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style='mso-ansi-language: EN-GB'>Highly deformable, soft elastic, viscoelastic and poroelastic materials occur in many different applications e.g. soft tissues, artificial organs, therapeutic patches, shock absorbers, dampeners, platforms for micro-fluidic device, novel biomaterials, in biology as </span>stems, roots and leaves, sponges, cartilage layers and bones and so on and so forth.<span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> In this variety of applications the</span>se<span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language: EN-GB'> material</span>s are<span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language: EN-GB'>&nbsp; exposed to many different forms of mechanical loads, e.g. tension, compression, torsion, bending which, due to the large deformability of these materials and their complex rheological character, can generate such responses which are different from that commonly observed with the liner elastic systems</span>. In our laboratory we study these materials in the context of adhesion, friction, fracture and failure.</p> <p><b><u><span style='color:blue'><a href="http://home.iitk.ac.in/~aghatak/research.htm">Research problems</a></span></u></b></p> <p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left: 36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:#339933'><a href="Adhesion.htm"><span style='color:#339933'>Design of Bio-inspired Hierarchically Structured&nbsp; Adhesives</span></a></span></b></p> <p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left: 36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2; 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color:#339933'><a href="microfluidics.htm"><b><span style='color:#339933'>Design, Fabric</span></b></a></span><a href="microfluidics.htm"><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#339933'>ation and Application of 3-Dimensionally Oriented&nbsp; Microchannel Systems in Polymeric Materials</span></b></a></p> <p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left: 36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:#339933'><a href="Patterning.htm"><span style='color:#339933'>Patterning by Miniaturization of gels</span></a></span></b></p> <p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left: 36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2; 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-webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing:0px'> <div align="justify"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.0cm; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: -17.05pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt"> <font color="#0000FF"> <span lang="EN-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: auto; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-weight: 700"> S<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt">ub-Surface Fracture of a Thin Metallic Foil under Impact Loading.</span></span></font></p> <span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"><font size="3">Debdip Bhandary, </font> </span> <span lang="EN-US"><font size="3">Edward Peter Arul and Animangsu Ghatak*,</font> </span> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; orphans:2; text-align:auto; widows:2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing:0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect:none; -webkit-text-size-adjust:auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; word-spacing:0px"> To appear in <i>International Journal of Solids and Structure.</i></span><p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b> <span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif"> <font size="3" color="#0000FF">Controlled Crystallization of Macro-molecules using Patterned Substrates in a Sandwiched Plate Geometry.</font></span></b></p> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif"> Anindita Sengupta Ghatak and Animangsu Ghatak*, To appear in <i> Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research</i>. (Special Issue in Honour of Professor M. S. Ananth).</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-autospace: none">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-autospace: none"> <b> <span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%; letter-spacing: -.15pt"> <font size="3" color="#0000FF">Microchannel Embedded Elastomeric Layers For Impact Damping.</font></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-autospace: none"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; letter-spacing: -.15pt"> Debdip Bhandary, Vivek Madnani, Subrata Mondal and Animangsu Ghatak*, <i>Journal of Adhesion</i> 2011<i>,</i> 87, 531-546<i>. </i></span> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; orphans:2; text-align:auto; widows:2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing:0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect:none; -webkit-text-size-adjust:auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; word-spacing:0px"> (Special Issue in Honour of Professor C. Y. Hui).</span></p> <pre>&nbsp;</pre></div> <div align="justify"> <pre><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";color:blue'>Puncturing of soft gels with multi-tip needles.</span><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></b></pre></div> <pre style='text-align: justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Susmita Das and Animangsu </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-language:HI'>Ghatak*</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>,</span><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-bidi-language:HI'> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Journal of the Materials Science</i> 2011, </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>46(9), 2895-2904.</span></pre> <div align="justify"> <pre><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#FF0000">Selected as the May finalist for the Sapphire Prize.</font></b></pre></div> <div align="justify"> <pre><a href="http://www.springer.com/materials?SGWID=0-10041-12-797604-0">http://www.springer.com/materials?SGWID=0-10041-12-797604-0</a></pre></div> <div align="justify"> <pre>&nbsp;</pre></div> <div align="justify"> <pre><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:blue'>Adhesives with patterned sub-surface microstructures.</span></b></pre> </div> </span> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'>Edward Peter Arul and Animangsu Ghatak*, <i>Journal of the Material Science</i> 2011, 46(3), 832--838<span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'>&nbsp;</p> </span> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><b><span style='color:blue'>Peeling off an adhesive layer with spatially varying modulus.</span></b></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'>Animangsu Ghatak*, <i>Physical Review E</i> 2010, 81, 021603.