Michael Nosonovsky

Michael Nosonovsky
Михаи́л Ио́сифович Носоно́вский
Born1969 (age 56–57)
St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Soviet Union
Known formultiscale Tribology, modeling of Droplet cluster, Triboinformatics, Green Tribology
Awards2008 ASME Burt L. Newkirk Award
Scientific career
FieldsMechanical engineering, Tribology, Physical Chemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Doctoral advisorGeorge Adams

Michael Nosonovsky (born 1969) is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee known for his contribution to Tribology, Surface science, and Hebrew Epigraphy.

Education and career

Nosonovsky graduated from St. Petersburg Polytechnic University with a MSc degree in Mechanics / Mechanical Engineering in 1992.[1] In 1989-1993 he was a student of St. Petersburg Jewish University, of which he became the first alumnus and where he worked as a teacher of Hebrew from 1992 till 1997.[2] In 2001, he got PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston, advisor George Adams.[3] He was a postdoctoral scholar at Ohio State University (2002-2005, advisor Bharat Bhushan[4]), National Institute of Standards and Technology (2005-2007), and Stevens Institute of Technology (2007-2009).

Since 2009, he has been a professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Since 2016, he is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.[5] Nosonovsky was a visiting professor or fellow at the Hebrew University (2016), the Technion (2017), University of Tyumen (2017-2023), ITMO University (2021-2025),[6] Ariel University (2024) and Weizmann Institute of Science (2024).[7]

Research

Nosonovsky's research interests include Tribology, Contact mechanics, surface science and engineering, and interfacial phenomena such as droplets and bubbles.[8] He predicted theoretically Adams-Martins instabilities during the contact of rough periodic elastic surfaces[9] and extended the studies of mechanical frictional instabilities to a broad class of interfacial chemical and physical phenomena.[10]

At Ohio State University, he studied the scale effect on friction, which is used in various areas, including the magnetic disk industry.[11] After that, Nosonovsky investigated the role of multi-scale and hierarchical structures on solid surfaces and demonstrated that such structures enhance the stability of superhydrophobic biomimetic Lotus effect surfaces,[12] which, according to New Scientist, was a "game changing result" that could be utilized in the design of non-sticky materials.[13] He also proposed a new classification of superhydrophobic surfaces based on the multiscale roughness with account to the "rose petal effect".[14] Nosonovsky suggested a procedure to derive the Amontons-Coulomb law of dry friction from the Second law of thermodynamics using Non-equilibrium thermodynamics and a limiting transition from a 3D (bulk) to a 2D (surface) material description.[15] With colleagues in NIST, he studied water under tension (negative pressure) in microscopic capillary bridges using the Atomic force microscopy and reported negative pressure (tensile stress) reaching −160 MPa,[16] establishing a world record; however, some scholars questioned the assumptions of that study.[17]

Among other results obtained during his tenure at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee are the observation of wetting transitions in underwater oleophobic metallic surfaces,[18] an explanation of why hydrophobic materials do not always repel ice,[19] the application of Non-equilibrium thermodynamics to the study of Self-healing material, supehydrophobic concrete and antimicrobial coatings,[20] and the application of the separation of motions method, which is used in mechanics for the studies of Kapitza's pendulum, to the problems of surface physics and chemistry.[21]

In 2010, Nosonovsky, together with Bharat Bhushan suggested 12 principles of a new scientific discipline, Green Tribology (or Ecotribology),[22] which are now widely used by researchers in various parts of the world.[23] Nosonovsky was also a pioneer of another new scientific discipline, Triboinformatics.[24]

Among other topics, Nosonovsky's research projects included investigations of mechanisms of wringing in Johansson Gauge blocks,[25] investigating the lowest possible surface energy of a solid,[26] and understanding the role of friction in the invention of the pendulum clock.[27] Since 2017, Nosonovsky studied various aspects of the levitating Droplet cluster including the applicability of Dynkin diagram and ADE classification to the diversity of small clusters.[28]

During his tenure as ITMO Fellow in the Infochemistry Scientific Center at ITMO University, Nosonovsky investigated new methods of surface roughness analysis, such as Topological data analysis, and applications of Triboinformatics to various areas[29] ranging from taste studies[30] to protein folding,[31] to applications of Ergodicity to cancer treatment.[32]

Besides his work in mechanical engineering, materials science, and chemistry, Nosonovsky has several important academic publications in the field of history including History of science,[33][34] and Hebrew Epigraphy.[35] This includes the catalog of 16th-century Jewish gravestones in Ukraine[36] with the oldest gravestones from the region,[37] the identification and publication of the first Hebrew book in Central Asia,[38] identification and publication of a 17th century Karaite poem from Derazhne,[39] finding the oldest gravestone with a Hebrew inscription in Belarus,[40] the identification of the gravestone of Josiah Pardo, the first Rabbi in Central / North America in Kingston, Jamaica,[41] the identification of the oldest synagogue in Morocco,[42] and establishing the role of Abner of Burgos in the development of the Copernicus astronomic system.[43] Nosonovsky also has academic publications on the Afro-Cuban religion of Santería / Ifá.[44]

