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Ashutosh Sharma
PhD (SUNY Buffalo)
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Research Interest
Nanofabrication and patterning; Colloids & interfaces; Functional and nano-materials; Self-organized patterns and instabilities in thin films; electrospun materials; Wetting, adhesion and friction at soft interfaces; Biomaterials & biosurfaces; Multiscale MEMS/NEMS & Microfluidic Systems; Carbon micro/nanostructures and composites in environment, health and energy.
Specialization
Soft nanotechnology, Colloids & interfaces, Complex fluids, Thin films, Functional Materials
Education
PhD, SUNY Buffalo, 1987
M.S., Penn State, 1984
B.Tech, IITK, 1982
Selected Publications
A. Verma, A. Sharma and G. U. Kulkarni, Ultrafast large area micropattern generation in non-absorbing polymer thin-films by pulsed laser diffraction, Small 7, 758-765 (2011).
P. S. G. Pattader, I. Banerjee, A. Sharma and D. Bandyopadhyay, Multiscale pattern generation in viscoelastic polymer films by spatio-temporal modulation of electric field and control of rheology, Advanced Functional Materials 21, 324-335 (2011).
R. Mukherjee, S. Das, A. Das, S. Sharma, A. K. Raychaudhuri and A. Sharma, Stability and dewetting of metal nanoparticles filled thin polymer films: control of instability length-scale and dynamics, ACS Nano 4, 3709-3724 (2010).
A. Verma and A. Sharma, Enhanced self-organized dewetting of ultrathin polymer films under water-organic solutions: fabrication of sub-micron spherical lens arrays, Advanced Materials 22, 5306-5309 (2010).
N. Arun, A. Sharma, P. S. G. Pattader, I. Banerjee, H. M. Dixit and K. S. Narayan, Electric field Induced patterns in soft visco-elastic films: from long waves of viscous liquids to short waves of elastic solids, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 254502 (2009).
Coordinator & PI, DST Unit on Nanosciences (2007-2016).
Awards & Fellowships
Associate Editor, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2014-).
The Syed Husain Zaheer Medal (a triennial award for Engineering and Technology), Indian National Science Academy (2011).
Infosys Prize in Engineering and Computer Science, Infosys Science Foundation (2010).
Elected Fellow, TWAS--The World Academy of Sciences (2010).
R. C. Mehrotra Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award, Indian Science Congress Association (2010).