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Gaurav Murali Iyer

Office: ES&T 2360
Email: giyer35@gatech.edu

What is your favorite sports team? Manchester United F.C./Scuderia Ferrari F1 team
Favorite hobbies? Playing video games, swimming, hiking

Educational Background

B.S Chemical Engineering, Institute of Chemical Technology (Mumbai, India), 2018
Ph.D. ChBE, University of Maryland (College Park, MD, USA), 2023

Advisors

Co-advised by Christopher W. Jones and Ryan Lively

Project

Hollow fiber sorbents for Direct Air CO2 Capture

Project Description

The project involves fabricating novel hollow fiber sorbents and building scalable and effective contactors for direct air CO2 capture application.

Publications

  • Iyer, GM, Ku, CE, Zhang, C. “Hyperselective carbon membranes for decarbonized one-step H2 enrichment”, under review.
  • Iyer, GM, Ku, CE, Zhang, C., “Polyamide-imide copolymer-derived carbon molecular sieve membranes for efficient hydrogen/carbon dioxide separation”. Carbon, 2024, 216, 118598.
  • Iyer, GM, Zhang, C., “Precise hydrogen sieving by carbon molecular sieve membranes derived from solution-processable aromatic polyamides.” ACS Materials Letters, 2023, 5, 1, 243-248.1.
  • Iyer, GM*, Liu, L*, Zhang, C., “Hydrocarbon separations by glassy polymer membranes.” Journal of Polymer Science, 2020, 58, 2482-2517. (*equal contribution)

Group News

November 2024-

After completing his postdoctoral fellowship, Dr. Yunseok Lee joined the Samsung Advanced Research Institute.

The group welcomes two new postdoctoral researchers: Dr. Xin Deng, who received her PhD from Nankai University, and Dr. Xiaowei Wu, who received his PhD from the University of Houston.

September 2024-

Dr. Tony Vallace completed his postdoctoral stay and has joined First Light Solutions Inc. as CSO.

Jiaqi Zhang joined the group to work on DAC.  He is co-advised with Prof. Sievers.

August, 2024-

The group’s work on carbon capture was recognized by ACS with the 2025 E. V. Murphree Award in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry.

Dr. Samser Shaikh completed his postdoctoral stay and took a position at National Energy Technology Laboratory.

June, 2024-

Botagoz Kuspangaliyeva passed her Ph.D. proposal and was admitted to Ph.D. candidacy.  Congratulations!

May, 2024-

Dr. Guanhe Rim completed his postdoctoral stay and joined Aramco in Houston, TX.

February, 2024-

Youn Ji Min successfully defended her PhD thesis.  Congratulations to Youn Ji, PhD graduate #48.  Dr. Min will work at GT as a postdoc.

The Jones Group also participated in our biennial Birkman Assessment workshop.

January, 2024-

Quinn Yu and Dr. Gaurav Iyer joined the group to work on DAC.  They are both coadvised with Prof. Lively.

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