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Dushyant came to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 2017 and joined the Hydrocarbon Processing Group as a post doctoral research associate. He has experience in the synthesis and characterization of porous materials for gas adsorption applications. Dushyant’s duties in supporting the staff in the Separation Materials Team include, but are not limited to, the synthesis and characterization of novel nanoporous materials as well as the implementation of materials-based technologies for separations, adsorption, energy storage, catalysis and many such applications. His recent experience includes 1) the enhancement of traditional sorbent materials for improved toxic gas separation, 2) the design of novel materials for sorption-based cooling applications, 3) development of new techniques to characterize fundamental thermodynamic properties upon CO₂ adsorption on organic solvents, and 4) optimization of a bench-scale continuous sorption process to improve the economics of flue gas separation.

• PhD in Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University
• BS in Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University

• American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• American Chemical Society

• Superior Paper Award, Waste Management Symposium (2021)
• Superior Paper Award, Waste Management Symposium (2020)
• Outstanding Publication Award, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (2020)
• Project Team ‘Of the Year’ Award, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (2019)
• The M. Douglas LeVan Award for Distinguished Record of Graduate Research, Vanderbilt University (2016)
• Michigan Merit Scholarship Recipient, State of Michigan (2008)

• U.S. Patent No. 11,518,689, December 6, 2022, "COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR CAPTURE AND DEGRADATION OF PFAS (iEdison No. 0685901-19-0016)".

2022

• Barpaga D., Y. Jiang, R.F. Zheng, D. Malhotra, P.K. Koech, A. Zwoster, and P.M. Mathias, et al. 2022. "Evaluation of a third Generation Single-Component Water-Lean Diamine Solvent for Post-Combustion CO2 Capture." ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 10, no. 14:4522-4528. PNNL-SA-168249. doi:10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c08401
• Barpaga D., J. Zheng, B.P. McGrail, and R.K. Motkuri. 2022. "Manipulating Pore Topology and Functionality to Promote Fluorocarbon-Based Adsorption Cooling." Accounts of Chemical Research 55, no. 5:649-659. PNNL-SA-167097. doi:10.1021/acs.accounts.1c00615
• McHugh K.C., D. Barpaga, M. Sinnwell, S.D. Shen, and V. Shutthanandan. 2022. "Designing Porous Ion Emitters for Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry: Evaluating Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs)." Analytical Chemistry 94, no. 4:2072-2077. PNNL-SA-166835. doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.1c04160

2021

• Chai Y., Q. Miller, H.T. Schaef, D. Barpaga, R. Bakhshoodeh, M. Bodor, and T. Van Gerven, et al. 2021. "Pressurized in situ x-ray diffraction insights into super/subcritical carbonation reaction pathways of steelmaking slags and constituent silicate minerals." Journal of Supercritical Fluids 171. PNNL-SA-154471. doi:10.1016/j.supflu.2021.105191
• Heldebrant, D., Y. Jiang, R.F. Zheng, D. Barpaga, C. Freeman, P.K. Koech, D. Malhotra, G. Whyatt and A. Zwoster. 2021. “Performance and cost predictions of 2-EEMPA, and future opportunities for water-lean post-combustion capture solvents” Proceedings of the 15th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference, 15-18 March 2021. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.3813876. 
• Shen J., L. Estevez, D. Barpaga, J. Zheng, V. Shutthanandan, B.P. McGrail, and R.K. Motkuri. 2021. "Structure-Property Correlation of Hierarchically Porous Carbons for Fluorocarbon Adsorption." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 13, no. 45:54266 - 54273. PNNL-SA-165898. doi:10.1021/acsami.1c16315
• Thiam A., J.A. Lopez-Ruiz, D. Barpaga, and S. Garcia-Segura. 2021. "The Surge of Metal-Organic-Framework (MOFs)-Based Electrodes as Key Elements in Electrochemically Driven Processes for the Environment." Molecules 26, no. 18:5713. PNNL-SA-166714. doi:10.3390/molecules26185713
• Zheng J., M. Wahiduzzaman, D. Barpaga, B.A. Trump, O.Y. Gutierrez-Tinoco, P.K. Thallapally, and S. Ma, et al. 2021. "Porous Covalent Organic Polymers for efficient Fluorocarbon-based Adsorption Cooling." Angewandte Chemie International Edition 60, no. 33:18037-18043. PNNL-SA-153417. doi:10.1002/anie.202102337

