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Last Name

Gunasekaran 

First Name

Sundaram 

Middle Initial

 

Areas of Research Expertise

* Engineering properties of food (cheeses, fruit, grain) and biomaterials (hydrogels)
* Rheological properties to better understand their structure function relations and to engineer value-added food and non-food products
* Preparing encapsulated microparticles and nanoparticles and controlled delivery of bioactive compounds
* Investigating heat and mass transfer and related unit operations in food and bioprocessing
* Biosensors for measuring certain allergens and toxins
* Determining physical properties and quality factors of food materials and design of sensors and instrumentation for quality evaluation of food materials nondestructively
* Rheological and transport properties, structure-function relationships
* Value-added food and non-food processes of biomaterials

Web site

Sundaram Gunasekaran's University Web Page 

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

 

Current/Active Funding

  • Hatch Multi-State Research Formula Fund, 2007-2011, Nanotechnology and Biosensors
  • Soil Net, 2008-2011, Novel Applications for Biopolymers
  • Hatch Multi-State Research Formula Fund, 2010-2014, In Situ Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles as Novel Time-Temperature Indicator for Food Quality Monitoring

Issued Patent(s)

 

USPTO Published Applications

  • 20100018436 - Glue from slaughterhouse animal blood, Jan 2010.

Recent Publication(s)

  • "A sensitive enzymeless hydrogen-peroxide sensor based on epitaxially-grown Fe(3)O(4) thin film"

Yang J, Xiang H, Shuai L, et al., Analytical Chimica Acta 708(1-2): 44-51 Dec 2011. A novel and facile approach has been developed to synthesize thin films of magnetite (Fe(3)O(4)) with epitaxial needle-like columnar grains on titanium nitride (TiN) buffered substrate using DC magnetron reactive sputtering.

  • "Viscosity and Color Change During In Situ Solidification of Grape Pekmez"

Kaya A, Ko SH, Gunasekaran S, Food and Bioprocess Technology 4(2): 241-246 Feb 2011. We investigated the material behavior and the effect of processing factors during its solidification using in situ rheometry and color measurement by computer vision.

  • "Swelling and dissolution in cleaning of whey protein gels"

Saikhwan P, Mercade-Prieto R, Chew YMJ et al., Food and Bioproducts Processing 88 (C4): 375-383 Dec 2010. Fluid dynamic gauging was used to study swelling and dissolution, under alkaline conditions, of heat-induced gels prepared from solutions of beta-lactoglobulin (beta Lg), a whey protein isolate and whey protein concentrate.

  • "An amperometric non-enzymatic glucose sensor by electrodepositing copper nanocubes onto vertically well-aligned multi-walled carbon nanotube arrays"

Yang JA, Zhang WD, Gunasekaran S, Biosensors and Bioelectronics 26 (1): 279-284 Sep 2010.  A non-enzymatic glucose (Glc) sensor was developed by potentiostatically electrodepositing metallic Cu nanocubes from a precursor solution onto vertically well-aligned multi-walled carbon nanotube arrays (MWCNTs).

  • "Authentication of sweetness of mango juice using Fourier transform infrared-attenuated total reflection spectroscopy"

Jha SN, Gunasekaran S, Journal of Food Engineering 101 (3): 337-342 Dec 2010.  Fourier transform infrared spectrometer equipped with attenuated total reflection and chemometrics were used to determine added sugar content (ASC), total soluble solids (TSS) and real juice content (RJC) in fresh and commercial mango juice.

Recent Artistic Works

 

Collaboration

  • Dairy Management Inc.
  • Omega Protien Inc.
  • Danisco Foods International Inc.
  • S C Johnson and Son Inc.
  • Viking Machine and Design Inc.

Research Tools

  • Bohlin CVO Rheometer,
  • TA Instruments Modulated DSC
  • Shimadzu UV-VIS Spectrophotometer
  • Zwag Micro-Conventional Oven
  • Instron, computer vision instrumentation
  • UW-Meltmeter
  • softening point instrumentation

Research Facilities

 

E-mail Address

guna@facstaff.wisc.edu 

Phone Number

(608) 262-1019 

Current University

UW- Madison 

Department

Biological Systems Engineering / Food Science 

Title

Professor 

Other Appointments

 

Address Line 1

220 Agricultural Engineering Laboratory 

Address Line 2

460 Henry Mall 

City

Madison 

State

WI 

Zip Code

53706 

Bachelor's Degree

BE (Ag), Agricultural Engineering, TNAU, India, 1977

Master's Degree

MEng, Agricultural and Food Engineering, AIT, Thailand, 1981

PhD

PhD, Agricultural Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1985

Other Degrees

 

Technologies Available for Licensing

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