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Meenesh R. Singh, PhD

Associate Professor

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Building & Room:

256 EIB

Address:

929 W. Taylor St, MC 110, Chicago, IL 60607

Office Phone:

312.993.7673

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Fall 2021 Courses:

  • CHE 321 Chemical Reaction Engineering
  • CHE 392 CHE 392 - Chem-E-Car

Research Interests

Artificial Photosynthesis

Pharmaceutical Engineering

Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Solar-Energy Conversion

Environmental Engineering

Computational Materials

Courses Offered

CHE 445: Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering

CHE 494 Solar-Fuels Engineering

CHE 494 Biophamaceutial Process R&D and Manufacturing

Selected Publications

1.       Anish V. Dighe, Roshan Y. Nemade, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Modeling and Simulation of Crystallization of Metal-Organic Frameworks,” Processes, 7(8), 527, 2019. (Cover Page, Invited Article in Special Issue – Modeling and Control of Crystallization)

2.       Anish V. Dighe, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Solvent Fluctuations in the Solvation-Shell Determines the Activation Barrier for Crystal Growth Rates,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (48), 23954 – 23959, 2019 (News Coverage – EurekAlert!, Phys.Org, ScienceDaily, Cosmos Magazine, Quanta Magazine, Scitech Daily, AzoNano, Nanowerk)

3.       Emani, Pavan S., Hisham Maddah, Arjun Rangoonwala, Songwei Che, Aditya Prajapati, Meenesh R. Singh, Dieter M. Gruen, Vikas Berry, and Sanjay K. Behura. “Organophilicity of Graphene Oxide for Enhanced Wettability of ZnO Nanorods,” ACS Applied Materials  & Interfaces , 12 (35), 39772 – 39780, 2020.

4.       Nishithan C. Kani, Aditya Prajapati, Brianna A. Collins, Jason D. Goodpaster, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Competing Effects of pH, Cation-Identity, H2O Saturation, and N2 Concentration on the Activity and Selectivity of Electrochemical Reduction of N2 to NH3 on Electrodeposited Cu at Ambient Conditions,” ACS Catalysis, 10 (24), 14592 – 14603, 2020. (News Coverage – Chemical Engineer, EurekAlert!, Phys.Org, ScienceDaily, Bioengineer.org, newswise, sciencenewsnet.in)

5.       Ayankola O. Ayansiji, Anish V. Dighe, Andreas A. Linninger, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Constitutive Relationship and Governing Physical Properties for Magnetophoresis,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117 (48), 30208-30214, 2020. (News Coverage – Scienmag, EurekAlert!, Phys.Org, ScienceDaily, Bioengineer.org, newswise, sciencenewsnet.in)

6.       Aditya Prajapati, Brianna A. Collins, Jason D. Goodpaster, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Fundamental Insights into Electrochemical Activation of Methane towards Methanol over Transition Metal Oxides,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (8), e2023233118, 2021. (News Coverage – STLE Tech Beat, Lab Manager, Lab Roots, AZO Materials, CN Beta, New Atlas, ENN, EurekAlert!, Phys.Org, ScienceDaily, Bioengineer.org, newswise, sciencenewsnet.in)

7.       Paria Coliaie, Manish S. Kelkar, Marianne Langston, Chengxiang Liu, Neda Nazemifard, Daniel Patience, Dimitri Skliar, Nandkishor K. Nere, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Advanced Continuous-Flow Microfluidic Device for Parallel Screening of Crystal Polymorphs, Morphology and Kinetics at Controlled Supersaturation,” Lab on a Chip , 21 (12), 2333-2342, 2021 (Cover Page, News Coverage – Technology Networks, Mirage News, Scienmag, EurekAlert!, Phys.Org, ScienceDaily, Bioengineer.org, newswise, sciencenewsnet.in)

8.       John Cavin, Alireza Ahmadiparidari, Leily Majidi, Arashdeep Singh Thind, Saurabh N. Misal, Aditya Prajapati, Zahra Hemmat, Sina Rastegar, Andrew Beukelman, Meenesh R Singh, Kinga A. Unocic, Amin Salehi-Khojin, Rohan Mishra, “Two-Dimensional High-Entropy Transition Metal Dichalcogenides for Carbon Dioxide Electrocatalysis,” Advanced Materials, 33, 2100347, 2021 (News Coverage – Materials Today, Mirage News, Scienmag, EurekAlert!, Phys.Org, ScienceDaily, Bioengineer.org, newswise, sciencenewsnet.in)

