Current Students:
Ph D (Chemical)
Connie Francisca Fernandes Email: p20230053@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in Student ID: PHXP20230053G
Research title: Understanding the Presence of Microplastics in the Saltpans of Goa
Status of PhD: Ongoing
Date of PhD proposal acceptance: 04/06/2024
Date of clearing PhD qualifying exam: 28/12/2023
Publication details:
Conference Proceedings:
- Connie F Fernandes, Sharad M Sontakke, Jegatha Nambi Krishnan, "Fate of microplastics in the environment and saltpans of Goa" National Workshop on Microplastics Research, IITM Research Park, IIT Madras, Chennai, Oral Presentation, 2nd March 2024.
2. Connie F Fernandes, Jegatha Nambi Krishnan, Sharad M Sontakke, "Environmental Matrices of Microplastics and Their Status in Goa, India." Chemference 2023, BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa, India, Oral presentation 2nd October 2023.
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.
- 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
- E. (Chemical)
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
Research title: Preparation and characterization of blend membranes
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
Research title: Study on Polymer Materials for Electrodialysis Application
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"
- 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.com
Research Topic: Physicochemical processes in wastewater treatment
Current location: Melbourne Business School
M.E. (Chemical)
Joshi Manasi Sachit Email: h2013011@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Thesis title: Surface modification studies on NPGF for Sensor applications
Current location: Pune, India.
- 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
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