Publications

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2023

• Reducing Cancer Cell Adhesion using Microtextured Surfaces
  McCue, C., Atari, A., Parks, S., Tseng, Y. Y., & Varanasi, K. K. Small

   
• Biofilm formation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in spaceflight is minimized on lubricant impregnated surfaces
  Flores, P., McBride, S. A., Galazka, J. M., Varanasi, K. K., & Zea, L. Nature Microgravity

   
• Externally Tunable, Low Power Electrostatic Control of Cell Adhesion with Nanometric High‐k Dielectric Films
  Leon, V. J., Blanc, B., Sonnert, S. D., and Varanasi, K. K. Advanced Functional Materials

   
• Self-ejection of salts and other foulants from superhydrophobic surfaces to enable sustainable anti-fouling
  Samantha A. McBride, John R. Lake, and Kripa K. Varanasi. The Journal of Chemical Physics

   
• Enhancing Protein Crystal Nucleation Using In Situ Templating on Bioconjugate-Functionalized Nanoparticles and Machine Learning
  Caroline McCue, Henri-Louis Girard, and Kripa K. Varanasi. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

   
• Asymmetric chloride-mediated electrochemical process for CO2 removal from oceanwater
  Seoni Kim, Michael Nitzsche, Simon B Rufer, Jack R. Lake, Kripa Kiran Varanasi, and T. Alan Hatton. Energy & Environmental Science

   

2022

• Preparation for and performance of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm experiment on board the International Space Station
  Pamela Flores, Rylee Schauer, Samantha A. McBride, Jiaqi Luo, Carla Hoehn, Shankini Doraisingam, Dean Widhalm, Jasmin Chadha, Leah Selman, Daniel Wyn Mueller, Shannon Floyd, Mark Rupert, Sridahr Gorti, Shawn Reagan, Kripa K. Varanasi , Christina Koch, Jessica U. Meir, Frank Muecklich, Ralf Moeller, Louis Stodieck, Stefanie Countryman, and Luis Zea. ScienceDirect

   
• Dynamics of an impacting emulsion droplet
  Maher Damak, Jolet De Ruiter, Sreedath Panat, and Kripa K. Varanasi. Science Advances

   
• Electrostatic dust removal using adsorbed moisture–assisted charge induction for sustainable operation of solar panels
  Sreedath Panat and Kripa K. Varanasi. Science Advances

  Featured in MIT News.

• Impact of Bubbles on Electrochemically Active Surface Area of Microtextured Gas-Evolving Electrodes
  Jack R. Lake, Álvaro Moreno Soto, and Kripa K. Varanasi. Langmuir (Cover Article)

   
• Transient Effects Caused by Gas Depletion during Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction
  Álvaro Moreno Soto, Jack R. Lake, and Kripa K. Varanasi. Langmuir

2021

• Phase Change Dispersion Made by Condensation–Emulsification
  Ludger J. Fischer, Somayajulu Dhulipala, and Kripa K. Varanasi. Omega

• Self-Propulsion of Boiling Droplets on Thin Heated Oil Films
  Victor Julio Leon and Kripa K. Varanasi. Physical Review Letters Editors' suggestion

  Featured in MIT News, Physics, and Scientific American

• Levitation of fizzy drops
  Divya Panchanathan, Philippe Bourrianne, Philippe Nicollier, Abhijatmedhi Chottratanapituk, Kripa K. Varanasi and Gareth H. McKinley. Science Advances

   
• Crystal critters: Self-ejection of crystals from heated, superhydrophobic surfaces
  Samantha A. McBride, Henri-Louis Girard, and Kripa K. Varanasi. Science Advances (Cover Article)

• Catalyst-proximal plastrons enhance activity and selectivity of carbon dioxide electroreduction
  Sami Khan, Jonathan Hwang, Yang-Shao Horn, and Kripa K. Varanasi. Cell Reports Physical Science

