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F., Tang, C., Bernacki, S. H., Pourdeyhimi, B., & Khan, S. (2011). Mammalian Cell Viability in Electrospun Composite Nanofiber Structures. MACROMOLECULAR BIOSCIENCE, 11(10), 1346–1356. https://doi.org/10.1002/mabi.201100108 McCullen, S. D., Gittard, S. D., Miller, P. R., Pourdeyhimi, B., Narayan, R. J., & Loboa, E. G. (2011). Laser Ablation Imparts Controlled Micro-Scale Pores in Electrospun Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering Applications. ANNALS OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, 39(12), 3021–3030. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-011-0378-2 Yeom, B. Y., & Pourdeyhimi, B. (2011). Aerosol filtration properties of PA6/PE islands-in-the-sea bicomponent spunbond web fibrillated by high-pressure water jets. JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE, 46(17), 5761–5767. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-011-5531-7 Liu, X., Vesterinen, A.-H., Genzer, J., Seppala, J. V., & Rojas, O. J. (2011). Adsorption of PEO-PPO-PEO Triblock Copolymers with End-Capped Cationic Chains of Poly(2-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate). LANGMUIR, 27(16), 9769–9780. https://doi.org/10.1021/la201596x Fotovati, S., Hosseini, S. A., Tafreshi, H. V., & Pourdeyhimi, B. (2011). Modeling instantaneous pressure drop of pleated thin filter media during dust loading. CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE, 66(18), 4036–4046. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2011.05.038 Arambakam, R., Hosseini, S. A., Tafreshi, H. V., & Pourdeyhimi, B. (2011). A Monte Carlo simulation of radiative heat through fibrous media: Effects of boundary conditions and microstructural parameters. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THERMAL SCIENCES, 50(6), 935–941. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2011.01.015 Sinha-Ray, S., Zhang, Y., Yarin, A. L., Davis, S. C., & Pourdeyhimi, B. (2011). Solution Blowing of Soy Protein Fibers. BIOMACROMOLECULES, 12(6), 2357–2363. https://doi.org/10.1021/bm200438v Rangasamy, L., Shim, E., & Pourdeyhimi, B. (2011). Structure and Tensile Properties of Nanoclay-Polypropylene Fibers Produced by Melt Spinning. JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE, 121(1), 410–419. https://doi.org/10.1002/app.33619 Liu, X., Goli, K. K., Genzer, J., & Rojas, O. J. (2011). Multilayers of Weak Polyelectrolytes of Low and High Molecular Mass Assembled on Polypropylene and Self-Assembled Hydrophobic Surfaces. LANGMUIR, 27(8), 4541–4550. https://doi.org/10.1021/la200349p Datla, V. M., Shim, E., & Pourdeyhimi, B. (2011). Polypropylene Surface Modification with Stearyl Alcohol Ethoxylates to Enhance Wettability. JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE, 121(3), 1335–1347. https://doi.org/10.1002/app.31051 Yarin, A. L., Sinha-Ray, S., & Pourdeyhimi, B. (2011). Meltblowing: Multiple polymer jets and fiber-size distribution and lay-down patterns. POLYMER, 52(13), 2929–2938. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2011.04.039 Demirci, E., Acar, M., Pourdeyhimi, B., & Silberschmidt, V. V. (2011, February). Finite element modelling of thermally bonded bicomponent fibre nonwovens: Tensile behaviour. 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JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE, 119(5), 2568–2575. https://doi.org/10.1002/app.32611 Honarbakhsh, S., & Pourdeyhimi, B. (2011). Scaffolds for drug delivery, part I: electrospun porous poly(lactic acid) and poly(lactic acid)/poly(ethylene oxide) hybrid scaffolds. JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE, 46(9), 2874–2881. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-010-5161-5 Zhang, Y., Cao, C. Y., Feng, W. Y., Xu, M., Su, Z. H., Liu, X. M., & Lu, W. J. (2011). Application of fourier transform attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy in analysis of pulp and paper industry. Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, 31(3), 652–655.