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MEHDI BALOOCH, PhD

Adjunct Professor 
Division of Biomaterials and Bioengineering
UCSF Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences

EDUCATION:
BS, Mechanical Engineering, Tehran Polytechnic, Tehran, Iran , 1967
MS, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 1974

EXPERIENCE:

1967-1970    Instructor of Physics, Arya Mehr University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
1974-1975    Postdoctoral Fellow, Nuclear Engineering, University of California
1975-1978    Assoc. Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Arya Mehr University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
1978-1986    Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley
1986-present    Research Engineer, University of California, Berkeley
1989-2002    Staff Scientist,  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
2002-present     Adjunct Professor, Biomaterials and Bioengineering, UCSF

HONORS : Academic medal from the King of Iran, 1967; Alborz Educational Foundation, Academic Prize, 1967

PUBLICATIONS:  Recent from over 70 (see Pub Med / Web of Science )

Hamza AV, Balooch M. The adsorption of C60 and the co-adsorption of C60 and H2O on Al2O3. Chem Phys Letters 198:603, 1992
Hamza AV, Balooch M. The chemisorption of C60 ob Si(100)-(2x1). Chem Phys Letters 201:202, 1993
Balooch M, Hamza AV. Observation of C60 cage opening on Si(111)-(7x7). Appl Phys Letters 63:150, 1993.
Balooch M, Moalem M, Hamza AV, Siekhaus WJ, Olander DR. Surface mobilityof C60 on SiO2. J Chem Phys 99:4855, 1993
Kinney JH, Balooch M, Marshall GW, Marshall SJ. Atomic Force Microscope Study of Dimensional Changes in Dentine During Drying.  Arch Oral Biol 38:1003-1007, 1993.
Marshall GW, Balooch M, Tench R, Kinney JH, Marshall SJ. Atomic Force Microscopy of Acid Effects on Dentin. Dent Mater 9:265-268, 1993
Hamza AV, Balooch M, Tench RJ, Schildbach MA, Hawley RA, Fedder HW, Lee H, McConaghy C. Patterning of C60 Films. Jo Vac Sci Technol B 11:763, 1993.
Allen MJ, Lee C, Leeiv JD, Pogany GC, Balooch M, Siekhaus WJ, Balhorn R. Atomic force microscopy of mammalian sperm chromatin. Chromosoma 102:623, 1993.
Marshall GW, Balooch M, Tench RJ, Kinney JH, Marshall SJ. AFM of initial demineralization of dentin. Abstr A-08, Transactions of 2nd International Congress on Dentin Materials, Eds. T. Okabe, S. Takahashi. Academy of Dental Materials, 268, 1993.
Kinney JH, Balooch M, Marshall GW, Marshall SJ, White JM. Temperature dependence of the optical properties of dentin.  Abstr B-26. Transactions of 2nd International Congress on Dentin Materials, Eds. T. Okabe, S. Takahashi. Academy of Dental Materials, 330, 1993.
Kinney JH, Balooch M, Marshall GW, Marshall SJ. AFM of drying-induced dimensional changes in mineralized human dentin.  IADR Abstr. 1732, Jo Dent Res 72 Spec Iss 320, 1993.
Marshall SJ, Marshall GW, Kinney JH, Balooch M. Dental restorative material-tooth interfaces.  Scripta Met 31:983-988, 1994.
Balooch M, Marshall GW, Marshall SJ, Kinney JH.  AFM of Effects of Conditioning Agents on Dentin. IADR Abstr. 2533, J Dent Res 73 Special Issue:418, 1994.
Marshall GW, Balooch M, Kinney JH, Marshall SJ. Atomic force microscopy of conditioning agents on dentin.  J Biomed Mater Res 29:1381-1387, 1995.
Kinney JH, Balooch M, Haupt DL, Marshall SJ, Marshall GW.  Mineral distribution and dimensional changes in human dentin during demineralization. J Dent Res 74:1179-1184, 1995.
Kinney JH, Balooch M, Marshall SJ, Marshall GW, Weihs TP. Atomic force microscope measurements of the hardness and elasticity of peritubular and intertubular dentin.  J Biomech Eng 118:133-135, 1996.
Kinney JH, Balooch M, Marshall SJ, Marshall GW, Weihs TP. Hardness and Young's Modulus of Peritubular and Intertubular Dentine.  Archs Oral Biol 41:9-13, 1996.
Kinney JH, Haupt DL, White JM, Balooch M, Bell WL, Marshall SJ, Marshall GW.  The threshold effects of Nd and Ho:YAG laser-induced surface modification on demineralization of dentin surfaces.  J Dent Res 75:1388-1395, 1996.
Levinson J, Shaqfeh ESG, Balooch M and Hamza AJ, “Ion-Assisted Etching and Profile Development of Silicon in Molecular Chlorine” J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 15, (1997)1902.
Marshall GW, Marshall SJ, Kinney JH, Balooch M.  The Dentin Substrate: Structure and Properties Related to Bonding. J Dent 25:441(1997).
Marshall GW Jr., Marshall SJ, Kinney JH and Balooch M. “The Dentin Substrate: Structure and Properties Related to Bonding” J. Dentistry, 25 (1997)441.
Hamza AV and Balooch M, “ Angular Distribution of C60 and C70 Scattered From SiO2, SiC and Si(100)” J. Phys. Chem. Solids 58 (1997)1973.
Marshall SJ, Balooch M, Breunig T, Kinney JH, Tomsia AP, Inai N, Watanabe LG, Wu-Magidi IC, Marshall GW.  Human Dentin and the Dentin-Resin Adhesive Interface. Acta Mater 46 (1998) 2529.
Balooch M, Wu-Magidi IC, Lundkvist AS, Balazs A, Marshall SJ, Marshall GW, Seikhaus WJ, Kinney JH. “Viscolelastic Properties of Demineralized Human Dentin in Water with Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)-Based Indentation”, J. Biomed Mater Res. 40 (1998)539.
Kinney JH, Balooch M, Marshall GW and Marshall SJ, "A Micromechanics Model of the Elastic Properties of Human Dentin” Archives of Oral Biology 44, 813(1999).
Kinney JH, Balooch M, Lane NE and Ryaby JT, :AFM study of the elastic properties of individual lamellae in cortical and tubecular bone”, J. Bone Miner. Res. 14.314 Supp.(1999).
Dinh LN, McLean E, Schildbach MAand Balooch M, “Synthesis and characterization of Si/ Cs/O nanocluster thin films with negative electron affinity”, Phys. Rev. B 59, 15513(1999).
Dinh LN, McLean W II and Balooch M, “Pulse laser deposition of ZnO Nanocluster films by Cu vapor laser” J. Applied Physics, 86,1149 (1999).
Dinh LN, Hayes S, Saw C, McLean W II, Reimer JA, Balooch M, “GaAs nanostructures and films Deposited by a Cu-Vapor Laser”, APL, 75, 2208(1999).

