Faculty
Prof Sri Sivakumar
Coordinator & Project Co-Investigator, CNSArea 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
Prof Ashutosh Sharma
Department of Chemical Engineering, On LeaveArea 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
Prof Ashok Kumar
Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Co-InvestigatorArea of Interest: Biomaterials, Tissue engineering, Regenerative medicine, Stem cell research, Bioprocess engineering and Environmental biotechnology.
Prof Nishith Verma
Department of Chemical Engineering, Co-InvestigatorArea of Interest: Adsorption Synthesis of nanomaterials including adsorbents and catalysts Environmental Pollution Control (air/water purifications) Carbon-based Electrodes Lattice Boltzmann Modelling and Simulation
Prof Sandeep Verma
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.
Dr Thiruvancheril G. Gopakumar
Department of Chemistry , Co-InvestigatorArea 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.
Prof Jayant K. Singh
Department of Chemical Engineering, Co-InvestigatorArea 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
Prof Shantanu Bhattacharya
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Co-InvestigatorArea of Interest: Bio MEMS, Lab on Chip, Nano Technology, Microsystems Fabrication and MicroFluids
Dr Rahul Mangal
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Co-InvestigatorArea of Interest: Soft matter, polymer nanocomposites and active matter
Dr Prabhat K. Dwivedi
Center for Nanosciences, Principal Scientific OfficerArea of Interest: Soft Patterning on Soft Materials at Nano and Micro scale, Fabrication of Chalcogenide Glass Micro lenses, Microfludic Devices.
Dr Manish M. Kulkarni
Center for Nanosciences, Principal Scientific OfficerArea 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.