Mechanical Emerging Design (MED) Group

Innovative Materials and Mechanical Design for Environmental sustainability





















Selected Outputs:

2025

- McCann, B., Tipper, B., Shahbeigi, S., Soleimani, M., Jabbari, M. and Nasr Esfahani, M., 2025. A Review on Perception of Binding Kinetics in Affinity Biosensors: Challenges and Opportunities. ACS omega, 10(5), pp.4197-4216.

- Li, Z., Hu, Y., Ollerenshaw, R., Li, X., He, Z. and Esfahani, M.N., 2025. Optimizing PV-battery energy storage for netzero emission traction power system through artificial rabbit optimization method. Journal of Energy Storage, 126, p.117069.

- Pakzad, S.Z., Esfahani, M.N., Canadinc, D. and Alaca, B.E., 2025. Machine learning-driven atomistic analysis of mechanical behavior in silicon nanowires. Computational Materials Science, 246, p.113446.

2024

- Shahbazi, F., Esfahani, M.N., Keshmiri, A. and Jabbari, M., 2024. Assessment of machine learning models trained by molecular dynamics simulations results for inferring ethanol adsorption on an aluminium surface. Scientific reports, 14(1), p.20437.

- Ali, B., Ozkan, S.N., Kerimzade, U., Nasr Esfahani, M., Akinci, S., Leblebici, Y., Ozturk, E. and Alaca, B.E., 2024. Stencil-based selective surface functionalization of silicon nanowires in 3D device architectures for next-generation biochemical sensors. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 7(9), pp.10634-10647.

- Soleimani, M., Shahbeigi, S. and Esfahani, M.N., 2024. A Bayesian network development methodology for fault analysis; case study of the automotive aftertreatment system. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 216, p.111459.

2023

- Esfahani, E.A., Nogorani, F.S. and Esfahani, M.N., 2023. Thermo-mechanical Analysis of Hydrogen Permeation in Lubricated Rubbing Contacts. Tribology International, p.108355.

- Shahbazi, F., Jabbari, M., Esfahani, M.N. and Keshmiri, A., 2023. Microfluidic-Integrated Biosensors. In Applied Complex Flow: Applications of Complex Flows and CFD (pp. 21-42). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.

2022

- Nasr Esfahani, Mohammad, et al. "Effect of Native Oxide on Stress in Silicon Nanowires: Implications for Nanoelectromechanical Systems." ACS Applied Nano Materials (2022).

- Shahbazi, Fatemeh, et al. "A Molecular Dynamics Model for Biomedical Sensor Evaluation: Nanoscale Numerical Simulation of an Aluminum-Based Biosensor." IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC). IEEE, 2022.

- Esfahani, Mohammad Nasr. "Comparing empirical interatomic potentials to modeling silicon surface stress." Solid State Communications 344 (2022): 114656.

2021

- Jabbari, M., et al. "Numerical modelling of nanocomposite conductive plate for battery thermal management using a novel multi-domain approach." Applied Thermal Engineering 182 (2021): 116067.

- Elsewify, O., et al. "A new method for internal cooling of a large format lithium-ion battery pouch cell." Energy 225 (2021): 120139.

- Zare Pakzad, Sina, et al. "A new characterization approach to study the mechanical behavior of silicon nanowires." Mrs Advances 6.19 (2021): 500-505.

2020

- F Shahbazi, M Jabbari, MN Esfahani, A Keshmiri. "A computational simulation platform for designing real-time monitoring systems with application to COVID-19" Biosensors and Bioelectronics 171, 112716.

- Esfahani, Mohammad Nasr, and Masoud Jabbari. "Influence of the surface stress on the size-dependent elastic behavior of silicon nanowires" Journal of Applied Physics 127 (19), 195106.

- MN Esfahani, M Jabbari, Y Xu, C Soutis. "Effect of Nanoscale Defects on the Thermal Conductivity of Graphene" Materials Today Communications, 26, p.101856.

2019

- Esfahani, Mohammad Nasr, B. Erdem Alaca, and Masoud Jabbari. "Mechanical properties of honeycomb nanoporous silicon: a high strength and ductile structure." Nanotechnology 30.45 (2019): 455702.

- Nasr Esfahani, Mohammad. "Surface stress effects on the mechanical properties of silicon nanowires: A molecular dynamics simulation." Journal of Applied Physics 125.13 (2019): 135101.

- Nasr Esfahani, Mohammad, and Erdem Alaca. "A Review on Size-Dependent Mechanical Properties of Nanowires." Advanced Engineering Materials (2019): 1900192.

2018

- Esfahani, Mohammad Nasr, and B. Erdem Alaca. "Surface Stress Effect on Silicon Nanowire Mechanical Behavior: Size and Orientation Dependence." Mechanics of Materials 127 (2018): 112-123.

- Esfahani, Mohammad Nasr, et al. "Piezoresistive silicon nanowire resonators as embedded building blocks in thick SOI." Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 28.4 (2018): 045006.

2017

- Esfahani, M. Nasr, et al. "Monolithic technology for silicon nanowires in high-topography architectures." Microelectronic Engineering 183 (2017): 42-47.

- Esfahani, Mohammad Nasr, Yusuf Leblebici, and B. Erdem Alaca. "A monolithic approach to downscaling silicon piezoresistive sensors." Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems 26.3 (2017): 624-631.

- Esfahani, M. Nasr, et al. "Selecting the optimum engineering model for the frequency response of fcc nanowire resonators." Applied Mathematical Modelling 44 (2017): 236-245.

2016

- Esfahani, M. Nasr, et al. "Effect of geometry in frequency response modeling of nanomechanical resonators." AIP Conference Proceedings. Vol. 1738. No. 1. AIP Publishing, 2016.

- Esfahani, M. Nasr, et al. "Thermo-coupled Surface Cauchy–Born theory: An engineering finite element approach to modeling of nanowire thermomechanical response." Mechanics of Materials 94 (2016): 46-52.

2015

- Esahani, Mohammad Nasr, et al. "Multiscale coupling based on quasicontinuum method in nanowires at finite temperatures." 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO). IEEE, 2015.