2026 Joel L. Plawsky: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	37	8438	8134	2337	2165	246	5056

Research.com Recognitions

2015 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Joel L. Plawsky is affiliated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the United States. The primary field of study is engineering, with a focus on mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, computational mechanics, aerospace engineering, and polymers and plastics.

The main research topics covered by Joel L. Plawsky include:

Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies
Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies
Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
Membrane Separation Technologies
Fluid Dynamics and Mixing
Conducting Polymers and Applications
Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Joel L. Plawsky are:

"High-Conductivity and High-Capacitance Electrospun Fibers for Supercapacitor Applications," 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
"The ICECool Fundamentals Effort on Evaporative Cooling of Microelectronics," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Components Packaging and Manufacturing Technology
"Rip currents: A spontaneous heat transfer enhancement mechanism in a wickless heat pipe," 2020, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
"Antimicrobial effects of positively charged, conductive electrospun polymer fibers," 2020, Materials Science and Engineering C
"Radical Lifetimes in Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization: A Monte Carlo and Deterministic Investigation," 2020, Macromolecules

Joel L. Plawsky has collaborated frequently with the following co-authors:

Corey Woodcock
Surya Karla
Georges Belfort
Somdatta Bhattacharya
Robert J. Linhardt

Common publication venues for Plawsky's work include:

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
Journal of Membrane Science
Chemical Engineering Science
SSRN Electronic Journal
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Joel L. Plawsky has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers since 2015.

Best Publications

Spaceflight Promotes Biofilm Formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Wooseong Kim;Farah K. Tengra;Zachary Young;Jasmine Shong

256
Citations
Nano- and Microstructures for Thin-Film Evaporation—A Review

J. L. Plawsky;A. G. Fedorov;S. V. Garimella;H. B. Ma

248
Citations
Porous silica materials as low-k dielectrics for electronic and optical interconnects

A. Jain;S. Rogojevic;S. Ponoth;N. Agarwal

219
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Surface modified spin-on xerogel films as interlayer dielectrics

S. V. Nitta;V. Pisupatti;A. Jain;P. C. Wayner

177
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High thermal conductivity epoxy-silver composites based on self-constructed nanostructured metallic networks

Kamyar Pashayi;Hafez Raeisi Fard;Fengyuan Lai;Sushumna Iruvanti

155
Citations
REVIEW OF THE EFFECTS OF SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY, SURFACE CHEMISTRY, AND FLUID PHYSICS ON EVAPORATION AT THE CONTACT LINE

Joel L. Plawsky;Manas Ojha;Arya Chatterjee;Peter C. Wayner

154
Citations
Modeling of hydration reactions using neural networks to predict the average properties of cement paste

Ki-Bong Park;Takafumi Noguchi;Joel Plawsky

141
Citations
Thermal conductivity study of porous low-k dielectric materials

Chuan Hu;Michael Morgen;Paul S. Ho;Anurag Jain

132
Citations
Comprehensive experimental and theoretical study of fluid flow and heat transfer in a microscopic evaporating meniscus in a miniature heat exchanger

Sashidhar S. Panchamgam;Arya Chatterjee;Joel L. Plawsky;Peter C. Wayner

129
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Transport phenomena fundamentals

Joel L. Plawsky

127
Citations
Piranha Pin Fin (PPF) — Advanced flow boiling microstructures with low surface tension dielectric fluids

Corey Woodcock;Xiangfei Yu;Joel Plawsky;Yoav Peles

122
Citations
Experimental investigation of contact angle, curvature, and contact line motion in dropwise condensation and evaporation.

Shripad J. Gokhale;Joel L. Plawsky;Peter C. Wayner

106
Citations
Omnidirectional reflector using nanoporous SiO 2 as a low-refractive-index material

J Q Xi;Manas Ojha;Woojin Cho;J L Plawsky

101
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Contact line behavior for a highly wetting fluid under superheated conditions

R. Raj;C. Kunkelmann;Peter Stephan;J. Plawsky

101
Citations
Processing dependent thermal conductivity of nanoporous silica xerogel films

Anurag Jain;Svetlana Rogojevic;Shom Ponoth;William N. Gill

90
Citations
Ultra-high heat flux dissipation with Piranha Pin Fins

Corey Woodcock;Chisela Ng'oma;Michael Sweet;Yingying Wang

88
Citations
An investigation of convective heat transfer in microchannel with Piranha Pin Fin

X. Yu;C. Woodcock;J. Plawsky;Y. Peles

86
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Engineered nanoporous and nanostructured films

Joel L. Plawsky;Jong Kyu Kim;E. Fred Schubert

85
Citations
Internal high-reflectivity omni-directional reflectors

J.-Q. Xi;Manas Ojha;J. L. Plawsky;W. N. Gill

81
Citations
The ICECool Fundamentals Effort on Evaporative Cooling of Microelectronics

Avram Bar-Cohen;Mehdi Asheghi;Timothy J. Chainer;Suresh V. Garimella

75
Citations
Etching of xerogel in high-density fluorocarbon plasmas

T. E. F. M. Standaert;E. A. Joseph;G. S. Oehrlein;A. Jain

74
Citations
Experimental Determination of the Effect of Disjoining Pressure on Shear in the Contact Line Region of a Moving Evaporating Thin Film

Sashidhar S. Panchamgam;Shripad J. Gokhale;Joel L. Plawsky;Sunando DasGupta

72
Citations
Interfacial Force Field Characterization in a Constrained Vapor Bubble Thermosyphon

Sunando Dasgupta;Joel L. Plawsky;Peter C. Wayner

69
Citations
Inferred pressure gradient and fluid flow in a condensing sessile droplet based on the measured thickness profile

Shripad J. Gokhale;Joel L. Plawsky;Peter C. Wayner;Sunando DasGupta

66
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An augmented Young-Laplace model of an evaporating meniscus in a micro-channel with high heat flux

P. C. Wayner;J. Plawsky;J. A. Schonberg;S. Dasgupta

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