2020

• Differences between Colloidal and Crystalline Evaporative Deposits
  Samantha A. McBride, Racheal Skye, and Kripa K. Varanasi. Langmuir (Cover Article)

• Enhancing the Injectability of High Concentration Drug Formulations Using Core Annular Flows
  Vishnu Jayaprakash, Maxime Costalonga, Somayajulu Dhulipala, and Kripa K. Varanasi. Advanced Healthcare Materials (Cover Article)

  Featured in MIT News, Fierce Pharma

     
• Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces for Mitigating Asphaltene Deposition
  Henri-Louis Girard, Philippe Bourrianne, Mohsen Yeganeh, Robert E. Cohen, Gareth H. McKinley, and Kripa K. Varanasi. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

     
• Asphaltene Adsorption on Functionalized Solids
  Henri-Louis Girard, Philippe Bourrianne, Dayong Chen, Aditya Jaishankar, Jessica L. Vreeland, Robert E. Cohen, Kripa K. Varanasi, Gareth H. McKinley. Langmuir

     
• Capturing Bubbles and Preventing Foam Using Aerophilic Surfaces
  Leonid Rapoport, Theo Emmerich, Kripa K. Varanasi. Advanced Materials Interfaces (Cover Article)

     
• Application of Liquid-Impregnated Surfaces on Gastrointestinal Devices to Reduce Device-Associated Complications

  Zheng Zhang, Raymond Seekell, Sarah Jaffe, David J. Smith, Kripa Varanasi and Lyndon Hernandez. American Journal of Gastroenterology

• Microstructured Ceramic-Coated Carbon Nanotube Surfaces for High Heat Flux Pool Boiling

  Hangbo Zhao, Susmita Dash, Navdeep Singh Dhillon, Sanha Kim, Bethany Lettiere, Kripa K. Varanasi and A. John Hart. ACS Applied Nano Materials  

2019

• Reduced Adhesion of Sparkling Water Droplets

  Divya Panchanathan, Philippe Bourrianne, Kripa K. Varanasi and Gareth H. McKinley. Physical Review Fluids. This paper is associated with a video winner of a 2018 APS/DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion Award for work presented at the DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion. The original video is available online at The Gallery of Fluid Motion.

• Evaporative Crystallization of Spirals

  Samantha A. McBride, Susmita Dash, Sami Khan and Kripa K. Varanasi. Langmuir (Cover Article)

• Low-Voltage Surface Electrocoalescence Enabled by High-K Dielectrics and Surfactant Bilayers for Oil–Water Separation

  Ingrid F. Guha, Kripa K. Varanasi. ACS Applied Material Interfaces

• Waterbowls: Reducing Impacting Droplet Interactions by Momentum Redirection

  Henri-Louis Girard, Dan Soto, Kripa K. Varanasi. ACS Nano.
  Featured in The Economist, Phys.org, Gizmodo, MRS Meeting Scene

• Grafted Nanofilms Promote Dropwise Condensation of Low-Surface-Tension Fluids for High-Performance Heat Exchangers

  Karim Khalil, Dan Soto, Taylor Farnham, Adam Paxson, Asli Ugur Katmis, Karen Gleason, Kripa K.Varanasi. Joule

• Study of the relationship between the crystal structure and micro-nano morphology of anodized stainless steels

  Yuehua Cui, Adam T. Paxson, Xianghua Zhang, Qiang Tu, and Kripa K. Varanasi. Electrochemistry Communications

• Synthetic Butterfly Scale Surfaces with Compliance-Tailored Anisotropic Drop Adhesion

  Hangbo Zhao, Sei Jin Park, Brian R. Solomon, Sanha Kim, Dan Soto, Adam T. Paxson, Kripa K. Varanasi, and A. John Hart. Advanced Materials

• Mobility of Yield Stress Fluids on Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces

  Leonid Rapoport, Brian R. Solomon, and Kripa K. Varanasi. ACS Applied Materials Interfaces

2018

• Expansion and retraction dynamics in drop-on-drop impacts on nonwetting surfaces

