The Ohio State University

Prof. Bharat Bhushan

Ohio Eminent Scholar and The Howard D. Winbigler Professor

Director, Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics 

The Ohio State University, 201 W. 19th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1142 USA
Tel: 614-292-0651, 0171(office), 614-436-4220 (home); 614-292-0325 (fax)

Home page: http://www.mecheng.osu.edu/nlbb; Email: bhushan.2@osu.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Fundamental studies  with a focus on scanning probe techniques in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/nanotribology/nanomechanics and nanomaterials characterization in bio/nanotechnology and biomimetics.

EDUCATION

• Doctor Honouris Causa Metal-Polymer Research Institute of National Acad. of Sci., Gomel, Belarus, 2000


• Doctor of Technical Sciences Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, 1996


• Doctor Technicae University of Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway, 1990


• M.B.A., Management Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y.,1980


• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo., 1976


• M.S., Mechanics University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo., 1973


• M.S., Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., 1971


• B.E. (Hons.), Mechanical Eng. Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, 1970

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 1991-Present Ohio Eminent Scholar and The Howard D. Winbigler Professor and Director of Nanotribology Laboratory for Information Storage and MEMS/NEMS (NLIM), Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University;


• Graduate Research Faculty Advisor, Dept of Materials Science and Eng., Ohio State University


• 1986-91 Research Staff Member and Manager Head-Disk Interface, IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA


• 1981-86 Development Engineer/Manager, General Products Division Lab, IBM Corporation, Tucson, AZ


• 1980-81 Research Scientist, Technology Services Division, SKF Industries Inc., King of Prussia, PA


• 1976-80 Physical Tribology/Program Manager, R&D Division, Mechanical Technology Inc., Latham, NY

FELLOWSHIPS

• Jan.-May 07 Senior Visiting Scientist (Jan.-Feb) & Humboldt Research Prize for Senior Scientists (March-May), Max- Planck Institut fuer Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany.


• Nov. 06 Invited Professor, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Universite Paris Sud XI, Orsay, France


• April 05; Guest Professor in Nanotechnology, Eidgennoessische Technische Hochschule (ETH),


• June-July 07 Nanotechnology and Mico/Nanosystems Groups, Zurich, Switzerland.


• July 03; Visiting Professor, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Institut de Physique de la


• Sept.-Oct. 06 Matiere Complexe and Sciences et Techniques de I”Ingenieur, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Dec. 99 United Nations Senior TOKTEN Expert Award, IIT, Delhi and IIS, Bangalore, India.


• May 98- Sept. 99; Humboldt Research Prize for Senior Scientists, Universitaet Ulm, Abteilung


• Jan.-Feb. 01 Experimentelle Physik, Germany


• March-April 99 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award and Guest Professor, Technische Universitaet Wien, Institut fuer Feinwerktechnik, Austria


• March 99 Franco-American Commission for Educational Exchange, Interfoundation Grant, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France


• Feb. 99 Guest Professor, Departments of Physics & Engineering, University of Cambridge, U.K.


• Sept. 98- Feb. 99 Humboldt Research Prize for Senior Scientists, Universitaet Karlsruhe , Institut fuer Werkstoffkunde und Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut fuer Materialforschung, Germany


• July-Aug. 1997 Sony Sabbatical Chair Professor, Sony Corporation Research Center, Fujitsuka, Japan


• Jan.-Dec. 1989 Visiting Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, and Materials Science and Mineral Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA


• June 1989 Visiting Senior Scientist, The U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Gomel, Vilnuis and Leningrad


• May-July 1987 Visiting Senior Scientist, The Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Univ. of Trondheim, Department of Machine Design and Materials Technology, Norway

HONORS AND AWARDS

• 1980 ASME Henry Hess Award for the best original technical paper


• 1981 ASCE/AIME/ASME/IEEE/WSE Alfred Noble Prize for outstanding technical papers


• 1983 ASME Burt L. Newkirk Award for a notable contribution to the field of tribology


• 1983 University of Colorado George Norlin Award for attaining eminence in his field of endeavour


• 1983 IBM Corp. GPD Achievement Award


• 1985 University of Colorado Regents Distinguished Service Award


• 1985 IBM Corp. Invention Achievement Award


• 1986 Pi Tau Sigma & ASME Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award


