Meinhart Research Group

Universtiy of California, Santa Barbara

Recent Publications


Fluorescence-Based Observation of Transient Electrochemical and Electrokinetic Effects at Nanoconfined Bipolar Electrodes
Karen Scida, Alexander Eden, Netzahualcóyotl Arroyo-Currás, Sean MacKenzie, Yesil Satik, Carl D Meinhart, Jan CT Eijkel, Sumita Pennathur; ACS applied materials & interfaces 11 (14), 13777-13786; 2019.

Changes in the structure of electrodeposited manganese oxide water oxidation catalysts revealed by in-operando Raman spectroscopy
William Elliott, Reza Salemmilani, Syed Mubeen, Carl D Meinhart, Galen D Stucky, Martin Moskovits; Journal of Catalysis 371, 287-290; 2019.

Modeling Faradaic Reactions and Electrokinetic Phenomena at a Nanochannel-Confined Bipolar Electrode
Alexander Eden, Karen Scida, Netzahualcoyotl Arroyo-Curras, Jan Cornelis Titus Eijkel, Carl D Meinhart, Sumita Pennathur;The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 123 (9), 5353-5364; 2019.

Microfluidic analysis of fentanyl-laced heroin samples by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy in a hydrophobic medium
Reza Salemmilani, Martin Moskovits, Carl D Meinhart; Analyst 144 (9), 3080-3087; 2019.

Quantitative surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy chemical analysis using citrate as an in situ calibrant
Reza Salemmilani, Rustin Y Mirsafavi, Augustus W Fountain, Martin Moskovits, Carl D Meinhart; Analyst 144 (5), 1818-1824; 2019.

Dielectrophoretic Nanoparticle Aggregation for On-Demand Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Analysis
Reza Salemmilani, Brian D Piorek, Rustin Y Mirsafavi, Augustus W Fountain III, Martin Moskovits, Carl D Meinhart; Analytical chemistry 90 (13), 7930-7936; 2018.

Screening for canine transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) by SERS-based quantitative urine cytology
A Pallaoro, RY Mirsafavi, WTN Culp, GB Braun, CD Meinhart, M Moskovits; Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine 14 (4), 1279-1287; 2018.

Scaling relationships for acoustic control of two-phase microstructures during direct-write printing
RR Collino, TR Ray, LM Friedrich, JD Cornell, CD Meinhart, MR Begley; Materials Research Letters 6 (3), 191-198; 2018.

Analyte preconcentration in nanofluidic channels with nonuniform zeta potential
A. Eden, C. McCallum, B. D. Storey, S. Pennathur, and C. D. Meinhart; Phys. Rev. Fluids 2, 124203; 2017.

Properly Structured, Any Metal Can Produce Intense Surface Enhanced Raman Spectra
Kanipe KN, Chidester PFP, Stucky GD, Meinhart CD, Moskovits M; J. Phys. Chem. C; 2017 June 12.

Detection of Papaverine for the Possible Identification of Illicit Opium Cultivation
Mirsafavi RY, Lai K, Kline ND, Fountain AW, Meinhart CD, Moskovits M; American Chemical Society (ACS); 2017 Jan 25.

Optimization of Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Conditions for Implementation into a Microfluidic Device for Drug Detection
Kline ND, Tripathi A, Mirsafavi RY, Pardoe IJ, Moskovits M, Meinhart CD, Guicheteau JA, Christesen SD, Fountain AW; American Chemical Society (ACS); 2016 Nov;88(21):10513–22.

Dynamics of ferrofluid drop deformations under spatially uniform magnetic fields
Rowghanian P, Meinhart CD, Campàs O; Cambridge University Press (CUP); 2016 Aug 3;802:245–62.

A hybrid experimental-numerical technique for determining 3D velocity fields from planar 2D PIV data
Eden A, Sigurdson M, Mezić I, Meinhart CD; IOP Publishing; 2016 Aug 11;27(9):094010. A

Plasmon-Mediated Reduction of Aqueous Platinum Ions: The Competing Roles of Field Enhancement and Hot Charge Carriers
Kim NH, Meinhart CD, Moskovits M; American Chemical Society (ACS); 2016 Mar 31;120(12):6750–5.

