Ram B. Gupta

R. Gupta is an Alumni (Chair) Professor in chemical engineering at Auburn University. He has published numerous research papers and holds several patents on nanomedicine, hydrogen fuel, and supercritical fluid technology, and is the recipient of Distinguished Graduate Faculty Lectureship award, in 2007, from Auburn University; Science and Engineering Award, 2002–2004, from DuPont; Junior and Senior Research awards, 1998, 2002, from Auburn Alumni Engineering Council, the James A. Shannon Director’s Award, 1998, from the National Institutes of Health; and Young Faculty Career Enhancement Award, 1997, from Alabama NSF-EPSCoR. He served on the editorial advisory boards of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 2004–2006, and Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine, 2005–2007, and is currently serving on the editorial boards of Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, Research Letters in Nanotechnology, and Research Letters in Chemical Engineering. In addition, he is a consultant to various pharmaceutical and energy companies. He received the B.E. degree, in 1987, from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, the M.S. degree, in 1989, from the University of Calgary, and the Ph.D. degree, in 1993, from the University of Texas at Austin, all in chemical engineering. He joined Auburn University in 1995, after two-year postdoctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley. His recent books are Nanoparticle Technology for Drug Delivery (2006, Taylor & Francis), Solubility in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (2007, CRC Press), and Hydrogen Fuel: Production, Transport, and Storage (2008, CRC Press).