9.       Achyut Pakhare, Channamallikarjun Mathpati, Jyeshtharaj B. Joshi, Meenesh R. Singh, Doraiswami Ramkrishna, Raosaheb Patil, Ekambara Kalekudithi, Anish Dighe, “Polymorphic and morphological study of Potassium Acid Phthalate Crystals,” Chemical Engineering Research & Design, 174, 463-470, 2021.

10.    Nishithan C. Kani, Joseph Gauthier, Aditya Prajapati, Isha Bordawekar, Windom Shields, Mitchell Shields, Aayush R. Singh, Meenesh R. Singh, “Solar-Driven Electrochemical Synthesis of Ammonia with >10% Solar-to-Fuel Efficiency at Ambient Conditions,” Energy & Environmental Science, 10.1039/D1EE01879E, 2021

Service to Community

Conference Session Organizer

  1. Co-Chair, “Modeling and Control of Crystallization,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 8th – 13th, 2015
  2. Co-Chair, “Fundamentals of Hydrogen Production,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 8th – 13th, 2015
  3. Chair, “Solid Form Selection: Cocrystals, Salts, Solvates, Polymorphs, and Beyond,” AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November 13th – 18th, 2016
  4. Co-Chair, “Electrocatalysis and Photoelectrocatalysis,” AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November 13th – 18th, 2016
  5. Chair, “Electrocatalysis and Photoelectrocatalysis,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 29th – November 3rd, 2017
  6. Co-Chair, “Rational Design of Catalysts,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 29th – November 3rd, 2017
  7. Chair, “Modeling and Control of Crystallization,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 29th – November 3rd, 2017
  8. Co-Chair, “Solid Form Selection: Cocrystals, Salts, Solvates, Polymorphs, and Beyond,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 29th – November 3rd, 2017
  9. Co-Chair, “Amorphous and Crystalline Particle Engineering in Pharmaceuticals and Other Novel Materials,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 29th – November 3rd, 2017
  10. Chair, “Poster Session,” AIChE Midwest Regional Conference, Chicago, Illinois, February 28th – March 1st, 2017
  11. Chair, “Amorphous and Crystalline Particle Engineering,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 28th – November 2nd, 2018
  12. Chair, “Modeling and Control of Crystallization,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 28th – November 2nd, 2018
  13. Chair, “In Honor of Doraiswami Ramkrishna’s 80th Birthday,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 28th – November 2nd, 2018
  14. Co-Chair, “Area 2B Plenary: In Honor of Doraiswami Ramkrishna’s 80th Birthday,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 28th – November 2nd, 2018
  15. Co-Chair, “Electrocatalysis and Photoelectrocatalysis II: Reactors and Processes for CO2 Reduction,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 28th – November 2nd, 2018
  16. Co-Chair, “Nucleation and Growth- I & II,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 28th – November 2nd, 2018
  17. Chair, “Bio-Medical & Material Engineering,” AIChE Midwest Regional Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 18th – 19th, 2019
  18. Chair, “High Temperature Electrocatalysis,” North American Catalysis Society Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, June 23rd – 28th, 2019
  19. Chair, “Nucleation and Growth I & II,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, November 10th-15th, 2019
  20. Co-Chair, “Thermochemical CO2 Reduction I – C1 products,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, November 10th-15th, 2019
  21. Chair, “Industrial Crystallization I & II,” AIChE Midwest Regional Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 11th – 12th, 2020
  22. Chair, “Continuous Crystallization Processes,” AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November 15th – 20th, 2020
  23. Chair, “Nitrogen Chemistry II- Nitrate and Nitrite Reduction,” AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November 15th – 20th, 2020
  24. Bin Lead and Chair, “Nitrogen Chemistry II- Nitrate and Nitrite Reduction,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, November 7-19th, 2021
  25. Chair, “Continuous Crystallization Processes,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, November 7-19th, 2021

Professional Leadership

Editor, Chemical Engineering Research & Design (Elsevier)

