PUBLICATIONS:

1. •   A Fundamental Study on Electrowetting by Traditional and Multifunctional Ionic Liquids: Possible Use in Electrowetting on Dielectric-Based Microfluidic Applications.
   

2. Nanayakkara Yasith S.; Moon H; Payagala T; Wijeratne, A.; Crank, J.; Sharma, P. and Armstrong, D. W.
   

3. Analytical Chemistry 2008, 80 (20), 7690-7698. (Read this article)
   

•   Linear Tricationic Room Temperature Ionic Liquids: Synthesis, Physiochemical Properties and Electrowetting Properties.

Wanigasekara, E.; Zhang, X.; Nanayakkara, Yasith S; Moon, H. and Armstrong, D.W.

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2009, 1 (10), 2126–2133. (Read this article)

•   Effect of AC Frequency on Electrowetting Behavior of Ionic Liquids.

Nanayakkara, Yasith S.; Perera S.; Bindiganavale, S.; Wanigasekara, E.; Moon H. and   Armstrong, D. W.

Analytical Chemistry 2010, 82 (8), 3146–3154. (Read this article)

•   A tunable ionic liquid based RC filter using electrowetting: A new concept.

Nanayakkara, Yasith S.; Moon H. and Armstrong, D.W.

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2010. (Read this article)

•   A low cost, fast response novel detector for heavy metal and industrial biocide analysis.

Nanayakkara, Yasith S.and Armstrong, D.W. In preparation.

•   New HPLC chiral stationary phases based on aromatic-derivatized cyclofructan 6 and 7.

Sun, P; Nanayakkara, Yasith S.; Perera S. and Armstrong, D. W. In review.

PATENTS:

1. •  RC Filter Apparatus for Detection.
   

    Armstrong, D.W.; Nanayakkara, Yasith S. and Moon H.

PRESENTATIONS:

•   Characterization of Electrowetting Properties of Different Room Temperature Ionic Liquids.

Yasith S. Nanayakkara, Junmin Huang, Aruna B. Wijeratne, Jeffrey A. Crank, Hyejin Moon and  Daniel W. Armstrong.

The Pittsburgh Conference, 01 - 07 March 2008, New Orleans, LA, USA.

•   Characterization of Electrowetting Properties of Ionic Liquids for EWOD based Microfluidic Devices.

     Yasith S. Nanayakkara, Hyejin Moon, and Daniel W. Armstrong.

     6th International Meeting on Electrowetting, August 20 - 22, 2008, UCLA. Los Angeles, CA, USA.

•   Electrowetting of ionic liquids and possible applications. 

Yasith S. Nanayakkara, Hyejin Moon, Tharanga Payagala, Aruna B. Wijeratne, Jeffery A. Crank,  Pritesh Sharma and Daniel W. Armstrong.

UT- Arlington Research Day, October 3, 2008, UT- Arlington, TX, USA.

•   EWOD based liquid-liquid extraction and separation.

Praveen Kunchala, Hyejin Moon, Yasith S. Nanayakkara, Daniel W. Armstrong.

ASME 2009 Summer Bioengineering Conference, June 17-21, 2009 Lake Tahoe, CA, USA.

•   Digital Microfluidic Device using Ionic Liquids for Electronic Hotspot Cooling.

Moon, H.; Bindiganavale, S.; Nanayakkara, Yasith S. and Armstrong, D. W.

The Seventh International ASME Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels ICNMM2009; June 22−24, 2009, Pohang: South Korea.

•   Liquid-Liquid Extraction Based on Digital Microfluidics.

Moon, H.; Kunchala, P.; Nanayakkara, Yasith S. and Armstrong, D. W.

The Seventh International ASME Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels ICNMM2009; June 22−24, 2009, Pohang: South Korea.

•   Micro Scale Synthesis of ILs: A Novel Approach Using a Digital Microfluidic Chip.

Yasith S. Nanayakkara, Praveen Kunchala, Hyejin Moon and Daniel W. Armstrong.

The Pittsburgh Conference, Feb28 – March 07 2010, Orlando, FL, USA.

•   On-chip Liquid-liquid Extraction and Separation Using Digital Microfluidics Toward High-throughput Screening for Separation Process Using Ionic Liquids.

Hyejin Moon, Yasith S. Nanayakkara, and Daniel W. Armstrong.

The Pittsburgh Conference, Feb28 – March 07 2010, Orlando, FL, USA.

•   Ionic Liquid Based Low-pass Tunable RC Filter: An Application of Electrowetting on Dielectric(EWOD).

Yasith S. Nanayakkara, Hyejin Moon and Daniel W. Armstrong.

The Pittsburgh Conference, Feb28 – March 07 2010, Orlando, FL, USA.