Awards and Presentations

Honors and Awards

  • Benedetti Pitchler Award from the Microchemical Soceity of America (2017) 
  • Member of  the National Academy of Inventors,  2016. 
  • Tech Connect 2015 National & Global Innovation Award for Carbon Nanotube Membrane for Sea, Brackish and Frack Water Desalination.
  • Innovator Award from New Jersey Inventor’s Hall of Fame, 2014. 
  • Board of Overseer’s Excellence in Research Medal, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2014.
  • Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award(co-winner with Z. Iqbal) from Research and Development Council of New Jersey, November 2014.
  • Excellence in Research Award.College of Science and Liberal Arts, New Jersey Inst. Of Technology, March 04.
  • Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award(co-winner) from Research and Development Council of New Jersey, November 2009.
  • Outstanding Service to Graduate Education. College of Science and Liberal Arts, New Jersey Inst. Of Technology, March 04. 
  • National Research Council Fellowship – 1988-1991.
  • Research Fellowship- Illinois Mining Mineral Resource Research Institute, 1982. 

Student Awards

  • Mitun Chandra Bhoumick-Received College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA) “Outstanding Graduate Student Award”-2023.
  • Sumona Paul- Received New Jersey Water Environment Association (NJWEA)-2023.
  • Mitun Chandra Bhoumick-Received New Jersey Water Resources Research Institute -2022.
  • Indrani Gupta - Received a Student Research Grant of $5000 from the New Jersey Water Resource Research Institute (NJWRRI, funded by USGS) on a competitive proposal entitled: Ultra-Pure Water from Surface Water for Drinking and Medical Purposes, FY 2021-2022.
  • Samar Azizighannad - Oustanding Graduate Student Award, College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA)- Materials Science Program, NJIT, April 2020
  • Oindrila Gupta  - Outstanding Graduate Student Award, College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA)- Chemistry Program, NJIT, April 2020
  • Megha Thakkar  –Best poster award (2nd Place), 100th Annual New Jersey Water& Environment Association Conference, May 2015.
  • Zhiqian Wang  – Outstanding Graduate Student, College of Science and Liberal Arts, NJIT, April 2015.
  • Ornthida Sae Khow  - Outstanding Alumni Award, College of Science and Liberal Arts, NJIT, April 2015.
  • Megha Thakkar  –Best poster award (2nd Place), 80th Annual American Water Works Association Conference, March 2015.
  • Smruti Ragunath- Received a Student Research Grant of $5000 from the New Jersey Water Resource Research Institute (NJWRRI, funded by USGS) on a competitive proposal entitled: Development of Novel Membranes for Reuse of Brackish Water and Sea Water Desalination via Membrane Distillation , FY 2015-2016.
  • Smruti Ragunath –Best poster award, Graduate Student Research Day at NJIT titled "Novel Approach to Sea and Brackish Water Desalination via Membrane Distillation",November 2014.
  • Smruti Ragunath- Received a Student Research Grant of $5000 from the New Jersey Water Resource Research Institute (NJWRRI, funded by USGS) on a competitive proposal entitled: Novel Approach to Sea and Brackish Water Desalination via Membrane Distillation, FY 2014-2015.
  • Megha Thakkar - Received a Student Research Grant of $ 5000 from the New Jersey Water Resource Research Institute (NJWRRI, funded by USGS) on a competitive proposal entitled: Development of zirconium oxide bio composite for drinking water defluoridation, FY 2014-2015.
  • Smruti Ragunath  –Best poster award (2nd Place), 99th Annual Conference by New Jersey Water& Environment Association, titled "Novel Approach to Sea and Brackish Water Desalination via Membrane Distillation" May2014.
  • Megha Thakkar –Best poster award (2nd Place), 99th Annual Conference by New Jersey Water& Environment Association , May2014.
  • Prabin Pradhan (MS student in collaboration with Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning) -  Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Nanomaterials and Emerging Engineering, Chennai, India. Paper entitled “Non linear optical properties of Pt and Pd coated carbon nanotubes”. Prabin Pradhan, V. Sai Muthu Kumar, and Somenath Mitra, FY 2014
  • Xinbo Lau - Second place award, Dana Knox Poster Session, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Poster Entitled "Nanocarbons as charge carriers in organic solar cells",April 2013.
  • Lakshman Kumar V (MS student in collaboration with Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning) -  Received Best Oral Presentation Award. National Symposium for Material Research Scholars, India on paper entitled “Synthesis and Characterization of Multi Walled Carbon Nanotube-Pt/Pd Nanohybrids for Fuel cell Applications.” Lakshman Kumar V, Sandeep Patnaik, Sai Praneeth T, Chelli Janardhana, Somenath Mitra, K Venkatramaniah, FY 2012
  • Susana Ado Ntim - Best Poster Award (Gold Medal), Dana Knox Poster Session, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Poster Entitled "Carbon nanotubes iron oxide composite for removal of arseninc from water", April 2012.
  • Madhulina Bahdra- Best CSLA poster Award. Graduate Research Day,  Poster entitled; “Carbon nanotube immobilized membrane for Enhanced Separations", November 2012
  • Susana Ado Ntim - Faculty of the Future Fellowship Award from Sclumberger Foundation, FY 2009-2010.
  • Xiayan Meng - 3rd Prize at NJIT Graduate Student Research Day, Poster entitled; “Immobilization of micro drug particles in polymer films for drug delivery", April 2010 
  • Susana Ado Ntim - Outstanding Graduate Student, College of Science and Liberal Arts, NJIT, April 2010.
  • Ken Gethard - 2nd Prize at NJIT Graduate Student Research Day, Poster entitled; “Carbon nanotube immobilized membrane for Desalination by membrane distillation", April 2010.
  • Ornthida Sae Khow - Best poster award (1st Place), by The North Jersey Chromatography Group, 2009.
  • Ornthida Sae Khow - Outstanding Graduate Student, College of Science and Liberal Arts, NJIT, April 2009.
  • Yuhong Chen - Outstanding Graduate Student, College of Science and Liberal Arts, NJIT, April 2008.
  • Yuhong Chen - Goldstein Memorial Award, FY 2008.
  • Ornthida Sae Khow -  Received a Student Research Grant of $ 5000 from the New Jersey Water Resource Research Institute (NJWRRI, funded by USGS) on a competitive proposal entitled: Development of  Micro SPE for water quality monitoring, FY 2008-2009.
  • Kamilah Hylton - Received a Student Research Grant of $ 5000 from the New Jersey Water Resource Research Institute (NJWRRI, funded by USGS) on a competitive proposal entitled: Development of  Microscale Membrane Extraction for Trace Monitoring of Pesticides and other Emerging Pollutants in Water FY 2007-2008.
  • Yuhong Chen - Outstanding Research Award at NJIT Graduate Student Research Day, Poster entitled; “Microwave Assisted Functionalization of Carbon nanotubes”, March 2006 
  • Kamilah Hylton - Outstanding Graduate Student, College of Science and Liberal Arts, NJIT, April 2006.
  • Kamilah Hylton - Received a Student Research Grant  of $ 5000 from the New Jersey Water Resource Research Institute (NJWRRI, funded by USGS) on a competitive proposal entitled, "Lab-on-a-chip device for monitoring trace level arsenic", FY 2005-2006.  
  • Mahesh Karwa- First Prize at the Student poster completion arranged by International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE-NJ) held at NJIT(Participants were from all the universities in New Jersey. Award was an all inclusive trip to present at the national meeting at Orlando, FL), April 2006.
  • Mahesh Karwa - Runners Up at the student poster competition arranged by International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE-NJ) held at NJIT (Participants were from all the university in New Jersey), April 2005.
  • Xiaoyan Wang - Received a Student Research Grant of $ 5000 from the New Jersey Water Resource Research Institute (NJWRRI) and US geological Survey (USGS) on a competitive proposal entitled,"Development of Supported Liquid Membrane Micro-Extraction (SLMME) followed by Ion-Pair Chromatography (IPC) for analysis of halo-acetic acids (HAAs) and chlorinated acid herbicides (CAHs) in water" FY 2003-2004.
  • Dawen Kou - Invited Proposal Reviewer for the US Geological Survey’s National Competitive Grant Program, 2002- 2004.  
  • Dawen Kou - Certificate of Merit Award, The 223rd National Meeting of American Chemical Society, Orlando, FL, 2002. 
  • Dawen Kou - Received a Student Research Grant of $ 5000 from the New Jersey Water Resource Research Institute (NJWRRI) and US geological Survey (USGS) on a competitive proposal entitled, Development of Liquid Membrane Extraction for real-time water monitoring, FY 2003-2004. 
  • Dawen Kou - Best Research Poster Award, The Annual Conference of American Water Works Association, NJ Section, Atlantic City, NJ, 2001. 

