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Dinesh K. Patel

Postdoc
Additive manufacturing, functional materials (inks), soft robotics, material science and luminescence
dineshpa@andrew.cmu.edu

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About

Dinesh K Patel is currently a Research Scientist in Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a B.S. and M. S. degrees in Chemistry from University of Mumbai, India. He received Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre-University of Mumbai, India in 2014 . Prior joining to Carnegie Mellon University, he worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (2014-2018). He has co-authored over 40 refereed journal and conference publications. He received Outstanding Poster Award in the 2017 Annual Nanoscience and Nano Centre Conference, Dead Sea, Israel, and Excellent poster Award at Faculty Day (2017 and 2018), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. His research interests are functional 3D and 4D printing at micron and mm-scale, soft robotics, actuators, printed electronics, and mechano and electroluminescent devices.

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Publications

Journal Publications

1. Mason Zadan, Anthony Wertz, Dylan Shah, Dinesh K. Patel, Wuzhou Zu, Youngshang Han, Jeff Gelorme, Hing Jii Mea, Lining Yao, Mohammad H. Malakooti, Seung Hwan Ko, Navid Kazem, Carmel Majidi, “Stretchable Thermoelectric Generators for Self-Powered Wearable Health Monitoring” Adv. Funct. Mater. (2024)

2. Yichi Luo, Dinesh K. Patel, Zefang Li, Yafeng Hu, Hao Luo, Lining Yao, Carmel Majidi, “Intrinsically multistable soft actuator driven by mixed-mode snap-through instabilities”, Adv. Sci. 11, (2024) 112307391.

3. Zefang Li, Gina Olson, Dinesh K. Patel, Lining Yao, Carmel Majidi, “Electrically Controlled Liquid Crystal Elastomer Surfaces for Dynamic Wrinkling”, Adv. Intell. Syst. 6, (2024), 2200402.

4. Dinesh K. Patel*, Xiaonan Huang*, Yichi Luo, M. Khalid Jawed, Lining Yao, Carmel Majidi, “Highly Dynamic Compact Bistable Soft Actuator for Reconfigurable Multimodal Soft Robots”, Adv. Mater. Technol. 8, (2023) 2201259.

5.  Danli Luo, Aditi Maheshwari, Andreea Danielescu, Jiaji Li, Yue Yang, Ye Tao, Lingyun Sun, Dinesh K. Patel, Guanyun Wang, Shu Yang, Teng Zhang, Lining Yao, “Autonomous Self-burying Seed Carriers for Aerial Seeding”, Nature 614, (2023) 463.

6.  Dinesh K. Patel*, Ke Zhong*, Haiqing Xu, Mohammad F. Islam, Lining Yao, “Sustainable Morphing Matter: Design and Engineering Practices”, Adv. Mater. Technol. 8, (2023) 2300678

7. Nolen Keeys, Dinesh K. Patel, Philip LeDuc, Carmel Majidi, “Soft Magnetic Thin Film Deformation with a Bistable Electropermanent Magnet”, Eng. Res. Express 5 (2023) 035071

8. Zach J. Patterson*, Dinesh K. Patel*, S. Bergbreiter, L. Yao, C. Majidi, “A Method for 3D Printing and Rapid Prototyping of Fieldable Untethered Soft Robots”, Soft Robotics (2022) (DOI: 10.1089/soro.2022.0003).

9. Michael R. Vinciguerra, Dinesh K. Patel, Wu Zhou, Mahmoud Tavakoli, Carmel Majidi, Lining Yao, “Multi-Material Printing of Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Integrated Stretchable Electronics”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 15, (2023) 24777−24787. (Impact factor = 9.5) Link

10. Mason Zadan, Dinesh K. Patel, Andrew P. Sabelhaus, Jiahe Liao, Anthony Wertz, Lining Yao, Carmel Majidi, "Liquid Crystal Elastomer with Integrated Soft Thermoelectrics for Shape Memory Actuation and Energy Harvesting", Adv. Mater. 34, (2022) 202200857. T

11. Phillip Won, Conor S Valentine, Mason Zadan, Chengfeng Pan, Michael Vinciguerra, Dinesh K Patel, Seung Hwan Ko, Lynn M Walker, Carmel Majidi, “3D Printing of Liquid Metal Embedded Elastomers for Soft Thermal and Electrical Materials", ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 14, (2022) 55028.

12.  Dinesh K Patel, K. G. Girija, Boddu S. Naidu, B. Vishwanadh, Farheen N. Sayed, R. K. Vatsa, V. Sudarsan and S. K. Kulshreshtha, “In3+ doped ZnGa2O4 nanoparticles: Difference in the luminescence properties upon optical and electrical excitations”, J. Alloys Compd. 884, (2021) 161021.

13.  Michael J. Ford, Dinesh K. Patel, Chengfeng Pan, Sarah Bergbreiter and Carmel Majidi, “Controlled Assembly of Liquid Metal Inclusions as a General Approach for Multifunctional Composites”, Adv. Mater. 32, 46 (2020) 2002929, 1-9

14.  Priti Sharma*, Dinesh K Patel*, Srinivasu Kancharlapalli*, Shlomo Magdassi and Yoel Sasson, “Facile Combined Experimental and Computational Study: g-C3N4@PDMS Assisted Knoevenagel Condensation Reaction under Phase Transfer Conditions”, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 8, 6, (2020) 2350-2360.

