Current Students:
Ph D (Chemical)
Prathiksha P Prabhu Email: p20200008@goa.bits-pilani.ac.inStudent ID: PHXF20200008G
Research title: Identification, Separation, and Detection of Microplastics from water samples
Status of PhD: Ongoing
Date of PhD proposal acceptance: 25/04/2022
Date of clearing PhD qualifying exam: 19/06/2021
Publication details:
Review paper: Prabhu, Prathiksha Prashanth, Koustav Pan, and Jegatha Nambi Krishnan. "MICROPLASTICS: Global occurrence, Impact, Characteristics & Sorting."
Frontiers in Marine Science (2022) 9 p-1909. SCOPUS indexed. (IF - 5.247)
Book chapter:
CRC/Taylor and Francis Journal.Prathiksha P Prabhu, Koustav Pan, and Jegatha Nambi Krishnan, "Chapter 5- Miniaturized Electrochemical Devices Advanced Concepts, Fabrication and Applications”, “A Review of State-of-the-art Miniaturized electrochemical devices for environmental applications: Monitoring, Detection and Remediation”, (Submitted Revision,July 2022)
Prasanna Gururaj Joshi Email ID: p20190076@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Research title: Identification, design, prototyping, fabrication and analytical methods development of Microfluidic based sensors for CAR-T applications.
Student ID: PHXF20190076G
Status of PhD: Ongoing
Date of PhD proposal acceptance: 25/04/2022
Date of clearing PhD qualifying exam: 04/03/2021
Workshop: Recent trends in CAR T cells Research and Manufacturing virtual conference held on September 22nd and 23rd 2022.
V. Kaarthick Raaja Email: p20160407@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Research title: Synthesis, Characterization and Investigation of Nano enhanced Blend Membranes
Student ID: 2016PHXF0407G
Status of PhD: Thesis submitted on 22nd December, 2022 and awaiting for defense
Date of PhD proposal acceptance: 25th July, 2018
Date of clearing PhD qualifying exam: 14th March, 2018
Publication details:
Research papers:
Kaarthick Raaja Venkatachalam, Sachin.M.B. Gautham, Achyuth Anengondi Nateri and Jegatha Nambi Krishnan (2022) “Nano-enhanced sulfonated poly(arylene ether sulfone) composite membranes and their characterization” High performance polymers https://doi:10.1177/09540083221112306 (IF-1.73)
Kaarthick Raaja Venkatachalam, Sachin.M.B. Gautham and Jegatha Nambi Krishnan (2022) “Desalination characteristics of new blend membranes based on sulfonated polybenzimidazole and sulfonated poly(arylene ether sulfone)” Polymer Bulletin https://doi.org/10.1007/s00289-022-04428-3 (IF-2.84)
Review paper:
Jegatha Nambi Krishnan, Kaarthick Raaja Venkatachalam, Ghosh O, Jhaveri K, Palakodeti A, Nair N. (2022) “Review of Thin Film Nanocomposite Membranes and Their Applications in Desalination” Frontiers Chemistry https://doi: 10.3389/fchem.2022.781372 (IF-5.22)
B.E. (Chemical)
Mridul S. Kaimal Email: f20150641@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Research title: Investigation of blend membrane characteristics for desalination
Sachin Gautham Email: h20170023@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Research title: Investigation of Blend membrane characteristics
Former Students:
B. E. (Mechanical)
Gaurav Shrirang Patil Email: f20150319@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Research title: Experimental Validation of Microfluidic Device for water treatment applications
B.E. (Chemical)
Ajay A. Kumar Email: f20150301@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Research title: Study on the Role of additives in Electroless plating solutions for Lubricant carriers
Rahul Sharma Email: f20150756@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Research title: Study on the Ion selective sensors for heavy metal ion detection in water medium
Shimona Narang Email: f20140582@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Research title: Preparation and Characterization of PBI based nano-composites
Current location: Deccan Fine Chemicals, Goa.
