Siddhartha Panda

PhD(University of Houston)

Email: spanda[AT]iitk.ac.in

Office Phone: 0512-259-6146

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

Specialization

Chemical sensors
Transport and reactions
Microfluidics
Micro/nano fabrication
Semiconductor devices

Research Interest

Our research activities are in the areas of transport phenomena, reaction engineering, materials processing and micro/nano fabrication leading to the technology development of chemical sensors. We study the physical modification (e.g. utilizing nanostructures) and chemical modification (e.g. utilizing self assembled monolayers) to fabricate functional sensing surfaces, transport phenomena of the analytes to these surfaces (including in microfluidic units), the specific recognition reactions at these surfaces, charge transport in the semiconducting materials, and device design. These chemical sensors (including biosensors) have applications in healthcare, environmental monitoring, industrial safety, and security. We utilize both silicon based platforms and flexible printable organic electronics based platforms for these devices.

Education

PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Houston, Dec 1999.
M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 1995.
B.Tech, Chemical Engineering, I.I.T. Kharagpur, 1992.

Website(s)

Homepage

CV

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Fluid mechanics, Heat transfer, Materials

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S. Dastidar, R. Chahar, V. Bal, S. Kumar, S. Panda "Fabrication of meso and nanotextured silica surfaces for tunable densities of functionalized molecules", Coll. Surf. A: Physicochem. Eng. Asp., 412, 38 (2012).
D. Rath, S. Kumar, S. Panda " Enhancement of Antigen-Antibody Kinetics on Nanotextured Silicon Surfaces in Mixed Non-flow Systems", Mat. Sci. Eng. C, 32, 2223 (2012).
R. Chepyala, S. Panda, "Flow characteristics of polar liquids in microfluidic immunosensors", J. Microfluidcs Nanofluidics, 16,729 (2014).
R. Chepyala, S. Panda, "Tunable surface free energies of functionalized molecularlayers on Si surfaces for microfluidic immunosensor applications", App. Surf. Sci., 271, 77 (2013)
S. Dastidar, R. Chahar, V. Bal, S. Kumar, S. Panda "Fabrication of meso and nanotextured silica surfaces for tunable densities of functionalized molecules", Coll. Surf. A: Physicochem. Eng. Asp., 412, 38 (2012).
D. Rath, S. Kumar, S. Panda " Enhancement of Antigen-Antibody Kinetics on Nanotextured Silicon Surfaces in Mixed Non-flow Systems", Mat. Sci. Eng. C, 32, 2223 (2012).
S. Panda and H.A. Ahmad "Flexible Temperature Sensor and Sensor Array", Indian Patent Application 1520/DEL/2010, US Patent Application 13/142,843(2011).

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Microfluidic immunosensor with electrochemical detection; Electrolyte-Insulator-Semiconductor (EIS) sensors; Flexible nanoscale conducting polymer films as temperature sensors; Nanostructured conducting polymeric materials as gas sensors; Sensors for detection of heavy metals in water

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Project Scientists/Engineers

Dr. Satyendra Kumar
Dr. Ramchander ChepyalaPh.D. students

Ms. Dharitri Rath
Mr. Narendra Kumar
Ms. Mousumi Sinha
Mr. Abhi Mukherjee
Ms. Kusumita Dutta
Ms. Shipra Verma
Ms. Deepa BhatM.Tech. students

Mr. Ibrahim Faruqi
Mr. Anirudh Bendapudi
Ms. Suram Hima
Ms. Arpita Saha
Mr. Abhay P. Tiwari
Ms. Sujata SenapatiProject Associate

Mr. Sandeep Choudhury
Mr. Neeraj Singh Yadav

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