CIRES Council of Fellows>

Robert E. Sievers

Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1960
Director, Environmental Program
Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

E-mail: sievers@cires.colorado.edu
Office: Ekeley W281B
Phone: 303-492-7943
Web: Environmental Program
(University of Colorado at Boulder)

Research Interests

Aerosols; pharmaceutical science; biotechnology; atmospheric chemistry; metal chelates; chromatography

Current Research

Green chemistry; inhalable pharmaceuticals drug deliver, nanpoarticles, carbon dioxide assisted nebulization, organic compounds in the atmosphere.

Selected Publications

• Sievers, R.E., U. Karst, P.D. Milewski, S.P. Sellers, B.A. Miles, J.D. Schaefer, C.R. Stoldt, and C.Y. Xu, Formation of aqueous small droplet aerosols assisted by supercritical carbon dioxide, Aerosol Sci. & Tech., 30, 3-15, 1999.
• Sievers, R.E., P.D. Milewski, S.P. Sellers, B.A. Miles, B.J. Korte, K.D. Kusek, G.S. Clark. B. Mioskowski, and J.A. Villa, Supercritical and near-critical carbon dioxide assisted low-temperature bubble drying, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 39, 4831-4836, 2000.
• R.E. Sievers, E.T.S. Huang, J.A. Villa, J.K. Kawamoto, M.M. Evans, P.R. Brauer, Low-temperature manufacturing of fine pharmaceutical powders with supercritical fluid aerosolization in a Bubble Dryer, Pure Appl. Chem., 73, 1299-1303, 2001.
• A.F. Lagalante, B.N. Hansen, T.J. Bruno and R.E. Sievers, Solubilities of Copper(II) and Chromium(III) beta-diketonates in supercritical carbon dioxide, Inorganic chemistry, 34, 5781-5785, 1995.
• Patent: R.E. Sievers, European Patent Number 0677332, for "Methods and Apparatus for Fine Particle Formation."

Sievers is also one of the CIRES Faculty who teach at the University of Colorado at Boulder with teaching loads equivalent to those of CU faculty rostered solely in departments and programs.