Eli Ruckenstein Distinguished Professor 504 Furnas Hall (716) 645-2911 ext. 2214 Fax: (716) 645-3822 FEAELIRU@acsu.buffalo.edu

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Research

Publications

1994-1998

1999-2001

2002-2004

Recent

• E. Ruckenstein, Microscopic origin of macroscopic wetting, Colloids and Surfaces, 206, 3-10 (2002).
• E. Ruckenstein and H. Y. Wang, Carbon Deposition and Catalytic Deactivation during CO₂ Reforming of CH₄ over Co/Al₂O₃, J. Catalysis, 205, 289 (2002).
• I. Shulgin and E. Ruckenstein, Fluctuations in Dilute Binary Supercritical Mixtures, J. Molecular Liquids, 95, 205 (2002).
• Y. H. Hu and E. Ruckenstein, Binary MgO-based Solid Solution Catalysts for Methane Conversion to Syngas, Catalysis Reviews 44(3), 423 (2002).
• E. Ruckenstein, Scaling Analysis of Coating of a Plate or a Fiber, J. Colloid & Interface Sci., 246, 393 (2002).
• Z. S. Chao and E. Ruckenstein, Effect of the nature of the templating surfactant on the synthesis and structure of mesoporous V-Mg-O, Langmuir, 18, 734 (2002).
• H. Y. Wang and E. Ruckenstein, Formation of filamentous carbon during methane decomposition over Co/MgO catalysts, Carbon, 40, 1911 (2002).
• E. Ruckenstein and I. Shulgin, The solubility of solids in mixtures composed of a supercritical fluid and an entrainer, Fluid Phase Equilibria, 200, 53 (2002).
• C. Zhang, Z. Du, H. Li and E. Ruckenstein, Acrylonitrile-co-Vinyl Acetate with Uniform Composition via Adiabatic, Self-Heating Copolymerization in a Concentrated Emulsion, Polymer, 43, 2945 (2002).
• I Shulgin and E. Ruckenstein, Henry’s Constants in Mixed Solvents from Binary Data, Ind. & Eng. Chem. Research, 41, 1689 (2002).
• E. Ruckenstein and M. Manciu, On the Stability of the Common and Newton Black Films, Langmuir, 18, 2727 (2002).
• I. Shulgin and E. Ruckenstein, The Solubility of Binary Mixed Gases by the Fluctuation Theory, Ind. & Eng. Chem. Res., 41, 6279 (2002).
• Z. F. Li and e. Ruckenstein, Strong Adhesion and Smooth Conductive Surface via Graft Polymerization of Aniline on a Modified Glass Fiber Surface, J. Colloid & Int. Sci., 251, 343 (2002).
• Z. F. Li and E. Ruckenstein, Conductive surface via graft polymerization of aniline on a modified glass surface, Synthetic Metals, 129, 73 (2002).
• M. Manciu and E. Ruckenstein, The interaction between two fluctuating phospholipid bilayers, Langmuir, 18, 4179 (2002).
• M. Manciu and E. Ruckenstein, Lattice site exclusion effect on the double layer interaction, Langmuir, 18, 5178 (2002).
• G. O. Berim and E. Ruckenstein, Influence of cluster shape upon its growth in a two-dimensional Ising model, J. Chem. Phys., 117, 4542 (2002).
• C. Zhang, Z. Du, H. Li and E. Ruckenstein, High-rate polymerization of acrylonitrile and butyl acrylate based on a concentrated emulsion, Polymer, 43, 5391 (2002).
• E. Ruckenstein and I. Shulgin, Salting-Out or –In by Fluctuation Theory, Ind. & Eng. Chem. Res., 41, 4674 (2002).
• J. Feng and E. Ruckenstein, Monte Carlo simulation of triblock copolymer thin films, Polymer, 43, 5775 (2002).
• Z. F. Li and E. Ruckenstein, Intercalation of Conductive Polyaniline in the Mesostructured V₂O₅, Langmuir, 18, 6956 (2002).
• G. O. Berim and E. Ruckenstein, Effect of shape on the critical nucleus size in a three-dimensional Ising model. Energetic and kinetic approaches, J. Chem. Phys., 117, 7732 (2002).
• Z. S. Chao and E. Ruckenstein, Structural and Morphological Control of Mesostructures – Vanadium based Nanofibers, Chemistry of Materials, 14, 4611 (2002).
• Z. S. Chao and E. Ruckenstein, Control of Magnesium Containing Vanadium Mesoporous Materials, Langmuir, 18, 8535 (2002).
• E. Ruckenstein and M. Manciu, The Coupling Between the Hydration and Double Layer Interactions, Langmuir, 18, 7584 (2002).
