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Krishna Muralidharan is an associate professor in the department of materials science and engineering at the University of Arizona, with joint appointments at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics. His research focuses on implementing integrated computational materials engineering paradigms to push the frontiers of additive manufacturing, multiscale energy storage systems and planetary materials analysis. Muralidharan earned his PhD from The University of Arizona in 2004, and prior to joining the University of Arizona as a faculty member, he worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Florida.Show Less
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Courses
- PMPlanetary Materials
- IMSEIIIntroduction to Materials Science & Engineering II
- ICMMSEIntroduction to Computer Methods in Materials Science and Engineering
- TCMThermodynamic Characterization of Materials
- SPMIStructure and Properties of Materials I
- FMEFundamentals of Materials for Engineers
- NMMSENumerical Methods in Materials Science and Engineering
- PPMPhysical Properties of Materials
- ICMSEIntegrated Computational Materials Science and Engineering
Grants
- A Next-Generation Nanoscale Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer for the Analysis of Planetary Materials
Co-Investigator (COI)
2020
$2.4M
Active - Thermodynamic Origins of Refractory Dust in the Early Solar System and Ancient Stars
Co-Investigator (COI)
2019
$1.0M
Active - Following the Molecular History of Stellar Ejecta: Combining Observations with Laboratory Spectroscopy and Imaging
Co-Investigator (COI)
2019
$624.9K
Active - Nonlinear Ultrasonics Methods for Non Invasive Weld Inspection
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$35.0K
- Advanced Manufacturing Methods for Quality and Production: Non Linear Ultrasonics for Nondestructive Evaluation
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$135.0K
- Basic Research and Teaching in Materials Science & Engineering
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$111.9K
- Identification of Critical Build Parameters for Dimensional Control of Metal Parts Manufactured by Direct Metal Laser Sintering
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$100.0K
- Optimization of Hierarchical Compressed Air Energy Storage Tanks for Adaptive Duration-Scalable Electric Power
Co-Investigator (COI)
2019
$71.5K
- A Method for Converting MD Outputs into PD Inputs for Large Scale Simulations
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$27.5K
- MD to PD for Nanoscale Materials
Principal Investigator (PI)
2016
$100.0K
Technologies / Patents
News
- Researchers Trace Dust Grain's Journey Through Newborn Solar System
2021
- UArizona Team to 3D Print Medical Masks
2020
- UArizona Reports Record Number of Startups for Fiscal Year 2020
2020
- Safer Conditions for Mine Workers?
2014
- UA Engineering Leads $5.5M DOE Project to Create Low-Cost Solar Energy
2012
- Squeezing Sustainable Energy From Thin Air
2011
Publications (147)
Recent
- Towards Lunar In-Situ Resource Utilization and In-Space Manufacturing: Additive Manufacturing of Hydrogel-Based Lunar Regolith Pastes
2023
- Influence of Halides on the Interactions of Ammonium Acids with Metal Halide Perovskites
2023
- A nanometric window on fullerene formation in the interstellar medium: Insights from molecular dynamics studies
2022
- Nonlinear acoustic technique for monitoring porosity in additively manufactured parts
2022
- DEVELOPMENT OF HIBONITE AS A BAROMETER FOR NEBULAR OXGYGEN FUGACITY.
