Soft Nanotechnology Lab
Department of Chemical Engineering, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus
Our aim is to design and fabricate soft materials with various nanoscale structures by using top-down and bottom-up approaches to utilize them in multiple applications.
Latest News from the Lab:
Soumya Mattupalli wins first place in poster presentation at ChemE Day BITS Hyderabad. (April 2023)
Our latest work on improving durability of GO-coated meshes for oil-water separation application gets published in Nanoscale Advances. (January 2023)
Lab Facilities:
1. Programmable Spin Coater (Apex Instruments, Kolkata)
2. Precision Dip Coater (Apex Instruments, Kolkata)
3. Expanded Plasma Cleaner (Harrick Plasma, USA)
4. Probe Sonicator
5. Optical Microscope
Current Research Activities:
Development of superomniphobic surfaces for self-cleaning and antimicrobial applications
Studying durability of hydrophobic surfaces.
Studying polymer thin film instability in multi-component films and using soft lithography for the spatial organization of nano-structures
Alignment and control of phase separation in polymer blends
Evaporative drying of drops on different surfaces
Studying self-assembly and spatial organization of biomolecules