Publications

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

1. Pichkari Saikiran, Mayuri Dhole and Nandini Bhandaru*, Durability studies of underwater superoleophobic graphene oxide coated wire mesh, Nanoscale Advances, 5, 1060, 2023. 

2. Nandini Bhandaru* and Rabibrata Mukherjee*, Ordering in Dewetting of a Thin Polymer Bilayer with a Topographically Patterned Interface, Macromolecules, 54, 4517, 2021. 

3. Nandini Bhandaru*, Gagandeep Kaur, Apurva Panjla and Sandeep Verma*, Spin Coating Mediated Morphology Modulation in Self Assembly of Peptides, Nanoscale, 13, 8884, 2021. 

4. Nandini Bhandaru*, Solvo-selective Imprinting of a Thin Polymer Blend Film for Creating Multi-length scale Patterns, Bull. Mater. Sci., 43, 180, 2020. 

5. Nandini Bhandaru, Neha Agrawal, Meneka Banik, Rabibrata Mukherjee and Ashutosh Sharma, Hydrophobic Recovery of Cross-Linked Polydimethylsiloxane Films and its Consequence in Soft Nano Patterning, Bull. Mater. Sci., 43, 186, 2020. 

6. Sharon Mariam Varughese and Nandini Bhandaru*, Durability of Submerged Hydrophobic Surfaces, Soft Matter,16, 1692-1701, 2020. 

7. Saumyadwip Bandyopadhyay, Shreshth Khare, Nandini Bhandaru, Rabibrata Mukherjee and Suman Chakraborty, High Temperature Durability of Oleoplaned Slippery Copper Surfaces, Langmuir, 36, 15, 4135-4143, 2020. 

8. Ravi Bolleddu, Snigdha Chakraborty, Mitradip Bhattacharjee, Nandini Bhandaru, Siddharth Thakur, Partho Sarathi Gooh-Pattader, Rabibrata Mukherjee and Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Pattern-Directed Phase Transitions and VOC Sensing of Liquid Crystal Films, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2020, 59, 5, 1902-1913. (Impact Factor: 3.375)

9. Sumita Sahoo, Nandini Bhandaru and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Reversible morphological switching and deformation hysteresis in electric field mediated instability of thin elastic films, Soft Matter, 15, 3828–3834, 2019. 

10. Poulomi Chakrabarty, Narendar Gogurla, Nandini Bhandaru, Samit Kumar Ray, Rabibrata Mukherjee, Enhanced performance of hybrid self-biased heterojunction photodetector on Soft-lithographically patterned organic platform, Nanotechnology, 29, 505301, 2018 

11. Palash Dhara, Nandini Bhandaru, Anuja Das and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Transition from Spin Dewetting to continuous film in spin coating of Liquid Crystal 5CB, Scientific Reports, 8, 7169, 2018 

12. Meneka Banik, Nandini Bhandaru and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Transfer printing of colloidal crystals based on UV mediated degradation of a polymer thin film, Chem. Commun., 54, 3484–3487, 2018 

13. Xiangyu Liu, Nandini Bhandaru, Meneka Banik, Xiaoteng Wang, Abdullah M. Al-Enizi, Alamgir Karim, and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Capillary force lithography pattern-directed self-assembly (CFL-PDSA) of phase-separating polymer blend thin films, ACS Omega, 3, 2161–2168, 2018.

14. Nandini Bhandaru, Alalmgir, Karim, Rabibrata Mukherjee, Directed ordering of phase separated domains and dewetting of thin polymer blend films on a topographically patterned substrate, Soft Matter, 13, 4709 – 4719, 2017. 

15. Nandini Bhandaru, Ashutosh Sharma and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Programmable Nanopatterns by Controlled Debonding of Soft Elastic Films, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 9, 19409−19416 (2017)

16. Saumyadwip Bandyopadhyay, Ranabir Dey, Kiran Raj M., Nandini Bhandaru, Rabibrata Mukherjee and Suman Chakraborty, Mixing characteristics in microchannels with biomimetic superhydrophobic (Lotus leaf replica) walls, Microfluid. Nanofluid. 21, 152, 2017. 

17. Nandini Bhandaru, Anuja Das, Rabibrata Mukherjee,  "Confinement induced ordering in dewetting of ultra-thin polymer bilayers on nanopatterned substrates", Nanoscale, 8, 1073–1087 (2016)

18. Monika Rajput, Nandini Bhandaru, Anji Anura, Mousumi Pal, Barnali Pal, Ranjan Rashmi Paul, Jyotirmoy Chatterjee and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Differential Behavior of Normal and Fibrotic Fibroblast under Synergistic Influence of Micropillar Topography and Rigidity of Honey/Silk-Fibroin Substrate, ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. 2, 1528–1539 (2016)

19. S. W. Panda, Nandini Bhandaru, Rabibrata Mukherjee and Sirshendu De, "Ultrafiltration of oily waste water: Contribution of surface roughness in membrane properties and fouling characteristics of polyacrylonitrile membranes", Can. J. Chem. Eng. 93, 2031 (2015) 

