Jonathan Malen

About

Jonathan Malen is a Raymond J. Lane Distinguished Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on advanced manufacturing and engineering design, contributing significantly to the development of innovative manufacturing processes and systems. As a leader in his field, he has been involved in advancing the understanding and application of manufacturing technologies, emphasizing the integration of design and manufacturing to improve efficiency and product quality.

Research topics

• Chemistry
• Materials science
• Condensed matter physics
• Composite material
• Chemical physics
• Physics
• Physical chemistry
• Crystallography
• Thermodynamics
• Optics

Selected publications

• Thermally conductive ultra-low-k dielectric layers based on two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks

  Nature Materials · 2021 · 308 citations

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• Observation of reduced thermal conductivity in a metal-organic framework due to the presence of adsorbates

  Nature Communications · 2020 · 168 citations

  Whether the presence of adsorbates increases or decreases thermal conductivity in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) has been an open question. Here we report observations of thermal transport in the metal-organic framework HKUST-1 in the presence of various liquid adsorbates: water, methanol, and ethanol. Experimental thermoreflectance measurements were performed on single crystals and thin films, and theoretical predictions were made using molecular dynamics simulations. We find that the thermal…

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• Doping-Induced Superconductivity in the van der Waals Superatomic Crystal Re₆Se₈Cl₂

  Nano Letters · 2020 · 44 citations

  through Cl dissociation, drastically altering the transport behavior from semiconducting to metallic and giving rise to superconductivity with a critical temperature of ∼8 K and upper critical field exceeding 30 T. This work is the first example of superconductivity in a van der Waals superatomic crystal; more broadly, it establishes a new chemical strategy to manipulate the electronic properties of van der Waals materials with labile ligands.

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• Intrinsically thermally conductive polymers

  Materials Horizons · 2024-01-01 · 43 citations

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  polymers can be realized by enhancing the alignment, crystallinity, and intermolecular interactions. While a holistic mechanistic framework does not yet exist for thermal transport in polymeric materials, contemporary literature suggests that phonon-like heat carriers may be operative in macromolecules that meet the abovementioned criteria. In this review, we offer a perspective on how high thermal conductivity polymers can be systematically engineered from this understanding. Reports for severa…

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• Thermoelectric active cooling for transient hot spots in microprocessors

  Nature Communications · 2024-05-20 · 21 citations

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  Modern microprocessor performance is limited by local hot spots induced at high frequency by busy integrated circuit elements such as the clock generator. Locally embedded thermoelectric devices (TEDs) are proposed to perform active cooling whereby thermoelectric effects enhance passive cooling by the Fourier law in removing heat from the hot spot to colder regions. To mitigate transient heating events and improve temperature stability, we propose a novel analytical solution that describes the t…

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Recent grants

• GOALI:Tradeoffs in Heat Dissipation and Optical Performance at Plasmonic Interfaces

  NSF · $340k · 2014–2017

• GOALI: Local thermoreflectance measurement of evaporative heat transfer in the thin film region of a dynamic meniscus

  NSF · $333k · 2018–2022

• CAREER:Thermal Energy Transport in Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials

  NSF · $400k · 2012–2017

Frequent coauthors

• Alan J. H. McGaughey

  Carnegie Mellon University

  63 shared

• Wee‐Liat Ong

  59 shared

• Xavier Roy

  Columbia University

  34 shared

• Daniel W. Paley⧓

  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  31 shared

• C. Fred Higgs

  Rice University

  28 shared

• Patrick Dougherty

  26 shared

• Arun Majumdar

  Stanford University

  25 shared

• Evan O'Brien

  25 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering

  University of California, Berkeley

  2009

• M.S., Nuclear Engineering

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  2003

• B.S., Mechanical Engineering

  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  2000

Awards & honors

• Benjamin Richard Teare Teaching Award (2019)
• David P. Casasent Outstanding Research Award (2016)
• ASME Bergles-Rohsenhow Young Investigator Award in Heat Tran…
• Army Research Office Young Investigator Award (2014)
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2012)

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