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  • 2015 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors

Overview

Somenath Mitra is affiliated with the New Jersey Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily spans several intersecting fields including engineering, materials science, and environmental science. Within these broad disciplines, Mitra's work focuses on subfields such as biomedical engineering, water science and technology, electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, and mechanical engineering.

The scientist's research topics extensively cover membrane technologies and nanomaterials. Key areas include membrane separation technologies, membrane-based ion separation techniques, membrane separation and gas transport, graphene and nanomaterials applications, nanopore and nanochannel transport studies, microplastics and plastic pollution, and nanoparticle-based drug delivery.

Mitra has contributed to numerous publications, particularly in venues like Separation and Purification Technology, Membranes, Molecules, Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces, and Nanomaterials. The distribution of Mitra's work includes seven publications in Separation and Purification Technology, five in Membranes, four in Molecules, and three each in Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces and Nanomaterials.

Frequent collaborators of Mitra include Sagar Roy, Mohammad Saiful Islam, Indrani Gupta, Mitun Chandra Bhoumick, and Sumona Paul. These coauthors have co-published multiple works, with connections ranging from nine to eighteen joint publications.

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Mitra include:

  • Antiviral properties of select carbon nanostructures and their functionalized analogs (2021, Materials Today Communications)
  • Nanocarbon immobilized membranes for generating bacteria and endotoxin free water via membrane distillation (2020, Separation and Purification Technology)
  • Synergistic effect of air sparging in direct contact membrane distillation to control membrane fouling and enhancing flux (2021, Separation and Purification Technology)
  • Low temperature recovery of acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation products via microwave induced membrane distillation on carbon nanotube immobilized membranes (2020, Sustainable Energy & Fuels)
  • Nanocarbon-Immobilized Membranes for Separation of Tetrahydrofuran from Water via Membrane Distillation (2020, ACS Applied Nano Materials)

Mitra was recognized as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Sample preparation techniques in analytical chemistry

    Somenath Mitra

  • Rapidly functionalized, water-dispersed carbon nanotubes at high concentration.

    Yubing Wang;Zafar Iqbal;Somenath Mitra

  • Water Desalination Using Carbon-Nanotube-Enhanced Membrane Distillation

    Ken Gethard;Ornthida Sae-Khow;Somenath Mitra

  • A fullerene–single wall carbon nanotube complex for polymer bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells

    Cheng Li;Yuhong Chen;Yubing Wang;Zafar Iqbal

  • Adsorption of arsenic on multiwall carbon nanotube-zirconia nanohybrid for potential drinking water purification

    Susana Addo Ntim;Somenath Mitra

  • Microwave-induced rapid chemical functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes

    Yubing Wang;Zafar Iqbal;Somenath Mitra

  • Interlaboratory evaluation of in vitro cytotoxicity and inflammatory responses to engineered nanomaterials: the NIEHS Nano GO Consortium.

    Tian Xia;Raymond F. Hamilton;James C. Bonner;Edward D. Crandall

  • Anti-HER2 IgY antibody-functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes for detection and selective destruction of breast cancer cells

    Yan Xiao;Xiugong Gao;Oleh Taratula;Stephen Treado

  • Dispersal state of multiwalled carbon nanotubes elicits profibrogenic cellular responses that correlate with fibrogenesis biomarkers and fibrosis in the murine lung.

    Xiang Wang;Tian Xia;Susana Addo Ntim;Zhaoxia Ji

  • Effect of carbon nanotube (CNT) functionalization in Epoxy-CNT composites.

    Sagar Roy;Roumiana S. Petrova;Somenath Mitra

  • Facile fabrication of superior nanofiltration membranes from interfacially polymerized CNT-polymer composites

    Sagar Roy;Susana Addo Ntim;Somenath Mitra;Kamalesh K. Sirkar

  • Desalination across a graphene oxide membrane via direct contact membrane distillation

    Madhuleena Bhadra;Sagar Roy;Somenath Mitra

  • Quantitative techniques for assessing and controlling the dispersion and biological effects of multiwalled carbon nanotubes in mammalian tissue culture cells.

    Xiang Wang;Tian Xia;Susana Addo Ntim;Zhaoxia Ji

  • Effect of MWCNT size, carboxylation, and purification on in vitro and in vivo toxicity, inflammation and lung pathology

    Raymond F Hamilton;Zheqiong Wu;Somenath Mitra;Pamela K Shaw

  • Removal of Trace Arsenic to Meet Drinking Water Standards Using Iron Oxide Coated Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes.

    Susana Addo Ntim;Somenath Mitra

  • Effects of Polymer Wrapping and Covalent Functionalization on the Stability of MWCNT in Aqueous Dispersions

    Susana Addo Ntim;Ornthida Sae-Khow;Frank A. Witzmann;Somenath Mitra

  • Mechanism of carbon nanotube growth by CVD

    Roman Brukh;Somenath Mitra

  • Chromatography on Self-Assembled Carbon Nanotubes

    Chutarat Saridara;Somenath Mitra

  • Stepwise Reduction of Graphene Oxide (GO) and Its Effects on Chemical and Colloidal Properties

    Samar Azizighannad;Somenath Mitra

  • Comparison of nanotube-protein corona composition in cell culture media.

    Jonathan H. Shannahan;Jared M. Brown;Ran Chen;Pu Chun Ke

  • Enhanced desalination via functionalized carbon nanotube immobilized membrane in direct contact membrane distillation

    Sagar Roy;Madhuleena Bhadra;Somenath Mitra

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrij Holian
Andrij Holian University of Montana
Tian Xia
Tian Xia University of California, Los Angeles
Andre E. Nel
Andre E. Nel University of California, Los Angeles
James C. Bonner
James C. Bonner North Carolina State University
Terrance J. Kavanagh
Terrance J. Kavanagh University of Washington
Chris D. Vulpe
Chris D. Vulpe University of Florida
Edward D. Crandall
Edward D. Crandall University of Southern California
Nianqiang Wu
Nianqiang Wu University of Massachusetts Amherst
Zhaoxia Ji
Zhaoxia Ji University of California, Los Angeles
Vincent Castranova
Vincent Castranova West Virginia University

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