Soboyejo
Winston Soboyejo, Professor
Ph. D. Cambridge University (1988)
Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Fellow of the Materials Society of Nigeria
Profile
Wole Soboyejo was educated at King's College London, and The University of Cambridge before coming to the the United States in 1988 to become a research scientist at The McDonnell Douglas Research Labs in St. Louis, MO. In 1992, he worked briefly as a Principal Research Engineer at the Edison Welding Institute before joining the engineering faculty of The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. From 1997 to 1998, he was a Visiting Professor in the departments of mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering at MIT. Dr. Soboyejo moved to Princeton University in 1999 as a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is also the Director of the U.S./Africa Materials Institute, and the Director of the Undergraduate Research Program at The Princeton Institute of Science and Technology of Materials. His research focuses on experimental studies of biomaterials and the mechanical behavior of materials. Current areas of interest include micromechanical machines, nanoparticles for disease detection, biomedical systems for prostheses, and cardiovascular systems, infrastructure materials, and alternative energy systems.
Principal Research Efforts
- Biomaterials and nanoparticles for disease detection & treatment
- MEMS and BioMEMS
- Fatigue and fracture of materials
- Alternative energy systems
- Affordable infrastructure
Recent Publications
- J. Zhou, C. Leuschner, C. Kumar, J. Hormes and W. O. Soboyejo, A TEM Study of Functionalized Nanoparticles Targeting Breast Cancer Cells in Mice, Materials Science and Engineering C, Vol. 26, pp. 1451-1455, 2006.
- Y. Cao, S. Allameh, D. Nankivil, S. Sethiaraj and W. O. Soboyejo, Effects of Film Thickness and Microstructure on the Mechanical Properties of Face Centered Cubic Thin Films, Materials Science and Engineering A, Vol. A427, pp. 232-240, 2006.
- J. Zhou, C. Leuschner, C. Kumar, J. Hormes and W. O. Soboyejo, Sub-Cellular Accumulation of Magnetic Nanoparticles in Breast Tumor and Metasteses, Biomaterials, Vol. 27, pp. 2001-2008, 2006.
- Y. Cao, R. Bly, Z. Gao, A. Cuitino and W. O. Soboyejo, Investigation of Viscoelasticity of Human Osteosarcoma Cells Using a Shear Assay Method, Journal of Materials Research, Vol. 21, 1922-1930, 2006.
- Y. Yang. S. Allameh, B. Boyce, K. S. Chan and W. O. Soboyejo, Fracture of LIGA Ni MEMS Thin Films – Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, 2007 (in press).
- Y. Yang, S. Allameh, J. Lou, B. Imasogie, B. Boyce and W. O. Soboyejo, Fatigue of LIGA Ni MEMS Thin Films – Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, 2007 (accepted).
- J. Meng, G. Galiana, T. Branca, J. Zhou, C. Leuschner, C. Kumar, T. Otiti, A. Beye, J. Hormes, W. Warren and W. O. Soboyejo, LHRH-Functionalized Magnetite Nanoparticles For Breast Cancer Targeting and Breast Tumor MRI, Journal of Applied Physics, 2007 (submitted).
- Z. Zong, N. Rahbar, Y. Cao and W. O. Soboyejo, Micro and Nano-scale Adhesion Between Gold and Gold: Modeling and Experiments, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 100, pp. 104313-1-10, 2006.
- Y. Cao, N. Yao , K. McIlwrath, J. Zhou, G. Osinkolu and W. O. Soboyejo, Investigation of the Cold Welding of Au/Au and Au/Ag Films, Materials Science and Engineering A, 2007 (in preparation).
