Publications
2022
38. Han, Y., Simonsen, L.E., and Malakooti, M.H., “Printing Liquid Metal Elastomer Composites for High-Performance Stretchable Thermoelectric Generators”, Advanced Energy Materials, . Link Press coverage: EurekAlert! AAAS, Tech Xplore, AZO Materials, nanowerk, MorningNews CA, ...
37. Guymon, G., and Malakooti, M.H., 2022, “Multifunctional Liquid Metal Polymer Composites”, Journal of Polymer Science, 60:1300-1327. (Invited Review Paper) Link
2021
36. Chiew, C., Morris, M.J., and Malakooti, M.H., 2021, “Functional Liquid Metal Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Applications”, Materials Advances., 2:7799-7819 (Invited Review Paper) Link
35. Chiew, C. and Malakooti, M.H., 2021, “A Double Inclusion Model for Liquid Metal Polymer Composites”, Composites Science and Technology, 206:108752. Link
34. Zadan, M., Chiew, C., Majidi, C., and Malakooti, M.H., 2021, “Liquid Metal Architectures for Soft and Wearable Energy Harvesting Devices”, Multifunctional Materials, 4:012001 (Invited Topical Review). Link
2020
33. Malakooti, M.H., Bockstaller, M.R., Matyjaszewski, K., and Majidi, C., 2020, “Liquid Metal Nanocomposites”, Nanoscale Advances, 2,2668 (Invited Paper – Cover Article). Link
32. Zadan*, M., Malakooti*, M.H., and Majidi, C., 2020, “Soft and Stretchable Thermoelectric Generators Enabled by Liquid Metal Elastomers”, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12, 17921-17928. Link
31. Lin, J., Malakooti, M.H., and Sodano, H., 2020, “Thermally Stable PVDF for High-Performance Printable Piezoelectric Devices”, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12(19), 21871-21882. Link
2019
30. Malakooti, M.H., Kazem, N., Yan, J., Pan, C., Markvicka, E.J., Matyjaszewski, k. and Majidi, C., 2019, “Liquid Metal Supercooling for Low-Temperature Thermoelectric Wearables”, Advanced Functional Materials, 29, 1906098. Link
29. Yan, J., Malakooti, M.H., Lu, Z., Wang, Z., Kazem, N., Pan, C., Bockstaller, M.R., Majidi, C., and Matyjaszewski, k., 2019, “Solution Processable Liquid Metal Nanodroplets by Surface-Initiated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization”, Nature Nanotechnology, 14, 684–690. Link
28. Pan, C., Markvicka, E.J., Malakooti, M.H., Yan, J., Hu, L., Matyjaszewski, k., and, Majidi, C., 2019, “Liquid Metal Elastomer Nanocomposite for Stretchable Dielectric Materials”, Advanced Materials, 31, 1900663. Link
2018
27. Malakooti, M.H., Jule, F. and Sodano, H.A., 2018, “Printed Nanocomposite Energy Harvesters with Controlled Alignment of Barium Titanate Nanowires” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 10: 38359−38367.
26. Tavakoli*, M., Malakooti*, M.H., Paisana, H. Ohm, Y., Marques, D.G., Alhais Lopes, P., Piedade, A.P., de Almeida, A.T. and Majidi, C., 2018, “EGaIn-Assisted Room Temperature Sintering of Silver Nanoparticles for Stretchable, Inkjet-Printed, Thin-Film Electronics” Advanced Materials, 30:1801852. (*Co-1st Authors – Cover Article)
25. Malakooti, M.H., Zhou, Z. and Sodano, H.A., 2018, “Enhanced Energy Harvesting through Nanowire Based Functionally Graded Interfaces” Nano Energy, 52:171-182.
24. Zhang, L., Tian, X., Malakooti, M.H., and Sodano, H.A., 2018 “Novel Self-Healing CFRP Composites with High Glass Transition Temperatures” Composites Science and Technology, 168:96-103.
