Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998

Solid oxide fuel cells, gas separation membranes, solid-state gas sensors, electrocatalytic conversion of CH4, post-combustion reduction of NOx using advanced ion conducting materials.

Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2012 "Analysis of the variation in the determination of the shear modulus of the erythrocyte membrane: Effects of the constitutive law and membrane modeling" Phys. Rev. E, 85, 041917. Dodson W. R. III and Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2012 "Tank-treading of swollen erythrocytes in shear flows" Phys. Rev. E, 85, 021922. Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2011 "Comment on "Tank-treading and tumbling frequencies of capsules and red blood cells" Phys. Rev. E, 84, 058301. Dodson W. R. III and Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2011 "Oscillatory tank-treading motion of erythrocytes in shear flows" Phys. Rev. E, 84, 011913. Kuriakose S. and Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2011 "Motion of an elastic capsule in a square microfluidic channel" Phys. Rev. E, 84, 011906. Dodson W. R. III and Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2010 "Tank-treading of erythrocytes in strong shear flows via a non-stiff cytoskeleton-based continuum computational modeling" Biophys. J., 99, 2906-2916. Dodson W. R. III and Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2009 "Dynamics of strain-hardening and strain-softening capsules in strong planar extensional flows via an interfacial spectral boundary element algorithm for elastic membranes" J. Fluid Mech., 641, 263-296. Takemura F., Magnaudet J. and Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2009 "Migration and deformation of bubbles rising in a wall-bounded shear flow at finite Reynolds number" J. Fluid Mech., 634, 463-486. Dodson W. R. III and Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2008 "Spindles, cusps and bifurcation for capsules in Stokes flow" Phys. Rev. Lett., 101, 208102. Wang Yechun and Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2006 "A three-dimensional spectral boundary element algorithm for interfacial dynamics in Stokes flow" Phys. Fluids, 18, 082106(1-16). Wang Yechun and Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2006 "Nature of the hemodynamic forces exerted on vascular endothelial cells or leukocytes adhering to the surface of blood vessels" Phys. Fluids, 18, 087107(1-14). Wang Yechun and Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2006 "Normal force exerted on vascular endothelial cells" Phys. Rev. Lett., 96, 028106.