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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
University of Sheffield

The UK-India research initiative and DST, India have jointly funded a project in which the delamination in composite laminate could be detected and controlled in real-time by using the dynamic response of the system. The technology is envisaged to be highly demanding in the field of Health monitoring of Composites for Aerospace appplications.
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Waseda University, Japan

Through a productive link with Prof. Harutoshi Ogai of Waseda University, Japan, our lab has developed crawler robots for pipe health monitoring. The two robots Mushik and Mogurinko are developed with touch sensors which can sense the faults in pipes precisely.
KTH Sweden

SAATH will use real-world scenarios of mobility degradation due to ageing and how this affects the normal daily activities of elderly persons in India and Sweden. The project covers the full range of requirements from basic physical activity monitoring to identify need for supporhtive action, and, once this has been identified, to provide a variety of physical assistance to meet this need as it grows due to the ageing process (from smart sticks to help a person move from one place to another; to wearable exoskeletons to help specific joints for performing normal human motions). SAATH extends current and previous projects of the partners to allow the various solutions to be integrated into the assistive SAATH solutions via a flexible modular approach (to be developed and agreed) to facilitate scalability of the evolving assistance that is provided to meet individual needs due to ageing.
SAATH extends a successful Indian-Swedish DST-VINNOVA research partnership in embedded systems to include expertise in robotics and systems design so that key daily life personal mobility problems in the global ageing society can be targeted and commercially viable solutions developed and delivered.
SMSS
Research Seminars
SAATH (Seamless Affordable Assistive Technology for Health)
e-SMSS seminar (Invited talk)
Announcement
" The application deadlines for the Open Positions/Vacancies has been extended to 15th August 2020"
Recent Publication
Nature Scientific Reports accepted (2020) 'Exploring the Dynamics of Hourglass shaped Lattice Metastructures'.
Singh, A., Mukhopadhyay, T., Adhikari, S., Bhattacharya, B., Voltage-dependent modulation of elastic moduli in lattice metamaterials: Emergence of a programmable state-transition capability.
International Journal of Solids and Structures.(2020): 1-20. , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2020.10.009
Pandey, Manish, Rommel G. Regis, Rituparna Datta, and Bishakh Bhattacharya. Surrogate-assisted multi-objective optimization of the dynamic response of a freight wagon fitted with three-piece bogies.
International Journal of Rail Transportation (2020): 1-20. , https://doi.org/10.1080/23248378.2020.1792808
IEEE Sensors accepted (2020) 'Shape memory alloy-based sensor for two-phase flow detection'.
Adhikari, S., Rastogi, A. and Bhattacharya, B., Piezoelectric vortex induced vibration energy harvesting in a random flow field,
Smart Materials and Structures, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-665X/ab519f
Chaurasiya , K. L., Bhattacharya , B., Varma A. K. and Rastogi, S., (2019), Dynamic modeling of a cabin pressure control system, Proc IMechE Part G: J Aerospace Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1177/0954410019867578
Santhakumar S. , Bhattacharya , B., Aryan, P. and Sohn H., (2019), A Real-Time, Non-Contact Method for In-Line Inspection of Oil and Gas Pipelines Using Optical Sensor Array, Sensors 2019, 19, 3615; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19163615