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Assistant Professor
Engineering Division
Materials Science Program
BELS Program
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO 80401 USA


mupmanyu@mines.edu
Voice: (303) 273-3683
Fax: (303) 273-3602

Web (personal): http://www.mines.edu/~mupmanyu
Web (group): http://www.mines.edu/research/stamp
 

 

Research Interests:
Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanics, Biophysics
Group Website: Simulation and Theory of Atomic-scale Material Phenomena (stAMP)

Focus Areas

  • Interfacial and surface phenomena in condensed matter
  • Thermodynamics and kinetics of interfaces, including extrinsic effects
  • Annealing and coarsening phenomena in crystalline materials
  • Nanocrystalline materials, thin film and layered nanocomposites
  • Mechanics and physics of fibrillar aggregates at the nano-bio interface
  • Self-assembly and growth of fibrillar aggregates at the nano-bio interface
  • Mechanics of polymer and biopolymer networks and their gels
  • Atomic-scale simulations (Molecular dynamics, Monte-Carlo techniques)
  • Multiscale physics (Atomistic - meso - continuum)
  • Parallel algorithms
  • Elasticity theory
  • Solid-state and soft matter physics

Selected Publications: (All publications)

1) Strain-dependent twist-stretch elasticity in chiral filaments
M. Upmanyu, H. L. Wang, H. Y. Liang and R. Mahajan, Journal of the Royal Society Interface 5, pp. 303-310, 2008

doi:10.1098/rsif.2007.1145
Citation Count - 00


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2) A dislocation model for grain boundary stiffness
M. Upmanyu, Scripta Materialia 56(6), pp. 553-556, 2007
doi:10.1016/j.scriptamat.2006.09.035
Citation Count - 00
3) Interface mobility from interface random walk
Z. T. Trautt, M. Upmanyu and A. Karma, Science 27(5799), pp. 632-635, 2006


doi:10.1126/science.1131988
Citation Count - 04




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4) Axial strain induced torsion in single-walled carbon nanotubes
H. Y. Liang and M. Upmanyu, Physical Review Letters 96(16), Art. No. 065502, 2006

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.165501
Citation Count - 05




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5) Size dependent elasticity of nanowires - Nonlinear effects
 H. Y. Liang, M. Upmanyu and H. Huang, Physical Review B (rapid communications) 71, Art. No. 241403(R), 2005
doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.71.241403
Citation Count - 29


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6) Boundary mobility and energy anisotropy effects on microstructural evolution during grain growth
M. Upmanyu, G. Hassold, A. Kazaryan, E. Holm, Y. Wang, B. Patton and D. J. Srolovitz, Interface Science 10(2-3), pp. 201-216, 2002
doi:10.1023/A:1015832431826
Citation Count - 23
7) Misorientation dependence of intrinsic grain boundary migration: Simulation & experiments
M. Upmanyu, D. J. Srolovitz, L. S. Shvindlerman and G. Gottstein, Acta Materialia 47(14), pp. 3901-3914, 1999
doi:10.1016/S1359-6454(99)00240-2
Citation Count - 51
 

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