• BS, Chemical Engineering, West Virginia University, 1992
• Ph D, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 1997

Books

Darrell Velegol, 2023, Design of Innovation Processes, Elsevier, pp. 241

Darrell Velegol, 2015, Physics of Community Course Notes for Fall 2015

Darrell Velegol, 2013, CENTER: A system of 6 practices for taking charge of your passions and purposes in self, family, work, and community, Wild Scholars Media

Darrell Velegol, 2011, Wild Scholars: Designing a learning system for educating Scholars toward their passions and purposes

Journal Articles

Raj Guha and Darrell Velegol, 2023, "Harnessing Shannon entropy-based descriptors in machine learning models to enhance the prediction accuracy of molecular properties", Journal of Cheminformatics, 15, pp. 11

Christopher Arges, Darrell Velegol and Matthew L. Jordan, 2023, "E-Chem Education: a crash course in electrochemical engineering for caustic soda plant design", E-Chem Education

Darrell Velegol, 2022, "Gambling on Innovation with Learning", Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 61, pp. 7

Caleb Meredith, Darrell Velegol, Alexander Castonguay, Yu-Jen Chiu, Allan Brooks, Pepijn Moerman, Peter Torab, PakKin Wong, Ayusman Sen and Lauren Zarzar, 2022, "Chemical design of self-propelled Janus droplets", Matter, 5, pp. 18

Darrell Velegol, 2021, "Sustainable Energy Corps: Building a Global Collaboration to Accelerate Transition to a Low Carbon World", Chemical Engineering Science, 10, pp. 100099

Darrell Velegol, 2021, "Gambling on Innovation", Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 60, pp. 7689-7699

Darrell Velegol, 2020, "How to innovate during a crisis", Chemical Engineering Progress, 116, (8), pp. 5

Darrell Vele andol, , 2019, "Enzyme-coated liposomes as dual-direction self-propulsive motors", Nature Nanotechnology, 14, pp. 1129-1134

Darrell Velegol, Matthew Collins, Ayusman Sen, Farzad Mohajerani, Subhadip Ghosh, Rajarshi Guha, Tae-Hee Le and Peter Butler, 2019, "Non-Uniform Crowding Enhances Transport", ACS Nano, 13, pp. 8946-8956

Darrell Velegol, Laxmicharan Samineni, Boya Xiong, Ratul Chowdhury, , Andrew Pei, Louise Kuehster, Huiran Wang, Roman Dickey, Paula Soto, Lynnicia Massenburg, Thanh Nguyen, Costas Maranas, Manish Kumar and Stephanie Velegol, 2019, "7-log virus removal in a simple functionalized sand filter", Environmental Science & Technology, 53, pp. 12706-12714

Darrell Velegol, Monty Alger and John Jordan, 2019, "Digitally Coupled Learning and Innovation Processes", Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 58, pp. 22445-22455

Darrell Velegol, Subhadip Ghosh, Farzad Mohajerani, Seoyoung Son, Peter Butler and Ayusman Sen, 2019, "Motility of Enzyme-Powered Vesicles", Nano Letters, 19, pp. 6019-6026

Darrell Velegol, Allan Brooks, Mykola Tasinkevych, Sabrina Syeda, Ayusman Sen and Kyle Bishop, 2019, "Shape-directed rotation of homogeneous micromotors via catalytic self-electrophoresis,", Nature Communications

Darrell Velegol, Paul Suhey, John Connolly, Natalie Morrissey and Laura Cook, 2018, "Chemical Game Theory", Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 57, pp. 13593-13607

Brittany Nordmark, Toni Bechtel, Riley John, Stephanie B Velegol, Darrell Velegol, Robert D Tilton and Todd Przybycien, 2018, "Moringa oleifera seed protein adsorption to silica: Effects of water hardness, fractionation, and fatty acid extraction", Langmuir, 34, pp. 4852-4860