  Maher Damak and Kripa Varanasi, Physical Review Fluids

• Droplet fragmentation using a mesh

  Dan Soto, Henri-Louis Girard, Antoine Le Helloco, Thomas Binder, David Quéré, and Kripa K. Varanasi. Physical Review Fluids
  Featured in Phys.org

• Enhancing the Performance of Viscous Electrode-Based Flow Batteries Using Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces

  Brian R. Solomon, Xinwei Chen, Leonid Rapoport, Ahmed Helal, Gareth H. McKinley, Yet-Ming Chiang, and Kripa K. Varanasi, ACS Applied Energy Materials

• Photothermal trap utilizing solar illumination for ice mitigation

  Susmita Dash, Jolet de Ruiter, and Kripa K. Varanasi, Science Advances

• Evaporative Crystallization in Drops on Superhydrophobic and Liquid Impregnated Surfaces

  Samantha McBride, Susmita Dash, and Kripa K. Varanasi, Langmuir (Cover Article)

• Electrostatically driven fog collection using space charge injection

  Maher Damak and Kripa K. Varanasi, Science Advances

• Design of a Spaceflight Biofilm Experiment

  Luis Zea, Zeena Nisar, Phil Rubin, Marta Cortesão, Jiaqi Luo, Samantha A. McBride, Ralf Moeller, David Klaus, Daniel Müller, Kripa K. Varanasi, Frank Muecklich, and Louis Stodieck. Acta Astronautica

• Short‐Fluorinated iCVD Coatings for Nonwetting Fabrics

  Dan Soto, Asli Ugur, Taylor A. Farnham, Karen K. Gleason, and Kripa K. Varanasi,  Advanced Functional Materials

• Multilevel Robustness

   Henri-Louis Girard, Sami Khan and Kripa K. Varanasi, Nature Materials

• Separating Nanoscale Emulsions: Progress and Challenges To Date

  Ingrid Guha, Kripa K Varanasi, Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science

2017

• Decreasing Hydroxylation Affinity of La(1-x)SrxMnO3 Perovskites to Promote Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis

  Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Wesley T. Hong, Xiao Renshaw Wang, Reshma R. Rao, Srinivas Bengaluru Subramanyam, Changjian Li, Ariando, T. Venkatesan, Qiang Liu, Ethan J. Crumlin, Kripa K Varanasi, and Yang Shao-Horn, Chemistry of Materials

• Creating Nanoscale Emulsions Using Condensation

  Ingrid F. Guha, Sushant Anand, and Kripa K. Varanasi, Nature Communications

• Crystallization-Induced Fouling during Boiling: Formation Mechanisms to Mitigation Approaches

  Susmita Dash, Leonid Rapoport, and Kripa K. Varanasi, Langmuir

• Self-Peeling of Impacting Droplets

  Jolet de Ruiter, Dan Soto, and Kripa K. Varanasi. Nature Physics Featured in MIT News.

• Kinetics of Photoinduced Wettability Switching on Nanoporous Titania Surfaces under Oil

  Divya Panchanathan, Gibum Kwon, Talal F. Qahtan, Mohammad A. Gondal, Kripa K. Varanasi, and Gareth H. McKinley, Advanced Materials Interfaces

• Visible Light Guided Manipulation of Liquid Wettability on Photoresponsive Surfaces

  Gibum Kwon, Divya Panchanathan, Seyed Reza Mahmoudi, Mohammed A. Gondal , Gareth H. McKinley, and Kripa K. Varanasi, Nature Communication

• Designing Ultra-Low Hydrate Adhesion Surfaces by Interfacial Spreading of Water-Immiscible Barrier Films

  Arindam Das, Taylor A. Farnham, Srinivas Bengaluru Subramanyam, and Kripa K. Varanasi. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (Cover Article)

2016

• Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces, Chapter from the Book “Non-wettable Surfaces : Theory, Preparation and Applications”