2022
- A First-Principles Investigation of Lithium and Sodium Ion Diffusion in C60 Molecular Solids
2022
- Characterization of recycled Inconel 718 metal powder for assessing its reusability in the laser powder bed fusion process
2022
- The interplay between twinning and cation inversion in MgAl2O4-spinel: Implications for a nebular thermochronometer
2022
- Thermal Conductivity of Porous Aluminosilicates Using Molecular Dynamics Simulation
2021
- From atomic-scale to mesoscale: A characterization of geopolymer composites using molecular dynamics and peridynamics simulations
2021
- Linear and nonlinear analysis of additively manufactured material with different porosity induced by varying material printing speed using guided acoustic waves
2021
- Techno-economic assessment and design optimization of compressed air energy storage using filament wound carbon fiber reinforced plastic pressure vessels
2021
- Atomic-scale Evidence for Open-system Thermodynamics in the Early Solar Nebula
2021
- Density Functional Theory Driven Analysis of the Interplay among Structure, Composition, and Oxidation State of Titanium in Hibonite, Spinel, and Perovskite
2021
- A data-driven approach to approximate the correlation functions in cluster variation method
2021
- A multiscale microstructural characterization of SiO2-Al2O3 foams
2021
- Evaluation of Mechanical Properties of Alumino Silicate Foam by Ultrasound Transmission Technique
2021
- Thermodynamic Modeling of Equilibrium Solubilities of Ti in Minerals of Calcium-and-Aluminum-Rich Inclusions Under Nebular Conditions
2021
- Comparison of the filtration efficiency of different face masks against aerosols
2021
- Recent developments in thermally insulating materials based on geopolymers—a review article
2020
- Direct foaming driven synthesis and thermophysical characterization of silica-alumina foams: Applications for thermal insulation
2020
- Heat Management Alternatives in Deep Underground Mines as a Crucial Part of Mine Ventilation
2020
- High strength porous material
2020
- Effect of Ligand Adsorption on the Electronic Properties of the PbS (100) Surface
2020
- More Efficient Way to Increase Ventilation in Deep Underground Mine
2020
- Feasibility of removal of graphene oxide particles from aqueous suspensions by DC/AC electrocoagulation
2020
- Thermochemical model on the carbothermal reduction of oxides during spark plasma sintering of zirconium diboride
2019
- Thermodynamic Modeling of Pyroxene Solid Solutions: Revisiting the Condensation Sequence of Refractory Minerals in Calcium-and Aluminium-Rich Inclusions
2019
- The effect of grain-size on fracture of polycrystalline silicon carbide: A multiscale analysis using a molecular dynamics-peridynamics framework
2019
- Thermodynamics of Twin Complexions in Spinel: Deducing the Loci of Temperature and Pressure of Deformation Processes Within the Solar Protoplanetary Disk
2019
- Additive Manufacturing of Lunar Mineral-Based Composites
2019
- Deduction the Thermodynamic Origins of Planetary Materials: Implications for the Histories of Materials to be Returned by Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-Rex
2019
- Atomistic insights into the effect of polymerization on the thermophysical properties of 2-D C60 molecular solids
2018
- Effect of porosity on the stress-strain response and hysteretic energy dissipation capacity of NiTi SMA
2018
- Atomic-scale dynamics and mechanical response of geopolymer binder under nanoindentation
2018
- Atomistic simulation of shape memory effect (SME) and superelasticity (SE) in nano-porous NiTi shape memory alloy (SMA)
2018
- Reactive molecular dynamics simulation of the mechanical behavior of sodium aluminosilicate geopolymer and calcium silicate hydrate composites
2018
- Scale-parity Preserving Multiscale Models for Investigating the Mechanical Properties of Geopolymers
2018
- Effect of surface preparation of copper on spin-coating driven self-assembly of fullerene molecules
2017
- Evolution of internal strain in austenite phase during thermally induced martensitic phase transformation in NiTi shape memory alloys
2017
- Electrocoagulation driven fabrication of graphene oxide films
2017
- A Combined Atomic-Resolution STEM and First-Principles Approach Towards Understanding the Origins of the First Solar-System Solids
2017
- The Structure and Electronic States of Self-Assembled C60 Crystals
2017
- Synthesis and Characterization of Lithiated C60 Systems: Applications in Electrochemical Energy Storage
2017
- An atomistic assessment of the impact of flaw orientation on the elastic and failure behavior of single-crystal Si nanometre-thick slabs
2017
- Thermodynamic Modeling of Condensation of Perovskite and Spinel Solid Solutions Pertaining to Solar Nebula Conditions
2017
- Nanoscale Analysis of Perovskite Grains from Allende and Axtell Meteorites
2017
- Adsorption and assembly of simple organics, amino acids, and sugar molecules on mineral grains in the accretion disk
2017
- Structure of ZnCl2 Melt. Part II: Fragile-to-Strong Transition in a Tetrahedral Liquid
2017
- Processing Low‐Oxide ZrB2 Ceramics with High Strength Using Boron Carbide and Spark Plasma Sintering
2016
- Consistent Embedding Frameworks for Predictive Multi-theory Multiscale Simulations
2016
- An atomistic characterization of the interplay between composition, structure and mechanical properties of amorphous geopolymer binders
2016
- The Role of Aluminum Substitution on the Stability of Substituted Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes
2016
- Multiscale Paradigms in Integrated Computational Materials Science and Engineering
2016
- Nonlinear phonon modes in second-order anharmonic coupled monoatomic chains
