News
2020
03-27 "High Temperature durability of Oleoplaned Slippery Copper Surfaces" gets accepted by Langmuir. Congratulations!!
01-28 "Evaporative Drying of Sodium Chloride Solution Droplet on a Thermally Controlled Substrate" gets published by The Journal of Physics Chemistry B.
01-25 "Influence of Substrate Surface Properties on Spin Dewetting, Texture, and Phase Transitions of 5CB Liquid-Crystal Thin Films" gets published by The Journal of Physics Chemistry B.
2019
10-07 "Tunable adhesion and slip on a bio-mimetic sticky soft surface" gets published by Soft Matter.
07-12 "Light Trapping-Mediated Room-Temperature Gas Sensing by Ordered ZnO Nano Structures Decorated with Plasmonic Au Nanoparticles" gets published by ACS Omega.
05-15 "Colloidal Transfer Printing–Mediated Fabrication of Zinc Oxide Nanorods for Self-Cleaning Applications" gets published by Adv. Mater. Interfaces.
04-08 "Reversible morphological switching and deformation hysteresis in electric field mediated instability of thin elastic films" gets published by Soft Matter.
02-07 "Phase transition and dewetting of a 5CB liquid crystal thin film on a topographically patterned substrate" gets published by RSC Adv.
2018
06-10 "Fabrication of Ordered 2D Colloidal Crystals on Flat and Patterned Substrates by Spin Coating " gets accepted by ACS Omega. Congratulations!!
06-10 " Morphology Modulation in Evaporative Drying Mediated Crystallization of Sodium Chloride Solution Droplet with Surfactant" gets published by Soft Matter.
09-03 "Transfer Printing of Colloidal crystals based on UV mediated degradation of a polymer thin film" gets published by Chem Comm.
10-02 "Capillary Force Lithography Pattern-Directed Self-Assembly (CFLPDSA) of Phase-Separating Polymer Blend Thin Films" gets accepted by ACS OMEGA.
2017
01-05 Meneka Bank will be presenting her research work at EMRS 2017 Spring Meeting at France.
04-02 Heartiest Congratulations to Dr. Nandini Bhandaru for receiving DST INSPIRE Fellowship for the year 2016-17. Congratulations and best wishes from all!
30-01 Recent media coverage of our group research activities on polymer blend nano patterned surfaces and self cleaning applications and interviews of Dr. Rabibrata Mukherjee and Nandini Bhandaru
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/self-cleaning-cancer-remedial-nanotechnology-innovation-ghosh
http://www.thebetterindia.com/84133/iit-students-nanotechonology-window/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yUgTrhnadQ&feature=youtu.be
07-01 Nandini has been awarded 'Young Scientist Award' in 'Engineering Sciences' section in 104th Indian Science Congress. Congratulations Dr. Nandini Bhandaru !!
04-01 Dr. Rabibrata Mukherjee invited to be Editorial Board member, Advanced Powder Technology (Elsevier) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/advanced-powder-technology/
Congratulations Sir!!
2016
20-12 Dr. Rabibrata Mukherjee is being awarded the Kaushal Kishore Memorial Award 2016 by the Society for Polymer Science (India). Congratulations Sir!!
17-12 Shah Schulman Award of IIChE, for the Best Ph.D Thesis in Colloid and Interfaces Science, 2016 awarded to Nandini. Congratulation Dr. Nandini Bhandaru!!
16-12 Dr. Rabibrata Mukherjee invited to be Associate Editor of Bulletin of Materials Science (2017-2019).http://www.springer.com/materials/journal/12034
01-12 A novel collaborative effort by our lab and Prof. J. Chatterjee of School of Medical Science on "Patterned membranens of Silk and Honey as Therapeutic patch for treatment of Oral Cancer" gets major media coverage across India! Some links: Business-standard,Deccanchronicle, Hindustantimes
12-11 "Programmable Nanopatterns by Controlled Debonding of Soft Elastic Films" published in ACS Applied Materails and Interfaces.
10-11 Collaborative work with Dr. Rahul Banerjee of NCL Pune on COF membranes and nano sheets published in Advanced Materials and Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
05-09 Happy Teachers Day Sir! Thank you for making Instability Lab a place of vast knowledge, creativity and innovation.
