News

Congratulations to Dr. Hari Katepalli, an alumnus of the DB group and currently working at the Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI, for receiving the AICHE Polymers in Industry - Rising Star award at the Virtual 2020 Fall AICHE conference.
Sat, 01/09/2021

Congrats Hari for receiving this outstanding award!
 

Congratulations to Dr. Ananth Govind Rajan on joining the Indian Institute of Science as an Assistant Professor!
Mon, 08/24/2020

Dr. Ananth Govind Rajan, who is an alumnus of our group, has joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, India, as an Assistant Professor. Congratulations! Prof. Govind Rajan's research website can be accessed at ...

Congratulations to Rahul Prasanna Misra and Professor Blankschtein for their research on electric double layer surface forces which has been highlighted in the Department of Energy's newsletter!
Thu, 02/13/2020

Congratulations to Rahul Prasanna Misra and Professor Blankschtein for their research on electric double layer surface forces. The research was carried out in collaboration with Professor Bazant and his student Pedro de Souza, and was highlighted in the Winter edition of the Department of Energy...

Congratulations to Rahul Prasanna Misra for winning the Best Presentation Award in the session on 2D Nanomaterials-Based Nanofluidics at the 2019 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston!
Wed, 12/04/2019
Congratulations to Dr. Govind Rajan and Professor Blankschtein for their recent work appearing in the journal Nature Materials, which was featured on the MIT Homepage and MIT News!
Thu, 01/17/2019

Recent work by Dr. Ananth Govind Rajan and Professor Daniel Blankschtein appeared in the journal Nature Materials, and was featured on the MIT Homepage and...

Ananth Govind Rajan successfully defended his doctoral thesis. Congratulations!
Tue, 12/18/2018

Ananth Govind Rajan successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled "Atomistic Modeling and Simulations of 2D Materials: Chemical Vapor Deposition, Nanoporous Defects, Force-Field Development, Wetting, and Friction" on December 18th, 2018. Ananth will be headed to Princeton University starting...

Congratulations to Ananth Govind Rajan for being awarded the first prize in the Carbon Nanomaterials Graduate Student Award Session at the AIChE 2018 Meeting!
Thu, 11/01/2018
Dr. Satish Kumar Iyemperumal has joined the DB Group as a Postdoctoral Associate. Welcome!
Mon, 07/02/2018

Dr. Satish Kumar Iyemperumal has joined the DB Group as a Postdoctoral Associate. Dr. Iyemperumal completed his PhD from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), where he worked with Professor N. Aaron Deskins. We welcome Satish to our group!

Annalisa Cardellini successfully defended her PhD Thesis, "Modeling of Multi-Scale Phenomena in Nanoparticle Suspensions", with a cum laude designation that is reserved for the top 10% of all doctoral theses at Politecnico di Torino! Congratulations!
Fri, 10/13/2017

Annalisa Cardellini successfully defended her PhD Thesis, "Modeling of Multi-Scale Phenomena in Nanoparticle Suspensions", with a cum laude designation that is reserved for the top 10% of all doctoral theses at Politecnico di Torino! Professor Blankschtein was a member of Annalisa's thesis...

Ananth Govind Rajan and Rahul Prasanna Misra spent three weeks in June visiting Europe to present their research at the Nanotech France 2017 conference in Paris, and to visit and deliver lectures to several research groups
Sat, 07/01/2017

Ananth Govind Rajan and Rahul Prasanna Misra spent three weeks in June visiting Europe to present their research at the Nanotech France 2017 conference in Paris, and  to visit and deliver lectures to the research groups of (i) Professor Roland Netz at FU Berlin, Germany, (ii) Professor Pietro...