Topic Editor, Sustainable Chemistry (MDPI)

Advisory Board Member, Challenges (MDPI)

Notable Honors

2021, UIC CoE Research Award, UIC

2015, Best PhD Award, George Klinzing

2014, Faculty Lectureship Award, School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University

2013, Process Development Division Student Paper Award, AIChE

2013, Graduate Student Award, ACS I&EC Division

2013, Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award, College of Engineering, Purdue University

2012, Graduate Student Research Award, AIChE Separation Division

Education

Postdoctoral Fellow (2013 – 2016) – Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

PhD (2009 – 2013) – Purdue University

M.Tech (2006 – 2008) – Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

B.E (2001 – 2005) – Sardar Patel University

Selected Presentations

Invited Talks

  1. Meenesh R. Singh and Doraiswami Ramkrishna*, “Towards Control of Crystallization Processes,” Global Pharmaceutical R&D, Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, Illinois, August 7th, 2012
  2. Meenesh R. Singh*, “Crystal Morphologies: Targeting, Screening, Control and Measurement,” Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, October 25th, 2012
  3. Meenesh R. Singh*, “Screening Crystal Morphologies from Crystal Structure,” ACS I&EC Graduate Award Symposia, 2013 (Declined)
  4. Meenesh R. Singh*, “A Journey through Crystal Forests,” Faculty Lectureship Award, Purdue University, 2014
  5. Meenesh R. Singh*, “Materials and System Engineering for Energy and Healthcare Applications – From Discovery to Design,” Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2016
  6. Meenesh R. Singh*, “Continuous-flow Microfluidic Crystallizer and Multiscale Simulation Framework for Screening of Crystalline Materials,” AI Process Development, Dow AgroSciences/Corteva, March 29th, 2018
  7. Meenesh R. Singh*, “Solar-driven Electrochemical Conversion of CO2 and Water to Hydrocarbons,” Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, IIT Chicago, April 18th, 2018
  8. Meenesh R. Singh*, “Transport of Paramagnetic Nanoparticles in Magnetic Field for Drug Deliver,” in “In Honor of Professor D. Ramkrishna’s Contributions to Biopharmaceutical Industry,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 28th – November 2nd, 2018
  9. Nishithan Balaji, Aditya Prajapati, and Meenesh R. Singh*, “A Systematic Study of Ammonia Synthesis by Electrochemical Reduction of N2 over Cu,” 235th ECS Meeting, Dallas, Texas, May 26th – May 30th, 2019
  10. Nishithan C Kani, and Meenesh R. Singh*, “Optimal Morphology of Cu-Based Catalyst for Efficient Electrochemical Synthesis of NH3By Direct Reduction of Nand H2o at Ambient Conditions,” 237th ECS Meeting, Montreal, Canada, May 10th – May 14th, 2020
  11. Meenesh R. Singh, “Prospects of Electrocatalysis for Sustainable Manufacturing, Greenhouse Gas Mitigation, and Energy Storage,” Department of Chemical, Biomolecular, and Corrosion Engineering, University of Akron, Spring 2021
  12. Meenesh R. Singh, “Prospects of Electrocatalysis for Sustainable Manufacturing, Greenhouse Gas Mitigation, and Energy Storage,” Center for Catalysis and Surface Science, Northwestern University, Spring 2021
  13. Meenesh R. Singh, “Integrating Continuous-flow Microfluidic Crystallizer with Multiscale Simulation to Obtain Fundamental Insights into Nucleation and Growth of Crystalline Materials,” Department of Chemical Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Spring 2021
  14. Meenesh R. Singh, “Prospects of Electrocatalysis for Sustainable Manufacturing, Greenhouse Gas Mitigation, and Energy Storage,” Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Summer 2021
  15. Meenesh R. Singh, “Prospects of Electrocatalysis for Sustainable Manufacturing, Greenhouse Gas Mitigation, and Energy Storage,” Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, Summer 2021
  16. Meenesh R. Singh, “Fundamental Insights into Electrocatalytic Reactions from Multiscale Multiphysics Simulations,” in CATL-Multiscale Modeling in Heterogeneous Catalysis, 262nd ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, August 22-26th, 2021