Farzad Mohajerani, Xi Zhao, Ambika Somasundar, Darrell Velegol and Ayusman Sen, 2018, "A General Theory of Enzyme Chemotaxis: Comparison Between Experiment and Model,", Biochemistry, 57, pp. 6256-6263

Darrell Velegol, Manish Kumar, Boya Xiong, Raj Guha, Michael Geitner, Tevin Moore, , and , , 2017, "Reactive Micromixing Eliminates Fouling and Concentration Polarization in Reverse Osmosis Membranes", Journal of Membrane Science, 542, pp. 8-17

Darrell Velegol, Michael J Janik, Frank Dorman, Wendy Person, Parette Robert, McMahon Katherine and Valerie Watson, 2017, "Modeling the Formation of 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin in the Historical Manufacture of 2,4,5-Trichlorophenol", Environmental Forensics, 18, pp. 307-317

Darrell Velegol, Ayusman Sen, Subhadip Ghosh, Matthew Collins, Mohajerani Farzad and Rajarshi Guha, 2017, "Chemotaxis of Molecular Dyes in Polymer Gradients in Solution,", American Chemical Society, 139, pp. 15588-15591

Darrell Velegol, Ayusman Sen, Matthew Collins, Ahana Mukhopadhyay, Farzad Mohajerani and Rajarshi Guha, 2017, "Modulation of Spatio-temporal Particle Patterning in Evaporating Droplets: Applications to Diagnostics and Materials Science", ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9, pp. 43352-43362

Astha Garg, Charles Cartier, Kyle Bishop and Darrell Velegol, 2016, "Particle Zeta Potentials Remain Finite in Saturated Salt Solutions", Langmuir, 32, pp. 11837-11844

Abhishek Kar, Michael McEldrew, Robert Stout, Benjamin Mays, Aditya Khair, Darrell Velegol and Christopher Gorski, 2016, "Self-generated electrokinetic fluid flows during pseudomorphic mineral replacement reactions", Langmuir, 32, pp. 5233-5240

Darrell Velegol, Garg Astha, Rajarshi Guha, Abhishek Kar and Manish Kumar, 2016, "Origins of concentration gradients for diffusiophoresis", Soft Matter, 12, pp. 4686-4703

Bart Pursel, Liang Zhang, Kathryn Jablokow, Darrell Velegol and Go Woong Choi, 2016, "Understanding MOOC Students: Motivations and Behaviors Indicative of MOOC Completion", Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 32, pp. 202-217

Rajarshi Guha, Andrew Zydney, Xia Shang and Darrell Velegol, 2015, "Diffusiophoresis Contributes Significantly to Colloidal Fouling in Low Salinity Reverse Osmosis Systems", Journal of Membrane Science, 479, pp. 67-76

Darrell Velegol, Ayusman Sen, Abhishek Kar, Tso-Yi Chiang and Isamar Ortiz Rivera, 2015, "Transport into and out of dead-end pores", ACS Nano, 9, pp. 746-753

Tso-Yi Chiang and Darrell Velegol, 2014, "Localized Electro-osmosis (LEO) Induced by Spherical Colloidal Motors", 30, pp. 2600 - 2607

Abhishek Kar, Rajarshi Guha, Nishant Dani, Darrell Velegol and Manish Kumar, 2014, "Particle deposition on Microporous Membranes can be Enhanced or Reduced by Salt Gradients", 30, pp. 793-799

Tso-Yi Chiang and Darrell Velegol, 2014, "Multi-ion Diffusionphoresis", 424 C, pp. 120-123

Wei Wang, Tso Yi Chiang, Darrell Velegol and Thomas E. Mallouk, 2013, "Understanding the Efficiency of Autonomous Nano- and Microscale Motors", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 135, pp. 10557-10565

Laura Mely Ramírez, Charles A. Michaelis, Javier E. Rosado, Elias K. Pabón, Ralph H. Colby and Darrell Velegol, 2013, "Polloidal Chains from Self-Assembly of Flattened Particles", Langmuir, 29, pp. 10340-10345

