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Ceramic thin-film composite membranes with tunable subnanometer pores for molecular sieving

Xuechen Zhou, Rahul Shevate, Dahong Huang, Tianchi Cao, Xin Shen, Shu Hu, Anil U Mane, Jeffrey W Elam, Jae-Hong Kim, Menachem Elimelech. Nat Commun. 2023, 14, 7255.

Controlling nanoscale pore size and wall composition in polycarbonate membranes via atomic layer deposition and sequential infiltration synthesis: implications for high water permeance

Rajesh Pathak, Vepa Rozyyev, Rahul Shevate, Anil U. Mane, Jeffrey W. Elam. 

ACS. Appl. Nano Mater. 2023, 6, 17869-17880.

Membrane distillation of hypersaline produced water: performance, cleaning and membrane reusability

Rahul Shevate, Dana R. Flores, Parisa taheri, Deepak A. Musale, Devin L. Shaffer. ACS ES&T, 2023, 3, 3407-3417.

Vapor-phase grafting of functional silanes on atomic layer deposited Al2O3

Vepa Rozyyev, Rahul Shevate, Rajesh Pathak, Julia G. Murphy, Anil U. Mane, S. J. Sibener, Jeffrey W. Elam. J. Vac. Sci. Technology. A, 2023, 41, 032408

Tunable Ion Transport with Freestanding Vermiculite Membranes

Zijing Xia, Wen Chen, Rahul Shevate, Yuqin Wang, Feng Gao, Di Wang, Omar A Kazi, Anil U Mane, Sang Soo Lee, Jeffrey W Elam, Seth B Darling.  ACS Nano, 16, 18266-182273.

Assessing advances in anti-fouling membranes to improve process economics and sustainability of water treatment

Sabyasachi Das, Margaret G O’Connell, Hui Xu, Roy Bernstein, Jae-Hong Kim, Kirti Sankhala, Tamar Segal-Peretz, Rahul Shevate, Wei Zhang, Xuechen Zhou, Seth B Darling, Jennifer B Dunn.   ACS ES&T Engineering, 2, 2159-2173.

Large-area 2D covalent organic framework membranes with tunable single-digit nanopores for predictable mass transport

Rahul Shevate and Devin L. Shaffer. Large-area 2D covalent organic framework membranes with tunable single-digit nanopores for predictable mass transport. ACS Nano, 16, 2407-2418.

Scalable synthesis of amphiphilic copolymers for CO2- and water-selective membranes: Effect of copolymer composition and chain length

Faheem Akhtar, Mahendra Kumar, Hakkim Vovusha, Rahul Shevate, Luis Francisco Villalobos, Udo Schwingenschlogl and Klaus-Viktor Peinemann. ACS Macromolecules, 52, 2019, 6213.

Giant humidity effect on hybrid halide perovskite microstripes: reverse sensing mechanism

Md. Haque, Ahad Syed, Faheem Akhtar, Rahul Shevate, Simrjit Singh, Klaus-Viktor Peinemann and Tom Wu.  ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 11, 2019, 29821.​

Rapid size-based protein discrimination inside hybrid isoporous membranes

Rahul Shevate, Mahendra Kumar, Hong Cheng, Peiying Hong, Klaus-Viktor Peinemann.  ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 11, 2019, 8507.

Embedding 1D conducting channels into 3D isoporous polymer films for high performance chemiresistive sensing

Rahul Shevate, Md. Haque, Faheem Akhtar, Luis Francisco Villalobos, Tom Wu, Klaus-Viktor Peinemann.  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 57, 2018, 11218 (Highlighted in Nature Reviews Chemistry and Nature Middle-east).

Highways for water molecules: interplay between nanostructures and water vapor transport in block copolymer membranes

Faheem Akhtar, Hakkim Vovusha, Luis Francisco Villalobos, Rahul Shevate, Mahendra Kumar, Suazana Nunes, Udo Schwingenschlogl, Klaus-Viktor Peinemann.  J. Membr. Sci., 572, 2019, 641.​

Surprising transformation of a block copolymer into a high performance polystyrene ultrafiltration membrane with a hierarchically organized pore structure

Rahul Shevate, Mahendra Kumar, Madhavan Karunakaran, Christian Canlas, Klaus-Viktor Peinemann.  J. Mater. Chem. A, 6, 2018, 4337.

Polydopamine/Cysteine surface modified isoporous membranes with self-cleaning properties

Rahul Shevate, Mahendra Kumar, Madhavan Karunakaran, Mohamed Nejib Hedhili, Klaus-Viktor Peinemann.  J. Membr. Sci., 529, 2017, 185.

CO2-Philic thin film composite membranes: synthesis and characterization of PAN-r-PEGMA copolymer

Madhavan Karunakaran, Mahendra Kumar, Rahul Shevate, Faheem Hassan Akhtar and Klaus-Viktor Peinemann.  Polymer, 9, 2017, 219.​

Polybenzimidazole-based mixed membranes with exceptionally high water vapor permeability and selectivity

Faheem Hassan Akhtar, Mahendra Kumar, Luis Francisco Villalobos, Hakkim Vovusha, Rahul Shevate, Udo Schwingenschlögl, Klaus-Viktor Peinemann.  J. Mater. Chem. A, 5, 2017, 21807.

Graphene oxide doped ionic liquid ultrathin composite membranes for efficient CO2 capture

Madhavan Karunakaran, Luis Francisco Villalobos, Mahendra Kumar, Rahul Shevate, Faheem Hassan Akhtar, Klaus-Viktor Peinemann.  J. Mater. Chem. A, 5, 2017, 649.

Polyanionic pH-responsive polystyrene-b-poly(4-vinyl pyridine-N-oxide) isoporous membranes

Rahul Shevate, Madhavan Karunakaran, Mahendra Kumar, Klaus-Viktor Peinemann. J. Membr. Sci., 501, 2016, 161.​

Novel adsorptive ultrafiltration membranes derived from polyvinyltetrazole-co-polyacrylonitrile for Cu (II) ions removal

Mahendra Kumar, Rahul Shevate, Roland Hilke, Klaus-Viktor Peinemann. Chem. Eng. J., 201, 2016, 306.

Nanostructured double hydrophobic poly(styrene-b-methyl methacrylate) block copolymer membrane manufactured via a phase inversion technique.

Madhavan Karunakaran, Rahul Shevate, Klaus-Viktor Peinemann. RSC Adv., 6, 2016, 29064.

 CO2-selective PEO-PBT (PolyActive™)/graphene oxide composite membranes

Madhavan Karunakaran, Rahul Shevate, Mahendra Kumar, Klaus-Viktor Peinemann. Comm., 51, 2015, 14187.​

Preparation of CdSe quantum dots via thermolysis of a novel single source Cd/Se precursor derived from cyclohexane-1,2,3-selenadiazole.

Pawan K Khanna, Priyesh More, Rahul Shevate, Rupinder K Beri, Kasi A. Viswanath A., Vidyanand Singh, Bodh R Mehta. Chem. Lett., 38, 2009, 676. 

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