20. Nandini Bhandaru, Partho Sarathi Goohpattader, Danish Faruqui, Rabibrata Mukherjee and Ashutosh Sharma, "Solvent-Vapor-Assisted Dewetting of Prepatterned Thin Polymer Films: Control of Morphology, Order, and Pattern Miniaturization", Langmuir, 31, 3203 (2015)

21. Nandini Bhandaru, Anuja Das, Namrata Salunke and Rabibrata Mukherjee,  "Ordered Alternating Binary Polymer Nanodroplet Array by Sequential Spin Dewetting", Nano Letters, 14, 7009 (2014)

22. Monika Rajput, Nandini Bhandaru, Ananya Barui, Amrita Chaudhary, Ranjan Rashmi Paul, Rabibrata Mukherjee and Jyotirmoy Chatterjee. "Nano-patterned honey incorporated silk fibroin membranes for improving cellular compatibility", RSC Advances, 4, 44647 (2014)

23. Sudeshna Roy, Nandini Bhandaru, Ritopa Das, G. Harikrishnan and Rabibrata Mukherjee,  "Thermally Tailored Gradient Topography Surface on Elastomeric Thin Films", ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 6, 6579–6588 (2014)

24. Ranabir Dey, Kiran Raj M., Nandini Bhandaru, Rabibrata Mukherjee and Suman Chakraborty, "Tunable hydrodynamic characteristics in microchannels with biomimetic superhydrophobic (lotus leaf replica) walls", Soft Matter, 10, 3451-3462 (2014)

25. Nandini Bhandaru, Sudeshna Roy, Suruchi, G. Harikrishnan, and Rabibrata Mukherjee, "Lithographic Tuning of Polymeric Thin Film Surfaces by Stress Relaxation", ACS Macro Letters, 2, 195– 200 (2013)

26. Rimlee Deb Roy, Devika Sil, Sunirmal Jana, Nandini Bhandaru, Shyamal Kumar Bhadra, Prasanta Kumar Biswas and Rabibrata Mukherjee, "Creation of Self - Organized Complex Meso Patterns in Sol - Gel Thin Films by Confined Capillary Dynamics", Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 51, 9546 - 9553 (2012)

Patents Applied:

1.       A method for generation of meso scale surface patterns with different feature height in polymer films Coated on Planar and non planar Surfaces using a single stamp, Nandini Bhandaru, Sudeshna Roy, Suruchi and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Application Number: 607/KOL/2012

2.       Honey-silk fibroin based therapeutic tool for oral cancer, Monika Rajput, Nandini Bhandaru, Anji Anura, Rabibrata Mukherjee and Jyotirmoy Chaterjee, Application Number: 201631029917

3.       A method of fabrication of tunable nano patterns by controlled detachment of soft elastic films from a single master and a lithographic system thereof, Nandini Bhandaru and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Application Number: 201731017800

4.       Portable colloid array fabrication, Meneka Banik, Nandini Bhandaru, Ujwala Katikitala and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Application Number: 201731033743

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

 Invited Talks:

1. Nandini Bhandaru, Durability of hydrophobic patterned surfaces under submerged conditions, Complex Fluids (CompFlu) 2019, IISER Bhopal, December 2019.

2. Nandini Bhandaru, Confinement Induced Ordering of Instabilities in Multi-Component Thin Polymer Films, Young Scientists’ Conference, India International Science Festival, Kolkata, November 2019.

3. Nandini Bhandaru, Stability and Self-Healing in Ultra-Thin Polymer Films, 10th Indo-German Frontiers of Engineering Symposium 2018, Potsdam (Germany), May 2018.

4. Nandini Bhandaru, Atomic Force Microscope: Fundamentals, Operation and Some Applications, 3rd workshop on NEMS/MEMS and Theranostic Devices 2017, IIT Guwahati, February 2017.

  Oral Presentations:

1. Sharon Marian Varughese and Nandini Bhandaru, Durability of Polymer based Biomimetic Super Hydrophobic Surfaces, Advances in Polymer Science and Rubber Technology, IIT Kharagpur, September 2019.

2. Nandini Bhandaru, Gagandeep Kaur, Apurva Panjla and Sandeep Verma, Morphology Modulation in Self Assembly of Peptides by Spin Coating: From Nanodots to Fibers, 7th Indian Peptide Symposium, BITS Hyderabad, 2019.

3. Nandini Bhandaru, Phase Separation in Polymer Blend Thin Films: Effect of Molecular Weight, Surface Energy and Nano Confinement, CHEMCON 2017, Haldia Institute of Technology, 2017. (Best Presentation Award)

4. Nandini Bhandaru, Confinement Induced Ordering and Dewetting of Phase Separated Domains in Polymer Blend Thin Films, Complex Fluids, IIT Madras, 2017.

5. Nandini Bhandaru and Rabibrata Mukherjeee, Substrate Pattern Guided Ordered Phase Separation and Miniaturization in Polymer Blend Thin Films, MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit, Boston USA, 2017.

