Publications: 2010-2014
"Electrohydrodynamic Deformation of Thin Liquid Films near Surfaces with Topography"
Chem. Eng. Sci., 95, 221-231 (2014).
A. Ramkrishnan and S. Kumar.
"A Raman Spectroscopic Method to Find Binder Distribution in Electrodes During Drying"
J. Coat. Technol. Res., 11, 11-17, (2014).
H. Hagiwara, W. J. Suszynski, and L. F. Francis.
"Forced Spreading of Films and Droplets of Colloidal Suspensions"
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 742, 495-519, (2014).
L. Espin and S. Kumar.
"Thin-liquid-film Flow on a Topographically Patterned Rotating Cylinder"
Physics of Fluids, 26, 042102, (2014).
A. K. Sahu and S. Kumar.
"Finite Element/Fictitious Domain Programming for Flows with Particles Made Simple"
Advances in Engineering Software, 70, 51-62, (2014).
M. Lage, L. Crissaff, H. Lopes, and M. S. Carvalho.
"Sagging of Evaporating Droplets of Colloidal Suspensions on Inclined Substrates"
Langmuir, 30, 11966-11974 (2014).
L. Espin and S. Kumar.
"Microstructure and Performance of Block Copolymer Modified Epoxy Coatings"
Progress in Organic Coatings, 77(7), 1145-1154, (2014).
T. Li, M. J. Heinzer, E. M. Redline, F. Zuo, F. S. Bates, and L. F. Francis.
"Microstructure Evolution and Crystal Growth in Cu2ZnSnS4 Thin Films Formed by Annealing Colloidal Nanocrystal Coatings"
Chem. of Mater., 26(10), 3191-3201, (2014).
B. D. Chernomordik, A. E. Beland, D. D. Deng, L. F. Francis, and E. S. Aydil.
"Gravure Printing of Graphene for Large-Area Flexible Electronics"
Advanced Materials, 26(26), 4533-4538, (2014).
E. B. Secor, S. Lim, H. Zhang, C. D. Frisbie, L. F. Francis, and M. C. Hersam.
"Liquid Transfer from Single Cavities to Rotating Rolls"
J. of Fluid Mechanics, 747, 545-571, (2014).
D. M. Campana and M. S. Carvalho.
"Characteristics of Air Entrainment During Dynamic Wetting Failure Along a Planar Substrate"
J. of Fluid Mechanics, 747, 119-140, (2014).
E. Vandre, M. S. Carvalho, and S. Kumar.
"Gravity-driven Instability of a Thin Liquid Film Underneath a Soft Solid"
Phys. Rev. E, 90, 053009 (9 pages) (2014).
S. H. Lee, K. L. Maki, D. Flath, S. J. Weinstein, C. Kealy, W. Li, C. Talbot, and S. Kumar.
"Facile Method for Fabricating Flexible Substrates with Embedded, Printed Silver Lines"
Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 6(2), 1306-1312, (2013).
A. Mahajan, L. F. Francis, and C. D. Frisbie.
"Cavitation in Block Copolymer Modified Epoxy Revealed by In Situ Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering"
ACS MacroLetters, 2(10), 939-943, (2013).
C. Declet-Perez, L. F. Francis, and F. S. Bates.
"Magnetic Microrheology of Block Copolymer Solutions"
Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 5(22), 11877-11883, (2013).
J. C. Kim, M. Seo, M. A. Hillmyer, and L. F. Francis.
"Polygonal Finite Elements for Incompressible Fluid Flow"
Int'l. Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, (2013).
C. Talischi, A. Pereira, G. H. Paulino, I. F. M. Menezes, and M. S. Carvalho.
"On the Mechanism of Wetting Failure During Fluid Displacement Along a Moving Substrate"
Physics of Fluids, 25, 102103 (2013).
E. Vandre, M. S. Carvalho, and S. Kumar.
"Electrohydrodynamic Effects in the Leveling of Coatings"
Chemical Engineering Science, 101, 785-799, (2013).
