Sarah Bentil

Sarah A. Bentil

Title(s):

Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellow in Engineering
Neuroscience (Courtesy)
Biomedical Sciences (Affiliate)
Aerospace Engineering (Affiliate)

Office

2106 Black Engr
2529 Union Dr
Ames, IA 50011-2030

Information

Postdoctoral scholars, Graduate students, and Undergraduate students interested in joining our group should send an email to Dr. Bentil at: sbentil[at]iastate.edu. The email must include a brief description of your research interests and an updated copy of your resume or CV. Laboratory Website: The Bentil Group

Selected Honors and Awards

  • Early Achievement in Research Awardee, Iowa State University’s College of Engineering, 2022
  • Springer/Nature Publishing Young Investigator Lecture Awardee, Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM), 2022
  • Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellow in Engineering, 2021 – 2024
  • Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship Program Awardee, 2020
  • William March Scholar in Mechanical Engineering, 2016 – 2020
  • Best Presentation Award in Human Factors/Biomedical category, 8th Annual Dayton Engineering Sciences Symposium, 2013

Education

  • PhD, Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University, 2013
  • MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 2006
  • BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Vermont, 2003
  • BS, Mathematics, University of Vermont, 2003

Interest Areas

  • Soft tissue biomechanics
  • Biomaterials
  • Traumatic brain injuries
  • Blast impact injury mechanisms
  • High-speed imaging
  • Brain-machine interfaces
  • Blunt impact injury mechanisms

Publications

  • SA. Bentil, WJ. Jackson, C. Williams, and TC. Miller (2022). Viscoelastic Properties of Inert Solid Rocket Propellants Exposed to a Shock Wave. Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, 47(1), e202100055 [doi: 10.1002/prep.202100055]. Special Issue: Rocket Propellants.
  • JL. Marsh and SA. Bentil (2021). Cerebrospinal Fluid Cavitation as a Mechanism of Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury: A Review of Current Debates, Methods, and Findings. Frontiers in Neurology, 12 [doi10.3389/fneur.2021.626393].
  • AK. McCarty, L. Zhang, S. Hansen, WJ. Jackson, and SA. Bentil (2019). Viscoelastic Properties of Shock Wave Exposed Brain Tissue Subjected to Unconfined Compression Experiments. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 100, 103380 [doi: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2019.103380].
  • L. Zhang, WJ. Jackson, and SA. Bentil (2019). The mechanical behavior of brain surrogates manufactured from silicone elastomers. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 95, 180–190 [doi: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2019.04.005].
  • MA. Calhoun, SA. Bentil, E. Elliott, JJ. Otero, JO. Winter, and RB. Dupaix (2019). Beyond Linear Elastic Modulus: Viscoelastic Models for Brain and Brain Mimetic Hydrogels. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, 5(8), 3964–3973 [doi:10.1021/acsbiomaterials.8b01390]. Special Issue: Biomaterials for Mechanobiology.
  • SA. Bentil and RB. Dupaix (2018). Simulations of hydrogel-coated neural microelectrodes to assess biocompatibility improvement using strain as a metric for micromotion. Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express, 4(3), 035036 [https://doi.org/10.1088/2057-1976/aab990].
  • SA. Bentil, KT. Ramesh, and TD. Nguyen (2016). A dynamic inflation test for soft materials. Experimental Mechanics 56(5), 759–769 [doi: 10.1007/s11340-015-0122-1].
  • SA. Bentil and RB. Dupaix (2014). Exploring the mechanical behavior of degrading swine neural tissue at low strain rates via the fractional Zener constitutive model. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 30, 83–90 [doi: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2013.10.020].
  • SS. Rao, SA. Bentil, J. DeJesus, J. Larison, A. Hissong, R. Dupaix, A. Sarkar, and JO. Winter (2012). Inherent interfacial mechanical gradients in 3D hydrogels influence tumor cell behaviors. PLoS ONE 7(4), e35852 [doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035852].
  • SA. Bentil, S. MacLean, and RB. Dupaix (2010). Viscoelastic properties of macaque neural tissue at low strain rates. In: Proceedings of the ASME 2010 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE). Vol. 2. Paper No. IMECE2010-39071. Vancouver, BC CANADA, pp.853–857 [doi: 10.1115/IMECE2010-39071].
  • AM. Eigen, SA. Bentil, and DL. Smith (2007). The crash problem for advanced restraints. In: 20th Enhanced Safety Vehicles Conference Proceedings. Paper No. 07-0234. Lyon, FRANCE, pp.853–857 [doi: esv20/07-0234-O].
  • E. Kobrinsky, DE. Mager, SA. Bentil, SI. Murata, DR. Abernethy, and NM. Soldatov (2005). Identification of plasma membrane macro- and microdomains from wavelet analysis of FRET microscopy. Biophysical Journal 88(5), 3625–3634 [doi: 10.1529/biophysj.104.054056].

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