Krishna Patel

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PhD Student · Department of Chemical Engineering · IIT Delhi

Hi, I'm Krishna Patel.

I use atomic-scale simulations to study hydrogen storage in carbon-based materials. My current work focuses on graphene oxide and graphene-CNT pillared frameworks.

Knack for breaking things (and fixing them)

Portrait of Krishna Patel
Capturing a quiet moment in the lab at IIT Delhi.

Recent highlights

Recent publication

"Effect of Graphene on the Conformation and Dynamics of Atactic Polystyrene in Toluene" was published in Journal of Molecular Modeling, 32(3), 75 (2026).

DOI · Shared-access link

Hydrogen storage on modified graphene and CNTs

Exploring how GO sheet size and oxidation ratio change adsorption capacity using grand canonical Monte Carlo & classical molecular dynamics simulation with LAMMPS.

Teaching & outreach

  • Teaching Assistant for CLL113 (Numerical Methods) at IIT Delhi (year 2023, 2024, 2025).
  • Creator of the NanoscaleModeling YouTube channel with tutorials on molecular dynamics fundamentals.

Experience

Simulation

LAMMPS, Materials Studio, GROMACS, NAMD

Analysis

MDAnalysis, OVITO, VMD, pandas, numpy, matplotlib

Force fields & modelling

ReaxFF, AIREBO, COMPASSII (Materials Studio)

Others

Conda, Docker, Jekyll, GitHub Pages, HPC (MPI/CUDA builds)

Currently learning

Data structures and algorithms (DSA)