Zachary Ulissi
- Program Years: 2010-2014
- Academic Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Field of Study: Chemical Engineering
- Academic Advisor: Michael Strano
- Practicum(s):
Argonne National Laboratory (2012) - Degree(s):
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015
Masters of Advanced Studies in Mathematics, Cambridge University, 2010
B.S. Physics, and B.E. Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, 2009
Current Status
Publications
Wang, Q. H., Bellisario, D. O., Drahushuk, L. W., Jain, R. M., Kruss, S., Landry, M. P., Mahajan, S. G., Shimizu, S. F. E., Ulissi, Z. W. & Strano, M. S. Low Dimensional Carbon Materials for Applications in Mass and Energy Transport. Chemistry of Materials 26, 172-183 (2014).Bellisario, D. O., Ulissi, Z. & Strano, M. S. A Quantitative and Predictive Model of Electromigration-Induced Breakdown of Metal Nanowires. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 117, 12373-12378 (2013).
Choi, W., Ulissi, Z. W., Shimizu, S. F. E., Bellisario, D. O., Ellison, M. D. & Strano, M. S. Diameter-dependent ion transport through the interior of isolated single-walled carbon nanotubes. Nature Communications 4 (2013).
Paulus, G. L. C., Wang, Q. H., Ulissi, Z. W., McNicholas, T. P., Vijayaraghavan, A., Shih, C.-J., Jin, Z. & Strano, M. S. Charge Transfer at Junctions of a Single Layer of Graphene and a Metallic Single Walled Carbon Nanotube. Small 9, 1954-1963 (2013).
Shimizu, S., Ellison, M., Aziz, K., Wang, Q. H., Ulissi, Z., Gunther, Z., Bellisario, D. & Strano, M. S. Stochastic Pore Blocking and Gating in PDMS-Glass Nanopores from Vapor-Liquid Phase Transitions. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 117, 9641-9651 (2013).
Ulissi, Z. W., Strano, M. S. & Braatz, R. D. Control of nano and microchemical systems. Computers & Chemical Engineering 51, 149-156 (2013).
Zhang, J., Landry, M. P., Barone, P. W., Kim, J.-H., Lin, S., Ulissi, Z. W., Lin, D., Mu, B., Boghossian, A. A., Hilmer, A. J., Rwei, A., Hinckley, A. C., Kruss, S., Shandell, M. A., Nair, N., Blake, S., Sen, F., Sen, S., Croy, R. G., Li, D., Yum, K., Ahn, J.-H., Jin, H., Heller, D. A., Essigmann, J. M., Blankschtein, D. & Strano, M. S. Molecular recognition using corona phase complexes made of synthetic polymers adsorbed on carbon nanotubes. Nature Nanotechnology 8, 959-968 (2013).
Carver, C., Ulissi, Z., Ong, C. K., Dennison, S., Kelsall, G. H. & Hellgardt, K. Modelling and development of photoelectrochemical reactor for H-2 production. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 37, 2911-2923 (2012).
Sen, F., Boghossian, A. A., Sen, S., Ulissi, Z. W., Zhang, J. & Strano, M. S. Observation of Oscillatory Surface Reactions of Riboflavin, Trolox, and Singlet Oxygen Using Single Carbon Nanotube Fluorescence Spectroscopy. Acs Nano 6, 10632-10645 (2012).
Boghossian, A. A., Zhang, J., Le Floch-Yin, F. T., Ulissi, Z. W., Bojo, P., Han, J.-H., Kim, J.-H., Arkalgud, J. R., Reuel, N. F., Braatz, R. D. & Strano, M. S. The chemical dynamics of nanosensors capable of single-molecule detection. Journal of Chemical Physics 135 (2011).
Ulissi, Z., Prasad, V. & Vlachos, D. G. Effect of multiscale model uncertainty on identification of optimal catalyst properties. Journal of Catalysis 281, 339-344 (2011).
Ulissi, Z. W., Shimizu, S., Lee, C. Y. & Strano, M. S. Carbon Nanotubes as Molecular Conduits: Advances and Challenges for Transport through Isolated Sub-2 nm Pores. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2, 2892-2896 (2011).
Ulissi, Z. W., Zhang, J., Boghossian, A. A., Reuel, N. F., Shimizu, S. F. E., Braatz, R. D. & Strano, M. S. Applicability of Birth-Death Markov Modeling for Single-Molecule Counting Using Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Fluorescent Sensor Arrays. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2, 1690-1694 (2011).
Prasad, V., Karim, A. M., Ulissi, Z., Zagrobelny, M. & Vlachos, D. G. High throughput multiscale modeling for design of experiments, catalysts, and reactors: Application to hydrogen production from ammonia. Chemical Engineering Science 65, 240-246 (2010).
Sviridov, A. P., Ulissi, Z., Chernomordik, V., Hassan, M. & Gandjbakhche, A. H. Visualization of biological texture using correlation coefficient images. Journal of Biomedical Optics 11 (2006).
Patents
- Gandjbakhche A, Chernomordik V, Hassan M, Sviridov A, Smith P, Decherney A, Ulissi Z. Polarization adapter for colposcope. Employee Invention Report (2009).
Awards
-National Science Foundation GRFP Award (Accepted at Cambridge)-Chemical Engineering Industrial Laboratory Award
-Chemical Engineering Industrial Research Award
-Mathematical Contest in Modeling (2009): Outstanding Solution
(Awarded to Top 9 out of 1,672 International Teams)
-Mathematical Contest in Modeling (2008): Outstanding Solution
(Awarded to Top 9 out of 1,162 International Teams)
-Delaware Space Grant Tuition Award
-Armed Forces Communication and Electronics Association General Wickham Scholarship
-Society of Photoinstrumentation Engineers Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering (2012)