Srinivas Siripurapu

NCSU
Department Of Chemical Engineering 
Suite 3500 Partners I
1017 Main Campus Drive
Raleigh, NC 27606

phone: (919) 513-2833
fax: (919) 513-1655
email: ssiripu@eos.ncsu.edu

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~ssiripu

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Projects:

Supercritical Fluid-assisted Formation of Nanoporous Thin Polymer Films
Generation of Microcellular Polymeric Foams using Supercritical Carbon dioxide
Fabrication of Biodegradable Hybrid Sponges as Scaffold Matrices for Tissue Engineering
Supercritical Fluid-assisted Synthesis of Polymer Nanocomposites

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Publications & Presentations:

    Publications:

Siripurapu, S., Gay, Y.J., Royer, J.R., DeSimone, J.M., Spontak, R.J., and Khan, S.A., "Microcellular Polymeric Foams Generated Continuously in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide," Advanced Materials Processing (Zhang, D.L., Pickering, K.L., and Xiong, X.Y., Eds.) Institute of Materials Engineering, Australasia Ltd., Rotorua, New Zealand, 2000, pp. 193-198.

Siripurapu, S., Gay, Y.J., Royer, J.R., DeSimone, J.M., Spontak, R.J., and Khan, S.A., "Microcellular Polymeric Foams Generated Continuously in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide," Advanced Materials Processing (Zhang, D.L., Pickering, K.L., and Xiong, X.Y., Eds.) Institute of Materials Engineering, Australasia Ltd., Rotorua, New Zealand, 2000, pp. 193-198.

Siripurapu, S., Gay, Y.J., Royer, J.R., DeSimone, J.M., Spontak, R.J., and Khan, S.A., "Generation of Microcellular Foams of PVDF and Its Blends Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide in a Continuous Process," Polymer, in press.

Siripurapu, S., Royer, J.R., DeSimone, J.M., Khan, S.A., and Spontak, R.J., "Generation of Diffusion-Controlled Microcellular Polymer Foams and Foamed Nanocomposites by Supercritical Carbon Dioxide," Proc., 4th Int. Symp. High Pressure Technol. Chem. Eng., in press.

    Presentations:

Siripurapu, S., Gay, Y.J., Royer, J.R., DeSimone, J.M., Spontak, R.J., and Khan, S.A.; "Microcellular Polymeric Foams (MPFs) Generated Continuously in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide"; MRS Spring 2000 Meeting, San Francisco, CA; April 2000.

Siripurapu, S., Gay, Y.J., Royer, J.R., DeSimone, J.M., Khan, S.A., and Spontak, R.J.; "Novel Microcellular Polymeric Foams (MPFs) Generated in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide: A Processing and Morphology Study"; First International Conference of Advanced Materials Processing, Rotorua, New Zealand; November 2000
 
Siripurapu, S., Gay, Y.J., Royer, J.R., DeSimone, J.M., Spontak, R.J., and Khan, S.A.; "Microcellular Foams of Polymer Blends in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide: Batch versus Continuous Processing"; AIChE 2000 Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA; November 2000.

Siripurapu, S., Gay, Y.J., Royer, J.R., DeSimone, J.M., Khan, S.A., and Spontak, R.J.; "Microcellular Foams of Polymer Blends Generated Continuously in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide"; ACS- Pacifichem 2000, Honolulu, Hawaii; December 2000.

Royer, J.R., Siripurapu, S., DeSimone, J.M., Spontak, R.J., and Khan, S.A.; "CO2-Assisted Polymer Processing: Accessing New Processing Windows and Novel Morphologies"; 221st ACS National Meeting; San Diego, CA; April 2001.

Siripurapu, S., Royer, J.R., DeSimone, J.M., Spontak, R.J., and Khan, S.A.; "Nanofoams of Thin Polymer Films Produced using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide"; AIChE 2001 Annual Meeting, Reno, NV; November 2001.

Siripurapu, S., DeSimone, J.M., Khan, S.A., and Spontak, R.J.; "Surface-Mediated Polymer Foaming with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide"; 224th ACS National Meeting; Boston, MA; August 2002

Siripurapu, S., DeSimone, J.M., Spontak, R.J., and Khan, S.A.; "Generation of Novel Nanoporous Thin Polymer Films using Carbon Dioxide"; National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology, Greensboro, NC; September 2002.

Siripurapu, S., DeSimone, J.M., Khan, S.A., and Spontak, R.J.; "Generation of Diffusion-controlled Microcellular Polymer Foams and Foamed Nanocomposites using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide"; 4th International Symposium on High Pressure Technology and Chemical Engineering, Venice, Italy; September 2002.

Siripurapu, S., DeSimone, J.M., Spontak, R.J., and Khan, S.A.; "Confinement Effects on Foam Nucleation in Thin Polymer Films - A Route to Synthesis of Novel Nanoporous Materials"; AIChE 2002 Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN; November 2002.

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Areas of interest:

Polymer Processing/Nanostructures/Rheology
Biomaterials
Supercritical Fluids
Microelectronic Devices

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