2016
- Origin of water in Earth with high D/H ratio relative to protosolar nebula, and an explanation of its similarity with the isotopic ratios of carbonaceous chondrites and …
2016
- A molecular dynamics study of the role of molecular water on the structure and mechanics of amorphous geopolymer binders
2016
- Structure of ZnCl2 Melt. Part I: Raman Spectroscopy Analysis Driven by Ab Initio Methods
2016
- Interatomic Potentials Including Chemistry
2016
- Interplay between structure and transport properties of molten salt mixtures of ZnCl2–NaCl–KCl: A molecular dynamics study
2016
- Atomic-Resolution Analysis of Perovskite from the Early Solar System
2016
- An atomic scale characterization of coupled grain boundary motion in silicon bicrystals
2015
- Graphene mediated self-assembly of fullerene nanorods
2015
- Grain boundary dynamics of SiC bicrystals under shear deformation
2015
- Torsional topology and fermion-like behavior of elastic waves in phononic structures
2015
- Experimental and computational investigation of microcrack behavior under combined environments in monocrystalline Si
2015
- The role of copper pretreatment on the morphology of graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition
2015
- Theoretical and experimental investigations of nanometric alkali oxide layers on silicon as low work function electrodes for thermionic converters
2015
- Incorporation of water into olivine during nebular condensation: Insights from density functional theory and thermodynamics, and implications for phyllosilicate formation and …
2015
- Energetics of substituted polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes: a DFT study
2015
- Performance Enhancement of Activated Carbon Based Supercapacitors By Incorporation of Fullerene Self-Assemblies
2015
- Self-assembled fullerene additives for boosting the capacity of activated carbon electrodes in supercapacitors
2015
- Rotational modes in a phononic crystal with fermion-like behavior
2014
- Multi-phonon scattering processes in one-dimensional anharmonic biological superlattices: Understanding the dissipation of mechanical waves in mineralized tissues
2014
- Synthesis and delivery of amino acids to the early earth via surface catalysis: A computational study
2014
- Molecular dynamics simulations and thermodynamic modeling of NaCl–KCl–ZnCl2 ternary system
2014
- A computational investigation of adsorption of organics on mineral surfaces: Implications for organics delivery in the early solar system
2014
- Exploring structures and properties of new geodesic polyarenes
2014
- Tailoring thermal conductivity of graphene via defect-and-molecular engineering
2014
- Incorporation of water in pyrope: a first principles study
2014
- New plasmonic materials in visible spectrum through electrical charging
2013
- Guidelines for the pressure and efficient sizing of pressure vessels for compressed air energy storage
2013
- Impact of local curvature and structural defects on graphene-C sub 60 /sub fullerene fusion reaction barriers
2013
- Anisotropic permittivity of ultra-thin crystalline Au films: Impacts on the plasmonic response of metasurfaces
2013
- Hydration Kinetics of Pericalse: Quantum Chemical Calculations and Implications for the Timescale of Formation of Hydrous Minerals in the Solar Nebula
2013
- Phonon scattering in one-dimensional anharmonic crystals and superlattices: Analytical and numerical study
2013
- Size-dependent permittivity and intrinsic optical anisotropy of nanometric gold thin films: a density functional theory study
2013
- A Computational Exploration on the Attachment of Organics to Minerals: Implications for the Delivery of Organics to Meteorite Parent Bodies and the Early Earth
2013
- Characterization of graphene-fullerene interactions: Insights from density functional theory
2013
- A first-principles characterization of water adsorption on forsterite grains
2013
- Nanoscale phononic crystals and structures
2013
- Accretion disc origin of the Earth's water
2013
- Impact of Local Curvature and Structural Defects on Graphene–C60 Fullerene Fusion Reaction Barriers
2013
- Halide and oxy-halide eutectic systems for high performance high temperature heat transfer fluids
2013
- University of Arizona Compressed Air Energy Storage
2012
- Conference 8346: Smart Sensor Phenomena, Technology, Networks, and Systems Integration V
2012
- First Principles Investigation of Adsorption of Organic Molecules on Planetary Materials
2012
- Chemical pathways and mechanisms of water adsorption on olivine grains: evidence for wet accretion of earth
2012
- Phase-controlling phononic crystal
2011
- Experimental Evidence of Adsorption as a Source of Planetary Water
2011
- Phase-controlling phononic crystals: Realization of acoustic Boolean logic gates
2011
- Electronic Structure Calculations of Water Adsorption on Forsterite Grains: Implications for Planetary Water
2011
- ACCRETION DISK ORIGIN OF EARTH’S WATER: LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS
2011
- Asymmetric energy transport in defected boron nitride nanoribbons: Implications for thermal rectification
2011
- Consistent embedding: A multi-scale approach to brittle fracture
2011
- Resolution limit of a phononic crystal superlens
2011
- Acoustic logic gates implemented using a phase controlling phononic crystal
2011
- Phononic metamaterials for thermal management: an atomistic computational study
2011
- Modeling the coupling of reaction kinetics and hydrodynamics in a collapsing cavity
2010
- Atomistic Simulations of Adsorption of Water onto Forsterite and Fayalite Planar Surfaces: Implication for the Origin of Water in the Inner Solar System
2010
- Where on Earth has our water come from?
