizer, Chair for sessions in ASME-IMECE 2012 (Houston, TX).

Member, Micro and Nano Fluid Dynamics Committee, 2005 – presento Best paper award committee 2007

Member, ASME K-12 Committee (Aerospace Heat and Mass Transfer), 2006 – presento Chair for K-12 session in ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, 2006

Member, ASME K-6 Committee (Energy Systems), 2009 – presentMember, ASME K-21 Committee (Heat Transfer Education), 2011 – present

o Session organizer for panel discussion on energy issuesMember, ASME Nanotechnology Institute (nano.asme.org)

o Developed an online self-study course on “Nanocoatings for Enhanced ThermalEngineering” (2010-2011).

ASES (American Solar Energy Society):Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Committee: Liaison to ASME (2010-2011)

APS (American Physical Society):Member, APS (2009 – )


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Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)Member, SPE (2009 – )

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE):Member, ASEE (2005 – 2007)AFOSR/ ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow at AFRL, WPAFB, 2007.ONR/ ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow at SPAWAR, SSC, 2009

AIAA:Member, AIAA (2005 – 2007)

SPIEMember, SPIE (2006 – 2008)Member, Program Committee, Micro (MEMS) and Nanotechnologies for Space, Defense,and Security III.

o Organizer for session on Dip Pen Nanolithography at the SPIE Defense andSecurity Symposium 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006

SAE:Member, SAE (2006-)

Reviewer for Grant Agencies:

National Science Foundation (NSF) Panel Reviewer (2006, 2007, twice in 2010, three times in2011)

Louisiana Board of Regents 2011-2012Army Research Office (ARO) Proposal reviewer (2006)Israel Science Foundation (ISF) Proposal reviewer (2005-2006)Smithsonian Institute Proposal reviewer (2007) for Indo-US Technology Forum

Journal Reviewer:

ASME Journal of Heat Transfer (JHT); ASME Journal for Fluids Engineering (JFE);International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (IJHMT), Nuclear Engineering and Design,IEEE Sensors Journal; IEEE TCAD Journal; IEEE Transactions on Components and PackagingTechnologies (CPT); Sensors & Actuators: A. Physical (SAP), Scanning – the Journal ofScanning Microscopies, International Journal of Engineering Sciences (IJES), AIAA Journal ofThermophysics (TP), Journal of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics (MNF), ACS Langmuir.

Conference Proceedings Reviewer:

ITHERM 2006; ASME-IMECE 2005-2011; ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference 2006-2012; IPACK 2005, 2007; ASME Micro & Nano Heat Transfer 2008 (MNHT08), 5thInternational Symposium on Finite Volumes for Complex Applications 2008 (Aussois, France),


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SPIE Defense and Security Symposium 2006-2011, International Heat Transfer Conference(2010), ASME-AJTEC (2011).

LocalMember of University wide Safety Committee, 2012 -.Served as a reviewer for TAMU – China Science Foundation program.

Mechanical Engineering Department, Heat Transfer Ph.D. Qualifying ExaminationCommittee, 2012, 2011, 2005-2007 (Chaired the committee in 2006).Mechanical Engineering Department, Fluid Mechanics Ph.D. Qualifying ExaminationCommittee, 2007.

Mechanical Engineering Department, Clean-room Infrastructure Committee, 2005-2007.

Helped with ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) visit and reviewof Heat Transfer Lab. of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Texas A&M inSeptember 2010. Met with the reviewer (Dr. Robert Comparin of Emerson ClimateTechnologies), provided a laboratory tour and presentation during his visit.

Prepared ABET Review Report (Continuous Improvement and Assessment/ CIA) for“MEEN 461: Heat Transfer” course in 2010 for the courses taught in Fall Semester 2009.Coordinated with other instructors for this course as well as the ABET Review / CIACommittee members in the Mechanical Engineering Department.

Helped coordinate the submission of white paper for Qatar Foundation Nano-Energy Centerthat was submitted to the Qatar Foundation Research Science and Technology Park(QFRST), 2009.

Helped coordinate the submission of the final proposal for Qatar Foundation Nano-EnergyCenter that was submitted to the Qatar Foundation Research Science and Technology Park(QFRST), November 2009 – January 2010.

Committee Member for Faculty Search Committee (Fluid Mechanics), MechanicalEngineering Department, Texas A&M University (2006-2007).

Reviewer for – CONACyT (TAMU) proposals (2005-2006).

USRG (Summer Undergraduate Research Grant): Supervised undergraduate researchexperience of 7 students for June-August 2005, June-August 2007, June – August 2008 andJune – August 2012.

Discover Engineering: Presented research activities to high school students and parents:2005, 2006, and 2007.


