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Graduate Students

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Bratin Sengupta

(Co-advised with Prof. Miao Yu)

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Education

BE, Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technnology, Durgapur, India

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Project: Ultrathin inorganic membranes for organic solvent nanofiltration

 

Office: CBIS 4222

Email: sengub@rpi.edu

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Pranav Ramesh

(Co-advised with Prof. Miao Yu)

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Education

B. Tech, Chemical Engineering, Anna University, Chennai

MS, Chemical Engineering, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA

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Project: Modified brush membranes for organic solvent nanofiltration

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Office: CBIS 3121

Email: ramesp@rpi.edu

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Riddhi Banik
(Co-advised with Prof. Todd Przybycien)

Education
B.Tech, Chemical engineering, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India

Project: Replacing chromatography with adsorptive membranes

Office: CBIS 3121
Email: banikr@rpi.edu



 

Surya Karla
(Co-advised with Prof. Joel Plawsky)

Education
B.Tech, Chemical engineering, University college of technology, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

Project: Membrane - foulant interactions and
membrane microstructure design

Office: CBIS 3121
Email: karlas@rpi.edu



 

Thomas Neuman

Education
B.S. Chemical engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA

Project: Membrane chromatography


Office: CBIS 3121
Email: neumat@rpi.edu



 

Latest News

June 2023

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Graduate student, Pranav Ramesh has defended his PhD thesis titled "Synthesis and Application of brush membranes for organic solvent nanofiltration". 

Dr. Ramesh (left) with Prof. Belfort (right)

May 2023

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Graduate student, Riddhi Banik gave an oral presentation titled "Immobilization of affinity groups on membranes to capture mRNA by design" at the 8th Graduate Student Symposium.

April 2023

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Graduate student, Pranav Ramesh's latest work titled "Highly tunable structure-by-design polymer brush membranes for organic solvent nanofiltration" has been published in Journal of Membrane Science. (https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1gxdF1LgHNjzlr)

March 2023

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2023 RNA Institute Annual Symposium, University at AlbanyProf. Georges Belfort delivered invited talk on "Novel adsorptive membranes for mRNA capture for vaccine manufacture"

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