23. Patterson, B.A., Malakooti, M.H., Lin, J., Okorom, A. and Sodano, H.A., 2018 “Aramid Nanofibers for Multiscale Fiber Reinforcement of Polymer Composites” Composites Science and Technology, 161:92-99.
2017
22. Malakooti, M.H., Hwang, H., Goulbourne, N.C. and Sodano, H.A., 2017 “Role of ZnO Nanowire Arrays on the Impact Response of Aramid Fabrics” Composites Part B: Engineering, 127: 222-231.
21. Kazemi-Lari, M.A., Malakooti, M.H., and Sodano, H.A., 2017 “Active Photo-Thermal Self-Healing of Shape Memory Polyurethanes” Smart Materials and Structures, 26: 055003.
20. Lin, J., Bang, S., Malakooti, M. H., and Sodano, H.A. 2017, “Isolation of Aramid Nanofibers for High Strength and Toughness Polymer Nanocomposites” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 9: 11167−11175.
19. Bowland, C.C., Malakooti, M.H., and Sodano, H.A., 2017 “Barium Titanate Coated Carbon Fiber Reinforced Multifunctional Composites” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 9: 4057-4065.
18. Zhou, S., Chen, W., Malakooti, M. H., Cao, J. and Inman, D.J., 2017, “Design and modeling of a flexible zigzag structure for enhanced vibration energy harvesting” Journal of intelligent material systems and structures, 28: 367-380.
2016
17. Heo, Y., Malakooti, M. H., and Sodano, H.A. 2016, “Self-Healing Polymers and Composites for Extreme Environments” Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 4: 17403-17411.
16. Zhou, Z., Bowland, C.C., Patterson, B.A., Malakooti, M.H., and Sodano, H.A., 2016 “Conformal BaTiO3 Films with High Piezoelectric Coupling through an Optimized Hydrothermal Synthesis” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 8: 21446−21453.
15. Malakooti, M.H., Patterson, B.A., Hwang, H. and Sodano, H.A., 2016, “ZnO Nanowire Interfaces for High Strength Multifunctional Composites with Embedded Energy Harvesting” Energy and Environmental Science, 9: 634-643. (Awarded ASME Best Paper in Energy Harvesting)
14. Zhou, Z., Bowland, C.C., Malakooti, M.H., Tang, H. and Sodano, H.A., 2016, “Lead-Free 0.5Ba (Zr0.2 T0.8) O3 – 0.5(Ba0.7 Ca0.3)TiO3 Nanowires for Energy Harvesting” Nanoscale, 8: 5098-5105.
13. Malakooti, M.H., Zhou, Z., Spears, J.H., Shankwitz, T.J. and Sodano, H.A., 2016, “Biomimetic Nanostructured Interfaces for Hierarchical Composites” Advanced Materials Interfaces, 7: 1500404.
12. Malakooti, M. H., Ahmadian, H. and Jalali, H., 2016 “Adhesive Joint Modeling Using Compatible Element Formulation” Journal of Theoretical and Applied Vibration and Acoustics, 2: 132-143.
2015
11. Hwang, H., Malakooti, M.H., and Sodano, H.A., 2015, “Tailored Interyarn Friction in Aramid Fabrics through Morphology Control of Surface Grown ZnO Nanowires” Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 76: 326-333.
10. Bowland, C. C., Malakooti, M.H., Zhou, Z., and Sodano, H.A., 2015, “Highly Aligned Arrays of High Aspect Ratio Barium Titanate Nanowires via Hydrothermal Synthesis” Applied Physics Letters, 106: 222903.
9. Malakooti, M.H. and Sodano, H.A., 2015, “Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting through Shear Mode Operation” Smart Materials and Structures, 24: 055005.
8. Malakooti, M.H., Hwang, H. and Sodano, H.A., 2015, “Morphology-Controlled ZnO Nanowire Arrays for Tailored Composites with High Damping” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 7: 332-339.
