Peer-Reviewed Articles

1. P Malai Rani, D Rana, Noel Jacob Kaleekkal, A Nagendran (2025) Separation of Bovine Serum Albumin and Humic Acid Using Antifouling Ultrafiltration Membranes Based on the Blends of Poly (Amide Imide) and Zirconium Containing MOF‐808 Journal of Applied Polymer Science, e58055                   

2. R Malhotra, Noel Jacob Kaleekkal*  (2024) Investigating novel thin-film nanocomposite membranes for sustainable water recovery using fertilizer-driven forward osmosis–Experimental and machine learning approaches Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 12 (6), 114676

3. V. Sangeetha, Noel Jacob Kaleekkal* (2024) Performance Evaluation of Novel Superhydrophobic Electrosprayed-Electrospun Nanofibrous Membranes for Water Recovery using Direct Contact Membrane Distillation Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 688, 133592

4. A Gopikumar, P Gayathry, A Vincent, J Nambikkattu, Noel Jacob Kaleekkal (2024) Hydrophobic Zn-doped Fe2O3/PVDF-Co-HFP composite membranes for enhanced water recovery using direct contact membrane distillation Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry 135, 493-50.

5. Jenny N, Noel Jacob Kaleekkal* (2023) Development of Janus Membranes with Asymmetric Wettability for Desalination of Impaired Seawater by Direct Contact Membrane Distillation Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 11(6) 111396.

6. Dahiru U. L., Ismail A., Qusay F. A., Jamilu U., Sani. I. A., Ibrahim B., Ravishankar S., Noel Jacob Kaleekkal and Binash I. (2023) Experimental Investigation of a Plate–Frame Water Gap Membrane Distillation System for Seawater Desalination Membranes 2023, 13(9), 804

7. Suresh K , Jenny Nambikkattu , Noel Jacob Kaleekkal*, Deepak Lawrence K (2023) Custom-designed 3D printed feed spacers and TFN membranes with MIL-101(Fe) for water recovery by forward osmosis Environmental Technology 45(24) 3778–3790

8. Jenny N, Anoopa A, Noel Jacob Kaleekkal* Thanigaivelan A, Shadi H. and S.Vigneswaran (2023)Investigating the performance of novel thin-film nanocomposite membranes incorporating zinc anchored Mesoporous Cellular Foam (Zn-PDA-MCF-5) for efficient Nanofiltration Membranes 13 (5), 486.

9. Jenny N, Noel Jacob Kaleekkal* (2023) Fluoroalkylsilane grafted FeOOH nanorods impregnated PVDF-co-HFP membranes with enhanced wetting and fouling resistance for direct contact membrane distillation Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 11(3) 109624.

10. Jenny N, Noel Jacob Kaleekkal*(2023) Investigating the performance of surface-engineered membranes for direct contact membrane distillation Separation Science and Technology 58(6) 1145-1161.

2022

11. V Sangeetha, Noel Jacob Kaleekkal*, S Vigneswaran (2022) Coaxial Electrospun Nanofibrous Membranes for Enhanced Water Recovery by Direct Contact Membrane Distillation Polymers 14 (24), 5350

12. N Gowriboy, R Kalaivizhi, Noel Jacob Kaleekkal, MR Ganesh, KA Aswathy (2022) Fabrication and characterization of polymer nanocomposites membrane (Cu-MOF@ CA/PES) for water treatment Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 10 (6), 108668

13. Sangeetha V, Noel Jacob Kaleekkal* (2022) Investigation of the performance of dual-layered omniphobic electrospun nanofibrous membranes for direct contact membrane distillation (Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 10 (6), 108661

14. Noel Jacob Kaleekkal*, Juliana J (2022) Grand Challenges in Membrane Distillation for Desalination and Wastewater recovery Accepted - Journal of Applied Membrane Science & Technology 26 (3), 27-36

15. Juliana J, Noel Jacob Kaleekkal* (2022) An integrated Nanofiltration-Membrane Distillation (NF-MD) process for the treatment of saline oily wastewater (Separation Science and Technology- 10.1080/01496395.2022.2131578)

16. Noel Jacob Kaleekkal*, Jenny Nambikkattu, Ajmal Rasheeda Satheesh, Ralph Gonzales, Hokyong Shon and Saravanamuthu Vigneswaran (2022) Engineered Osmosis - sustainable technology for water recovery, product concentration, and energy generation Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 8, 1326-1358.

17. N. Santosh Srinivas, K. Kishore Ramanan, John Bosco Balaguru, Noel Jacob Kaleekkal, Gautham B.Jegadeesan, (2022) Coumarin as a chemical probe to evaluate efficiency of vortex – based hydrodynamic cavitation process Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 10(1), 106940.

18. L Rameesha, D Rana, Noel Jacob Kaleekkal, A Nagendran (2022) Efficacy of MOF-199 in improvement of permeation, morphological, antifouling and antibacterial characteristics of polyvinylidene fluoride membranes New Journal of Chemistry 46 (16), 7638-7649

19. Meenakshi. S, Trilokesh. C, Gayathri. G, Kiran Babu Uppuluri and Noel Jacob Kaleekkal*, (2022) Direct entrapment and statistical optimization of cellulolytic enzymes on PVDF membranes for the hydrolysis of corncob lignocelluloses Journal of Molecular Liquids 346, 117087.

20. Vishnu V Bhaskar, Noel Jacob Kaleekkal* (2022) Next-generation thin-film composite nanofiltration membranes for water remediation: a review Emergent Materials 5, 1373–1390

2021

21. Elangovan Erusappan, Sivakumar Thiripuranthagan, Ramakrishnan Radhakrishnan, Mani Durai, Sakthivel Kumaravel, Thanigaivel Vembuli and Noel Jacob Kaleekkal* (2021) Fabrication of mesoporous TiO2 /PVDF photocatalytic membranes for efficient photocatalytic degradation of synthetic dyes Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 9 (4), 105776.

22. Thanigaivelan Arumugham, Noel Jacob Kaleekkal*, Sruthi Gopal, Jenny Nambikkattu, Rambabu K, Ahmed Mamdouh Aboulella, S. Ranil Wickramasinghe, Fawzi Banat (2021) Recent developments in ceramic membranes for wastewater treatment and desalination: A review Journal of Environmental Management 293, 112925.

23. Jenny Nambikkattu, Josna Jose, Noel Jacob Kaleekkal*(2021) Tailoring the performance of thin-film composite membrane using ZIF-8 for wastewater treatment Materials Today: Proceedings 47, 1394-1399

24. Noel Jacob Kaleekkal*(2021), Heparin immobilized graphene oxide in polyetherimide membranes for hemodialysis with enhanced hemocompatibility and removal of uremic toxins Journal of Membrane Science- 632, 119068.