Huda A. Jerri, Kristin J. Adolfsen, Lauren R. McCullough, Darrell Velegol and Stephanie B. Velegol, 2012, "Antimicrobial Sand via Adsorption of Cationic Moringa Oleifera Protein", Langmuir, 28, (4), pp. 2262-2268

Neetu Chaturvedi, Bala Krishna Juluri, Qingzhen Hao, Tony Jun Huang and Darrell Velegol, 2012, "Simple Fabrication of Snowman-like Colloids", Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 371, pp. 28-33

Laura Mely Ramirez, Adrian S. Smith, Deniz B. Unal, Ralph H. Colby and Darrell Velegol, 2012, "Self-assembly of Doublets from Flattened Polymer Colloids", Langmuir, 28, (9), pp. 4086-4094

J. J. McDermott, A. Kar, J. Daher, S. Klara, G. Wang, A. Sen and Darrell Velegol, 2012, "Self-Generated Diffusioosmotic Flows from Calcium Carbonate Micropumps", Langmuir, 28, (44), pp. 15491-15497

Neetu Chaturvedi, Erik Hsiao, Darrell Velegol and Seong H. Kim, 2011, "Maskless fabrication of nanowells using chemically reactive colloids", Nano Letters, Corrigenda Nano Letters, 11, pp. 672-676, 3511-3511

César González Serrano, Joseph J. McDermott and Darrell Velegol, 2011, "Sediments of Soft Spheres Arranged by Effective Density", Nature Materials, 10, pp. 716-721

Bala Krishna Juluri, Neetu Chaturvedi, Qingzhen Hao, Mengqian Lu, Darrell Velegol, Lasse Jensen and Tony Jun Huang, 2011, "Scalable Manufacturing of Plasmonic Nanodisk Dimers and Cusp Nanostructures Using Salting-out Quenching Method and Colloidal Lithography", ACS Nano, 5, pp. 5838-5847

Yiying Hong, Darrell Velegol, Neetu Chaturvedi and Ayusman Sen, 2010, "Biomimetic behavior of synthetic particles: from microscopic randomness to macroscopic control", Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 12, pp. 1423-1435

Huda A. Jerri, William P. Sheehan, Charles E. Snyder and Darrell Velegol, 2010, "Prolonging Density Gradient Stability", Langmuir, 26, pp. 4725-4731

Neetu Chaturvedi, Yiying Hong, Ayusman Sen and Darrell Velegol, 2010, "Magnetic Enhancement of Phototaxing Catalytic Motors", Langmuir, 26, pp. 6308-6313

Milton W. Cole, Leonidas N. Gergidis, Jessica P. McNutt, Darrell Velegol, Hye-Young Kim and Zachary K. Bond, 2010, "Many-body van der Waals forces involving chains", Journal of Nanophotonics, 4, pp. 041560

Laura Mely Ramirez, Scott T. Milner, Charles E. Snyder, Ralph H. Colby and Darrell Velegol, 2010, "Controlled Flats on Spherical Polymer Colloids", Langmuir, 26, pp. 7644-7649

Darrell Velegol, Huda A. Jerri, Joseph J. McDermott and Neetu Chaturvedi, 2010, "Micro-factories for Colloidal Assemblies", AIChE Journal, 56, pp. 564-569

Joseph J. McDermott, Neetu Chaturvedi and Darrell Velegol, 2010, "Functional Colloidal Trimers by Quenched Electrostatic Assembly", Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 12, pp. 11930-11937

Charles Snyder, Melissa Ong and Darrell Velegol, 2009, "In-solution assembly of colloidal water", Soft Matter, 5, pp. 1263-1268

Huda Jerri, Rachel Dutter and Darrell Velegol, 2009, "Fabrication of Stable Anisotropic Microcapsules", Soft Matter, 5, pp. 827-834

