Behnam Pourdeyhimi

About

Behnam Pourdeyhimi, PhD, is the William A. Klopman Distinguished Professor of Materials at the Wilson College of Textiles at NC State University. He joined NC State immediately after completing his PhD at the University of Leeds in 1982 and has since held positions at Cornell, the University of Maryland, and Georgia Tech before returning to NC State in the 1998-1999 academic year. He also serves as an adjunct professor in the departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, and as the Associate Dean of the Wilson College of Textiles. His early research focused on developing tools for characterizing various materials, including nonwovens, medical devices, and composite materials, earning him the ASTM D-13 Dewitt Smith Medal and the Fiber Society Distinguished Scientist award in 1994. He is renowned for his contributions to nonwovens and the growth of nonwovens research at NC State, particularly in filtration, which earned him the O’ Max Gardner award in 2015 and the Holladay Medal for Excellence in 2018. In 2020, he was inducted as a Fellow into the National Academy of Inventors. Dr. Pourdeyhimi played a pivotal role in transforming the Nonwovens Cooperative Research Center into the Nonwovens Institute, the largest university-based research institute in the nation, which is the world’s first accredited academic program for engineered fabrics. His research interests include nonwovens, biomaterials, modeling, image analysis, and filtration. He…

Research topics

• Materials science
• Composite material
• Chemistry
• Chemical engineering
• Optoelectronics
• Medicine
• Photochemistry
• Biology
• Microbiology
• Nanotechnology

Selected publications

• <i>N</i>-Halamine Polypropylene Nonwoven Fabrics with Rechargeable Antibacterial and Antiviral Functions for Medical Applications

  ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering · 2021 · 49 citations

  ) and 7 log PFU reductions of a virus (T7 bacteriophages) within 15 and 5 min of contact, respectively, revealing great potential to serve as a reusable antimicrobial material for medical protection applications.

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• Photodynamic Coatings on Polymer Microfibers for Pathogen Inactivation: Effects of Application Method and Composition

  ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces · 2020 · 39 citations

  , with population reductions of >99.9999 and 99.6%, respectively, after exposure to visible light for 1 h. In response to the current COVID-19 pandemic, we also confirm that these coated fibers can inactivate a human common cold coronavirus serving as a surrogate for the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

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• Theoretical and experimental study of dissolution mechanism of cellulose

  Journal of Molecular Liquids · 2020 · 36 citations

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• Fabrication and Characterization of Meltblown Poly(vinylidene difluoride) Membranes

  ACS Applied Polymer Materials · 2020 · 32 citations

  The meltblowing process may be employed to produce high volume of nonwoven poly(vinylidene difluoride) (PVDF) mats with fine fibers that lead to small pores. Although significant research has been reported on electrospinning of PVDF, there are no studies reported on the formation and characterization of PVDF meltblown mats because of the technological barriers associated with meltblowing the polymer. We investigated the fundamental properties and characteristics of experimental-grade melt-blowab…

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• Modeling the Triboelectric Behaviors of Elastomeric Nonwoven Fabrics

  Advanced Materials · 2021 · 22 citations

  Theoretical modeling of triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) is fundamental to their performance optimization, since it can provide useful guidance on the material selection, structure design, and parameter control of relevant systems. Built on the theoretical model of film-based TENGs, here, an analytical model is introduced for conductor-to-dielectric contact-mode nonwoven-based TENGs, which copes with the unique hierarchical structure of nonwovens and details the correlation between the tribo…

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Frequent coauthors

• H. Vahedi Tafreshi

  141 shared

• Alexander L. Yarin

  109 shared

• Suman Sinha‐Ray

  62 shared

• Elizabeth G. Loboa

  Southern Methodist University

  43 shared

• Eunkyoung Shim

  North Carolina State University

  40 shared

• Vadim V. Silberschmidt

  Loughborough University

  30 shared

• Emrah Demirci

  Loughborough University

  28 shared

• Amit Kumar

  28 shared

Labs

• The Nonwovens InstitutePI

Education

• Ph.D.

  University of Leeds

  1982

Awards & honors

• ASTM D-13 Dewitt Smith Medal
• Fiber Society Distinguished Scientist award (1994)
• Fiber Society Lecturer
• Fiber Society Best Paper award
• INTC Best Paper Ward

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