DB Group @ MIT ChemE

Research in Colloid and Interface Science

Recent News

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

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.

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!