Manjesh Kumar Singh

PhD (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland)

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Specialization

Research interests

 

Education

  • Ph. D. (2016) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland
  • ME (2011) Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), Bangalore, India
  • BE (2009) Bengal Engineering and Science University (Now IIEST), Shibpur, West Bengal, India

Website(s)

CV

  • Jan. 2020: ME698T – Introduction to Tribology (New course)

  • Sep.2020: ME681: Mathematics for Engineers

  • ESO209: Dynamics (Tutor)

  • Glass Transition Temperature of Disentangled Polymer Melts: Single-chain-nanoparticles approach; Manjesh K. Singh, Minghan Hu, Yu Cang, Hsiao-Ping Hsu, Heloise Therien-Aubin, Kaloian Koynov, George Fytas, Katharina Landfester and Kurt Kremer; Macromolecules 2020, 53 (17), 7312-7321.

  • To Precipitate or to Mix: Why do Elastin-like Polypeptides have Different Solvation Behaviors in Water-ethanol and -urea Mixtures?; Yani Zhao, Manjesh K. Singh, Kurt Kremer, Debashish Mukherji and Robinson Cortes-Huerto; Macromolecules 2020, 53 (6), 2101-2110.

  • Combined Experimental and Simulation Studies of Cross-Linked Polymer Brushes under Shear; Manjesh K. Singh, Chengjun Kang, Patrick Ilg, Rowena Crockett, Martin Kröger and Nicholas D. Spencer; Macromolecules 2018, 51 (24), 10174-10183.

  • Effect of Crosslinking on the Microtribological Behavior of Model Polymer Brushes; Manjesh K. Singh, Patrick Ilg, Rosa M. Espinosa-Marzal, Martin Kröger and Nicholas D. Spencer; Tribol. Lett. 2016, 63, 17.

  • Influence of Chain Stiffness, Grafting Density and Normal Load on the Tribological and Structural Behavior of Polymer Brushes: A Nonequilibrium-Molecular-Dynamics Study; Manjesh K. Singh, Patrick Ilg, Rosa M. Espinosa-Marzal, Nicholas D. Spencer and Martin Kröger; Polymers 2016, 8 (7), 254

  • Polymer Brushes under Shear: Molecular Dynamics Simulations Compared to Experiments; Manjesh K. Singh, Patrick Ilg, Rosa M. Espinosa-Marzal, Martin Kröger and Nicholas D. Spencer; Langmuir 2015, 31 (16), 4978-4805.

  • 09/2019 - present: Assistant Professor, IIT Kanpur

  • 08/2016 - 09/2019: Postdoctoral Researcher, Polymer Theory, MPIP, Mainz.

  • 02/2016 - 07/2016: Postdoctoral researcher, ETH Zurich.

  • 09/2011 - 01/2012: Research Assistant, ETH Zurich.

  • Scholarship covering registration, accommodation and travel assistance to attend International Nanotribology Forum: Thailand 2020, Jan. 12-17, 2020 at Chiang Rai, Thailand.

  • Best Oral Presentation (academia) at IndiaTrib-2019, Dec. 1-4, 2019, at Bangalore, India.

  • Scholarship covering registration, accommodation and travel assistance to attend International Nanotribology Forum: Kerala 2014, Jan. 6-10, 2014 at Kochi, Kerala, India

  • Travel grant to attend Gordon Research Conference: Tribology, July 8-13, 2012 at Waterville, ME, USA

  • Scholarship covering registration, accommodation and travel assistance to attend International Nanotribology Forum: The Hoi An Discussions, May 23-27, 2011, Hoi An, Vietnam.

Office

Himanshu Hatwal Nonlinear Mechanics Lab, Old IME Building

Office Phone: +91-512-2592108

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  • tribology, rheology, soft-matter, AFM, molecular dynamics simulations

  • Life Member of Tribology Society of India

   
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