(6fl) Continuous Technology Platforms Enabled By Molecular Design of Disperse Multiphase Soft Matter

Soft materials encompass a wide range of materials, such as polymers, colloids, emulsions, gels, whose properties arise from an interplay of processes across multiple scales and phases. Conquering the major challenges, especially in food, pharmaceuticals and healthcare in the 21st century requires novel technology platforms that can provide unprecedented properties and extraordinary functions, capable of exquisitely interfacing between engineering, chemistry, medicine and biology. The discovery and development of novel processing technologies not only bring about improved performance, but also enable innovative approaches of material manufacturing that meet economic, regulatory, and societal constraints. My vision for training a new generation of technology leaders is strongly motivated by the burgeoning need for better multi-scale understanding the structure - dynamic function relation of soft materials and also to develop novel processes for materials chemistry that enable production of such materials ranging in scale from nanocomposites to hierarchically structured polymer particles and gels.

As a faculty candidate, I am poised to leverage my expertise in designing and developing novel bottom-up approaches for soft materials with tunable architectures together with my experience in the use of innovative approaches at the interface of chemical engineering, polymer and materials science, and emulsion and interface science to have immediate impact in teaching, scholarship, professional service, and economic development. For example, in my teaching, I emphasize fundamental principles and relate underlying physics and chemistry to application. I provide the molecular basis for precise control of thermodynamic stability and molecular transport, as well as the tools for understanding structure-function relationships. My research group will be a recognized leader in (i) Developing technology platforms for scaleable, high-throughput processes for multiphasic soft matter systems; (ii) Design next generation intelligent hydrogel encapsulation systems for applications in biopharmaceutics and healthcare; and (iii) Establishing structure/function paradigms in polymeric materials/nanocomposites for manufacturing, formulation, and separation of food, pharmaceutical, and consumer products;

My poster will highlight the key aspects of some of my past and current professional development, including teaching experience (an advance undergraduate/graduate course and an industrial short course), grant proposal writing (high throughput emulsification and advanced characterization, advanced nutraceutical formulation, and biopharmaceutical stabilization), and professional service, along with an outline of future projects.

Teaching Interests:

Advanced separation and mass transfer, transport phenomena, process design, colloids and interface science

Selected publications (26 total, 14 first author, 1250 citations, H-index 13):

Abu Zayed Md Badruddoza, P. Douglas Godfrin, Allan S. Myerson, Bernhardt L. Trout, Patrick S. Doyle, Core-shell composite hydrogels for the controlled nanocrystal formation and release of hydrophobic soluble active pharmaceutical ingredients, Advanced Healthcare Materials,5 (2016) 1960-1968.

Ankur Gupta,Abu Zayed Md Badruddoza, Patrick S. Doyle, A general route for nanoemulsions synthesis using low energy methods at constant temperature, Langmuir, 33 (28) (2017)7118-7123.

Abu Zayed Md Badruddoza, Ankur Gupta,Patrick S. Doyle, Low energy nanoemulsions as templates for the formulation of hydrophobic drugs, Advanced Therapeutics, 1 (1) (2018) 1700020.

Abu Zayed Md. Badruddoza, Bikash Bhattarai, Rominder Suri, Environmentally friendly β-cyclodextrin – ionic liquid polyurethanes modified magnetic sorbent for the removal of PFOA, PFOS and Cr(VI) from water, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 5 (10) (2017) 9223-9232.

Lilian C Hsiao, Abu Zayed Md Badruddoza, Li-Chiun Cheng, Patrick S. Doyle, 3D Printing of Self-Assembling Thermoresponsive Nanoemulsions into Hierarchical Mesoporous Hydrogel Scaffolds, Soft Matter, 13 (2017) 921-929.

Arpad Istvan Toldy, Abu Zayed M. Badruddoza, Lu Zheng, T. Alan Hatton, Rudiyanto Gunawan, Raj Rajagopalan, Saif A. Khan, Spherical Crystallization of Glycine from Monodisperse Microfluidic Emulsions, Crystal Growth & Design, 12 (2012) 3977-3782.

Reno A. L. Leon, Wan Wai Yew, Abu Zayed Md. Badruddoza, T. Alan Hatton, Saif A. Khan, Simultaneous spherical crystallization and co-formulation of drug(s) and excipient from microfluidic double emulsions, Crystal Growth & Design, 14, (2014) 140-146.