An electrical probe of the phonon mean-free path spectrum
Ramu AT, Halaszynski NI, Peters JD, Meinhart CD, Bowers JE; Elsevier BV; Springer Nature; 2016 Sep 28;6:33571.

Electrophoretic mobility of spherical particles in bounded domain
Liu Y-W, Pennathur S, Meinhart CD; Elsevier BV; 2016 Jan;461:32–8.

Rapid identification by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy of cancer cells at low concentrations flowing in a microfluidic channel
Pallaoro A, Hoonejani MR, Braun GB, Meinhart CD, Moskovits M; ACS Nano 9, no. 4 (April 28, 2015): 4328–4336.

Quantitative multiplexed simulated-cell identification by SERS in microfluidic devices
Pallaoro, A., Hoonejani, M. R., Braun, G. B., Meinhart, C. D., & Moskovits, M.; ACS Nano, 9(4), 4328–4336.

Detection of low concentrations of ampicillin in milk
Andreou, C., Mirsafavi, R., Moskovits, M., Meinhart, C.D.; Analyst, Analyst, 2015, 140, 5003-5005.

Rapid identification by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy of cancer cells at low concentrations flowing in a microfluidic channel
Pallaoro, A., Hoonejani, M.R., Braun, G.B., Meinhart, C.D., Moskovits, M.; ACS Nano, 2015, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 4328-4336.

Electrophoretic mobility of a spherical nanoparticle in a nanochannel
Liu, Yu-Wei, Pennathur, S., and Meinhart, C.D.; Phys. of Fluids, 26, 112002 (2014).

An injection molded microchip for nucleic acid purification from 25 microliter samples using isotachophoresis
Marshall, L.A., Rogacs, A., Meinhart, C.D., and Santiago, J.G.; J. Chromatography A, 2014.

Convective flows in evaporating sessile droplets
Barmi, M. and Meinhart, C.D.; J. Phys. Chem. B, 2014, 118, 2414-2421.

Discrete free-surface millifluidics for rapid capture and analysis of airborne molecules using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
Piorek, B. D., Andreou, C., Moskovits, M., Meinhart, C.D.; Anal. Chem. 2014, 86,1061-1066.

Aggregation kinetics of SERS-active nanoparticles in thermally stirred sessile droplets
Barmi, M.R., Andreou, C., Hoonejani, M.R., Moskovits, M., Meinhart, C.D.; Langmuir, 2013, 29, 13614-13623.

Rapid detection of drugs of abuse in saliva using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy and microfluidics
Andreou, C., Hoonejani, M.R., Barmi, M.R., Moskovits, M., Meinhart, C.D.; ACS Nano, Vol. 7, No. 8, pp. 7157-7164, 2013.

Combined SERS biotages (SBTs) and microfluidic platform for the quantitative radiometric discrimination between noncancerous cels in flow
Pallaoro, A., Hoonejani, M. R., Braun, G. B., Meinhart, C. D., Moskovits, M., 2013, J. Nanophotonics, Vol. 7

A large scale titanium thermal ground plane
Sigurdson, M., Liu, Y.W., Bozorgi, P. Bothman, D. MacDonald, N.,Meinhart, C.D., 2013, Int. J. Heat Trans. 62, pp. 178-183

Free-surface microfluidics / SERS for real-time vapor detection of explosives
Piorek, B., Lee, S-J., Moskovits, M. and Meinhart, C.D.; 2012, Anal. Chem. 84, 9700-9705

A theoretical and experimental study of ac electrothermal flows
Loire, S, Kauffmann, P, Mezic, I, Meinhart, C. D.; 2012, J. of Physics D, Vol. 45, No. 18, May 9.

