Publications

2018

• Wang, Y.; Cui, L.L.; Cheng, G.G; Yuan, N.Y.; Ding, J.N.; Pesika, N.S. “Water-Based Lubrication of Hard Carbon Microspheres as Lubricating Additives” Tribology Letters 66, 148. (2018)
• Lu, Hongyu; Zheng, Yelong; Yin, Wei; Tao, Dashuai; Pesika, Noshir; Meng, Yonggang; Tian, Yu “Propulsion Principles of Water Strider in Sculling Forward through Shadow Method” Journal of Bionic Engineering (2018), 15, 516-525.
• Pashazanusi, Leila; Oguntoye, Moses; Oak, Shreyas; Albert, Julie N. L.; Pratt, Lawrence R.; Pesika, Noshir S. “Anomalous Potential Dependent Friction on Au(111) measured by AFM” Langmuir (2018), 34, 801-806.
• Li, Y.; Pesika, N.S.; Zhou, M.; Tian, Y. “Spring Contact Model of Tape Peeling: A Combination of the Peel Zone Approach and the Kendall Approach” Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering Tribology 4, 22. (2018)

2017

• Cheng, Guangui; Dong, Lingjian; Kamboj, Lakhinder; Khosla, Tushar; Wang, Xiaodong; Guo, Liqiang; Pesika, Noshir; Ding, Jianning "Hydrothermal Synthesis of Monodisperse Hard Carbon Spheres and Their Water-based Lubrication" Tribology Letters (2017), 65, 141.
• Pashazanusi, Leila; Lwoya, Baraka; Oak, Shreyas; Khosla, T.; Albert, Julie N.L.; Tian, Yu; Bansal, Geetha; Kumar, Nirbhay; Pesika, Noshir S. “Enhanced Adhesion of Mosquitoes to Rough Surfaces” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2017, 9, 24373-24380.
• Tao, Dashua; Gao, Xing; Lu, Hongyu; Liu, Zheyu; Li, Yong; Tong, Hao; Pesika, Noshir; Meng, Yonggang; Tian, Yu “Controllable Anisotropic Dry Adhesion in Vacuum: Gecko Inspired Wedged Surface Fabricated with Ultraprecision Diamond Cutting” Advanced Functional Materials (2017) DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201606576.
• Oguntoye, Moses; Oak, Shreyas; Pashazanusi, Leila; Pratt, Lawrence; Pesika, N.S.“Vertically–Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays as Binder-Free Supports for Nickel Cobaltite based Faradaic Supercapacitor Electrodes” Electrochimica Acta (2017), 236, 408-416.

2016

• Cheng, Guangui; Jian, Shiyu; Khosla, Tushar; Pesika, Noshir; Ding, Jianning; Zhang, Yueheng; Wang, Ying "Synthesis of Hard Carbon/Iron Microspheres and Their Aqueous-Based Tribological Performance Under Magnetic Field" Tribology Letters (2016), 64, 48.
• Oguntoye, Moses; Johnson, Michael; Pratt, Lawrence, Pesika, Noshir "Triboelectricity Generation from vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays" ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (2016), 8, 27454-27457.
• Cheng, Guanggui; Zhang, Wei; Fang, Jun; Jiang, Shi-Yi; Ding, Jian-Ning; Pesika, Noshir; Zhang, Zhong-Qiang; Guo, Li-Qiang; Wang, Ying "Fabrication of triboelectric nanogenerator with textured surface and its electric output performance" Acta Physica Sinica (2016), 65, 060201.
• Arora, Jaspreet; Cremaldi, Joseph; Holleran, M.; Ponnusamy, T.; Sunkara, B.’ He, J.; Pesika, N.; John, V. "Hierarchical patterning of hydrogels by replica molding of impregnated breath figures leads to superoleophobocity" Nanoscale (2016), 8, 18446-18453.
• Arora, Jaspreet S; Cremaldi, Joseph C.; Holleran, Mary K.; Ponnusamy, Thiruselvam; Jibao, He; Pesika, Noshir S.; John, Vijay T. "Hydrogel Inverse Replicas of Breath Figures Exhibit Superoleophobicity Due to Patterned Surface Roughness" Langmuir (2016), 32, 1009-1017.
• Cremaldi, Joseph; Ejaz, Muhammad; Oak, Shreyas; Holleran, Mary K.; Roberts, Katherine; Cheng, Guanggui; Wang, Ying; Grayson, Scott M.; John, Vijay; Pesika, Noshir S."Polymer grafted hard carbon microspheres at an oil/water interface." Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (2016), 470, 31-38.