Biography Updated on 16 October 2007

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Hydrogen production by methanol reforming in supercritical water: Catalysis by in-situ-generated copper nanoparticles
    International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, vol. 32, no. 13, pp. 2374–2381, 2007
  2. Hydrogen Production from Glucose Using Ru/Al2O3 Catalyst in Supercritical Water
    Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 46, no. 11, pp. 3574–3579, 2007
  3. Modeling of the Homogeneous Free-Radical Copolymerization Kinetics of Fluoromonomers in Carbon Dioxide at Supercritical Conditions
    Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part A: Pure and Applied Chemistry, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 205–213, 2007
  4. PRODUCTION OF HYDROCORTISONE MICRO- AND NANO-PARTICLES USING SUPERCRITICAL ANTI-SOLVENT WITH ENHANCED MASS TRANSFER
    Chemical Engineering Communications, vol. 193, no. 3, pp. 293–305, 2006
  5. Formation of phenytoin nanoparticles using rapid expansion of supercritical solution with solid cosolvent (RESS-SC) process
    International Journal of Pharmaceutics, vol. 308, no. 1-2, pp. 190–199, 2006
  6. Rapid expansion of supercritical solution with solid cosolvent (RESS-SC) process: Formation of 2-aminobenzoic acid nanoparticle
    The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 307–315, 2006
  7. Surface modification of lignocellulosic fibers using high-frequency ultrasound
    Cellulose, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 9–22, 2006
  8. Formation of nanoparticles of a hydrophilic drug using supercritical carbon dioxide and microencapsulation for sustained release
    Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 85–90, 2005
  9. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 44, no. 9, pp. 3086–3090, 2005
  10. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 44, no. 13, pp. 4577–4585, 2005
  11. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 44, no. 19, pp. 7380–7387, 2005
  12. Reduction in the Initial-Burst Release by Surface Crosslinking of PLGA Microparticles Containing Hydrophilic or Hydrophobic Drugs
    Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 43–57, 2005
  13. Characterization and degradation of functionalized chitosan with glycidyl methacrylate
    Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 473–488, 2005
  14. Molecularly-imprinted polymers selective for tetracycline binding
    Separation and Purification Technology, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 215–221, 2004
  15. Hydrogen-bonding between a dichroic dye and a liquid crystal-forming molecule, for application to LCDs
    Fluid Phase Equilibria, vol. 220, no. 1, pp. 47–54, 2004
  16. Formation of zinc oxide nanoparticles in supercritical water
    The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 187–193, 2003
  17. Supercritical CO2-Based Formation of Silica Nanoparticles Using Water-in-Oil Microemulsions
    Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 465–472, 2003
  18. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 42, no. 25, pp. 6280–6289, 2003
  19. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 42, no. 22, pp. 5535–5540, 2003
  20. Thermosensitive and ampholytic hydrogels for salt solution
    Journal of Applied Polymer Science, vol. 88, no. 8, pp. 2032–2037, 2003
  21. Protein nanoparticles formation by supercritical antisolvent with enhanced mass transfer
    AIChE Journal, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 235–244, 2002
  22. Lattice-fluid equation of state with hydrogen-bond cooperativity
    AIChE Journal, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 386–392, 2002
  23. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 41, no. 24, pp. 6049–6058, 2002
  24. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 106, no. 37, pp. 9696–9700, 2002
  25. Oral Sustained-Release Bioadhesive Tablet Formulation of Didanosine
    Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 129–136, 2001
  26. Fast-responding bulk hydrogels with microstructure
    Journal of Applied Polymer Science, vol. 83, no. 1, pp. 169–178, 2001
  27. Hydrogen bonding with aromatic rings
    AIChE Journal, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 948–953, 2001
  28. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 40, no. 10, pp. 2283–2288, 2001
  29. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 40, no. 15, pp. 3406–3412, 2001
  30. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 40, no. 16, pp. 3530–3539, 2001
  31. Production of griseofulvin nanoparticles using supercritical CO2 antisolvent with enhanced mass transfer
    International Journal of Pharmaceutics, vol. 228, no. 1-2, pp. 19–31, 2001
  32. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 39, no. 12, pp. 4555–4563, 2000
  33. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 185–194, 2000
  34. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 39, no. 7, pp. 2281–2289, 2000
  35. Dye solubility in supercritical carbon dioxide. Effect of hydrogen bonding with cosolvents
    Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 111–117, 1999
  36. Phase behaviour of mixtures containing antibiotics Effect of hydrogen bonding on tetracycline partitioning
    Fluid Phase Equilibria, vol. 143, no. 1-2, pp. 99–109, 1998
  37. Hydrogen-bond cooperativity in 1-alkanol +n-alkane binary mixtures
    AIChE Journal, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 207–213, 1998
  38. Partitioning of oxytetracycline between aqueous and organic solvents Effect of hydrogen bonding
    International Journal of Pharmaceutics, vol. 166, no. 1, pp. 37–44, 1998
  39. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 4823–4827, 1998
  40. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 37, no. 8, pp. 3026–3035, 1998
  41. Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 590–591, 1998
  42. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 36, no. 9, pp. 3453–3457, 1997
  43. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 36, no. 9, pp. 3954–3959, 1997
  44. Sonochemical reactions at 640 kHz using an efficient reactor. Oxidation of potassium iodide
    Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 289–293, 1997
  45. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 1225–1230, 1996
  46. Fluctuation theory of hydrogen bonding in near-critical fluids
    AIChE Journal, vol. 42, no. 9, pp. 2661–2667, 1996
  47. Vapor-liquid equilibria for copolymer/solvent systems: Effect of “intramolecular repulsion”
    Fluid Phase Equilibria, vol. 117, no. 1-2, pp. 77–83, 1996
  48. Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 784–791, 1995
  49. Lattice fluid hydrogen bonding model with a local segment density
    Fluid Phase Equilibria, vol. 99, no. 1-2, pp. 135–151, 1994
  50. Recovery of proteins and amino acids from reverse micelles by dehydration with molecular sieves
    Biotechnology and Bioengineering, vol. 44, no. 7, pp. 830–836, 1994
  51. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 33, no. 11, pp. 2819–2829, 1994
  52. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 97, no. 3, pp. 707–715, 1993
  53. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 115, no. 24, pp. 11099–11109, 1993
  54. Theory of hydrogen bonding in supercritical fluids
    AIChE Journal, vol. 38, no. 8, pp. 1243–1253, 1992