KIDAMBI RESEARCH GROUP
Apr 2024 Our paper in the themed collection celebrating 150 years of Vanderbilt University is on the cover of Nanoscale!
Fantastic efforts all around by the research team - Nicole Moehring, Pavan Chaturvedi, Andrew Naclerio, and the amazingly talented Thomas Knight (our rockstar undergraduate student with hidden artistic skills!!).
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Feb 2024 Lab said farewell to Nicole Moehring today with her favorite breakfast meal for lunch - Pancakes! We will cherish all the fun times and excellent work from the past years. All the best in the west coast at Bosch Hydrogen Energy!
Jan 2024 - Prof. Kidambi elected co-chairs of 2026 and chairs of 2028 Chemical Separations Gordon Research Conferences with Hee Jeung Oh at Penn State University!
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Nov 2023 - An amazing 2023 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) meeting in Orlando!
Nicole Moehring won 2 awards - one from the separations and another from the inorganic materials division!
Piran Kidambi was awarded the 2023 NSEF Young Investigator Award and gave a session plenary talk.
Oct 2023 - Sarah Driscoll wins 2nd place at the 2023 IGNITE Off competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists.
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Sep 2023 - Nicole Moehring is one of the winners of the 2023 VINSE Summer Image Competition! https://my.vanderbilt.edu/vinsenews/2023/09/winners-of-the-2023-vinse-summer-image-competition/…
Aug 2023 - Congratulations to Nicole Moehring on successfully defending the 1st PhD from our group!!
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July 2023 - Congratulations to:
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Prof. Kidambi on winning the AIChE Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NSEF) Young Investigator Award
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Nicole K. Moehring on winning the 2023 Professor Dibakar Bhattacharyya Graduate Student Research Award in the Membrane Area of AIChE Separations Division.
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Chelsea Clark, RHESS student summer 2023 on winning a Poster award 3rd place at Collaboration for STEM education and outreach, Vanderbilt University.
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May 2023 - Congratulations to Nicole Moehring on being awarded a DOE SCGR fellowship
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Feb 2023 - Congratulations to Nicole Moehring on being selected as one of three recipients for the 2023 NAMS Student Fellowship Award from the North American Membrane Society! Big National Award from the community of experts!
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Feb 2023 - Delighted to start on this new project pushing the frontiers of discovery and science with generous support from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. We are super excited for all the insights and learnings!!
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Jan-Feb 2023 - It was a pleasure hosing Grzegorz Romaniak from Lodz University of Technology for a research collaboration. Look forward to keeping in touch Grzegorz!
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Jan 2023 - Congratulations Pavan Chaturvedi's paper on "Deconstructing proton transport through atomically thin monolayer CVD graphene membranes" was featured in 2022 Journal of Materials Chemistry A Most Popular Articles
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Dec 2022 - Congratulations Peifu Cheng's paper on water and water vapor transport through Angstrom-scale pores in graphene in Nature Communications was selected as an Editor's Highlight! - https://lnkd.in/gWHM-aa6
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Nov 2022 - Congratulations to Rahul Shah (1st year IMS student) on the best poster award (1st place) at the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) NanoDay 2022!
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Aug 2022 - Thank you ACS PMSE for the Young Investigator Award!
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July 2022 - Mohammed Sankari, RHESS student summer 2022 on winning a Poster award at Collaboration for STEM education and outreach, Vanderbilt University.
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Jun 2022 - DOE Early Career Award! Thank you so much DOE for funding our work!
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May 2022 - The group presented at MRS Spring in Hawaii and really enjoyed the excellent discussions at Symposium NM06 - https://www.mrs.org/meetings-events/spring-meetings-exhibits/2022-mrs-spring-meeting/symposium-sessions/symposium-sessions-detail/2022_mrs_spring_meeting/nm06
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May 2022 - Congratulations to Dr. Pavan Chaturvedi for winning the Outstanding Performance by a Post Doctoral Scholar Award at the Annual ChBE awards at Vanderbilt University.
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Mar. 2022 - Prof. Kidambi is selected one of the 2022 ACS PMSE Young Investigator Awardees
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Feb. 2022 - Congratulations Nicole K. Moehring for an Honorable mention at the 2022 North American Membrane Society (NAMS) Student Fellowship.