Flow optimization study of a batch microfluidics PET tracer synthesizing device
Arkadij M. Elizarov & Carl Meinhart & Reza Miraghaie, R. Michael van Dam & Jiang Huang & Antoine Daridon, James R. Heath & Hartmuth C. Kolb.; 2011, Biomed. Microdevices,13(1):231-42.

Luni, C., Feldman, H.C, Pozzobon, M., Coppi, P.D., Meinhart, C.D., Elvassore, N. 2010. Microliter-bioreactor arrya with buoyancy-driven stirring for human hematopietic stem cell culture, Biomicrofluidics,  4 (3).

Ding, C., Soni, G., Bozorgi, P., Piorek, B., Meinhart C.D., MacDonald, N. 2010 A Flat heat pipe based on nanostrucuted titania, JMEMS, 19, 4, pp. 1057-7157.

Lee, SJ, Piorek, B., Meinhart, C.D., Moskovits, M. 2010. Photoreduction at a Distance: Facile, Nonlocal Photoreduction of Ag Ions in Solution by Phasmon-Mediated Photoemitted Electrons. Nano Lett. 10, 1329-1334.

Srivastava, N., Ding, C., Judson, A., MacDonald, N., and Meinhart, C.D.2010. A unified scaling model for flow through a lattice of microfabricated posts, Lab on a Chip, 10, 1148-1152.

Wereley, S.T. and Meinhart, C.D. 2010. Recent Advances in Micro-Particle Image Velocimetry, Annu Rev. Fluid Mech 42:557-76.

Meinhart, C.D. and Wereley, S.T. 2010. Micro-resolution Particle Image Velocimetry. In Microfluidics, Nanooptics and Surface Chemistry, Ed. Chih-Ming Ho.

Gregersen, M.M., Andersen, M.B., Soni, G., Meinhart, C.D., Bruus, H. 2009, Numerical analysis of finite Debye-length effects in induced-charge electro-osmosis, Phys. Rev. E. 79, 066316.

Pommer, M, Zhang, Y., Keerthi, N, Chen, D, Thomson, JA, Meinhart, CD, Soh, HT. 2008. Dielectrophoretic separation of platelets from diluted whole blood in microfluidic channels. Electrophoresis. Vol. 29, No 6, pp. 1213-8.

Hsiang-Wei Lu, Frederic Bottausci, Jesse D Fowler, Andrea L Bertozzi, Carl Meinhart, Chang-Jin Cj Kim. 2008. A study of EWOD-driven droplets by PIV investigation. Lab on a Chip, Vol. 8 (3), pp. 456-61.

Pennathur, S., Meinhart, C.D., and Soh, T.H. 2008. How to Exploit the Features of Microfluidics Technology. Lab on a Chip Vol. 8, 20-22.

Kristiansen, K., McGuiggan, P., Carver, G., Meinhart, C, Israelachvili, J. 2007. 3D Force and Displacement Sensor for SFA and AFM Measurements.Langmuir, 24 (4), pp. 1541-1549.

Piorek, B.D, Lee, S.-J., Santiago, J.G., Moskovits, M., Banerjee, S. &Meinhart, C. D. 2007 Free-surface microfluidic control of surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy for the optimized detection of airborne molecules  Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 104, 18898-18901.

Feldman, H.,  Sigurdson, M.,  Meinhart, C.D. 2007. AC electrothermal enhancement of heterogeneous assays in microfluidics, Lab on a Chip. Vol. 7, pp. 1553.

Freudenthal, P., Pommer, M., C.D. Meinhart. 2007. Quantum Nanosperes for Sub-Micron Velocimetry, Exp in Fluids, Vol. 43, No 4.

Bottausci, F., Cardonne, C., Meinhart, C., Mezic, I. 2007. An Ultrashort Mixing Length Micromixer: The Shear Superposition Micromixer, Lab on a Chip. 2007, 7, 396 – 398

Wereley, S. T. & Meinhart, C. D. 2007 Micro-PIV. In Particle Image Velocimetry: A Practical Guide, by M. Raffel, C. Willert, S. Wereley, J. Kompenhans, Springer, New York (2007).