2015

• Khosla, Tushar; Cremaldi, Joseph C.; Erickson, Jeffrey S.; Pesika, Noshir S. "Load-Induced Hydrodynamic Lubrication of Porous Films." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2015), 7, 17587-17591.
• Cremaldi, Joseph C.; Khosla, Tushar; Jin, Kejia; Cutting, David; Wollman, Kristen; Pesika, Noshir S. "Interactions of Oil drops with Surfaces of Different Interfacial Energy and Topography." Langmuir (2015), 31, 3385-3390.
• Zhou, Ming; Tian, Yu; Zeng, Hongbo B.; Pesika, Noshir S.; Israelachvili, Jacob. "Clumping Criteria of Vertical Nanofibers on Surfaces." Advanced Materials Interfaces (2015), 2, 1400466.

2014

• Azizi, A.; Khosla, T.; Mitchell, B.; Alem, N.; Pesika, N. "Tuning Carbon Content and Morphology of Fe/Co/Graphitic-carbon Core-shell Nanoparticles using a Salt-Matric Assisted CVD Process." Particle and Particle Characterization (2014), 31, 474.
• Jin, K.; Cremaldi, J.; Erickson, J.; Tian, Y.; Isralachvili, J.; Pesika, N. "Biomimetic Bidirectional Switchable Adhesive Inspired by the Gecko." Adv. Func. Mater. (2014), 24, 574.
• Zheng, R.; Arora, J.; Boonkaew, B.; Raghavan, S.; Kaplan, D.; He, J.; Pesika, N.; John, V. "Liposomes tethered to a biopolymer film through the hyrophobic effect create a highly effective lubricating surface." Soft Matter (2014), 10, 9226.

2013

• Venkatasubamanian, R.; He, J.; Stren, I.; Kim, D.; Pesika, N."Additive-mediated Synthesis of Plate-like Coper Crystals for Methanol Electro-oxidation." Langmuir (2013), 29, 13135.
• Ejaz, M; Sunkara, B.; Kamboj, L.; He, J.; John, V.; Pesika, N.; Grayson, S. "Facile one-pot method of initiator fixation for surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization on carbon hard spheres." J. Polymer Sci. A (2013), 51, 3314-3322.
• Azizi, Amin; Yourdkhani, Amin; Cutting, David; Caruntu, Gabriel; Pesika, Noshir "Tuning the Crystal Structure and Magnetic Properties of CoNiFeB Thin Films." Chemistry of Materials (2013), 25, 2510-2514.
• Zhou, Ming; Pesika, Noshir; Zeng, Hongbo, Tian, Yu, Israelachvili, Jacob "Recent advances in gecko adhesion and friction mechanisms and development of gecko-inspired dry adhesive surfaces." Friction (2013), 1, 114-129.
• You, Xinli; Chaudhari, Mangesh; Pratt, Lawrence; Pesika, Noshir; Aritakula, Kalika; Rick, Steven "Interfaces of prolylene carbonate." Journal of Chemical Physics (2013), 138, 114708.
• Zheng, Rubo; Zhan, Jingjing; Wang, Xiaoqin; Kaplan, David; Pesika, Noshir; John, Vijay "Lubrication Properties of Phospholipid Liposome Coated Silk Microspheres." Particle and Particle Systems Characterization (2013), 30, 133-137.
• Tian, Yu; Wan, Jin; Pesika, Noshir; Zhou, Ming "Bridging nanocontacts to macroscale gecko adhesion by sliding soft lamellar skin supported setal array." Scientific Reports (2013), DOI: 10.1038.
• Puthoff, J.; Holbrook, M.; Wilkinson, M. J.; Jin, K.; Pesika, N. S.; Autumn, K. "Dynamic friction in natural and synthetic gecko setal arrays." Soft Matter (2013), 9, 4855-4863.

