Awards for Lab Members

1. IIChE Award for the Year 2011: Shah-Schulman Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis in the area of Colloid and Interface Sciences, Ankur Verma, CHEMCON 2011, Bangalore, India.
2. Malhotra-Weikfield Foundation Nanoscience Fellowship 2011, Ankur Verma 4th Bangalore Nano 2011.
3. Innovative Student Projects Award 2011 - Doctoral level, Chandra Shekhar Sharma, , INAE (Indian National Academy of Engineering), India.
4. Best Poster Award, Prabhat K. Dwivedi, Amritha Rammohan, Sumit Barthwal and Ashutosh Sharma, Cantilever arrays for bio-chemical sensing, ICONSAT 2010, IIT Powai, Mumbai, India.
5. Best Poster award in International Symposium of Hydrogen and Energy Storage, Chandra Shekhar Sharma,  Hari K., Genis Turon Teixidor, Marc J. Madou and Ashutosh Sharma, Fabrication of Fractal Carbon Electrode for Energy Applications, Energy Conclave 2010, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India.
6. 2nd Best Micrograph in SEM section,K. Hari, Micrography Contest 2009, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India.
7. 3rd Best Micrograph in SEM section: Chadra Shekhar Sharma, Micrography Contest 2009, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India.
8. Best Micrograph in AFM section: Chadra Shekhar Sharma, Micrography Contest 2009, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India,.
9. Best BTP Award, Diviya Sinha and Ashutosh Sharma, ChE Dept, IIT Kanpur,Kanpur, India, 2009.
10. G C Jain Best PhD thesis award, Rabibrata Mukherjee, The MRSI, 2009.
11. IIChE's The Chemical Weekly Prize for the 'Best Research Paper published in a High Impact International Journal by an UG ChE Student', Riju Mohan Singhal, Ashutosh Sharma and Nishith Verma, Micro/nano Hierarchal Web of Activated Carbon Fibers for Catalytic Gas Adsorption and Reaction, CHEMCON 2008, Chandigarh, India.
12. IIChE Award for the Year 2008: Shah-Schulman Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis in the area of Colloid and Interface Sciences, Rabibrata Mukherjee,  CHEMCON 2008, Chandigarh, India.
13. Innovative Student Projects Award 2008 - Doctoral level, Rabibrata Mukherjee, Self Organization and Patterning of Soft Polymer Films, INAE (Indian National Academy of Engineering), Academy Annual Convention  at National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Dona Paula, Goa, India.
14. Peebles Awards for Graduate Student Research in Adhesion Science, Abhijit Majumder, Animangsu Ghatak and Ashutosh Sharma , Bio-inspired Microfluidc Adhesive,  31st Annual Meeting of Adhesion Society, Austin, Texas, USA, 2008
15. Runners up for Alan Gent Most Distinguished Student Paper Award. Abhijit Majumder, Animangsu Ghatak and Ashutosh Sharma , Bio-inspired Microfluidc Adhesive,  31st Annual Meeting of Adhesion Society, Austin, Texas, USA, 2008
16. Best Poster Award, Ankur Verma and Chandrashekhar Sharma, Submicron Patterning of Resorcinol-Formaldehyde Gels and Miniaturization for C-MEMS, ICONSAT-2008 organised by IGCAR at Chennai Trade Center, Chennai, India
17. NanoSurf STM Award at ICONSAT 2008 for overall best group activity in nanosciences.
18. Best Paper award, Manoj Gonuguntala, Chemcon 2005, New Delhi
19. Cadence Gold Medal" of IIT Kanpur for best MTech Thesis, Moniraj Ghosh, Pattern Formation during Adhesion and Debonding of Thin Elastic Films, 2004.