Senior Lecturer
Contact Information
Engineering, Room 328
Office: 410-455-3413
gautom@umbc.edu
Education
Postdoctoral Scholar – University of California Davis, 2016
Research Fellow – University of Victoria, Canada, 2011
Ph.D. Chemical and Biomedical Engineering − Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, 2010
B.S. Chemical Engineering − Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, 2004
Research Interests
- Smart Nanomaterials for Theranostic Applications
- Biosensors
- Cell-Nanomaterials Interactions and Toxicological Study
- Inhalation Toxicity
Classes
- ENCH 427 Transport Processes II: Heat and Mass Transfer
- ENCH 444 Process Engineering Economics I
- ENCH 437L Chemical Engineering Lab
- ENCH 630 Transport Phenomena
- ENCH 484/693 Biomedical Engineering
Selected Publications (Google Scholar)
- Tilton, L.; Das, G.K.; Yang, X.; Wisuthiphaet, N.; Kennedy, I.M.; Nitin, N. Nanophotonic Device in Combination with Bacteriophages for Enhancing Detection Sensitivity of Escherichia coli in Simulated Wash Water, Analytical Letters, 2019, 52(14), 2203-2213.
- Bonifacio, C. S.; Das, G.K.; Kennedy, I.M.; van Benthem K. Reduction reactions and densification during in situ TEM heating of iron oxide nanochains, Journal of Applied Physics, 2017, 122, 234303-7.
- Das, G. K.; Anderson, D. S.; Wallis, C. D.; Carratt, S. A.; Kennedy, I. M. Van Winkle, L. S.; Novel Multi-functional Europium-Doped Gadolinium Oxide Nanoparticle Aerosols Facilitate the Study of Deposition in the Developing Rat Lung, Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 11518-11530.
- Das, G. K.; Strak D.; Kennedy, I. M. Potential Toxicity of Up-Converting Nanoparticles Encapsulated with a Bilayer Formed by Ligand Attraction. Langmuir, 2014, 30, 8167-8176.
- Zhang, Y.; Das, G. K.; Padmanabhan, P.; Vijayaragavan, V.; Bhakoo, K. K.; Xu, Q.-C.; Selvan S. T.; Tan T. T. Y. A “Smart” Theranostic Lanthanide Nanoprobes with Simultaneous Upconversion fluorescence and Tunable T1-T2 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast and Near-Infrared Activated Photodynamic Therapy. Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 12609-12617.
- Das, G. K.; Johnson, N. J. J.; Cramen, J.; Blasiak, B.; Latta, P.; Tomanek, B.; van Veggel F. C. J. M. NaDyF4 Nanoparticles as T2 Contrast Agents for Ultrahigh Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2012, 3, 524–529.
- Das, G. K.; Chan P. P. Y.; Teo A.; Loo J. S. C.; Anderson J. and Tan, T. T. Y. In vitro Cytotoxicity Evaluation of Biomedical Nanoparticles and Their Extracts. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Part A, 2010, 93A, 337-346.
- Das, G. K. and Tan, T. T. Y. Rare-Earth -doped and co-doped Y2O3 Nanomaterials as Potential Bioimaging Probes, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2008, 112, 11211-11217.