डॉ. सी. एस. शर्मा
chander.sharma@iitrpr.ac.in
Dr. Chander Shekhar Sharma
Assistant Professor
Office: 318, Satish Dhawan Block
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, ETH Zurich
Broad Area: Thermal and fluid sciences
Specialization: Micro-scale thermal transport and surface engineering
Research Areas: Phase Change, Surface Micro and Nano Engineering,, Electronic Thermal Management, Single and Multiphase Convective Cooling, Scalable and robust interfaces.
Teaching Interests
Engineering Thermodynamics (UG, IIT Ropar)
Heat and Mass Transfer (UG, IIT Ropar)
Thermal Management of Electronics (PG, IIT Ropar)
Thermodynamics of Novel Energy Conversion Technologies (PG, ETH Zurich)
Work Experience
Assistant Professor, IIT Ropar June, 2018 to present
Senior Scientist and Lecturer, ETH Zurich, 2016 - 2018
Post-doctoral Researcher, ETH Zurich, 2014 - 2016
Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, ETH Zurich, 2010 - 2014
Lead Engineer, General Motors Technical Center India, 2006 - 2010
Professional Achievements
Comprehensive Research Grant from DST-SERB, 2019
Project collaborator for Horizon 2020 project HARMoNIC: Hierarchical Multiscale NanoInterfaces for Enhanced Condensation Processes, 2018
Research Grant from Swiss National Science Foundation, 2015
Selected Publications
1) Self-Sustained Cascading Coalescence in Surface Condensation, Chander Shekhar Sharma, Cheuk Wing Edmond Lam, Athanasios Milionis, Hadi Eghlidi, Dimos Poulikakos. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2019, 11, 30, 27435-27442. Full text
2) Engineering Fully Organic and Biodegradable Superhydrophobic Materials, Athanasios Milionis, Chander Shekhar Sharma, Raoul Hopf, Michael Uggowitzer, Ilker S. Bayer, Dimos Poulikakos. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2019, 6, 1801202. Journal Inside Back Cover; News Coverage: India Science Wire , The Hindu Business Line
3) An Elastic Interfacial Transistor Enabled by Superhydrophobicity, Tian Tian, Chander Shekhar Sharma, Navanshu Ahuja, Matija Varga, Raja Selvakumar, Yen‐Ting Lee, Yu‐Cheng Chiu, Chih‐Jen Shih. Small, 2018, 14, 1804006, Journal Inside Front Cover
4) Rationally 3D-Textured Copper Surfaces for Laplace Pressure Imbalance-Induced Enhancement in Dropwise Condensation, Chander Shekhar Sharma, Christos Stamatopoulos, Reto Suter, Philipp Rudolf von Rohr, Dimos Poulikakos. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2018, 10, 34, 29127-29135
5) Growth Rates and Spontaneous Navigation of Condensate Droplets Through Randomly Structured Textures, Chander Shekhar Sharma, Juliette Combe, Markus Giger, Theo Emmerich, Dimos Poulikakos. ACS Nano, 2017, 11, 2, 1673-1682
6) On the Mechanism of Hydrophilicity of Graphene, Guo Hong, Yang Han, Thomas M. Schutzius, Yuming Wang, Ying Pan, Ming Hu, Jiansheng Jie, Chander S. Sharma, Ulrich Müller, Dimos Poulikakos. Nano Letters, 2016, 16, 7, 4447-4453
7) A novel method of energy efficient hotspot-targeted embedded liquid cooling for electronics: An experimental study, Chander Shekhar Sharma, Gerd Schlottig, Thomas Brunschwiler, Manish K.Tiwari, Bruno Michel, Dimos Poulikakos. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2015, 88, 684-694
8) Energy efficient hotspot-targeted embedded liquid cooling of electronics, Chander Shekhar Sharma, Manish K. Tiwari, Severin Zimmermann, Thomas Brunschwiler, Gerd Schlottig, Bruno Michel, Dimos Poulikakos. Applied Energy, 2015, 138, 414-422
9) Optimal thermal operation of liquid-cooled electronic chips, Chander Shekhar Sharma, Severin Zimmermann, Manish K. Tiwari, Bruno Michel, Dimos Poulikakos. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2012, 55 , 7-8, 1957-1969
10) Kinetic Parameters Estimation for Three Way Catalyst Modeling, Karthik Ramanathan, Chander Shekhar Sharma, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2011, 50, 17, 9960-9979
Full list of publications, including conferences, is available at Google Scholar, Scopus and ResearchGate