Eli Ruckenstein

Eli Ruckenstein, a Distinguished Professor of chemical engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo, received all of his degrees from Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania, and was a Professor there from 1949 to 1969. In 1969, he was invited by the National Science Foundation as a Senior Scientist at Clarkson University. He served as a Professor at the University of Delaware from 1970 to 1973 before joining the faculty of Buffalo. Professor Ruckenstein’s research interests have covered most aspects of chemical engineering, including transport phenomena, catalysis, surface phenomena, colloids, emulsions, separation processes, and biocompatible surfaces and materials. He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and received the National Medal of Science in 1998. Ruckenstein has broken new paths in the areas of transport phenomena in usual fluids and in colloidal dispersions, in the stability of nanosize liquid and solid films, in thermodynamics of complex fluids. He pioneered the theoretical treatment of the sintering and redispersion of supported metal catalysts, developed the first kinetic theory of nucleation, and explained the restabilization of colloidal dispersions at high ionic strengths and the occurrence of Newton black films in foams. He developed new technologies for the preparation of polymers, membranes, some catalytic processes and protein separation. He opened a new chapter in catalysis through his theories and experiments regarding the changes that occur in the catalyst through sintering, redispersion, and spreading. He proposed the first quantum explanation of the poisoning and promoting of catalysts. He initiated the modern thermodynamics of dispersions and applied it to microemulsions, lamellar liquid crystals, and surfactants at interfaces. He developed theories for hydration forces and hydrophobic forces and proposed the first predictive theory of micellization.

