Joseph Najem

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Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

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Recent Publications

Design optimization of electric-fish-inspired power sources using statistical and machine learning approaches

Tholen, H. M., Mohamed, A. S., Wilson, V. I., Hall, D. & Najem, J. S., Jan 1 2026, In: Journal of Power Sources. 661

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Memimpedance-Based Biomolecular Device for Adaptive Physical Reservoir Computing

Mohamed, A. S., Armendarez, N. X., Hasan, M. S. & Najem, J. S., Nov 2025, In: Advanced Intelligent Systems. 7, 11, 2500281.

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Electromechanically induced membrane restructuring enables learning and memory

Podar, P. T., Bolmatov, D., Kumarage, T., Ashkar, R., Adkisson, A., Ziemer, O., Sullivan, V., Mohamed, A. S., Najem, J. S., Collier, C. P. & Katsaras, J., Nov 11 2025, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 122, 45, e2510664122.

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Mechanistic insights into electric fish-inspired power sources: A combined modeling and experimental approach

Tholen, H. M., Taylor, R. F., Hall, D. M. & Najem, J. S., Jun 10 2025, In: Electrochimica Acta. 525, 146043.

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Electric-Fish-Inspired Thin Hydrogel Electrocytes Achieve High Power Density and Environmental Robustness

Tillinger, D., Lee, W., Tholen, H. M., Hall, D. & Najem, J. S., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Advanced Science.

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Multi-Material Droplet-Based Hydrogel Threads for Extrusion 3D Printing

Tillinger, D., Armendarez, N. X. & Najem, J. S., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Small Methods.

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Brain-Inspired Reservoir Computing Using Memristors with Tunable Dynamics and Short-Term Plasticity

Armendarez, N. X., Mohamed, A. S., Dhungel, A., Hossain, M. R., Hasan, M. S. & Najem, J. S., Feb 7 2024, In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. 16, 5, p. 6176-6188 13 p.

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Nonlinear memristor model with exact solution allows for ex situ reservoir computing training and in situ inference

Armendarez, N., Hasan, M. S. & Najem, J., Dec 4 2024, In: Nanoscale. 17, 4, p. 2068-2077 10 p.

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Biomembrane-Based Memcapacitive Reservoir Computing System for Energy-Efficient Temporal Data Processing

Hossain, M. R., Mohamed, A. S., Armendarez, N. X., Najem, J. S. & Hasan, M. S., Dec 2023, In: Advanced Intelligent Systems. 5, 12, 2300346.

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Short-Term Facilitation-Then-Depression Enables Adaptive Processing of Sensory Inputs by Ion Channels in Biomolecular Synapses

Maraj, J. J., Najem, J. S., Ringley, J. D., Weiss, R. J., Rose, G. S. & Sarles, S. A., Oct 26 2021, In: ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 3, 10, p. 4448-4458 11 p.

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Artificial water channels enable fast and selective water permeation through water-wire networks

Song, W., Joshi, H., Chowdhury, R., Najem, J. S., Shen, Y. X., Lang, C., Henderson, C. B., Tu, Y. M., Farell, M., Pitz, M. E., Maranas, C. D., Cremer, P. S., Hickey, R. J., Sarles, S. A., Hou, J. L., Aksimentiev, A. & Kumar, M., Jan 1 2020, In: Nature nanotechnology. 15, 1, p. 73-79 7 p.

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Author Correction: Artificial water channels enable fast and selective water permeation through water-wire networks (Nature Nanotechnology, (2020), 15, 1, (73-79), 10.1038/s41565-019-0586-8)

Song, W., Joshi, H., Chowdhury, R., Najem, J. S., Shen, Y. X., Lang, C., Henderson, C. B., Tu, Y. M., Farell, M., Pitz, M. E., Maranas, C. D., Cremer, P. S., Hickey, R. J., Sarles, S. A., Hou, J. L., Aksimentiev, A. & Kumar, M., Feb 1 2020, In: Nature nanotechnology. 15, 2, p. 162 1 p.

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Memristive plasticity in artificial electrical synapses: Via geometrically reconfigurable, gramicidin-doped biomembranes

Koner, S., Najem, J. S., Hasan, M. S. & Sarles, S. A., Oct 28 2019, In: Nanoscale. 11, 40, p. 18640-18652 13 p.

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Assembly and characterization of biomolecular memristors consisting of ion channel-doped lipid membranes

Najem, J. S., Taylor, G. J., Armendarez, N., Weiss, R. J., Hasan, M. S., Rose, G. S., Schuman, C. D., Belianinov, A., Sarles, S. A. & Collier, C. P., Mar 2019, In: Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2019, 145, e58998.

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Author Correction: Dynamical nonlinear memory capacitance in biomimetic membranes (Nature Communications, (2019), 10, 1, (3239), 10.1038/s41467-019-11223-8)

Najem, J. S., Hasan, M. S., Williams, R. S., Weiss, R. J., Rose, G. S., Taylor, G. J., Sarles, S. A. & Collier, C. P., Dec 1 2019, In: Nature communications. 10, 1, 3852.

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