• J. Feng and E. Ruckenstein, The Morphology of Symmetric Triblock Copolymer Melts Confined in a Slit: A Monte Carlo Simulation, Macromol. Theory Simul., 11, 630 (2002).
• W. Guo and E. Ruckenstein, Separation and purification of horseradish peroxidase by membrane affinity chromatography, J. Mem. Sci., 211, 101 (2003).
• M. Manciu and E. Ruckenstein, Long range interactions between apoferritin molecules, Langmuir, 18, 8910 (2002).
• Z. F. Li and E. Ruckenstein, Patterned Conductive Polyaniline on Si(100) Surface via Self-Assembly and Graft Polymerization, Macromolecules, 35, 9506 (2002).
• I. Shulgin and E. Ruckenstein, Prediction of gas solubility in binary polymer + solvent mixtures, Polymer, 44, 901 (2003).
• W. Guo and E. Ruckenstein, Modified glass fiber membrane and its application to membrane affinity chromatography, J. Mem. Sci., 215, 141 (2003).
• Z. S. Chao and E. Ruckenstein, Phase Behavior of Mesostructured V-Mg-O, Langmuir, 19, 4235 (2003).
• H. H. Huang, M. Manciu and E. Ruckenstein, The Effect of Surface Dipoles and of the Field Generated by a Polarization Gradient on the Repulsive Force, J. Colloid & Int. Sci., 263, 156 (2003).
• E. Ruckenstein and I. Shulgin, A Simple Equation for the Solubility of a Solid in a Supercritical Fluid Entrained with a Gas or Another Supercritical Fluid, Ind. & Eng. Chem. Res., (in press).
• E. Ruckenstein, Transfer coefficients in complex cases by scaling the transport equations, Ind. & Eng. Chem. Res., 42, 2525 (2003).
• M. Manciu and E. Ruckenstein, On the Chemical Free Energy of the Electrical Double Layer, Langmuir, 19, 1114 (2003).
• E. Ruckenstein and H. Huang, Colloid Restabilization at High Electrolyte Concentrations: Effect of Ion Valency, Langmuir, 19, 3049 (2003).
• E. Ruckenstein, I. Shulgin and J. L. Tilson, The Structure of Dilute Clusters of Methane and Water by Ab Initio Quantum Mechanical Calculations, J. Phys. Chem. A, 107, 2289 (2003).
• M. Manciu and E. Ruckenstein, Specific ion effects via ion hydration. I. Surface tension, Advances in Colloid & Int. Sci., 105, 63 (2003).
• J. Feng and E. Ruckenstein, Monte Carlo Simulation of Polyampholyte-Nanoparaticle Complexation, Polymer, 44, 3141 (2003).
• E. Ruckenstein and I. Shulgin, Solubility of Drugs in Aqueous Solutions. Part 1: Ideal Mixed Solvent Approximation, Intl. J. Pharmaceutics, 258, 193 (2003).
• Z. S. Chao and E. Ruckenstein, A comparison of catalytic oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane over mixed V-Mg oxides and over those prepared via a mesoporous V-Mg-O pathway, Catalysis Letters, 88, 147 (2003).
• G. O. Berim and E. Ruckenstein, Shape dependent small cluster kinetics in the two-dimensional Ising model beyond the classical approximations, J. Chem. Phys., 119, 806 (2003).
• E. Ruckenstein and M. Manciu, Specific ion effects via ion hydration: Part II. Double layer interaction, Advances in Coll. & Interface Sci., 105, 177 (2003).
• Z. F. Li and E. Ruckenstein, Improved surface properties of polyaniline films by blending with Pluronic polymers without the modification of the other characteristics, J. Coll. & Interface Sci., 264, 362 (2003).
• Z. F. Li and E. Ruckenstein, Two Liquid Adsorptive Entrapment of a Pluronic Polymer into the Surface of Polyaniline films, J. Coll. & Interface Sci., 264, 370 (2003).
• E. Ruckenstein and I. Shulgin, Solubility of Drugs in Aqueous Solutions. Part 2: Binary Nonideal Mixed Solvent, Intl. J. Pharmaceutics, 260, 283 (2003).
• E. Ruckenstein and I. Shulgin, Ideal Multicomponent Liquid Solution as a Mixed Solvent, Ind. & Eng. Chem. Res., 42, 4406 (2003).
• G. O. Berim and E. Ruckenstein, A closed reduced description of the kinetics of phase transformation in a lattice system based on Glauber’s master equation, J. Chem. Phys. 119, 9640 (2003).
