A few of my collaborative research efforts have been highlighted on the cover pages of leading scientific journals. Featured below are these covers, arranged in reverse chronological order.
1. Sam, A.; Misra, R. P.; Luo, S.; Frömbgen, T.; Kirchner, B.; Blankschtein, D. Beyond Pairwise Interactions: How Interfacial Polarization Modulates Water Flow in Graphene Nanochannels. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2025 (In Press).
2. Frömbgen, T.; Misra, R. P.; Luo, S.; Sam, A.; Kirchner, B.; Blankschtein, D. Formulation of Polarizable Force Fields to Model Simple Ionic Liquid/Graphite Interfaces. J. Phys. Chem. B 2025 (In Press).
3. Luo, S.; Misra, R. P.; Sam, A.; Frömbgen, T.; Kirchner, B.; Blankschtein, D. Explicit Modeling of Electronic Polarization Reveals Water-Mediated Screening of Ion Adsorption at Hexagonal Boron Nitride Interfaces. ACS Nano 2025, 19, 27500–27514.
4. Tu,† Y.-M.; Kuehne,† M.; Misra, R. P.; Ritt, C. L.; Oliaei, H.; Faucher, S.; Li, H.; Xu, X.; Penn, A.; Yang, S.; Yang, J.; Sendgikoski, K.; Chakraverty, J.; Cumings, J.; Majumdar, A.; Aluru, N.; Hatchel, J. A.; Blankschtein, D.; Strano, M. S. Environmental Damping and Vibrational Coupling of Confined Fluids within Isolated Carbon Nanotubes. Nature Communications 2024, 15, 5605.
5. Li,† Y.; Li,† Z.; Misra,† R. P.; Liang,† C.; Gillen, A. J.; Zhao, S.; Abdullah, J.; Laurence, T.; Fagan, J. A.; Aluru, N.; Blankschtein, D.; Noy, A. Molecular transport enhancement in pure metallic carbon nanotube porins. Nature Materials 2024, 23, 1123–1130.
Featured on the cover of the August issue of Nature Materials.
6. Luo, S.; Misra, R. P.; Blankschtein, D. Water Electric Field Induced Modulation of the Wetting of Hexagonal Boron Nitride: Insights from Multiscale Modeling of Many-Body Polarization. ACS Nano 2024, 18, 1629–1646.
7. Wang,† P.; Misra,† R.P.; Zhang, C.; Blankschtein, D.; Wang, Y. Surfactant-Aided Stabilization of Individual Carbon Nanotubes in Water Around the Critical Micelle Concentration. Langmuir 2024, 40, 1, 159–169.
Featured on the cover of Volume 40, Issue 1 of Langmuir.
8. Li,† Z.; Misra,† R. P.; Li, Y.; Yun-Chiao, Y,; Zhao, S.; Zhang, Y.; Chen, Y.; Blankschtein, D.; Noy, A. Breakdown of the Nernst-Einstein Relation in Carbon Nanotube Porins. Nat. Nanotechnol. 2023, 18, 177–183.
Featured on the cover of the February, 2023 issue of Nature Nanotechnology.
News highlight by the MIT Chemical Engineering department.
News highlight by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
9. Aluru, N. R.; Aydin, F.; Bazant, M. Z.; Blankschtein, D.; Brozena, A. H.; Souza, J. P. De; Elimelech, M.; Faucher, S.; Fourkas, J. T.; Koman, V. B.; Kuehne, M.; Kulik, H. J.; Li, H.-K.; Li, Y.; Li, Z.; Majumdar, A.; Martis, J.; Misra, R. P.; Noy, A.; Pham, T. A.; Qu, H.; Rayabharam, A.; Reed, M. A.; Ritt, C. L.; Schwegler, E.; Siwy, Z.; Strano, M. S.; Wang, Y.; Yao, Y.-C.; Zhan, C.; Zhang, Z. Fluids and Electrolytes under Confinement in Single-Digit Nanopores. Chemical Reviews 2023, 123 (6), 2737-2831.
Featured on the cover of Volume 123, Issue 6 of Chemical Reviews.
10. Faucher, S.; Kuehne, M.; Hananeh, O.; Misra, R. P.; Li, S.; Aluru, N. R.; Strano, M. S. Observation and Thermodynamic Analysis of Partially Water-Filled 1.35 nm and 1.48 nm Diameter Carbon Nanotubes: the Sealed Ampoule. Nano Letters 2023, 23 (2), 389-397.
11. Yuan, Z.; He, G.; Li, S. X.; Misra, R. P.; Strano, M. S.; Blankschtein, D. Gas Separations Using Nanoporous Atomically Thin Membranes: Recent Theoretical, Simulation, and Experimental Advances. Adv. Mater. 2022, 2201472.
12. Faucher, S.; Kuehne, M.; Koman, V. B.; Northrup, N.; Kozawa, D.; Yuan, Z.; Li, S. X.; Zeng, Y.; Ichihara, T.; Misra, R. P.; Aluru, N.; Blankschtein, D.; Strano, M. S. Diameter Dependence of Water Filling in Lithographically Segmented Isolated Carbon Nanotubes. ACS Nano 2021, 15 (2), 2778–2790.