 * Indicates oral presenter

Conference Proceedings

  1. Jayanta Chakraborty*, Meenesh Singh and Doraiswami Ramkrishna, “Population Balance Modeling of Faceted Asymmetric Crystals”, International Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering (ISCRE 2010), Pennsylvania, June 13-16, 2010.
  2. Jayanta Chakraborty, Meenesh R. Singh* and Doraiswami Ramkrishna, “Morphological population balance modeling of faceted crystals with large number of faces: the division of internal coordinate space into dynamic and invariant coordinates”, 4th International Conference on Population Balance Modeling, Berlin, Germany, September 15-17, 2010.
  3. Meenesh R. Singh*, Jayanta Chakraborty and Doraiswami Ramkrishna, “Population Balance Modeling of Morphology Distributions of Asymmetric Crystals,” Paper # 141g, AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 7-12, 2010.
  4. Meenesh R. Singh*, Jayanta Chakraborty, Doraiswami Ramkrishna, Stephan X. M. Boerichter, Christian Borchert and Kai Sundmacher, “Morphological Measurements of Faceted Crystals Using Image Analysis,” Paper #668c, AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 7-12, 2010.
  5. Meenesh R. Singh and Doraiswami Ramkrishna*, “Towards Control of Crystal Shape. Crystallization and Dissolution”, Keynote Lecture, 18th International Symposium on Industrial Crystallization (ISIC 18), ETH Zurich, Switzerland, September 13-16, 2011.
  6. Meenesh R. Singh*, Christian Borchert, Kai Sundmacher and Doraiswami Ramkrishna, “Modeling of Morphology Transformations in Crystalline Materials: A Generalized Framework”, Paper #20c, AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 16-21, 2011.
  7. Meenesh R. Singh*, Stephan X. M. Boerrigter, Christian Borchert, Kai Sundmacher and Doraiswami Ramkrishna, “Experimental Investigation of Crystal Shape Evolution During Growth and Dissolution”, Paper #548d, AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 16-21, 2011.
  8. Meenesh R. Singh* and Doraiswami Ramkrishna, “On Predicting Nuclei Shape Distribution,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 28th – November 2nd 2012
  9. Meenesh R. Singh* and Doraiswami Ramkrishna, “The Morphological-Population Balance Model (M-PBM) Generator. Application to Additives Controlled Crystallization of KAP,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 28th – November 2nd 2012
  10. Meenesh R. Singh, “Computational Screening of Crystal Morphologies from Crystal Structure,” Computational Science and Engineering Student Conference, SIAM, Purdue University, April 5th, 2013
  11. Meenesh R. Singh, Conor D. Parks* and Doraiswami Ramkrishna, “A Kinetic Approach towards Polymorph Prediction. Identifying Nucleation Kernels Specific to a Polymorph,” 5th International Conference on Population Balance Modelling, Bangalore, India, September 11 – 13, 2013
  12. Meenesh R. Singh, Conor Parks*, Hsien-Hsin Tung, Shailendra Bordawekar and Doraiswami Ramkrishna, “Polymorph Prediction: A Kinetic Approach,” AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November 3rd – November 8th 2013
  13. Meenesh R. Singh*, Hsien-Hsin Tung, Shailendra Bordawekar and Doraiswami Ramkrishna, “Morphology Control through Cycles of Particle Breakage, Dissolution and Growth,” AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November 3rd – November 8th 2013
  14. Meenesh R. Singh and Doraiswami Ramkrishna, “Predicting dispersions in Crystallization Process,” AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November 3rd – November 8th 2013
  15. Meenesh R. Singh*, John C. Stevens, and Adam Z. Weber, “Membrane-Encapsulated Solar Fuel Generators,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 16th – November 21st 2014
  16. Meenesh R. Singh*, and Doraiswami Ramkrishna, “Identification of Polar Plots of Crystal Dissolution Rates using Hot-Stage Microscopy,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 16th – November 21st 2014
  17. Meenesh R. Singh*, Christopher M. Evans, Chengxiang Xiang, Rachel A. Segalman, and Nathan S. Lewis, “Solar Fuel Generation at Near-Neutral pH Conditions: Operational Advantages and Disadvantages,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 16th – November 21st 2014
  18. Daniel J. Miller*, Meenesh R. Singh, Siwei Liang, Rachel A. Segalman, and Nathaniel A. Lynd, “Polymeric Moisture Swing Membranes for Carbon Dioxide Capture from Gas Mixtures,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 16th – November 21st 2014
