Research

Research Areas:

1. Advanced Manufacturing: 

   key words: Smart Manufacturing; Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT); Intelligent Industrial Robotics  ( NSF Grant numbers 1801120 and 2000685)

2. Characterization of Transmembrane Proteins: 

 Keywords: Transmembrane proteins; Lipid Bilayer Membranes; Atomic Force Microscopy

3. Microfluidics:  Photodefinable Glass is used to fabricate microstructues

4. Ultra sensitive Sensors and Microstructures: Porous Silicon 

Research in the News: 

• • Motlow Mechatronics awarded $545,000 grant by National Science Foundation: https://news.mscc.edu/news/motlow-mechatronics-awarded-grant-by-national-science-foundation 

    • "New Transmembrane Protein Support Structure Created" appeared in Newswise, Nanowerk, and Science Daily websites on February 4, 2013 highlighting the research results of Khalid Tantawi,  Link to the news article on Science Daily: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130204094516.htm 

Selected Publications                        

1. Khalid Tantawi, "Literature Review: Rethinking BioMEMS in the Aftermath of the CoVid-19 Pandemic", Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research, In press

2. Shane Terry, Ismail Fidan, and Khalid Tantawi, " Preliminary investigation into metal-material extrusion", Progress in Additive Manufacturing, 1-9, 2020

3. M. Mohammadizadeh, H. Lu, I. Fidan, K. Tantawi, A. Gupta, S. Hasanov, Z. Zhang, F. Alifui-Segbaya, A. Rennie, "Mechanical and Thermal Analyses of Metal-PLA Components Fabricated by Metal Material Extrusion", Inventions, 5, p. 44, 2020

4. Shane Terry, Hao Lu, Ismail Fidan, Yunbo Zhang, Khalid Tantawi, Terry Guo, Bahram Asiabanpour, "The Influence of Smart Manufacturing Towards Energy Conservation: A Review", Technologies, 8, p. 31, 2020

5. Khalid Tantawi, Alexander Soklenov, and Omar Tantawi, "Advances in Industrial Robotics: From Industry 3.0 Automation to Industry 4.0 Collaboration", TIMES-iCON 2019 Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 2019

6. S. Terry, I. Fidan, and K. Tantawi, "Dimensional Analysis of Metal Powder Infused Filament - Low Cost Metal 3D Printing" 2019 Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium Proceedings, 2019

7. Y. Musa, O. Tantawi,  V. Bush, B. Johnson, N. Dixon, W. Kirk, and K. Tantawi, "Low-Cost Remote Supervisory Control System for an Industrial Process using Profibus and Profinet", IEEE Southeast Conference, Huntsille, AL 2019

8. Khalid Tantawi, Ismail Fidan, and Anwar Tantawi, "Status of Smart Manufacturing in the United States", IEEE SoutheastCon, Huntsville, AL 2019

9. Khalid Tantawi, Y Musa, S Dowd, R Kamali, E Waddell, and J. Williams, "Using microstructures of gold-coated photodefinable glass as substrates for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy", ACS National Conference, New Orleans, LA 2018

10. Vishwas Bedekar and Khalid Tantawi, “MEMS Sensors and Actuators”, Book chapter, pp. 195-216 Springer International Publishing, 2017    

11. Khalid Tantawi and Hasan Mohd Tantawi, "Bolt failure due to low-cycle fatigue", Tennessee Academy of Science 125th Conference, Murfreesboro, TN 11/20/2015

12. John Barton, Roger Martinez, Alicia Meadors, and Khalid Tantawi, " Dynamic modeling of vehicles for impact studies" , Tennessee Academy of Science 125th  Conference, Murfreesboro, TN, 11/20/2015

13. Khalid Hasan Tantawi, Linear Dynamic Modeling of Satellites with Flexible Appendages, LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2015

    1. Hasan M. Tantawi, Jabbar Ali, and Khalid H. Tantawi, "Investigation of Statistics of Failure Modes and Locations in Bolts", Tennessee Academy of Science Collegiate Meeting, Nashville, TN, April 18, 2015

    2. Khalid H. Tantawi, William Gaillard, and J. D. Williams, “Challenges of Photodefinable Glass Technology in Micromechatronics”, 124th Tennessee Academy of Science Conference, Morrisstown, TN, November 2014

    3. Khalid H. M. Tantawi, William Gaillard, and J. D. Williams, "Merits and Limitations of Photodefinable Glass in Micromechatronic Applications" Hambold Kolleg Jordan Conference, Amman, Jordan, April, 2014, accepted for publication in Jordan Journal of Physics. 

