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Rui Dai

I am a Ph.D. student majoring Mechanical Engineering at School for Engineering of Matter, Transport & Energy, ASU under the supervision of Prof. Qiong Nian . Before joining ASU, I received my B. S. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). I worked as an undergraduate research assistant in Professor Hengan Wu's group from 2010 to 2014. My research interests are Solid Mechanics, Nanomechanics, Material Design, Thermal Mechanics and Manufacturing.

Publications

SM2020

1. “Understanding mechanical behavior of metallic foam with hollow struts using the hollow pentagonal dodecahedron model"

R. Dai; M. Wang; D. Wang; Z. Hu; M. D. Green; Q. Nian.
Scripta Materialia, 182, 114 (2020).   | [Paper (External link)] | PDF |  
HT2021

2. “Thermal Conductivity of Metal Coated Polymer Foam: Integrated Experimental and Modeling Study"

R. Dai; G. Chandrasekaran; J. Chen; C. Jackson; Y. Liu; N. Qiong; B. Kwon.
International Journal of Thermal Science (2021).   | [Paper (External link)] | PDF |  
AC2020

3. "Ligand Crosslinking Boosts Thermal Transport in Colloidal Nanocrystal Solids."

Z. Wang; A. Sundar; R. Dai ; Q. Nian; N. Chawla; R. Y. Wang.
Angewandte Chemie, 59, 9556 (2020).   | [Paper (External link)]| PDF |  
JMMP2021

4. “Polymer-Templated Electrochemical Co-Deposition to Manufacture Three-Dimensional Graphene Metallic Nanocomposite Foam"

R. Dai; Y. Guo; Z. Hu; Q. Wang; Q. Nian.
JMR (2021). [coming soon]
MSEC2021

5. “A NOVEL PACKING HOLLOW DODECAHEDRON MODEL TO STUDY THE MECHANICAL AND THERMAL PROPERTIES OF STOCASTIC METALLIC FOAMS"

R. Dai; B. Kwon; Q. Nian.
MSEC2021-60520 (2021). [coming soon]   | [Paper (External link)] | PDF |  
NCM2021

6. “Preparation of graphene/copper nanocomposites by ball milling followed by pressureless vacuum sintering"

Z. Hu*; R. Dai; D. Wang; X. Wang; F. Chen; X. Fan; C. Chen; Y. Liao; Q. Nian.
New Carbon Materials, 36(2): 420-428 (2021).   | [Paper (External link)] | PDF |  
Cb2020

7. "Scalable and controlled creation of nanoholes in graphene by microwave-assisted chemical etching for improved electrochemical properties."

D. Wang, R. Dai; X. Zhang; L. Liu； H. Zhuang; Y. Lu, Y. Wang; Y. Liao; Q. Nian.
Carbon, 161, 880 (2020).   | [Paper (External link)]| PDF |  
ADM2021

8. "Limpet Tooth-Inspired Painless Microneedles Fabricated by Magnetic Field-Assisted 3D Printing."

X. Li*; W. Shan; Y. Yang; D. Joralmon; Y. Zhu; Y. Chen; Y. Yuan; H. Xu; J. Rong; R. Dai; Q. Nian; Y. Chai; Y. Chen*.
Advanced Functional Materials, 2003725 (2021).   | [Paper (External link)]| PDF |  
NG2020

9. "Mechanical Properties of Gradient Copper Nano-Gyroid Cellular Structures: A Molecular Dynamics Study."

R. Dai; D. Li; Y. Tang.
Arxiv, 2104.03243（2020).   | [Paper (External link)]| PDF |  
BM2019

10. "A Robust and Efficient Cooler Design Inspired by Leaf Venation."

H. Yao; R. Dai; Hamidreza Marvi.
Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, 287 (2019).   | [Paper (External link)]| PDF |  

Experience

Arizona State University
Research Assistant | Advisor: Prof. Qiong Nian
Jan 2017 - present
Phoenix, Arizona
MIT
Multiscale Material Design
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston University
Graduate Student
Aug 2015 - Aug 2016
Boston, Massachusetts
Peking University
Summer Camp
Jul 2014 - Aug 2014
Beijing, China
University of Science and Technology of China
Undergraduate Research Assistant | Advisor: Prof. Hengan Wu
Aug 2010 - Aug 2014
Hefei, Anhui