2010
- Viscoelastic effect on acoustic band gaps in polymer-fluid composites
2009
- Water in the inner solar system: insights from atomistic and electronic-structure calculations
2009
- Experimental and theoretical evidence for subwavelength imaging in phononic crystals
2009
- Peculiar refraction phenomena in a solid/air phononic crystal: a theoretical and experimental study
2009
- Some-Perhaps Most-Water in the Earth Must Result from Adsorption on to Grains in the Accretion Disk
2009
- Positive, negative, zero refraction, and beam splitting in a solid/air phononic crystal: Theoretical and experimental study
2009
- Spatiotemporal compound wavelet matrix framework for multiscale/multiphysics reactor simulation: Case study of a heterogeneous reaction/diffusion system
2008
- Time Parallel Scalable Multiphysics/Multiscale Framework
2008
- Origin of water in the inner Solar System: A kinetic Monte Carlo study of water adsorption on forsterite
2008
- Dynamic compound wavelet matrix method for multiphysics and multiscale problems
2008
- Wavelet-based spatial scaling of coupled reaction-diffusion fields
2008
- Adsorption as a water delivery source in the inner solar system: a kinetic Monte Carlo study
2008
- PUPIL: A systematic approach to software integration in multi-scale simulations
2007
- Environment dependent dynamic charge potential for silica: Application to nanoscale silica structures
2007
- Molecular dynamics simulations of atomic-level brittle fracture mechanisms in amorphous silica
2007
- Adsorption of water gas on to grains in the accretion disk as a source of inner solar system water: Direct evidence from Monte Carlo simulation
2007
- Removal of gold particles from chromium oxynitride surface with dilute sulfuric acid solutions
2007
- Energetics and mechanical properties of silica nanotubes
2007
- Environment dependent charge potential for water
2007
- Experimental and simulation investigations of acoustic cavitation in megasonic cleaning
2007
- Selection of domains for coarse and fine levels of description in mixed-potential simulations
2006
- Quantum, classical, and multi-scale simulation of silica-water interaction: Molecules, clusters, and extended systems
2006
- Implementation of consistent embedding for a larger system–Amorphous silica
2006
- Simulation Studies of Mechanical Properties of Novel Silica Nano-structures
2006
- Environment Dependent Dynamic Charge Interatomic Potential for Silica
2006
- Molecular dynamics studies of brittle fracture in vitreous silica: Review and recent progress
2005
- Dynamics of brittle fracture in amorphous silica: A molecular dynamics study
2005
- A Dynamic Charge Potential for Water
2005
- Molecular dynamics simulations of brittle fracture in amorphous silica
2004
- A concurrent multiscale finite difference time domain/molecular dynamics method for bridging an elastic continuum to an atomic system
2003
- A hybrid QM-MD method to study brittle fracture in vitreous silica
2003
- Using the modified embedded-atom method to calculate the properties of Pu-Ga alloys
2003
- Phase Stability of Pu and Pu‐Ga Alloys from Atomistic Calculations
2003
- Multiscale modeling of wave propagation: FDTD/MD hybrid method
2002
- Multiscale Modeling of Wavepropagation: FDTD/MD Hybrid Method
2002
- Molecular Dynamics Studies of Bulk Self-diffusion in [beta]-SiC
2000