Chemistries and electrification at water-hydrophobe interfaces
Selected Publications
Electrification at water–hydrophobe interfaces J. Nauruzbayeva, Z. Sun, A. Gallo Jr. M. Ibrahim, J.C. Santamarina, H. Mishra Nature Communications, volume 11, Article number: 5285, (2020)
Mitigating cavitation erosion using biomimetic gas-entrapping microtextured surfaces (GEMS) S.R. Gonzalez-Avila, D.M. Nguyen, S. Arunachalam, E.M. Domingues, H. Mishra, C.-D. Ohl Science Advances, Vol. 6, no. 13, eaax6192, (2020)
A first‐principles approach for treating wastewaters A.Santana, A.S. F. Farinha, A. Z.Toraño, M. Ibrahim, H. Mishra Journal of Quantum Chemistry, Volume121, Issue5, e26501, (2020)
Counterintuitive Wetting Transitions in Doubly Reentrant Cavities as a Function of Surface Make‐Up, Hydrostatic Pressure, and Cavity Aspect Ratio S. Arunachalam, Z. Ahmad, R. Das, H. Mishra Advanced Materials Interfaces, (2020)
Biomimetic Coating-free Superomniphobicity R. Das, Z. Ahmad, J .Nauruzbayeva, H. Mishra Scientific Reports, Vol 10, Article 7934, (2020)
Superhydrophobicity and size reduction enabled Halobates (Insecta: Heteroptera, Gerridae) to colonize the open ocean G.A. Mahadik, J.F. Hernandez-Sanchez, S. Arunachalam, A. Gallo Jr., L. Cheng, A.S. Farinha, S. T. Thoroddsen, H. Mishra, C.M. Duarte Scientific Reports, Vol 10, Article 7785, (2020)
Nuclear Quantum Effects in Hydrophobic Nanoconfinement B.R. Shrestha, S. Pillai, A. Santana, S.H. Donaldson Jr., T. A. Pascal, H. Mishra Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, volume 10, pp. 5530-5535, (2019)
The chemical reactions in electrosprays of water do not always correspond to those at the pristine air–water interface A. Gallo Jr., A.S.F. Farinha, M. Dinis, A. Emwas, A. Santana, R.J. Nielsen, W.A. Goddard, H. Mishra Chemical Science, (2019)
Bio-inspired gas-entrapping membranes (GEMs) derived from common water-wet materials for green desalination R. Das, S. Arunachalam, Z. Ahmad, E. Manalastas, H. Mishra Journal of Membrane Science, Vol. 588, p. 117185 (2019)
Biomimetic coating-free surfaces for long-term entrapment of air under wetting liquids E.M. Domingues, S. Arunachalam, J. Nauruzbayeva, H. Mishra Nature Communications, Vol 9:3606 (2018)
Education
Ph.D., Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA, 2013
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, Indiana, USA, 2007
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Punjab Engineering College, India, 2005
Professional Profile
2020-Present: Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
2014-2020: Assistant Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
2014: The Elings Prize Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Awards
Best Poster Prize, 45th International Conference on Micro and Nano Engineering, Rhodes, Greece (September 23-26, 2019) (Zain Ahmad, MS student) (Out of 404 entries; cash prize: 400 Euros)
2017: Elsevier Best Poster Award, 7th International Colloids Conference, Sitges-Barcelona, Spain (Presenter: H. Mishra)
2017: First Place, Doctoral Level Students Poster Contest, 5th Water Arabia Conference and Exhibition, Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia (2017) (Presenter: Adair Gallo Jr., Ph.D. student)
2016: Best Presentation Award, International Conference on Science and Technology of Emerging Materials (STEMa, 2016), Thailand (Presenter: H. Mishra)
2014: The Elings Prize Postdoctoral Fellow, California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
2021-2022: Recipient of the "Golden Jubilee Visiting Fellowship Endowment", Institute of Chemical Technology, India
Cover Article, International Journal of Quantum Chemistry (2020) DOI:10.1002/qua.26501
Student delegate to the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Interdisciplinary Meeting (2020): Adair Gallo Jr., PhD student
Invited lecture: Physical Chemistry Seminar, College of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley, CA, USA (October 15th, 2019)
Invited lecture: Chemical Physics Seminar, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA (October 8th, 2019)
Session Chair, Wetting on Soft or Microtextured Surfaces, Bad Honnef, Germany (Host: Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Apr 11-13, 2019)
Lecture at the United Nations COP-24 meeting on climate change at Katowice, Poland (Dec, 2018) got >92k views on Facebook through Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD) reporting.
Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE)
Research Interests Keywords
Superhydrophobic insects and plantsBio-inspired technologies for precision agriculture, coatings and membranesInterfacial chemistriesNanoconfined liquids