Honors and achievements

Nosonovsky has coauthored and edited nine books, including the first monograph on biomimetic self-healing materials,[45] a monograph on Droplet cluster[46] and more than 200 peer-reviewed research articles.[47] He is a recipient of the ASME Burt L. Newkirk Award "for outstanding research in nanotribology, adhesion, and tribology of functional bioinspired surfaces, including the scale effect on friction and patterned nonadhesive surfaces using the Lotus effect."[48] He was also a recipient of the UWM Foundation Research Award.[49]

References

  1. ^ “Everything you wanted to know about an American Professor but were afraid to ask" (Russian)
  2. ^ Goldin, S. (2023). "Becoming Jews: The Petersburg Jewish University in the 1990s". Becoming Post-Communist. pp. 139–162. doi:10.1093/oso/9780197687215.003.0008. ISBN 978-0-19-768721-5.
  3. ^ George Adams' Graduate Students
  4. ^ Bharat Bhushan's Visiting Scientists
  5. ^ ASME Fellows
  6. ^ ITMO Fellowship Stories: Prof. Michael Nosonovsky on Triboinformatics, Working Across an Ocean, and Latin Dance
  7. ^ Prof. Nosonovsky's Curriculum Vitæ
  8. ^ L. Otto "Super-surfaces suggested by nature"
  9. ^ Nosonovsky, M.; Adams, G. G. (2004). "Vibration and stability of frictional sliding of two elastic bodies with a wavy contact interface". Journal of Applied Mechanics. 71 (2): 154–161. Bibcode:2004JAM....71..154N. doi:10.1115/1.1653684.
  10. ^ Nosonovsky, M.; Mortazavi, V. (2014). Friction-Induced Vibrations and Self-Organization. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-1380-7432-3.
  11. ^ Ian Austen, “On the Road to Low-Friction Micro Devices, Some Bumps” (New York Times, January 27, 2005)
  12. ^ Nosonovsky, M. (2007). "Multiscale roughness and stability of superhydrophobic biomimetic interfaces". Langmuir. 23 (6): 3157–3161. doi:10.1021/la062301d. PMID 17295522.
  13. ^ Griggs, Jessica (2012). "Omniphobia: the stuffs that stick at nothing". New Scientist. 216 (2892): 46–49. Bibcode:2012NewSc.216...46G. doi:10.1016/S0262-4079(12)63021-8.
  14. ^ Bhushan, B.; Nosonovsky, M. (2010). "The rose petal effect and the modes of superhydrophobicity". Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. A. 368 (1929): 4713–4728. Bibcode:2010RSPTA.368.4713B. doi:10.1098/rsta.2010.0203. PMID 20855317.
  15. ^ Nosonovsky, M. (2010). "Entropy in Tribology: in Search for Applications". Entropy. 12 (6): 1345–1390. doi:10.3390/e12061345.
  16. ^ Yang. S.H.; Nosonovsky, M.; Zhang, H.; Chung, K.H. (2008). "Nanoscale water capillary bridges under deeply negative pressure". Chem. Phys. Lett. 451 (1–3): 88–92. Bibcode:2008CPL...451...88Y. doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2007.11.068.
  17. ^ Caupin, F.; Herbert, E.; Balibar, S.; Cole, M. W. (2008). "Comment on 'Nanoscale water capillary bridges under deeply negative pressure' (Chem. Phys. Lett. 451 (2008) 88)". Chem. Phys. Lett. 463 (1–3): 283–285. Bibcode:2008CPL...463..283C. doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2008.08.047.
  18. ^ Hejazi, V.; Nyong, A. E.; Rohatgi, P.K.; Nosonovsky, M. (2012). "Wetting transitions in underwater oleophobic surface of brass". Advanced Materials. 24 (44): 5963–5966. Bibcode:2012AdM....24.5963H. doi:10.1002/adma.201202516. PMID 22945753.
  19. ^ Charles Q. Choi, Mysteries of Rain and Ice (Scientific American blogs, October 5, 2012)
  20. ^ UWM researchers develop spray-on coating that repels, deactivates airborne pathogens
  21. ^ Hasan, M.S.; Nosonovsky, M. (2020). "Method of separation of vibrational motions for applications involving wetting, superhydrophobicity, and microparticle extraction". Physical Review Fluids. 5 (5) 054201. Bibcode:2020PhRvF...5e4201H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.054201.
  22. ^ Nosonovsky, M.; Bhushan, B. (2010). "Green tribology: principles, research areas and challenges". Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. A. 368 (1929): 4677–4694. Bibcode:2010RSPTA.368.4677N. doi:10.1098/rsta.2010.0200. PMID 20855315.
  23. ^ Freschi, M. (2022). "The Twelve Principles of Green Tribology: Studies, Research, and Case Studies — A Brief Anthology". Lubricants. 10 (6): 129. doi:10.3390/lubricants10060129.
