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Jayesh Bellare

B.Tech., Chemical Engg., I.I.T. Bombay, 1982
Ph.D. Chemical Engg., U. Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A., 1988
PostDoc, Materials Science, M.I.T., Cambridge, U.S.A., 1990
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131
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+91 (22) 2576 7207
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+91 (22) 2422 4582 or 2660 9436
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+91 (22) 2572 6895/3480
Email:
jb[AT]che.iitb.ac.in

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Research Areas

  • Nanotechnology and microengineering; Microstructured materials, devices and processing: surfactants, ceramics, polymers, membranes, soft solids & complex liquids; Cryo-electron and optical microscopy; Image processing; Technical photography; Prototyping, Instrumentation.
  • Awards and Affiliations

    1. ICI Award for Excellence in Process/Product Development, Ind. Inst. of Chem. Engineers, 1996.

    2. Best Microscopist from Developing Countries Award, Microscopy Society of America, 1993

    3. Presidential Award, Electron Microscopy Society of America, 1986

    4. Kazato Grant, International Congress on Electron Microscopy, 1986

    5. NRDC Invention Intelligence/National R&D Council Prize for Automatic R.I. sensor, 1983

    Current Research

    • Liposome and vesicle microreactors
      Liposome and vesicle microreactors, their microstructure, deformability under shear, and reactions in them to produce ultrafine particles.

    • Electron Microscopy of Complex Fluids
      Electron Microscopy of Complex Fluids, including development of new microscopy techniques. Morphology of soft solids and complex liquids.

    • Membrane Technology
      Membrane Technology, including composite, supported, asymmetric, hollow-fiber, and ceramic membranes; their preparation, industrial manufacture and characterization.

    • Artificial organs
      Blood oxygenerators, dialysers; new designs and industrial prduction

    • Ceramic materials
      their precursors, powders and membranes; microstructure development; optical properties; bioglasses.

    • Micro-chemical engineering
      specialized instrumentation, process miniaturization and intensification. Excellent facility set up for cryo-scanning electron microscopy and sample preparation of soft solids and complex liquids; and for Thermal conductivity of fluids: applied to vegetable oils, suspensions and soft solids.

    • Industry interaction
      Retainer consultant to several companies. Over 15 projects in these areas. Several products / processes are commercialized. Over 12 Patents.

    Selected Publications

    1. Jayesh, B., Srivastava, A. and Menon, A., "Electron microscopy of modified aluminum alkoxide microstructures on freeze drying", J. Coll. Interface Sci., 191,521-524 (1997).
    2. Jayesh, B., Haridas, M., Menon, A., Goyal, N. and Chandran, S., "Cryogenic-Scanning Electron Microscopy as a technique to Image sol-to-gel transformation in chelated alkoxide systems", Ceramics International, 22,155-159 (1996).
    3. Jayesh, B., Shah, P.B., and Bandopadhayay, S., "Environmentally degradable starch filled low density polyethylene", Polymer Degradation and Stability, 47, 165-173 (1995).
    4. Jayesh, B., Haridas, M., Menon, A., Goyal, N. and Chandran, S., "Cryo-SEM imaging microstructures in a chelated sol-gel process", Transactions of Indian Ceramic Society, 54, 149 (1995).
    5. Jayesh, B., Menon, A., Prabhu, C.S., Haridas, M. and Mohan, T.R.R., "Insitu formation and imaging of cellular alumina in a Cryo-SEM environment", Journal of Materials Science Letters, 16, 1506 (1997) Cover Page Article)
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