2020

• Barpaga D., M. Shetty, J. Zheng, H. Wang, B.P. McGrail, and R.K. Motkuri. 2020. "Transition-Metal Nitroprussides Examined for Water Harvesting and Sorption Cooling." Inorganic Chemistry 59, no. 21:15620-15625. PNNL-SA-154900. doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01740
• Chatterjee S., R.K. Motkuri, M.J. Truex, D. Barpaga, V. Shutthanandan, K. Han, and C.W. Enderlin, et al. 2020. "Advances in PFAS Monitoring and Remediation Using a Functionalized Material Approach." In Waste Management Symposium: Global Education and Technology Innovation in Radwaste Management, March 8 - 12, 2020, Phoenix, Arizona, Paper No. 20080. Tempe, Arizona: WM Symposia, Inc. PNNL-SA-149064.
• Cheng Y., D. Barpaga, J.A. Soltis, V. Shutthanandan, R. Kargupta, K. Han, and B.P. McGrail, et al. 2020. "Metal-Organic Framework-Based Microfluidic Impedance Sensor Platform for Ultrasensitive Detection of Perfluorooctanesulfonate." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12, no. 9:10503-10514. PNNL-SA-141266. doi:10.1021/acsami.9b22445
• Fu Y., J. Bao, C. Wang, R.K. Singh, D. Barpaga, R.F. Zheng, and Z. Xu, et al. 2020. Absorber Column CFD model validation against PNNL's device-scale absorber column on the LCFS unit. PNNL-29828. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Absorber Column CFD model validation against PNNL's device-scale absorber column on the LCFS unit
• Sabale S.R., D. Barpaga, J. Yao, L. Kovarik, Z. Zhu, S. Chatterjee, and B.P. McGrail, et al. 2020. "Understanding Time Dependence on Zinc Metal-Organic Framework Growth Using In Situ Liquid Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12, no. 4:5090-5098. PNNL-SA-148177. doi:10.1021/acsami.9b19991
• Sinnwell M.A., Q. Miller, L. Liu, J. Tao, M.E. Bowden, L. Kovarik, and D. Barpaga, et al. 2020. "Kinetics and Mechanisms of ZnO to ZIF-8 Transformations in Supercritical CO2 Revealed by in situ X-ray Diffraction." ChemSusChem 13, no. 10:2602-2612. PNNL-SA-149718. doi:10.1002/cssc.202000434
• Sinnwell M.A., Q. Miller, L. Palys, D. Barpaga, L. Liu, M.E. Bowden, and Y. Han, et al. 2020. "Molecular Intermediate in the Directed Formation of a Zeolitic Metal-Organic Framework." Journal of the American Chemical Society 142, no. 41:17598-17606. PNNL-SA-154537. doi:10.1021/jacs.0c07862
• Zheng J., D. Barpaga, B.A. Trump, M. Shetty, Y. Fan, P. Bhattacharya, and J. Jenks, et al. 2020. "Molecular Insight into Fluorocarbon Adsorption in Pore Expanded Metal-Organic Framework Analogs." Journal of the American Chemical Society 142, no. 6:3002-3012. PNNL-SA-145757. doi:10.1021/jacs.9b11963
• Zheng R.F., D. Barpaga, P.M. Mathias, D. Malhotra, P.K. Koech, Y. Jiang, and M. Bhakta, et al. 2020. "A Single-Component Water-Lean Post-Combustion CO2 Capture Solvent with Exceptionally Low Operational Heat and Total Costs of Capture - Comprehensive Experimental and Theoretical Evaluation." Energy & Environmental Science 13, no. 11:4106-4113. PNNL-SA-153508. doi:10.1039/D0EE02585B

2019

• Barpaga D., J. Zheng, K. Han, J.A. Soltis, V. Shutthanandan, S. Basuray, and B.P. McGrail, et al. 2019. "Probing the Sorption of Perfluorooctanesulfonate using Mesoporous Metal-Organic Frameworks from Aqueous Solutions." Inorganic Chemistry 58, no. 13:8339-8346. PNNL-SA-140984. doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b00380
• Barpaga D., V.T. Nguyen, B.K. Medasani, S. Chatterjee, B.P. McGrail, R.K. Motkuri, and L.X. Dang. 2019. "Insight into Fluorocarbon Adsorption in Metal-Organic Frameworks via Experiments and Molecular Simulations." Scientific Reports 9, no. 1:Article Number 10289. PNNL-SA-140049. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-46269-7

2018

• Bower J.K., D. Barpaga, S. Prodinger, R. Krishna, H.T. Schaef, B.P. McGrail, and M.A. Derewinski, et al. 2018. "Dynamic adsorption of CO2/N2 on cation-exchanged chabazite SSZ-13: A breakthrough analysis." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 10, no. 17:14287-14291. PNNL-SA-133039. doi:10.1021/acsami.8b03848
• Estevez L., D. Barpaga, J. Zheng, S.R. Sabale, R.L. Patel, J. Zhang, and B.P. McGrail, et al. 2018. "Hierarchically Porous Carbon Materials for CO2 Capture: The Role of Pore Structure." Industrial Engineering Chemistry Research 57, no. 4:1262-1268. PNNL-SA-129228. doi:10.1021/acs.iecr.7b03879
• Liu J., J. Zheng, D. Barpaga, S.R. Sabale, B.W. Arey, M.A. Derewinski, and B.P. McGrail, et al. 2018. "A Tunable Bimetallic MOF-74 for Adsorption Chiller Applications." European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2018, no. 7:885-889. PNNL-SA-129916. doi:10.1002/ejic.201800042
• Motkuri R.K., V.S. Vemuri, D. Barpaga, H.T. Schaef, J.S. Loring, P.F. Martin, and D. Lao, et al. 2018. "An Efficient, Solvent-Free Process for Synthesizing Anhydrous MgCl2." ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 6, no. 1:1048-1054. PNNL-SA-119379. doi:10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b03366
• Zheng J., D. Barpaga, O.Y. Gutierrez, N.D. Browning, B.L. Mehdi, O. Farha, and J.A. Lercher, et al. 2018. "Exceptional Fluorocarbon Uptake with Mesoporous Metal-Organic Frameworks for Adsorption-Based Cooling Systems." ACS Applied Energy Materials 1, no. 11:5853-5858. PNNL-SA-132663. doi:10.1021/acsaem.8b01282