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Mechanical Engineering
University of Hawai`i at Manoa
2540 Dole St. - Holmes Hall 302
Honolulu HI 96822

Departmental Chair:
Mehrdad N. Ghasemi Nejhad

 

 

 

Yi Zuo

 

 

Assistant Professor of M.E.

 

PhD 2006, University of Toronto

 

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      Phone:(808) 956-9650
      Fax: (808) 956-2373 
      Email: yzuo@hawaii.edu

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Research Interests


      Colloid and surface sciences

      Biophysical and biomedical studies of lung surfactant

      AFM studies of biomembranes

      Development of surface tension and contact angle measurement methodologies

      Experimental and numerical bioheat and mass transfer

 

Selected Publications

Zuo YY, Veldhuizen RAW, Neumann AW, Petersen NO, Possmayer F, Current perspectives in pulmonary surfactant – inhibition, enhancement and evaluation, Biochim. Biophys. Acta – Biomembranes 1778 (2008) 1947-1977.

Zuo YY, Tadayyon SM, Keating E, Zhao L, Veldhuizen RAW, Petersen NO, Amrein M, Possmayer F, Atomic force microscopy studies of functional and dysfunctional pulmonary surfactant films. II. Albumin-inhibited pulmonary surfactant films and the effect of SP-A, Biophys. J. 95 (2008) 2779-2791

Zuo YY, Keating E, Zhao L, Tadayyon SM, Veldhuizen RAW, Petersen NO, Possmayer F, Atomic force microscopy studies of functional and dysfunctional pulmonary surfactant films. I. Micro- and nano- structures of functional pulmonary surfactant films and the effect of SP-A, Biophys. J. 94 (2008) 3549-3564.

Yue K, Zhang X, Zuo YY, Noninvasive method for simultaneously measuring the thermophysical properties and blood perfusion in cylindrically shaped living tissues, Cell Biochem. Biophy. 50 (2008) 41-51.

Zuo YY, Possmayer F, How does pulmonary surfactant reduce surface tension to very low values? J. Appl. Physiol. 102 (2007) 1733-1734.

Zuo YY, Alolabi H, Shafiei A, Kang N, Policova Z, Cox PN, Acosta E, Hair ML, Neumann AW, Chitosan enhances surface activity of dilute lung surfactant preparations and reverses albumin-induced inactivation, Pediatr. Res. 60 (2006) 125-130.

Zuo YY, Gitiafroz R, Acosta E, Policova Z, Cox PN, Hair ML, Neumann AW, The effect of humidity on the adsorption kinetics of lung surfactant at air-water interfaces, Langmuir 21 (2005) 10593-10601.

Zuo YY, Ding M, Bateni A, Hoorfar M, Neumann AW, Improvement of interfacial tension measurement using a captive bubble in conjunction with Axisymmetric Drop Shape Analysis (ADSA), Colloids Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects 250 (2004) 233-246.

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Courses Offered

 

ME311 Thermodynamics

ME422 Heat Transfer

 

ME696 Advanced Topics in Mechanical Engineering (Surface Phenomena)


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