  Brian R. Solomon, Srinivas Bengaluru Subramanyam, Taylor A. Farnham, Karim S. Khalil, Sushant Anand and Kripa K. Varanasi, From the book Non-wettable Surfaces : Theory, Preparation and Applications

• Thermocapillary Motion on Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces

  Nada Bjelobrk, Henri-Louis Girard, Srinivas Bengaluru Subramanyam, Hyuk-Min Kwon, David Quéré, and Kripa K. Varanasi, Physical Review Fluids. Featured in The Economist

• Enhancing droplet deposition through in-situ precipitation

  Maher Damak, Seyed Reza Mahmoudi, Md Nasim Hyder & Kripa K. Varanasi, Nature Communications

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

  Srinivas Bengaluru Subramanyam, Vitaliy Kondrashov, Jürgen Rühe, Kripa K. Varanasi, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

• Characterization of Environmental Dust in the Dammam Area and Mud After-Effects on Bisphenol-A Polycarbonate Sheets

  Bekir Sami. Yilbas, Haider Ali, Naseer Al-Aqeeli, Mazen M. Khaled, Syed Said, Numan Abu-Dheir, Necar Merah, Kamal Youcef-Toumi & Kripa K. Varanasi, Scientific Reports

• Solvent-induced crystallization of a polycarbonate surface and texture copying by polydimethylsiloxane for improved surface hydrophobicity

  B. S. Yilbas, H. Ali, N. Al-Aqeeli, M. Khaled, N. Abu-Dheir, and Kripa K. Varanasi, Journal of Applied Polymer Science

   

2015

• Surface and wetting characteristics of textured bisphenol-A based polycarbonate surfaces: Acetone-induced crystallization texturing methods

  Ahmed Owais, Mazen M. Khaled, Bekir S. Yilbas, Numan Abu-Dheir, Kripa K. Varanasi, Kamal Y. Toumi, Journal of Applied Polymer Science

• Influence of dust and mud on the optical, chemical, and mechanical properties of a pv protective glass

  Bekir Sami. Yilbas, Haider Ali, Mazen M. Khaled, Nasser Al-Aqeeli, Numan Abu-Dheir, and Kripa K. Varanasi, Scientific Reports

• Critical heat flux maxima during boiling crisis on textured surfaces

  Navdeep S. Dhillon, Jacopo Buongiorno, Kripa K. Varanasi, Nature Communications

• Sustaining dry surfaces under water

  Paul R. Jones, Xiuqing Hao, Eduardo R. Cruz-Chu, Konrad Rykaczewski, Krishanu Nandy,Thomas M. Schutzius, Kripa K. Varanasi, Constantine M. Megaridis, Jens H. Walther, Petros Koumoutsakos, Horacio D. Espinosa, Neelesh A. Patankar, Scientific Reports

• Reactivity of Perovskites with Water: Role of Hydroxylation in Wetting and Implications for Oxygen Electrocatalysis

  Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Wesley T. Hong, Gisele Azimi, Livia Giordano, Yueh-Lin Lee, Ethan J. Crumlin, Michael D. Biegalski, Hendrik Bluhm, Kripa K. Varanasi, and Yang Shao-Horn, Langmuir

• Low-Dimensional Conduction Mechanisms in Highly Conductive and Transparent Conjugated Polymers

  Asli Ugur, Ferhat Katmis, Mingda Li, Lijun Wu, Yimei Zhu, Kripa K. Varanasi, and Karen K. Gleason. Advanced Materials (Cover Article)

• Characteristics of laser textured silicon surface and effect of mud adhesion on hydrophobicity

  B.S. Yilbas, H. Ali, M. Khaled, N. Al-Aqeeli, N. Abu-Dheir, K.K. Varanasi, Applied Surface Science

• Inverted Leidenfrost-like Effect during Condensation

  Ramchandra Narhe, Sushant Anand, Konrad Rykaczewski, Marie-Gabrielle Medici, Wenceslao González-Viñas, Kripa K. Varanasi, and Daniel Beysens, Langmuir

