Start
Nov 09, 2017 - 17:00
End
Nov 09, 2017 - 18:00
Venue
Room 118 Chemical Engg Dept
Event Type
Speaker
Dr. Kunal Mondal Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering North Carolina State University USA
Title
Soft-Nanomaterials Interfaces Micro-Nanofabrication to Build Tools and Functional Devices
Abstract: New competitive technologies should be developed to deal with the country’s emerging problems in healthcare environmental agriculture energy and security sectors to benefit a broad spectrum of society while using minimal resources. Multifunctional interfaces of nanomaterials can be used to tackle such glitches by developing sensors and detection devices such as biosensors explosives trace detectors mechanical-stress sensors wastewater management systems and energy storage devices owing to their nanoscopic surface properties. Considering this several catalytic and photocatalytic metal/metal oxide semiconductor nanostructures have been synthesized and used for environmental remediation point-of-care diagnostics and energy storage applications. Various physicochemical characterization techniques were also used to study their properties in nanoscale. Furthermore effort was made on surface patterning and fabricating stretchable electronics by integration of conducting liquid metal in soft elastomers to explore ways to utilize these ‘softer than skin’ materials for bioelectronic applications. Finally this concludes with an outlook and future challenges of these materials within this context.Bio-sketch: Dr. Kunal Mondal is a post-doctoral research associate (2015-till date) at the North Carolina State University USA in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering with Prof. Jan Genzer and Prof. Michael D. Dickey. He received his Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (2010-2015) under the supervision of Prof. Ashutosh Sharma. His M.Sc. (Applied Physics) and M.Tech. (Materials Engineering) degrees are from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur (2006-2010). Kunal’s research interests are in micro/nano fabrication of functional materials colloids and interfaces of soft nanostructures self and directed assembly nano/micro-electronics microfluidics photovoltaics polymer thin-films carbon nanomaterials and composites flexible and stretchable electronics liquid metal carbon MEMS/NEMS in health energy and environmental applications.
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