Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

PhD 2024,  Rice University, Houston, Texas

Contact Information

• Office: POST 207G
• Phone: (808) 956-2370
• E-mail: tfyap@hawaii.edu
• Research Website:  https://sites.google.com/hawaii.edu/soma-lab

Research Interests

• Soft manufacturing
• Soft matter
• Soft machines
• Additive manufacturing
• Interfacial phenomena
• Temperature-dependent reaction kinetics

Selected Publications

1. T.F. Yap, A. Rajappan, M.D. Bell, R.M. Rasheed, C.J. Decker, D.J. Preston, “Thermally
   Accelerated Curing of Platinum-Catalyzed Elastomer,” Cell Reports Physical Science, 5(3),
   2024. [DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2024.101849]
2. Z. Liu, T.F. Yap, A. Rajappan, R.A. Shveda, R.M. Rasheed, D.J. Preston, “Mitigating
   Contamination with Nanostructure-Enabled Ultraclean Storage,” Nano Letters, 23(14),
   2023. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c00626]
3. M.D. Bell, K. Ye, T.F. Yap, A. Rajappan, Z. Liu, Y.J. Tao, D.J. Preston, “Rapid In Situ
   Thermal Decontamination of Wearable Composite Textile Materials,” ACS Applied
   Materials & Interfaces, 2023. [DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c09063]
4. T.F. Yap, Z. Liu, A. Rajappan, T.J. Shimokusu, D.J. Preston, "Necrobotics: Biotic Materials
   as Ready to-Use Actuators,” Advanced Science, 2201174, 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/admi.202300817]
5. R.A. Shveda, A. Rajappan, T.F. Yap, Z. Liu, M.D. Bell, B. Jumet, V. Sanchez, D.J. Preston,
   “A Wearable Textile-Based Pneumatic Energy Harvesting System for Assistive Robotics,”
   Science Advances, 8(34), 2022. [DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abo2418]
6. T.F. Yap, Z. Liu, R.A. Shveda, D.J. Preston, "A Predictive Model of the Temperature-
   Dependent Inactivation of Coronaviruses," Applied Physics Letters, 117(060601), 2020.
   [DOI: 10.1063/5.0020782]

Full list of publications available:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=ln02w9YAAAAJ

Courses Offered

• ME341: Manufacturing Processes