Postdoctoral Researchers

Postdoctoral Researchers

People

Li Zhenglong

Researcher  | zl479@njit.edu | zhenglong0525@utexas.edu

Education

  • M.S. Electronic Science and Technology, Nankai University, China, 2018.
  • PhD. candidate. Chemical and Materials Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, 08/2018-05/2023.

Honors and Awards

  • Excellent Graduate Scholarship, 2017

Publications and patents

  • Li, Zhenglong, Niranjan Haridas, Sreerag Kaaliveetil, Yu-Hsuan Cheng, Charmi Chande, Veronica Perez, Amir K. Miri, and Sagnik Basuray. "Low-Cost Rapid Prototyping for Microfluidics Using Parafilm®-based Microchannels For Low Resource Settings." Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical (2023): 135212.
  • Li, Zhenglong, Yu-Hsuan Cheng, Lixin Feng, Jacob Neil, Reis Moura Pedro Antonio, Maryom Rahman, Juliana Yang, Samar Azizighannad, Somenath Mitra, and Sagnik Basuray. “Communication—Electrochemical Impedance Signature of a Non-Planar, Interdigitated, Flow-Through, Porous, Carbon-Based Microelectrode.” Journal of The Electrochemical Society 166, no. 16 (2019): B1669.
  • Cheng, Yu-Hsuan, Pedro Antonio Reis Moura, Li Zhenglong, Lixin Feng, Siril Arokiam, Juliana Yang, Mahima Hariharan, and Sagnik Basuray. “Effect of electrode configuration on the sensitivity of nucleic acid detection in a non-planar, flow-through, porous interdigitated electrode.” Biomicrofluidics 13, no. 6 (2019): 064118.
  • Li, Zhenglong, and Sagnik Basuray et al. “Electrochemical Characterization of Novel Non-planar Interdigitated Microelectrode Detection System” (In preparation)
  • Li, Zhenglong, and Sagnik Basuray et al. “Structural Optimization of Novel Non-planar Interdigitated Microelectrode Transducer for Highly Sensitive Detection via COMSOL Simulation” (In preparation)
  • Li, Zhenglong, Yu-Hsuan Cheng, Charmi Chande, Sayandev Chatterjee, and Sagnik Basuray. "A highly sensitive, easy-and-rapidly-fabricable microfluidic electrochemical cell with an enhanced three-dimensional electric field." Analytica Chimica Acta 1232 (2022): 340488.
  • Li, Zhenglong, Maryom Rahman, Sreerag Kaaliveetil, Niranjan Haridas, Yu-Hsuan Cheng, Charmi Chande, and Sagnik Basuray. "Critical Reviews on Recent States and Challenges in Spectroelectrochemistry with Applications to Microfluidic Systems." Current Opinion in Electrochemistry (2023): 101357.
  • Li, Zhenglong, Charmi Chande, Yu-Hsuan Cheng, and Sagnik Basuray. "Recent State and Challenges in Spectroelectrochemistry with Its Applications in Microfluidics." Micromachines 14, no. 3 (2023): 667.

Conference

  • Cheng, Yu Hsuan, Zhenglong Li, Juliana Yang, Pedro Moura, Hansin Kim, and Sagnik Basuray. “Essence: A Shear-Enhanced, Flow-through, Nanoporous and Capacitive Electrode Technology with Non-Planar Interdigitated Micro-Electrodes.” In 236th ECS Meeting (October 13-17, 2019). ECS, 2019.
  • Li, Zhenglong, Yu Hsuan Cheng, Hansin Kim, Pedro Moura, Juliana Yang, and Sagnik Basuray. “A Novel Non-Planar, Interdigitated Microelectrode Array with a Porous, Flow-through Working Electrode for Highly Sensitive and Selective Detection of Various Chem/Bio-Molecules.” In 236th ECS Meeting (October 13-17, 2019). ECS, 2019.