7. Hwang, H., Malakooti, M.H., Patterson, B.A. and Sodano, H.A., 2015, “Increased Interyarn Friction through ZnO Nanowire Arrays Grown on Aramid Fabric” Composites Science and Technology, 107: 75-81.
2014
6. Malakooti, M.H., Anderson, P.L. and Sodano, H.A., 2014, “Toughening Mechanism of Heterogeneous Aliphatic Polyurethanes” Polymer, 55: 2086-2093.
5. Malakooti, M.H. and Sodano, H.A., 2014, “Toughening Response of a Crack-tip Surrounded by a Local Elastic Gradient” Smart Materials and Structures, 23: 035009.
2013
4. Tang, H., Malakooti, M.H., and Sodano, H.A., 2013 “Relationship between Orientation Factor of Lead Zirconate Titanate Nanowires and Dielectric Permittivity of Nanocomposites” Applied Physics Letters, 103: 222901.
3. Malakooti, M.H. and Sodano, H.A., 2013, “Direct Measurement of Piezoelectric Shear Coefficient” Journal of Applied Physics, 113: 214106.
2. Malakooti, M.H. and Sodano, H.A., 2013, “Noncontact and Simultaneous Measurement of the d33 and d31 Piezoelectric Strain Coefficients” Applied Physics Letters, 102: 061901.
1. Malakooti, M.H. and Sodano, H.A., 2013, “Multi-Inclusion Modeling of Multiphase Piezoelectric Composites” Composites Part B: Engineering, 47: 181-189
Conference Papers Accepted by Peer Review
2018
10. Malakooti, M.H., Jule, F. and Sodano, H.A., 2018, “Energy Harvesting Performance of Printed Barium Titanate Nanocomposites” ASME’s 11th Annual Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, Sep 10-12, San Antonio, Texas.
9. Tavakoli*, M., Malakooti*, M.H., Paisana, H. Ohm, Y., Marques, D.G., Alhais Lopes, P., Piedade, A.P., de Almeida, A.T. and Majidi, C., 2018, “Fabrication of Soft and Stretchable Electronics through Integration of Printed Silver Nanoparticles and Liquid Metal Alloy” ASME’s 11th Annual Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, Sep 10-12, San Antonio, Texas (*Co-1st Authors).
2016
8. Zhou, Z., Bowland, C.C., Patterson, B.A., Malakooti, M.H., and Sodano, H.A., 2016, “Optimized Parameters for Synthesis of BaTiO3 Films with High Electromechanical Coupling” ASME’s 9th Annual Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, Sep 28-30, Stowe, Vermont.
7. Zhou, Z., Patterson, B.A., Bowland, C.C., Malakooti, M.H.,and Sodano, H.A., 2016, “Conformal Growth of Textured Barium Titanate Films on Patterned Silicon Wafer” ASME’s 9th Annual Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, September 28-30, Stowe, Vermont.
2014
6. Malakooti, M.H., Hwang, H. and Sodano, H.A., 2014, “Vibration Damping Enhancement in Hybrid Carbon Fiber Composites with ZnO Nanowire Interphase” ASME’s 7th Annual Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, September 8-10, Newport, Rhode Island.
5. Malakooti, M.H., Anderson, P.L. and Sodano, H.A., 2014, “Visualization of Particle-Toughening Mechanism in Transparent Polyurethanes” ASME’s 7th Annual Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, September 8-10, Newport, Rhode Island.
2013
4. Hwang, H., Patterson, B.A., Malakooti, M. H., and Sodano, H.A., 2013 “Modification of Pullout Behavior of Kevlar Fabric by Zinc Oxide Nanowire Reinforcement” ASME’s International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE), November 15-21, San Diego, California.
3. Malakooti, M.H. and Sodano, H.A., 2013, “Electromechanical Characterization of Piezoelectric Shear Actuators” ASME’s 6th Annual Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, September 16-18, Snowbird, Utah.