14. W. R. Gaillard, K. H. Tantawi,  V. Fedorov, E. Waddel, J. D. Williams, “In-plane Spectroscopy with Optical Fibers and Liquid Filled APEX Glass Microcuvettes”, J. Micromech. and MicroEng., 23, 107001, 2013.

15. Khalid H. Tantawi, Emanuel Waddell, and J.D. Williams, “Structural and composition analysis of Apex™ and Foturan™ photodefinable glasses”, Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 48, no. 5, pages 5316-5323, (2013).

16. Khalid Hasan Tantawi, Bakhrom Berdiev, Ramon Cerro and John D. Williams, "Porous Silicon Membrane structure for Investigation of Transmembrane Proteins",  Journal of Superlattices and Microstructures, Vol. 58, pp. 72-80, March 2013, .

17. Khalid Hasan Tantawi, R. Cerro, B. Berdiev, M. Martina- Diaz, F. Montez, Darayas Patel, and J. Williams, “Investigation of Transmembrane Protein Fused in Lipid Bilayer Membranes Supported on Porous Silicon”, Journal of Medical Engineering and Technology, Vol. 37, pages 28-34 (2013)

18. Khalid Hasan Tantawi, William Gaillard, Jake Helton, Emanuel Waddell, Sergey Mirov, Vladimir Fedorov, and John D. Williams, “In-Plane Spectroscopy of Microfluidic Systems Made in Photosensitive Glass”, Journal of Microsystem Technologies, July 2012 (online). DOI 10.1007/s00542-012-1626-6

19. Khalid Hasan Tantawi, Janeczka Oates, Reza Kamali, Nathan Bergquist and John D Williams, Processing of photosensitive APEXTM glass structures with smooth and transparent sidewalls, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering Vol. 21, 017001 (2011)

20. Khalid H.M. Tantawi, Daniel Alazard, and Christelle Cumer, Linear Dynamic Modeling of Spacecraft with Various Flexible Appendages, Journal of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Seol, Korea, (July 2008)

21. Khalid Hasan Tantawi, Porous Silicon Platform for Investigation of Transmembrane Proteins: An Artificial Cell Membrane, (A PhD Thesis), LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2013

22. Khalid H. Tantawi, Bakhrom Berdiev, Ramon Cerro, and John Willaims, "Investigations on Transmembrane Ion Channels Suspended over Porous Silicon Membranes", Biotech World Conference & Expo, Washington DC, May 12-16 2013

23. Khalid Hasan Tantawi, Ramon Cerro, Bakhrom Berdiev, M. Elena Diaz, Francisco Javier Montez, and John D Williams, “Investigation of Epithelial Sodium Channel Proteins Supported on Porous Silicon Using Atomic Force Microscopy”, Science and Technology Open House, Tuskegee, AL, April, 2012.

• 1. Khalid H. Tantawi, W. Gaillard, E. Waddell, S. Mirov, V. Federov, and J. Williams, "In-plane spectroscopy of microfluidic channels using photosensitive glass" IEEE Southeast Conference 2012 Proceeding, Orlando, FL, March 12-15 2012

24. Khalid H. Tantawi, Ramon Cerro, Bakhrom Berdiev, Elena Diaz, Javier Gonzales, and John D. Williams, “Lipid Bilayer Membranes with Incorporated Protein on Porous Silicon”, 22nd National NSF EPSCoR Conference, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, October 24-27, 2011

25. Khalid H. M. Tantawi and John D. Williams, “Biological membranes integrated on porous silicon technology", Alabama Composites Conference, Birmingham, Alabama (August, 2010).

26. Khalid H.M. Tantawi, Janeszcka Oates, John Williams, “Processing of Smooth Sidewalls on Lithographically Defined Apex Glass”, IMAPS 6th International Conference and Exhibition on Device Packaging,Scottsdale/Fountain Hills, Arizona USA (March 2010)

27. Daniel Alazard, Christelle Cumer,  and Khalid H.M. Tantawi, “Linear Dynamic Modeling of Spacecraft with Various Flexible Appendages and On-board Angular Momentum”, 7th International ESA Conference on Guidance, Navigation & Control Systems, 01-05 Jun 2008, Tralee, Ireland (June 2008)