MEMSDUKEPRATT School of engineering

Education

  • PhD, Drexel University, 2004
  • BS, Emory University, 1998
Benjamin B. Yellen
  • Office Location: 3389 CIEMAS
  • Office Phone: (919) 660-8261
  • Email Address: yellen@duke.edu
  • Web Page: http://www.yellen.mems.duke.edu

    • The guiding principle of Dr. Yellen’s work is to investigate applications of electriciy and magnetism in medicine, energy, and the environment. One research focus is designing magnetic implants for drug delivery and medical imaging. Another research focus is developing nanoscale magnetic manipulation and tracking technology to observe the motion of colloidal particles immersed in ferrofluid (e.g., a suspension of 10nm iron oxide particles). A third research focus is the development of electrochemical apparatus to control local pH for various applications in bio-chemical array fabrication, electrolysis for generation of Hydrogen gas, and potentially other applications.

    Specialties
    Micro-electronic mechanical machines
    Nanomaterial manufacturing and characterization
    Nonlinear Dynamics
    Diagnostics
    Computational Electromagnetics

    TEACHING (Fall 2009)

    ME 265.03, ADVANCED TOPICS, TuTh 04:25 PM-05:40 PM

    TEACHING (Spring 2010)

    EGR 123L.001, DYNAMICS,
    EGR 123L.01L, DYNAMICS,
    EGR 123L.02L, DYNAMICS,
    EGR 123L.03L, DYNAMICS,
    EGR 123L.04L, DYNAMICS,
    EGR 123L.05L, DYNAMICS,
    EGR 123L.06L, DYNAMICS,
    EGR 123L.07L, DYNAMICS,
    EGR 123L.08L, DYNAMICS,

    Recent Publications More Publications

    1. B.B. Yellen, R. M. Erb, H. S. Son, R. Hewlin, Jr., H. Shang, G. U. Lee, Traveling Wave Magnetophoresis for High Resolution Chip Based Separations, Lab on a Chip, vol. in press (2007)
    2. Erb, R.M. and Yellen, B.B., Model of detecting nonmagnetic cavities in ferrofluid for biological sensing applications, IEEE Trans. Magn. (USA), vol. 42 no. 10 (2006), ppt. 3554 - 6 , [TMAG.2006.879614] [abs]
    3. Yellen, Benjamin B. and Erb, Randall M. and Halverson, Derek S. and Hovorka, Ondrej and Friedman, Gary, Arraying nonmagnetic colloids by magnetic nanoparticle assemblers, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 42 no. 10 (2006), ppt. 3548 - 3553 , [TMAG.2006.879623] [abs]
    4. Yellen, Benjamin B. and Forbes, Zachary G. and Halverson, Derek S. and Fridman, Gregory and Barbee, Kenneth A. and Chorny, Michael and Levy, Robert and Friedman, Gary, Targeted drug delivery to magnetic implants for therapeutic applications, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, vol. 293 no. 1 (2005), ppt. 647 - 654 , [083] [abs]
    5. Yellen, B.B. and Hovorka, O. and Friedman, G., Arranging matter by magnetic nanoparticle assemblers, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (USA), vol. 102 no. 25 (2005), ppt. 8860 - 4 , [pnas.0500409102] [abs]
    6. Yellen, Benjamin B. and Friedman, Gary, Programmable assembly of heterogeneous colloidal particle arrays, Advanced Materials, vol. 16 no. 2 (2004), ppt. 111 - 115 , [adma.200305603] [abs]
    7. Yellen, B.B. and Fridman, G. and Friedman, G., Ferrofluid lithography, Nanotechnology, vol. 15 no. 10 (2004), ppt. 562-565 - , [011] [abs]
    8. Yellen, Benjamin B. and Friedman, Gary, Programmable assembly of colloidal particles using magnetic microwell templates, Langmuir, vol. 20 no. 7 (2004), ppt. 2553 - 2559 , [la0352016] [abs]
    9. Forbes, Zachary G. and Yellen, Benjamin B. and Barbee, Kenneth A. and Friedman, Gary, An Approach to Targeted Drug Delivery Based on Uniform Magnetic Fields, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 39 no. 5 II (2003), ppt. 3372 - 3377 , [TMAG.2003.816260] [abs]

    Research Interests

      Theoretical and Experimental studies on concentration gradients arising in ionic fluids and magnetic liquids.

    The mission of Duke's Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science educational programs is to provide the knowledge, skills, and credentials needed to be successful in the practice of engineering; the preparation necessary to undertake professional registration; an educational preparation for graduate or professional study; and an education background that is the basis for professional growth and leadership throughout a career that may encompass a broad range of endeavors, both technical and non-technical.