Parker, E.R., Rao, M. P., Turner, K. L., Meinhart, C. D., MacDonald, N.C., 2006 Bulk Micromachined Titanium Microneedles, JMEMS, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 289.

Piorek, B., Mechler, A., Freudenthal, P., Lal, R., Meinhart, C.D., Banerjee, S. 2006. Nanoscale resolution microchannel velocimetry by atomic force microscopy. Applied Physics Letters, 89, 153123.

Bown, M.R, C. D. Meinhart 2006 AC electroosmotic flow in a DNA concentrator. Micro and Nanofluidics,  Vol. 2, 513.

S. T. Wereley & C. D. Meinhart 2006  Biomedical Microfluidic and Electrokinetics, In Complex Systems Science in BioMedicine , eds. Deisbooeck, Kresh, Kepler,  Kluwer Academic – Plenum Publishers, Boston.

X.Hu, P. H. Bessette, J. Qian, C.D. Meinhart, P. S. Daugherty, and H. T Soh. 2005. Marker Specific Sorting of Rare Cells Using Dielectrophoresis, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 102, 44, 15757-15761.

Marin Sigurdson, Dazhi Wang, C. D. Meinhart, 2005. Electrothermal stirring for heterogeneous immunoassays, Lab on a Chip, volume 5, issue 12.

L. Zhu, L. Petzold, D. Tretheway & C. D. Meinhart 2005 Simulation of fluid slip at hydrophobic microchannel walls by the Lattice Boltzmann Method, J. Computational Physics, Vol. 202, No. 1, Jan. 2005, pp. 181-195.

Dazhi Wang, Marin Sigurdson & Carl Meinhart 2005 Experimental Analysis of particle and Fluid Motion in AC Electrokinetics, Exp. in Fluids., Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 1-10.

M. Sigurdson, D.-E. Chang, I. Tuval,  I. Mezic & C. Meinhart 2005.  AC Electrokinetic Stirring and Focusing of Nanoparticles,  in Handbook of BioMEMS & BioMedical Nanotechnology, ed. Mauro Ferrari, Vol. IV BioMelocular Sensing, Processing & Analysis, eds. R. Brashir & S. Wereley

F. Bottausci, C. Cardonne, C. Meinhart & I. Mezic 2005 An Actively Controlled Micromixer: 3-D Aspect Micromixer, Microfluidics History, Theory and Applications, Will Zimmerman, Ed., International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Springer-Verlag.

Dazhi Wang, Marin Sigurdson, Carl Meinhart 2004 Application of Micro PIV to AC Electrokinetic Flows, Euro-PIV Book, Springer-Verlag.

S. T. Wereley  & C. D. Meinhart  2005. Micron Resolution Particle Image Velocimetry, in  Micro- and Nano-Scale Diagnostic Techniques, ed. Kenny Breuer., Springer-Verlag, New York.

D. Tretheway &  C. D.  Meinhart 2004.  A generating mechanism for fluids slip in a hydrophobic microchannel. Phys. Fluids Vol. 16, No. 5 pp 1509-1515, May 2004.

F. Bottausci, I. Mezić, C. D.  Meinhart & C. Cardonne  2004. Mixing in the shear superposition micromixer: three-dimensional analysis.  Phil. Trans. of the Royal Society of London Series A-Math. Phys. and Eng. Sci. 362 (1818): 1001-1018 May 15 2004.

C. D. Meinhart, D. Wang & K. Turner 2003 Measurement of Ac Electrokinetic Flows. J. Biomedical Microdevices. 5(2), 139-145, June.

S. Devasenathipathy, J. G. Santiago, S. T. Wereley, C. D. Meinhart & K. Takehara. 2003 Particle imaging techniques for microfabricated fluidic systems,Exp. Fluids. Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 504-513.

