Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur |

Ongoing Project: Electrorheological Fluids, Flow Behavior and Applications ISIRD grant (IIT Kharagpur), 28Lakhs.

The major research areas which I will explore in recent future are:

1) Rheology of soft-glassy-materials and Electrorheological (ER) fluids.

2) Modeling of Soft-Glassy-Rheology behavior (SGR model).

3) Drainage behavior of free standing liquid thin films of polymeric liquids.

4) Exploiting ER/GER fluids for Lab-on-a-chip technology.

The various research fronts under the above mentioned research domains are described below.

Rheology:

- Elongational flow of Electrorheological Fluids.

- Giant Electrorheological effect (synthesis of GER particles).

- Flow of ER fluids under confinement (investigating the spatial cooperativity)

- Rheology of molecularly thin liquid-film (Surface-Force-Balance technique).

Drainage behavior of Liquid Thin films of polymeric liquids:

- Modeling of drainage in free standing liquid thin films of polymeric liquids

- Understanding the long-term stability (in terms of life-time) of liquid thin films of polymeric liquid (role of structural forces/disjoining pressure in molecularly thin regime)

- Role of molecular structure towards long term stability of liquid thin films.

-What sets the initial thickness of a films? (effect of various physical parameters: surface tension, viscosity, film-pulling speed)

-checking the possibility of very stable liquid thin film as nano-reactors.

All Publications

Influence of incorporation of peanut protein isolate on pasting, rheological and textural properties of rice starch Amaresh, Mitra J., Kaushal M. By Journal of Food Engineering 341 - (2023)
Analyzing aging under oscillatory strain field through the soft glassy rheology model Kaushal M., Joshi Y. By The Journal of chemical physics 144 (24), 244504 - (2016)
Laminar planar hydraulic jump in thin film flow of power-law liquids experimental, analytical and numerical study Samanta B., Ray S. , Kaushal M. , Das G. By Physics of Fluids 34 1-15 (2022)
Laminar planar hydraulic jump in thin film flow of power-law liquids - Experimental, analytical and numerical study Samanta B., Ray S., Kaushal M., Das G. By Physics of Fluids 34 - (2022)
Printable Carbon Nanotube-Liquid Elastomer-Based Multifunctional Adhesive Sensors for Monitoring Physiological Parameters Selvan T M., Sharma S. , Naskar S. , Mondal S. , Kaushal M. , Mondal T. By ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces - (2022)
Biomimetic silk fibroin and xanthan gum blended hydrogels for connective tissue regeneration Byram P.K., Sunka K.C., Barik A., Kaushal M., Dhara S., Chakravorty N. By International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 165 874-882 (2020)
Microfluidic Thin Film Pressure Balance for the Study of Complex Thin Films Andrieux S., Muller . , Kaushal M. , Vera . S., Bollache . , Honorez . , Cagna . , Drenckhan W. By Lab on a Chip 21 412-420 (2020)
Signatures of Overaging in an Aqueous Dispersion of Carbopol Agarwal M., Kaushal M., Joshi Y.M. By Langmuir 36 14849-14863 (2020)
Tailorable hydrogel of gelatin with silk fibroin and its activation/crosslinking for enhanced proliferation of fibroblast cells Kulkarni G., Guha Ray P., Byram P.K., Kaushal M., Dhara S., Das S. By International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 164 4073-4083 (2020)
Three-dimensional yielding in anisotropic materials: Validation of Hill's criterion Kaushal M., Joshi Y.M. By Soft Matter 15 4915-4920 (2019)