Yu-Hsuan Cheng

Researcher | yc576@njit.edu

Education

  • M.S. Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, 2018.
  • Ph.D. candidate. Chemical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, 01/2019-07/2023.

Publications

  • Yu-Hsuan Cheng and Jia Ming Chern (2013, November). Benzoic Acid Wastewater Treatment by Ozone based Advanced Oxidation Process. 2013 Joint of Japan Taiwan Korea Chemical Engineering Conference OB 5, Kumamoto.
  • Cheng, Y. H. (2019). Essence: A Shear-Enhanced, Flow-through, Nanoporous and Capacitive Electrode Technology with Non-Planar Interdigitated Micro-Electrodes. 236th ECS Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA.
  • Yu-Hsuan Cheng, Zhenglong Li, Mahima Hariharan, Pedro Moura and Sagnik Basuray (2019). Highly sens detection of nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) using the “ESSENCE” biosensor electrochemical platform. 45th Annual NEBEC, New Jersey, USA.
  • Yu-Hsuan Cheng (2019). Innovation Method to Test Bacteria Disinfection Property of III-V Semiconductor. (Unpublished master’s thesis). New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ.
  • Chatterjee, S., Fujimoto, M. S., Cheng, Y. H., Kargupta, R., Soltis, J. A., Motkuri, R. K., & Basuray, S. (2019). Improving the sensitivity of electrochemical sensors through a complementary luminescent mode: A new spectroelectrochemical approach. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 284, 663–674. doi:10.1016/j.snb.2018.10.093.
  • Cheng, Y., Moura, P. A., Zhenglong, L., Feng, L., Arokiam, S., Yang, J., . . . Basuray, S. (2019). Effect of electrode configuration on the sensitivity of nucleic acid detection in a non-planar, flow-through, porous interdigitated electrode. Biomicrofluidics, 13(6), 064118. doi:10.1063/1.5126452.
  • Cheng, Y. H., Barpaga, D., Soltis, J. A., Shutthanandan, V., Kargupta, R., Han, K. S., . . . Chatterjee, S. (2020). Metal–Organic Framework-Based Microfluidic Impedance Sensor Platform for Ultrasensitive Detection of Perfluorooctanesulfonate. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 12(9), 10503-10514. doi:10.1021/acsami.9b22445.
  • Li, Z., Cheng, Y.H., Feng, L., Felix, D., D., Neil1, J., Moura P., Rahman M., Yang, J., Azizighannad, A,. Mitra, S., & Basuray, S. (2019). Electrochemical Impedance Signature of a Non-planar, Interdigitated, Flow-through, Porous, Carbon-based Microelectrode.

  • Cheng, Yu-Hsuan, Roli Kargupta, Debjit Ghoshal, Zhenglong Li, Charmi Chande, Lixin Feng, Sayandev Chatterjee, Nikhil Koratkar, Radha Kishan Motkuri, and Sagnik Basuray. "ESSENCE–A rapid, shear-enhanced, flow-through, capacitive electrochemical platform for rapid detection of biomolecules." Biosensors and Bioelectronics 182 (2021): 113163.

  • Cheng, Yu-Hsuan, Charmi Chande, Li Zhenglong, Sreerag Kaaliveetil, and Sagnik Basuray. "Sensitive and Selective Determination of multiple Diagnostic Targets using a Modular, ASSURED POC Platform called ESSENCE." In 2022 IEEE Healthcare Innovations and Point of Care Technologies (HI-POCT), pp. 85-88. IEEE, 2022.

Sushma Yadav

Researcher | fnu.sushma@njit.edu

Education:

  • Ph.D Chemistry, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
  • M.Sc. Physical Chemistry, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.