15. Camilo Velez, Dinesh K. Patel, Sukjun Kim, Mahnoush Babaei, Cory R. Knick, Gabriel L. Smith, and Sarah Bergbreiter, “Hierarchical Integration of Thin-Film NiTi Actuators using Additive Manufacturing for Microrobotics”, IEEE J. Microelectromech. Syst., 29, 5, (2020) 867-873.

16. Mahnoush Babaei, Sukjun Kim, Camilo Velez, Dinesh K. Patel, and Sarah Bergbreiter, “Increasing the Energy Efficiency of NiTi Unimorph Actuators with a 3D-Printed Passive Layer”, IEEE J. Microelectromech. Syst., 29, 5, (2020) 797-803.

17. Dinesh K. Patel, Bat-El Cohen, Lioz Etgar and Shlomo Magdassi, “Fully 2D and 3D printed anisotropic mechanoluminescent objects and their application for energy harvesting in the dark”, Mater. Horiz. 5 (2018) 708-714.

18. Dinesh K. Patel, Amir Hosein Sakhaei, Michael Layani, Biao Zhang, Qi Ge and Shlomo Magdassi, “Highly Stretchable and UV Curable Elastomer for Digital Light Processing Based Three Dimensional Printing” Adv. Mater. 29 (2017) 1-7.

19. Dinesh K. Patel,* V. Sudarsan and S. K. Kulshrehtha, “Luminescence studies on undoped and lanthanide doped Zinc Tin Hydroxide”, J. Lumin. 194 (2018) 675-681.

20. Ch. Satya Kamal, R. K. Mishra, Dinesh K. Patel, K. Ramachandra Rao, V. Sudarsan and R. K. Vatsa, “Effect of structure, size and copper doping on the luminescence properties of ZnS”, Mater. Res. Bull. 81 (2016) 127-133.

21. Dinesh K. Patel, A. Kamyshny, Ariando, Huang Zhen and S. Magdassi, “Fabrication of transparent conducting films composed of In3+ doped CuS and their application in flexible electroluminescent devices”, J. Mater. Chem. C, 3 [33] (2015) 8700-8705.

22. M. Vijayakumar, K. Mahesvaran, Dinesh K. Patel, S. Arunkumar and K. Marimuthu, “Structural and Optical properties of Dy3+ doped Aluminofluoroborophosphate glasses for White light applications”, Opt. Mater., 37 (2014) 695-705.

23. B. C. Bhatt, Anuj Soni, G. S. Polymeris, D. K. Koul, Dinesh K. Patel, S. K. Gupta, D. R. Mishra and M. S. Kulkarni, “Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and thermally assisted OSL in Eu2+-Doped BaSO4 phosphor”, Radiation Measurements, 64 (2014) 35-43.

24. Dinesh K. Patel, B. Vishwanadh, V. Sudarsan and S. K. Kulshreshtha, “Difference in nature of Eu3+ environment in Eu3+ -doped cubic BaTiO3 and BaSnO3”, J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 96 [12] (2013) 3857-3861.

25. S. Basu, Dinesh K. Patel, D. Bhattacharyya, S.N. Jha, V. Sudarsan and S. K. Kulshreshtha, “Probing local environments in Eu3+ doped SrSnO3 nano-rods by luminescence and Sr K-edge EXAFS techniques”, Chem. Phys. Lett., 561-562 (2013) 82-86.

26. Dinesh K. Patel, B. Rajeswari, V. Sudarsan, R. K. Vatsa, R. M. Kadam and S. K. Kulshreshtha, “Blue light emitting SrSn(OH)6 nano-rods doped with lanthanide ions (Eu3+, Tb3+ and Dy3+)”, Mater. Res. Bull., 48 (2013) 566-573.

27. Dinesh K. Patel, B. Rajeswari, V. Sudarsan, R. K. Vatsa, R. M. Kadam and S. K. Kulshreshtha, “Structural, luminescence and EPR studies on SrSnO3 nanorods doped with europium ions”, Dalton trans., 41 [39] (2012) 12023-12030.

28. Dinesh K. Patel, A. Sengupta, B. Vishwanadh, V. Sudarsan, R. K. Vatsa, R. Kadam, and S. K. Kulshreshtha, “Local environments around Eu3+ and Eu2+ ions in dual light-emitting BaSnO3:Eu nanomaterials”, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2012 [10] (2012) 1609-1619.

29. Dinesh K. Patel, B. Vishwanadh, V. Sudarsan, R. K. Vatsa, and S. K. Kulshreshtha, “Hexagonal BaTiO3:Eu3+ nanoparticles: A kinetically stable phase prepared at low temperatures”, J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 94 [2] (2011) 482-487.

