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Kripa K. Varanasi

Kripa K. Varanasi

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
56
Citations
16125
World Ranking
2760
National Ranking
839

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - ASME Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award

Overview

Kripa K. Varanasi is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States, with research focusing primarily on engineering and materials science. The scientist's work spans multiple subfields, including surfaces, coatings and films, electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, and materials chemistry.

Their research addresses a range of topics, including surface modification and superhydrophobicity, CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts, fluid dynamics and heat transfer, nanomaterials and printing technologies, electrochemical analysis and applications, marine biology and environmental chemistry, and Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization.

Recent publications by Kripa K. Varanasi include:

  • Electrostatic dust removal using adsorbed moisture-assisted charge induction for sustainable operation of solar panels (2022) in Science Advances
  • Asymmetric chloride-mediated electrochemical process for CO2 removal from oceanwater (2023) in Energy & Environmental Science
  • Crystal critters: Self-ejection of crystals from heated, superhydrophobic surfaces (2021) in Science Advances
  • Impact of Bubbles on Electrochemically Active Surface Area of Microtextured Gas-Evolving Electrodes (2022) in Langmuir
  • Dynamics of an impacting emulsion droplet (2022) in Science Advances

Frequent coauthors in their body of work include Samantha A. McBride, Simon Rufer, John R. Lake, Henri-Louis Girard, and Michael P. Nitzsche.

The scientist regularly publishes in several venues, with notable frequencies in Science Advances, Langmuir, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Nature Communications, and Advanced Materials Interfaces.

Among the awards received, Kripa K. Varanasi was recognized with the ASME Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Reducing the contact time of a bouncing drop

    James C. Bird;Rajeev Dhiman;Hyuk-Min Kwon;Kripa K. Varanasi

  • Droplet mobility on lubricant-impregnated surfaces

    J. David Smith;Rajeev Dhiman;Sushant Anand;Ernesto Reza-Garduno

  • Relationships between Water Wettability and Ice Adhesion

    Adam J. Meuler;J. David Smith;Kripa K. Varanasi;Joseph M. Mabry

  • Frost formation and ice adhesion on superhydrophobic surfaces

    Kripa K. Varanasi;Tao Deng;J. David Smith;Ming Hsu

  • Hydrophobicity of rare-earth oxide ceramics

    Gisele Azimi;Rajeev Dhiman;Hyuk-Min Kwon;Adam T. Paxson

  • Enhanced Condensation on Lubricant-Impregnated Nanotextured Surfaces

    Sushant Anand;Adam T. Paxson;Rajeev Dhiman;J. David Smith

  • Spatial control in the heterogeneous nucleation of water

    Kripa K. Varanasi;Ming Hsu;Nitin Bhate;Wensha Yang

  • Nonwetting of impinging droplets on textured surfaces

    Tao Deng;Kripa K. Varanasi;Ming Hsu;Nitin Bhate

  • Critical heat flux maxima during boiling crisis on textured surfaces

    Navdeep Singh Dhillon;Jacopo Buongiorno;Kripa K. Varanasi

  • Mechanism of Frost Formation on Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces

    Konrad Rykaczewski;Sushant Anand;Srinivas Bengaluru Subramanyam;Kripa K. Varanasi

  • Ice adhesion on lubricant-impregnated textured surfaces.

    Srinivas Bengaluru Subramanyam;Konrad Rykaczewski;Kripa K. Varanasi

  • Drag reduction using lubricant-impregnated surfaces in viscous laminar flow.

    Brian R. Solomon;Karim S. Khalil;Kripa K. Varanasi

  • Stable Dropwise Condensation for Enhancing Heat Transfer via the Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition (iCVD) of Grafted Polymer Films

    Adam T. Paxson;Jose L. Yagüe;Karen K. Gleason;Kripa K. Varanasi

  • Different shades of oxide: from nanoscale wetting mechanisms to contact printing of gallium-based liquid metals.

    Kyle Doudrick;Kyle Doudrick;Shanliangzi Liu;Eva M. Mutunga;Kate L. Klein

  • Multimode Multidrop Serial Coalescence Effects during Condensation on Hierarchical Superhydrophobic Surfaces

    Konrad Rykaczewski;Adam T. Paxson;Sushant Anand;Xuemei Chen

  • Dropwise Condensation of Low Surface Tension Fluids on Omniphobic Surfaces

    Konrad Rykaczewski;Adam T. Paxson;Matthew E. Staymates;Marlon L. Walker

  • Study of Factors Governing Oil–Water Separation Process Using TiO2 Films Prepared by Spray Deposition of Nanoparticle Dispersions

    Mohammed A. Gondal;Muhammad S. Sadullah;Mohamed A. Dastageer;Gareth H. McKinley

  • Self-similarity of contact line depinning from textured surfaces

    Adam T. Paxson;Kripa K. Varanasi

  • Low Ice Adhesion on Nano-Textured Superhydrophobic Surfaces under Supersaturated Conditions

    Srinivas Bengaluru Subramanyam;Vitaliy Kondrashov;Jürgen Rühe;Kripa K. Varanasi

  • Increasing Leidenfrost point using micro-nano hierarchical surface structures

    Hyuk-min Kwon;James C. Bird;Kripa K. Varanasi

  • Erratum: Reducing the contact time of a bouncing drop

    James C. Bird;Rajeev Dhiman;Hyuk-Min Kwon;Kripa K. Varanasi

Frequent Co-Authors

Tao Deng
Tao Deng Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Neelesh A. Patankar
Neelesh A. Patankar Northwestern University
Bekir Sami Yilbas
Bekir Sami Yilbas King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Mohammed A. Gondal
Mohammed A. Gondal King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Horacio D. Espinosa
Horacio D. Espinosa Northwestern University

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