Professor
Director, Electro-Hydrodynamics Laboratory
Co-Director, W.M. Keck Laboratory

Education

• The Heat and Mass Transfer Institute (Minsk, USSR), Ph.D. 1975
• Byelorussian State University (Minsk, USSR), M.S. 1972

 Current Research Interests 

Theoretical and experimental studies focus on

• Fundamentals of the micro- and nano-scale behavior of suspensions subject to a high-gradient strong ac electric field and a shear flow
• Development of electro-microfluidics for the control and manipulation of fine particles, cells, and micro-organisms
• The fundamentals of micro-scale electro-hydrodynamics to the level where it will become useful in the design and operation of novel sensors for applications ranging from bioagent detection to healthcare industry.

Selected Publications

• Lo, T.S., Khusid, B.,Koplik,J., Dynamical clustering of counterions on flexible polyelectrolytes, Physical Review Letters, 100, 128301-1-4, 2008

• Gokhale, A., Khusid, B., Dave, R.N. and Pfeffer, R., Effect of solvent strength and operating pressure on the formation of submicrometer polymer particles in supercritical microjets, Journal of Supercritical Fluids 43, 341–356, 2007

• Kumar, A., Acrivos, A., Khusid, B., James, C.D., and Jacqmin, D., Conveyer-belt method for assembling microparticles into large-scale structures using electric fields, Applied Physics Letters 90(15), 154104-1-3, 2007

• Kumar, A., Acrivos, A., Khusid, B., and Jacqmin, D., Electric field-driven formation of particle concentration fronts in suspensions, Fluid Dynamics Research 39, 169-192,2007

• Kumar, A., Elele, E., Yeksel, M., Khusid, B., Qiu, Z., and Acrivos, A., Measurements of the fluid and particle mobilities in strong electric fields, Physics of Fluids, 18, 123301-1-10, 2006

• Kumar, A., Khusid, B., and Acrivos, A., Dielectrophoretic trapping of particles at the three-phase contact line, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 45, 6978-6980, 2006

• Rai, P. K., Denn, M. M., and Khusid, B., Dielectric spectroscopy of liquid crystalline dispersions, Langmuir; 22(6), 2528-2533, 2006

• James, C.D., Okandan, M., Galambos, P., Mani, S.S., Bennett, D., Khusid, B., and Acrivos, A., Surface micromachined dielectrophoretic gates for the front-end device of a biodetection system, ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, 128(1), 14-19, 2006

• Kumar, A., Khusid, B., Qiu, Z., and Acrivos, A., New electric-field-driven mesoscale phase transitions in polarized suspensiions, Physical Review Letters, 95, 258301-1-4, 2005

• Drazer, G., Khusid, B., Koplik, J., and Acrivos, A., Hysteresis, force oscillations, and nonequilibrium effects in the adhesion of spherical nanoparticles to atomistically smooth surfaces, Physical Review Letters, 95, 016102-1-4, 2005

• Drazer, G., Khusid, B., Koplik, J., and Acrivos, A., Wetting and particle adsorption in nanoflows, Physics of Fluids, 17(1), 017102-1-18, 2005

• Markarian, N., Yeksel, M., Khusid, B., Kumar, A., Tin, P., Effects of clinorotation and positive dielectrophoresis on suspensions of heavy particles, Physics of Fluids, 16(5), 1826-1829, 2004.

• Kumar, A., Qiu, Z., Acrivos, A., Khusid, B., Jacqmin, D., Combined negative dielectrophoresis and phase separation in nondilute suspensions subject to a high-gradient ac electric field, Physical Review E, 69, 021402-1 - 10, 2004.

• Bennett, D., Khusid, B., Galambos, P., James, C.D., Okandan, M., Jacqmin, D., Acrivos, A., Field-induced dielectrophoresis and phase separation for manipulating particles in microfluidics.  Applied Physics Letters, 83(23), 4866-4868, 2003.

• Markarian, N., Yeksel, M., Khusid, B., Farmer, K., Acrivos, A., Particle motions and segregation in dielectrophoretic micro-fluidics.  Journal of Applied Physics,  94(6), 4160-4169, 2003.