Presentations

  • ACS SPRING 2023, Indianapolis, IN, Conference oral presentation, “Development of Nanostructured Graphene Oxide Incorporated Dexamethasone with Enhanced Dissolution”, Islam MS, Mitra S.
  • MERCK emerging talent symposium 2022 poster presentation “Development of Graphene Oxide Incorporated Dexamethasone with Enhanced Dissolution”, Islam MS, Mitra S.
  • ACS regional MARM 2022, Conference presented “Immobilization of Micro and Nanostructured Drug Particles on Laboratory Cultured Diatom Frustules for Enhancing Aqueous Dissolution”, Thakkar M, Islam MS, Railkar A, Mitra S.
  • MERCK emerging talent symposium 2021 e-poster presentation “Approaches to Enhancing the Aqueous Dissolution of Griseofulvin: Immobilization on Cultured Diatom Frustules and Incorporation of Graphene Oxide”, Thakkar M, Islam MS, Railkar A, Mitra S.
  • Samar Azizighannad, Somenath Mitra, “Synthesis of Reduced Graphene Oxide/Carbon Nanotubes Composites and their Colloidal Behavior”– Oral presentation at 2020 American Chemical Society (ACS) national meeting and expo, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Samar Azizighannad, Worawit Intrchom, Somenath Mitra, “Quantifying and Imaging of Membrane Fouling using Raman Chemical Imaging” – Poster presentation at 2020 American Chemical Society (ACS) national meeting and expo, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Samar Azizighannad, Somenath Mitra, “Colloidal and Chemical Properties of Graphene Oxide and Step Wisely Reduced Graphene Oxide”- Oral presentation at 2019 American Chemical Society (ACS) national meeting and expo, Orlando, Florida
  • Samar Azizighannad, Somenath Mitra, “Structure Function Relationship in the Variation of Colloidal Behavior of Reduced Graphene Oxides and Their Fate in Aqueous Environments” - Poster presentation at 2017 Annual Meeting of the APS Mid Atlantic Section- Newark, New Jersey

  • MC Bhoumick, Sagar Roy, Somenath Mitra. Development of Air Sparged Membrane Distillation Using Carbon Nanotube Immobilized Membrane for Enhanced Desalination and Reduced Fouling. National Science Foundation, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Grantees Conference, 2021.

  • MC Bhoumick, S Roy, S Mitra, Introduction of Air Sparging in Direct Contact Membrane Distillation (DCMD) to Mitigate Membrane Flux Reduction and Fouling , American Chemical Society, Fall 2021, https://doi.org/10.1021/scimeetings.1c01.