Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

(GS alumni)

Research Interest:
Fabrication and Mechanics of Soft Multifunctional Materials; Mechanics of Novel Composite Structures and Materials for Energy Applications; Fatigue and Fracture of Small Structures

Selected Publications:

1. W.L. Shan, Z. Chen, C.P. Broedersz, A.A. Gumaste, W.O. Soboyejo, C.P. Brangwynne, Attenuated Short Wavelength Buckling and Force Propagation in a Biopolymer-reinforced Rod, Soft Matter, 2012. (Under Review)

2. W.L. Shan, Y. Yang, T. Hillie, W. Jordann and W.O. Soboyejo, Fatigue Crack Nucleation in LIGA Ni MEMS Thin Films, Materials Science and Engineering A, 2012. (Under Review)

3. W.L. Shan, J. Du, E.P. Hampp, H. Li, M. Johnson, G. Papandreou, C. Maryanoff and W.O. Soboyejo, Degradation and Adhesive/Cohesive Strengths of a Reservoir-Based Drug Eluting Stent, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 2012. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2012.04.008

4. W.L. Shan, J. Du, E.P. Hampp, H. Li, G. Papandreou, C. Maryanoff and W.O. Soboyejo, Adhesion and Cohesion of Structures Containing Suspended Microscopic Polymeric Films, Acta Biomaterialia, 8(4): 1469- 1480, 2012.

5. P. Hu, W.L. Shan, F. Yu, Z.S. Chen, Thermal Conductivity of AlN-Ethanol Nanofluid, International Journal of Thermophysics, 29(6):1968-1973, 2008.