Publications & Patents:

  • Sushma Yadav, Tanya Sharma, Sagnik Basuray and Priti Malhotra*, Enhanced sonocatalytic degradation of doxycycline in water using a Saccharum officinarum L. fabricated Au/Cu2O nanocomposite, ACS applied Engineering Materials, 2024.
  • Sushma Yadav, Arti Jain, and Priti Malhotra*, Nanocatalyst driven synthesis of β-enaminones: A novel step towards developing pharmaceutical precursors, Journal of the Indian Chemical Society, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jics.2023.101119.
  • Sushma Yadav, Anjali Shah and Priti Malhotra*, Orange peel derived Cu2O/RGO nanocomposite: Mesoporous binary system for degradation of doxycycline in water, Environmental Development and Sustainability, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-022-02895-2. 
  • Sushma Yadav, Tanya Sharma, Ritu Kaushik, and Priti Malhotra*, Peroxidase mimic activity of Saccharum officinarum L. capped gold nanoparticles using o-dianisidine as a substrate, New Journal of Chemistry, 2023, 47, 2372-2382.
  • Sushma Yadav, Anjali Shah and Priti Malhotra*, Orange Pomace Facilitated Synthesis of Cu2O/ZnO Nanocomposites for Visual and Optical Sensing of Silver Ions in Water for Environmental Remediation , Chemistry Select, 2023
  • Sushma Yadav and Priti Malhotra*, Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) as Sensors for Environmental Monitoring, Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) as Catalysts, 2022, DOI: 10.1007/978- 981-16-7959- 9_15.
  • Sushma Yadav and Priti Malhotra*, Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) as heterogenous catalysis: An overview,  Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) as Catalysts, 2022, ISBN: 978-981-16- 7959-9.
  • Maruf Chauhan, Sushma Yadav and Priti Malhotra*, In-situ biogenically synthesized Cu2O/RGO composite using beetroot peel extract for selective and efficient reduction of cinnamaldehyde in water, Applied Nanoscience (2022), https://doi.org/10.1007/s13204-022-02699-w. (SCI, IF-4.0)
  • Sushma Yadav, Maruf Chauhan, Priti Malhotra* and M Jacob, Distinguished performance of biogenically synthesized reduced graphene oxide based mesoporous Au-Cu2O/RGO ternary nanocomposites for sonocatalytic reduction of nitrophenols in water, New Journal of Chemistry, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NJ00745B. 
  • Maruf Chauhan, Sushma Yadav, Rama Pasricha and Priti Malhotra*, Water Chestnut Peel Facilitated Biogenic Synthesis of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles and their Catalytic Efficacy in the Ring Opening Reaction of Styrene Oxide, Chemistry Select, 2021, doi.org/10.1002/slct.202102031. 
  • Sushma Yadav, Arti Jain and Priti Malhotra*, Bioinspired synthesis and green ecological applications of reduced graphene oxide based ternary nanocomposites, Sustainable Materials and Technologies, 2021, e00315, ISSN 2214-9937, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.susmat.2021.e00315. 
  • Arti Jain, Sushma Yadav and Priti Malhotra*, Accidental synthesis of a trimer of pyrazolone and comparison of its antioxidant activity: an investigatory report. Journal of Chemical Science, 2021,133, 77, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12039-021-01943-0 
  • Sushma Yadav, Maruf Chauhan, Divya Mathur, Arti Jain and Priti Malhotra*, Sugarcane bagasse-facilitated benign synthesis of Cu2O nanoparticles and its role in photocatalytic degradation of toxic dyes: a trash to treasure approach, Environmental development and sustainability (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-020-00664-7.
  • Sushma Yadav, Arti Jain and Priti Malhotra*, A review on the sustainable routes for the sy\nthesis and applications of cuprous oxide nanoparticles and their nanocomposites, Green Chemistry, 2019, 21, 937-955. 
  • Divya Mathur, Priti Malhotra, Sushma Yadav and Maruf Chauhan; Biogenic Synthesis of Iron Nanoparticles and their Applications; Conference Proceedings of the National Conference on Innovations in Sciences and Emerging Challenges in Health and Environment, Page 78-85, 2018, ISBN: 9788192981246.

Awards & Scholarship:

  • National Level Examination: CSIR-UGC-NET (JRF) – in Chemical Sciences.