  19. Siwei Liang*, Meenesh R. Singh, Daniel J. Miller, and Nathaniel A. Lynd, “Synthesis of Anion-Exchange Membranes for Applications in Artificial Photosynthesis and CO2 Capture,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 16th – November 21st 2014
  20. Christopher M. Evans*, Meenesh R. Singh, Gabriel Sanoja, Miguel A. Modestino, Yanika Schneider, Nathaniel A. Lynd, and Rachel A. Segalman, “Ionic Conductivity and Gas Permeability of Polymerized Ionic Liquid Block Copolymer Membranes for Energy Applications,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 16th – November 21st 2014
  21. Ezra L. Clark*, Meenesh R. Singh, Youngkook Kwon, and Alexis T. Bell, “Design of an Electrochemical Cell for Investigating the CO2 Reduction Reaction via Differential Electrochemical Mass Spectrometry,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 16th – November 21st 2014
  22. Meenesh R. Singh*, “Materials and Systems Design for Healthcare and Energy Applications,” ,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 16th – November 21st 2014
  23. Doraiswami Ramkrishna*, Meenesh R. Singh, “Population Balances: Applications Ever on the Increase,” 64th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Niagara Falls, New York, October 19th – October 22nd 2014
  24. Chengxiang Xiang*, Yikai Chen, Karl Walczak, Meenesh R. Singh, Adam Z. Weber, Jian Jin, and Nathan S. Lewis, “Modeling/Simulation and Prototyping Development of Solar-Hydrogen Generators,” 227th ECS Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, May 24th – May 28th 2015
  25. John Stevens, Chengxiang Xiang, Meenesh R. Singh, Yikai Chen, and Adam Z. Weber*, “Mathematical Modeling of Solar-Fuel Generators,” 228th ECS Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, October 11th – 16th 2015
  26. Meenesh R. Singh*, Ezra L. Clark, and Alexis T. Bell, “Solar-driven Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide: Materials Selection, Operating Conditions, and Cell Design,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 8th – 13th, 2015
  27. Meenesh R. Singh*, and Alexis T. Bell, “Thermodynamic and Practical Efficiencies of Solar-driven Electrochemical Conversion of Water and Carbon Dioxide to Transportation Fuels,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 8th – 13th, 2015
  28. Ezra L. Clark*, Meenesh R. Singh, Youngkook Kwon, and Alexis T. Bell, “Online Quantification of the Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Reaction via a Novel Differential Electrochemical Mass Spectrometer Cell Design,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 8th – 13th, 2015
  29. Ezra L. Clark*, Youngkook Kwon, Mu-Jeng Cheng, Peter Lobaccaro, Yanwei Lum, Meenesh R. Singh, and Alexis T. Bell, Rational Design of a Metallic Electrocatalyst for the Selective Reduction of CO2 to C2+ Oxygenates,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 8th – 13th, 2015
  30. Katie Chen, Meenesh R. Singh, Ke Sun, Shu Hu, Adam Weber, Nathan S. Lewis, and Chengxiang Xiang*, “Modeling and Simulation of Solar-Fuel Generators,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 8th – 13th, 2015
  31. Meenesh R. Singh*, Chengxiang Xiang, Kimberly Papadantonakis, and Nathan Lewis, “Solar-driven Electrochemical Water-Splitting at Near Neutral pH Conditions – Operating Strategies and their Limitations,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 8th – 13th, 2015
  32. Meenesh R. Singh*, “Materials and Systems Engineering for Healthcare and Energy Applications – From Discovery to Design,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 8th – 13th, 2015
  33. Meenesh R. Singh*, Youngkook Kwon, Yanwei Lum, Joel W. Ager III, and Alexis T. Bell “How do Electrolyte Cations Affect Activity and Selectivity of the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 over Ag and Cu?,” AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November 13th – 18th, 2016
  34. Meenesh R. Singh*, Jason D. Goodpaster, Adam Z. Weber, Martin Head-Gordon and Alexis T. Bell “Mechanistic Insights into the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 over Ag using an Integrated Transport-DFT-Microkinetic Model,” AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November 13th – 18th, 2016
  35. Meenesh R. Singh*, and Alexis T. Bell “Achievable Alcohol Concentrations and Membrane Requirements for Artificial Photosynthetic System,” AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November 13th – 18th, 2016