13. Misra, R. P.; Blankschtein, D. Ion Adsorption at Solid/Water Interfaces: Establishing the Coupled Nature of Ion–Solid and Water–Solid Interactions. J. Phys. Chem. C 2021, 125 (4), 2666–2679.
14. Yuan, Z.; Govind Rajan, A.; He, G.; Misra, R. P.; Strano, M. S.; Blankschtein, D. Predicting Gas Separation through Graphene Nanopore Ensembles with Realistic Pore Size Distributions. ACS Nano 2021, 15 (1), 1727–1740.
15. Misra, R. P.; Blankschtein, D. Uncovering a Universal Molecular Mechanism of Salt Ion Adsorption at Solid/Water Interfaces. Langmuir 2021, 37 (2), 722–733.
16. Yuan, Z.; Misra, R. P.; Govind Rajan, A.; Strano, M. S.; Blankschtein, D. Analytical Prediction of Gas Permeation through Graphene Nanopores of Varying Sizes: Understanding Transitions across Multiple Transport Regimes. ACS Nano 2019, 13 (10), 11809–11824.
17. Misra,† R. P.; de Souza,† J. P.; Blankschtein, D.; Bazant, M. Z. Theory of Surface Forces in Multivalent Electrolytes. Langmuir 2019, 35 (35), 11550–11565.
News highlight in the winter edition of the Department of Energy’s newsletter on how our new theory of surface forces can accurately describe electrostatic attraction between like-charged surfaces.
18. Faucher, S.; Aluru, N.; Bazant, M. Z.; Blankschtein, D.; Brozena, A. H.; Cumings, J.; Pedro de Souza, J.; Elimelech, M.; Epsztein, R.; Fourkas, J. T.; Govind Rajan, A; Kulik, H.J.; Levy, A.; Majumdar, A.; Martin, C.; McEldrew, M.; Misra, R.P.; Noy, A.; Pham T. A.; Reed, M.; Schwegler, E.; Siwy, Z.; Wang, Y.; Strano, M.S. Critical Knowledge Gaps in Mass Transport through Single-Digit Nanopores: A Review and Perspective. J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, 123 (35), 21309–21326.
Featured on the cover of Volume 123, Issue 35 of the Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
19. Cardellini, A.; Alberghini, M.; Govind Rajan, A.; Misra, R. P.; Blankschtein, D.; Asinari, P. Multi-Scale Approach for Modeling Stability, Aggregation, and Network Formation of Nanoparticles Suspended in Aqueous Solutions. Nanoscale 2019, 11 (9), 3979–3992.
20. Misra, R. P.; Blankschtein, D. Insights on the Role of Many-Body Polarization Effects in the Wetting of Graphitic Surfaces by Water. J. Phys. Chem. C 2017, 121 (50), 28166–28179.
21. Yuan, Z.; Govind Rajan, A.; Misra, R. P.; Drahushuk, L. W.; Agrawal, K. V.; Strano, M. S.; Blankschtein, D. Mechanism and Prediction of Gas Permeation through Sub-Nanometer Graphene Pores: Comparison of Theory and Simulation. ACS Nano 2017, 11 (8), 7974–7987.
22. Agrawal, K. V.; Benck, J. D.; Yuan, Z.; Misra, R. P.; Govind Rajan, A.; Eatmon, Y.; Kale, S.; Chu, X. S.; Li, D. O.; Gong, C.; Warner, J.; Wang, Q. H.; Blankschtein, D.; Strano, M. S. Fabrication, Pressure Testing, and Nanopore Formation of Single-Layer Graphene Membranes. J. Phys. Chem. C 2017, 121 (26), 14312–14321.
23. Wong, M. H.; Misra, R. P.; Giraldo, J. P.; Kwak, S.-Y.; Son, Y.; Landry, M. P.; Swan, J. W.; Blankschtein, D.; Strano, M. S. Lipid Exchange Envelope Penetration (LEEP) of Nanoparticles for Plant Engineering: A Universal Localization Mechanism. Nano Lett. 2016, 16 (2), 1161–1172.
24. Mondal, M.; Misra, R. P.; De, S. Combined Electroosmotic and Pressure Driven Flow in a Microchannel at High Zeta Potential and Overlapping Electrical Double Layer. Int. J. Therm. Sci. 2014, 86, 48–59.
25. Misra, R. P.; Das, S.; Mitra, S. K. Electric Double Layer Force between Charged Surfaces: Effect of Solvent Polarization. J. Chem. Phys. 2013, 138 (11), 114703.
26. Das, S.; Misra, R. P.; Thundat, T.; Chakraborty, S.; Mitra, S. K. Modeling of Asphaltene Transport and Separation in the Presence of Finite Aggregation Effects in Pressure-Driven Microchannel Flow. Energy and Fuels 2012, 26 (9), 5851–5857.
†Contributed equally to work