‘Piran Kidambi’
VINSE Associate Tech Crew member places second in DOE competition for national lab summer interns
Nov. 28, 2023—Sarah Driscoll, a VINSE Associate Tech Crew member and junior in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is the second place national winner in the 2023 IGNITE Off! Competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) and hosted by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)....
Nicole Moehring recipient of the 2023 VINSE Best Graduate Student Publication Award
Nov. 15, 2023—Congratulations to Nicole Moehring, recipient of the 2023 VINSE Best Graduate Student Publication award. Nicole’s publication in ACS Nano reports on a novel chemical vapor deposition process to form precise Angstrom-scale pores in graphene – an atomically thin sheet of carbon atoms. This work has potential impact for energy conversion, energy storage, and separations applications. During this...
Dissertation Defense: Nicole Moehring, Interdisciplinary Materials Science
Jul. 30, 2023—DISSERTATION DEFENSE Nicole Moehring, Interdisciplinary Materials Science *under the direction of Piran Kidambi “Proton transport through 2D membranes and is applications” 08.02.23 | 3:00PM CST | 048 Engineering Science Building (ESB) At just one atom thick, the pristine lattices of two dimensional (2D) materials, such as graphene, have unique barrier properties which enable selective transport...
IMS graduate student Nicole Moehring receives the 2023 NAMS Student Fellowship Award
Feb. 20, 2023—Nicole Moehring was selected to receive the 2023 NAMS Student Fellowship Award. This award is given each year by the North American Membrane Society (NAMS) “to outstanding graduate students in the membrane science and technology area”. The award will support Nicole’s participation on the society’s 2023 annual meeting in San Jose, CA. Nicole is a 4th year graduate...
Piran Kidambi named 2023 Vice Chair and 2024 Chair of CNMS User Committee
Dec. 7, 2022—VINSE faculty member Piran Kidambi has been named the 2023 Vice Chair Center for the Center for Nanophase Materials Science User Executive Committee. After he serves his term as the Vice Chair, he will step up as the Chair of the 2024 committee. The Center for Nanophase Materials Science at Oak Ridge National Laboratory fosters collaboration...
Kidambi, chemical and biomolecular engineer, wins Department of Energy Early Career Research funding for five years
Jun. 8, 2022—Piran Kidambi, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been selected to receive funding for research as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Early Career Research Program. The program is designed to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce by providing support to exceptional researchers during the crucial early career period, when many scientists conduct their...
Spotlight Publication “Scalable synthesis of nanoporous atomically thin graphene membranes for dialysis and molecular separations via facile isopropanol-assisted hot lamination” published in Nanoscale
Apr. 3, 2022—About the author: Peifu Cheng is currently a research engineer in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering under the direction of Dr. Piran R. Kidambi. Peifu studies low-dimensional materials (such as graphene, h-BN and carbon nanotubes) based membranes for ionic/molecular separation, desalination and dialysis. In recently published work, he created a novel roll-to-roll manufacturing compatible isopropanol-assisted hot...
Vanderbilt engineers’ Science paper reviews scope of atomically thin membranes for subatomic separations
Dec. 1, 2021—A paper by Vanderbilt engineers that explores the scope to scale up the sizes of atomically thin membranes and their potential use in applications relating to energy, microscopy, and electronics is published in the journal Science. Authors Piran R. Kidambi, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, Pavan Chaturvedi, postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Chemical and...
Team wins competitive DOE award to advance isotope production critical for U.S. science, medicine and industry
Aug. 13, 2021—A U.S. Department of Energy $4 million initiative to advance research in isotope production includes a Vanderbilt engineering professor’s work on separation technologies and to scale up processes. The funding is part of a key federal program that produces critical isotopes otherwise unavailable or in short supply for U.S. science, medicine and industry. Piran Kidambi,...
A drop of rubbing alcohol and office laminator provides manufacturability boost for single atom thick membranes
Mar. 31, 2021—Vanderbilt engineers used a drop of rubbing alcohol, an office laminator and creativity to develop scalable processes for manufacturing single atom thin membranes. Their membranes outperformed state-of-the-art commercial dialysis membranes and the approach is fully compatible with roll-to-roll manufacturing. Details of the imaginative experiment are recently published in the journal of the Royal Chemistry Society: “Scalable Synthesis...