Book Chapter

30. Atul Pandey, Brajesh K. Singh, Ekambaram Gayathiri, Sundararajan Balasubramani, Saravanamoorthy M. Duraisamy, Ashish Kothari, Dinesh K. Patel*, “Nanoparticles in biomedical and clinical research: A current perspective and future implications”, book titled “Nanomaterials for Biomedical and Bioengineering Applications.” Springer-Nature 2024 415-457.

31. Anamika Singh and Dinesh K. Patel, “Nanomaterials for biomedical engineering applications”, book titled “Nanomaterials for Advanced Technologies”, Springer-Nature, 2022 ISBN:978-981-19-1383-9.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications

32. Sunniva Liu, Jianzhe Gu, Dinesh K. Patel, Lining Yao, “BreatHaptics: Enabling Granular Rendering of Breath Signals via Haptics using Shape-Changing Soft Interfaces”, In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI 2024). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 24, 1–11.

33. Tate Johnson, Dinesh K. Patel, Humphrey Yang, Umut S. Civici, Adriane F. Minori, Lining Yao, “FlexTure: Designing Dynamic and Configurable Surface Features”, In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2023). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 580–593. (Selected as Best Pictorial Honorable Mention Award).

34. Mason Zadan, Dinesh K. Patel, Lining Yao, Carmel Majidi, “Stretchable Thermoelectric Material Architectures for Wearable and Shape Memory Polymer Soft Robotic Energy Harvesting and Thermoregulation”, ASME 2022 Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS2022-91144) (Best Paper Awarded 3rd place)

35. Paul Nadan, Dinesh K. Patel, Catherine Pavlov, Spencer Backus, Aaron M. Johnson, “Microspine Design for Additive Manufacturing”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022) 5640-5647.

36. Humphrey Yang, Tate Johnson, Ke Zhong, Dinesh K. Patel, Gina Olson, Carmel Majidi, Mohammad Islam, Lining Yao, “ReCompFig: Designing Dynamically Reconfigurable Kinematic Devices Using Compliant Mechanisms and Tensioning Cables”, The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022). (Selected as Honorable Mention Award)

37. Humphrey Yang, Tate Johnson, Ke Zhong, Dinesh K. Patel, Gina Olson, Carmel Majidi, Mohammad Islam, Lining Yao, “Demonstrating ReCompFig: Designing Dynamically Reconfigurable Kinematic Devices Using Compliant Mechanisms and Tensioning Cables”, CHI EA '22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

38. Suhan Kim, Sukjun Kim, Houriyeh Majditehran, Dinesh K. Patel, Carmel Majidi, Sarah Bergbreiter, “Electromechanical Characterization of 3D Printable Conductive Elastomer for Soft Robotics”, (2020) 2020 3rd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2020), 314-318. (Selected as Best Paper Award Finalist)

39. Camilo Velez, Sukjun Kim, Mahnoush Babaei, Dinesh K. Patel, Cory Knick, Gabriel Smith, Sarah Bergbreiter, “Rapid prototyping of microactuators by integrating 3D printed polymeric structures with NiTi thin films”, 33rd IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2020), 893-896.

40. Suhan Kim, Camilo Velez, Dinesh K. Patel, Sarah Bergbreiter, "A magnetically transduced whisker for angular displacement and moment sensing", 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2019), 665-671.

41. C. A. Manion*, Dinesh K. Patel*, M. Fuge, S. Bergbreiter, “Modeling and evaluation of additively manufactured HASEL actuators”, Soft Robotic Modeling and Control: Bringing Together Articulated Soft Robots and Soft-Bodied Robots workshop, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018, *- Equal contribution).

43. R. K. Mishra, S. Kamal, Dinesh K. Patel, K. R. Rao, V. Sudarsan, R. K. Vatsa, “Luminescence from ZnS: Bulk Vs Nano”, AIP Conf. Proc., 1665 (2015) 0501541-0501543.

44. Sarabjot Singh, Sheeba Khan, Dinesh K. Patel, V. Sudarsan, “Synthesis and characterization of Bi1- xLaxPO4 nano-rods”, AIP Conf. Proc., 1591 (2014) 387-389.

45. S. Basu, Dinesh K. Patel, J. Nuwad, V. Sudarsan, S. K. Kulshreshtha, S. N. Jha, D. Bhattacharyya, “Local structure investigation of Eu doped SrSnO3 samples surrounding Sr site”, AIP Conf. Proc., 1512 (2013) 472-473.

46. Dinesh K. Patel, J. Nuwad, V. Sudarsan, R. K. Vatsa, S. K. Kulshreshtha, “CaSn(OH)6 cubes: Synthesis and photoluminescence studies”, AIP Conf. Proc., 1512 (2013) 398-399.

Awards

  • Awarded for most compelling poster (2nd Place) and Most Innovative Research Idea for poster competition at CMU energy week (March 2023), Carnegie Mellon University, USA.

  • Awarded Best poster prize (March 2017) and Excellent poster prize (March 2018) at Faculty Day, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

  • Awarded Outstanding Poster at 2017 Annual Nanoscience and Nano Centre Conference, HUJI, Dead Sea, Israel (July 2017).