Faculty
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Prof Sri Sivakumar
Coordinator & Project Co-Investigator, Centre for NanosciencesArea of Interest: Synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials, Layer-by-Layer (LbL) assembly, Polymer capsules, Thin films, Drug delivery, Photonic crystals and Growth Mechanism of Nanomaterials
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Prof Ashutosh Sharma
Professor, Department of Chemical EngineeringArea of Interest: Soft nanofabrication Mechanics, patterns and instabilities of soft visco-elastic interfaces and ultrathin films Self-organized meso-patterning of polymers, carbon, ceramics and hydrogels
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Prof Ashok Kumar
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and BioengineeringArea of Interest: Biomaterials, Tissue engineering, Regenerative medicine, Stem cell research, Bioprocess engineering and Environmental biotechnology.
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Prof Nishith Verma
Professor, Department of Chemical EngineeringArea of Interest: Adsorption Synthesis of nanomaterials including adsorbents and catalysts Environmental Pollution Control (air/water purifications) Carbon-based Electrodes Lattice Boltzmann Modelling and Simulation
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Prof Sandeep Verma
Professor, Department of ChemistryArea of Interest: Areas of nucleobase and peptide scaffolds as artificial enzymes and disease models, chemical origins of life and biopolymer-mineral composites as bone formation mimics.
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Dr Thiruvancheril G. Gopakumar
Associate Professor, Department of ChemistryArea of Interest: Molecular materials for electronic applications, 2D molecular materials with tunable electronic properties, molecular assembly and their control on surfaces, molecular switches and its operations on surfaces.
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Prof Jayant K. Singh
Professor, Department of Chemical EngineeringArea of Interest: Thermophysical Properties of Complex Fluids, Phase transitions in Nanoconfined Systems, Smart Surfaces, Selective Adsorption and Separation, Multi-scale Modeling, Machine Learning, Anti-cancer Drug Formulation
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Prof Shantanu Bhattacharya
Professor, Department of Mechanical EngineeringArea of Interest: Bio MEMS, Lab on Chip, Nano Technology, Microsystems Fabrication and MicroFluids
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Dr Rahul Mangal
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical EngineeringArea of Interest: Soft matter, polymer nanocomposites and active matter
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Prof Yogesh M Joshi
Professor, Department of Chemical EngineeringArea of Interest: Structure and dynamics of Colloidal Glasses and Gels, Soft Matter, Rheology of Complex Fluids, Polymer Science and Engineering, Polymer Nanocomposites
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Dr Prabhat K. Dwivedi
Principal Scientific Officer, Center for NanosciencesArea of Interest: Soft Patterning on Soft Materials at Nano and Micro scale, Fabrication of Chalcogenide Glass Micro lenses, Microfludic Devices.
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Dr Manish M. Kulkarni
Principal Scientific Officer, Center for NanosciencesArea of Interest: Self assembly and organization in thin polymer films for micro and nano patterning, Combinatorial synthesis and gradient field processing of thin polymer films, Phase transitions and orientation studies in block-copolymer films by neutron and high energy X-ray beam, Sol-gel-aerogel processing, Organic gel and photoresist based C-MEMS, organic photovoltaic blend films.