PPG UCALGARY

Uttandaraman Sundararaj

Professor, PPG Director
Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
Office: CCIT 320
Telephone: (403) 210-6549
Fax: (403) 284-4852
Email: u.sundararaj@ucalgary.ca
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Dr. Uttandaraman Sundararaj is a renowned polymer researcher recognized with awards from international societies like the Polymer Processing Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany). He has published over 100 refereed contributions and has supervised over 30 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. He is an exceptional instructor adept at explaining difficult and abstract concepts in a manner that makes these accessible to all of his students, He constantly seeks innovative ways to communicate with his students through novel in-class experiments, and has developed innovative teaching methods, particularly e-learning using websites and webchat sessions.

Education

PhD, Chemical Engineering, Specialization in Polymer Materials University of Minnesota (University of Minnesota, USA) 1994.
BSc, Chemical Engineering, Specialization in Computer Process Control ( University of Alberta, Canada ) 1989.

Award Received and Achievements

Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) Award for Chemical Education (2014)
Killam Annual Professor Award (2012)
3M National Teaching Fellowship (2010)
CCPE Medal for Distinction in Engineering Education (2008)
APEGGA Excellence in Education Award (2007)
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (2006)
Rutherford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2005)
Polymer Processing Society's Morand Lambla Award (2003)
GE Team Excellence Award (1998)

Patents

US Patent 6,132,076 and Eur. Patent 99973270.4-2307 "Extruder Screw for Efficient Blending of Miscible or Immiscible Polymeric Materials with S. Jana and E. Scott, October 17, 2000.
US Patent 6,610,773 "Conductive, low warp polyetherimide resin compositions" with Dr. R. Gallucci, August 26, 2003.
US Patent Application No. 13146241 and International Patent PCT, "Nanomaterial Composites and Methods of Making" U. Sundararaj, M. Al-Saleh and G. Gelves.

Book Chapter

U. Sundararaj, "Phase Morphology Development in Polymer Blends: Processing and Experimental Aspects" in Phase Morphology and Interfaces Multiphase Polymer Blend Systems, eds. C. Harrats, G. Groeninckx, Marcel-Dekker, 2005.

Invited, Keynote, Plenary Presentations at Conferences

Polymer Processing Society, "Viscoelastic Drop Breakup: Morphology Generation in Polymer Blends", Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2012. Keynote.
Polymer Processing Society, "Novel Electrically Conductive Polymeric Nanocomposites for Electromagnetic Shielding Applications", Kish Island, Iran, November 2011. Plenary.
Brazilian Polymer Conference, "Polymer-Metal Nanowire Composites for High Electrical Conductivity", Campos de Jordao, Brazil, October 2011. Plenary.
Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering, "Novel Electrically Conductive Polymeric Nanocomposites for Electromagnetic Shielding Applications", London, ON, October 2011. Keynote.
Quebec Polymer Symposium-CREPEC - U. Sundararaj "Novel Electrically Conductive Polymeric Nanocomposites for Electromagnetic Shielding Applications", Montreal, Canada, December 2010. Plenary.
Polymer Processing Society - G. Gelves, M. Al-Saleh and U. Sundararaj, "Novel Segregated Network Electrically Conductive Polymeric Nanocomposites using Metal Nanowires", Banff, Canada, July 2010. Keynote.
Polymer Processing Society - S. Lakshminaryanan and U. Sundararaj, "High temperature elastomer/clay nanocomposites based on fluoroelastomer", Goa, India, March 2009. Keynote.
Polymer Processing Society - M. Al-Saleh, G.A. Gelves and U. Sundararaj, "Novel Electrically Conductive Polymeric Nanocomposites using Metal Nanowire", Goa, India, March 2009. Keynote.

Selected Invited Talks at Corporations, Universities and Gov't Organizations

U. Sundararaj*, "Visualization of Viscoelastic Drop Breakup", Sharif University, Tehran, Iran November 2011.
U. Sundararaj*, "Novel Electrically Conductive Polymeric Nanocomposites", 3M Canada Research Centre, London, ON October 2011.
U. Sundararaj*, "Polyethylene/Clay Nanocomposites with Maleated Modifier and Surface Funcionalities for Enhance Tensile Properties", Imperial Oil Research Centre, Sarnia, ON October 2011.
U. Sundararaj*, "FKM Rubber/Clay Nanocomposites for High Temperature, High Modulus Properties", Lanxess Research Park, London, ON October 2011.
U. Sundararaj*, "Template Synthesis of Novel Nanowire materials using Porous Alumina Templates", Xerox Research Centre of Canada, Mississauga, ON October 2011.
U. Sundararaj*, "Hybrid Nanocomposites comprising Metal Nanowire and Carbon Nanotubes for Electrical Conductivity Applications", E. I. DuPont Canada Corporate Research and Development Centre, Kingston, ON, October 2011.
U. Sundararaj* and M. Arjmand, "Effect of Injection Molding Parameters on Carbon Nanotube-Polystyrene Composites", Nova Chemicals Research and Technical Centre, Calgary, AB, June 2011.
U. Sundararaj*, "Novel Metal Nanowire Nanocomposites for EMI Shielding Applications", University of British Colombia, Vancouver, BC, January 2011.
U. Sundararaj* and G. Gelves, "Novel Electrically Conductive Polymeric Nanocomposites", Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, Sao Carlos, Sao Paolo, Brazil December 2010.
U. Sundararaj*, "Drop Breakup in Polymer Blends", Amir kabir University, Tehran, Iran May 2010.
U. Sundararaj*, "Electrically Percolated Polymer Nanocomposites using Custom Designed Nanofillers", Ecole Polytechnique (Univ. of Montreal), April 2010.
U. Sundararaj* and G. Gelves, "Novel Electrically Conductive Polymeric Nanocomposites", McGill University, April 2010.
U. Sundararaj*, "Design of Polymer Nanocomposites using Tailored Nanofillers", Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, February 2010.

Recent Selected Publications:

Li, Y., Sundararaj, U., (2015), "Comparative study on electrical properties of copper nanowire/polypropylene and carbon nanotube/polypropylene composites", AIChE Journal, 61(1).
Arjmand, M., Sundararaj, U., (2015), "Broadband dielectric properties of multiwalled carbon nanotube/polystyrene composites", Polymer Engineering and Science, 55 (1).
Sarvi, A., Sundararaj, U., (2015), "Enhancing electrical properties of MWCNTs in immiscible blends of poly(methyl methacrylate) and styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer by selective localization", Polymer Composites, DOI: 10.1002/pc.23322.
Tabkhpaz, M., Mahmoodi, M., Arjmand, M., Sundararaj, U., Chu, J., Park, S.S., (2015), "Investigation of Chaotic Mixing for MWCNT/Polymer Composites", Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, 300(5).
Khajehpour, M., Sadeghi, S., Zehtab Yazdi, A., Sundararaj, U., (2014), "Tuning the curing behavior of fluoroelastomer (FKM) by incorporation of nitrogen doped graphene nanoribbons (CNx-GNRs)", Polymer, 55(24).
Arjmand, M., Sundararaj, U., (2014), "Impact of BaTiO3 as insulative ferroelectric barrier on the broadband dielectric properties of MWCNT/PVDF nanocomposites", Polymer Composites, DOI: 10.1002/pc.23181.

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