2012

• Belman, Nataly; Jin, Kejia; Golan, Yuval; Israelachvili, Jacob; Pesika, Noshir "Origin of Contact Angle Hysteresis of Water on Chemisorbed and Physisorbed Self-Assembled Monolayers." Langmuir (2012), 28, 14609-14617.
• Kejia, Jin; Tian, Yu; Erickson, Jeffrey; Puthoff, Jonathan; Autumn, Kellar; Pesika, Noshir "Design and fabrication of Gecko-Inspired Adhesives." Langmuir  (2012), 28(13), 5737-5742.
• Zhou, Ming; Pesika, Noshir; Hongbo, Zeng; Wan, Jin; Zhang, Xiangjun; Meng, Yonggang; Wen, Shizhu; Tian, Yu "Design of gecko-inspired fibrillar surfaces with strong attachment and easy-removal properties: a numerical analysis of peel-zone." J. R. Soc. Interface  (2012), (published online May 9th, 2012).
• Amir, Elizabeth; Antoni, Per; Campos, Luis M.; Damiron, Denis; Gupta, Nalini; Amir, Roey J.; Pesika, Noshir; Drockenmuller, Eric; Hawker, C. J., "Biodegradable, multi-layered coatings for controlled release of small molecules." Chem. Comm. (2012), 48, 4833-4835.

2011

• Yu, Jing; Chary, Sathya; Das, Saurabh; Tamelier, John; Pesika, Noshir S.; Turner, Kimberly L.; Israelachvili, Jacob N. "Gecko-Inspired Dry Adhesive for Robotic Applications." Adv. Functional Materials (2011), 21(16), 3010-3018.
• St Dennis, J. E.; Jin, Kejia; John, Vijay T.; Pesika, Noshir S., "Carbon Microspheres as Ball Bearings in Aqueous-Based Lubrication." ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (2011), 3(7), 2215-2218.
• Zhou, Ming; Tian, Yu; Pesika, Noshir S.; Zeng, Hongbo; Wan, J.; Meng, Yonggang; Wen, Shizhu, "The Extended Peel Zone Model: Effect of Peeling Velocity." Journal of Adhesion (2011), 87(11), 1045-1058.
• St Dennis, J. E.; Meng, Qingkai; Zheng, Rubo; Pesika, Noshir S.; McPherson, Gary L.; He, Jibao; Ashbaugh, Hank S.; John, Vijay T.; Dowling, Matthew B.; Raghavan, Srinivasa R. "Carbon microspheres as network nodes in a novel biocompatible gel." Soft Matter (2011), 7(9), 4170-4173.
• Venkatasubramanian, Rajesh; Jin, Kejia J.; Pesika, Noshir S. "Use of Electrochemical Deposition to Create Randomly Rough Surfaces and Roughness Gradients." Langmuir (2011), 27(7), 3261-3265.
• Lowrey, D.D; Tasaka, K; Kindt, J.H; Banquy, Z.; Belman, N.; Min, Y.; Pesika, N.S.; Mordukhovich, G.; Israelachvili, J.N. "High-Speed Friction Measurements Using a Modified Surface Forces Apparatus." Tribology Letters (2011), 42(1), 117-127.
• Tian, Yu; Zhang, Minliang; Jiang, Jile; Pesika, Noshir; Zeng, Hongbo; Israelachvili, Jacob; Meng, Yonggang; Wen, Shizhu. "Reversible shear thickening at low shear rates of electrorheological fluids under electric fields." Physical Review E (2011), 83(1).
• Thibodeaux, Louis J.; Valsaraj, Kalliat T.; John, Vijay T.; Papadopoulos, Kyriakos D.; Pratt, Lawrence R.; Pesika, Noshir S. "Marine Oil Fate: Knowledge Gaps, Basic Research, and Development Needs; A Perspective Based on the Deepwater Horizon Spill." Environ. Eng. Sci. (2011), 28, 87-93.

2010

• Min, Younjin; Pesika, Noshir; Zasadzonski, Joe; Israelachvili, Jacob. "Studies of Bilayer and Vesicle Adsorption to Solid Substrates: Development of a Miniature Streaming Potential Apparatus (SPA)." Langmuir (2010), 26, 8684-8689.
• Israelachvili, Jacob; Min, Younjin; Akbulut, Mustafa; Alig, Anna; Carver, Gregory; Greene, Wren; Kristiansen, Kai; Meyer, Emily; Pesika, Noshir; Rosenberg, Kenneth; Zeng, Hongbo. "Recent Advances in the surface forces apparatus (SFA) technique." Reports on Prog. Phys. (2010), 73, 036601.