  36. Peter Lobaccaro*, Meenesh R. Singh, Ezra L. Clark, Youngkook Kwon, Alexis T. Bell, and Joel W. Ager III, “Effects of Temperature and Gas-Liquid Mass Transfer on the Operation of Small Electrochemical Cells for the Quantitative Evaluation of CO2 Reduction Electrocatalysts,” AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November 13th – 18th, 2016
  37. Meenesh R. Singh*, Yanwei Lum, Ezra L. Clark, Joel W. Ager III, and Alexis T. Bell, “Optimal Pattern of Bimetallic Electrocatalysts for Efficient Conversion of Water and Carbon Dioxide to Hydrocarbons and Oxygenates,” AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November 13th – 18th, 2016
  38. Anish Dighe*, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Nucleation and Growth of Crystalline Polymorphs,” AIChE Midwest Regional Conference, Chicago, Illinois, February 28th – March 1st, 2017
  39. Aditya Prajapati*, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Efficiency of Artificial Photosynthetic Devices for Integrated Carbon Capture and Reduction,” AIChE Midwest Regional Conference, Chicago, Illinois, February 28th – March 1st, 2017
  40. Paria Coliaie*, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Designing a Microfluidic Platform for High-Throughput Screening of Pharmaceutical Polymorphs,” AIChE Midwest Regional Conference, Chicago, Illinois, February 28th – March 1st, 2017
  41. James Fell*, Anish V. Dighe, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Multiscale, Multiphysics, Mechanistic Model for Computation of Face-Specific Growth Rates,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 29th – November 3rd, 2017
  42. Emily C. Yolo*, Aditya Prajapati, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Solar-Driven Electrochemical Desalination of Seawater,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 29th – November 3rd, 2017
  43. Anish V. Dighe*, and Meenesh R. Singh, “A Multiscale Computational Method for Prediction of Polymorphs,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 29th – November 3rd, 2017
  44. Grzegorz Kokoszka*, Aditya Prajapati, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Transport Analysis of an Integrated Artificial Photosynthetic System for Direct Capture and Reduction of CO2 from Air,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 29th – November 3rd, 2017
  45. Aditya Prajapati*, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Measurement of Intrinsic Activity of Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 over Cu,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 29th – November 3rd, 2017
  46. Anish V. Dighe*, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Calculation of Free Energy Barriers for Attachment of Molecules during Crystal Growth and Nucleation,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 29th – November 3rd, 2017
  47. Aditya Prajapati*, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Efficiency Limits of an Integrated Solar-Driven CO2 Capture and Reduction Systems,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 29th – November 3rd, 2017
  48. Paria Coliaie*, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Multiphysics Modeling and Simulation of Microfluidic Platforms for Screening of Pharmaceutical Polymorphs,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 29th – November 3rd, 2017
  49. Paria Coliaie*, and Meenesh R. Singh, “A Novel Microfluidic Platform for Screening of Pharmaceutical Polymorphs under Hydrodynamically-Controlled Crystallization Conditions,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 29th – November 3rd, 2017
  50. Rosanna Granata*, Aditya Prajapati, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Design of a 400 MW Carbon-Neutral, Coal-Fired Power Plant with Integration of Waste Heat and Solar Energy,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 29th – November 3rd, 2017
  51. Meenesh R. Singh* and Andreas Linninger, “Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Magnetophoresis. Application to Drug Delivery Using Magnetic-Field,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 29th – November 3rd, 2017
  52. Adam Z. Weber, Andrew R. Crothers, Meenesh R. Singh, Clayton J. Radke, and Alexis T. Bell, “Multiscale Modeling of Transport Phenomena in Ion-Conducting Membranes and Aqueous CO2 Reduction Cells,” 233rd ECS Meeting, Seattle, Washington, May 13th – 17th, 2018
  53. Aditya Prajapati*, Songwei Che, Vikas Berry, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Single-Atom Catalysts for Electrochemical Reduction of CO2,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 28th – November 2nd, 2018
