Sharmila Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D.

UMaine Alert

Posted: April 19, 2024 - 1:32 PM

At approximately 9:24 a.m. on Friday, April 19, a University of Maine graduate student was struck by a university vehicle on Long Road at the University of Maine campus in Orono. The student reports that they are at a local hospital with minor injuries.

Emergency services, including the Orono Fire Department, University Volunteer Ambulance Corps, University of Maine Police Department, Orono Police Department and Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene.

The university vehicle involved in the incident was a Chevrolet Express van. It was being operated by a university employee.

Counseling services and support are available for students, faculty or staff who may have been affected. The Counseling Center can be reached at 207-581-1392 and the Dean of Students Office can be reached at 207-581-1406.

The scene has been cleared and Long Road is now accessible. An investigation is being conducted by the University of Maine Police Department with assistance from the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office Crash Reconstruction Unit. Any witnesses to the incident are encouraged to contact Lt. Noel Santiago at noel.santiago@maine.edu.

Professor & FIRST Director

The University of Maine
Engineering Science Research Building, Room 265
Orono, ME 04469
(207) 581-2252; sharmila.mukhopadhyay@maine.edu

Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering, Cornell University, 1989

External Engagements:

Jefferson Science Fellow, National Academies and US Department of State (2016-17)
Professor of Mechanical & Materials Engineering at Wright State University (1997-2019)
Founding Director, Center for Nanoscale Multifunctional Materials at WSU
Founding Director, National Academy of Engineering-Grand Challenges Scholars Program at WSU (2019)

Teaching Areas:

Materials Science and Engineering

Research Areas:

Multifunctional nanomaterials: design, synthesis, characterization and testing
Compact lightweight components for energy, environment, and biomedical applications
Surface and interface phenomena

Principal Sponsors:

NSF, DOE, AFOSR, AFRL, OBOR, EPA, and industry

Select Research / Collaboration Activities:

Novel Bio-inspired 3D Materials for catalysis, sensing and bio-scaffolding, NSF
Plasma Modification of Uneven Porous Surfaces, Proctor & Gamble
Wettability tailoring of aerospace structures, Air Force Research lab (AFRL)
High Temperature Superconductors, DOE, AFRL, NSF

Select Publications / Conference Presentations: (^*Student, **Postdoc)

Soham D Parikh*, Luping Huang**, Wenhu Wang*, Sharmila M Mukhopadhyay, Debra A Mayes, “Multi-walled carbon nanotube carpets as scaffolds for u87Glioblastoma multiforma cell growth”, Materials Science & Engineering C, accepted, in print.
Vijwani*, M.N. Nadagouda, S.M. Mukhopadhyay, “Robust nanocatalyst membranes for degradation of atrazine in water”, Journal of Water Process Engineering, Volume 25, October 2018, Pages 15-21
Betty T. Quinton*, Levi Elston, James D. Scofield and Sharmila M. Mukhopadhyay, “Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays Bonded to Solid Graphite Substrates: Thermal Analysis for Future Device Cooling Applications”, Journal of Carbon Research, 2018, 4, 28; doi:10.3390/c4020028.
LvMeng He*, Anil Karumuri* and Sharmila M. Mukhopadhyay, “Wettability Tailoring of Nanotube Carpets: Morphology-Chemistry Synergy for Hydrophobic-Hydrophilic Cycling”, RSC Advances 7(41):25267, 2017.
Akhil Patel*, Shilpaa Mukundan, Wenhu Wang*, Anil Karumuri**, Vinayak Sant, Sharmila M. Mukhopadhyay, Shilpa Sant, Carbon-based hierarchical scaffolds for myoblast differentiation: Synergy between nano-functionalization and alignment, Acta Biomater. 2016, Mar 1.
Rajaram Narayanan*, Hema Vijwani*, Sharmila M. Mukhopadhyay, Prabhakar R. Bandaru, “Electrochemical charge storage in hierarchical carbon manifolds”, Carbon, Volume 99, April 2016, Pages 267–271.
Kshitij C. Jha**, Zhuonan Liu, Hema Vijwani*, Mallikarjuna Nadagouda, Sharmila M. Mukhopadhyay, and Mesfin Tsige, “Carbon nanotube based groundwater remediation: the case of Trichloroethylene”, Molecules 2016, 21, 953; doi:10.3390/molecules21070953

Professional Activities / Memberships:

Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, 2019
Fellow, American Ceramic Society, 2007

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