Rate My Professor Mainak Majumder

Mainak Majumder's research specializes in applying fundamentals of materials science, notably carbon nanostructures including graphene and carbon nanotubes, to multidisciplinary areas such as separation engineering, electrochemical energy storage, nanofluidics, electrochemistry, and membrane separations. He leads the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Laboratory (NSEL) at Monash University and has secured continuous Australian Research Council (ARC) funding, including the pioneering LP11 grant—the first establishing a deep university-industry symbiosis on graphene—LP14, and IH16 for the ARC Graphene Hub. Key publications include 'Enhanced flow in carbon nanotubes' (Nature, 2005; 2464 citations), 'Fabrication of carbon nanorods and graphene nanoribbons from a metal–organic framework' (Nature Chemistry, 2016; 1158 citations), 'Large-area graphene-based nanofiltration membranes by shear alignment of discotic nematic liquid crystals of graphene oxide' (Nature Communications, 2016; 788 citations), and 'Protecting copper from electrochemical degradation by graphene coating' (Carbon, 2012; 594 citations). His scholarship exceeds 10,000 citations on Google Scholar. Honors encompass the Gold Medal as top MS student at IIT-BHU (2001), ARC Linkage grants as principal chief investigator, appointment to the editorial board of Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering (2016), selection into Monash Researcher Accelerator Program (2012), and over 20 invited international talks across the US, China, UK, Portugal, Australia, and India. Recent grants include projects on graphene oxide composites, solar-thermal desalination, and 2D materials synthesis (2024-2028).