A. Ramkrishnan and S. Kumar.
"Combined Thermal and Electrohydrodynamic Patterning of Thin Liquid Films"
J. Eng. Math, 94(1), 81-96, (2013).
A. Corbett and S. Kumar.
"Thermally Induced Delay and Reversal of Liquid Film Dewetting on Chemically Patterned Surfaces"
J. Colloid Interface Sci., 408, 212-219 (2013).
E. Vandre, M. S. Carvalho, and S. Kumar.
"Reactive Coupling between Immiscible Polymer Chains: Acceleration by Compressive Flow"
AIChE Journal, 59(9), 3391-3402, (2013).
J. Song, A. M. Baker, C. W. Macosko, and R. H. Ewoldt.
"Nanofibers from Melt Blown Fiber-in-Fiber Polymer Blends"
ACS Macro Letters, 2(4), 301-305, (2013).
F. Zuo, D. H. Tan, Z. Wang, S. Jeung, C. W. Macosko, and F. S. Bates.
"Process Limits in Two-layer Reverse Roll Transfer"
J. Coatings Technology Research, 10(4), 485-492, (2013).
M. Sasaki, W. J. Suszynski, M. S. Carvalho, L. F. Francis.
"Electrohydrodynamic Instabilities in Thin Viscoelastic Films -- AC and CD Fields"
J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech., 196, 102-111, (2013).
L. Espin, A. Corbett, and S. Kumar.
"Spreading and Merging of Liquid Streams Flowing Down an Inclined Plane: Modeling and Experiments"
Chem. Eng. Sci., 95, 221-231 (2013).
D. Maza, S. Kumar, and M. S. Carvalho.
"Effects of Freezing and Thawing on the Microstructure of Latex Paints"
J. Colloid Interface Sci., 392, 183-193 (2012).
M. Mittal, J. A. Roper III, C. L. Jackson, G. G. Monaghan, L. F. Francis.
"Drying and Cracking of Soft Latex Coatings"
J. Coatings Tech.Research, 10(4), 441-451, (2012).
C. Roberts and L. F. Francis.
"Cryo-SEM Investigation of Latex Coatings Dried in Walled Substrates"
Langmuir, 28[28], 10329-10333 (2012).
K. Price, A. V. McCormick and L. F. Francis.
"Coating of Open Cell Foams"
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 51[27], 9250-9259 (2012).
H. Zhang, W. Suszynski, K. V. Agrawal, M. Tsapatsis, S. H. Al Hashimi, and L. F. Francis.
"Depthwise Viscosity Gradients in UV Cured Epoxy Coatings"
Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, 298(2), 145-152, (2012).
J-O. Song, A. V. McCormick and L. F. Francis.
"Thin-film Models of Liquid Displacement on Chemically Patterned Surfaces for Lithographic Printing Processes"
J. Colloid Interface Sci., 383, 155-166 (2012).
S. K. Kalpathy, L. F. Francis, and S. Kumar.
"Delaying the Onset of Dynamic Wetting Failure through Meniscus Confinement"
J. Fluid Mech., 707, 496-520 (2012).
E. Vandre, M. S. Carvalho, and S. Kumar.
"The Dynamics of Three-dimensional Liquid Bridges with Pinned and Moving Contact Lines"
J. Fluid Mech., 707, 521-540 (2012).
S. Dodds, M. S. Carvalho, and S. Kumar.
"Stretching Liquid Bridges with Bubbles: The Effect of Air Bubbles on Liquid Transfer"
Langmuir, 27, 1556-1559 (2011).
S. Dodds, M. S. Carvalho, and S. Kumar.
"Stretching Liquid Bridges with Moving Contact Lines: The Role of Inertia"
Phys. Fluids, 23, 092101 (11 pages) (2011).