2012
2. Malakooti, M.H. and Sodano, H.A., 2012, “Fracture Modeling of an Embedded Crack in Self-Healing Polymers” ASME’s 5th Annual Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, September 19-21, Stone Mountain, Georgia.
1. Malakooti, M.H. and Sodano, H.A., 2012, “Micromechanics Modeling Multi-phase Piezoelectric Composites” ASME’s 5th Annual Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, September 19-21, Stone Mountain, Georgia.
Conference Papers Accepted by Abstract
2022
26. Ashley F. Emery and Malakooti, M.H., 2022 “Thermo-viscoelastic performance of a Liquid Metal Polymer Composite” ASTFE’s 7th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, May 16-18, Las Vegas, Nevada.
25. Chiew, C., and Malakooti, M.H., 2022“Micromechanics Modeling of Multifunctional EGaIn-Polymer Composites” SPIE's 29th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, March 6-9, Long Beach, California.
2021
24. Malakooti, M.H., Zadan, M., Kazem, N., and Majidi, C., 2021, “Liquid metal composites for flexible thermoelectric energy harvesting” SPIE's 28th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, March 22-26, Digital Forum.
2019
23. Pan, C., Markvicka, E.J., Malakooti, M.H., Yan, J., Hu, L., Matyjaszewski, K., and, Majidi, C., 2019, “A Liquid Metal Elastomer Nanocomposite for Stretchable Dielectric Materials”, 56th Annual Technical Meeting – Society of Engineering Science (SES) Conference, October 13-15, St. Louis, Missouri.
22. Kazem, N., Malakooti, M.H., Yan, J., Markvicka, E.J., Pan, C., Matyjaszewski, K., and, Majidi, C., 2019, “Liquid Metal Elastomer Composites as a Soft Thermal Interface Material for Low Temperature (-80°C) Applications” TFAWS: Thermal & Fluids Analysis Workshop, August 26-30, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia.
2018
21. Tavakoli, M., Malakooti, M.H., Paisana, H. Ohm, Y., Marques, D.G., Alhais Lopes, P., Piedade, A.P., de Almeida, A.T. and Majidi, C., 2018, “Sintered Silver Nanoparticles and EGaIn for Stretchable Printed Electronics” MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Nov 25-30, Boston, Massachusetts.
20. Malakooti, M.H., Kazem, N., and Majidi, C., 2018, “Liquid Metal Elastomer Composites for Low Temperature Applications” IMECE International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, November 9-15, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
19. Lin, J., Patterson, B.A., Malakooti, M.H., and Sodano, H.A., 2018, “Isolation of Aramid Nanofibers for High Strength Multiscale Fiber Reinforced Composites” SPIE's 25th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, March 4-8, Denver, Colorado.
2017
18. Malakooti, M.H. and Sodano, H.A., 2017, “Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters Based on Lead Zirconate Titanate Nanowires and Films” International Workshop on Piezoelectric Materials and Applications in Actuators, 12th Energy Harvesting Workshop and the 1st Annual Energy Harvesting Society Meeting, September 11-14, Falls Church, Virginia.
17. Moosavian, A., Malakooti, M.H., Lin, J., Sodano, H.A., and Inman, D.J., 2017 “Design and Manufacturing of a Morphing Trailing Edge using a 3D-Printed Piezoelectric Polymer” 8th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Smart Structures and Materials (SMART2017), June 5-8, Madrid, Spain.
16. Malakooti, M.H., Nafari, A., Jule, F. and Sodano, H.A., 2017, “Direct Writing of BaTiO3 Nanocomposites with Tailored Microstructure for Energy Harvesting” Joint IEEE International Symposium on the Application of Ferroelectric, International Workshop on Acoustic Transduction Materials and Devices & Workshop on Piezoresponse Force Microscopy, May 7-11, Atlanta, Georgia.
