Start
May 23, 2017 - 16:00
End
May 23, 2017 - 17:00
Venue
Rm. No. 240 Chemical Engg. Dept.
Event Type
Speaker
Prof. Suman Sinha Ray Senior Researcher Corporate Innovation Center United States Gypsum & Adjunct Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Illinois at Chicago
Title
Title: Nanomanufacturing and the applications thereof
Abstract: All the materials exhibit tremendous scientific and application oriented opportunities at nanoscale. The applications of nano-materials can be in the field of thermal management energy storage drug delivery metal adsorption catalysis ultrafiltration etc. However in spite of all these interesting applications the lab scale inventions often lag the capacity of real word scale up owing to high cost of manufacturing stemming from slow speed high clean room cost etc. In this talk a brief overview of the methods of making nanofibers of different size (from 20 nm- 500 nm) en masse developed in our lab will be discussed. The methods to be discussed are – electrospinning solution blowing and electricity assisted supersonic solution blowing. Among these three methods solution blowing and electricity assisted solution blowing was co-invented by our group and solution blowing was successfully trialed at industrial scale. Various applications of the polymer nanofiber will be highlighted in the presentation. Among those two applications will be discussed in detail- (a) nano-engineering of drug delivery system and (b) thermal management of high heat flux surfaces. The structure of the discussion regarding these two applications are as follows. Initially the basic challenges with present day technologies in both of these two applications will be discussed. Then how nanofibers can be employed for improved drug delivery and thermal management will be discussed.Bio: Dr. Suman Sinha Ray earned his PhD from University of Illinois at Chicago in 2011 under the guidance of Prof. Alexander Yarin. During his PhD he was awarded with prestigious Dean’s Fellowship. He was also awarded with Provost Award Chicago Consular Corps Scholarship. Presently he works as a senior researcher (Technology Scout) in United States Gypsum where he was awarded CTO award for significant contributions in improving manufacturing process. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at University of Illinois at Chicago. He has published 57 peer reviewed journal publication 1 invited book chapter 4 patents and 5 provisional patent disclosures. He has also served as reviewer for journals like Macromolecules Experiments in Fluids Journal of Applied Polymer Science Advanced Materials etc. He has co-advised 6 PhD students and 11 undergraduate students with their research work. His research interest is advanced manufacturing and nano-engineering with in depth knowledge of materials science and thermal and fluid sciences. He also has keen interest in the process of turning a lab-scale invention to a real world innovation that can be industrialized.