• Role of surface oxygen-to-metal ratio on the wettability of rare-earth oxides oxygen-to-metal ratio

  Sami Khan, Gisele Azimi, Bilge Yildiz and Kripa K. Varanasi. Applied Physics Letters

2014

• How Droplets Nucleate and Grow on Liquids and Liquid Impregnated Surfaces

  Sushant Anand, Konrad Rykaczewski, Srinivas B. Subramanyam, Daniel Beysens, and Kripa K. Varanasi, Soft Matter

• Wetting and other physical characteristics of polycarbonate surface textured using laser ablation

  B.S. Yilbas, M. Khaled, N. Abu-Dheir, N. Al-Aqeeli, S.A.M. Said, A.O.M. Ahmed, K.K. Varanasi, and Y.K. Toumi, Applied Surface Science

• Drag Reduction using Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces in Viscous Laminar Flow

  Brian R. Solomon, Karim S. Khalil, and Kripa K. Varanasi Langmuir

• Active surfaces: Ferrofluid-impregnated surfaces for active manipulation of droplets

  Karim S. Khalil, Seyed Reza Mahmoudi, Numan Abu-dheir, and Kripa K. Varanasi Applied Physics Letter

• 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, Divya Panchanathan, and Kripa K. Varanasi ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

• Separating Oil-Water Nanoemulsions using Flux-Enhanced Hierarchical Membranes

  Brian R. Solomon, Md. Nasim Hyder & Kripa K. Varanasi. Scientific Reports

• Scale-resistant surfaces: fundamental studies of the effect of surface energy on reducing scale formation

  Gisele Azimi, Yuehua Cui, Alina Sabanska, and Kripa K. Varanasi Applied Surface Science

• Different Shades of Oxide: From Nanoscale Wetting Mechanisms to Contact Printing of Gallium-Based Liquid Metals

  Kyle Doudrick, Shanliangzi Liu, Eva M. Mutunga, Kate L. Klein, Viraj Damle, Kripa K. Varanasi, and Konrad Rykaczewski Langmuir

• Dropwise Condensation of Low Surface Tension Fluids on Omniphobic Surfaces

  Konrad Rykaczewski, Adam T. Paxson, Matthew Staymates, Marlon L. Walker, Xiaoda Sun, Sushant Anand, Siddarth Srinivasan, Gareth H. McKinley, Jeff Chinn, John Henry J. Scott, and Kripa K. Varanasi Scientific Reports

• Designing Lubricant-Impregnated Textured Surfaces to Resist Scale Formation

  Srinivas Bengaluru Subramanyam, Gisele Azimi, and Kripa K. Varanasi Advanced Materials Interfaces

2013

• Plasmon Resonance Enhanced Photocatalysis Under Visible Light with Au/Cu–TiO2 Nanoparticles: Removal Cr (VI) from Water as a Case of Study

  M.A. Gondal, M.A. Dastageer, S.G. Rashid, S.M. Zubair, M.A. Ali, D.H. Anjum, J.H. Lienhard, G.H. Mckinley, K.K. Varanasi Science of Advanced Materials

• Sol–Gel Synthesis of Au/Cu-TiO2 Nanocomposite and Their Morphological and Optical Properties

  M.A. Gondal, S.G. Rashid, M.A. Dastageer, S.M. Zubair, M.A. Ali, J.H. Lienhard, G.H. McKinley, and K.K. Varanasi IEEE Photonics Journal

• Reducing the contact time of a bouncing drop

  James C. Bird, Rajeev Dhiman, Hyuk-Min KwoN, and Kripa K. Varanasi Nature (Cover Article). Featured in Innovation in Textiles

• Ice adhesion on lubricant-impregnated textured surfaces

  Srinivas Bengaluru Subramanyam, Konrad Rykaczewski, and Kripa K Varanasi, Langmuir

• Fog harvesting potential of Lubricant-Impregnated Electrospun Nanomats

  Boor Lalia, Sushant Anand, K. K. Varanasi and Raed Hashaikeh, Langmuir

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

  Adam Paxson, Jose Yagüe, Karen Gleason, and Kripa Varanasi, Advanced Materials (Cover Article)