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Served as substitute member of MS and PhD committees (student names): S. Cherla(MEEN), J. Hahm (MEEN), V. Prabhakar (MEEN), D. Selcuk (CVEN), D. L. Engelert(BMEN).Served as member of MS and PhD committees (student names): B. Dooley (MEEN), F.Albertorio (Chemistry), C. Zhang (CHEN), A. Balasubramanian (MEEN), D. Clopton(CHEN), M. Lal (MEEN), R. Mahesh (MEEN), Peng He (PhD, CHEN) , Yuan Lu (MS,CHEN), Fuman Zhao (MS, CHEN), Arash Haghshenas (PHD, PETE), Brent Arthur Nelson(MS, MEEN), Lijun Liu (PHD, CHEN), Vikram Sekar (MS, ELEN), Matthew A. Solmos(MS, NUEN), Kevin John Hogan (PHD, NUEN), Sarmad Kaisar Musa (PHD, ELEN), KunalKanaram Agarwal (MS, MEEN ), Linh Thi Thuy Dinh (MS, CHEN), Haejune Kim (MS,MEEN), Shilpa Agrawal (PHD, CHEN), Benjamin Cormier (PHD, CHEN), Dong K Kim(PHD, MEEN), Chuanji Zhang (MS, CHEN), Tae Kwon Jee (MS, MEEN), Amol MohanDixit (MS, MEEN), Alba Lucia . Pineda Solano (PHD in CHEN), Travis John . Gaskill (MSin MEEN), Pradeep Chandrakant . Rao (PHD in MEEN May 23, 2010 Committee), PhillipRaymond . Hodge (MS in CHEN April 27, 2010 Committee), Hsin-Min . Tsai - MS inMEEN April 18, 2010 Committee; Raja . Odakkattuvalasu Selvamani - MEN in MEENOctober 08, 2009 Committee; Fuman . Zhao - PHD in CHEN October 08, 2009 Committee;Jeng Won Woo - MS in MEEN August 20, 2009 Committee; Ashwin . Padmanaban Iyer -MS in MEEN May 26, 2009 Committee; Jaehyeuk . Jeon - PHD in MEEN May 21, 2009Committee; Sandhya . Shankar - MS in MEEN May 21, 2009 Committee; Vikram Sekar -PHD in ELEN May 01, 2009 Committee; Yuan . Lu - PHD in CHEN April 28, 2009Committee; Yen-Po . Lin - MS in MEEN April 16, 2009 Committee; Darren Ross . Malik -MS in MEEN March 24, 2009 Committee; Lina Rocio . Saenz Noval - PHD in CHEN March16, 2009 Committee; Andrew Scott . Goldmann - PHD in NUEN December 23,2008Committee; Rakesh . Ranjan - PHD in MEEN December 18, 2008 Committee;Marcelino Armendariz - MS in ELEN December 05, 2008 Committee; Pablo F. Salazar -MSin CHEN July 21, 2008 Committee; Chinedu E. Ezeka - MEN in MEEN June 30, 2008Committee; James G. Steuber - PHD in MEEN June 01, 2008 Committee; Kalpana .Tumuluri - MS in MEEN May 20, 2008 Committee; Susan Nicole . Williams - MS in NUENMay 07, 2008 Committee; Saurabh . Kajaria - MS in MEEN April 30, 2008 Committee;Varuna . Gopalan MS in MEEN April 28, 2008 Committee; Vijaykumar . Sathyamurthi -PHD in MEEN February 10, 2008 Committee; Peng . He - PHD in CHEN November 16,2007 Committee; Yuan . Lu - MS in CHEN October 15, 2007 Committee; Fuman . Zhao -MS in CHEN October 15, 2007 Committee; Stephen Thomas . Glenn - MS in MEEN August22, 2007 Committee; Arash . Haghshenas - PHD in PETE August 16, 2007 Committee;Brent Arthur Nelson - MS in MEEN August 14, 2007 Committee; Mona . Karimi - MS inMEEN May 23, 2007 Committee; Lijun . Liu - PHD in CHEN May 15, 2007 Committee;Vikram . Sekar - MS in ELEN May 01, 2007 Committee; Matthew A. Solmos - MS inNUEN May 01, 2007 Committee; Kevin John . Hogan - PHD in NUEN April 10, 2007Committee; Sarmad Kaisar . Musa - PHD in ELEN April 10, 2007 Committee; KunalKanaram . Agarwal - MS in MEEN December 12, 2006 Committee; Linh Thi Thuy . Dinh -MS in CHEN December 11, 2006 Committee; Ho Jun . Kim - PHD in MEEN November 21,2006 Committee.


