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Congratulations to Rahul Prasanna Misra and Professor Blankschtein for their modeling research on water and ion transport through metallic and semiconducting carbon nanotubes of 0.8 nm diameter. This research has been carried out in collaboration with researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and…

Dr. Alan Sam has joined the DB group as a Postdoctoral Associate. Prior to joining MIT, Dr. Sam served as a postdoctoral researcher in a collaborative project funded by UGA France and UACh Valdivia, Chile, and completed his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology,…

Mr. Tom Froembgen has joined the DB group as a visiting PhD student from the University of Bonn in Germany. We welcome him to our research group!

Congratulations to Shuang Luo, Rahul Prasanna Misra and Professor Blankschtein for their paper titled, “Water Electric Field Induced Modulation of the Wetting of Hexagonal Boron Nitride: Insights from Multiscale Modeling of Many-Body Polarization”, which has been published in ACS Nano. This paper introduces an all-atomistic…

Congratulations to Rahul Prasanna Misra and Professor Blankschtein for their modeling research on surfactant-assisted dispersion of individual carbon nanotubes in water around the critical micelle concentration, carried out in collaboration with the group of Professor YuHuang Wang at the University of Maryland, College Park, which…

Congratulations to Rahul Prasanna Misra and Professor Blankschtein for their research on the breakdown of the Nernst-Einstein relation in carbon nanotube porins carried out in collaboration with researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) which has been published in Nature Nanotechnology, including being featured…

Dr. Shuang Luo has joined the DB group as a Postdoctoral Associate after completing her PhD from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. We welcome her to our research group!

Diviya Sinha successfully defended her doctoral thesis titled “Low-Frequency Sonophoresis Assisted Cancer Immunotherapy” on August 18, 2021. Heartiest congratulations to Diviya on this stellar achievement! Diviya is presently contemplating her future career goals, and we wish her the best in all her future endeavors!

Rahul Prasanna Misra successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled “Multiscale Modeling of Electronic Polarization Effects in Interfacial Thermodynamics and Nanoscale Transport Phenomena” on August 5, 2021. Rahul will continue his tenure at MIT as a postdoctoral associate in the Blankschtein group. As part of his postdoctoral…

Zhe (David) Yuan successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled “Gas Separation using Nanoporous Single-Layer Graphene Membranes” on June 16th, 2021. David will be headed to Rice University starting July 2021 for a postdoctoral associate position with Professor James Tour in the Department of Chemistry. Congratulations!