Education
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, United States 2014-2019
B.Tech in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli, India 2010-2014
Research Interests
- Polymer Upcycling
- Drug discovery
- Bio-based polymers and nanocomposites
- Biofuels
Publications
- Rukmani, S. J.; Kim, S.; Rahman, M. A.; Zhao, X.; Sokolov, A. P.; Saito, T.; Petridis, L.; Carrillo, J.-M.; Savara, A. Source of Processable Vitrimer Viscosities: Swap Frequencies and Steric Factors. Macromolecules 2024. DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.4c01943
- De, S.*; Rukmani, S. J.*; Zhao, X.; Clarkson, C.; Vautard, F.; Bhagia, S.; Goswami, M.; Zhang, S.; Elyas, S. F.; Zhao, W.; Smith, J. C.; Ragauskas, A. J.; Ozcan, S.; Tekinalp, H.; Si, M.; Huang, J.; He, X. Additive Manufacturing with Cellulose‐based Composites: Materials, Modeling, and Applications. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2024. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202414222
- Rukmani, S. J.; Anstine, D. M.; Munasinghe, A.; Colina, C. M. An Insight into Structural and Mechanical Properties of Ideal‐networked Poly(ethylene Glycol)–peptide Hydrogels from Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Macromol. Chem. Phys. 2020, 221 (3), 1900326. DOI: 10.1002/macp.201900326
- Rukmani, S. J.; Kupgan, G.; Anstine, D. M.; Colina, C. M. A Molecular Dynamics Study of Water-Soluble Polymers: Analysis of Force Fields from Atomistic Simulations. Mol. Simul. 2019, 45 (4-5), 310–321. DOI:10.1080/08927022.2018.1531401
- Rukmani, S. J.; Liyana-Arachchi, T. P.; Hart, K. E.; Colina, C. M. Ionic-Functionalized Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity for Gas Separation Applications. Langmuir 2018, 34 (13), 3949–3960. DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b04320
