Animangsu Ghatak Assistant Professor B.Tech. IIT Kharagpur, 1994 M.Tech, IIT Kanpur, 1998 Ph.D. Lehigh University, PA, USA, 2003 Post-Doctoral Research at Cambridge University, UK and Harvard University, USA, 2003-2004 Phone(office): 0512-2597146 Fax: 0512 - 259010 email: aghatak[AT]iitk.ac.in

Research Interests

• Adhesion and friction on soft interfaces
• Fracture of soft thin sheets
• Bio-inspired approaches in design of engineering materials

Selected Publications

• Verma, M. K. S., Majumder, A. and Ghatak, A. Embedded Template Assisted Fabrication of Complex Micro-channels in PDMS and Design of a micro-fluidic adhesive. Accepted for publication in Langmuir.

• Ghatak A. Confinement induced instability of thin elastic film. Physical Review E, 2006, 73, pp. 041601-1�041606-6.

• Ghatak A, Mahadevan, L., Chaudhury, M. K. and Shenoy, V. Peeling from a biomematically patterned thin elastic film, Accepted for publication in Proceedings of Royal Society, London, Ser. A, 2004, 460, 2725-2735

• Ghatak A and Mahadevan, L. Crack street: the cycloidal wake of a cylinder ripping through a thin solid sheet, Physical review Letters, 2003, 91(21), pp. 215507-1-215507-4. Paper highlighted by Nature Science update and Nature Physics update, December 2003.

• Ghatak A and Chaudhury, M. K., Adhesion induced instability in thin elastic film, Langmuir, 2003, 19(7), pp. 2621-2631

• Ghatak A., Chaudhury, M. K., Shenoy, V., Sharma, A. Meniscus instability in thin elastic film, Physical Review Letters, 2000, 85(20), pp. 4329-4333

• Ghatak. A., Vorvolakos, K., She, H., Malotky, D. L. and Chaudhury, M. K., Interfacial rate dependent processes in adhesion and friction, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2000,  Vol. 104(17), pp. 4018-4030.

• Ghatak A., Khanna, R., Sharma, A. Dynamics and morphology of holes in dewetting of thin films, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 1999, 212, pp. 483-494

Awards and Honours

          Alan Gent best student paper in Second world congress on Adhesion and related phenomena, 2002

Professional Affiliations

• The Adhesion Society