• Electrostatic precursor films

  Seyed Reza Mahmoudi, Kazimierz Adamiak, G. S. Peter Castle and Kripa K. Varanasi, Soft Matter

• Increasing Leidenfrost point using micro-nano hierarchical surface structures

  Hyuk-Min Kwon, Jacy Bird and Kripa K. Varanasi, APL

• Mechanism of Frost Formation on Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces

  K. Rykaczewski, S. Anand, S. B. Subramanyam, and K. K. Varanasi, Langmuir

• Visualization of contact line motion on hydrophobic textures

  K. M. Smyth, A. T. Paxson, H-M Kwon, K. K. Varanasi, Surface Innovations

• Self-similarity of contact line depinning from textured surfaces

  A. T. Paxson & K. K. Varanasi, Nature Communications

• Hydrophobicity of rare-earth oxide ceramics

  Gisele Azimi, Rajeev Dhiman, Hyuk-Min Kwon, Adam T. Paxson & Kripa K. Varanasi. Nature Materials

2012

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

  Konrad Rykaczewski, Adam T Paxson, Sushant Anand, Xuemei Chen, Zuankai Wang, and Kripa K Varanasi. Langmuir

• Droplet Mobility on Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces

  JD Smith, R Dhiman, S Anand, E Reza-Garduno, RE Cohen, GH McKinley, KK Varanasi. Soft Matter (Cover Article)

• Enhanced Condensation on Lubricant-Impregnated Nanotextured Surfaces

  Sushant Anand, Adam Paxson, Rajeev Dhiman, Jonathan D. Smith and Kripa K. Varanasi. ACS Nano

• Direct Imaging of Complex Nano- to Microscale Interfaces Involving Solid, Liquid, and Gas Phases

  Konrad Rykaczewski, T. Landin, M. L. Walker, J. Henry, J. Scott and Kripa Varanasi. ACS Nano

• Hydrate-Phobic Surfaces: Fundamental Studies in Clathrate Hydrate Adhesion Reduction

  Dave Smith, Adam J. Meuler, Harrison L. Bralower, Rama Venkatesan, Sivakumar Subramanian, Robert E. Cohen, Gareth H. McKinley, and Kripa K. Varanasi. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

• Hierarchical Polymeric Textures via Solvent-Induced Phase Transformation: a Single-Step Production of Large-Area Superhydrophobic Surfaces

  Y. H. Cui, A. T. Paxson, K. M. Smyth, and K. K. Varanasi. ACS Colloids & Surfaces A: Physiochemical and Engineering Aspects

2011

• Size-Dependent Thermal Oxidation of Copper: Single-Step Synthesis of Hierarchical Nanostructures

  C. J. Love, J. D. Smith, Y. H. Cui, and K. K. Varanasi. Nanoscale

• Rapid Deceleration-Driven Wetting Transition during Pendant Drop Deposition on Superhydrophobic Surfaces

  H. Kwon, A. T. Paxson, K. K. Varanasi, and N. A. Patankar. Physical Review Letters

2010

• Frost Formation and Ice Adhesion on Superhydrophobic Surfaces

  K. K. Varanasi, T. Deng, J. D. Smith, M. Hsu, and N. Bhate, Applied Physics Letters

• Relationships between Water Wettability and Ice Adhesion

  A. J. Meuler, J. D. Smith, K. K. Varanasi, J. Mabry, G. H. McKinley, and R. E. Cohen, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

2009

• Spatial Control in the Heterogeneous Nucleation of Water

  K. K. Varanasi, M. Hsu, N. Bhate, W. Yang, and T. Deng, Applied Physics Letters

• Nonwetting of Impinging Droplets on Textured Surfaces

  T. Deng, K.K. Varanasi, M. Hsu, N. Bhate, C. Keimel, J. Stein, and M. Blohm, Applied Physics Letters