Milton W. Cole, Darrell Velegol, Hye-Young Kim and Amand A. Lucas, 2009, "Nanoscale van der Waals Interactions", Molecular Simulation, 35, pp. 849-866

Andre E. Nel, Lutz Madler, Darrell Velegol, Tian Xia, Eric M. Hoek, Ponisseril Somasundaran, Fred Klaessig, Vince Castranova and Mike Thompson, 2009, "Understanding biophysicochemical interactions at the nano-bio interface", Nature Materials, 8, pp. 543-557

Ayusman Sen, Michael Ibele, Yiying Hong and Darrell Velegol, 2009, "Chemo and Phototactic Nano/Microbots", Faraday Discussions, 143, pp. 15-27

Darrell Velegol, S. Shori and C. E. Snyder, 2008, "Rayleigh-Benard instability in sedimentation", Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., WEB, 48, pp. 2414-2421

M. E. Parent, C. E. Snyder, N. D. Kopp and Darrell Velegol, 2008, "Localized quorum sensing in Vibrio fischeri", Colloids Surface B Biointerfaces, 62, (2), pp. 180-187

Darrell Velegol and J. J. McDermott, 2008, "Simple fabrication of metallic colloidal doublets having electrical connectivity", Langmuir, 24, (8), pp. 4335-4339

M. W. Cole and Darrell Velegol, 2008, "van der waals energy of a 1-dimensional lattice", Molecular Physics, 106, (12), pp. 1587-1596

N. Chaturvedi, H. Jerri and Darrell Velegol, 2008, "Design and characterization of randomly-speckled spheres", Langmuir, 14, pp. 7618-22

Darrell Velegol, 2007, "Fabrication of high-value particle assemblies", Rubber & Plastic News, 37, pp. 14-15

Darrell Velegol, G. L. Holtzer, A. F. Radovic-Moreno and J. D. Cuppett, 2007, "Force measurements between sub-100 nm colloidal particles", Langmuir, 23, pp. 1275-1280

H.-Y. Kim, J. O. Sofo, Darrell Velegol, M. W. Cole and A. A. Lucas, 2007, "Van der Waals forces between dielectric nanoclusters", Langmuir, 23, pp. 1735-1740

A. Yake, C. E. Snyder and Darrell Velegol, 2007, "Site-specific functionalization on individual colloids: size control, stability and multi-layers", Langmuir, 23, pp. 9069-9075

A. Yake, A. S. Zahr, H. Jerri, M. V. Pishko and Darrell Velegol, 2007, "Localized functionalization of individual colloidal carriers for cell targeting and imaging", Biomacromolecules, 8, pp. 1958-1965

A. Parekh and Darrell Velegol, 2007, "Collagen gel anisotropy measured by 2-D laser trap microrheometry", Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 35, pp. 1231-1246

Y. Hong, N. M. K. Blackman, N. D. Kopp, Darrell Velegol and A. Sen, 2007, "Chemotaxis of non-biological nanorods", Physical Review Letters, 99, pp. 1-4

Darrell Velegol, 2007, "Assembling colloidal devices by controlling interparticle forces", Journal of Nanophotonics, 1, (012502), pp. 1-25

H.-Y. Kim, J. O. Sofo, Darrell Velegol, M. W. Cole and A. A. Lucas, 2006, "van der Waals forces between nanoclusters: importance of many-body effects", Journal of Chemical Physics, 124, pp. 074504-1 to 074504-4

J. F. Jones, D. Waters, M. Flamm and Darrell Velegol, 2006, "Orientation of irreversible adhesion of spherical particles on prolate spheroidal collectors", Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 299, pp. 696-702

J. Jones and Darrell Velegol, 2006, "Laser trap studies of End-on E. coli adhesion to glass", Colloids & Surfaces B, 50, pp. 66-71

H.-Y. Kim, J. O. Sofo, Darrell Velegol and M. W. Cole, 2006, "Fully retarded van der Waals interaction between dielectric nanoclusters", Journal of Chemical Physics, 125, pp. 174303-1 - 174303-8