• W. Guo and E. Ruckenstein, Cross-linked glass fiber affinity membrane chromatography and its application to fibronectin separation, J. Chromatography B, 795, 61 (2003).
• E. Ruckenstein, Wetting of a Substrate by Nanocrystallites, chapter in Contact Angle, Wettability and Adhesion (Ed. K. L. Mittal), Vol. 3, p. 1-25 (2003).
• Y. H. Hu and E. Ruckenstein, Multiple Transient Response Methods to Identify Mechanisms of Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions, Accounts of Chem. Research, 36, 791 (2003).
• Y. H. Hu and E. Ruckenstein, Ultrafast Reaction between LiH and NH₃ during H₂ Storage in Li₃N, J. Phys. Chem., 107, 9737 (2003).
• Y. H. Hu and E. Ruckenstein, H₂ Storage in Li₃N. Temperature-Programmed Hydrogenation and Dehydrogenation, Ind. & Eng. Chem. Research, 42, 5135 (2003).
• E. Ruckenstein and I. Shulgin, Solubility of drugs in aqueous solutions. Part 3: Multicomponent mixed solvent, International J. Pharmaceutics 267, 121 (2003).
• F. Hua and E. Ruckenstein, Water-soluble Conducting Polyethylene Oxide-grafted Polydiphenylamine Synthesis Through a “Graft Onto” Process, Macromolecules, 36, 9971 (2003).
• Y. H. Hu and E. Ruckenstein, Ab Initio Quantum Chemical Calculations for Fullerene Cages with Large Holes, J. Chem. Phys., 119, 10073 (2003).
• Z. F. Li and E. Ruckenstein, Grafting of poly(ethylene oxide) to the surface of polyaniline films through a chlorosulfonation method and the biocompatibility of the modified films, J. Coll. & Interface Sci., 269, 62 (2004).
• G. O. Berim and E. Ruckenstein, Kinetics of phase transformation on a Bethe lattice, J. Chem. Phys., 120, 272 (2004).
• M. Manciu and E. Ruckenstein, Estimation of the available surface and the jamming coverage in the Random Sequential Adsorption of a binary mixture of disks, J. Coll. & Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects, 232, 1 (2004).
• E. Ruckenstein and W. Guo, Cellulose and Glass Fiber Affinity Membranes for the Chromatographic Separation of Biomolecules, Biotech. Progress, 20, 13 (2004).
• G. O. Berim and E. Ruckenstein, Phase transformation in a lattice system in the presence of spin-exchange dynamics, J. Chem. Phys., 120, 2851 (2004).
• Z. S. Chao and E. Ruckenstein, Non-Catalytic and Catalytic Conversion of Ethane over V-Mg Oxide Catalysts Prepared via Solid Reaction or Mesoporous Precursors, J. Catalysis, 222, 17 (2004).
• Y. H. Hu and E. Ruckenstein, Pore Size Distribution of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, Ind.&Eng. Chem. Res., U43U, 708 (2004).
• J. Feng and E. Ruckenstein , Attractive interactions in dispersions of identical charged colloidal particles: A Monte Carlo simulation, J. Coll. & Interface Sci., 272, 430 (2004).
• H. Huang and E. Ruckenstein, Double Layer Interaction between Two Plates with Hairy Surfaces, J. Coll. & Inerface Sci., 273, 181 (2004).
• F. Hua and E. Ruckenstein , Synthesis of a Water-Soluble Diblock Copolymer of Polysulfonic Diphenyl Aniline and Poly(ethylene oxide), J. Poly. Sci. Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 42, 2179 (2004).
• Y. H. Hu and E. Ruckenstein, Quantum chemical density-functional theory calculations of the structures of defect C₆₀ with four vacancies, J. Chem. Phys., 120, 7971 (2004).
• Z. S. Chao and E. Ruckenstein, V-Mg-O Prepared via a Mesoporous Pathway: a Low-Temperature Catalyst for the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane to Propene, Catalysis Letters, 94, 217 (2004).
• Y. H. Hu and E. Ruckenstein, Highly Effective Li₂O/Li₃N with Ultrafast Kinetics for H₂ Storage, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 43, 2464 (2004).