15. Malakooti, M.H., Patterson, B.A., Bowland, C.C., Hwang, H. and Sodano, H.A., 2017, “Piezoelectric Interfaces Enabled Energy Harvesting and Tailored Damping in Fiber Composites” SPIE's 24th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, March 25-29, Portland, Oregon.
14. Malakooti, M.H. and Sodano, H.A., 2017, “Graded Nanowire Interfaces for High Energy Conversion” Electronic Materials and Applications (EMA 2017), January 18–20, Orlando, Florida. (Invited Talk)
2016
13. Zhou, Z., Tang, H., Bowland, C.C., Malakooti, M.H., and Sodano, H.A., 2016, “Highly-Coupled Ferroelectric Nanowires via Hydrothermal Synthesis for Power Scavenging” XXV International Materials Research Congress, August 14–19, Cancun, Mexico.
12. Malakooti, M.H., Patterson, B.A., Hwang, H. and Sodano, H.A., 2016, “Piezoelectric Nanowires for Durable Fiber Based Power Harvesters” NGPT 2016 – 3rd International Conference on nanogenerators and piezotronics, June 15-17, Rome, Italy.
11. Malakooti, M.H., Patterson, B.A., Hwang, H. and Sodano, H.A., 2016, “Hybrid Fiber Reinforced Composite with Embedded Functionality” CIMTEC 2016 – 5th International Conference on Smart and Multifunctional Materials, Structures and Systems, June 5-9, Perugia, Italy.
10. Zhou, Z., Bowland, C.C., Patterson, B.A., Malakooti, M.H., and Sodano, H.A., 2016, “Hydrothermal Synthesis of Conformal Textured BaTiO3 Films with Enhanced Ferroelectric Properties” 2016 E-MRS Spring Meeting – European Materials Research Society, May 2– 6, Lille, France.
9. Malakooti, M.H., Zhou, Z., Spears, J.H., Shankwitz, T.J. and Sodano, H.A., 2016, “Strain Analysis of Nanowire Interfaces in Multiscale Composites” SPIE's 23rd Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, March 20-24, Las Vegas, Nevada.
8. Malakooti, M.H., Patterson, B.A., Hwang, H. and Sodano, H.A., 2016, “Development of Multifunctional Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites through ZnO Nanowire Arrays” SPIE's 23rd Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, March 20-24, Las Vegas, Nevada.
7. Malakooti, M.H., Zhou, Z. and Sodano, H.A., 2016, “Energy Harvesting from Vertically Aligned PZT Nanowire Arrays” SPIE's 23rd Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, March 20-24, Las Vegas, Nevada.
2015
6. Bowland, C.C., Malakooti, M.H., Hwang, H. and Sodano, H.A., 2015, “Fiber Reinforced Piezoelectric Composites” 20th International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM20), July 19-24, Copenhagen, Denmark.
5. Malakooti, M.H., Hwang, H. and Sodano, H.A., 2015, “Power Generation from Base Excitation of a Kevlar Composite Beam with ZnO Nanowires” SPIE's 22nd Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, March 8-12, San Diego, California.
4. Malakooti, M.H., Miller, A.T. and Sodano, H.A., 2015, “Characterization of Lead Zirconate Titanate Microwires Using Digital Image Correlation” SPIE's 22nd Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, March 8-12, San Diego, CA
2013
3. Tang, H., Malakooti, M.H., and Sodano, H.A., 2013, “Investigation of Relationship between Orientation Factor of PZT NWs and Dielectric Permittivity of Nanocomposites” 24th International Conference on Adaptive Structures Technologies (ICAST2013), October 7-9, Aruba.
2. Malakooti, M.H. and Sodano, H.A., 2013, “Simultaneous Measurement of Longitudinal and Lateral Piezoelectric Strain Coefficients Using Digital Image Correlation” SPIE's 20th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, March 10-14, San Diego, California.
1. Malakooti, M.H. and Sodano, H.A., 2013, “Shear-Mode Energy Harvesting of Piezoelectric Sandwich Beam” SPIE's 20th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, March 10-14, San Diego, California.
