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799
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering the development of thermophoretic sampling, as well as contributions to the fluid dynamics of droplet impact and the behavior of fluids in nanoenclosures
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Constantine M. Megaridis is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions in Mechanical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Biomedical Engineering, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
  • Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies
  • Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
  • Heat Transfer and Optimization
  • Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions
  • Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions
  • Infection Control and Ventilation

Among the most frequently published venues for their research are:

  • Applied Thermal Engineering
  • 2022 21st IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (iTherm)
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Advanced Materials Interfaces
  • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Megaridis include:

  • "Review of jet impingement cooling of electronic devices: Emerging role of surface engineering," 2023, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • "Patterning Wettability for Open-Surface Fluidic Manipulation: Fundamentals and Applications," 2022, Chemical Reviews
  • "Computer simulation of the SARS-CoV-2 contamination risk in a large dental clinic," 2021, Physics of Fluids
  • "Experimental investigation of a vapor chamber featuring wettability-patterned surfaces," 2020, Applied Thermal Engineering
  • "Revisiting the supplementary relationship of dynamic contact angles measured by sessile-droplet and captive-bubble methods: Role of surface roughness," 2020, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated extensively with Megaridis include:

  • George Damoulakis
  • Mohamad Jafari Gukeh
  • Ranjan Ganguly
  • Arani Mukhopadhyay
  • Sreya Sarkar

Recognition of Megaridis's work includes fellowship honors such as:

  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), awarded in 2011, cited for pioneering the development of thermophoretic sampling as well as contributions to the fluid dynamics of droplet impact and the behavior of fluids in nanoenclosures
  • Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, awarded in 2003

Best Publications

  • Are superhydrophobic surfaces best for icephobicity

    Stefan Jung;Marko Dorrestijn;Dominik Raps;Arindam Das

  • Wetting effects on the spreading of a liquid droplet colliding with a flat surface: Experiment and modeling

    J. Fukai;Y. Shiiba;T. Yamamoto;O. Miyatake

  • Morphology of flame-generated soot as determined by thermophoretic sampling

    R. A. Dobbins;Constantine M. Megaridis

  • Surface engineering for phase change heat transfer: A review

    Daniel Attinger;Christophe Frankiewicz;Amy R. Betz;Thomas M. Schutzius

  • Morphological Description of Flame-Generated Materials

    Constantine M. Megaridis;Richard A. Dobbins

  • Modeling of the deformation of a liquid droplet impinging upon a flat surface

    J. Fukai;Z. Zhao;D. Poulikakos;Constantine M. Megaridis

  • Wettability patterning for high-rate, pumpless fluid transport on open, non-planar microfluidic platforms

    Aritra Ghosh;Ranjan Ganguly;Ranjan Ganguly;Thomas M. Schutzius;Thomas M. Schutzius;Constantine M. Megaridis

  • In situ multiphase fluid experiments in hydrothermal carbon nanotubes

    Yury Gogotsi;Joseph A. Libera;Almila Güvenç-Yazicioglu;Constantine M. Megaridis

  • Enhancing dropwise condensation through bioinspired wettability patterning.

    Aritra Ghosh;Sara Beaini;Bong June Zhang;Ranjan Ganguly;Ranjan Ganguly

  • Chondrogenic Differentiation of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Oriented Nanofibrous Scaffolds: Engineering the Superficial Zone of Articular Cartilage

    Joel K. Wise;Alexander L. Yarin;Constantine M. Megaridis;Michael Cho

  • CONTACT ANGLE DYNAMICS IN DROPLETS IMPACTING ON FLAT SURFACES WITH DIFFERENT WETTING CHARACTERISTICS

    Ilker S. Bayer;Constantine M. Megaridis

  • Fine-line conductor manufacturing using drop-on demand PZT printing technology

    J.B. Szczech;C.M. Megaridis;D.R. Gamota;Jie Zhang

  • Self-Driven One-Step Oil Removal from Oil Spill on Water via Selective-Wettability Steel Mesh

    Jinlong Song;Jinlong Song;Shuai Huang;Yao Lu;Xiangwei Bu

  • Magnetite (Fe 3 O 4 )-filled carbon nanofibers as electro-conducting/superparamagnetic nanohybrids and their multifunctional polymer composites

    Arindam Das;Muhammad Raffi;Constantine Megaridis;Despina Fragouli

  • Desorption-limited mechanism of release from polymer nanofibers.

    R. Srikar;Alexander Yarin;Constantine M. Megaridis;A. V. Bazilevsky

  • Review of jet impingement cooling of electronic devices: Emerging role of surface engineering

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  • Key design and operating parameters for enhancing dropwise condensation through wettability patterning

    Pallab Sinha Mahapatra;Aritra Ghosh;Ranjan Ganguly;Constantine M. Megaridis

  • Soot formation effects of oxygen concentration in the oxidizer stream of laminar coannular nonpremixed methane/air flames

    Kyeong-Ook Lee;Constantine M. Megaridis;Serguei Zelepouga;Alexei V. Saveliev

  • Comparison of Soot Growth and Oxidation in Smoking and Non–Smoking Ethylene Diffusion Flames

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  • Superhydrophobic and conductive carbon nanofiber/PTFE composite coatings for EMI shielding

    Arindam Das;Harun T. Hayvaci;Manish K. Tiwari;Ilker S. Bayer

  • Monitoring the flame synthesis of TiO2 particles by in-situ FTIR spectroscopy and thermophoretic sampling

    Osama I Arabi–Katbi;Sotiris E Pratsinis;Philip W Morrison;Constantine M Megaridis

  • Attoliter fluid experiments in individual closed-end carbon nanotubes: Liquid film and fluid interface dynamics

    Constantine M. Megaridis;Almila Güvenç Yazicioglu;Joseph A. Libera;Yury Gogotsi

  • Droplet Impacting a Cantilever: A Leaf-Raindrop System

    Sean Gart;Joseph E. Mates;Constantine M. Megaridis;Sunghwan Jung

  • Inkjet patterned superhydrophobic paper for open-air surface microfluidic devices

    Mohamed Elsharkawy;Thomas M. Schutzius;Constantine M. Megaridis

Frequent Co-Authors

Ranjan Ganguly
Ranjan Ganguly Jadavpur University
Ilker S. Bayer
Ilker S. Bayer Italian Institute of Technology
Alexander L. Yarin
Alexander L. Yarin University of Illinois at Chicago
Yury Gogotsi
Yury Gogotsi Drexel University
Jens Honore Walther
Jens Honore Walther Technical University of Denmark
Petros Koumoutsakos
Petros Koumoutsakos Harvard University
Reza Shahbazian-Yassar
Reza Shahbazian-Yassar University of Illinois at Chicago
William A. Sirignano
William A. Sirignano University of California, Irvine
Neelesh A. Patankar
Neelesh A. Patankar Northwestern University

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