Suman Sinha Ray - University of Illinois at Chicago

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Curriculum Vitae
Suman Sinha Ray
DEAN’S FELLOW, 2010, UIC
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Corporate Innovation Center,
United States Gypsum
700 US 45 North, Libertyville, Illinois 600048
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Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
842 West Taylor Street, M/C 251, Room 2039ERF
Chicago, Illinois 60607-7022
Tel: (312) 320-3142 Fax: (312) 413-0447
[email protected], [email protected]
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Experimental and Theoretical Thermal-Fluid Sciences at the Micro/Nanoscale, Polymer and Oxide
Materials, Nano-structured Materials, Alternative Energy, Experimental and Theoretical Study of
Production Methods of Nonwovens (Electrospinning, Solution Blowing and Melt Blowing).
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Mechanical and Industrial Engineering , University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago
Illinois, August 2011- PhD Thesis Title “Mechanics of Micro- and Nano-Textured Systems:
Nanofibers,Nanochannels, Nanoparticles and Slurries”
Advisor: Prof. Alexander L. Yarin.
GPA: 4.0/4.0
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, May, 2007
GPA: 4.43/5.0; in Marks 82.66% (2nd rank in a class of 108 students)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Invited Lecture
–Invited lecture for “Bioinspired Design and Fabrication” at Michigan Technological University-
September 2012.
Course Taught
–“Engineering Perspective for Biomaterials” (ME 494) was taught in Spring 2013 in UIC, Mechanical &
Industrial Engineering. This course was taught for the first time in UIC, MIE.
Teaching Assistant
–Heat Transfer (ME 321), Fall 2007.
–Combustion Engine (ME 429), Spring 2008
–Experimental Methods in Mechanical Engineering (ME 341), Fall 2008.
–Fluid Mechanics I (ME 211), Spring 2010.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
United States Gypsum
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Technology Scout, 2013- present.
University of Illinois at Chicago – IL
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, 2013-present.
Post Doctoral Associate, 2011-2013.
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Teaching Assistant, 2007-2008, 2010.
Research Assistant, 2008 – 2009.
AWARDS and HONORS
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Received prestigious Dean’s Fellowship in UIC in the year 2010 and was the only winner in the
whole Engineering Department in UIC.
Received prestigious Provost Award in UIC in the year 2010.
Received prestigious Chicago Consular Corps Scholarship in 2010.
Received Best Poster Award in Nano for the 3rd Millenniumm, Raleigh 2011.
Received Best Technical Paper in Industrial Advisory Board Meeting, NCSU Nonwoven Institute
in November 2011.
Student Presenter Award from UIC and Graduate Student Council (GSC) 3 times to present
conference papers at MRS Spring 2009, 2011 meeting and 62nd Annual Meeting of APS DFD.
Silver Medal: 1st Place in third year of Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering class
of 2007, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Won several Interstate mathematical aptitude tests at high school level.
PUBLISHED WORK – Refereed Journal Papers
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Suman Sinha Ray, Paul Chando, Alexander L. Yarin, “Enhanced Release of Liquid from
Carbon Nanotubes Due to Entrainment by an Air Layer” 2009 Nanotechnology 20,
095711. This article was one of the few selected papers as ‘Lab-Talk’ in Institue of Physics’
website (http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/lab/37710)
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Suman Sinha-Ray, Alexander L. Yarin, “Flow from Macroscopically Long Straight Carbon
Nanopores for Generation of Thermo-responsive Nanoparticles”; Journal of Applied
Physics 107, 2, 024903, 2010.
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Suman Sinha-Ray, Yiyun Zhang, Danielle Placke, Constantine M. Megaridis, Alexander L.
Yarin, “Resins with “Nano-Raisins””; 2010 Langmuir 26(12), 10243.
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Suman Sinha-Ray, Alexander L. Yarin, Behnam Pourdeyhimi; “Meltblowing:I- Basic
Physical Mechanism and Threadline Model”; 2010 Journal of Applied Physics 108,
034912.
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Alexander L. Yarin, Suman Sinha-Ray, Behnam Pourdeyhimi; “Meltblowing: II- Linear and
Nonlinear Waves on Viscoelastic Polymer Jets ”; 2010 Journal of Applied Physics
108,034913.
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Suman Sinha-Ray, Alexander L. Yarin, , Behnam Pourdeyhimi; “The production of
100/400nm inner/outer diameter carbon tubes by solution blowing and carbonization of
core–shell nanofibers. ”; 2010 Carbon 48, 3575.
