Da Kine Lab @ UNLV

Da Kine Lab @ UNLV

Publications

Journal publications

  1. Z. Najafianashrafi, M. Yeddala, et al., “Breaking mass-transport barriers in iron electrowinning using an interstitial-impeller reactor,” 2026 (in preparation). Najafianashrafi and Yeddala contributed equally.
  2. I. Berk, E. Luong, and H. J. Cho, “Beyond goniometry: 3D digital twinning of droplets from a single image,” Droplet, vol. 5, no. 3, p. e70065, Mar. 2026, doi: 10.1002/dro2.70065.
  3. Y. Gao, A. Eason, et al., “High-yield atmospheric water capture via bioinspired material segregation,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 121, no. 44, p. e2321429121, Oct. 2024, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2321429121.
  4. M. R. Mata, M. Može, et al., “Changes in boiling controlled by molar concentration-dependent diffusion of surfactants,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 233, p. 126008, Nov. 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2024.126008.
  5. A. Kashani and H. J. Cho, “The role of poroelastic diffusion in the transient wetting behavior of hydrogels,” Soft Matter, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 421–428, 2024, doi: 10.1039/d3sm01472j.
  6. J. Neubauer, H. J. Cho, and K. J. Kim, “Tunable polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU)-based soft polymer gel sensors,” Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 31, no. 11, p. 115025, Oct. 2022, doi: 10.1088/1361-665x/ac9a8f.
  7. M. R. Mata, B. Ortiz, D. Luhar, V. Evereux, and H. J. Cho, “How dynamic adsorption controls surfactant-enhanced boiling,” Scientific Reports, vol. 12, no. 1, p. 18170, Oct. 2022, doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-21313-1.
  8. Y. Gao and H. J. Cho, “Quantifying the trade-off between stiffness and permeability in hydrogels,” Soft Matter, vol. 18, no. 40, pp. 7735–7740, 2022, doi: 10.1039/d2sm01215d.
  9. Y. Gao, N. K. K. Chai, N. Garakani, S. S. Datta, and H. J. Cho, “Scaling laws to predict humidity-induced swelling and stiffness in hydrogels,” Soft Matter, vol. 17, no. 43, pp. 9893–9900, 2021, doi: 10.1039/d1sm01186c.
  10. J.-F. Louf, N. B. Lu, M. G. O’Connell, H. J. Cho, and S. S. Datta, “Under pressure: Hydrogel swelling in a granular medium,” Science Advances, vol. 7, no. 7, Feb. 2021, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abd2711.
  11. H. J. Cho and E. N. Wang, “Bubble nucleation, growth, and departure: A new, dynamic understanding,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 145, p. 118803, Dec. 2019, doi: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2019.118803.
  12. H. J. Cho and S. S. Datta, “Scaling Law for Cracking in Shrinkable Granular Packings,” Physical Review Letters, vol. 123, no. 15, Oct. 2019, doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.158004.
  13. H. J. Cho, N. B. Lu, M. P. Howard, R. A. Adams, and S. S. Datta, “Crack formation and self-closing in shrinkable, granular packings,” Soft Matter, vol. 15, no. 23, pp. 4689–4702, 2019, doi: 10.1039/c9sm00731h.
  14. C. Tian, J. Feng, H. J. Cho, S. S. Datta, and R. K. Prud’homme, “Adsorption and Denaturation of Structured Polymeric Nanoparticles at an Interface,” Nano Letters, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 4854–4860, July 2018, doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b01434.
  15. H. K. Mutha, H. J. Cho, M. Hashempour, B. L. Wardle, C. V. Thompson, and E. N. Wang, “Salt rejection in flow-between capacitive deionization devices,” Desalination, vol. 437, pp. 154–163, July 2018, doi: 10.1016/j.desal.2018.03.008.
  16. H. J. Cho, V. Sresht, and E. N. Wang, “Predicting Surface Tensions of Surfactant Solutions from Statistical Mechanics,” Langmuir, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 2386–2395, Feb. 2018, doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b03749.
  17. H. K. Mutha, Y. Lu, et al., “Porosimetry and packing morphology of vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays via impedance spectroscopy,” Nanotechnology, vol. 28, no. 5, p. 05LT01, Dec. 2016, doi: 10.1088/1361-6528/aa53aa.
  18. H. J. Cho, D. J. Preston, Y. Zhu, and E. N. Wang, “Nanoengineered materials for liquid–vapour phase-change heat transfer,” Nature Reviews Materials, vol. 2, no. 2, p. 16092, Dec. 2016, doi: 10.1038/natrevmats.2016.92.
  19. H. Kim, H. J. Cho, et al., “Characterization of Adsorption Enthalpy of Novel Water-Stable Zeolites and Metal-Organic Frameworks,” Scientific Reports, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 19097, Jan. 2016, doi: 10.1038/srep19097.
  20. H. J. Cho, J. P. Mizerak, and E. N. Wang, “Turning bubbles on and off during boiling using charged surfactants,” Nature Communications, vol. 6, no. 1, Oct. 2015, doi: 10.1038/ncomms9599.
  21. N. Miljkovic, R. Enright, S. C. Maroo, H. J. Cho, and E. N. Wang, “Liquid Evaporation on Superhydrophobic and Superhydrophilic Nanostructured Surfaces,” Journal of Heat Transfer, vol. 133, no. 8, p. 080903, Apr. 2011, doi: 10.1115/1.4003890.

Peer-reviewed conference publications

  1. Y. Song, Y. Zhu, D. J. Preston, H. J. Cho, Z. Lu, and E. N. Wang, “Investigating the relationship between surface wickability and critical heat flux during pool boiling,” in International Heat Transfer Conference 16, Begellhouse, 2018, pp. 1183–1189. doi: 10.1615/ihtc16.bae.023315.
  2. H. J. Cho, V. Sresht, D. Blankschtein, and E. N. Wang, “Understanding Enhanced Boiling With Triton X Surfactants,” in ASME 2013 Heat Transfer Summer Conference, in HT2013. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, July 2013. doi: 10.1115/ht2013-17497.
  3. H. J. Cho, S. C. Maroo, and E. N. Wang, “Characterization of Lipid Membrane Properties for Tunable Electroporation,” in ASME 2012 Third International Conference on Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer, in MNHMT2012. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Mar. 2012, pp. 345–353. doi: 10.1115/mnhmt2012-75321.
  4. S. C. Maroo, H. J. Cho, and E. N. Wang, “Wetting Characteristics of a Phospholipid Membrane Using Molecular Dynamics Simulation,” in ASME 2010 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, in IMECE2010. ASMEDC, Jan. 2010, pp. 919–924. doi: 10.1115/imece2010-40671.

Patents

  1. H. J. Cho, A. Mansourimarand, and H. Cho, “Desalination System And Method,” US Patent pending, filed 2025.
  2. H. J. Cho, Y. Gao, and R. A. Phung, “Atmospheric water capturing device, and systems and methods of using same,” US Patent pending, filed 2022.
  3. H. J. Cho and E. N. Wang, “Tunable nucleate boiling using electric fields and ionic surfactants,” US Patent 9,841,186, 2017. Link