Professor / PI

Easan Sivaniah Easan Sivaniah

Research Interest

Clean Technology

I make materials for cleaning water or for removing carbon dioxide and other environmentally hazardous gases.

What I like about my science

I hope my work will help to make the world that my future grandchildren will live in a healthy and clean one.

Researcher Q & A

Where are you from?

England

Why did you become a researcher?

I started in University by doing Engineering; but after I graduated, I felt I did not understand the materials I was using so I began a PhD in Materials Science at Cambridge; after this I felt inspired to continue more research but these days I start to think how to use these materials for practical applications.

What is your favorite experiment, theory, device, reagent, lab equipment? Why do you like it?

I like the idea that complexity arises from simplicity whilst complex systems can only rarely be rationalized in simple terms.

What is your hobby?

The book that made me stay awake and not do anything (but read it anyway) was by Gabriel Garcia Marquez called ‘A Hundred Years of Solitude’. There is a similar style as can be found in books by Murakami and also Dostoevsky, sometimes called superrealism or fantastic realism, which creates an interesting outcome of an ordinary situation.

Hitting a small rubber ball hard in a small room is a good way to relax.
Membranes are everywhere, in the cells of our bodies to the filters we use to make coffee.

Members

Easan Sivaniah 　Professor / PI
Daisuke Yamaguchi 　Junior Associate Professor
Ganesh Pandian Namasivayam 　Junior Associate Professor
Masateru Ito 　Program-Specific Assistant Professor
Detao Qin 　Program-Specific Assistant Professor
Shigeyuki Mikayama 　Part-time Researcher

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Research

New process revolutionizes microfluidic fabrication
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Nanodiamonds are key to efficient hydrogen purification
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Simple method for converting carbon dioxide into useful compounds
Activities

A face shield for safe smiles
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Structural color through organized microfibrillation in glassy polymer films
Activities

[New article available] First Author Interview: Mr Andrew Gibbons
Research

Coloring the Heartbeat
Activities

Videos of Learning Lounge #11 now available
Research

Revolutionary New Materials for Troubled Carbon Times: Super Filters the World Can Afford
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