Spring 2023: Congratulations to Zeyad, Zoren and Jianna
May 23, 2023
Congrats to our lab graduates Zeyad, Zoren & Jianna .
Zoren Presented at ACS Spring 2023
March 28, 2023
Zoren presented his research successfully at ACS, we are so proud of him.
Welcome, Arya, Ardit, Malerbe & Sadifa!
January 4, 2023
The Sarkar Research Group welcomes four new research students! We are excited to have you in our lab.
Group Success Party
December 19, 2022
Tatiane defended her MS thesis successfully.
December 19, 2022
Congratulations to Tatiane de Fatima Dutra on successfully defending her Master’s thesis.
Our current work is featured in Energy advances cover page.
October 13, 2022
Our recent published work on green solvent exploration in cathode slurry fabrication is featured on the cover page (inside) in Energy Advances!
Paula presents her work on a novel ABC polymer self-assembly in the ACS NERM Conference, Rochester, NY.
October 3, 2022
Paula gave an oral presentation at ACS NERM on her recent work in block copolymer synthesis & self-assembly. Good job Paula!
Our work with the Marbella Lab is published in Energy Advances!
September 1, 2022
We collaborated with the Marbella Lab at Columbia University to design a cathode slurry fabrication strategy for Li ion battery using a green solvent, PoalrClean. Check it out here!
Zoren presents his work in the ACS 26th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, Virginia.
June 8, 2022
Zoren presented his work on Li ion battery cathode manufacturing via green solvent wonderfully, Well done Zoren!
Congratulations Ana for winning the Runner Up Poster Prize!
June 4, 2022
Very proud of Ana Mendonca, who has done awesome work in last semester and won runner up best undergraduate student PMSE poster at the ACS MARM 2022.
Welcome Jianna, Deja, Zeyad, Michael and Sadia!
May 22, 2022
Five new student join the Sarkar Research group! Welcome all of you. Check out the Team members page to learn more about them.
The Team receives an NSF ERI Award
February 14, 2022
We receive an NSF Engineering Research Initiation (NSF ERI) Award for working on fluorinated polymer based sorbent design for effective elimination of per/poly fluoroalkyl (PFAS) substances from drinking water. Thanks to ENG-CBET (Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems) for their support!
Zoren Valmonte received an Undergraduate Research Scholarship from the Microscopy Society of America (MSA)
February 14, 2022
Congratulations Zoren! we are so proud of you. Zoren will study the graphite oxide reduction mechanism via using Cryo-TEM. Thank you MSA for your great support.
Sarkar Research Group welcomes 5 new research students, we are excited to have you all in our team.
December 20, 2021
Victoria, Ana, Paula, Taylor and Tatiane---Welcome.
Our group is awarded the FY2022 Separately Budgeted Research (SBR) Award
December 15, 2021
Thanks to MSU for supporting our work.
Congratulations to Kayla for winning 2021 Mario M Casabona Future Scientists Award (3rd Prize, $1000 cash prize)
November 10, 2021
www.montclair.edu/csam/programs-and-opportunities/casabona-future-scientist/fall-2021-competition/
A greener & sustainable way of cathode delamination from end-of-life batteries - Our lab discovery is featured on Montclair State University News
October 15, 2021
www.montclair.edu/newscenter/2021/10/15/a-greener-way-to-recycle-batteries/
Zoren presents his summer research today in CSAM poster session
September 15, 2021
Zoren presents his research today in CSAM event. Well done Zoren, we are so proud of you!
Kayla presents at ACS Fall 2021
August 22, 2021
Kayla presents her poster at ACS in Atlanta. Proud of Kayla getting progress so fast.
First Publication from Sarkar Research Group
July 28, 2021
Onurcan and Kayla's work on sustainable approach on End-of-life Li ion battery cathode delamination using a green solvent Dimethyl Isosorbide is published in RSC Advances. Congrats Onurcan and Kayla!
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/ra/d1ra04922d
Welcome to New Researchers
May 31, 2021
Welcome to 3 new students (Zoren, Raisa & Sofia) joining the group for summer research. We are excited to have you join the team.
Congratulations to Kayla Mancini on Receiving the AESF Foundation Scholarship for Financial Support in Fall, 2021
April 23, 2021
We are very thankful to the NASF/AESF Foundation and proud of Kayla for this achievement.
nasf.org/education/scholarships/
Our group is awarded the Faculty Student Summer Research Grant, 2021
March 27, 2021
Thanks to College of Science & Mathematics (CSAM) at MSU for supporting our work.