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Brief Biography: Prior to academia, Dr. Debjyoti Banerjee worked as a Manager of Advanced Research &Technology (ART) group at Applied Biosystems Inc. (ABI), CA, (currently mergedinto Life Technologies), where he managed a group of 10-15 engineers and Ph.D./scientists. Previously in a singular capacity, Dr. Banerjee developed from conceptto a commercial product at NanoInk Inc. (called “InkWells™). Inkwells aremicrofluidic platforms used for bio/nano-technology applications. Dr. Banerjee has6 patents, ~ 16 patent applications pending/ provisional patents, from his work atApplied Biosystems, Ciphergen Biosystems, NanoInk, Coventor Inc. and TexasA&M University. Dr. Banerjee received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering fromUCLA (with minor in MEMS) and received the “2001 Best Journal Paper Award”from the ASME Heat Transfer Division (HTD). He received 3 M.S. degrees andwas invited to 4 national honor societies. He attended the Indian Institute ofTechnology (IIT), Kharagpur for his Bachelor of Technology (Honors). At thegraduation convocation at IIT he received the “Amlan Sen Best Mechanical

Engineering Student Award (Endowment)”. He also received the “Jagdish Bose National Science TalentScholar” award from the Government of India. Dr. Banerjee received the “New Investigator Award (2005)”from the Texas Space Grants Consortium (TSGC), the “ASEE/AFOSR Summer Faculty Fellowship (2006,2007)” at AFRL, the “ASEE/ONR Summer Faculty Fellowship” at SPAWAR, “Morris Foster Fellowship(2007-2008)” from Mechanical Engineering Department at Texas A&M University and was designated as aFaculty Fellow at the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center at the Texas A&M University. Dr. Banerjeereceived the “TEES Select Young Faculty Fellow (2008-2009)” from the College of Engineering/ TexasEngineering Experimentation Station (TEES) at Texas A&M University. He received the “3M Non-TenuredFaculty” award (2009-2012) from 3M Corp. At Texas A&M his sponsored research projects (with academicand industrial collaborators) exceeds $20 million. Under his supervision 8 PhD and 16 MS students havegraduated from his research program.

Research: Dr. Banerjee’s research interests are in experimental and numerical studies for the following topics:energy conservation technologies using thermo-fluidics (boiling, condensation), solar thermal energy storage(TES), MEMS (nano-calorimeters for explosives sensing), bio-microfluidics and nanotechnology (DPN, nano-synthesis of organic nanomaterials and nanocoatings, nanofluids/ nanofluidics), systems modeling (networksimulators), Computational Fluid Dynamics/ Heat Transfer (CFD/ CHT), Finite Element Methods (FEM) andMolecular Dynamics (MD).

Service: Dr. Banerjee is an Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering andMedicine (JNEM). He is a member of the advisory board of JNEM, Journal of Nanoengineering andNanomanufacturing (JNAN), and Journal of Chemical Engineering and Process Technology (JCEPT).

Research Sponsors/ Collaborators: NSF (National Science Foundation), DARPA (Defense AdvancedResearch Project Agency), SPAWAR/ SSC (Space and Naval Warfare Center), AFRL (Air Force ResearchLab.), AFOSR (Air Force Office of Scientific Research), ONR (US Navy Office of Naval Research), Army(ARO), Texas Space Grants Consortium (TSGC), NASA (National Air and Space Agency), JPL (JetPropulsion Lab., Pasadena, CA), DOE/ SETP (Department of Energy/ Solar Energy Technology Program),Qatar National Research Foundation (QNRF), Nano-MEMS Research, Lynntech, Aspen Thermal System,Irvine Sensors, NanoInk Inc., ADA Technologies, Anteon Corp (General Dynamics), General Electric –Corporate Research & Development (GE-CRD), 3M Corp. (3M Innovation Center).

Online Videos of documentaries and presentations by Dr. Banerjee can be accessed at:

http://www.azonano.com/nanotechnology-video-details.asp?VidID=359 (Courtesy of NanoInk Inc.)http://www.azom.com/materials-video-details.asp?VidID=293 (Courtesy of NanoInk Inc.)

Presentation at the MIT Keenan Symposium:

http://video.mit.edu/watch/the-second-law-and-energy-panel-9285


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BRIEF BIOGRAPHY (200 words or less):

Debjyoti Banerjee

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University

Faculty Fellow, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center

Debjyoti Banerjee received his Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of California, Los Angeles. He received6 patents and submitted 16 patent applications/ provisional patents from his prior work at AppliedBiosystems (Life Technologies), NanoInk, Ciphergen Biosystems, Coventor and Tata (India). He joinedthe Mechanical Engineering Department at Texas A&M University as an assistant professor in 2005 andpromoted to associate professor with tenure in 2011. His research interests are in energy conservation,thermal-fluids sciences with emphasis on multiphase flows (boiling, condensation), MEMS,micro/nanofluidics, bio-nanotechnology (Dip-Pen Nanolithography, explosives sensing usingnanocalorimetry, Step and Flash Nano-Imprint Lithography/ SFIL) and renewable energy (solar thermalenergy storage using nanofluids). At Texas A&M his sponsored research projects (with academic andindustrial collaborators) exceeds $20 million. Under his supervision 8 PhD and 16 MS students havegraduated from his research program. Dr. Banerjee received the “TEES Select Young Faculty” award in2009, and was selected as “ASEE/AFOSR Summer Faculty Fellow” and “ASEE/ONR Summer FacultyFellow” at AFRL (2006, 2007; Propulsion Directorate) and SPAWAR (2009; Advanced TechnologyBranch), respectively.

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