Dr. Akhil Gopalakrishnan
- Postdoctoral researcher
- Room: 215, Bldg. 352
- Phone: +49 721 608 24364
- akhil gopalakrishnan ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
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.
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Since- 09/2019 |
Post-Doc at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Advanced Membrane Technology (IAMT), Germany |
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Junior research fellow, Mahatma Gandhi University, School of Environmental Science, India |
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Education |
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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’ |
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2008-2010 |
Master Degree in Analytical Chemistry, Mahatma Gandhi University, India |
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2005-2008 |
Bachelor Degree in Chemistry, University of Calicut, India |
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Research Projects |
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Development of polyelectrolyte membranes for environmental and biological applications (2012-2013), DST-PURSE, 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |