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ACS Langmuir Cover Art

Speleothem-Inspired Copper/Nickel Interfaces for Enhanced Liquid–Vapor Transport by Marangoni and Soret Effects

ACS Omega Cover: Trunk-ated heat

Ti3C2Tx MXene Additives for Enhanced Pool Boiling Regime

Edith Rathbun Outreach and Engagement Excellence Award

Dr. Gupta was recognized for her community volunteer, K-12 outreach, service to professional society, and faculty allyship efforts.

NanoHub CompuCell3D (CC3D) featured Dr. Gupta

Dr. Gupta's pursuit of learning led to her participated in CC3D Hackathon in summer 2024. She demonstrated an innovative use of Cell Potts biological model in thermal fluid science research by modeling boiling bubbles (Publication coming soon)

Ohio Supercomputer Center featured Dr. Gupta's research on water treatment

Full article can be accessed here:

https://www.osc.edu/press/supercomputing_for_sustainability_university_of_toledo_researchers_enhance_water_treatment

ANSYS Summer Faculty Fellowship

Dr. Gupta spent 10 weeks on-site to gain expertise in simulations for materials and thermal modeling. (top) with Harshad Ahire, ANSYS GRANTA expert (bottom) with Hemant Punekar, ANSYS FLUENT expert.

Dr. Gupta's NSF supplemental funding with Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL)

Saketh Merugu is visiting ORNL to test his Carbon Nanofiber (CNF) mixed matrix membrane for water treatment applications

MXene Conference

Saketh presented his work on MXene for boiling applications at Drexel University.

Wiley journal cover

Effect of Ball Milled and Sintered Graphene Nanoplatelets–Copper Composite Coatings on Bubble Dynamics and Pool Boiling Heat Transfer

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) journal cover and indexed on Sigma Aldrich's product page

Interaction of Amphiphilic Coumarin with DPPC/DPPS Lipid Bilayer: Effects of Concentration and Alkyl Tail Length- featured on On Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Sigma: https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/product/avanti/840037p

ACS Omega Cover Art

This comprehensive molecular dynamics (MD) simulation and experimental study investigates the lipid bilayer interaction of delocalized and hydrophobic cations. This work represents a novel and alternative pathway to exploit pigments and dyes used for photographic emulsions as potential photosensitizers for various light therapies.

Featured on World Health Organization's COVID-19 Research Database, and Nature Public Health Emergency Collection: Public Health Emergency COVID-19 Initiative

Our work "Thermotropic effects of PEGylated lipids on the stability of HPPH-encapsulated lipid nanoparticles (LNP)" received international and national recognition in response to Public Health Emergency COVID-19 Initiative

(https://search.bvsalud.org/global-literature-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov/resource/en/covidwho-2231609)

ACS PRF @ 65 features Dr. Gupta's story

NBC news features Dr. Gupta's Senior design project

Group fabricated Helmholtz coils to create a uniform magnetic field used to test sensors and other equipment for space applications where Earth's magnetic field does not interfere. Watch here: https://nbc24.com/news/local/utoledo-engineering-students-present-fall-2021-senior-design-projects

Congratulations, Drs. Poornima Kalyanram (2020) and Aniket Rishi (2021) on their successful PhD defense

Funding

ITTL receives American Chemical Society's Petroleum Research Fund for New Directions to study chemical separations on enhanced surfaces

Funding

ITTL receives funding for thermal-membrane separation to produce reusable water.

PI Gupta receives funding on data analytics to boost gender equity among STEM Faculty

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