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Deepu J. Babu
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Deepu J. Babu

Assistant Professor

deepu.babu@msme.iith.ac.in
PhD: Technische Universität (TU) Darmstadt
Office: MSME-407

Research Interests

Nanoporous materials for challenging separationsCarbon CaptureChemical Vapor DepositionGraphdiyne

Selected Publications

Hao, Jian, Piotr Mieczyslaw Gebolis, Piotr Marcin Gach, Mojtaba Chevalier, Luc Sébastien Bondaz, Ceren Kocaman, Kuang-Jung Hsu, Kapil Bhorkar, Deep J. Babu, and Kumar Varoon Agrawal. "Scalable synthesis of CO2-selective porous single-layer graphene membranes." Nature Chemical Engineering (2025): 1-11.

Ingle, Dhiraj Siddhartha, Deepu J. Babu, and Kotagiri Venkata Rao. "Synthesis of Near-Infrared-Absorbing Superhydrophilic Conjugated Porous Polymer via Postsynthetic Modification for Efficient Solar Steam Generation." ACS Applied Energy Materials (2025).

Paidi, Hemanth Kumar, Rishitha Mudunuri, and Deepu J. Babu. "Exploring MoS2 growth: a comparative study of atmospheric and low-pressure CVD." Langmuir 40, no. 48 (2024): 25648-25656.

Liu, Qi, Yurun Miao, Luis Francisco Villalobos, Shaoxian Li, Heng-Yu Chi, Cailing Chen, Mohammad Tohidi Vahdat et al. "Unit-cell-thick zeolitic imidazolate framework films for membrane application." Nature Materials 22, no. 11 (2023): 1387-1393.

Babu, Deepu J., Guangwei He, Jian Hao, Mohammad Tohidi Vahdat, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Mounir Mensi, and Kumar Varoon Agrawal. "Restricting lattice flexibility in polycrystalline metal–organic framework membranes for carbon capture." Advanced Materials 31, no. 28 (2019): 1900855.

Recent Courses Taught

Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage
Soft and Porous Materials
Materials synthesis and characterization lab