Sabrina Nilufar | Mechanical Aerospace and Materials Engineering | SIU

Sabrina Nilufar

Assistant Professor

Dr. Sabrina Nilufar is an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Materials Engineering. Her research focuses on Advanced Materials, Covetics, Reinforced Composite Materials, and Additive Manufacturing.

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EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014
• M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Tuskegee University, 2007
• B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 2003

RESEARCH

The current demand for lightweight and high-performance materials led to the creation of novel materials with improved properties and reduced mass and dimension. This can be achieved by developing new processing methods and controlling processing parameters. As a consequence, the microstructure of the materials will be altered leading to the improvement of material properties. The overall goal of our research is to manufacture next-generation materials and to carry out the multiscale characterization of structure, composition, and properties for application in the structural, aerospace, defense, biomedical, and other industrial applications.

TEACHING

• ENGR 350 A/B: Mechanics of Materials

• ME 405: Transportation Power Systems

• ME 411: Manufacturing Methods: Engineering Materials

• ME 472: Materials Selection for Design

• ME 477: Fundamentals of Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing

• ME 586: Additive Manufacturing

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Chitrakar, M. S. Hossain, and S. Nilufar, “The Effect of Microballoon Volume Fraction on the Elastic and Viscoelastic Properties of Hollow Microballoon-Filled Epoxy Composites”, Materials,16(24), 7554-7568, 2023.
• Rativa-Parada, H. I. Sirikumara, T. Jayasekhara, and S. Nilufar, “Effect of Nanocarbon on the Structural and Mechanical Properties of 6061 Aluminum Composites by Powder Metallurgy”, Nanomaterials,13(22), 2917-2930, 2023.
• Rativa-Parada, and S. Nilufar, “Nanocarbon-Infused Metal Matrix Composites: A Review”, The Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, 75(9), 4009-4023, 2023.
• I. Sirikumara, W. Rativa-Parada, R. Karunanithy, P. Sivakumar, S. Nilufar, T. Jayasekera, “ Atomic composition/configuration dependent bulk moduli of Al–C composites”, AIP Advances, 12 (11), 115008-115013, 2022.
• K. Protick, S. K. Amit, K. Amar, S. D. Nath, R. Akand, V. A Davis, S. Nilufar, F. Chowdhury, “Additive Manufacturing of Viscoelastic Polyacrylamide Substrates for Mechanosensing Studies”, ACS Omega, 7 (28), 24384-24395, 2022.
• D. Nath, and S. Nilufar, “Performance Evaluation of Sandwich Structures Printed by Vat Photopolymerization”, Polymers, 14(8), 1513-1526, 2022.
• D. Nath and S. Nilufar, “An overview of additive manufacturing of polymers and associated composites”, “Polymers”, 12(11), 2719-2752, 2020.
• A. Varnell, M. Bakir, A. M. DiAscro, X. Chen, S. Nilufar, I. Jasuik, and A. A. Gewirth, “Understanding the influence of carbon addition on the corrosion behavior and mechanical properties for an Al alloy “covetics””, “Journal of Materials Science”, 54 (3), 2668–2679, 2019.
• M .I. Jaim, R. A. Isaacs, S. N. Rashkeev, M. Kuklja, D. P. Cole, M. C. LeMieux, I. Jasiuk, S. Nilufar, L.G. Salamanca-Riba, “Sp2 Carbon in Al- 6061 and Al-7075 Alloys in the Form of Crystalline Graphene Nanoribbons”, “Carbon”, 107, 56-66, 2016.
• Nilufar, S. Siddiqi, and I. Jasiuk. “Multi-scale characterization of novel aluminum-carbon nanocomposites”’ In: Materials science and technology conference and exhibition; MS&T: 701-707, 2012.
• C. Saha and S. Nilufar, “Nanoclay Reinforced Syntactic Foams: Flexure and Thermal Behavior”, “Polymer Composites”, 31(8), 1309-1494, 2010.
• C. Saha, S. Nilufar, M. Major and S. Jeelani, “Processing and Performance Evaluation of Hollow Glass Microspheres Filled Epoxy Composites”, “Polymer Composites”, 29(3), 293-301, 2008.
• Nilufar, M. C. Saha, and S. Jeelani, "Investigation on Flexural and Thermo Mechanical Properties of SiO₂ Nanoparticles Infused Epoxy Syntactic Foams," SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, 2, 1133- 1143, 2007.
• C. Saha, S.Nilufar, S. Jeelani, "Effect of Strain Rate on Compressive Behavior of Syntactic Foam," SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, 604-611, 2006.