PI: Dr. Rabibrata Mukherjee
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Research at the Instability and Soft Patterning Laboratory, IIT Kharagpur includes 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 Thin Film 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, Stereo zoom Microscope, Spin and Dip coaters, UV-Vis Spectrometer, Ellipsometer, Plasma Chamber, Goniometer and UV Ozone Chamber. We are funded by DST and several other organizations. We also have several international colaborations with universities at Akron, Freiburg etc. and several other groups in India.
LATEST NEWS
11-11-2022 "Evaporative drying of a water droplet on liquid infused sticky surfaces" gets published in Colloids Surf, A Physicochem Eng Asp. Congratulations!
21-2-22 "Nanoparticle - Mediated Stabilization of a Thin Polymer Bilayer" gets published in Macromolecules. Congratulations!
19-11-21 "Non-wetting Liquid-Infused Slippery Paper" gets published in Langmuir. Congratulations!
01-11-21 "Phase separation and dewetting of polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) thin films on flat and patterned substrates" gets published in Journal of Molecular Liquids. Congratulations!
13-05-21 "Ordering in Dewetting of a Thin Polymer Bilayer with a Topographically Patterned Interface " gets published in Macromolecules. Congratulations!
12-04-21 "Improved Mesenchymal Stem Cell Proliferation, Differentiation, Epithelial Transition, and Restrained Senescence on Hierarchically Patterned Porous Honey Silk Fibroin Scaffolds" gets published in ACS Applied Bio Materials . Congratulations!
26-02-21 "Feature Size Modulation in Dewetting of Nanoparticle-Containing Ultrathin Polymer Films" gets published in Macromolecules. Congratulations!
13-01-21 "Substrate wettability guided oriented self assembly of Janus particles " gets published in Scientific Reports. Congratulations!
09-12-20 "Nanoparticle Induced Morphology Modulation In Spin Coated PS/PMMA Blend Thin Films" gets published in Langmuir. Congratulations!!
25-11-20 Prof. Rabibrata Mukherjee has been awarded SERB-STAR (Science and Technology Award for Research) Award 2020 for his extraordinary contribution in the area of research in Engineering Sciences.
15-08-20 "Polymer Thin Film Dewetting Mediated Growth of Wettability Controlled Titania Nanorods Arrays for High Responsive, Water Stable Self-powered UV Photodetectors" gets published by ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. Congratulations!!
16-07-19 "Phase transition and dewetting of a 5CB liquid crystal thin film on a topographically patterned substrate" gets published by RSC Advance. Congratulations!!
12-07-19 "Light Trapping-Mediated Room-Temperature Gas Sensing by Ordered ZnO Nano Structures Decorated with Plasmonic Au Nanoparticles" gets published by ACS Omega. Congratulations!!
09-04-19 "Reversible morphological switching and deformation hysteresis in electric field mediated instability of thin elastic films" gets published by Soft Matter. Congratulations!!
07-04-19 "Colloidal Transfer Printing–Mediated Fabrication of Zinc Oxide Nanorods for Self‐Cleaning Applications" gets published by advanced material interfaces. Congratulations!!
20-01-19 "Replicating and resolving wetting and adhesion characteristics of a Rose petal" gets published by Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. Congratulations!!
22-10-18 "Non lithographic block copolymer directed self-assembled and plasma treated self-cleaning transparent coating for photovoltaic modules and other solar energy devices" gets published by Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. Congratulations!! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927024818304161
13-10-18 "Replicating and Resolving Wetting and Adhesion Characteristics of a Rose Petal" gets published by Colloids and Surface Science A. Congratulations!! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927775718308963
09-10-18 "Enhanced performance of hybrid self-biased heterojunction photodetector on soft-lithographically patterned organic platform " gets published by Nanotechnology. Congratulations!! http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6528/aae240/pdf
06-10-18 "Fabrication of Ordered 2D Colloidal Crystals on Flat and Patterned Substrates by Spin Coating " gets accepted by ACS Omega. Congratulations!!
06-10-18 " Morphology Modulation in Evaporative Drying Mediated Crystallization of Sodium Chloride Solution Droplet with Surfactant" gets published by Soft Matter. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2018/sm/c8sm01370e
08-04-18 Latest publication from ISPL in Scientific Reports! Transition from Spin Dewetting to continuous film in spin coating of Liquid Crystal 5CB. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-25504-7
09-03-18 Transfer Printing of Colloidal crystals based on UV mediated degradation of a polymer thin film gets published by Chem Comm. Congratulations!! http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2018/cc/c8cc01572d#!divAbstract