BSc, Civil Engineering (Addis Ababa University, 2008-2013)
PhD, Polymer Science (The University of Akron, 2015-2020)
Iskinder investigates primitive oligonucleotides, polypeptides, and lipids, in Early Earth-like mineral-water-ion environments. Via computational polymer scientific techniques, he probes behaviors such as oligomerization, coalescence, adsorption, and molecular structural stability that may have led to and/or characterized the first life forms on our planet.
Arsano, I.; Ma, X.; Talapatra, S.; Tsige, M. Adsorption of Benzoic Acid: Structural Organization on the Surfaces of Pristine and Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. ACS ES&T Water 2020. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.0c00042
Li, S.; De Silva, T.; Arsano, I.; Gallaba, D.; Karunanithy, R.; Wasala, M.; Zhang, X.; Sivakumar, P.; Migone, A.; Tsige, M.; Ma, X.; Talapatra, S. High Adsorption of Benzoic Acid on Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Bundles. Sci. Rep. 2020, 10 (1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66871-4.
Li, S.; Arsano, I.; Talapatra, S.; Tsige, M.; Ma, X. Adsorption of Aromatic Carboxylic Acids on Carbon Nanotubes: Impact of Surface Functionalization, Molecular Size and Structure. Environ. Sci. Process. Impacts 2019, 21 (12). https://doi.org/10.1039/c9em00417c.