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SMSS Research Seminars

Speaker: Prof. Manjesh Kumar singh
Title: Rheological and tribological studies of cross-linked polymers: Simulation and Experimentation
Abstract: In this research, It is studied the effect of cross-linking on the tribological behavior of polymer brushes using a combined experimental and theoretical approach. Tribological and indentation measurements on poly(glycidyl methacrylate) brushes and gels in the presence of dimethylformamide solvent were obtained by means of atomic force microscopy. To complement experiments, we have performed corresponding molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of a generic bead–spring model in the presence of explicit solvent and cross-linkers.

Speaker: Prof. Debayan Das
Title: Paper Stacks for Uniform Rehydration of Dried Reagents in Paper Microfuidic Devices
Abstract: In this research, it was demonstrate that mixing of dried reagents with a rehydrating fuid in paper microfuidics may be signifcantly enhanced by stacking paper layers having diferent wicking rates. Compared to single-layer paper membranes, stacking reduced the “non-reactive area”, i.e. area in which the reconstituted reagents did not interact with the rehydrating fuid, by as much as 97% in large (8cm×2cm) paper membranes.
A paper stack was designed to collect ~0.9ml liquid sample and uniformly mix it with dried reagents. Applications of this technology are demonstrated in two areas: (i) collection and dry storage of sputum samples for tuberculosis testing, and (ii) salivary glucose detection using an enzymatic assay and colorimetric readout. Maximizing the interaction of liquids with dried reagents is central to enhancing the performance of all paper microfuidic devices; this technique is therefore likely to fnd important applications in paper microfuidics.

 

Sakura Exchange Programme

Japan Science and Technology Society (JST), through Sakura Exchange Programme in Science has invited eight Research Scholars from IIT Kanpur under joint mentoring by Professor Hiroaki Wagatsuma, Department of Brain Science and Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology and Professor Bishakh Bhattacharya to address one of the most intriguing aspects of Child- Robot Interaction:

Learning in Children is all about Creating Episodic Memory in Chunks?

The Joint Graduate School Intelligent Car and Robotics Course, which has established for educations for engineers who have advanced specializations and comprehensive knowledge of interdisciplinary science and engineering, will offer energetic and talented Asian students an opportunity to encounter the essence through the actual training course, especially on “Brain-Inspired Robotics”, and then it will inevitably maximize the motivation of cross-country contributions in the future by intercommunicating between their own countries and Japan.

The students involved in the programme are: Mr. Aravind Muthuswamy (Team Leader), Mr. Arun Sharma (Team Controller), Mr. Himanshu Pandey, Ms. Rupal Srivastava, Mr. Dhrupal Shah, Mr. Hardik Soni, Mr. Santha Kumar, Mr. Ayush Singh.

Collaboration