Interfacial Properties modulation opens large avenues of applications covering United Nations goals of water and energy availability. My aim is to achieve water and energy security through development of sustainable technologies and improving accessibility and efficiencies of currently available technologies. To achieve these goals, I am working at bottom-up approach of modifying properties at the nanoscale.
The research highlights the use of MD to investigate the local structure of electrolytes, specifically focusing on the interactions between solutes and the arrangement of ions within the electrolyte solutions. This analysis is essential for determining how variations in NaClO4 and ethylene glycol (EG) concentrations affect the electrochemical performance of the supercapacitors.
Status: Published (doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202400975)
In this study, we take a graphene nanopore with varying functionalisation to study ion water interaction near the pore. The study is aimed towards pressure based water desalination. The image attached shows the simulation setup where graphene membrane is kept fixed and pressure force is applied on the ion-water mixture. The Van der Walls interactions along with energy barrier emerges to be of prime importance.
Status: Published (doi: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2NR05552J)
We take two layers of graphene and rotate one of them to study variations in various properties.
Status: published
We arrange two layers; one graphene and one MoSeS and study the combined behaviour.
Status: On-going
This work studies the deformation behaviour of complex anthill geometries. These geometries are generated using cement casting method. Stress and deformation of these geometries are studied using Ansys Workbench. This work is published in open access journal and can be accessed at doi provided below. My contribution in this work is validation and performing stress analysis studies in CFD software.
Status: Published (doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfmat/itac003)