Dinesh K. Patel, PhD

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 postdoctoral researcher at Human Computer Interaction institute 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 30 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.

Publications

Journal Publications

1. 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.

2.  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.

3.  Zefang Li, Gina Olson, Dinesh K. Patel, Lining Yao and Carmel Majidi, “Electrically Controlled Liquid Crystal Elastomer Surfaces for Dynamic Wrinkling”, Adv. Intell. Syst. (2023) (Accepted)

4. 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).

5. 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

6.  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.

7.  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.

8.  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

9.  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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. 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.

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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)

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

28. Humphrey Yang, Tate Johnson, Ke Zhong, Dinesh K. Patel, Gina Olson, Carmel Majidi, Mohammad Islam and 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)

29. 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)

30. Camilo Velez, Sukjun Kim, Mahnoush Babaei, Dinesh K. Patel, Cory Knick, Gabriel Smith, and 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.

31. 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.

32. C. A. Manion*, Dinesh K. Patel*, M. Fuge and 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)

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

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

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

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

Awards

  • 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).

 

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