S. Dodds, M. S. Carvalho, and S. Kumar.
"Effect of Soluble Polymer Binder on Particle Distribution in a Drying Particulate Coating"
J. Colloid Interface Sci., 359, 112-120 (2011).
F. Buss, C. C. Roberts, K. Crawford, K. Peters, and L. F. Francis.
"Dispersible Exfoliated Zeolite Nanosheets and Their Application as a Selective Membrane"
Science, 334, 72-75 (2011).
K. Varoon, X. Zhang, B. Elyassi, D. Brewer, M. Gettel, S. Kumar, J. A. Lee, S. Maheshwari, A. Mittal, C.-Y.Sung, M. Cococcioni, L. F. Francis, A. V. McCormick, A. Mkhoyan and M. Tsapatsis.
"Coating Process Regimes in Particulate Film Production by
Forced-convection-assisted Drag-out"
Langmuir, 18, 11660-11670 (2011).
D. D. Brewer, T. Shibuta, L. F. Francis, S. Kumar, and
M. Tsapatsis.
"Silica Nanoparticle Coatings by Adsorption from Lys-Sil Sols on Inorganic and Biological Surfaces"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 50, 1617-1621 (2011).
W. Fan, N. Atchison, D. D. Brewer, M. A. Arunagirinathan, B. J. Hering, E. Kokkoli, S. Kumar, K. K. Papas, and M. Tsapatsis.
"Fast Evaporation of Spreading Droplets of Colloidal Suspensions"
Langmuir, 18, 11347-11363 (2011).
K. L. Maki and S. Kumar.
"Electrohydrodynamic Instabilities in Thin Liquid Trilayer Films"
Phys. Fluids., 22, 122102 (15 pages) (2010).
S. A. Roberts and S. Kumar.
"Dip coating of charged colloidal suspensions onto substrates with patterned wettability: coating regime maps"
J. of Colloid and Interface Science, 352(1) (2010) 202-210.
T. D. Reynolds, S. K. Kalpathy, S. Kumar and L. F. Francis.
"Drying regime maps for particulate coatings"
AIChE Journal, 56(11) (2010) 2769-2780.
Christine M. Cardinal, Yoon Dong Jung, Kyung Hyun Ahn, L. F. Francis.
"Dynamics of surface structure evolution in colloidal adsorption: charge patterning and polydispersity"
J.of Chem. Physics, 133 (2010) 034709.
D. D. Brewer, M. Tsapatsis and S. Kumar.
"Flow in tensioned-web-over-slot die coating: effect of die lip design"
Chemical Engineering Science, 65(13) (2010) 3957-3971.
Jaewook Nama, Marcio S. Carvalho.
"Formation of salt crystal whiskers on porous nanoparticle coatings"
Langmuir, 26(4) (2010) 2847-2856.
Heng Zhang, Zhen Wu, Lorraine F. Francis.
"Magnetic microrheometer for in situ characterization of coating viscosity"
AIP Review of Scientific Instruments, 81 (2010) 093903.
Jin-Oh Song, Robert M. Henry, Ryan M. Jacobs, Lorraine F. Francis.
"Shear-induced suppression of rupture in two-layer thin liquid films"
J. of Colloid and Interface Science, 348 (2010) 271-279.
Sreeram K. Kalpathy, Lorraine F. Francis, Satish Kumar.
"Toward submicrometer c-oriented nanoporous films with unidimensional pore network: afi film morphology control by precursor mixture manipulation"
Chemistry of Materials, 22(4) (2010) 1492-1502.
Charitomeni M. Veziri, Miguel Palomino, Georgios N. Karanikolos, Avelino Corma, Nick K. Kanellopoulos, Michael Tsapatsis.
"Two-layer tensioned-web-over-slot die coating: effect of die lip geometry"
Chemical Engineering Science, 65(13) (2010) 4014-4026.
Jaewook Nam, Marcio S. Carvalho.
"Two-layer tensioned-web-over-slot die coating: effect of operating conditions on coating window"
Chemical Engineering Science, 65(13) (2010) 4065-2079.
Jaewook Nam, Marcio S. Carvalho.
