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Pamela M. Norris

Pamela M. Norris

Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Primary Location
PO Box 400746
Primary Phone Number
434.924.6295
Email
[email protected]
Website
https://pamelanorris.wordpress.com/

Bio & Overview

Dr. Norris is the founder and director of the Nanoscale Heat Transfer Laboratory and the Aerogel Research Laboratory. The Nanoscale Lab houses a state-of-the-art facility for optical techniques in nanoscale heat transfer and performs experimental, computational, and theoretical investigations emphasizing interfacial thermal transport. The Aerogel Research Lab is active in production and material modification techniques for electrical, acoustical, and thermal isolation in sensors. Thermal management research has included techniques such as utilization of heat pipes for dissipation of waste heat aboard next-generation aircraft and redesign of landing pads and jet-blast deflectors aboard aircraft carriers.

Academic Information

Department
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Academic Title
Associate Dean

Primary Education

  • PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992

Research Interests

Aerogel Technology

Research Disciplines

  • Biotechnology
  • Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Research Opportunities

  • Biotechnology

Selected Publications

Qiu L, Wang X, Su G, Tang D, Zheng X, Zhu J, Wang Z, Norris PM, Bradford PD, Zhu Y, Remarkably enhanced thermal transport based on a flexible horizontally-aligned carbon nanotube array film., 2016; Scientific reports. 6() 21014. PMID: 26880221 | PMCID: PMC4754700

Polanco Carlos A, Rastgarkafshgarkolaei Rouzbeh , Zhang Jingjie , Le Nam Q, Norris Pamela M, Hopkins Patrick E, Ghosh Avik W, Role of crystal structure and junction morphology on interface thermal conductance, 2015; Physical Review B. 92(14) . PMID:

Bauer ML, Norris PM, General bidirectional thermal characterization via the 3ω technique., 2014; The Review of scientific instruments. 85(6) 064903. PMID: 24985838

Bauer Matthew L., Pham Quang N., Saltonstall Christopher B., Norris Pamela M., Thermal conductivity of vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays: Growth conditions and tube inhomogeneity, 2014; Applied Physics Letters. 105(15) . PMID:

Saltonstall CB, Serrano J, Norris PM, Hopkins PE, Beechem TE, Single element Raman thermometry., 2013; The Review of scientific instruments. 84(6) 064903. PMID: 23822368

Le Nam Q, Duda JohnC, English Timothy S, Hopkins Patrick E, Beechem Thomas E, Norris PamelaM, Strategies for tuning phonon transport in multilayered structures using a mismatch-based particle model, 2012; Journal of Applied Physics. 111(8) . PMID:

Duda JC, English TS, Jordan DA, Norris PM, Soffa WA, Reducing thermal conductivity of binary alloys below the alloy limit via chemical ordering., 2011; Journal of physics. Condensed matter : an Institute of Physics journal. 23(20) 205401. PMID: 21540497

Duda JC, Saltonstall CB, Norris PM, Hopkins PE, Assessment and prediction of thermal transport at solid-self-assembled monolayer junctions., 2011; The Journal of chemical physics. 134(9) 094704. PMID: 21384994