Prof. Arijit Bose

(BT/CHE/1976)

Prof. Arijit Bose is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the Department of Chemical, Biomolecular, and Materials Engineering, at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston. His research encompasses the development of energy storage materials with a focus on endurance, safety and compactness, nanoparticle/nanostructured materials synthesis characterization and deployment in practical problems, as well as self-assembly dynamics and thermodynamics of soft materials.

He received his B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur, and a Ph.D from the University of Rochester. He joined URI in 1982 after two years at DuPont and served as Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at URI from 2004 to 2009. He has been a Visiting Scientist at MIT (1989;1995-96), a Visiting Research Fellow at Cabot Corporation (2002-2004; 2009-2011) a Visiting Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley (2017; 2024). At IIT Kanpur, he serves as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and as an Advisory Board Member of the Kotak School of Sustainability.

Prof. Bose has published more than 150 papers, which have been cited over 9,300 times. He has twice received URIs Vincent and Estelle Murphy award for outstanding research. He has nine issued US patents and has twice received URIs Intellectual Property award. Along with colleagues at University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University, he cofounded Audiance, Inc. in 2019, to develop safe, long endurance, anatomically sized batteries for powering active implantable medical devices, as well as other niche applications.

Prof. Bose has always chosen problems with relevance to industry. He and his collaborators pioneered the use of cryo-electron microscopy to study solutions of surfactants and polymers, now being used in consumer products. He showed how nanoparticles can be deployed for stabilizing emulsions, useful for mitigating ocean oil spills. His work on batteries focuses on developing solutions for significant issues facing the industry today, including safety, endurance and supply chain stability. He is most proud, however, of the graduate and undergraduate students he has advised, many of whom are making a major impact in theirown careers.

Honouring his stellar contributions in the fields of Colloidal Sciences, Self-assembly and Energy Storage Materials, IIT Kanpur confers upon Prof. Arijit Bose the Distinguished Alumni Award 2025.