IITKGP

Manish Kaushal

Assistant Professor Grade-I

Chemical Engineering

+91-3222-283938

mkaushal@che.iitkgp.ac.in

Responsibilities

  • Assistant Warden, Radhakrishnan Hall
  • Member, SPARC

Research Areas

  • Drainge of vertical liquid thin films
  • Electrorheology
  • Soft-Glassy-Rheology
  • Rheology of molecularly thin liquid-film
  • Microfluidics
Ongoing Project: Electrorheological Fluids, Flow Behavior and Applications ISIRD grant (IIT Kharagpur), 28Lakhs.

The major research areas which I will explore in recent future are:

1) Rheology of soft-glassy-materials and Electrorheological (ER) fluids.

2) Modeling of Soft-Glassy-Rheology behavior (SGR model).

3) Drainage behavior of free standing liquid thin films of polymeric liquids.

4) Exploiting ER/GER fluids for Lab-on-a-chip technology.
 
The various research fronts under the above mentioned research domains are described below.

Rheology:
 
- Elongational flow of Electrorheological Fluids.

- Giant Electrorheological effect (synthesis of GER particles).

- Flow of ER fluids under confinement (investigating the spatial cooperativity)

- Rheology of molecularly thin liquid-film (Surface-Force-Balance technique).



Drainage behavior of Liquid Thin films of polymeric liquids:

- Modeling of drainage in free standing liquid thin films of polymeric liquids

- Understanding the long-term stability (in terms of life-time) of liquid thin films of polymeric liquid (role of structural forces/disjoining pressure in molecularly thin regime)

- Role of molecular structure towards long term stability of liquid thin films.

-What sets the initial thickness of a films? (effect of various physical parameters: surface tension, viscosity, film-pulling speed)

-checking the possibility of very stable liquid thin film as nano-reactors.


 
  • Thickening of liquids using copolymer grafted nanoparticles by Adhya P., Gautham S. M., Patra T. K., Kaushal M. , Mondal T. Soft Matter - (2025)
  • Miniaturized droplets flow reactor for one-step highly controlled synthesis of SnO2 quantum dots at room temperature by Katoch V., Shanmugam N.K.A., Rohal A., Singh M.R., Kaushal M., Prakash B. Engineering Research Express 6 - (2024)
  • 3D printing of rice starch incorporated peanut protein isolate paste: Rheological characterization and simulation of flow properties by Mitra J., Machavaram R. , Kaushal M. Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies 94 103669- (2024)
  • Sericin and Xanthan gum-based biopolymer films with enhanced stretchability and cell-proliferation capability by Kumar S., Biswas S. , Byram P. K., Vaidya P. V., Dhara S. , Chakravorty N. , Kaushal M. Carbohydrate Polymers 362 123675- (2025)
  • Insights on the wall friction using squeeze flow of an electrorheological fluid by Chaudhary I., Kaushal M. The Journal of Chemical Physics 162 144901- (2025)
  • Polymer-grafted silica based hybrid macrobeads for Pb (II) and Cr (VI) removal from water by Adhya P., Chowdhury . S., De S. , Mondal T. , Kaushal M. Separation and Purification Technology 358 130279- (2024)
  • Understanding the effect of physical aging on slip dynamics in soft-glassy materials using pure elongation flow by Chaudhary I., Kaushal M. Physics of Fluids 36 103122- (2024)
  • Pure elongation flow of an electrorheological fluid: insights on wall slip from electrorheology by Chaudhary I., Kaushal M. Soft Matter - (2024)
  • Printable Carbon Nanotube-Liquid Elastomer-Based Multifunctional Adhesive Sensors for Monitoring Physiological Parameters by Selvan T M., Sharma S. , Naskar S. , Mondal S. , Kaushal M. , Mondal T. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces - (2022)
  • Bioactive self-assembling silk fibroin-sericin films for skin tissue engineering by Byram P.K., Mukherjee M., Rahaman M., Bora H., Kaushal M., Dhara S., Chakravorty N. Biomedical Materials (Bristol) 19 - (2024)

Principal Investigator

  • Rheological Assessment of Ionic-liquid based high performance Resins and Nanocomposites. DRDO
  • Shear-Thickening-Fluids Loaded Droplet-In-Fibre Composites For Soft-Body-Armor Applications Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)
  • Shear-Thickening-Fluids Loaded Droplet-In-Fibre Composites For Soft-Body-Armor Applications Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)

Ph. D. Students

Mriganka Bhattacharyya

Area of Research: Rheology of Surface Modified Silica Dispersion

Prama Adhya

Area of Research: Graphene synthesis and application

Priyanka

Area of Research: Multiphase Flow

Saurav Kumar

Area of Research: Paper Microfluidics and Thin Film Rheology

Sumit Kumar Pandit

Area of Research: Rheology and Microfluidics