Izabela Szlufarska Associate Professor Address/E-mail Program Affiliations Education Fields of Interest Awards & Honors Selected Publications For additional information, see my

Contact Information

Room 242, Materials Science and Engineering 1509 University Avenue Madison, WI 53706-1595

Tel: 608/265-5878 Fax: 608/262-8353 E-mail: szlufarska@wisc.edu

Program Affiliations

• Materials Science and Engineering
• Engineering Physics

• Materials Science Program

Education

• Postdoctoral Researcher, CACS, University of Southern California 2002-2004
• Ph.D. Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 2002
• MS. Physics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland 1999

Fields of Interest

• Coupling between surface/interfacial chemistry and mechanical properties of ceramics
• Fundamentals of friction & adhesion at the nanoscale
• Nanoindentation and contact mechanics
• Chemistry and mechanics in biological systems (e.g., cell migration, mechanical properties of DNA, biosensing)
• Adsorption at surfaces (e.g., graphite sorptivity)
• Transport at interfaces (e.g., grain boundary transport in materials for nuclear applications)
• Multi-scale modeling of defect and impurity kinetics (e.g., radiation damage of materials)

Selected Awards, Honors and Societies

• 2008 NSF CAREER Award to study Molecular Basis for Viscoelastic Response of Nano-Mechanical Biosensors.
• 2006 AFOSR Young Investigator Program award for studies of Tribology of Nanostructured Silicon Carbide for MEMS and NEMS Applications in Extreme Environments.
• 2006 Placed on the National Academy of Engineering's list of the Frontiers of Engineering
• 2002 The Fowler-Marion Outstanding Graduate Student Award for accomplishments in graduate research, Department of Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• 2002 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• 1999 Best MS thesis Arkadiusz Piekara Award, Polish Physical Society
• 1997, 1998, 1999 Scholarships of the Polish Ministry of National Education

Selected Publications

• Effect of trace moisture on friction , Y. Liu, I. Szlufarska , Appl. Phys. Lett. 96 101902(2010)
• Effects of grain size and grain boundaries on defect production in nanocrystalline 3C-SiC , N. Swaminathan, P. Kamenski, D. Morgan, I. Szlufarska Acta Materialia 58 2843-2853 (2010)
• Friction Laws at the Nanoscale , Y. Mo, K. T. Turner, I. Szlufarska, Nature 457 , 1116 (2009)
• Possibility of high-pressure transformation during nanoindentation of SiC , M. Mishra and I. Szlufarska, Acta Materialia 57 , 6156-6165 (2009)
• Origin of the isotope effect on solid friction , Y. Mo, M. H. Muser, I. Szlufarska, Phys. Rev. B 80 , 155438 (2009)
• Competition between strain and chemistry effects on adhesion of Si and SiC , Y. Liu and I. Szlufarska , Phys. Rev. B 79 , 094109 (2009)
• Invited: Recent Advances in Single-Asperity Nanotribology, I. Szlufarska , M. Chandross, R. W. Carpick, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 41 , 123001 (2008)
• Multimillion-Atom Nanoindentation Simulation of Crystalline Sillicon Carbide: Orientation Dependence and Anisotropic Pileup , H.-P. Chen, R. K. Kalia, A. Nakano, P. Vashishta, I. Szlufarska, J. Appl. Phys. 102 , 063514 (2007)
• Simultaneous Enhancement of Toughness, Ductility, and Strength of Nanocrystalline Ceramics , Y. Mo, I. Szlufarska , Appl. Phys. Lett. 90 , 181926 (2007)
• Invited: Atomistic simulations of nanoindentation, I. Szlufarska , Materials Today 9 42 (2006)
• A crossover in the mechanical response of nanocrystalline ceramics, I. Szlufarska , A. Nakano, P. Vashishta, Science 309, 911 (2005).
• Nanoindentation-induced amorphization in silicon carbide , I. Szlufarska , R. K. Kalia, A. Nakano, P. Vashishta, Appl. Phys. Lett. 85 , 378 (2004).
• Negatively charged excitons and photoluminescence in asymmetric quantum well , I. Szlufarska , A. Wojs, J. J. Quinn, Phys. Rev. B 63 , 085305 (2001)
• Energy, Interaction, and Photoluminescence of spin-reversed quasielectrons in fractional quantum hall systems, I. Szlufarska , A. Wojs, J. J. Quinn, Phys. Rev. B. 64 , 165318 (2001)