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Alexander L. Yarin, Suman Sinha-Ray, Behnam Pourdeyhimi; “Meltblowing: Multiple
polymer jets and fiber-size distribution and lay-down patterns”; 2011 Polymer 52, 2929.
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Suman Sinha-Ray, Yiyun Zhang, Alexander L.Yarin; “Thorny Devil Nano-Textured Fibers:
the Way to Cooling Rates of the Order of 1 kw/cm2”; 2011 Langmuir 27 , 215.
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Suman Sinha-Ray, Yiyun Zhang, Alexander L. Yarin, Stephen Davis, Behnam Pourdeyhimi;
“Solution Blowing of Soy Protein Nanofiber”; 2011 Biomacromolecules 12, 2357.
10. Yiyun Zhang, Suman Sinha-Ray, Alexander L. Yarin; “Mechanoresponsive Polymer
Nanoparticles, Nanofibers and Coatings as Drug Carriers and Components of
Microfluidic Devices”; 2011 Journal of Materials Chemistry 21, 8269.
11. Shuiliang Chen, Haoqing Hou, Falk Harnisch, Sunil A. Patil, Alessandro A. CarmonaMartinez, Seema Agarwal, Yiyun Zhang, Suman Sinha-Ray, Alexander L. Yarin, Andreas
Greiner, Uwe Schroder; “Electrospun and Solution Blown Three-Dimensional Carbon
Fiber Nonwovens for Application as Electrodes in Microbial Fuel Cells”; 2011 Energy
and Environmental Science 4, 1417.
12. Suman Sinha-Ray, Rakesh P. Sahu, Alexander L. Yarin; “Nano-encapsulated Smart
Tunable Phase Change Materials”; 2011 Soft Matter 7, 8823.
13. Suman Sinha-Ray, Raman Srikar, C.C. Lee, A. Li, Alexander L. Yarin; “Shear and
Elongational Rheology of Gypsum Slurries”; 2011 Applied Rheology 21, 63071.
14. Christina M. Weickgenannt,Yiyun Zhang, Suman Sinha-Ray, Ilia V. Roisman, Tatiana
Gambaryan-Roisman, Cameron Tropea, and Alexander L. Yarin; “Inverse-Leidenfrost
Phenomenon on Nanoﬁber Mats on Hot Surfaces”; 2011 Physical Review E 84, 036310.
15. Shahrzad Khansari, Suman Sinha-Ray, Alexander L. Yarin, Behnam Pourdeyhimi; “StressStrain Dependence for Soy-Protein Nanofiber Mats”; 2012 Journal of Applied Physics
111, 044906.
16. Rakesh P. Sahu, Suman Sinha-Ray, Alexander L. Yarin, Behnam Pourdeyhimi; “Drop
Impacts on Electrospun Nanofiber Membranes”; 2012 Soft Matter 8, 3957.
17. Suman Sinha-Ray, David Pelot, Zhengping Zhou, Arifur Rahman, Xiangfa Wu, Alexander L.
Yarin; “Encapsulation of Self-Healing Materials by Coelectrospinning, Emulsion
Electrospinning and Solution Blowing and Intercalation”; 2012 Journal of Materials
Chemistry 22, 9138.
18. Thiago Medeiros Araujo, Suman Sinha-Ray, Alessandro Pegoretti, Alexander L. Yarin;
“Electrospinning of Blend of Liquid Crystalline Polymer with Poly(ethylene Oxide):
Vectran Nanofiber Mats and Their Mechanical Properties”; 2013 Journal of Materials
Chemistry C 1, 351.
19. Suman Sinha-Ray, Shahrzad Khansari, Alexander L. Yarin, Behnam Pourdeyhimi; “Effect of
Chemical and Physical Cross-linking on Tensile Characteristics of Solution-Blown Soy
Protein Nanofiber Mats"; 2012 Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 51, 15109.
20. Xiang-Fa Wu,Arifur Rahman, Zhengping Zhou, David Pelot, Suman Sinha-Ray, Bin Chen,
Scott Payne and Alexander L. Yarin; “Electrospinning Core-Shell Nanofibers for
Interfacial Toughening and Self-Healing of Carbon-Fiber/Epoxy Composites”; 2012
Journal of Applied Polymer Science 129, 1383.
21. Suman Sinha-Ray , Alexander L. Yarin, Behnam Pourdeyhimi; “Prediction of Angular and
Mass Distribution in Meltblown Polymer Lay-Down” ; 2012 Polymer 54, 860.