M. B. Salerno, M. Flamm, B. E. Logan and Darrell Velegol, 2006, "Transport of rodlike colloids through packed beds", Environmental Science & Technology, 40, pp. 6336-6340

A. M. Yake, R. A. Panella, C. E. Snyder and Darrell Velegol, 2006, "Fabrication of doublets by a salting out - quenching - fusing technique", Langmuir, 22, pp. 9135-9141

T. R. Kline, J. Iwata, P. E. Lammert, T. E. Mallouk, A. Sen and Darrell Velegol, 2006, "Catalytically-driven colloidal patterning and transport", Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 110, pp. 24513-24521

S. M. Gatica, M. W. Cole and Darrell Velegol, 2005, "Designing van der Waals forces between nanocolloids", Nano Letters, 5, pp. 169-173

C. Snyder, A. M. Yake, J. D. Feick and Darrell Velegol, 2005, "Nanoscale functionalization and site-specific assembly of colloids by particle lithography", Langmuir, 21, pp. 4813-4815

J. Jones, G. L. Holtzer, C. Snyder, A. M. Yake and Darrell Velegol, 2005, "Charge nonuniformity light scattering", Colloids and Surfaces A, 267, pp. 79-85

G. L. Holtzer and Darrell Velegol, 2005, "Limitations of differential electrophoresis for measuring colloidal forces: A Brownian dynamics study", Langmuir, 21, pp. 10074-10081

Hye-Young Kim, J. O. Sofo, Darrell Velegol, M. W. Cole and G. Mukhopadhyay, 2005, "Static polarizabilities of dielectric nanoclusters", Physical Review A, 72, pp. 053201-1 - 053201-8

M. B. Salerno, S. Rothstein, C. Nwachukwua, H. Shelbi, Darrell Velegol and B. E. Logan, 2005, "Differences between chemi-sorbed and physi-sorbed biomolecules on particle deposition to hydrophobic surfaces", Environmental Science & Technology, 39, pp. 6371-6377

T. R. Kline, W. F. Paxton, Y. Wang, Darrell Velegol, T. E. Mallouk and A. Sen, 2005, "Catalytic micropumps: microscopic convective fluid flow and pattern formation", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 127, pp. 17150-17151

M. Salerno, B. E. Logan and Darrell Velegol, 2004, "Importance of molecular details in predicting bacterial adhesion to hydrophobic surfaces", Langmuir, 20, pp. 10625-10629

M. E. Parent and Darrell Velegol, 2004, "E. coli adhesion to silica in the presence of humic acid", Colloids and Surfaces B, 39, pp. 45-51

J. D. Feick and Darrell Velegol, 2004, "Reducing surface charge nonuniformity on individual particles through annealing", Industrial and Engineering Research Chemistry, 43, pp. 3478-3483

Darrell Velegol, 2004, "Brownian sampling in an unbounded space", Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 274, pp. 334-336

J. D. Feick, N. Chukwumah, A. E. Noel and Darrell Velegol, 2004, "Altering surface charge nonuniformity on individual colloidal particles", Langmuir, 20, pp. 3090-3095

J. F. Jones, J. D. Feick, D. Imoudu, N. Chukwumah, J. Vigeant and Darrell Velegol, 2003, "Oriented adhesion of E. coli to polystyrene particles", Applied & Environmental Microbiology, 69, pp. 6515-6519

G. L. Holtzer and Darrell Velegol, 2003, "Force measurements between colloidal particles of identical zeta potentials using differential electrophoresis", Langmuir, 19, pp. 4090-4095

S. Velegol, S. Pardi, X. Li, Darrell Velegol and B. E. Logan, 2003, "AFM imaging artifacts due to bacterial cell height and AFM tip geometry", Langmuir, 19, pp. 851-857

M. M. Calbi, S. M. Gatica, Darrell Velegol and M. W. Cole, 2003, "Retarded and nonretarded van der Waals interactions between a cluster and a second cluster or a conducting surface", Physical Rev A, 67, pp. 033201-1 - 033301-5

