Overview Welcome to our group's home page. We work on a broad range of problems, primarily involving transport processes by electrons, phonons, photons, and fluids. We seek to solve problems with high importance to applications in energy transport, conversion, and storage, that are relevant to major industrial segments (aerospace, micro/nanoelectronics, sensors).Some topics and methods of our research are summarized in the following graphic. - Tim Fisher   James G. Dwyer Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University   (Google Scholar, Frontiers Loop, LinkedIn)

Research & News PhD graduate Dr. Jun (Richard) Xu's paper ... on carbon nanotube thermal interfaces (Xu and Fisher, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 49 (9) 1658-1666, 2006) was named a Classic Paper by Google Scholar in the Thermal Sciences ... Posted by TIMOTHY FISHER PhD graduate Dr. Guoping Xiong ... has accepted a faculty position in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at the Univ. of Nevada - Reno.  Posted by TIMOTHY FISHER PhD student Majed Alrefae ... was selected by the instructors as the Most Improved Entrepreneurial Lead in the 2017 San Diego cohort of the NSF I-Corps program.  Posted Jun 6, 2017, 3:16 PM by TIMOTHY FISHER Newly minted Dr. Galen Jackson and Dr. Ishan Srivastava ... earned their hoods today. Congrats! (and likely my last hooding event at Purdue) Posted May 12, 2017, 5:54 PM by Tim Fisher Former postdoc Prof. Ritu Gupta ... published the cover article in the upcoming issue of Energy Technology, on scalable (roll-to-roll) coating of graphene nanopetal substrates for supercapacitors. Click here to view the article.  Posted May 8, 2017, 7:28 AM by Tim Fisher PhD graduate Prof. Bara Cola ... has won the NSF Alan T. Waterman Award, which is "the nation's highest honor for early career scientists and engineers." To read more about this amazing achievement, click here Posted Apr 13, 2017, 11:14 AM by Tim Fisher Former postdoc Prof. Placidus Amama ... has received the NSF CAREER award for early-career research. His studies will involve the use of carbon nanotubes for photocatalytic remediation of urban air pollution. Click here for more ... Posted Mar 26, 2017, 5:18 AM by Tim Fisher Showing posts 1 - 7 of 54. View more » Centers & Groups Air Force Research Lab, Materials & Manufacturing Directorate Birck Nanotechnology Center India-US Joint Networked Centre on Nanomaterials for Energy International Centre for Materials Science (Bangalore, India) Network for Computational Nanotechnology NNSA Center for Prediction, Reliability, Integrity, and Survivability of Microsystems Purdue Heat Transfer Area Online Courses, Lectures, and Tools Thermal Energy at the Nanoscale, a nanoHUB-U short course Many other nanoHUB-U courses are online; for more information visit the nanoHUB-U page. ME 200: Thermodynamics ME 315: Heat and Mass Transfer ME 463: Senior Design (via Blackboard) ME 503: Micro-and Nano-scale Energy Transfer Processes ME 505: Intermediate Heat Transfer (via Blackboard) ME 595M: Computational Methods for Nanoscale Thermal Transport (experimental course, with J. Murthy) ME 605: Convection of Heat and Mass (via Blackboard) ME 606: Radiation Heat Transfer (via Blackboard) ME 608: Numerical Methods in Heat, Mass, and Momentum Transfer (via Blackboard) ME 697R: Computational Methods for Nanoscale Energy Transport (with X. Ruan and J. Murthy) JF 206: Heat Transport: From Atoms to Continuum (with K.R. Sreenivas, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research) Now on nanoHUB.org Jamming of Soft Frictionless Spheres, a tool to predict granular microstructure. Course on "Heat Transport: From Atoms to Continuum," given at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Aug. 2009 HotSpice, thermal circuit simulation tool A Bottom-up View of Heat Transfer in Nanomaterials Thermoelectric generator module with convective heat transfer 2010 NCN Summer School: Electronics from the Bottom Up Report of the Joint India-US Workshop on Scalable Nanomaterials for Enhanced Energy Transport, Conversion, and Efficiency 1D atomic chain phonon simulator using atomistic Green's functions Presentation/podcast on understanding phonons using 1D atomic chains Presentation/podcast on electron emission from carbon nanomaterials Lectures on nanoHUB Thermal Transport across Interfaces (I-phonons) Thermal Transport across Interfaces (II-electrons) A Bottom-Up View of Heat Transfer in Nanomaterials Heat Transfer across Solid Contacts Enhanced with Nanomaterials Electron Emission from Nanoscale Carbon Materials BNC Annual Research Symposium: Nanoscale Energy Conversion Understanding Phonon Dynamics via 1D Atomic Chains  Tools on nanoHUB Jamming of Soft Frictionless Spheres hotSPICE Isotropic Random Fracture Model Thermal Measurements Database Thermoelectric Generator Atomistic Green's Function Method for 1-D Atomic Chains

Information for Prospective Students

Our research group is characterized by a passion for discovering, explaining, and developing new knowledge through persistent effort intelligently applied. Students seeking a research position with us are encouraged to review the admission guidelines provided by Purdue’s Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program. Qualified students should then review the other pages of this website to identify specific research topics of mutual interest. These topics should be highlighted in any correspondence and in application materials. Interested students would also benefit from studying the materials contained in the online nanoHUB-U course, Thermal Energy at the Nanoscale, which can be taken in self-paced mode without a registration fee (i.e., free).

India-US Joint Networked Centre

I also serve as an Adjunct Professor at the International Centre for Materials Science (ICMS), a companion organization to the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) in Bangalore, India. A new Joint Networked Centre on Nanomaterials for Energy established among partners JNCASR, Purdue, and GE Global Research (Bangalore) fosters ongoing collaborative research and exchanges of students and postdocs between ICMS/JNCASR, GE and the Birck Nanotechnology Center. The Joint Centre is sponsored by the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum. This effort seeks to harness the promising potential ofnanomaterials to address global energy challenges. For examples of the types of activities involved, please refer to a recent review paper, a workshop report posted on nanoHUB, and the Joint Centre's website. To become an exchange participant, please complete the online application.