22. Yiyun Zhang, Min Wook Lee, Seongpil An, Suman Sinha-Ray, Shahrzad Khansari, Bhavana
Joshi, Seungkwan Hong, Joo-Hyun Hong, Jae-Jin Kim,Sam S. Yoon, Alexander L. Yarin and
Behnam Pourdeyhimi“Antibacterial Activity of Photocatalytic Electrospun Titania
Nanofiber Mats and Solution-blown Soy Protein Nanofiber Mats Decorated with Silver
Nanoparticles”; 2013Catalysis Communications 34, 35.
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23. Suman Sinha-Ray, Kamel Fezzaa, Alexander L. Yarin; “The Internal Structure of
Suspensions in Uniaxial Elongation”; 2013 Journal of Applied Physics 113, 044906.
24. Seongchul Jun, Suman Sinha-Ray, Alexander L. Yarin; “Pool boiling on Nano-Textured
Surfaces”; 2013 International Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer 62, 99.
25. David D. Pelot, Rakesh P. Sahu, Suman Sinha-Ray, Alexander L. Yarin; “Strong Squeeze
Flows of Yield-Stress Fluids: The Effect of Normal Deviatoric Stresses”; 2013 Journal of
Rheology 57, 719.
26. Soumyadip Sett, Suman Sinha-Ray, Alexander L. Yarin; “Gravitational Drainage of Foam
Films”; 2013 Langmuir 29, 4934.
27. Suman Sinha-Ray, Minwook Lee, Sumit Singho-Roy, Seongpil An, B Pourdeyhimi, Sam Yoon
and Alexander Yarin; “Supersonic nanoblowing: A new ultra-stiff phase of nylon 6 in 2050 nm confinement”; 2013 Journal of Materials Chemistry C 1, 3491.
28. Rakesh P. Sahu, Suman Sinha-Ray, Alexander L. Yarin, Behnam Pourdeyhimi; “Blowing
Drops off a Filament”; 2013 Soft Matter 9, 6053.
29. Tolou Shokuhfar, Suman Sinha-Ray, Cortino Sukotjo, Alexander L. Yarin; “Intercalation of
anti-inflammatory drug molecules within TiO2 Nanotubes”; 2013 RSC Advances 3,
17380.
30. Shahrzad Khansari, Suman Sinha-Ray, Alexander L. Yarin, Behnam Pourdeyhimi;
“Biopolymer-Based Nanofiber Mats and Their Mechanical Characterization”; 2013
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research (Article in Press).
31. Shahrzad Khansari,Sebnem Duzyer,Suman Sinha-Ray, Alexander L. Yarin, Asli
Hockenberger, Behnam Pourdeyhimi; "Two-stage desorption-controlled release of
fluorescent dye and vitamin from solution-blown and electrospun nanofiber mats
containing porogens"; 2013 Molecular Pharmaceutics (Article in Press).
32. Bijandra Kumar, Mohammad Asadi, Davide Pisasale, Suman Sinha-Ray, Brian Rosen,
Richard Haasch, Jeremiah Abiade, Alexander L. Yarin, Amin Salehi-Khojin; “Renewable and
metal-free carbon nanoﬁbrecatalysts for carbon dioxide reduction”; 2013 Nature
Communications (Article in Press).
33. Sumit Sinha-Ray, Suman Sinha-Ray, Alexander L. Yarin; “Flow of suspensions of carbon
nanotubes carrying phase change materials through microchannels and heat transfer
enhancement”; 2013 Lab on a Chip (Article in Press).
34. Suman Sinha-Ray, Alexander L. Yarin; “Drop impact cooling enhancement on nanotextured surfaces. part I: theory and results of the ground (1g) experiments”;
2013International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (Article in Press).
35. Suman Sinha-Ray, Sumit Sinha-Ray, Alexander L. Yarina, Christina M. Weickgenannt,
Johannes Emmert, Cameron Tropea“Drop impact cooling enhancement on nanotextured surfaces. part ii: results of the parabolic flight experiments [zero gravity (0 g)
and supergravity (1.8 g)”; 2013 International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (Article in
Press).
36. Soumyadip Sett, Rakesh P. Sahu; Suman Sinha-Ray, Alexander L. Yarin; “Cousin” nonsuperspreaders: disjoining pressure in gravitational film drainage”; 2014 Langmuir
(Article in Press).
37. Do-Yeon Kima*, Suman Sinha-Ray*, Jung-Jae Park, Sang-Hoon Bae, Jung-Gun Lee , Yong
Chae Jung , Jong-Hyun Ahn, Alexander L. Yarin, Sam S. Yoon; “Self-healing reduced
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graphene oxide films by supersonic kinetic spraying”; 2014 Advanced Functional
Materials (Article in Press). [*Equal Contribution]
PUBLISHED WORK - Conference and Symposium Papers with Presentations
1.Jagabandhu Shit, Tony Murmu, Suman Sinha Ray, Abhijit Chanda; “Study of Impact Fatigue
Strength of Alumina” ; International Conference on Bio-materials; CGCRI, Kolkata, India-2006.
