Industry Collaboration Projects Ongoing/Completed

1. Quantify friction & adhesion of skin care & Deo products with skin mimetic substrate under hot and humid conditions
2. Quantify adhesion of sustainable polymer films with skin mimetic substrate under humid / perspiration
3. Pilot Scale Demonstration of Liquid Phase Sulfonation of Aliphatic, Alkyl Aryl and Aromatic Alkylates
4. Development of adhesion capability with simulated invitro perspiration and building design rules based on adhesive energies
5. Design of painless syringe needle assembly inspired by mosquito proboscis
6. Physical characterization of polymerized soil on substrates
7. Correlating tactile feel with experiments
8. Study of adhesion of soot and soils on metals and derive a correlation between extent of adhesion of carbon and polymerized soil with aluminum and steel substrate
9. Correlate qualitative tactile feel of substrates with quantitative, measurable parameters

We will be happy to take up industry projects in the following areas:

1. All aspects of wetting, adhesion, failure and related phenomena occurring at surfaces of different kind and interface
2. Pressure sensitive adhesives: single irreversible adhesion, reversible and repeated applications
3. Skin adhesives
4. Self healable materials and applications
5. Superhydrophobic and Superhydrophilic surfaces and related applications
6. Friction studies on different surfaces
7. Technology, alternative to animal testing
8. Designing surfaces suitable for Heterogeneous Nucleation
9. Surface physical/chemical reaction
10. Emulsion: fundamental aspects and applications
11. Rough surfaces: generation, characterization and application
12. Design of surgical devices used for insertion into tissue

Duration: Minimum 4 months