Materials And TRansformative Innovation in membrane eXploration
Next-Gen research laboratory
Updates & Achievements
Dr. Sankha Karmakar - member of the Early Career Editorial Board of the Journal of Water Process Engineering (JWPE), contributing to editorial activities and the advancement of research in the field.
Pratyush Shekhar Jha won best oral presentation award in AMTTR-2, IIT Bombay
OUR MISSION
To innovate next-gen sustainable materials such as metal organic frameworks (MOF), multifunctional membranes, and many more for promoting circular economy principles.
To collaborate with academia, industry, and policy makers by designing advanced processes to accelerate water treatment and resource recovery.
About Dr. Sankha Karmakar
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras
Prof. Sankha is a leading edge researcher of metal–organic framework (MOF) science and their integration into mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) for water treatment, resource recovery and environmental applications.
His work is well aligned with the recent Nobel Prize focus on MOFs, pushing not just synthesis, but real‐world functional deployment.
He earned both his M. Tech in Chemical Engineering and PhD in membrane separation technology from IIT Kharagpur. He previously served as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Chemical Technology, Odisha and NIT Durgapur.
Recently, he has been awarded the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) Early Career Research Grant!
Research Highlights
About our laboratory
We are a multidisciplinary team of engineers, technologists and futuristic scientists committed for the responsible use of cutting-edge materials, such as membranes and MOFs, to solve the real-time environmental pollution issues.
Together, our facilities support advanced research in chemical engineering and membrane technology, utilizing sophisticated analytical instruments such as AAS, HPLC, a nanopore analyzer, and a BET surface area analyzer.
We comprise postdoctoral researchers, PhD and M.Tech scholars from IIT Madras, project associates, industrial collaborators, and a wide network of researchers engaged in collaborative and interdisciplinary research.
Contact Us
Address
MATRIX Lab,
Mechanical Sciences Block (MSB) - 352,
Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras,
Chennai, Tamil Nadu - 600036
Contact
Office
+91 44 22574156