2009

• Pesika, Noshir; Zeng, Hongbo; Kristiansen, kai; Zhao, Boxin; Tian, Yu; Autumn, Kellar; Israelchavili, J. "Gecko adhesion pad: a smart surface?"  J. Phys.: Condensed Matter (2009), 21, 464132.
• Pesika, Noshir; Gravish, Nick; Wilkinson, Matt; Israelachvili, Jacob N.; Autumn, Kellar. "Crowding model for the compression of Gecko setal arrays." J. Adhesion (2009), 85, 512-525.
• Zeng, Hongbo; Pesika, Noshir S.; Tian, Yu; Zhao, Boxin; Chen, Yunfei; Tirrell, Matthew; Turner, Kimberly; Israelachvili, Jacob N. "Frictional Adhesion of Patterned Surfaces and Implications for Gecko and Biomimetic Systems" Langmuir (2009), 13, 7486-7495.
• Zhao, Boxin; Pesika, Noshir S.; Zeng, Hongbo; Wei, Zhensong; Chen, Yunfei; Autumn, Kellar;McGuiggan, Patricia; Autumn, Kellar; Turner, Kimberly; Israelachvili, Jacob N. "Role of Tilted Adhesion Fibrils (Setae) in the Adhesion and Locomotion of Gecko-like Systems." Journal of Phys. Chem. B (2009), 113(12), 3615-3621.

2008 and earlier

• Zhao, Boxin; Pesika, Noshir S.; Tian, Yu; Rosenberg, Kenneth; Zeng, Hongbo; McGuiggan, Patricia; Autumn, Kellar; Israelachvili, Jacob N. "Adhesion and Friction force coupling of gecko setal arrays: implications for structured adhesive surfaces." Langmuir (2008), 24, 1517-1524.
• Pesika, Noshir S.; Tian, Yu; Zhao, Boxin; Rosenberg, Kenneth; Zeng, Hongbo; McGuiggan, Patricia; Autumn, Kellar; Israelachvili, Jacob N. "Peel Zone Model of Tape Peeling based on the Gecko adhesive system." J. Adhesion (2007), 83, 383-401.
• Tian, Yu; Pesika, Noshir S.; Zhao, Boxin; Rosenberg, Kenneth; Zeng, Hongbo; McGuiggan, Patricia; Autumn, Kellar; Israelachvili, Jacob N. "Adhesion and Friction in gecko toe attachment and detachment." PNAS (2006), 103, 19320-19325.
• Pesika, Noshir S.; Radisic, A.; Stebe, Kathleen J.; Searson, Peter C. "Fabrication of Complex Architectures Using Electrodeposition into Patterned SAMs." Nanoletters (2006), 6, 1023-1026.
• Pesika, Noshir S.; Stebe, Kathleen J.; Searson, Peter C. "Kinetics of Desorption of Alkanethiolates on Gold." Langmuir (2006), 22, 3474-3476.
• Pesika, Noshir S.; Fan, Fengqiu; Searson, Peter C.; Stebe, Kathleen J. "Site-Selective Patterning Using Surfactant-Based Resists." JACS (2005), 127, 11960-11962.
• Pesika, Noshir S.; Stebe, Kathleen J.; Searson, Peter C. "Relationship between Absorbance Spectra and Particle Size Distribution for Quantum-Sized Nanocrystals." Journal of Phys. Chem. B (2003), 107(38), 10412-10415.
• Pesika, Noshir S.; Stebe, Kathleen J.; Searson, Peter C. "Determination of the Particle Size Distribution of Quantum Nanocrystals from Absorbance Spectra." Advanced Materials (2003), 15, 1289.
• Pesika, Noshir S.; Hu, Zeshan; Stebe, Kathleen J.; Searson, Peter C. "Quenching of growth of ZnO nanoparticles by adsorption of octanethiol." Journal of Phys. Chem. B (2002), 106(28), 6985-6990.
• Hu, Zeshan; Oskam, Gerko; Penn, R. Lee; Pesika, Noshir; Searson, Peter C. "The Influence of Anion on the Coarsening Kinetics of ZnO Nanoparticles." Journal of Phys. Chem. B (2003), 107(14), 3124-3130.
• Oskam, Gerko; Hu, Zeshan; Penn, R. Lee; Pesika, Noshir; Searson, Peter C. "Coarsening of metal oxide nanoparticles." Physical Review E (2002), 66(1), 011403/1-011403/4.  
• S.J. Vinay III, N.S. Pesika, C.M. Schroeder, J. Sinclair, M.L. Gray, Y. Soong, R.R. Schehl, W.D. Sands, D.H. Finseth, M.S. Jhon, "An Experimental Study of Multi-Particle Dynamics in Triboelectrostatic Systems", Proc. of Top. Conf. on Adv. Tech. for Part. Prod. -- Vol. II: Fluid-Particle Systems, pp.56-62