Publications — Selected
Peer-reviewed work in Nature, Journal of Membrane Science, and beyond.
A representative selection from three decades of work on polymer membranes, sol-gel materials, and the physics of soft matter.
- 2020
Theoretical Modeling and Process Path Analysis of Polysulfone Membrane Formation During Nonsolvent-Induced Phase Separation (NIPS) Processing
Unpublished proprietary research — COMSOL equation-based modeling - 2016
Cavitation of Tumoral Basement Membrane as Onset of Cancer Invasion and Metastasis: Physics of Oncogenic Homeorhesis via Nonlinear Mechano-metabolomics
Convergent Science Physical Oncology, 2 (2016) 015001, 1–24 - 2016
Physicochemical Modeling of Tumorigenic Homeorhesis: A System-Dynamics Interpretation of Computer Simulations
Convergent Science Physical Oncology, 2 (2016) 035001, 1–17 - 2008
Microstructure Evolution in Dry-Wet Cast Polysulfone Membranes by Cryo-SEM: A Hypothesis on Macrovoid Formation
Journal of Membrane Science, 313: 1–2, (2008), 135–157. Erratum: 320: 1–2, 557. - 2007
Network Instability That Causes Macrovoids in Phase Inversion Membranes: Cryo-SEM Evidence and Theoretical Development
Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 234, 2007 - 2006
Microstructure Evolution in Dry Cast Cellulose Acetate Membranes by Cryo-SEM
Journal of Membrane Science, 283: 1–2, (2006), 328–338 - 2001
The Origins of Microstructure in Phase Inversion Coatings or Membranes: Snapshots of the Transient from Time-Sectioning Cryo-SEM
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Minnesota, 2001 - 1999
Ambient Pressure Process for Preparing Aerogel Thin Films Reliquified Sols Useful in Preparing Aerogel Thin Films
US Patent 5,948,482 (C.J. Brinker, S.S. Prakash), 1999 - 1997
Pore Evolution and Solvent Transport During Drying of Gelled Sol-Gel Coatings: Predicting 'Springback'
Drying Technology, 15: 6–8, (1997), 1815–1825 - 1996
Drying in Deformable Partially-Saturated Porous Media: Sol-Gel Coatings
Sandia Report SAND96-2149, UC-905, 1996 - 1996
Environmental Microscopy of Capillary Stress-Induced Strain Behavior in Ambient-Pressure Aerogels
Proceedings, Microscopy & Microanalysis, San Francisco Press, 1996 - 1995
Silica Aerogel Films at Ambient Pressure via Surface Derivatization and Reversible Drying Shrinkage
Nature, 374, (1995), 439–443. Erratum: 375, 431. - 1995
Ambient Pressure Silica Aerogel Films
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 190, (1995), 264–275 - 1995
Sol-Gel Thin Film Formation: Novel Experimentation, Concepts and Materials
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of New Mexico, 1995 - 1994
Ambient-Pressure Silica Aerogel Films
MRS Online Proceedings Library, 371, (1994), 205 - 1994
Sol-Gel Strategies for Controlled Porosity Ceramic Materials: Thin Film and Bulk
MRS Online Proceedings Library, 368, (1994), 329 - 1994
Sol-Gel Strategies for Amorphous Inorganic Membranes Exhibiting Molecular Sieving Characteristics
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, 1994