Education
Ph.D., Clemson University, 1988
M.S., Middle East Technical University, 1983
B.S., Middle East Technical University, 1981
Research Interests
Dr. Cagin's research focuses on computational materials science and nanotechnology with emphasis on design, characterization and development of multifunctional nano-structured materials for device and sensor applications; fundamental studies on transport phenomena (heat, mass and momentum) at nanoscale and in confined media; thermal, mechanical, electronic and magnetic properties and phase behavior of materials; materials for thermal management, power generation and energy harvesting; and development and application of multiscale simulation methods.
Selected Publications
C. Sevik, H. Sevincli, G. Cuniberti, T. Cagin, “Phonon engineering in carbon nanotubes by controlling defect concentration,” Nano Letters 11, 4971-7 (2011).
O. U. Ojeda, and T. Çagin, “Hydrogen bonding and molecular rearrangement in 1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene under compression,” J. Phys. Chem. B 115, 12085-93(2011).
J. B. Haskins, A. Kinaci, C. Sevik, H. Sevincli, G. Cuniberti and Tahir Çagin,“Control of thermal and electronic transport in defect engineered graphene nanoribbons,” ACS Nano 5, 3779-87 (2011).
B. Arman, Q. An, S.N. Luo, T. Desai, D.L. Tonks, T. Çagin, and W. A. Goddard, III “Dynamic response of phenolic resin and its carbon-nanotube composites to shock wave loading”, J. Appl. Phys. 109, 013503 (2011).
M. Mani-Biswas, T. Cagin, “Simulation Studies on Hydrogen Sorption and its Thermodynamics in Covalently Linked Carbon Nanotube Scaffold,“ J. Phys. Chem. B 114, 13752–13763 (2010).
H. H. Pham, T. Cagin, “Fundamental Studies of Stress Corrosion Cracking in Iron and underlying mechanisms,” Acta Materialia 58, 5142-5149 (2010).
B. Kim, A. Beskok, T. Cagin, “Heat Transfer in Nanoscale Shear Flow: Viscous Heating in Nanometer thin liquid Films,” Microfluidics & Nanofluidics 9, 31-40 (2010).
J. A. Carvajal-Diaz, T. Cagin, “Thermo-mechanical stability and strength of Peptide Nanostructures From Molecular Dynamics: Self-Assembled Cyclic Peptides Nanotubes,” Nanotech. 21, 115703 (2010).
A. Kinaci, C. Sevik, T. Çagin, “Electronic Transport Properties of SrTiO3 and its alloys,” Phys. Rev. B 82, 155114 (2010).
Arnab Chakrabarty and Tahir Çagin,“Coarse Grain Modeling of Polyimide Copolymers,” Polymer, 51, 2786-94 (2010)
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