Research Interests

• Metal complexation in solutions, ion-hydration, and interfacial phenomena
• Solution thermodynamics in chemical separation processes

Education

• Ph.D in Chemical Engineering, Iowa State University
• B.Tech and M.Tech in Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Recent Publications

• Nayak, S., Servis, M. J., Combs, D., Szeliga, K., and Seifert, S., ​“Speciation and organic phase structure in nitric acid extraction with trioctylamine”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2024
• Nayak, S., Kumal, R. R., Lee, S. S., and Uysal, A. ​“Elucidating Trivalent Ion Adsorption at Floating Carboxylic Acid Monolayers: Charge Reversal or Water Reorganization?”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2023, 14, 15, 3685–3690
• Nayak, S., Kumal, R. R., and Uysal, A. ​“Spontaneous and Ion-Specific Formation of Inverted Bilayers at Air/Aqueous Interface”, Langmuir, 2022, 38, 5617−5625.