  54. Paria Coliaie*, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Antisolvent and Cooling Crystallization of Pharmaceuticals Using a Continuous-Flow Microfluidic Platform,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 28th – November 2nd, 2018
  55. Anish Dighe*, James Fell, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Identifying Nucleation and Growth Kernels of Crystallization,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 28th – November 2nd, 2018
  56. Anish Dighe*, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Mechanistic Insights into the Process of Crystallization using Kinetic, Multiscale Model,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 28th – November 2nd, 2018
  57. Victoria Smith, Aditya Prajapati*, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Electrochemical Reduction of Nitrogen to Ammonia over Transition Metals,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 28th – November 2nd, 2018
  58. Aditya Prajapati*, and Meenesh R. Singh, “A Systematic Experimental Study on Electrochemical Oxidation of Methane over Transition Metals,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 28th – November 2nd, 2018
  59. Aditya Prajapati*, Emily C. Yolo, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Design of an Electrochemical Cell for Desalination of Seawater,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 28th – November 2nd, 2018
  60. James Fell, Anish Dighe*, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Integrated Kinetic Monte-Carlo Method to Find Face Specific Growth Rates,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 28th – November 2nd, 2018
  61. Meng Lin, Lihao Han, Meenesh R. Singh, Chengxiang Xiang, “An Experimental- and Simulation-Based Evaluation of CO2 Utilization Efficiency of Solar-Driven CO2 Reduction Reactors with Ion-Selective Membranes in Aqueous Electrolytes,” ASME 2019 ES, 13th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, Bellevue, WA, July 15th – July 18th, 2019
  62. Anish Dighe*, Meenesh R. Singh, “Rapid Screening of Solvents for Crystallization Using Group Contribution Method” AIChE Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, November 10th-15th, 2019
  63. Anish Dighe*, Meenesh R. Singh, “Identification of Polymorph Specific Molecular Interactions during the Process of Crystallization” AIChE Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, November 10th-15th, 2019
  64. Ayankola Ayansiji*, Anish Dighe, Meenesh R. Singh, “Modeling and Simulation of Magnetophoresis of Nanoparticles – Physical Insights into Magnetic Targeting Applications” AIChE Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, November 10th-15th, 2019
  65. Paria Coliaie*, Meenesh R. Singh, “Screening of Polymorphs and Measurement of Growth Rates of L-Histidine at Controlled Supersaturation Using Continuous-Flow, Microfluidic Device” AIChE Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, November 10th-15th, 2019
  66. Paria Coliaie*, Meenesh R. Singh, “Comparative Screening of Polymorphs of o-Aminobenzoic Acid Using Microtiter Plates and Novel Continuous-Flow, Microfluidic Devices” AIChE Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, November 10th-15th, 2019
  67. Nishithan C. Kani*, Aditya Prajapati, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Modeling the transport of Nitrogen in Gas Diffusion Electrode (GDE) for the Electrochemical Ammonia Synthesis at ambient conditions”, AIChE Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, November 10th-15th, 2019
  68. Aditya Prajapati* and Meenesh R. Singh, “Designing and Electrochemical System for Simultaneous Extraction of CO2 and Rejection of Salts from Seawater”, AIChE Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, November 10th-15th, 2019
  69. Aditya Prajapati*, Brianna Collins, Jason Goodpaster, and Meenesh R. Singh, “Fundamental Insights into Electrochemical Oxidation of Methane over Transition Metals”, AIChE Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, November 10th-15th, 2019
  70. Brianna Collins, Aditya Prajapati, Meenesh R. Singh, and Jason D. Goodpaster, “Computational and experimental study of electrochemical methane oxidation over transition metals,” Pacifichem 2020, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 10 – 15th, 2020
