Dr. Petru S Fodor
•Ph.D., Physics, Wayne State University, 2002
•M.S., Physics, Babes – Bolyai University, Romania, 1997
•B.S., Physics, Babes – Bolyai University, Romania, 1996
Recent Grants
•Acquisition of a field emission scanning electron microscope for multidisciplinary nanotechnology research, National Science Foundation – MRI. Role: PI; 09/2011 – 08/2015; $472,113.
Graduate Students
Michael Adesina, MS Student, Optics and Materials
Mahidul Islam, MS Student, Optics and Materials
Paranthaman Subramaniam, MS Student, Optics and Materials (with S. Sensale and C. Kothapalli)
Selected Recent Publications
•Prachet DSK, Fodor PS, Kothapalli CR. A flexible Kenics mixer for applications in liquid chromatography. Micromachines, 2023, 14 (7), 1373.
•Kaufman M, White R, Clark J, Fodor PS, Fractal geometry of mixing, AIP Proceedings, 2023, 2607, 060003.
•Tomaras G, Kothapalli CR, Fodor PS. Serpentine micromixers using extensional mixing elements. Micromachines, 2022, 13(10), 1785.
•Mansouri M, Beemer S, Kothapalli CR, Tyler R, Fodor P, Das D, Leipzig N. Generation of oxygenating fluorinated methacrylamide chitosan (MACF) microparticles to increase cell survival and function in large liver spheroids. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2022, 14, 4899-4913.
•Tietjen S, Sent R, Fodor PS, Streletzky K, Microgel dynamics characterization using SEM, JURP, 2021, 31, 100011.
•Sarsfield M, Roberts A, Streletzky KA, Fodor PS, Kothapalli CR. Optimization of gold nanoparticle synthesis in continuous-flow micromixers using response surface methodology. Chemical Engineering and Technology, 2021, 44(4): 622-630.
•Kaufman M, Fodor PS, Analogy between Thermodynamic Phase Transitions and Creeping Flows in Rectangular Cavities, Symmetry, 2020, 12, 1859.
•Rhoades T, Kothapalli CR, Fodor PS. Mixing optimization in grooved serpentine microchannels. Micromachines, 2020, 11, 61.