</p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'>&nbsp;</p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><b><span style='color:blue'>Bio-inspired design of hierarchically structured adhesive.</span></b></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'>Edward P. Arul and Animangsu Ghatak*.<i> Langmuir</i> 2009, 25(1), 611 -- 617.<br> &nbsp;</p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><b><span style='color:blue'>Hysteresis of Soft Joints Embedded with Fluid Filled Microchannels.</span></b><br> Animangsu Ghatak*, Abhijit Majumder and Rajendra Kumar. <i>Journal of the Royal Society Interface</i> 2009, 6, 203--208.</p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'>&nbsp;</p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><b><span style='color:blue'>Three Dimensional Multi-helical Micro-fluidic Mixers for Rapid Mixing of Liquids.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'>Mohan Verma, Sambasiva Ganneboyina, Vinayak Rakshith and Animangsu Ghatak* <i>Langmuir</i> 2008, 24(5), 2248-2251.</p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><b><span style='color:blue'>Microfluidic Adhesion Induced by Sub-surface Micro-structures.</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'>Abhijit Majumder, Animangsu Ghatak<sup>*</sup> and Ashutosh Sharma, <i>Science </i>2007, 318, 258-261.</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><b><span style='color:blue'>Kinking Instability of a Highly Deformable Elastic Cylinder.</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'>Animangsu Ghatak* and Apurba Lal Das, <i>Physical Review Letters </i>2007, 99, 076101-1 -- 076101-4.</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt' align="justify"><b><span style='color:blue'>Embedded Template-Assisted Fabrication of Complex Microchannels<br> in PDMS and Design of a Microfluidic Adhesive. </span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt' align="justify">Mohan K. S. Verma, Abhijit Majumder, and Animangsu Ghatak*. <i>Langmuir</i> 2006, 22, 10291-10295</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt' align="justify">&nbsp;</p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt' align="justify"><b><span style='color:blue'>Confinement induced instability of thin elastic film. </span></b></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt' align="justify">Animangsu Ghatak*, <i>Physical Review E. </i>2006, 73, 041601.</p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt' align="justify">&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><b><span style='color:blue'><a href="http://home.iitk.ac.in/~aghatak/long_paper_list.htm">Complete list of papers</a></span></b></p> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <!-- Left Column End --></td> <td width=235 valign=top style='width:176.25pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><!-- Right Column Starts --> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='mso-cellspacing:0cm;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt'> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td valign=top style='padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> <img border="0" src="index.1.jpg" width="220" height="219"></o:p></span></p> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='mso-cellspacing:0cm;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><!-- Press Starts --></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <h2><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Contact Information:<o:p></o:p></span></h2> <h4 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>Animangsu Ghatak<o:p></o:p></span></h4> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Department of Chemical Engineering</p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, UP, India 208016</p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Email:<!-- Press Ends --> aghatak[at]iitk.ac.in </p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Phone: 0091-512-259-7146<!-- Right Column End --> </p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>&nbsp;</p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><u><span style='color:blue'><a href="bio_data_animangsu.pdf">CV</a></span></u></b></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>&nbsp;</p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><u><span style='font-size: 13.5pt;color:#339933'>Announcement:</span></u><span style='color:#CC99FF'> </span></b></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt' align="justify"><b><span style='color:#CC33FF'>We are looking for PhD students to carry out research in the following areas: </span></b></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>&nbsp;</p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='color:#CC33FF'><a href="multifunctional_adhesive.htm">Multifunctional Adhesive</a></span></b></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>&nbsp;</p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='color:#CC33FF'><a href="multi_phase_flow.htm">Multi-phase Flow through Multi-helical Micro-channel System</a></span></b></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>&nbsp;</p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='color:#CC0000'>Interested candidate may please contact Dr. A. Ghatak</span></b></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>&nbsp;</p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:blue'>Recent News from our Group</span></u></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'> </span></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>&nbsp;</p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'> <font size="4" color="#CC6600"><b>5th January, 2011</b></font></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><b> <font size="4" color="#009900">Peter</font><font size="4" color="#CC6600"> has received the </font><font size="4" color="#FF33CC">Peebles Award</font><font size="4" color="#CC6600"> of the Adhesion Society. He has been invited to present his research in the Annual meeting of the Adhesion Society in February, 2011.</font></b></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'> <font size="4" color="#CC6600"><b>Our heartiest congratulations to </font> <font size="4" color="#009900">Edward Peter</font><font size="4" color="#CC6600">.</font></b></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'>&nbsp;</p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><b> <span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#CC6600'>28<sup>th</sup> December, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#CC6600'>The paper of </span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#009900'>Susmita Das</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#CC6600'> on puncturing of soft gel has appeared online in the J. Mater. 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