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Dr. Akhil Gopalakrishnan

  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
    Institute for Advanced Membrane Technology
    Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1
    76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
    Germany

The presence of organic micropollutants in ground and surface waters has become an important concern. The exploration of new composite membranes for the treatment of micropollutants in water in the nanofiltration range is challenging in terms of the rejection, selectivity and energy consumption. Modification of conventional ultrafiltration-nanofiltration polymer membranes using self-assembled polyelectrolyte multilayer is one of the effective methods to enhance their surface characteristics. This is anticipated to improve the performance of the membrane for the removal of micropollutants.

 

Employment

 

Since- 09/2019

Post-Doc at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Advanced Membrane Technology (IAMT), Germany

2012-2013

Junior research fellow, Mahatma Gandhi University, School of Environmental Science, India

 

 

Education

 

2013-2018

Doctoral Degree in Chemistry, Mahatma Gandhi University, Advanced Centre of Environmental Studies and Sustainable Development, India

Ph.D. thesis: ‘The buildup, morphology and applications of polyelectrolyte multilayers’

2008-2010

Master Degree in Analytical Chemistry, Mahatma Gandhi University, India

2005-2008

Bachelor Degree in Chemistry, University of Calicut, India

 

 

Research Projects

 
 

Development of polyelectrolyte membranes for environmental and biological applications (2012-2013), DST-PURSE, India


Clean energy: an alternate route to direct methanol fuel cell through chitosan based nanomembranes (2013-2015), Singh-Obama 21st Century Knowledge Initiative, UGC, India

 

Chitosan based nanostructured membrane for the colour removal of textile effluents (2015-2017), KSCSTE, Kerala, India

 

Polyelectrolyte multilayer membranes involving chitosan for the colour removal of textile effluents by low pressure filtration (2017-2018), CSIR-SRF, India

 

Publications

Akhil Gopalakrishnan, Mary Lidiya Mathew, Jisha Chandran, Judith Winglee, Appala Raju Badireddy, Mark Wiesner, Charuvila T. Aravindakumar, and Usha K. Aravind, Sustainable Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Surfaces: Possible Matrix for Salt/Dye Separation, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2015, 7 (6), 3699–3707, https://doi.org/10.1021/am508298d

Mary Lidiya Mathew, Akhil Gopalakrishnan, Charuvila T. Aravindakumar and Usha K. Aravind, Low – cost multilayered green fiber for the treatment of textile industry waste water, J. Haz. Mat., 2019, 365, 297–305, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2018.11.014

Jissy Mathew*, Akhil Gopalakrishnan*, Charuvila T. Aravindakumar, and Usha K. Aravind, Transport Studies of Amino acids through Chitosan/Polystyrene Sulfonate Multilayers, J. Chem. Technol. Biotechnol., 2017, 92, 834-844, https://doi.org/10.1002/jctb.5067

T. V. Divyalakshmi, S. Sreedhanya, G. Akhil, C. T. Aravindakumar and Usha K. Aravind, Sub-picomolar sensing of hydrogen peroxide with ovalbumin embedded CHI/PSS multilayer membrane, Anal. Biochem., 2013, 440, 49-55, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ab.2013.04.029