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Assistant Professor

Arif Z. Nelson

Assistant Professor
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Cluster:
Food, Chemical and Biotechnology
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SIT Appointments

  • Assistant Professor
    – Present

Education

  • PhD, Mechanical Engineering
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , United States
  • MS, Mechanical Engineering
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , United States
  • BS, Mechanical Engineering
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , United States

Professional Memberships

  • American Institute of Chemical Engineers
    – Present
  • Society of Rheology
    – Present
  • Pi Tau Sigma Mechanical Engineering Honor Society
    – Present

Research Interests

  • Rheology and Soft Matter
  • Microfluidics
  • Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
  • Complex Fluid Design for Food Products

Journal Papers

  • Ng, D.Z.L., A.Z. Nelson, G. Ward, D. Lai, P.S. Doyle, S.A. Khan, Control of Drug-Excipient Particle Attributes with Droplet Microfluidic-based Extractive Solidification Enables Improved Powder Rheology. Pharmaceutical Research, (2022).
     

  • Nelson A.Z., Y. Wang, Y. Wang, A.S. Margotta, R.L. Sammler, A. Izmitli, J.S. Katz, J. Curtis-Fisk, Y. Li, R.H. Ewoldt, “Impact of shear flow on the formation and mechanical properties of methylcellulose hydrogels,” Soft Matter, (2022)
     

  • Nelson A.Z., J. Xie, S.A. Khan, P.S. Doyle, “Continuous embedded droplet printing in yield-stress fluids for pharmaceutical drug particle synthesis,” Advanced Materials Technologies, 6, 2001245 (2021). *Inside Front Cover
     

  • Nelson A.Z., B. Kundukad, W. Wong, S.A. Khan, P.S. Doyle, “Embedded droplet printing in yield-stress fluids,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117 (11), 5671-5679 (2020).
     

  • Nelson A.Z., K. Schweizer, B.M. Rauzan, R.G. Nuzzo, J. Vermant, R.H. Ewoldt, “Designing and transforming yield-stress fluids,” Current Opinion in Solid-State and Materials Science, 23 (5), 100758 (2019).
     

  • Miller, Kali A., E.G. Morado, S.R. Samanta, B.A. Walker, A.Z. Nelson, S. Sen, D.T. Tran, D.J. Whitaker, R.H. Ewoldt, P.V. Braun, S.C. Zimmerman, “Acid-triggered, acid-generating, and self-amplifying degradable polymers,” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141, 2838–2842 (2019).
     

  • Liu, H., A.Z. Nelson, Y. Ren, K. Yang, R.H. Ewoldt, J.S. Moore, “Reversibly polymerizable covalent networks via ring-opening metathesis polymerization of cyclopentane derivatives,” ACS Macro Letters, 7 (8), 933–937 (2018). *Cover
     

  • Rauzan B.M. & Nelson A.Z., S.E. Lehman, R.H. Ewoldt, R.G. Nuzzo, “Particle-free emulsions for 3D printing elastomers,” Advanced Functional Materials, 28(21), 1707032 (2018). *Frontispiece
    B.M.R. and A.Z.N. contributed equally to this work.
     

  • Nelson A.Z., R. Bras, J. Liu, R.H. Ewoldt, “Extending yield-stress fluid paradigms,” Journal of Rheology, 61(1), 357-369 (2018).
     

  • Nelson A.Z., R.H. Ewoldt, “Design of yield-stress fluids: A rheology-to-structure inverse problem,” Soft Matter, 13(41), 7578-7594 (2017).
     

  • Espinoza Santos, C.J., A.Z. Nelson, E. Mendoza, R.H. Ewoldt, W.M. Kriven, "Design and fabrication of ceramic beads by the vibration method," Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 35 (13), p.3587-3594 (2015).
     

Conferences

  • Sima Asadi (presenter), A.Z. Nelson, P.S. Doyle, “Shape-tunable synthesis of alginate particles,” 74th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Phoenix, AZ, Paper number A12.00008, November 2021.
     

  • Nelson A.Z. (presenter), B. Kundukad, W. Wong, S.A. Khan, P.S. Doyle, “Embedded droplet printing in yield-stress fluids,” The 18th International Congress on Rheology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Paper Number 249, December 2020.
     

  • Nelson A.Z. (presenter), S.A. Khan, P.S. Doyle, “Embedded Droplet Printing for Spherical Crystallization of Pharmaceuticals,” Proceedings of the 2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting, Paper Number 130c, November 2020.
     

  • Nelson A.Z. (presenter), J. Xie, S.A. Khan, P.S. Doyle, “A continuous platform for embedded droplet printing of pharmaceutical particles,” Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, Paper Number 0392, October 2020.
     

  • Nelson A.Z., K. Schweizer, B.M. Rauzan, R.G. Nuzzo, J. Vermant, R.H. Ewoldt (presenter), “Designing and transforming yield-stress fluids,” Gordon Research Conference on Colloidal, Macromolecular and Polyelectrolyte Solutions, Ventura, California, February 2020.
     

  • Nelson A.Z. (presenter), S.A. Khan, P.S. Doyle, “Embedded droplet printing in yield-stress fluids for pharmaceutical materials manufacturing,” The Society of Rheology 91st Annual Meeting, Raleigh, NC, Paper Number AR8, October 2019.
     

  • Nelson A.Z., R.H. Ewoldt (presenter), “Engineering yield-stress fluids for a better world,” Proceedings of the 27th Nordic Rheology Conference, Trondheim, Norway, June 2018.
     

  • Ewoldt R. H. (presenter), A.Z. Nelson, R.E. Bras, J. Liu, B.M. Rauzan, R.G. Nuzzo, “Engineering yield-stress fluids: high extensibility and direct-write printing,” The Annual European Rheology Conference 2018, Sorrento, Italy, Paper Number 464, April 2018.
     

  • Nelson A.Z. (presenter), R. H. Ewoldt, “Rheological design of yield-stress fluids,” 6th World Congress on Adhesion and Related Phenomena & 41st Annual Meeting of The Adhesion Society, San Diego, CA, February 2018.
     

  • Nelson A.Z. (presenter), R. H. Ewoldt, “Designing shear-thinning,” 70th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Denver, CO, Paper Number L37.00011, November, 2017.
     

  • Nelson A.Z. (presenter), R. E. Bras, J. Liu, B. M. Rauzan, R. G. Nuzzo, R. H. Ewoldt, “Extending yield-stress fluid paradigms for design,” The Society of Rheology 89th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, Paper Number IM2, October 2017.
     

  • Nelson A.Z. (presenter), Y. Wang, A. Margotta, R.H. Ewoldt. “Processing-dependent gelation of aqueous methylcellulose,” The Society of Rheology 88th Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL, Paper Number SG2, February 2017.
     

  • Nelson A.Z. (presenter), R. Bras, J. Liu, R.H. Ewoldt, “Extending yield-stress fluid paradigms,” The XVIIth International Congress on Rheology, Kyoto, Japan, Paper Number 5296, August 2016.
     

  • Nelson A.Z. (presenter), R.H. Ewoldt. “Design of yield-stress fluids: A rheology-to-structure inverse problem” The Society of Rheology 87th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, Paper Number SG10, October 2015.
     

  • Nelson A.Z. (presenter), R.H. Ewoldt. “Design of yield-stress fluids: A rheology-to-structure inverse problem” The Society of Rheology 86th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Poster Number PO31, October 2014.