Thematic Unit of Excellence on soft nanofabrication with applications in energy, environment and Health at IIT Kanpur set up to provide a state-of-the-art facility and resources for carrying out research and development activities in the areas of soft nanofabrication.

Sandeep Verma
Department of Chemistry
Coordinator, Thematic Unit of Excellence

email: sverma@iitk.ac.in

phone: +91-512-259-7643

Area of Interest: areas of nucleobase and peptide scaffolds as artificial enzymes and disease models, chemical origins of life and biopolymer-mineral composites as bone formation mimics.

Ashutosh Sharma
Department of Chemical Engineering
On Leave

email: ashutos@iitk.ac.in

phone: +91-512-259-7026

Area of Interest: Confined Soft Materials, Nanomechanics, Meso-Patterning, Colloids and Interfaces, Wetting and Adhesion, Functional Interfaces

Sri Sivakumar
Department of Chemical Engineering
Co-Coordinator and Co-Project Investigator, Thematic Unit of Excellence

email: srisiva@iitk.ac.in

phone: +91-512-259-7697

Area of Interest: Synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials, Layer-by-Layer (LbL) assembly, Polymer capsules, Thin films, Drug delivery, and Photonic crystals

Bikramjit Basu
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Co-Investigator, Thematic Unit of Excellence

email: bikram@iitk.ac.in

phone: +91-512-259-7771

Area of Interest: sturctual ceramics and functional biomaterials.

P.K.Bhattacharya
Department of Chemical Engineering
Co-Investigator, Thematic Unit of Excellence

email: pkbhatta@iitk.ac.in

phone: +91-512-259-7093

Area of Interest: Membrane Separations; Environmental Pollution; Process Modeling

Shantanu Bhattacharya
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Co-Investigator, Thematic Unit of Excellence

email: bhattacs@iitk.ac.in

phone: +91-512-259-7643

Area of Interest: Bio MEMS, Lab on Chip, Nano Technology, Microsystems Fabrication and MicroFluids.

Ashish Garg
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Co-Investigator, Thematic Unit of Excellence

email: ashishg@iitk.ac.in

phone: +91-512-259-7904

Area of Interest: Multiferroic materials, thin films and devices as well as on organic solar cells

Animangsu Ghatak
Department of Chemical Engineering
Co-Investigator, Thematic Unit of Excellence

email: aghatak@iitk.ac.in

phone: +91-512-259-7146

Area of Interest: Adhesion and friction on soft interfaces, Fracture of soft thin sheets, Bio-inspired approaches in design of engineering materials

Raju Kumar Gupta
Department of Chemical Engineering
Co-Investigator, Thematic Unit of Excellence

email: guptark[AT]iitk.ac.in

phone: 0512-259-6972

Area of Interest: Synthesis and exploitation of organic molecules, polymers and surface-functionalized nanoparticles and their assembly for electronics and energy applications.

Krishnacharya
Department of Physics
Co-Investigator, Thematic Unit of Excellence

email: kcharya@iitk.ac.in

phone: +91-512-259-7968

Area of Interest: manipulation of wetting morphologies on topographically structured substrates and open microfluidics.

J. Ramkumar
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Co-Investigator, Thematic Unit of Excellence

email: jrkumar@iit.ac.in

phone: +91-512-259-7546

Area of Interest: Micro/Nano Manufacturing & Machining Composites

Ashok Kumar
Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering
Co-Investigator, Thematic Unit of Excellence

email: ashokkum@iitk.ac.in

phone: 512-259-4051
Area of Interest: Process development for the production of therapeutics from mammalian cell culture

Ashwani Kumar Thakur
Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering
Co-Investigator, Thematic Unit of Excellence

email: akthakur@iitk.ac.in

phone: +91-512-259-4077

Area of Interest: Protein aggregation in diseases and therapeutic design; self assembly of proteins; biopharmaceuticals.

Nishith Verma
Department of Chemical Engineering
Co-Investigator, Thematic Unit of Excellence

email: nishith@iitk.ac.in

phone: +91-512-259-6124

Area of Interest: Adsorption,Environmental Pollution Control,Synthesis and Application of Carbon Nanofibres and Nanoparticle,Mathematical Modelling and Simulation,Transport Phenomena

Vivek Verma
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Co-Investigator, Thematic Unit of Excellence

email: vverma@iitk.ac.in

phone: +91-512-259-7672
Area of Interest: Protein patterning, hybrid synthetic devices, micro-fabrication, nanocomposites

Research and Administrative Staff:

Rajesh Sharma

Senior Project Manager (Administrative)

email: sharmar@iitk.ac.in
phone: +91-512-259-6239

Nandini Bhandaru
INSPIRE Faculty


email: bnandini@iitk.ac.in
phone: +91-512-259-6272

Prabhakar Rai
INSPIRE Faculty

email: prkrai@iitk.ac.in
phone: +91-512-259-6268

Rajneesh Kr. Prajapati
Senior Project Scientist

email: rajkp@iitk.ac.in
phone: +91-512-259-6264

Divyanshu Verma
Junior Assistant

email: dverma@iitk.ac.in
phone: +91-512-259-6264

Sandip Patil
Project Scientist

email: psandip@iitk.ac.in
phone: +91-512-259-7030

Seema Sharma

Senior Project Associate
(Optical Profilometry,Ellipsometer,Raman Spectrometry)

email: seemas@iitk.ac.in
phone: +91-512-259-6264

Deepali D. Ubale
Project Associate (AFM and DLS)

email: ubaled@iitk.ac.in
phone: +91-512-259-6385

Yogesh Ram Gopal Singh
Project Associate

email: yrgsingh1991@gmail.com
phone: +91-512-259-6271

Sayma Ayaz
Project Associate (Lithography)


email: saymaa@iitk.ac.in
phone: +91-512-259-6264

Gaurav Chauhan
Project Scientist

email: gauravpharmaorg@gmail.com
phone: +91-512-259-6272

Ashish Sharma
Project Associate

email: ashishsm@iitk.ac.in
phone: +91-512-259-6268

Kanhaiya Lal
Assistant Project Manager

email: kanhaiy@iitk.ac.in
phone: +91-512-259-6263


Satya Prakash

Supporting Staff

phone: +91-512-259-6263