Sakshi Mehra Email: f20140561@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Manan Sarupriya Email: f20150734@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
(BITSAA Research Scholarship Recipient)
Research title: Study on the Role of Additives in Electroless Plating Solutions
Adheep Das Email: f20140826@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Research title: Design, Simulation and Fabrication of Microfluidic device using 3D printing technology
Current location: FTII, Pune.
Srinand Gawarikar Email: f20150687@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Research title: Experimental studies on Non-Cyanide Baths for fabrication of Gold Nanostructures
Rohan Khurana Email: f20150695@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Tulasi Ravindran Email: f20130689@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Research title: Synthesis and Characterization of Polymer Nanocomposites
Current location: University of Connecticut, USA.
M.E. (Environmental Engineering)
Jambale Deepti Dattatraya Email: 2014tg02523@wilp.bits-pilani.ac.in
Research title: "Alternative Methodologies for Characterization and Treatment of Wastewater from Diary Industry"
Manoj Kudalkar Email: 2014tg02512@wilp.bits-pilani.ac.in
Research title: "Alternative Material for Separation of Oil from Water to address Hydrocarbon Pollution"
Vishwendra Naik Email: 2014tg02525@wilp.bits-pilani.ac.in
Research title: "Alternative Methodology for treatment of non-biodegradable waste from sanitary products to produce densified products for energy applications"
B. E. (Chemical)
Krishna Gupta Email: f2012531@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Thesis title: Design, Simulation & Analysis of Ion selective Sensor
Arnav Deshpande Email: f2013630@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Research title: Experimental Validation of Microfluidic devices for Sensing applications
Current location: Purdue University, USA.
Shaswat Chaterji Email: f2013876@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Research title: Experimental studies on Polymer Blend Membranes
B.E. (Chemical)
Swastic Email: f2012543@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Thesis title: Fabrication, Characterization and Investigation of metallic nanostructures for Optical sensing applications
Current location: Reliance Industries Limited, Mumbai, India.
B.E. (Mechanical)
Shrey Grover Email: shreygrover.28@gmail.com
Thesis title: Design and development of a microfluidic platform for water treatment applications
Current location: Boston University, USA
B.E. (Chemical) Debopamaa Debnath Email: debopamaa14@gmail.com
Research Topic: Nanotechnology for clean water applications-Polymer nanocarbon composites
Current location:Texas A & M University, USA
Aarthi Sivakumar Email: aarthisivakumar567@gmail.comResearch Topic: Physicochemical processes in wastewater treatment
Current location: Melbourne Business School
Joshi Manasi Sachit Email: h2013011@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Thesis title: Surface modification studies on NPGF for Sensor applications
Current location: Pune, India.
B. E. (Chemical) - Dec 2014
Suprabhat Bhagavathula Email: f2011446@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Research Topic: Fabrication, Characterization and Investigation of metallic nanostructures for Electrochemical sensing applications
Current location: University of Pennysylvania, USA.
Jayant Singh Sidhu Email: f2011304@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Potti Sanjay Sambhu Email: f2011409@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Process Plant Design Project II: Process Plant design for the manufacture of Electronic Grade Silicon
Master (Chemical) - May 2014
Satish Kumar Email:satishdasari23@gmail.com
Thesis title: Fabrication of metallic nanostructures using electroless deposition for sensor applications
Current location: Hyderabad, India.
Sampada Bakode Email:sampada2803@gmail.com
Thesis title: Fabrication of metallic nanostructures using Nano-sphere lithography for sensor applications
Current location: Mumbai, India.
Sheshank Email: sheshank.biradar@gmail.com
Research Practice: Polymer Carbon Nanocomposites
B.E. (Chemical)
Shaswat Bansal Email:shashwat56@gmail.com &
Jayant Singh Sidhu Email:f2011304@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Process Plant Design Project I: Process plant design for the manufacture of Electronic Grade Silicon