  24. ^ Nosonovsky, pioneer in the science of triboinformatics, promoted to professor at UWM
  25. ^ Breki, A.; Nosonovsky, M. (2024). "Friction and adhesion of Johansson gauge blocks". Surface Innovations. 12 (1–2): 18–22. doi:10.1680/jsuin.22.01083.
  26. ^ Chen, Z.; Nosonovsky, M. (2017). "Revisiting lowest possible surface energy of a solid". Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties. 5 (4): 045001. Bibcode:2017SuTMP...5d5001C. doi:10.1088/2051-672X/aa84c9.
  27. ^ Blumenthal, A. S.; Nosonovsky, M. (2020). "Friction and dynamics of verge and foliot: How the invention of the pendulum made clocks much more accurate". Applied Mechanics. 1 (2): 111–121. doi:10.3390/applmech1020008.
  28. ^ Fedorets, A.; Bormashenko, E.; Dombrovsky, L.; Nosonovsky, M. (2020). "Symmetry of small clusters of levitating water droplets". Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 22 (21): 12239–12244. Bibcode:2020PCCP...2212239F. doi:10.1039/D0CP01804J. PMID 32432244.
  29. ^ ITMO Fellowship & Professorship Participants Discuss Their Research Projects
  30. ^ Shityakov, S. (2025). "TAS2R taste receptor clustering suggests that bitter wine taste perception forms a 2D dataspace". J. Comput. Biophys. Chem. 24 (6): 795–805. Bibcode:2025JCBC...24..795S. doi:10.1142/S2737416524500844.
  31. ^ T. Besedina. ITMO Scientists Discover Universal Measure to Predict Protein Folding.
  32. ^ Shityakov, S. (2024). "Ergodicity Breaking and Self-Destruction of Cancer Cells by Induced Genome Chaos". Entropy. 26 (1): 37. doi:10.3390/e26010037. PMC 10814486. PMID 38248163.
  33. ^ Nosonovsky, M (2007). "Oil as a Lubricant in the Ancient Middle East". Tribology Online. 2 (2): 4–49. doi:10.2474/trol.2.44.
  34. ^ Nosonovsky, M (2024). "Early Renaissance Concepts of Time and the Invention of Mechanical Clocks". Qeios. doi:10.32388/TNV08C.
  35. ^ Fishel, A; Nosonovsky, M (2020). "The structure of Karaite gravestone inscriptions from Çufut-Qal'eh and methodology of Hebrew Epigraphy". Proceedings in Archaeology and History of Ancient and Medieval Black Sea Region. 12 (20): 996–1014. doi:10.24411/2713-2021-2020-00030.
  36. ^ The 16th century epitaphs on Jewish gravestones in Ukraine
  37. ^ Fishel, A.; Nosonovsky, M. (2017). "Rediscovered Gravestones from a Destroyed Jewish Cemetery in Ostróg: The Case of Two Inscriptions of 1445". Zutot. 14: 73–87. doi:10.1163/18750214-12141058.
  38. ^ A Bukharan-Jewish (Judeo-Tajik) translation of the "1001 Nights" ("Arabian Nights") published in Kokand (Xökand / Qo'qon) in 1914
  39. ^ Nosonovsky, M. (2011). "The Karaite Community in Derażne and its Leader Hazzan Joseph ben Yeshu'ah". Eastern European Karaites in the Last Generations: 17–35.
  40. ^ ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative-Have we found the oldest matzevah in Belarus?
  41. ^ Nosonovsky, M (2010), New Findings at the Old Jewish Cemetery of Hunts Bay, Jamaica, Studia Anthlopoligica, Moscow - Jerusalem: Gesharim, pp. 116–118, ISBN 978-5-93273-319-6
  42. ^ Andreeva, S.; Fedorchuk, A.; Nosonovsky, M. (2019). "Revisiting Epigraphic Evidence of the Oldest Synagogue in Morocco in Volubilis". Arts. 8 (4): 127. doi:10.3390/arts8040127.
  43. ^ Nosonovsky, M. (2018). "Abner of Burgos: The Missing Link between Nasir al-Din al-Tusi and Nicolaus Copernicus?". Zutot. 15: 25–30. doi:10.1163/18750214-12151070.
  44. ^ Nosonovsky, M. (2022). "Translation or Divination? Sacred Languages and Bilingualism in Judaism and Lucumí Traditions". Religions. 13 (1): 57. doi:10.3390/rel13010057.
  45. ^ Nosonovsky, M.; Rohatgi, P. (2011). Biomimetics in Materials Science: Self-healing, self-lubricating, and self-cleaning materials. New York: Springer. ISBN 978-1-4614-0925-0.
  46. ^ Fedorets, A.; Dombrovsky, L.; Bormashenko, E.; Nosonovsky, M. (2024). Levitating Droplet Clusters. New York: Begell House. ISBN 978-1-56700-532-5.
  47. ^ M. Nosonovsky on Google Scholar
  48. ^ ASME Burt Newkirk Award
  49. ^ Research Recognition Awardees
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