Research in Colloid and Interface Science

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.

Satish Kumar Iyemperumal

Current position

Computational Materials Scientist, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated

Graduation year

2019

Thesis / Project

Carried out molecular dynamics simulation and density functional theory to model ion transport under confinement, surfactant-assisted dispersion of carbon nanotubes, and crystal structure of 2D polymers

Degree / Position

Postdoctoral Associate, 2018-2019

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!

Dr. Alan Sam joins the DB group as a Postdoctoral Associate. Welcome!

Mr. Tom Froembgen joins the DB group as a visiting PhD student. Welcome!

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!

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!

Computer Programs

Satish Kumar Iyemperumal

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