Dishari Basu wins new research award

Dishari Basu, a graduate student in the Umit S. Ozkan Laboratory for Heterogeneous Catalysis and Electrocatalysis, has again won a national travel award to support her outstanding research.

Basu received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' (AIChE) Catalysis and Reaction Engineering (CRE) Travel Award to present a paper titled “Investigation of Active Sites for Electrochemical Bromine Evolution Using Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanostructures,” in Phoenix, Arizona at the November 2022 annual meeting of AIChE.

Last fall, she was awarded the Tri-State Catalysis Society Travel Award to give a presentation titled “Highly Active Nitrogen-doped Carbon Nanostructures as Bromine Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysts."

Basu also received a William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Award for Academic Achievement this past spring.

She served as a co-leader for the department's September 2020 Dow Graduate Research Symposium and in 2019 she received an Outstanding Poster Award in the Top 10 Poster Competition at the Ohio State Institute for Materials Research's 2019 Materials Week Conference. Her poster was titled "Preferential Oxidation of Carbon Monoxide over Swellable Organically Modified Silica (SOMS) supported Cobalt Oxide."