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Faculty

Chemical Engineering

Responsibilities
  • Chairman, Sophisticated Analytical and Technical Help Institute (SATHI Center)
Contact
  •  rabibrata@che.iitkgp.ac.in
  •  +91-3222-283912

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  • Thin Film instability
  • Soft Lithography and Nano Patterning
  • Faculty Excellence, IIT KGP
  • Kishore Memorial Award (2016)
  • MRSI Medal (2014)

We at the Instability and Soft Patterning Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur are looking at issues related to nano scale patterning and ordering of polymer systems, by controlling the self organization and evolution of unstable ultra thin films in various settings. The broad areas interest includes Dewetting, Polymer blends, Soft lithography, Evaporation induced patterning, E-field instability, Colloidal assembly, Liquid Crystal thin films, Spin coating, Nano particles in thin films, Opto-electronic device applications, Super Hydrophobic surfaces etc.
 
We have a state of art laboratory with facilities like AFM, Optical Microscope, Spin and Dip coaters, Ellipsometer, Goniometer and UV Ozone Chamber. We are funded by DST - Nano Mission, DST - Solar Energy Research Initiative as well as Samsung Electronics, Korea under its GRO program. We also have several international colaborations with universities at Akron, Freiburg etc. and also with several other groups at IIT Kharagpur. 

Please check out the lab website for details. https://sites.google.com/site/rmresearchgroup/


Evaporative Drying of Sodium Chloride Solution Droplet on a Thermally Controlled Substrate by Basu N., Mukherjee R. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 124 1266-1274 (2020)

Influence of Substrate Surface Properties on Spin Dewetting, Texture, and Phase Transitions of 5CB Liquid-Crystal Thin Films by Dhara P., Mukherjee R. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 124 1293-1300 (2020)

Colloidal Transfer Printing Mediated Fabrication of Zinc Oxide Nanorods for Self Cleaning Applications by Banik M., Chakrabarty P. , Das A. , Ray S. K., Mukherjee R. Advanced Materials Interfaces 6 1900063- (2019)

Confinement induced ordering in dewetting of ultra-thin polymer bilayers on nanopatterned substrates by Bhandaru N., Das A. , Mukherjee R. Nanoscale 8 1073-1087 (2016)

Ordered Alternating Binary Polymer Nanodroplet Array by Sequential Spin Dewetting by Bhandaru N., Das A. , Salunke N. , Mukherjee R. Nano Letters 14 7009-7016 (2014)

Stability and Dewetting of Metal Nanoparticle Filled Thin Polymer Films: Control of Instability Length Scale and Dynamics by Mukherjee R., Das S. , Das A. , Sharma S. K., Raychaudhuri A. K., Sharma A. ACS Nano 4 3709-3724 (2010)



Principal Investigator

Surface Nano Imaging Various users from Institute and Outside agencies

Fabrication of Optical Meta Material for Cloaking in Visible Wavelength 7183 MHRD

Development of Nano Patterned Perovskite Solar Cells (SGBSI-2015) IIT KHARAGPUR


Co-Principal Investigator

Development of Advanced Elastomeric Composites from Eco-friendly and Renewable Sources Exploring Green Technology Apex Committee of SPARC

Development of Thermally Actuated Shape Memory Elastomers for Smart Sensing and Actuator Applications with Self Healing Capability Apex Committee of SPARC

Centre of excellence for training and research in Microfluidics IIT KHARAGPUR


Ph.D. Students

Saumyadwip Bandyopadhyay
Area of Research: Microfluidics and soft matter

Anuja Das
Area of Research: Stability and Dewetting of Polymer Thin Films

Poulomi Chakrabarty
Area of Research: Self organized functional polymer nano structures

Sumita Sahoo
Area of Research: Coffee Stain Problem

Chinmoy Bag
Area of Research: Oleophobic Surface

Sushree Ritu Ritanjali
Area of Research: Nano Particle containing thin films

Anurup Mukhopadhyay
Area of Research: Bio-material fabric for healing applications

Hemant Kumar
Area of Research: Solar photovoltaics

Rohit Agarwal
Area of Research: Drop Evaporation

Ayan Gope
Area of Research: Cell Bio-matrix Interaction in Healing

Sneha Mukherjee
Area of Research: Polymer Thin Films

Ipsita Sahoo
Area of Research: Liquid Crystal Thin Films