"Electrohydrodynamic Deformation of Thin Liquid Films near Surfaces with Topography"
Chem. Eng. Sci., 95, 221-231 (2014).
A. Ramkrishnan and S. Kumar.
"A Raman Spectroscopic Method to Find Binder Distribution in Electrodes During Drying"
J. Coat. Technol. Res., 11, 11-17, (2014).
H. Hagiwara, W. J. Suszynski, and L. F. Francis.
"Forced Spreading of Films and Droplets of Colloidal Suspensions"
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 742, 495-519, (2014).
L. Espin and S. Kumar.
"Thin-liquid-film Flow on a Topographically Patterned Rotating Cylinder"
Physics of Fluids, 26, 042102, (2014).
A. K. Sahu and S. Kumar.
"Finite Element/Fictitious Domain Programming for Flows with Particles Made Simple"
Advances in Engineering Software, 70, 51-62, (2014).
M. Lage, L. Crissaff, H. Lopes, and M. S. Carvalho.
"Sagging of Evaporating Droplets of Colloidal Suspensions on Inclined Substrates"
Langmuir, 30, 11966-11974 (2014).
L. Espin and S. Kumar.
"Microstructure and Performance of Block Copolymer Modified Epoxy Coatings"
Progress in Organic Coatings, 77(7), 1145-1154, (2014).
T. Li, M. J. Heinzer, E. M. Redline, F. Zuo, F. S. Bates, and L. F. Francis.
"Microstructure Evolution and Crystal Growth in Cu2ZnSnS4 Thin Films Formed by Annealing Colloidal Nanocrystal Coatings"
Chem. of Mater., 26(10), 3191-3201, (2014).
B. D. Chernomordik, A. E. Beland, D. D. Deng, L. F. Francis, and E. S. Aydil.
"Gravure Printing of Graphene for Large-Area Flexible Electronics"
Advanced Materials, 26(26), 4533-4538, (2014).
E. B. Secor, S. Lim, H. Zhang, C. D. Frisbie, L. F. Francis, and M. C. Hersam.
"Liquid Transfer from Single Cavities to Rotating Rolls"
J. of Fluid Mechanics, 747, 545-571, (2014).
D. M. Campana and M. S. Carvalho.
"Characteristics of Air Entrainment During Dynamic Wetting Failure Along a Planar Substrate"
J. of Fluid Mechanics, 747, 119-140, (2014).
E. Vandre, M. S. Carvalho, and S. Kumar.
"Gravity-driven Instability of a Thin Liquid Film Underneath a Soft Solid"
Phys. Rev. E, 90, 053009 (9 pages) (2014).
S. H. Lee, K. L. Maki, D. Flath, S. J. Weinstein, C. Kealy, W. Li, C. Talbot, and S. Kumar.
"Facile Method for Fabricating Flexible Substrates with Embedded, Printed Silver Lines"
Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 6(2), 1306-1312, (2013).
A. Mahajan, L. F. Francis, and C. D. Frisbie.
"Cavitation in Block Copolymer Modified Epoxy Revealed by In Situ Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering"
ACS MacroLetters, 2(10), 939-943, (2013).
C. Declet-Perez, L. F. Francis, and F. S. Bates.
"Magnetic Microrheology of Block Copolymer Solutions"
Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 5(22), 11877-11883, (2013).
J. C. Kim, M. Seo, M. A. Hillmyer, and L. F. Francis.
"Polygonal Finite Elements for Incompressible Fluid Flow"
Int'l. Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, (2013).
C. Talischi, A. Pereira, G. H. Paulino, I. F. M. Menezes, and M. S. Carvalho.
"On the Mechanism of Wetting Failure During Fluid Displacement Along a Moving Substrate"
Physics of Fluids, 25, 102103 (2013).
E. Vandre, M. S. Carvalho, and S. Kumar.
"Electrohydrodynamic Effects in the Leveling of Coatings"
Chemical Engineering Science, 101, 785-799, (2013).
