2025

• Congratulations to Shreyank for successfully defending his doctoral thesis!

• Anubhav successfully defended his M.Tech. thesis on 'Surfactant-induced modulation of thin droplet spreading over soft substrate. Congratulations!

• Our research work on the hybrid model for electrokinetic and stress-induced flow mechanisms in porous anodic oxide formation has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Electrochemical Society.

• Congratulations to Dr. Dipin on receiving Rajeev and Joyce Gautam Young Faculty Fellowship!

• Athul successfully defended his M.Tech. thesis on 'Role of substrate wettability on the spreading of microbial biofilms and swarms'. Congratulations!

• Shreyank presented his research at the Annual PMRF Symposium-2025, IIT Hyderabad (16-17 March 2025).

• Congratulations to Shreyank for successfully delivering his doctoral Open Seminar!

• Congratulations to Dr. Dipin on his promotion to Associate Professor!

• Congratulations to Sajal for successfully delivering her doctoral Open Seminar!

• We welcome Anurag and Irfan as new Masters students in our group.

• Our research on electric-field dependent scaling law for (di)electrowetting has appeared in Physical Review Fluids.

2024

• Our research on electrokinetics-driven anodic oxide pore formation has been accepted for publication in Journal of The Electrochemical Society.

• Sajal delivered her talk at the Pacific Rim Meeting on Electrochemical and Solid State Science, USA (6–11 October, 2024).

• Congratulations to Dr. Dipin on being elected as the INAE Young Associate for the year 2024.

• Dr. Dipin delivered a talk at the 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Daegu, South Korea (25th–30th Aug. 2024).

• Sajal has secured ANRF International Travel Support for attending the Pacific Rim Meeting on Electrochemical and Solid State Science, USA (6–11 October, 2024). Congratulations!

• Shreyank delivered his talk at the 10th International Bifurcations and Instabilities in Fluid Dynamics (BIFD2024) Symposium, United Kingdom (24–28 June, 2024)

• Our work in collaboration with Prof. S Chandran on the role of polar interactions in the stability of ultrathin polymer solution films has recently been published in Langmuir. 

• Our research on the nature of instability in flow-driven porous anodic oxide has recently been published in Chaos.

• Sajal has won the Jeet Bindra Travel Grant for attending the Pacific Rim Meeting on Electrochemical and Solid State Science, USA (6–11 October, 2024). Congratulations!

• Shreyank has secured ANRF International Travel Support for attending the 10th International Bifurcations and Instabilities in Fluid Dynamics (BIFD2024) Symposium, United Kingdom (24–28 June, 2024). Congratulations! 

• Mayuri successfully defended her M.Tech. thesis on 'High field electrostriction model for porous anodic oxide formation'. Congratulations!

• Shreyanil successfully defended his B.T-M.T. thesis on 'Tuning the stability of ultrathin polymer solution films: Role of polar interactions'. Congratulations!

• Kumuda successfully defended his M.Tech. thesis on 'Global stability analysis of surfactant-induced stretched capillary jets'. Congratulations!

• Our work in collaboration with Prof. S Chandran on evaporating polymer thin films has recently been accepted for publication in ACS Polymers Au. 

• Shreyank and Shreyanil presented their research work at the 5th Indo-German workshop on Advances in Materials, Reactions, and Separation Processes, IIT Kharagpur (19th- 21st Feb. 2024).

• Dr. Dipin delivered his invited talk on "Mathematical modelling of self-propelling droplets " at the 5th Indo-German workshop on Advances in Materials, Reactions, and Separation Processes, IIT Kharagpur (19th–21st Feb. 2024).

• We welcome Athul and Anubhav as new M.Tech students in our group.

• Our work on the development of a unified scaling law for electrified droplets appeared in PRE.

2023

• Sajal, Shreyank and Shreyanil presented their research work at CompFlu'23, IIT Madras (18th-20th Dec. 2023)

• Shreyank presented his research work at the second edition of the Institute Research Symposium, IIT Kanpur (4th-5th Nov. 2023).

• Our research on the role of surfactants on electrified sessile droplets appeared in Langmuir.

• Sajal presented her research at the 244th ECS Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden (8-12 Oct 2023).

• Our research on the electrowetting of charged droplets appeared in Langmuir.

• Karthikeya successfully defended his M.Tech thesis on 'Electrostatically forced Faraday instability in electrolytic fluids'. Congratulations!

• Sajal and Shreyank presented their research at the 11th Conference of the International Marangoni Association in Bordeaux, France (19-22 June 2023).

• IIT Kanpur Summer School on “ Hydrodynamic Instabilities: Theory and Practice ” was held from 17th- 21st July 2023.

• Titir successfully defended her M.Tech thesis on 'Diffusiophoresis-driven pusher to puller transition of active droplets'. Congratulations!

• Aditya successfully defended his B.T.-M.T. thesis on 'Well-posedness of continuum-level constitutive equations for granular flows'. Congratulations!