Principal Investigator:
Dr. Mohammad Naraghi,
Associate Professor (September 2018 – present)
Department of Aerospace Engineering,
Affiliate with Materials Science and Engineering Department
Office: H.R. Bright building, Rm 743B
Tel: 979-862-3323
Fax: 979-845-6051
Postdocs and Research Fellows
Current PhD Students
Mr. Sevketcan Sarikaya,
Research topic: Damping in Graphene-based nanocomposites
Expected Graduation: May 2022
Mr. Jacob Eaton,
Research topic: Electromechanical couplings in structural energy storage composites
Expected Graduation: May 2022
Mr. Usama M. Arshad,
Research topic: Fracture toughness characterization of reinforced and unreinforced Graphene bilayers
Expected Graduation: May 2025
Ms. Tanaya Mandal,
Research topic: Mechanics of C/C composites
Expected Graduation: May 2024
Current MSc. Students
Christopher Champagne
Research topic: Metal Oxide Carbon nanofibers for Gas sensing
Expected Graduation: December 2021
Current Undergraduate Students
Gavin Skiver, undergraduate worker,
Research Topic: Application of porous CNFs for gas sensing
Alumni – With Graduate degrees
Dr. Aniruddh Vashisth (postdoc)
PhD: Pennsylvania State University
Current position: Assistant professor (tenure track), University of Washington
Dr. Ahmad Amiri (Research assistant),
PhD: University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
Current position: Pursuing 2nd PhD in Texas A&M University
Dr. Kai Morikawa,
Research topic: Scalable production of nanofibers via innovations in polymer melt processing
Graduated in: December 2020
Current Position: Manufacturing Engineer at PADT, Inc.
Dr. Jamshid Kavosi,
Research topic: Carbon nanofibers for application in light-weighting and energy storage
Graduated in: March 2020
Current Position: Post doc USC
Dr. Yijun Chen
Research topic: Encapsulation of functional materials in porous fibers for autonomous composites
Graduated in: May 2019
Current Position: Process Engineer, Lam research
Dr. Jizhe Cai
Research topic: Templated graphitization in carbon nanofibers
Graduated in: Dec. 2018 with PhD
Current Position: Postdoc at University of Wisconsin Madison
Dr. Sneha Chawla,
Research topic: Processing-Microstructure-Mechanics relationships in CNFs
Graduated in: Dec. 2016 with PhD
Recipient of the best PhD thesis award, MSEN, TAMU,
Current position: Intel,
Mr. Sumit Khatri,
Research topic: Novel Carbon nanofiber geometries for emerging nanocomposites
Graduated in: Dec 2019 with MSc
Current position: PhD student TAMU,
Mr. Keegan Colbert
Research topic: Thermo-electro-mechanical couplings in thermal bimorph actuators
Graduated in: May 2016 with MSc
Current position: Scaled Composites, LLc
Mr. Seokjin Hong
Research topic: Grafting nanofibers to carbon fibers to enhance interfacial shear strength
Graduated in: December 2015 with MSc
Dr. Frank Gardea
Research topic: Damping in CNT-reinforced nanocomposites
Graduated in: May 2014 with PhD
Current position: Army Research Lab, Research Scientist, Interdisciplinary Mechanics Group, Vehicle Applied Research Division, Vehicle Technology Directorate, US Army
Past Members – Undergraduate Students
- Joseph El-Ashkar, undergraduate worker, 2020 Processing of C/C composites
- Christopher Kuo-Leblanc, REU, summer 2017, 10 weeks “Producing nanofibers on the spool”
- Christian Grimme, , REU, summer 2017, 10 weeks “developing a scalable method to mass produce nanofibers from polymer met”
- Isabel Kalnin, REU, summer 2017, 10 weeks “Establishing the relationships between wall thickness of CNFs and processing parameters of the coaxial electrospinning”
- Ian Talerine, undergraduate worker, Summer 2017, 10 weeks, project “Effect of thermomechanical consolidation on mechanical properties of electrospun nanofiber mats”
- Alexander Ahmed, undergraduate worker, Summer 2017, 10 weeks, project “Layer-by-layer processing of Aerospace grade composites”
- Taimoor Ashraf, undergraduate worker, Summer 2017, 10 weeks, project “Damping in nanocomposites as a function of CNT orientation”
- Steven Chang, REU, Rutgers university, Summer 2016, 10 weeks, project “Scalable production of nanofibers via melt electrospinning”
Coleman Fincher, REU, TAMU, Summer 2015, 10 weeks, project “manipulation of nanofibers via MEMS devices” - Logan Kunka, REU, Oklahoma state university, summer 2015, 10 weeks, project “Developing stable production of coaxial fibers via electrospinning”
- Kirill Rebrov, REU, university of Dallas Texas, Summer of 2014, 10 weeks, Project “Finite element analysis of nanoindentation on thin films (modeling)”
- Cody X. Bucheger, REU, TAMU, Summer of 2013, 10 weeks, Project “Developing hybrid composites (Material processing and characterization)”
- Dimitrios Chatziadhanasiou, International student exchange, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Summer of 2012, 10 weeks, Project “Mechanical characterization of nanofiber yarns (Material processing and characterization)”
- Ronak Karia, International student exchange, IIT Kanpur, India Summer of 2012, 10 weeks, project “Developing simulation codes to predict piezoresistivity (Modeling)”
- Mrs. Megan L. Woodring – Senior undergrad, TAMU, Project “FEA of nanofiber twisting”