Aug. 2021 - Congratulations to Nicole Moehring for winning the "Best Student Presentation Award" at the 2021 Joint Nanoscience and Neutron Scattering User Meeting, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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May 2021 - Congratulations to Prof. Kidambi for the ChBE award for excellence in teaching at Vanderbilt University.
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May 2021 - Congratulations to Dr. Peifu Cheng for winning the Outstanding Performance by a Post Doctoral Scholar Award at the Annual ChBE awards at Vanderbilt University.
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Mar. 2021 - Prof. Kidambi nominated to the Early Career Editorial Board (ECEB), Chemical Engineering Journal Advances.
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Sep. 2020 - Prof. Kidambi elected to the User Executive Committee at CNMS at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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Jul. 2020 - 2020-2021 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship!!
https://www.electrochem.org/about/press-room/ecs-toyota-2020-2021-fellowship-winner/
VU News - https://engineering.vanderbilt.edu/news/2020/kidambi-receives-ecs-toyota-young-investigator-fellowship-for-fuel-cell-research/
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Jun. 2020 - https://engineering.vanderbilt.edu/news/2020/engineers-advance-insights-on-black-phosphorus-as-a-material-for-future-ultra-low-power-flexible-electronics/
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Mar. 2020 - VU News - https://engineering.vanderbilt.edu/news/2020/class-project-leads-to-a-paper-in-peer-reviewed-international-journal/
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Dec. 2019 - NSF CAREER award! Thank you so much NSF for funding our work!
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1944134&HistoricalAwards=false
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Nov. 2019 - Prof. Kidambi delivers an invited talk at the Graphene Innovation and Research summit
Nov. 2019 - Our research posters on VINSE NanoDay 2019
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Nov. 2019 - Our collaborative work with Oak Ridge National Laboratory gets highlightened -https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2019/11/07/valentine-appointed-new-faculty-liaison-to-oak-ridge-national-lab/
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Aug. 2019 - Christina Trexler wins the best poster award at the VINSE - NSF - REU program. Congratulations!
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May 2019 - Prof. Kidambi invited to serve on the Graphene Academic Council of the National Graphene Association
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May 2019 - Prof. Kidambi receives the Hamilton Company Syringe Grant Program Award
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Apr. 2019 - Our work get a special mention at the The American Filtration & Separations Society, FiltCon 2019 conference
https://www.filtnews.com/rd-and-megatrends-drive-the-discussion-at-filtcon-2019/
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Dec. 2018 - Prof. Kidambi delivers an invited talk at the IEEE-ICEE conference
http://www.ieee-icee.org/invited-speakers/
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Oct. 2018 - Our research on direct synthesis of nanopores in graphene for membrane applications features on
MIT News - http://news.mit.edu/2018/graphene-sheets-holes-molecular-separation-1009
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Oct. 2018 - Andrew, Nicole and Peifu present posters at VINSE NanoDay 2018.
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Aug. 2018 - Check out our review article in Advanced Materials -https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adma.201801179
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Jul. 2018 - Team visits Brookhaven National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory for in-situ environmental transmission electron microscopy.
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Jun. 2018 - Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award.
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Jun. 2018 - ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Grant.
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Jun. 26, 2018 - Prof. Kidambi invited to give the NSF RISE Tutorial Lecture at Alabama A & M University, Huntsville, USA.
http://www.aamu.edu/Academics/engineering-technology/PCM/Physics/Pages/Summer-Workshop.aspx
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Apr. 2018 - Our research on roll-to-roll graphene synthesis for membrane applications features on MIT News
http://news.mit.edu/2018/manufacturing-graphene-rolls-ultrathin-membranes-0418
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Mar. 7, 2018 - Team visits Brookhaven National Laboratory for collaboration on in-situ environmental transmission electron microscopy.
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Dec. 7, 2017 - Prof. Kidambi presents the team's work on graphene membranes at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences seminar at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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Nov. 30, 2017 - Prof. Kidambi presents on Atomically thin dialysis membranes at the MRS Fall meeting in Boston and chairs the BM06.10 session on "2D Nanomaterials in Healthcare" Biosensors III
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Oct. 25, 2017 - Prof. Kidambi presents at the 18th Annual Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Forum – NanoDay!
https://my.vanderbilt.edu/vinsenews/2017/08/18th-annual-nanoscience-nanotechnology-forum/
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Oct. 24, 2017 - Our research article on single crystalline graphene membranes featured online on Advances in Engineering
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Sep. 16, 2017 - Kidambi Research Group formed at Vanderbilt University.
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