Darrell Velegol and J. D. Feick, 2003, "Evaluating randomness of charge distribution on colloidal particles using stationary electrophoresis angles", Langmuir, 19, pp. 4592-4596

S. M. Gatica, M. M. Calbi, M. W. Cole and Darrell Velegol, 2003, "Three-body interactions involving clusters and films", Physical Review B, 68, pp. 205409-1 - 205409-8

J. D. Feick and Darrell Velegol, 2002, "Measurements of charge nonuniformity on polystyrene latex particles", Langmuir, pp. 3454-3458

Darrell Velegol, 2002, "Electrophoresis of randomly-charged particles", Electrophoresis, 23, pp. 2023-2028

P. K. Thwar and Darrell Velegol, 2002, "Force measurements between weakly-attractive polystyrene particles", Langmuir, 18, pp. 7328-7333

P. K. Thwar and Darrell Velegol, 2001, "Measuring particle diameter and particle-particle gap with nanometer precision using an optical microscope", Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Reseach, 40, pp. 3042-3047

Darrell Velegol and F. Lanni, 2001, "Cell traction forces on soft biomaterials I: microrheology of type I collagen gels", Biophysical Journal, 81, pp. 1786-1792

Darrell Velegol and P. K. Thwar, 2001, "Analytical model for the effect of surface charge nonuniformity on colloidal interactions", Langmuir, 17, pp. 7687-7693

J. L. Anderson, Darrell Velegol and S. Garoff, 2000, "Experimental studies of the forces between colloidal particles", Langmuir, 16, pp. 3372-3384

Darrell Velegol, J. D. Feick and L. Collins, 2000, "Electrophoresis of spherical particles with a random distribution of zeta potential or surface charge", Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 230, pp. 114-121

J. D. Feick and Darrell Velegol, 2000, "The electrophoresis of spheroidal particles having a random distribution of zeta potential", Langmuir, 16, pp. 10315-10321

Darrell Velegol, S. Catana, J. L. Anderson and S. Garoff, 1999, "Tangential forces between non-touching colloidal particles", Physical Review Letters, 83, pp. 1243-1246

Darrell Velegol, Y. Solomentsev, J. L. Anderson and S. L. Carnie, 1998, "Electrophoretic rotation of doublets composed of two spheres almost in contact", Colloids and Surfaces A, 140, pp. 59-74

Y. Solomentsev, Darrell Velegol and J. L. Anderson, 1997, "Conduction in the small gap between two spheres", Physics of Fluids, 9, pp. 1209-1217

Darrell Velegol, J. L. Anderson and S. Garoff, 1996, "Probing the structure of colloidal doublets by electrophoretic rotation", Langmuir, 12, pp. 675-685

J. A. Shaeiwitz, W. B. Whiting and Darrell Velegol, 1996, "A large-group senior design experience: teaching responsibility and life-long learning", Chemical Engineering Education, 30, pp. 70-75

Darrell Velegol, J. L. Anderson and S. Garoff, 1996, "Determining the forces between polystyrene latex spheres using differential electrophoresis", Langmuir, 12, pp. 4103-4110

Steve Ebbens, Sambeeta Das, Astha Garg, Darrell Velegol, Ramin Golestinian and Ayusman Sen, , "Boundaries can Steer Active Janus Spheres", Nature Communications

Conference Proceedings

Darrell Velegol, Kathryn W Jablokow and Jack V Matson, 2014, "A Multidisciplinary MOOC on Creativity, Innovation, and Change: Encouraging Experimentation and Experiential Learning on a Grand Scale", June 15-18

Darrell Velegol, S. Garoff and J. L. Anderson, 1994, "Electrokinetic transport of heterogeneous particles in suspension", Proceedings of the 1994 NASA Conference

Magazines/Trade Publications

• PSEAS Premier Teaching Award, PSEAS, 2018

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