CONE Centre for Organic and Nanohybrid Electronics

Dr. Gokula Krishnan Sivasundari Arumugam is an NAWA-ULAM Postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Organic and Nanohybrid Electronics, Silesian University of Technology (SUT), Poland. He obtained his Ph.D., degree in August 2024 from the Department of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. He is interested in Biomaterials for wound healing, photocatalytic nanoparticles, Flat sheet and Hollow fiber membranes, especially for wastewater treatment, fuel cells. Also, expertise in Fabrication of custom-made UF, NF photocatalytic polymeric membranes, synthesis of photocatalytic biopolymeric sponges. In addition, he has good knowledge in MOF, photocatalytic nanoparticles, its development and membrane assembly. As an outcome, he has authored/co-authored 18 papers in highly reputed international journals, 1 book chapter and 1 Text book entitled “Functional Polymers and Nanomaterials for Emerging Membrane Applications”. His articles received a cumulative citation of 555, H-Index 11.

Research Areas:

• UF, NF membranes,
• Water and Wastewater treatment,
• Fuel cell membranes,
• Biopolymers,
• Photocatalytic nanoparticles & MOFs

Projects:

1. Developing biopolymer based sponge metallic nanoporous photocatalytic composites for the adsorption of Per and polyfluoroalkyl substances, 2025-2027; NAWA-ULAM, BNI/ULM/2024/1/00062