Sharma, Megha

Megha Sharma

Areas of Research

Porous materials
Carbon molecular sieves
Membrane-based gas separations
Supercapacitors

Publications and/or Posters

  1. Sellarajan, B., Sharma, M., Ghosh, S., Nagaraja, H., Chowdhury, P., Barshilia, H. Effect of electrolyte temperature on the formation of highly ordered nanoporous alumina template. Meso. Mater. 224, 262-270.
  2. Chowdhury, P., Thomas, A., Sharma, M., Barshilia, H. An approach for in situ measurement of anode temperature during the growth of self-ordered nanoporous anodic alumina thin films: Influence of Joule heating on pore microstructure. Electrochimica Acta. 115, 657-664.
  3. Rajashekar, K., Sharma, M., Rao, P., Baral, S. Optimization of leaching parameters for the extraction of rare earth metal using decision making method. Hydrometallurgy. 143, 60-67.
Posters and talks
  1. Sharma, M.; Snyder, M. Interfacial phenomenon-driven hierarchical structuring of hard templated asymmetric ultrathin carbon molecular sieves films. Northeast Corridor Zeolite Association (NECZA) Meeting, Philadelphia, 2018. (poster)
  2. Sharma, M.; Snyder, M. Multi-scale Engineering of Polyimide-derived Carbon Molecular Sieves. American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, 2018. (talk)
  3. Tian, Z., Sharma, M.; Snyder, M. ‘One-Pot’ Multi-Scale Templating of Interdigitated Bi-Modal Porous Carbon Supercapacitors, AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, 2017. (talk)
  4. Sharma, M.; Snyder, M. Leveraging Nanoparticle Template Assembly and Interfacial Phenomenon for Multi-Scale Control over Polyimide-Derived Carbon Molecular Sieve Films, AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, 2017. (talk)
  5. Sharma, M.; Snyder, M. Multi-scale Engineering of Polyimide-derived Carbon Molecular Sieves. NECZA Meeting, Philadelphia, 2017.
  6. Sharma, M.; Snyder, M. Leveraging Nanoparticle Template Assembly and Interfacial Phenomenon for Multi-Scale Control over Polyimide-Derived Carbon Molecular Sieve Films, Gordon Research Conference (GRC) Nanoporous materials, New Hampshire, 2017.
  7. Sharma, M.; Snyder, M. Leveraging Nanoparticle Template Assembly and Interfacial Phenomenon for Multi-Scale Control over Polyimide-Derived Carbon Molecular Sieve Films, 3rd Annual Lehigh Chemical Engineering Graduate Association (ChEGA) symposium, Bethlehem, 2017. (poster; Best poster award)
  8. Sharma, M.; Snyder, M. Fabrication of asymmetric, hierarchically porous polyimide-derived carbon thin films by hard templating, Society for the Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering (SAMPE), New Jersey Chapter, 2017. (invited talk)
  9. Sharma, M.; Snyder, M. Fabrication of asymmetric, hierarchically porous polyimide-derived carbon thin films by hard templating, NECZA Meeting, Philadelphia, 2016. (poster; Best poster award)
  10. Sharma, M.; Snyder, M. ‘One-Pot’ Hard Templating of Interdigitated Bimodal Three Dimensionally Ordered Mesoporous (ib3DOm) Carbons. NECZA Meeting, Philadelphia, 2015. (poster)

Profile

Megha Sharma graduated from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India in 2013 with B.E. (honors) in Chemical Engineering. She worked as an intern (Jan-June, 2013) and later as graduate trainee (Aug, 2013-May, 2014) at CSIR-National Aerospace laboratories, Bengaluru, India where she conducted research on self-ordering and heat generation during synthesis of nanoporous aluminum oxide. Currently, she is completing her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Mark Snyder. Her research is on hierarchical structuring of porous carbon molecular sieves for energy storage and membrane-based separations. She has presented her work at various conferences such as AIChE, GRC, NECZA, Lehigh ChEGA symposium etc. and received accolades such as P.C. Rossin Doctoral fellowship, Chevron scholars award and Best poster award at NECZA (2016) and ChEGA symposium (2017).