Prof. Pushpavanam's Research League

.... PUSHing the frontiers of Science


Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras

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Vamsi Vikram G, Shilpa Vats, Nirav Bhatt and S. Pushpavanam on publication of "Sequential recovery of metals from waste printed circuit boards using a zero-discharge hydrometallurgical process" in Cleaner Engineering and Technology, on 3rd June, 2021.

Vamsi Vikram G and S Pushpavanam on publication of "Continuous synthesis of copper nanoparticles using a polyol process in a milli-channel reactor" in Journal of Flow Chemistry.

Krishna Kinhal, Nirav Bhatt, S Pushpavanam on acceptance of "Unravelling reaction pathways for tuning bimetallic nanoparticle structures: Role of reactant addition sequence" in Journal of Nanoparticle Research.

Prathmesh M Vinze, Akash Choudhary, S. Pushpavanam on publication of "Motion of an active particle in a linear concentration gradient", Physics of Fluids 33,032011 (2021)

V. Thammanna Gurumurthy, S. Pushpavanam on publishing the paper "Hydrodynamics of a Compound Drop in Plane Poiseuille Flow", Physics of Fluids, 2020.

Saranya Gopalakrishnan, Rajesh Ghosh, T. Renganathan, S. Pushpavanam in publishing "Sensitive and selective determination of triclosan using visual spectroscopy", Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Volume 254,119623, ISSN 1386-1425.

Rajesh Ghosh, Saranya Gopalakrishnan, Rangasamy Savitha, Thiruvengadam Renganathan and Subramanium Pushpavanam. in publishing "Fabrication of Laser Printed Microfluidic Paper-Based Analytical Devices (LP-Pads) For Point-Of-Care Applications", Scientific Reports, 2(9).

Akash Choudhary, on getting his manuscript "Electrokinetically enhanced cross-stream particle migration in viscoelastic flows," accepted in Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Krishna V. Kinhal, on publishing the paper "Simultaneous Synthesis and Separation of Nanoparticles Using Aqueous Two-Phase Systems," ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering,  2020, Volume 8, Pages 3013-3025

Ravikanth M.V.S.R, on publishing the paper "Thermodynamic Model for Reactive extraction of Macro Amounts of Zirconium and Hafnium with TBP," Separation and Purification Technology, Volume 240 , 2020, 116491

Seshsai PC on publishing the paper "Multiplicity, travelling waves and spatial patterns in coupled autocatalytic systems," Chemical Engineering Science, Volume 218,2020

Rajesh Ghosh on publishing the paper "Adsorption of Fluoroquinolone antibiotics at the gas liquid interface using ionic surfactants," Langmuir, 2019,35,39,12839-12850

Ravikanth M.V.S.R, on publishing the paper "Unified Framework for Modeling Reactive Extraction of Metals:Unified Framework Illustration on Plutonium(IV) Extraction with Tri-n-butyl Phosphate" ,Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 2019, 58, 45, 20788-20796

Kiran Jyothi S on publishing the paper "Inertial focusing of a neutrally buoyant particle in stratified flows," Physics of Fluids, Volume 31,2019,102006

Akash Choudhary, T Renganathan and S. Pushpavanam on publishing the paper "Inertial migration of an electrophoretic rigid sphere in a two-dimensional Poiseuille flow", Journal of Fluid Mechanics Volume 874, pp. 856-890, on 12th July, 2019.Click here to access paper

S Kiran Jyoti, T Renganathan and S. Pushpavanam on acceptance of paper "Inertial focusing of a nuetrally buoyant particle in stratified flows", in Physics of Fluids, on 8th August, 2019.

Rajesh Ghosh, Saranya G, R Savitha, T Renganathan and S Pushpavanam, on publishing the paper "Fabrication of laser printed microfluidic paper-based analytical devices (LP-µPADs) for point-of-care applications", Scientific Reports, Volume 9:1, Article 7896, on 27th May 2019. Click here to access the paper

Recent Publications:
1. Krishna V. Kinhal, Shashwata Sinha, Aishwarya Ravisankar, Nirav P Bhatt and S Pushpavanam., Simultaneous Synthesis and Separation of Nanoparticles Using Aqueous Two-Phase Systems, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering,  2020, Volume 8, Pages 3013-3025

2. Ravikanth M.V.S.R, Pushpavanam S , Shankar Narasimhan, and Narasimha Murty B, Thermodynamic Model for Reactive extraction of Macro Amounts of Zirconium and Hafnium with TBP, Separation and Purification Technology, Volume 240 , 2020, 116491

3. Seshsai PC, Mayuri Kurle, Nitu Verma and S Pushpavanam, Multiplicity, travelling waves and spatial patterns in coupled autocatalytic systems, Chemical Engineering Science, Volume 218,2020

4. Rajesh Ghosh, Haritha Hareendran and Pushpavanam Subramaniam, Adsorption of Fluoroquinolone antibiotics at the gas liquid interface using ionic surfactants, Langmuir, 2019,35,39,12839-12850

5. Ravikanth M.V.S.R, Pushpavanam S , Shankar Narasimhan, and Narasimha Murty B, Unified Framework for Modeling Reactive Extraction of Metals:Unified Framework Illustration on Plutonium(IV) Extraction with Tri-n-butyl Phosphate ,Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 2019, 58, 45, 20788-20796

6. Kiran Jyothi S , Renganathan T, and Pushpavanam S, Inertial focusing of a neutrally buoyant particle in stratified flows, Physics of Fluids, Volume 31,2019,102006

7. MVSR, R. K., Subramaniam, P., Narasimhan, S., & Murty B, N. Development of a Thermodynamic Model using a speciation framework: Illustration on HNO3 – H2O system, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 22 March 2018
DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.7b05361

8. Babita. K. Verma, E. Rajeshkannan, T. Renganathan and S. Pushpavanam, A Hybrid Thermo-Kinetic Model for High Temperature Plasma Gasification, AIChE, 13 March 2018DOI: 10.1002/aic.16146

9. T. Krishnaveni, T. Renganathan, and S. Pushpavanam, Recycle Flows in Lab-on-Chip Applications Using Electroosmotic Effects, INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH, Volume 56,Issue: 14, 27 March 2017, Pages 4145–4155, Mar 2017 DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.6b04942

10. Anil B. Vir, S. Pushpavanam, Phase transfer catalysis in a microchannel: Paradoxical effect of transition from kinetic control to mass transfer control, Chemical Engineering Journal, Volume 317, 1 June 2017, Pages 1047–1058, Mar 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2017.02.131