6. Nandini Bhandaru and Sandeep Verma, Effect of Surface and Confinement on the Self-Assembly of Peptides, Newton-Bhabha Fund Researcher Link Workshop on Peptides, Proteins and Metals in Disease and Therapy, IIT Kanpur, 2017.

7. Nandini Bhandaru and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Soft lithographic fabrication of topographic meso-scale patterns with tunable feature height, 2016 Spring Meeting of European Materials Research Society, Lille France, 2016. (Best Presentation Award)

8. Nandini Bhandaru and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Phase segregated domains of polymer blend thin films: effect of molecular weight, surface energy and topographic confinement, 79th Annual Meeting of the DPG and DPG Spring Meeting, TU Berlin Germany, 2015.

9. Nandini Bhandaru and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Soft lithographic fabrication of high aspect ratio patterns with tunable feature height, IIMR 2015, CSIR-CGCRI Kolkata, 2015. (Best Presentation Award)

10. Nandini Bhandaru and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Fabrication of Topographic Meso Patterns with Programmable Feature Height using a Single Stamp, International Conference of Soft Materials 2014, NIT Jaipur, 2014.

11. Nandini Bhandaru and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Elastic detachment induced fabrication of high aspect ratio meso patterns in soft elastic films, Polymer Processing Society Conference, Mumbai, 2013.

12. Nandini Bhandaru and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Detachment induced fabrication of high aspect ratio structures in soft elastic films, International Conference on Nanotechnology, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, 2013.

13. Nandini Bhandaru and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Surfaces with a continuous gradient in topography by stress relaxation, CHEMFERENCE 2012, IIT Mumbai, December 2012. (Best Presentation Award)

14. Nandini Bhandaru, Sudeshna Roy, Suruchi and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Elastic Recovery Lithography: A novel soft lithography for creating pattern height on demand, National Conference on Recent Advances in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, NIT Rourkela, January 2012.

Poster Presentations:

1. Nandini Bhandaru and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Ordering of the phase segregated domains in a polymer blend thin film under topography induced confinement, 8th Indo-German Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Potsdam Germany, 2016. (Invited Poster)

2. Nandini Bhandaru and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Patterns with on demand feature height and periodicity from a single stamp, 3rd Indo German Workshop on Advanced in Materials, Reaction and Separation Process, IIT Guwahati India, 2016.

3. Nandini Bhandaru and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Confinement induced ordering of spin coated PS–PMMA blend thin film on a topographically patterned substrate, 2015 MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit, Boston USA, 2015.

4. Nandini Bhandaru, Anuja Das and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Ordered multi-component polymer nano droplet array on topographically structured surfaces, Nano India 2015, Sastra University Thanjavur India, 2015. (Best Poster Award)

5. Nandini Bhandaru and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Ordering of meso domains of polymer blend thin films under topographic confinement, Macro 2015, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science Kolkata, 2015.

6. Nandini Bhandaru and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Confinement induced ordering of polymer blend thin films, Materials Today Asia 2014, City University of Hong Kong, 2014.

7. Nandini Bhandaru, Anuja Das and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Fabrication of Ordered Multi-Component Polymer Droplets on Topographically Structured Surfaces, National Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, 2014.

8. Nandini Bhandaru and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Fabrication of Topographic Meso Patterns with Programmable Feature Height using a Single Stamp, International Conference on Functional Materials, IIT Kharagpur, 2014. (Best Presentation Award)

9. Nandini Bhandaru, Arunim Bose and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Soft lithographic patterning of polymer blend films by Capillary Force Lithography, Asian Workshop on Polymer Processing, Goa, 2013. (Best Presentation Award)

10. Nandini Bhandaru and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Topographic patterns with programmable feature height using a single stamp, International Soft Matter Conference 2013, Sapienza University Rome, Italy, 2013.

11. Nandini Bhandaru and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Gradient topography surfaces with continuous variation in feature height based on stress relaxation, 6th India Singapore Joint Physics Symposium on Physics of Advanced Materials, IIT Kharagpur, 2013.

12. Nandini Bhandaru and Rabibrata Mukherjee, A simple lithography for fabrication of patterns with tunable height using a single stamp, Indian Science Congress, Kolkata, 2013.

13. Nandini Bhandaru, Debarati Biswas and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Thin polymer blend films as masks for selective deposition, presented at International Conference on Sustainable Energy, KIIT Bhubaneswar, 2012.

14. Nandini Bhandaru, Sudeshna Roy, Suruchi and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Fabrication of nano-structured surfaces of different feature height using a single stamp by Elastic Recovery Lithography, CHEMBRIDGE, Jadavpur University, February 2012. (Best Presentation Award)

15. Nandini Bhandaru, Sudeshna Roy, Suruchi and Rabibrata Mukherjee, A novel soft lithography technique for fabrication of patterns with different feature height using a single stamp, Indo US workshop on Fabrionics, IIT Kanpur, 2012.

16. Nandini Bhandaru, Sudeshna Roy, Suruchi and Rabibrata Mukherjee, Elastic Recovery Lithography: A simple technique for fabrication of patterns with different feature height using a single stamp, CHEMFERENCE, IISc Bangalore, 2011. (Best Presentation Award)