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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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68
Citations
19061
World Ranking
436
National Ranking
203

Materials Science

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70
Citations
19896
World Ranking
4386
National Ranking
1173

Overview

William P. King is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Engineering, with significant contributions in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Automotive Engineering.

Their work covers a range of main topics including:

  • Heat Transfer and Optimization
  • Phase Change Materials Research
  • Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
  • Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes
  • Thermal properties of materials
  • Biosensors and Analytical Detection
  • Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices

Their recent scholarly papers include:

  • Rapid isothermal amplification and portable detection system for SARS-CoV-2, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Phase change material-based thermal energy storage, 2021, Cell Reports Physical Science
  • High power and energy density dynamic phase change materials using pressure-enhanced close contact melting, 2022, Nature Energy
  • High power density thermal energy storage using additively manufactured heat exchangers and phase change material, 2020, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Ultra-power-dense heat exchanger development through genetic algorithm design and additive manufacturing, 2021, Joule

The primary venues where they frequently publish include:

  • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Applied Physics Letters
  • Additive Manufacturing

William P. King regularly collaborates with the following co-authors:

  • Nenad Miljkovic
  • Sameh Tawfick
  • Rashid Bashir
  • Davis J. McGregor
  • Robert A. Stavins

Best Publications

  • Nanoscale thermal transport. II. 2003–2012

    David G. Cahill;Paul V. Braun;Gang Chen;David R. Clarke

  • Nanoscale Tunable Reduction of Graphene Oxide for Graphene Electronics

    Zhongqing Wei;Debin Wang;Suenne Kim;Soo Young Kim;Soo Young Kim

  • High-power lithium ion microbatteries from interdigitated three-dimensional bicontinuous nanoporous electrodes

    James H. Pikul;Hui Gang Zhang;Jiung Cho;Paul V. Braun

  • Nanoscale Joule heating, Peltier cooling and current crowding at graphene–metal contacts

    Kyle L. Grosse;Myung Ho Bae;Feifei Lian;Eric Pop

  • Rapid isothermal amplification and portable detection system for SARS-CoV-2.

    Anurup Ganguli;Ariana Mostafa;Jacob Berger;Mehmet Y. Aydin

  • Performance analysis of near-field thermophotovoltaic devices considering absorption distribution

    K. Park;S. Basu;W. P. King;Z. M. Zhang

  • 3D printing of shape-conformable thermoelectric materials using all-inorganic Bi2Te3-based inks

    Fredrick Kim;Beomjin Kwon;Youngho Eom;Ji Eun Lee

  • Myoblast alignment and differentiation on cell culture substrates with microscale topography and model chemistries.

    Joseph L. Charest;Andrés J. García;William P. King

  • Friction characteristics of microtextured surfaces under mixed and hydrodynamic lubrication

    Ashwin Ramesh;Wasim Akram;Surya P. Mishra;Andrew H. Cannon

  • Electrical, Thermal, and Mechanical Characterization of Silicon Microcantilever Heaters

    Jungchul Lee;T. Beechem;T.L. Wright;B.A. Nelson

  • Combined microscale mechanical topography and chemical patterns on polymer cell culture substrates

    Joseph L. Charest;Marcus T. Eliason;Andrés J. García;William P. King

  • High power rechargeable batteries

    Paul V. Braun;Jiung Cho;James H. Pikul;William P. King

  • Impact of polymer film thickness and cavity size on polymer flow during embossing: toward process design rules for nanoimprint lithography

    Harry D. Rowland;Amy C. Sun;P. Randy Schunk;William Paul King

  • Atomic force microscope cantilevers for combined thermomechanical data writing and reading

    William Paul King;Thomas W. Kenny;Kenneth E. Goodson;Graham Cross

  • Holographic patterning of high-performance on-chip 3D lithium-ion microbatteries

    Hailong Ning;James H. Pikul;Runyu Zhang;Xuejiao Li

  • Using nanoscale thermocapillary flows to create arrays of purely semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes

    Sung Hun Jin;Simon N. Dunham;Jizhou Song;Xu Xie

  • High-speed, sub-15 nm feature size thermochemical nanolithography.

    Robert Szoszkiewicz;Takashi Okada;Simon C. Jones;Tai De Li

  • Nanoscale deposition of solid inks via thermal dip pen nanolithography

    P. E. Sheehan;L. J. Whitman;William Paul King;Brent A. Nelson

  • High power and energy density dynamic phase change materials using pressure-enhanced close contact melting

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  • Water droplet impact on elastic superhydrophobic surfaces.

    Patricia B. Weisensee;Junjiao Tian;Nenad Miljkovic;Nenad Miljkovic;William P. King

  • Hot embossing for micropatterned cell substrates.

    Joseph L. Charest;Lindsay E. Bryant;Andres J. Garcia;William P. King

  • Impact of polymer film thickness and cavity size on polymer flow during embossing : towards process design rules for nanoimprint lithography.

    Peter Randall Schunk;William P. King;Amy Cha-Tien Sun;Harry D. Rowland

Frequent Co-Authors

Elisa Riedo
Elisa Riedo New York University
Paul V. Braun
Paul V. Braun University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nenad Miljkovic
Nenad Miljkovic University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rashid Bashir
Rashid Bashir University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paul E. Sheehan
Paul E. Sheehan Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Kenneth E. Goodson
Kenneth E. Goodson Stanford University
Seth R. Marder
Seth R. Marder University of Colorado Boulder
Samuel Graham
Samuel Graham Georgia Institute of Technology
Lane W. Martin
Lane W. Martin Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Eric Pop
Eric Pop Stanford University

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