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Congratulations to Rahul Prasanna Misra and Professor Blankschtein for their research on molecular transport enhancement in pure metallic carbon nanotube porins, which has been featured on the cover of Nature Materials!
Fri, 08/02/2024
Dr. Alan Sam joins the DB group as a Postdoctoral Associate. Welcome!
Tue, 01/16/2024
Mr. Tom Froembgen joins the DB group as a visiting PhD student. Welcome!
Tue, 01/16/2024
Congratulations to Shuang Luo, Rahul Prasanna Misra and Professor Blankschtein for their paper on the role of water electric fields and polarization interactions on the wetting of hexagonal boron nitride, which has been published in ACS Nano!
Tue, 01/16/2024
Congratulations to Rahul Prasanna Misra and Professor Blankschtein for their research on surfactant-assisted dispersion of individual carbon nanotubes in water, which has been featured on the cover of Langmuir!
Tue, 01/09/2024
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Computer Programs

The DB group has pioneered several user-friendly computer programs to predict the bulk and interfacial behavior of pure and mixed surfactant systems. Read more...

Book

Blankschtein, Daniel. Lectures in Classical Thermodynamics with an Introduction to Statistical Mechanics, Springer, 2021. 

In the News: Chemical engineering professor turns his legendary thermodynamics lectures into a textbook.

Recent Publications

  • Surfactant-Aided Stabilization of Individual Carbon Nanotubes in Water Around the Critical Micelle Concentration
  • Water Electric Field-Induced Modulation of the Wetting of Hexagonal Boron Nitride: Insights from Multiscale Modeling of Many-Body Polarization
  • Molecular transport enhancement in pure metallic carbon nanotube porins
  • Environmental damping and vibrational coupling of confined fluids within isolated carbon nanotubes
  • Breakdown of the Nernst–Einstein relation in carbon nanotube porins
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Contact Information

DB Group @ MIT ChemE

Phone: (617) 253-4594

Fax: (617) 252 - 1651

Email: dblank@mit.edu

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