2.Suman Sinha Ray, Paul Chando, Alexander L. Yarin; “Characteristics of Flow through
Macroscopically Long Carbon Nanotubes”; MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco- 2009.
3.Suman Sinha Ray, Alexander L. Yarin; “Beyond Poiseuille: Over-limiting Fluid Flows
through Macroscopically Long Carbon Nanochannels”; 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS
Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 22-24, 2009; Minneapolis, Minnesota.
4.Suman Sinha-Ray, Alexander L. Yarin; “Generation of Thermo-responsive PNIPAM
Nanoparticles Using Macroscopically Long CarbonNanotubes”; MRS Spring Meeting, San
Francisco- 2011.
5.Suman Sinha-Ray, Yiyun Zhang, Alexander L. Yarin, Behnam Pourdeyhimi; “Solution
Blowing: Monolithic, Blended andCore-shell Nanofibers Incorporating Proteins and
Resins, and Production of TurbostraticCarbon Nanotubes.”; MRS Spring Meeting, San
Francisco- 2011.
6.Suman Sinha-Ray, Yiyun Zhang, Alexander L. Yarin; “Preparation of Nano-textured
SurfacesCapable of Achieving Cooling Rates ofthe Order 1 KW/cm 2 in Spray Cooling”;
MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco- 2011.
7.David D. Pelot, Suman Sinha-Ray, Zhengping Zhou, Arifur Rahman, Xiangfa Wu, Alexander L.
Yarin; “Creating Self Healing Materials through Core-Shell Electrospinning”; NSF CMMI
Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, Northeastern University -2012.
8.Shahrzad Khansari, Suman Sinha-Ray, Alexander L. Yarin, Behnam Pourdeyhimi; “Green
Materials: Strength of Soy Protein Nanofiber Mats”; NSF CMMI Engineering Research and
Innovation Conference, Northeastern University -2012.
9.Lei Yang, Viral Patel, Jamal Seyed-Yagoobi,Seongchul Jun, Suman Sinha-Ray, Yiyun Zhang,
Alexander L. Yarin; “Enhancement of Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer with Nanofiber Mat”;
Proceedings of the ASME 2012 Summer Heat Transfer Conference HT 2012, Rio Grande,
Puerto Rico- 2012.
10.Suman Sinha Ray, Tolou Shokuhfar, Cortino Sukotjo, Alexander Yarin; “Intercalation of
Anti-inflammatory Drug Molecules within TiO2 Nanotubes”; MRS Spring Meeting, San
Francisco- 2013.
INVITED BOOK CHAPTER
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Suman Sinha-Ray, Yiyun Zhang, Alexander L. Yarin, Stephen Davis, Behnam Pourdeyhimi;
“Solution Blowing of Soy Protein Fibers” in Biobased Monomers, Polymers and
Materials- -ACS Books (2012).
PATENT
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Yarin A L, Raman S, Gambaryan-Roisman T, Sinha Ray S, Zhang Y.Nanofiber; Covered
Micro Components and Method for Micro Component Cooling ; 2012.
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BS STUDENTS MENTORED
Paul Chando – Summer 2008
Worked on the macroscopically long carbon nanotubes and the fluid flow analysis and have a
journal and conference publication out of that.
James Hallendorff – Summer 2009
Worked on flapping dynamics of thread in turbulent flow field.
Daniil Gedgafpov – Summer 2009
Worked on electrospinning of TiO2 nanofiber.
Yung Chan- Summer 2010
Worked on drop impact cooling of metal nanofibers
Fady Charbel- Summer 2010
Worked on drop impact cooling of metal nanofibers
Julie Krauss- Summer 2011
Worked on effect of roughness on condensation characteristics.
Hari Sriram- Summer 2012
Worked on flow of CNT suspension through microchannel.
COMPUTATIONAL SKILLS
–Fortran, MATLAB, Origin Pro.
CHARACTERIZATION SKILLS
–Scanning Electron Microscopy.
–Transmission Electron Microscopy.
–Dynamic Light Scattering.
–Raman Spectroscopy.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
Student volunteer:
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6th Biennial WORKSHOP ON APPLICATION OF LASER IN MECHANICAL INDUSTRIES –
WALMI ; Kolkata, India- 2006.
SAE Eastern India Chapter Foundation at Jadavpur University, 2006.
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