The title of the thesis was “ENERGY CONVERSION IN NANOCHANNELS GRAFTED WITH POLYELECTROLYTE AND POLYZWITTERION BRUSHES”….Congrats Jahin !!!!!
August 2018: Jahin Patwary successfully defends his MS thesis Read More »
SMIEL PhD student has been awarded the prestigious STLE (Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers) Scholarship. Congrats Parth !!!!!
July 2018: STLE Scholarship for Parth Read More »
Prof. Siddhartha Das has been awarded the IIT Kharagpur inaugural Young Alumni Achievers Award (YAAA) for successful IITKGP alumni under 40 years. The announcement can be found in this link
July 2018: Prof. Siddhartha Das has been awarded the IIT Kharagpur YAAA Read More »
In this paper, we describe theoretically a most remarkable situation where end-charged polyelectrolyte brushes significantly enhance the diffusioosmotic transport in nanochannels by localizing the electric double layer charge density away from the channel walls…this is Raja’s first paper, Harnoor’s 6th, and Haoyuan 8th paper from the group. A BIG congratulations to all of them !!!!!
July 2018: Paper accepted in Journal of Physical Chemistry B Read More »
Prof. Das delivers an invited talk titled “Modeling Transport in Microfluidic Systems: Towards Better Equipping Ourselves for Solving Biomedical Engineering Problems” at US Food and Drug Administration
June 2018: Prof. Das delivers an invited talk at FDA Read More »
In our 2015 Nature Communication paper, we have provided a force-based argument to explain the drop motion. A recent paper in PNAS claimed our theory to be flawed on the basis of an energy-dissipation-based argument. In this paper, which is a Letter to the Editor, we showed that the claim of this PNAS paper was
June 2018: Paper accepted in PNAS Read More »
In this paper, we propose a new design where biomimetic nanoparticles (NPs) use electrostatic interactions to simultaneously promote specific adhesion and prevent non-specific adhesion to plasma membranes.
May 2018: Paper accepted in Applied Physics Letters Read More »
In this paper, we study the force-driven translocation of a water nanodrop through a holey graphene matrix demonstrating a capillarity-mediated breakdown of Darcy’s Law.
May 2018: Paper accepted in Journal of Physical Chemistry C Read More »
In this paper, we show that in nanochannels functionalized with end-charged polyelectrolyte brushes one can significantly augment the efficiency of the electrokinetic energy conversion.
May 2018: Paper accepted in Soft Matter Read More »
The thesis topic was “BILAYER MEMBRANE ELECTROSTATICS AND CHARGE-REGULATED MEMBRANE NANOPARTICLE INTERACTIONS”. Shayandev is 2nd PhD to graduate from SMIEL…many congratulations Shayandev
May 2018: Shayandev successfully defends his PhD Thesis Read More »