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Amy Q. Shen, PhD

Full Affiliate Member, Research Institute
Houston Methodist


Biography

Amy Shen received her Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in October 2000. Following a postdoctoral fellowship in Harvard’s Division of Engineering and Applied Science, she joined Washington University in St. Louis before moving to the University of Washington in Seattle. In July 2014, Amy Shen moved to Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan to head the Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit. 

Description of Research

Dr. Shen's research is focused on the complex fluids, rheology, biomaterials and self assembly that can find applications in the nanotechnology, biotechnology, and energy related materials. Amy is an honor member of Phi Kappa Phi and Pi Tau Sigma. Amy received Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award in 2003 and the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award in 2007. Amy is also a Fulbright Scholar in 2013.

Publications

Exploring multi-stability in three-dimensional viscoelastic flow around a free stagnation point
Carlson, DW, Shen, AQ & Haward, SJ 2024, , Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, vol. 323, 105169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnnfm.2023.105169

Rheological effects on purely-elastic flow asymmetries in the cross-slot geometry
Yokokoji, A, Varchanis, S, Shen, AQ & Haward, SJ 2023, , Soft Matter, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 152-166. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3sm01209c

Extensional rheometry of mobile fluids. Part I: OUBER, an optimized uniaxial and biaxial extensional rheometer
Haward, SJ, Pimenta, F, Varchanis, S, Carlson, DW, Toda-Peters, K, Alves, MA & Shen, AQ 2023, , Journal of Rheology, vol. 67, no. 5, pp. 995-1009. https://doi.org/10.1122/8.0000659

Extensional rheometry of mobile fluids. Part II: Comparison between the uniaxial, planar, and biaxial extensional rheology of dilute polymer solutions using numerically optimized stagnation point microfluidic devices
Haward, SJ, Varchanis, S, McKinley, GH, Alves, MA & Shen, AQ 2023, , Journal of Rheology, vol. 67, no. 5, pp. 1011-1030. https://doi.org/10.1122/8.0000660

Perspective on edge fracture
Chan, ST, Varchanis, S, Haward, SJ & Shen, AQ 2023, , Journal of Rheology, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 949-963. https://doi.org/10.1122/8.0000625

Bacteriophage Pf1 complex viscosity
Kanso, MA, Calabrese, V, Shen, AQ, Pak, MC & Giacomin, AJ 2023, , Physics of Fluids, vol. 35, no. 7, 073107. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0156712

Flow-induced alignment of protein nanofibril dispersions
Santos, TP, Calabrese, V, Boehm, MW, Baier, SK & Shen, AQ 2023, , Journal of Colloid And Interface Science, vol. 638, pp. 487-497. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2023.01.105

Naturally derived colloidal rods in microfluidic flows
Calabrese, V, Shen, AQ & Haward, SJ 2023, , Biomicrofluidics, vol. 17, no. 2, 021301, pp. 021301. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0142867

Edge fracture of thixotropic elastoviscoplastic liquid bridges
Chan, ST, Varchanis, S, Shen, AQ & Haward, SJ 2023, , PNAS Nexus, vol. 2, no. 3, pgad042. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad042

Canopy elastic turbulence: Spontaneous formation of waves in beds of slender microposts
De Blois, C, Haward, SJ & Shen, AQ 2023, , Physical Review Fluids, vol. 8, no. 2, 023301. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.023301

Duplex Electrochemical Microfluidic Sensor for COVID-19 Antibody Detection: Natural versus Vaccine-Induced Humoral Response
Mazzaracchio, V, Rios Maciel, M, Porto Santos, T, Toda-Peters, K & Shen, AQ 2023, , Small, vol. 19, no. 51, 2207731, pp. e2207731. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202207731

Prevention of edge fracture using a nontoxic liquid metal sealant
Chan, ST, Haward, SJ & Shen, AQ 2023, , Physics of Fluids, vol. 35, no. 1, 011704. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0135554

Alignment-Rheology Relationship of Biosourced Rod-Like Colloids and Polymers under Flow
Detert, M, Santos, TP, Shen, AQ & Calabrese, V 2023, , Biomacromolecules, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 3304-3312. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.3c00347

Vortex breakdown in the shear-driven flow in a rectangular cavity
Wang, H, Yu, X, Chan, ST, Durey, G, Shen, AQ & Ault, JT 2023, , Physical Review Fluids, vol. 8, no. 11, 114701. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.114701

Microstructural Dynamics and Rheology of Worm-like Diblock Copolymer Nanoparticle Dispersions under a Simple Shear and a Planar Extensional Flow
Calabrese, V, György, C, Haward, SJ, Neal, TJ, Armes, SP & Shen, AQ 2022, , Macromolecules, vol. 55, no. 22, pp. 10031-10042. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.2c01314

Effect of blockage ratio on flow of a viscoelastic wormlike micellar solution past a cylinder in a microchannel
Hopkins, CC, Shen, AQ & Haward, SJ 2022, , Soft Matter, vol. 18, no. 46, pp. 8856-8866. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2sm01162j

Volumetric evolution of elastic turbulence in porous media
Carlson, DW, Toda-Peters, K, Shen, AQ & Haward, SJ 2022, , Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 950, A36. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2022.836

Evaporation driven smart patterning of microparticles on a rigid-soft composite substrate
Iqbal, R, Matsumoto, A, Carlson, D, Peters, KT, Funari, R, Sen, AK & Shen, AQ 2022, , Journal of Colloid And Interface Science, vol. 623, pp. 927-937. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2022.05.087

Evaluation of constitutive models for shear-banding wormlike micellar solutions in simple and complex flows
Varchanis, S, Haward, SJ, Hopkins, CC, Tsamopoulos, J & Shen, AQ 2022, , Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, vol. 307, 104855. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnnfm.2022.104855

Perspectives on viscoelastic flow instabilities and elastic turbulence
Datta, SS, Ardekani, AM, Arratia, PE, Beris, AN, Bischofberger, I, McKinley, GH, Eggers, JG, López-Aguilar, JE, Fielding, SM, Frishman, A, Graham, MD, Guasto, JS, Haward, SJ, Shen, AQ, Hormozi, S, Morozov, A, Poole, RJ, Shankar, V, Shaqfeh, ESG, Stark, H, Steinberg, V, Subramanian, G & Stone, HA 2022, , Physical Review Fluids, vol. 7, no. 8, 080701. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.7.080701