  71. Ayansiji Ayankola*, Daniel Gehrke, Andreas Linninger, Meenesh R. Singh, “Rational Design and Mathematical Modeling of Intrathecal Therapeutics: Biodispersion and Pharmacokinetics” Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting, November 16th-20th, 2020
  72. Ayansiji Ayankola*, Anish Dighe, Andreas Linninger, Meenesh R. Singh, “Modeling and Simulation of Magnetophoresis of Nanoparticles for Magnetic Targeting Applications” Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting, November 16th-20th, 2020
  73. Paria Coliaie*, Manish Kelkar, Nandkishor Nere, Meenesh R. Singh, “Sensor Integrated Continuous Microfluidic Mixer for Protein Screening at Constant Supersaturation” Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting, November 16th-20th, 2020
  74. Paria Coliaie*, Manish Kelkar, Nandkishor Nere, Meenesh R. Singh, “Temperature Control Approaches for Cooling Crystallization Using a Continuous Microfluidic Mixer” Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting, November 16th-20th, 2020
  75. Paria Coliaie*, Manish Kelkar, Nandkishor Nere, Meenesh R. Singh, “Dual Chamber and Membrane Embedded Continuous Microfluidic Device for MOFs Screening” Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting, November 16th-20th, 2020
  76. Anish Dighe*, Meenesh R. Singh, “Stochastic Simulations of Motion of Solute Molecules during the Process of Crystallization Yields the Rate Constants for the Processes of Crystallization” Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting, November 16th-20th, 2020
  77. Anish Dighe*, Meenesh R. Singh, “Selective Desolvation of Functional Groups Determines the Crystal Structure during the Process of Crystallization” Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting, November 16th-20th, 2020
  78. Nishithan Kani*, Meenesh R. Singh, “Modeling the Reactions and Transport in Gas Diffusion Electrode (GDE) for the Electrochemical Reduction of Nitrogen to Ammonia” Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting, November 16th-20th, 2020
  79. Nishithan Kani*, Meenesh R. Singh, “Experimental and Theoretical Screening of Transition Metal Catalysts for Electrochemical Reduction of Nitrates to Ammonia” Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting, November 16th-20th, 2020
  80. Nishithan Kani*, Meenesh R. Singh, “Electrochemical Synthesis of Urea By Co-Reduction of Nitrates and CO2 on Cu, Zn and Ti Gas Diffusion Electrodes (GDE)” Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting, November 16th-20th, 2020
  81. Aditya Prajapati*, N.H.L. Nguyen, Vikas Berry, Meenesh R. Singh, “Mechanistic Insight into CO2 Electroreduction over Single-Atom Catalyst Platform Via Operando Infrared Spectroscopy” Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting, November 16th-20th, 2020
  82. Aditya Prajapati*, Meenesh R. Singh, “Influencing the Migration of Ions for Simultaneous Extraction of CO2 and Desalination of Seawater” Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting, November 16th-20th, 2020
  83. Aditya Prajapati*, Meenesh R. Singh, “Design of a Fully Integrated Artificial Photosynthetic System for a Moisture-Gradient CO2 Capture and Reduction” Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting, November 16th-20th, 2020
  84. Rajan Bhawnani*, Santanu Chaudhary, Meenesh R. Singh, “Identifying Crystal Morphologies to Optimize Growth Kinetics of Covalent Organic Frameworks – an Example of Cof-5” Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting, November 16th-20th, 2020
  85. Rajan Bhawnani*, Santanu Chaudhary, Meenesh R. Singh, “Process Optimization for Controlling the Morphology of Cof-5 Crystals” Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting, November 16th-20th, 2020

* Indicates oral presenter of the paper

Intellectual Property

  1. Meenesh R. Singh, and Paria Coliaie, Continuous-Flow, Well Mixed, Microfluidic Crystallization Device for Screening Polymorphs, Morphologies and Crystallization Kinetics at Controlled Supersaturation, PCT/US20/36353, 2020
  2. Meenesh R. Singh, and Aditya Prajapati, Artificial Photosynthetic Systems for Integrated Carbon Capture and Conversion, Provisional Patent Application, UIC 2020-034, 2020
  3. Meenesh R. Singh, and Nishithan C. Kani, Device and Methods for Production of Ammonia and Nitrates under Ambient Conditions, Provisional Patent Application, UIC 2020-148, 2020
  4. Meenesh R. Singh, and Aditya Prajapati, Electrochemical Oxidation of Methane towards Methanol on Mixed Metal Oxides, Provisional Patent Application, UIC 2021-065, 2021