CV

Electrochemical water desalination and ions separation using redox-active materials. (2020-present)

• Advisor: Prof. Kyle C. Smith, UIUC.

Study on Ion Concentration Polarization (ICP) desalination technology (Mar - Dec 2018)

• Advisor: Prof. Sang V. Pham, HUST and Prof. Jongyoon Han, MIT.

• Collaborator: Dr. Junghyo Yoon, Micro-Nanofluidic BioMEMS group, MIT.

• Investigate the performance of a new ICP design via numerical modeling using an in-house code to optimize the design.

Develop a two-phase flow numerical solver using Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) and adaptive meshing refinement (Mar - Dec 2018)

• Advisor: Prof. Sang V. Pham, HUST.

• Develop a new solver in the framework of OpenFOAM open-source software to simulate the interaction of moving objects and two-phase flow, using IBM, Volume of Fluid method, and adaptive meshing refinement algorithm.

Develop a Detection Platform for Enzymatic Assays (Jan - Mar 2018)

• Advisor: Prof. Sang V. Pham, HUST and Prof. Yong-Ak Song, NYU Abu Dhabi.

• Develop a platform consisting of multiples ICP concentrator chips to preconcentrate biomolecular samples to accelerate enzymatic assay. The concentrator chip's design was optimized by investigating its performance via numerical modeling using an in-house code. 

Develop a numerical solver for Fluid-Structure Interaction (Sep - Nov 2017)

• Advisor: Prof. Sang V. Pham, HUST.

• Implement a new solver incorporating Immersed Boundary Method and the Pressure-Implicit Split Operation algorithm in the framework of OpenFOAM open-source software to simulate interactions of rigid moving objects with fluid flows.

• Embedded, micro-interdigitated flow fields in high areal-loading intercalation electrodes towards seawater desalination and beyond.

Vu Q. Do, Erik R. Reale, Irwin C. Loud IV, Paul G. Rozzi, Haosen Tan, David A. Willis, Kyle C. Smith

Energy & Environmental Science, (2023). DOI 

• Efficient, selective sodium removal by Faradaic deionization using symmetric sodium titanium vanadium phosphate intercalation electrodes

Aniruddh Shrivastava, Vu Q. Do, Kyle C. Smith

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, (2022). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c03261 

• A numerical modeling study on inertial focusing of microparticle in spiral microchannel.

Q. Do, D. Van, V. Nguyen & Pham, V. 

Physics of Fluids 075017, (2020). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0006975.

• Modeling of electrochemical deionization across length scales: Recent accomplishments and new opportunities. 

Liu, S., Do, V. Q., & Smith, K. C. 

Current Opinion in Electrochemistry 22, 72–79 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coelec.2020.05.003

• An OpenFOAM solver for multiphase and turbulent flow. 

Nguyen, V. B., Do, Q. V., & Pham, V. S. 

Physics of Fluids 32, (2020). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5145051

• Return flow ion concentration polarization desalination: A new way to enhance electromembrane desalination. 

Yoon, J., Do, V. Q., Pham, V. S., & Han, J. 

Water Research, 159, 501–510, (2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2019.05.042

• A Multiwell-Based Detection Platform with Integrated PDMS Concentrators for Rapid Multiplexed Enzymatic Assays. 

Wei, X., Do, V. Q., Pham, S. V., Martins, D., & Song, Y. A.

Scientific Reports 8, 1–11, (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29065-7