We thank all the teachers whose encouragement and inspiration drives us!
20-08 Anuja recieves DST SERB funding for attending RheoSAS 2016, In-situ rheology for neutron and X-ray scattering techniques at Grenoble France.
02-08 "Differential Behavior of Normal and Fibrotic Fibroblasts under the Synergistic Influence of Micropillar Topography and the Rigidity of Honey/Silk-Fibroin Substrates", a work combining concepts of surface engineering and therapeutics gets published in ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering
30-07 Nandini recieves her PhD during the 62nd convocation at IIT Kharagpur. Congratulations Dr. Nandini Bhandaru!
28-07 Meneka Banik presents her extension seminar.
27-07 Anuja Das sucessfully presents her Enhancement seminar and Palsh dhara presents his Extension seminar. Congratulations!!
25-07 Poulomi Chakraborty presents her Registration cum Enhancement Seminar.
22-07 Hearty Congratulations to Dr. Nandini Bhandaru for successfully defending her thesis!!
13-07 "Instability and Soft Patterning of Polymer Thin Films" a course by Dr. Rabibrata Mukherjee continuous to be one of the top feedback course in the Institute!
06-07 Meneka Banik will be attending ECIS 2016 at Rome, Italy.
04-05 Congratulations to Nandini on wining the EMRS Graduate student award at EMRS spring meeting 2016 for the symposium "Advanced materials for printing"!!
28-04 Nandini presents her synopsis seminar successfully.
03-02 Anuja, Aditya and Nandini will be presenting their research works at EMRS 2016 Spring Meeting at Lille France.
2015
19-12 "Thermally amendable and thermally stable thin film of POSS tethered Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) synthesized by ATRP" Collaborative work with Prof Nikhil Singha in European Polymer Journal
06-12 Anuja Das, Meneka Banik and Nandini win joint second best oral presentation award at Chemference 2015 IIT Hyderabad. Congartulations!!
20-11 "Confinement Induced Ordering in Dewetting of Ultra Thin Polymer Bilayers on Nano Patterned Substrates" published in Nanoscale.
10-09 Nandini Bhandaru gets first prize for Poster Presentation at the Departmental Research Scholars Day 2015
18-09 Soft Matter Review on Instability,Self Organization and Pattern Formation in Thin Soft Films.
11-09 Nandini Bhandaru wins the MRS Young Scientist Award at CSIR-CGCRI.
07-09 Collaborative review paper on Polyelectrolyte Brushes published in Soft Mater
03-09 Meneka Banik presents her Enhancement Seminar.
02-09 Nandini's Work on polymer blend selected for presentation at MRS fall meeting 2015 at Boston.
01-09 Nandini presented her Extension seminar.
22-07 Palash Dhara completes his registration seminar successfully.
20-07 Congratulations to Anuja Das for successfully presenting her registration seminar.
15-07 Congratulations to Meneka Banik for successfully completing her registration seminar.
06-07 "Instability and Soft Patterning of Polymer Thin Films" a course by Dr. Rabibrata Mukherjee is one of the best taught course in the Institute this year!!
27-06 Congratulations to Nandini for best presentation award at IIMR 2015 CGCRI.
23-06 Anuja recieves ESONN 2015 CEFIPRA Fellowship! Heartiest Congratulations
Anuja and Meneka's work accepted for oral presentation at European Coating Symposium 2015
Short Term Course on "Introduction to Nano Structured Polymeric Materials" by Prof. Alamgir Karim and Dr. Rabibrata Mukherjee (8th June to 19th June, IITKGP)
Nandini successfully presented her paper titled "Alternate Multi-Polymer Nano Droplet Array on Topographically Structured Surfaces" at DPG Spring meeting 2015, Berlin
Congratulations to Aditya and Nikita for winning the first prize at the Asian Paints Paper Contest!!
Another ACS Publication from ISPL : Langmuir- Solvent-Vapor-Assisted Dewetting of Prepatterned Thin Polymer Films: Control of Morphology, Order, and Pattern Miniaturization
Nandini and Anuja wins best poster award for ADA at NANO INDIA 2015 (Sastra University Thanjavur)
2014
Our work on "Alternating Polymer Droplet Array" gets published in Nano Letters