Dr. Pradeep Sharma, M.D. Anderson Chair Professor & Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering

Cullen College of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering

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• Areas of expertise

  • Theoretical and computational materials science
  • Physics of nanostructures and nanomaterials
  • High temperature mechanical behavior of materials, energy storage
  • Quantum and solid mechanics

• Awards

  • Associate Editor: Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • President, Society of Engineering Science, 2015
  • University of Houston Teaching Award, 2013
  • ASME Fellow, 2013
  • Fulbright Award, 2013
  • Distinguished M.D Anderson Professorship, 2012
  • University of Houston, Excellence in Research and Scholarship Award, Associate Professor Level, 2011
  • Faculty of the Year award by local ASME student chapter—2010
  • Thomas J.R. Hughes ASME Young Investigator Award1 , 2009; Citation: “For outstanding contributions to understanding size-effects of coupled mechanical and physical phenomena in materials”
  • Selected as one of the Top Referees (2009); Proceedings of the Royal Society

  More awards in CV below.

   

• Publications

  • M. Zelisko, F. Ahmadpoor, H. Gao, P. Sharma. “Determining the Gaussian modulus and edge properties of 2D materials from graphene to lipid bilayers”, Physical Review Letters, 119, 068002(1-6), 2017 (download pdf)
  • X. Yan, P. Sharma, “Time scaling in atomistics and the rate-dependent mechanical behavior of nanostructures”, Nano Letters, 16, 3487–3492, 2016 (download pdf) (supplementary pdf) (download video #1)(download video #2)(download video #3)(download video #4)(download video #5)(download video #6)
  • S. Krichen, L. Liu, P. Sharma. “Biological cell as a soft magnetoelectric material: Elucidating the physical mechanisms underpinning the detection of magnetic fields by animals”, Physical Review E, 042404(1-11), 2017 (download pdf)
  • F. Liu, L. You, K. L. Seyler, X. Li, P. Yu, J. Lin, X. Wang, J. Zhou, H. Wang, H. He, S. T. Pantelides, W. Zhou, P. Sharma, X. Xu, P. M. Ajayan, J. Wang, Z. Liu, “Room-temperature ferroelectricity in CuInP₂S₆ ultrathin flakes”,Nature Communications, 7, 12357(1-6), 2016 (download pdf) (supplementary pdf)
  • F. Ahmadpoor, P. Sharma, “Thermal fluctuations of vesicles and nonlinear curvature elasticity-implications for size-dependent renormalized bending rigidity and vesicle size distribution”, Soft Matter, 12, 2523-2536, 2016 (Featured as Cover Image) (download pdf)
  • Y. Liu, H. Cai, M. Zelisko, Y. Wang, J. Sun, F. Yan, F. Ma, Pwang, Q. N. Chen, H. Zheng, X. Meng, P. Sharma, Y. Zhang, J. Li, “Ferroelectric switching of elastin”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111 (27),E2780-E2786, 2014 ( Highlighted by Nature Physics) (download pdf)

  For more publications, see CV below or click here.

• Patents

  • Monolithic light emitting devices based on wide bandgap semiconductor nanostructures and methods for making same; US Patent Issued on October 17, 2006
  • Fabrication of self-assembling nanostructures; US Patent issued on March 27, 2008

• Grants and Funded Research

  • University of Texas-Texas Space Grant Consortium. *Size-Dependent Multi-Physics Phenomenon of Heterogeneous Materials Containing NanoInclusions--Task Order E. 2004-2007. $10,000.
  • University of Houston - New Faculty Research Program. *Novel Size-effects in the Coupled Opto-electronic and Deformation Behavior of Quantum Dots and Wires. 2005-2005. $6,000.
  • U.S. Navy Office of Naval Research *Novel Size-Effects in the Coupled Mechanical Deformation and Optoelectronic Behavior of Quantum Dots and Wires 2005-2009. $262,471.
  • University of Houston Small Grants Program. *Spontaneous Electric Fields in Strained Non-Piezoelectric Quantum Dots and Nano-Beams with Consequent Applications for Next Generation Sensors. 2006-2006. $3,000.
  • University of Houston Grant to Enhance and Advance Research (GEAR) *Spontaneous Electric Fields in Strained Non-Piezoelectric Quantum Dots and Nano-Beams with Consequent Applications for Next Generation Sensors. 2006-2007 $29,845.
  • Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board - ARP *Nanocomposite-Based Piezoelectric Actuators and Sensors Without Use of Piezoelectric Materials. 2006-2009. $100,000.
  • University of Houston Small Grants Program- *Reverse Strain-Band Structure 2007 2007 $ 3,000

  For more research information in CV below and ResearchGate profile, here.

• Curriculum Vitae

  • Pradeep Sharma CV

• Contact information

  Engineering Building 1, Room N227

  Phone: 713-743-4502 | Fax: 713-743-4503

  psharma@uh.edu