Past Events

Jan 25, 2018
Abstract: The specialty chemicals and pharmaceutical industry is conventionally (and almost entirely) based on the use of batch operations. Although batch or semi-batch processing offers some…
Jan 18, 2018
Abstract: Security is the practice of protecting and securing the material of concern from any malicious acts such as the theft of weaponizable chemical material and cyber-attacks on banks. While…
Jan 15, 2018
Abstract: The main role of chemist is to design and improve processes for the production of chemicals foods pharmaceuticals and many other products used in everyday life. In this talk a lot of…
Jan 12, 2018
Abstract: It is often necessary to breach biological barriers during therapeutic interventions in diseases for delivering drugs to organs or across tissues. Similarly it is often necessary to rebuild…
Jan 11, 2018
Abstract: The need for increasing the penetration of renewables into the grid is one of the driving factors that has led to a surge in research on efficient energy storage devices like batteries.…
Jan 11, 2018
Abstract: In this talk some interesting phenomena which occur in bubbles and drops when they rise or fall under the action of gravity will be discussed. First different regimes of an air bubble in…
Jan 04, 2018
Abstract: Improving the energy-efficiency of the molecular separation is key to reduce the carbon footprint of the chemical and the petrochemical industries. Membranes operating with high separation…
Dec 13, 2017
Abstract: Any talk by an oil & gas industry person must begin with the sustainability challenge and this presentation will be no different. The ‘energy transition’ from hydrocarbon to renewable…
Nov 30, 2017
Abstract: In this talk I will present some of our recent work involving the adhesion of mosquitoes to surfaces. Specifically using AFM force measurements we are able to better understand the…
Nov 28, 2017
Abstract: Metal particles of the dimensions of the order of 1 to 100's of nanometers show unique properties that are not clearly evident in their bulk state. These nanoparticles are highly reactive…
Nov 24, 2017
Bio: Dr. Biswas has 24 years of diverse and rich international experience spanning academic and industrial research product development technical service and management of research & technology…
Nov 23, 2017
Abstract: The Indian Pharmaceutical Industry is growing at a rapid pace with an expected revenue potential of USD 55 Billion by 2020. Approximately 70% of the revenue potential is expected from…
Nov 16, 2017
Abstract: Human error plays a predominant role in accidents. Various studies claim that 80% to 85% of all accidents across domains ranging from aviation medicine road transportation nuclear power…
Nov 15, 2017
Abstract: Using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to study the kinetics of drug unbinding is a desirable but difficult task primarily due to the extremely long timescales involved. Recent progress…
Nov 09, 2017
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…
Nov 02, 2017
Abstract: Laminar flow of Newtonian fluids in a tube/pipe becomes unstable at a Reynolds number ∼ 2000 but linear stability analysis predicts that the flow is always stable at all Reynolds number to…
Oct 26, 2017
Abstract: The MSAT – II regulations active since January 1 2011 restricts the annual average benzene level in Gasoline sold in the USA (except California) to 0.62 % vol. Currently FCC gasoline…
Oct 12, 2017
Abstract: Modern industrial chemical activities depend on computational technologies. The information supporting many process and product optimization comes from fundamental molecular simulation…
Oct 05, 2017
Abstract: Membrane vesicles are often used to understand the physics of shape change in real cells. We will discuss growth of narrow membrane tubes from a vesicle. Artificial membrane tubes are…
Sep 28, 2017
Abstract: The different modes of mass transfer are convection diffusion adsorption and reaction which are affected by the associated fluid flow. In this talk I will present analysis of different…