• G. O. Berim and E. Ruckenstein, Kinetics of phase transformation on a Bethe lattice in the presence of spin-exchange, J. Chem. Phys., 120, 9800 (2004).
• H. Huang and E. Ruckenstein, Interaction force between two charged plates immersed in a solution of charged particles. Coupling between double layer and depletion forces, Langmuir, 20, 5412 (2004).
• F. Hua and E. Ruckenstein , Fluorescence Study of Aggregation in Water of PEO-Grafted Polydiphenylamine, Langmuir, 20, 3954 (2004).
• H. Huang and E. Ruckenstein , Double layer interaction between two plates with polyelectrolyte brushes, J.Coll. & Interface Sci., 275, 548 (2004).
• Y. H. Hu and E. Ruckenstein, Endohedral chemistry of C₅₈ cage with H₂ and CO, Chem. Phys. Lett., 390, 472(2004).
• Y. H. Hu and E. Ruckenstein, Catalytic Conversion of Methane to Synthesis Gas by Partial Oxidation and CO₂ Reforming, chapter in Advances in Catalysis, Vol. 48, 297-345 (2004).
• J. Feng and E. Ruckenstein, Long-range ordered structures in diblock copolymer melts induced by combined external fields, J. Chem. Phys., 121, 1609 (2004).
• M. Manciu and E. Ruckenstein , Simple Model for Grafted Polymer Brushes, Langmuir, 20, 6490 (2004).
• Y. H. Hu, N. Y. Yu, E. Ruckenstein, Effect of the Heat Pretreatment of Li₃N on Its H₂ Storage Performance, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 43, 4174 (2004).
• E. Ruckenstein and I. Shulgin, Solubility of drugs in aqueous solutions. Part 4: Drug solubility by the dilute approximation, Intl. J. Pharmaceutics, 278, 221 (2004).
• E. Ruckenstein and I. Shulgin, Corrigendum to “Solubility of drugs in aqueous solutions. Part 2: binary nonideal mixed solvent, Intl. J. Pharmaceutics, 278, 475 (2004).
• F. Hua and E. Ruckenstein, Copolymers of Aniline and 3-Aminophenol Derivatives with Oligo (oxyethylene) Side Chains as Novel Water-Soluble Conducting Polymers, Macromolecules, 37, 6104 (2004).
• Z. F. Li and E. Ruckenstein, Water-Soluble Poly (acrylic acid) Grafted Luminescent Silicon Nanoparticles and Their Use as Fluorescent Biological Staining Labels, Nano Letters, 4, 1463 (2004).
• Z. S. Chao and E. Ruckenstein, Specific Ion and pH Effects on Supramolecular Assembly of Mesostructured V-Mg Oxides, Langmuir, 20, 7517 (2004).
• M. Manciu and E. Ruckenstein, On the monomer density of grafted polyelectrolyte brushes and their interactions, Langmuir, 20, 8155 (2004).
• F. Hua and E. Ruckenstein , Highly-Soluble Conducting Poly(ethylene oxide) Grafted at Two Sites of Poly(o-aminobenzyl alcohol), J. Poly. Sci. Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 42, 4756 (2004).
• M. Manciu and E. Ruckenstein , The polarization model for hydration/double layer interactions: the role of the electrolyte ions, Advances in Colloid & Interface Sci., 112, 109 (2004).
• X. Yang, F. Hua, K. Yamato, E. Ruckenstein, B. Gong, W. Kim and C. Y. Ryu, Supramolecular Diblock Copolymers, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 43, 6471 (2004).
• Y. H. Hu and E. Ruckenstein, The BEBO calculation of resonance energies of fullerene cages, Chem. Phys. Letters, 399, 503 (2004).
• H. Huang and E. Ruckenstein , The bridging force between two plates by polyelectrolyte chains, Advances in Coll. & Interface Sci., 112, 37-47 (2004).
• G. O. Berim and E. Ruckenstein, On the Shape and Stability of a Drop on a Solid Surface, J. Phys., Chem. B, 108, 19330-19338 (2004).
• G. O. Berim and E. Ruckenstein , Microcontact and Macrocontact Angles and the Drop Stability on a Bare Surface, J. Phys. Chem. B, 108, 19339-19347 (2004).
• M. Manciu and E. Ruckenstein, Comments on the “Osmotic Coefficients and Surfacd Tensions of Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions: Role of the Dispersion Forces”, J. Phys. Chem., 108, 20479 (2004).

Last Updated: January 2007