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Benjamin B. Yellen, Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems

Benjamin B. Yellen

Please note: Benjamin has left the "Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

The guiding principle of Dr. Yellen’s work is to investigate applications of electriciy and magnetism in medicine, energy, and the environment. One research focus is designing magnetic implants for drug delivery and medical imaging. Another research focus is developing nanoscale magnetic manipulation and tracking technology to observe the motion of colloidal particles immersed in ferrofluid (e.g., a suspension of 10nm iron oxide particles). A third research focus is the development of electrochemical apparatus to control local pH for various applications in bio-chemical array fabrication, electrolysis for generation of Hydrogen gas, and potentially other applications.

Contact Info:
Office Location:  3389 CIEMAS
Email Address: send me a message
Web Page:  http://www.yellen.mems.duke.edu

Education:

PhDDrexel University2004
BSEmory University1998
Specialties:

Micro-electronic mechanical machines
Nanomaterial manufacturing and characterization
Nonlinear Dynamics
Diagnostics
Computational Electromagnetics
Soft materials
Biological Materials
Active materials
Heat and mass transfer
Thermodynamics
Acoustics
Drug Delivery
Vibration
Curriculum Vitae
Current Ph.D. Students  

  • Hui S Son  
  • Randall M Erb  
Postdocs Mentored

  • Robert Ducker (April 01, 2007 - present)  
Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. B.B. Yellen, R. M. Erb, H. S. Son, R. Hewlin, Jr., H. Shang, G. U. Lee, Traveling Wave Magnetophoresis for High Resolution Chip Based Separations, Lab on a Chip, vol. in press (December, 2007)
  2. Erb, R.M. and Yellen, B.B., Model of detecting nonmagnetic cavities in ferrofluid for biological sensing applications, IEEE Trans. Magn. (USA), vol. 42 no. 10 (2006), pp. 3554 - 6 [TMAG.2006.879614]  [abs]
  3. Yellen, Benjamin B. and Erb, Randall M. and Halverson, Derek S. and Hovorka, Ondrej and Friedman, Gary, Arraying nonmagnetic colloids by magnetic nanoparticle assemblers, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 42 no. 10 (2006), pp. 3548 - 3553 [TMAG.2006.879623]  [abs]
  4. Yellen, Benjamin B. and Forbes, Zachary G. and Halverson, Derek S. and Fridman, Gregory and Barbee, Kenneth A. and Chorny, Michael and Levy, Robert and Friedman, Gary, Targeted drug delivery to magnetic implants for therapeutic applications, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, vol. 293 no. 1 (2005), pp. 647 - 654 [083]  [abs]
  5. Yellen, B.B. and Hovorka, O. and Friedman, G., Arranging matter by magnetic nanoparticle assemblers, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (USA), vol. 102 no. 25 (2005), pp. 8860 - 4 [pnas.0500409102]  [abs]
  6. Yellen, Benjamin B. and Friedman, Gary, Programmable assembly of heterogeneous colloidal particle arrays, Advanced Materials, vol. 16 no. 2 (2004), pp. 111 - 115 [adma.200305603]  [abs]
  7. Yellen, B.B. and Fridman, G. and Friedman, G., Ferrofluid lithography, Nanotechnology, vol. 15 no. 10 (2004), pp. 562-565 - [011]  [abs]
  8. Yellen, Benjamin B. and Friedman, Gary, Programmable assembly of colloidal particles using magnetic microwell templates, Langmuir, vol. 20 no. 7 (2004), pp. 2553 - 2559 [la0352016]  [abs]
  9. Forbes, Zachary G. and Yellen, Benjamin B. and Barbee, Kenneth A. and Friedman, Gary, An Approach to Targeted Drug Delivery Based on Uniform Magnetic Fields, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 39 no. 5 II (2003), pp. 3372 - 3377 [TMAG.2003.816260]  [abs]


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