Mohammad Naraghi

Educational Background

Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering Structures & Materials, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - 2009
M.S., Civil Engineering Mechanics of Materials & Structures, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran - 2004
B.S., Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran - 2004

- Graphitic carbon-based multifunctional nanomaterials
- Fabrication and characterization of bio-inspired nanocomposites
- Experimental nanomechanics
- Electrospinning of polymeric nanofibers
- Mechanics of polymeric and biological nanofibers

Best paper award, for: Naraghi M., Chasiotis I. and Hilton H. H., Theory of Designer Nano Viscoelastic Composites Proceedings World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society Conference Continuum Mechanics-09; Cambridge, UK – 2009
Roger A. Strehlow Memorial Award for outstanding research accomplishment – 2009
First place - Characterization, Reliability and Nanoscale Phenomena category; Sandia MicroElectroMechanical Systems University Alliance Design Competition – 2007

Naraghi M., Arshad S. N. and Chasiotis I., Molecular orientation and mechanical property size effects in electrospun polyacrylonitrile nanofibers, Polymer, 7, pp. 1612-1618. 2011
Naraghi M., Filleter T., Moravsky A., Locascio M., Loutfy R. O. and Espinosa H. D., A Multiscale Study of High Performance Double-Walled Nanotube Polymer Fibers, ACS nano, 4, pp. 6463-6476. 2010
Arshad S. N., Naraghi M. and Chasiotis I., High strength carbon nanofibers derived from electrospun PAN, Carbon, 49, pp 1710-1719 2010.
Naraghi M, Ozkan T, Chasiotis I., Hazra S. S. and de Boer M. P. MEMS platform for on-chip nanomechanical experiments with strong and highly ductile nanofibers, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 20, 125022. 2010
Ozkan T, Naraghi M and Chasiotis I., Mechanical strength of vapor grown carbon nanofibers, Carbon, 48, pp. 239-244. 2010