Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Our research activities are in the areas of transport phenomena, reaction engineering, materials processing and micro/nano fabrication leading to the technology development of chemical sensors. We study the physical modification (e.g. utilizing nanostructures) and chemical modification (e.g. utilizing self assembled monolayers) to fabricate functional sensing surfaces, transport phenomena of the analytes to these surfaces (including in microfluidic units), the specific recognition reactions at these surfaces, charge transport in the semiconducting materials, and device design. These chemical sensors (including biosensors) have applications in healthcare, environmental monitoring, industrial safety, and security. We utilize both silicon based platforms and flexible printable organic electronics based platforms for these devices.
Office
Southern Laboratories 114
Department of Chemical
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 20801
PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Houston, Dec 1999.
M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 1995.
B.Tech, Chemical Engineering, I.I.T. Kharagpur, 1992.
Fluid mechanics
Heat transfer
Materials
Microfluidic immunosensor with electrochemical detection; Electrolyte-Insulator-Semiconductor (EIS) sensors; Flexible nanoscale conducting polymer films as temperature sensors; Nanostructured conducting polymeric materials as gas sensors; Sensors for detection of heavy metals in water
Project Scientists/Engineers
Dr. Satyendra Kumar
Dr. Ramchander ChepyalaPh.D. students
Ms. Dharitri Rath
Mr. Narendra Kumar
Ms. Mousumi Sinha
Mr. Abhi Mukherjee
Ms. Kusumita Dutta
Ms. Shipra Verma
Ms. Deepa BhatM.Tech. students
Mr. Ibrahim Faruqi
Mr. Anirudh Bendapudi
Ms. Suram Hima
Ms. Arpita Saha
Mr. Abhay P. Tiwari
Ms. Sujata SenapatiProject Associate
Mr. Sandeep Choudhury
Mr. Neeraj Singh Yadav