Staff Profile
Dr Amirreza Aghakhani
Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
- Email: amirreza.aghakhani@ncl.ac.uk
- Personal Website: https://aaghakhani.com
- Address: School of Engineering
Armstrong Building 2.61
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU, UK
Background
I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Mechanical Engineering at Newcastle University as of June 2022. Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Department of Physical Intelligence in Stuttgart, Germany. I obtained my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Koc University, Turkey, in 2018. I got my B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2012.
Research interests:
- Medical Microrobots
- Biomedical Ultrasound
- Lab-on-a-chip Systems
- Acoustic Sensors and Implants
- Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging
Publications
- Aghakhani A, Pena-Francesch A, Bozuyuk U, Cetin H, Wrede P, Sitti M. High Shear Rate Propulsion of Acoustic Microrobots in Complex Biological Fluids. Science Advances 2022, 8(10).
- Mutlu S, Aghakhani A, Sitti M. Piezo Capsule: Ultrasonic Way of Wireless Pressure Measurement. Advanced Intelligent Systems 2022, Epub ahead of print.
- Wrede P, Degtyaruk O, Kalva SK, Deán-Ben XL, Bozuyuk U, Aghakhani A, Akolpoglu B, Sitti M, Razansky D. Real-Time 3D Optoacoustic Tracking of Cell-Sized Magnetic Microrobots Circulating in the Mouse Brain Vasculature. Science Advances 2022, 8(19).
- Li M, Pal A, Aghakhani A, Pena-Francesch A, Sitti M. Soft Actuators for Real-World Applications. Nature Reviews Materials 2022, 7, 235–249.
- Aghakhani A, Cetin H, Erkoc P, Tombak GI, Sitti M. Flexural Wave-Based Soft Attractor Walls for Trapping Microparticles and Cells. Lab on a Chip 2021, 21(3), 582–596.
- Bozuyuk U, Suadiye E, Aghakhani A, Dogan NO, Lazovic J, Tiryaki ME, Schneider M, Karacakol AC, Demir SO, Richter G. High-Performance Magnetic FePt (L10) Surface Microrollers Towards Medical Imaging-Guided Endovascular Delivery Applications. Advanced Functional Materials 2022, 32(8), 2109741.
- Yunusa M, Adaka A, Aghakhani A, Shahsavan H, Guo Y, Alapan Y, Jákli A, Sitti M. Liquid Crystal Structure of Supercooled Liquid Gallium and Eutectic Gallium–Indium. Advanced Materials 2021, 33(38), 2104807.
- Bozuyuk U, Alapan Y, Aghakhani A, Yunusa M, Sitti M. Shape Anisotropy-Governed Locomotion of Surface Microrollers on Vessel-like Microtopographies against Physiological Flows. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 2021, 118(13), e2022090118.
- Aghakhani A, Yasa O, Wrede P, Sitti M. Acoustically Powered Surface-Slipping Mobile Microrobots. PNAS 2020, 117(7), 3469–3477.
- Shahsavan H, Aghakhani A, Zeng H, Guo Y, Davidson ZS, Priimagi A, Sitti M. Bioinspired Underwater Locomotion of Light-Driven Liquid Crystal Gels. PNAS 2020, 117(10), 5125–5133.
- Aghakhani A, Gozum MM, Basdogan I. Modal Analysis of Finite-Size Piezoelectric Metamaterial Plates. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 2020, 53(50), 505304.
- Aghakhani A, Motlagh PL, Bediz B, Basdogan I. A General Electromechanical Model for Plates with Integrated Piezo-Patches Using Spectral-Tchebychev Method. Journal of Sound and Vibration 2019, 458, 74-88.
- Gozum MM, Aghakhani A, Basdogan I. An Investigation of the Electromechanical Coupling and Broadband Shunt Damping in Composite Plates with Integrated Piezo-Patches. Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures 2019, 30(20), 3008-3024.
- Davidson ZS, Shahsavan H, Aghakhani A, Guo Y, Hines L, Xia Y, Yang S, Sitti M. Monolithic Shape-Programmable Dielectric Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators. Science Advances 2019, 5(11), eaay0855.
- Gozum MM, Aghakhani A, Serhat G, Basdogan I. Electroelastic Modeling of Thin-Laminated Composite Plates with Surface-Bonded Piezo-Patches Using Rayleigh–Ritz Method. Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures 2018, 29(10), 2192–2205.
- Emgin SE, Aghakhani A, Sezgin TM, Basdogan C. Haptable: An Interactive Tabletop Providing Online Haptic Feedback for Touch Gestures. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2018, 25(9), 2749–2762.
- Singh AV, Alapan Y, Jahnke T, Laux P, Luch A, Aghakhani A, Kharratian S, Onbasli MC, Bill J, Sitti M. Seed-Mediated Synthesis of Plasmonic Gold Nanoribbons Using Cancer Cells for Hyperthermia Applications. Journal of Materials Chemistry B 2018, 6(46), 7573–7581.
- Aghakhani A, Basdogan I. Equivalent Impedance Electroelastic Modeling of Multiple Piezo-Patch Energy Harvesters on a Thin Plate with AC–DC Conversion. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics 2017, 22(4), 1575–1584.
- Bayik B, Aghakhani A, Basdogan I, Erturk A. Equivalent Circuit Modeling of a Piezo-Patch Energy Harvester on a Thin Plate with AC–DC Conversion. Smart Materials and Structures 2016, 25(5), 055015.