• 1987 NASA Certificate of Appreciation for investigation of Space Shuttle Challenger Accident


• 1987 IBM Corp. Research Division Award for outstanding achievement


• 1989 ASME Tribology Division Best Paper Award


• 1990 IBM Corp. Outstanding Technical Achievement Award


• 1992 ASME Melville Medal, the highest ASME honor for the best current original paper


• 1997 ASME Board of Governors Award for valued services as Founding Chair of ISPS Division


• 97,01,07 The Ohio State University, Lumley Research Award


• 1998 ASME Board of Governors Award for valued services as Chair of ISPS Division


• 2000 Pi Tau Sigma & ASME Charles R. Richards Memorial Award to recognize outstanding achievement


• 2004 ASME Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award for pioneering research in nanotribology and nanomechanics
• 2005 The OSU Research News of the Year - Nature Inspires Nanotech, selected as the coolest science story

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

• Taught courses in the areas of nanotribology, nanomechanics, nanotechnology, design, and materials science.


• Developed two courses in tribology and one in nanotechnology and reorganized design and materials science courses.


• Coordinator and principal lecturer of tribology short courses.

RESEARCH STUDENT/SCIENTIST SUPERVISION

• Completed: 15 Ph.D. students, 34 M.S. students, 8 Exchange students and more than 90 Visiting Scientists


• Current: 1 M.S. students, 4 Ph.D. students, and 5 Visiting Scientists.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND ACTIVITIES

International Academy of Engineering (Russia) (Foreign Member), Byelorussian Academy of Eng. & Tech. (Foreign Member), Academy of Triboengineering of Ukraine (Foreign Member), Society of Tribologists of Belarus (Hon. Member), NY Academy of Sciences (Fellow), ASME (Fellow), IEEE (Fellow), STLE (fellow), ASEE, Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi.

Springer (2004--) NanoScience and Technology Series; Co-Editor-in-Chief (2002-), Microsystem Technologies: Micro- & Nanosystems and Information Storage & Processing Systems, Springer-Verlag;Associate Editor (1986-90), Journal of Tribology, Trans. ASME; Co-editor (1984-90) of STLE Proceedings on Tribology and Mechanics of Magnetic Storage Systems Symposia; Founding editor of ASME (1991-93) and World Scientific (1994-99) Advances in Information Storage Systems Series; Member of Editorial Board of Journal of Friction and Wear of Belarus, Tribology Letters and Data Storage, and Editor-in-Chief (1999-01), Journal of Information Storage and Processing Systems, Birkhauser Boston (Springer-Verlag); Initiated the first ever ASME/STLE Symposium on Tribology and Mechanics of Magnetic Storage Systems in 1984 and ASME International Symposium on Advances in Information Storage Systems in 1990. Founded an ASME Information Storage and Processing Division in 1993. Chaired several national-level society committees. Gave more than 400 invited presentations on five continents and more than 140 keynote/plenary addresses at major international conf.

PUBLICATIONS
Authored 5 technical books, more than 70 handbook chapters, more than 600 technical papers and more than 60 technical reports, edited more than 40 books and holds 16 U.S. and Foreign Patents. List of selected technical books:

• Tribology and Mechanics of Magnetic Storage Devices, Springer-Verlag, First ed., 1990; Second ed., 1996.
• Handbook of Tribology: Materials, Coatings and Surface Treatments (with B. K. Gupta), McGraw-Hill, 1991; Krieger, 1997.
• Mechanics and Reliability of Flexible Magnetic Media, Springer-Verlag, First ed., 1992, Second ed., 2000.
• Handbook of Micro/Nanotribology (ed.), CRC Press, First ed., 1995; Second ed., 1999.
• Principles and Applications of Tribology, Wiley, 1999.
• Modern Tribology Handbook, Vol. 1 – Principles of Tribology; Vol. 2 – Materials, Coatings, and Industrial Applications (ed.), CRC Press, 2001.
• Introduction to Tribology, Wiley, 2002; Nanotribology and Nanomechanics – An Introduction, Springer, 2005.
• Springer Handbook of Nanotechnology (ed.), Springer-Verlag. First ed., 2004, Second ed., 2007.
• Multiscale Dissipative Mechanisms and Hierarchical Surfaces: Friction, Superhydrophobicity, and Biomimetics (with M. Nosonovsky), Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2008.