A. Ramkrishnan and S. Kumar.
"Combined Thermal and Electrohydrodynamic Patterning of Thin Liquid Films"
J. Eng. Math, 94(1), 81-96, (2013).
A. Corbett and S. Kumar.
"Thermally Induced Delay and Reversal of Liquid Film Dewetting on Chemically Patterned Surfaces"
J. Colloid Interface Sci., 408, 212-219 (2013).
E. Vandre, M. S. Carvalho, and S. Kumar.
"Reactive Coupling between Immiscible Polymer Chains: Acceleration by Compressive Flow"
AIChE Journal, 59(9), 3391-3402, (2013).
J. Song, A. M. Baker, C. W. Macosko, and R. H. Ewoldt.
"Nanofibers from Melt Blown Fiber-in-Fiber Polymer Blends"
ACS Macro Letters, 2(4), 301-305, (2013).
F. Zuo, D. H. Tan, Z. Wang, S. Jeung, C. W. Macosko, and F. S. Bates.
"Process Limits in Two-layer Reverse Roll Transfer"
J. Coatings Technology Research, 10(4), 485-492, (2013).
M. Sasaki, W. J. Suszynski, M. S. Carvalho, L. F. Francis.
"Electrohydrodynamic Instabilities in Thin Viscoelastic Films -- AC and CD Fields"
J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech., 196, 102-111, (2013).
L. Espin, A. Corbett, and S. Kumar.
"Spreading and Merging of Liquid Streams Flowing Down an Inclined Plane: Modeling and Experiments"
Chem. Eng. Sci., 95, 221-231 (2013).
D. Maza, S. Kumar, and M. S. Carvalho.
"Effects of Freezing and Thawing on the Microstructure of Latex Paints"
J. Colloid Interface Sci., 392, 183-193 (2012).
M. Mittal, J. A. Roper III, C. L. Jackson, G. G. Monaghan, L. F. Francis.
"Drying and Cracking of Soft Latex Coatings"
J. Coatings Tech.Research, 10(4), 441-451, (2012).
C. Roberts and L. F. Francis.
"Cryo-SEM Investigation of Latex Coatings Dried in Walled Substrates"
Langmuir, 28[28], 10329-10333 (2012).
K. Price, A. V. McCormick and L. F. Francis.
"Coating of Open Cell Foams"
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 51[27], 9250-9259 (2012).
H. Zhang, W. Suszynski, K. V. Agrawal, M. Tsapatsis, S. H. Al Hashimi, and L. F. Francis.
"Depthwise Viscosity Gradients in UV Cured Epoxy Coatings"
Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, 298(2), 145-152, (2012).
J-O. Song, A. V. McCormick and L. F. Francis.
"Thin-film Models of Liquid Displacement on Chemically Patterned Surfaces for Lithographic Printing Processes"
J. Colloid Interface Sci., 383, 155-166 (2012).
S. K. Kalpathy, L. F. Francis, and S. Kumar.
"Delaying the Onset of Dynamic Wetting Failure through Meniscus Confinement"
J. Fluid Mech., 707, 496-520 (2012).
E. Vandre, M. S. Carvalho, and S. Kumar.
"The Dynamics of Three-dimensional Liquid Bridges with Pinned and Moving Contact Lines"
J. Fluid Mech., 707, 521-540 (2012).
S. Dodds, M. S. Carvalho, and S. Kumar.
"Stretching Liquid Bridges with Bubbles: The Effect of Air Bubbles on Liquid Transfer"
Langmuir, 27, 1556-1559 (2011).
S. Dodds, M. S. Carvalho, and S. Kumar.
"Stretching Liquid Bridges with Moving Contact Lines: The Role of Inertia"
Phys. Fluids, 23, 092101 (11 pages) (2011).