Biography Updated on 31 July 2007

Personal Home Page

http://www.cbe.buffalo.edu/ruckenstein

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Model for the Nucleation Mechanism of Protein Folding
    Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 111, no. 4, pp. 886–897, 2007
  2. Macromolecules, vol. 39, no. 14, pp. 4899–4906, 2006
  3. Morphology transitions of AB diblock copolymer melts confined in nanocylindrical tubes
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 125, no. 16, p. 164911, 2006
  4. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 182–186, 2006
  5. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, no. 25, pp. 12707–12713, 2006
  6. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, no. 42, pp. 21381–21385, 2006
  7. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 45, no. 14, pp. 4993–4998, 2006
  8. Clathrate Hydrogen Hydrate—A Promising Material for Hydrogen Storage
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 45, no. 13, pp. 2011–2013, 2006
  9. Monte Carlo simulation of interactions between nano-particles
    Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, vol. 281, no. 1-3, pp. 254–260, 2006
  10. Applicability of Dubinin–Astakhov equation to CO2 adsorption on single-walled carbon nanotubes
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 425, no. 4-6, pp. 306–310, 2006
  11. Preferential hydration and solubility of proteins in aqueous solutions of polyethylene glycol
    Biophysical Chemistry, vol. 120, no. 3, pp. 188–198, 2006
  12. Effect of salts and organic additives on the solubility of proteins in aqueous solutions
    Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, vol. 123-126, pp. 97–103, 2006
  13. Polarization model for poorly-organized interfacial water: Hydration forces between silica surfaces
    Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, vol. 127, no. 1, pp. 29–42, 2006
  14. Nano-structured Li2O from LiOH by electron-irradiation
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 430, no. 1-3, pp. 80–83, 2006
  15. Solubility of drugs in aqueous solutionsPart 5. Thermodynamic consistency test for the solubility data
    International Journal of Pharmaceutics, vol. 292, no. 1-2, pp. 87–94, 2005
  16. Surface modification and functionalization through the self-assembled monolayer and graft polymerization
    Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, vol. 113, no. 1, pp. 43–63, 2005
  17. Relationship between preferential interaction of a protein in an aqueous mixed solvent and its solubility
    Biophysical Chemistry, vol. 118, no. 2-3, pp. 128–134, 2005
  18. Long-term stability of an ambient self-curable latex based on colloidal dispersions in water of two reactive polymers
    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, vol. 43, no. 12, pp. 2598–2605, 2005
  19. Preparation of densely grafted poly(aniline-2-sulfonic acid-co-aniline)s as novel water-soluble conducting copolymers
    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 1090–1099, 2005
  20. Preparation of oligoamide-ended poly(ethylene glycol) and hydrogen-bonding-assisted formation of aggregates and nanoscale fibers
    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 1119–1128, 2005
  21. Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 1623–1631, 2005
  22. Langmuir, vol. 21, no. 13, pp. 6054–6062, 2005
  23. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 109, no. 5, pp. 807–815, 2005
  24. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 44, no. 12, pp. 4304–4309, 2005
  25. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 109, no. 25, pp. 12515–12524, 2005
  26. A Protein Molecule in a Mixed Solvent: The Preferential Binding Parameter via the Kirkwood-Buff Theory
    Biophysical Journal, vol. 90, no. 2, pp. 704–707, 2005
  27. A protein molecule in an aqueous mixed solvent: Fluctuation theory outlook
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 123, no. 5, p. 054909, 2005
  28. V–Mg–O Prepared via a Mesoporous Pathway: A Low-Temperature Catalyst for the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane to Propene
    Catalysis Letters, vol. 94, no. 3/4, pp. 217–221, 2004
  29. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 43, no. 10, pp. 2464–2467, 2004
  30. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 43, no. 15, pp. 4174–4177, 2004
  31. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 108, no. 50, pp. 19339–19347, 2004
  32. Nano Letters, vol. 4, no. 8, pp. 1463–1467, 2004
  33. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 108, no. 52, pp. 20479–20481, 2004
  34. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 108, no. 50, pp. 19330–19338, 2004
  35. The BEBO calculation of resonance energies of fullerene cages
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 399, no. 4-6, pp. 503–505, 2004
  36. Biotechnology Progress, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 13–25, 2004
  37. Supramolecular AB Diblock Copolymers
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 43, no. 47, pp. 6471–6474, 2004
  38. Highly soluble conducting poly(ethylene oxide) grafted at two sites of poly(o-aminobenzyl alcohol)
    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, vol. 42, no. 19, pp. 4756–4764, 2004
  39. Synthesis of a water-soluble diblock copolymer of polysulfonic diphenyl aniline and poly(ethylene oxide)
    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, vol. 42, no. 9, pp. 2179–2191, 2004
  40. Endohedral complexes of C58 cage with H2 and CO
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 390, no. 4-6, pp. 472–474, 2004
  41. The bridging force between two plates by polyelectrolyte chains
    Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, vol. 112, no. 1-3, pp. 37–47, 2004
  42. Corrigendum to “Solubility of drugs in aqueous solutionsPart 2: binary nonideal mixed solvent” [Int. J. Pharm. 260 (2003) 283–291]
    International Journal of Pharmaceutics, vol. 278, no. 2, p. 475, 2004
  43. The polarization model for hydration/double layer interactions: the role of the electrolyte ions
    Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, vol. 112, no. 1-3, pp. 109–128, 2004
  44. Solubility of drugs in aqueous solutionsPart 4. Drug solubility by the dilute approximation
    International Journal of Pharmaceutics, vol. 278, no. 2, pp. 221–229, 2004
  45. Noncatalytic and catalytic conversion of ethane over V_Mg oxide catalysts prepared via solid reaction or mesoporous precursors
    Journal of Catalysis, vol. 222, no. 1, pp. 17–31, 2004
  46. Estimation of the available surface and the jamming coverage in the Random Sequential Adsorption of a binary mixture of disks
    Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, vol. 232, no. 1, pp. 1–10, 2004
  47. Specific ion effects via ion hydration: I. Surface tension
    Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, vol. 105, no. 1-3, pp. 63–101, 2003
  48. Specific ion effects via ion hydration: II. Double layer interaction
    Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, vol. 105, no. 1-3, pp. 177–200, 2003
  49. Prediction of gas solubility in binary polymer+solvent mixtures
    Polymer, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 901–907, 2003