C. D. Meinhart & S. T. Wereley 2003 The theory of diffraction-limited resolution in micro particle image velocimetry. Meas. Sci. Technol. Vol. 14, pp. 1047-1053.

R. J. Klein, P. M. Biesheuvel, B. C. Yu, C. D. Meinhart and F. F. Lange  2002. Producing Super-Hydrophobic Surfaces with Nano-Silica Spheres. Zeitschrift für Metallkunde. 94, pp.377-380.

S. W. Stone, C. D. Meinhart, & S. T. Wereley 2002. A Microfluidic-based nanoscope  Exp. in Fluid, .Vol. 33, pp. 613-619.

D. Tretheway & C. D. Meinhart 2002. Apparent fluid slip near hydrophobic microchannel walls, Phys. of Fluids, 14 (3), L9-L12.

S. T. Wereley, L. Gui & C. D. Meinhart. 2001. Advanced algorithms for microscale particle image velocimetry, AIAA J. Vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 1047-1055.

S. T. Wereley and C. D. Meinhart  2001. Adaptive second-order accurate particle image velocimetry. Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 31, pp. 258-268.

R. J. Adrian, C. D. Meinhart, and C. D. Tomkins  2000. Vortex organization in the outer region of the turbulent boundary layer. Journal of Fluid Mechanics422, pp.1-53.

C. D. Meinhart, S. T. Wereley, and M .H. B. Gray  2000. Volume Illumination for two-dimensional particle image velocimetry. Measurement Science Technology Volume 11, No 6., pp. 809 - 814.

C. D. Meinhart and H.S. Zhang 2000. The flow structure inside a microfabricated inkjet printhead. Journal of MEMS Vol. 9, (no.1) IEEE March 2000, pp. 67-75.

C. D. Meinhart, S. T. Wereley, and J. G. Santiago  2000. A PIV algorithm for estimating time-averaged velocity fields. Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 122, pp. 285 – 289.

C. D. Meinhart, S. T. Wereley, and J. G. Santiago  1999. PIV Measurements of a Microchannel Flow. Exp. in Fluids, Vol. 27, pp. 414-419.

C. D. Meinhart, S. T. Wereley, and J. G. Santiago  1999. Micron-Resolution Velocimetry Techniques. In Developments in Laser Techniques and Applications to Fluid Mechanics, R. J. Adrian et al. (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

J. G. Santiago, S. Wereley, C. D. Meinhart, D. J. Beebe, & R. J. Adrian  1998. A PIV system for microfluidics. Exp. Fluids, Vol. 25 No.4, pp 316-319.

J. Zhou, C. D. Meinhart, S. Balachandar, R. J. Adrian  1997. Formation of coherent hairpin packets in wall turbulence. In Self-sustaining mechanisms of wall turbulence, R. L. Panton (Ed.), Computational Mechanics Publications, Ashurst, United Kingdom.

W. Lia, Z. C. Liu, R. J. Adrian, and C. D. Meinhart  1996. Structure of a turbulent boundary layer using a stereoscopic large format video-PIV. InDevelopments in Laser Techniques and Applications to Fluid Mechanics, R. J. Adrian et al. (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

C. D. Meinhart and R. J. Adrian  1995. On the existence of uniform momentum zones in a turbulent boundary layer. Physics of Fluids, Vol. 7 No.4, pp. 694-696.

C. D. Meinhart, D. H. Barnhart, R. J. Adrian  1994. Interrogation and validation of three-dimensional vector fields. In Developments in Laser Techniques and Applications to Fluid Mechanics, R. J. Adrian et al. (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 379-391.

T. Urushihara, C. D. Meinhart and R. J. Adrian  1993. Investigation of the logarithmic layer in pipe flow using particle image velocimetry. In Near-wall Turbulent Flows, R. M. C. So et al. (Eds.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 433-446.

C. D. Meinhart, A. K. Prasad and R. J. Adrian  1993. A parallel digital processor for particle image velocimetry. Measurement Science Technology, Vol. 4, pp. 619-626.