S. Dodds, M. S. Carvalho, and S. Kumar.
"Effect of Soluble Polymer Binder on Particle Distribution in a Drying Particulate Coating"
J. Colloid Interface Sci., 359, 112-120 (2011).
F. Buss, C. C. Roberts, K. Crawford, K. Peters, and L. F. Francis.
"Dispersible Exfoliated Zeolite Nanosheets and Their Application as a Selective Membrane"
Science, 334, 72-75 (2011).
K. Varoon, X. Zhang, B. Elyassi, D. Brewer, M. Gettel, S. Kumar, J. A. Lee, S. Maheshwari, A. Mittal, C.-Y.Sung, M. Cococcioni, L. F. Francis, A. V. McCormick, A. Mkhoyan and M. Tsapatsis.
"Coating Process Regimes in Particulate Film Production by
Forced-convection-assisted Drag-out"
Langmuir, 18, 11660-11670 (2011).
D. D. Brewer, T. Shibuta, L. F. Francis, S. Kumar, and
M. Tsapatsis.
"Silica Nanoparticle Coatings by Adsorption from Lys-Sil Sols on Inorganic and Biological Surfaces"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 50, 1617-1621 (2011).
W. Fan, N. Atchison, D. D. Brewer, M. A. Arunagirinathan, B. J. Hering, E. Kokkoli, S. Kumar, K. K. Papas, and M. Tsapatsis.
"Fast Evaporation of Spreading Droplets of Colloidal Suspensions"
Langmuir, 18, 11347-11363 (2011).
K. L. Maki and S. Kumar.
"Electrohydrodynamic Instabilities in Thin Liquid Trilayer Films"
Phys. Fluids., 22, 122102 (15 pages) (2010).
S. A. Roberts and S. Kumar.
"Dip coating of charged colloidal suspensions onto substrates with patterned wettability: coating regime maps"
J. of Colloid and Interface Science, 352(1) (2010) 202-210.
T. D. Reynolds, S. K. Kalpathy, S. Kumar and L. F. Francis.
"Drying regime maps for particulate coatings"
AIChE Journal, 56(11) (2010) 2769-2780.
Christine M. Cardinal, Yoon Dong Jung, Kyung Hyun Ahn, L. F. Francis.
"Dynamics of surface structure evolution in colloidal adsorption: charge patterning and polydispersity"
J.of Chem. Physics, 133 (2010) 034709.
D. D. Brewer, M. Tsapatsis and S. Kumar.
"Flow in tensioned-web-over-slot die coating: effect of die lip design"
Chemical Engineering Science, 65(13) (2010) 3957-3971.
Jaewook Nama, Marcio S. Carvalho.
"Formation of salt crystal whiskers on porous nanoparticle coatings"
Langmuir, 26(4) (2010) 2847-2856.
Heng Zhang, Zhen Wu, Lorraine F. Francis.
"Magnetic microrheometer for in situ characterization of coating viscosity"
AIP Review of Scientific Instruments, 81 (2010) 093903.
Jin-Oh Song, Robert M. Henry, Ryan M. Jacobs, Lorraine F. Francis.
"Shear-induced suppression of rupture in two-layer thin liquid films"
J. of Colloid and Interface Science, 348 (2010) 271-279.
Sreeram K. Kalpathy, Lorraine F. Francis, Satish Kumar.
"Toward submicrometer c-oriented nanoporous films with unidimensional pore network: afi film morphology control by precursor mixture manipulation"
Chemistry of Materials, 22(4) (2010) 1492-1502.
Charitomeni M. Veziri, Miguel Palomino, Georgios N. Karanikolos, Avelino Corma, Nick K. Kanellopoulos, Michael Tsapatsis.
"Two-layer tensioned-web-over-slot die coating: effect of die lip geometry"
Chemical Engineering Science, 65(13) (2010) 4014-4026.
Jaewook Nam, Marcio S. Carvalho.
"Two-layer tensioned-web-over-slot die coating: effect of operating conditions on coating window"
Chemical Engineering Science, 65(13) (2010) 4065-2079.
Jaewook Nam, Marcio S. Carvalho.