Journal Publications

1. Thermally Accelerated Curing of Platinum-Catalyzed Elastomers
   T.F. Yap, A. Rajappan, M.D. Bell, R.M. Rasheed, C.J. Decker, D.J. Preston
   Cell Reports Physical Science, 5(3), 2024
2. Teflon AF–Coated Nanotextured Aluminum Surfaces for Jumping Droplet Thermal Rectification
   T.J. Shimokusu, A. Nathani, Z. Liu, T.F. Yap, D.J. Preston, G. Wehmeyer
   Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2300817, 2024
3. Harnessing Nature’s Design with Necrobotics
   T.F. Yap, Z. Liu, A. Rajappan, T.J. Shimokusu, D.J. Preston
   Device, 1(4), 2023
4. Rapid In Situ Thermal Decontamination of Wearable Composite Textile Materials
   M.D. Bell, K. Ye, T.F. Yap, A. Rajappan, Z. Liu, Y.J. Tao, D.J. Preston
   ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Articles ASAP, 2023
   
5. Fluidically Programmed Wearable Haptic Textiles
   B. Jumet, Z.A. Zook, A. Yousaf, A. Rajappan, D. Xu, T.F. Yap, N. Fino, Z. Liu, M.K. O’Malley, D.J. Preston
   Device, 1(3), 2023
   
6. Mitigating Contamination with Nanostructure-Enabled Ultraclean Storage
   Z. Liu, T.F. Yap, A. Rajappan, R.A. Shveda, R.M. Rasheed, D.J. Preston
   Nano Letters, 23(14), 2023.
7. Logic-Enabled Textiles
   A. Rajappan, B. Jumet, R.A. Shveda, C.J. Decker, Z. Liu, T.F. Yap, V. Sanchez, D.J. Preston
   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 119(35), 2022
8. A Wearable Textile-Based Pneumatic Energy Harvesting System for Assistive Robotics
   R.A. Shveda, A. Rajappan, T.F. Yap, Z. Liu, M.D. Bell, B. Jumet, V. Sanchez, D.J. Preston
   Science Advances, 8(34), 2022
9. Necrobotics: Biotic Materials as Ready-to-Use Actuators (Selected for Back Cover)
   T.F. Yap, Z. Liu, A. Rajappan, T.J. Shimokusu, D.J. Preston
   Advanced Science, 2201174, 2022
10. Efficacy and Self-Similarity of SARS-CoV-2 Thermal Decontamination
    T.F. Yap, J.C. Hsu, Z. Liu, K. Rayavara, V. Tat, C.T.K. Tseng, D.J. Preston
    Journal of Hazardous Materials, 429(127709), 2022 – PDF
11. Effect of Daily Temperature Fluctuations on Virus Lifetime
    T.F. Yap, C.J. Decker, D.J. Preston
    Science of the Total Environment, 148004, 2021 – PDF
12. A Predictive Model of the Temperature-Dependent Inactivation of Coronaviruses
    T.F. Yap, Z. Liu, R.A. Shveda, D.J. Preston
    Applied Physics Letters, 117(060601), 2020 – Preprint

Conference Presentations

1. Leveraging the Temperature Dependent Curing of Elastomers
   T.F. Yap, A. Rajappan, M.D. Bell, R.M. Rasheed, C.J. Decker, D.J. Preston
   Society of Engineering Science (SES) Annual Technical Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, Oct. 8 – 11, 2023.
   
2. Textile-Enabled Technologies for Human-Centric Soft Wearable Robots
   T.F. Yap, A. Rajappan, R.A. Shveda, B. Jumet, M.D. Bell, Z. Liu, C.J. Decker, V. Sanchez, D.J. Preston
   IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), Singapore, Apr. 3 – 7, 2023.
3. Necrobotics: Reimagining Robotic Materials
   T.F. Yap, Z. Liu, A. Rajappan, T.J. Shimokusu, D.J. Preston
   3rd International Workshop on Insect Bio-inspired Technologies (IWIBIT), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, Nov. 17 – 18, 2022.
   Best Poster
4. Effect of Thermal Mass on Virus Inactivation Timescale
   T.F. Yap, D.J. Preston
   Micro Flow and Interfacial Phenomena (µFIP) Conference, Irvine, CA, June 20-23, 2022.
5. Effects of Diurnal Temperature Range on the Inactivation Rate of SARS-CoV-2
   T.F. Yap, C.J. Decker, D.J. Preston
   APS March Meeting, Chicago, IL, Mar 14 – 18, 2022.
6. Data-driven Model of the Thermal Inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 
   T.F. Yap, Z. Liu, R. Shveda, D.J. Preston
   ACS Fall 2021 National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Aug 22 – 26, 2021.
   Selected for Sci-Mix presentation (top 10% of submissions)
7. Data-driven Model of the Thermal Inactivation of SARS-CoV-2
   T.F. Yap, Z. Liu, R. Shveda, D.J. Preston
   NSF Workshop: New Frontiers of Thermal Transport, Dec 14– 16, 2020, Jan 4 – 6, 2021.
8. A Data-driven Model of the Thermal Inactivation of SARS-CoV-2
   T.F. Yap, Z. Liu, R. Shveda, D.J. Preston
   6th Annual Smalley-Curl Institute Summer Research Colloquium. Aug 5, 2020.
   Best Poster