Balooch M, Demos SG, Marshall GW, Marshall SJ, "Dental Hard Tissue Interfaces: Optical Emission Spectroscopy” J. Dental Research, 79, 303(2000).
Chien A, Balooch M, Felter T, "Nano Mechanical Properties of polymer composites: Changes in elastic modulus and measurement of ion penetration depth due to A-radiation”, J. Mater. Res. 15, 838 (2000).
Balooch M, Demos SG, Marshall GW, Marshall SJ and Gallagher RR, "Optical spectroscopy study of transparent non-carious human dentin and dentin-enamel junction”, SPIE Proceedings,3910 (2000).
Habelitz S, Balooch M, Marshall GW and Marshall SJ, “Friction coefficient of dentin and enamel measured by nano-scratchin” J. Dent. Res. 79, 604(2000).
Levinston JA, Shaqfeh ESG, Balooch Mand Hamza AV,"Ion-assisted etching and profile development of silicon in molecular and atomic chlorine”, J. Vac. Sci. Technol, B, 172(2000). 

Marshall GW, Balooch M, Gallagher RR, Gansky SA, Marshall SJ. Mechanical Properties of the Dentinoenamel Junction: AFM Studies of Nanohardness, Elastic Modulus and Fracture. J Biomed Mater Res 54:87-95, 2001.
Habelitz S, Marshall SJ, Marshall GW, Balooch M. Mechanical Properties of Human Dental Enamel on the nanometer scale. Arch Oral Biol 46 173-183, 2001.
Balooch M, Demos SG, Kinney JH, Marshall GW, Balooch G, Marshall SJ.Local Mechanical and Optical Properties of Normal and Transparent Root Dentin. J Mat Sci: Mater in Med 12:507-514, 2001.
Marshall GW, Yucel N, Balooch M, Kinney JH, Habelitz S, Marshall SJ. Sodium hypocholorite alterations of dentin and dentin collagen.  Surface Science 491:444-455, 2001.
Marshall GW, Habelitz S, Gallagher R, Balooch M, Balooch G, Marshall SJ. Nanomechanical  properties of hydrated carious human dentin. J Dent Res 80: 1768-1771,  2001.
Habelitz S, Marshall SJ, Marshall GW,  Balooch M. The Functional Width of the DEJ Determined by AFM-based Nanoscratching. J Struct Biol 135:244-301, 2001.
Habelitz S, Balooch M, Marshall GW, Breunig TM, Marshall SJ. AFM-based Nanomechanical Properties and Storage of Dentin and Enamel. Mater Res Soc Symp Proc 676: Y.3.27.1-Y.3.27.5, 2001.

Habelitz S, Marshall, Balloch M, Marshall SJ. Nanoindentaion and storage of teeth. J Biomechanics  35:995-998, 2002