Boris Khusid

Professor, Chemical & Materials Engineering
About Me
I was born in Odessa, Ukraine and grew up in Minsk, Belarus. I lived and worked there until moved with my family to the U.S. permanently in 1993.
Education
Ph.D.; The Luikov Heat & Mass Transfer Institute, Byelorussian Academy of Sciences; Thermal Sciences And Engineering; 1975
M.S.; Byelorussian State University; Thermal Sciences And Engineering And Chemical Physics; 1972
Website
http://chemicaleng.njit.edu/people/khusid.php
2026 Fall Courses
CHE 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
MTEN 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
PHEN 701C - MASTER'S THESIS
CHE 492 - RESEARCH & INDEP STUDY
MTEN 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
MTEN 491 - RESEARCH & INDEPENDENT STUDY I
MTEN 492 - RESRCH AND INDPENDENT STUDY II
CHE 700B - MASTERS PROJECT
CHE 701B - MASTERS THESIS
CHE 701C - MASTERS THESIS
MTEN 301 - THERMODYNAMICS OF MATERIALS
MTEN 701B - MASTERS THESIS
MTEN 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
MTEN 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
MTSE 790A - DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
CHE 491 - RESEARCH & INDEP STUDY
CHE 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
PHEN 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
CHE 705 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
CHE 706 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
MTEN 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
Teaching Interests
Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Heat & Mass Transfer, Fundamentals of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Unit Operations: Solids Processing
Past Courses
CHE 230: CHEMICAL ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS I
CHE 240: CHEMICAL PROCESS CALCULATIONII
CHE 240: CHEMICAL PROCESS CALCULATIONS II
CHE 370: HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER
CHE 396: CHEMICAL ENGINEERING LAB I
CHE 611: THERMODYNAMICS
CHE 626: MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
CHE 702: ST:MODULES IN NANOPHARMACEUTICA
CHE 794: PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS-PHD
MTEN 301: THERMODYNAMICS OF MATERIALS
Research Interests
Fundamentals of the micro- and nano-scale behavior of colloids and polymer sand the development of electro-microfluidics for the control and manipulation of fluids and particles
Patents
Method and Apparatus for Fabrication of Large Three-Dimensional Single Colloidal Crystals for Bragg Diffraction of Infrared Light
System and Method for Fabrication of Uniform Polymer Films Containing Nano and Micro Particles via Continuous Drying Process
Journal Article
Alex Rishty, Jaden Lucas, Jacob Crace, Sophia Peach, Nancy Hall, Henry Nahra, Ramaswamy Balasubramaniam, Corey Woodcock, Boris Khusid, Joel Plawsky. 2026. "The effects of microgravity on mini-channel flow boiling and CHF behavior. ." International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 254, pp. 127598.
Lauren Barnes, Boris Khusid, Lou Kondic, William V Meyer, Anand U. Oza. 2025. "Phase-field modeling of colloid-polymer mixtures in microgravity." npj Microgravity , vol. 11, pp. 63, 13.
Qingquan Ma, Jiahe Zhang, Guangyu Zhu, Neel Ahuja, Boris Khusid, Wen Zhang. 2024. "Effects of surfactants, ion valency and solution temperature on PFAS rejection in commercial reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF) processes." Journal of Water Process Engineering, vol. 66, pp. 106039, 1-10.
Qingquan Ma, Qian Lei, Fangzhou Liu, Zimu Song, Boris Khusid, Wen Zhang. 2024. "Evaluation of commercial nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membrane filtration to remove per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): Effects of transmembrane pressures and water matrices." Water Environment Research/Wiley, vol. 96, no. 2, pp. e10983, 1-17.
Qian Lei, Ezinwa Elele, Yueyang Shen, John Tang, Katherine L Guerra, Frank Leitz, Boris Khusid. 2023. "Evaluating the Efficiency of Magnetic Treatment for Feed Water in Reverse Osmosis Processes." Membranes, vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 641.
Alicia Boymelgreen, Jarrod Schiffbauer, Boris Khusid, Gilad Yossifon. 2022. "Synthetic electrically driven colloids: A platform for understanding collective behavior in soft matter." Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, vol. 60, no. 101603, pp. 15.
Conference Proceeding
"Electro-hydrodynamic printing of personalized medicines"
16th US National Congress on Theoretical & Applied Mechanics , June, 2010.