• Markarian, N., Yeksel, M., Khusid, B., Farmer, K., Acrivos, A., Limitations on the scale of an electrode array for trapping particles in microfluidics by positive dielectrophoresis.  Applied Physics Letters, 82 (26), 4839-4841, 2003.

• Drazer G., Koplik, J., Acrivos, A., Khusid, B., Adsorption phenomena in the transport of a colloidal particle through a nanochannel containing a partially wetting fluid, Physical Review Letters, 89 (24), 244501-1 - 4, 2002.

• Qiu, Z., Markarian, N., Khusid, B., Acrivos, A., Positive dielectrophoresis and heterogeneous aggregation in high-gradient ac electric fields. Journal of Applied Physics, 92(5), 2829-2843, 2002.

• Drazer, G., Koplik, J., Khusid, B., Acrivos, A., Deterministic and stochastic behavior of non-Brownian spheres in sheared suspensions. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2002, 460, 307 - 335, 2002.

• Dussaud, A. D., Khusid, B., Acrivos, A., Particle segregation in suspensions subject to high-gradient ac electric fields. Journal of Applied Physics, 88(9), 5463-5473, 2000.

• Khusid, B., Acrivos, A., Phase diagrams of electric-field-induced aggregation in conducting colloidal suspensions. Physical Review E , 60(3), 3015-3035, 1999.

• Khusid, B., Acrivos, A., Khodorkovsky, Y., Beltran, M., Electrorheological squeeze-flow shock absorber. International Journal of Modern Physics B, 13 (14, 15 & 16), 2143-2151; Special Issue: Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Electrorheological Fluids, Magnetorheological Suspensions and their Applications, 1999.

• Khusid, B., Kulebyakin, V. V., Bashtovaya, E. A., Khina, B. B., Mathematical and experimental modeling of quenching a self-propagating high-temperature synthesis process. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 42(22), 4235-4252, 1999.

• Ivashkevich, O.A., Krasitsky, V.A., Lesnikovich, A.I., Astashinsky, V.M., Kostyukevich, E.A., Khusid, B., Mansurov, V.A., Liquid-flame combustion II: some physical and chemical characteristics of the burning process. Combustion and Flame, 110(1/2), 113-126, 1997.

• Khusid, B., Acrivos, A., Effects of interparticle electric interactions on dielectrophoresis in colloidal suspensions. Physical Review E, 54(5), 5428-5435, 1996.

• Levitskiy, S. P., Khusid, B., Shulman, Z. P, Growth of vapor bubbles in boiling polymer solutions. Part II. Nucleate boiling heat transfer. International Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer, 39(3), 639-644, 1996.

• Khusid, B., Acrivos, A., Effects of conductivity in electric-field-induced aggregation in electrorheological fluids. Physical Review E, 52(2), 1669-1693, 1995.

 Awards and Honors

• 2006 - Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• 1985 - D.S. in Thermal Sciences & Engineering, Institute of Thermophysics, Novosibrsk
• 1991 - Professor of Heat & Power Engineering, Department of Education, Moscow

 Professional Activities

• Committee member of the ASME Conferences & Events Directorate (2004-05), the ASME Region II Operating Board (2002-05), Executive Board of ASME NJ Section (2000 – present), ASME Essex/Hudson Subsection Chair (2001 – present), American Physical Society/Division of Fluid Dynamics, External Affairs Committee (2002-03).
• Co-organizer/ chair/ co-chair of Sessions "Complex and Smart Fluid” at the 21st International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM), Warsaw, Poland, August 15-21, 2004
• Co-organizer/ chair/ co-chair of the Symposium on Electric and Magnetic Phenomena in Micro- and Nano-Scale System Engineering at the annual ASME Congresses & Expositions (2001-2007)
• Co-organizer/ chair/ co-chair of Sessions “Fluids Engineering. Emerging Areas on the Frontiers of Fluids Engineering” at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Washington, DC, 2003
• Co-organizer of the ASME Region II Microfluidic/Biosensor Workshop at The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, June 2003.
• Organizer & chair of the Symposium on Electrohydrodynamics at the Fourteenth U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Blacksburg, VA, June 2002.