Chemical Engineering

• SERB - STAR
• Faculty Excellence, IIT KGP
• Kishore Memorial Award (2016)
• MRSI Medal (2014)

Journal
• Evaporative drying of a water droplet on liquid infused sticky surfaces Sahoo S., Mukherjee R. By Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 657 - (2023)
• Nanoparticle-Mediated Stabilization of a Thin Polymer Bilayer Das A., Dey A.B., Manna G., Sanyal M.K., Mukherjee R. By Macromolecules 55 1657-1668 (2022)
• Detailed morphological and kinetic studies of cellulose biosynthesis from Leifsonia soli Rastogi A., Sahoo S., Bandyopadhyay T.K., Mukherjee R., Banerjee R. By Polymer 242 - (2022)
• Phase separation and dewetting of polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) thin films on flat and patterned substrates Dhara P., Mukherjee R. By Journal of Molecular Liquids 341 - (2021)
• Evaluation of grain boundaries as percolation pathways in quartz-rich continental crust using Atomic Force Microscopy Dobe R., Das A., Mukherjee R., Gupta S. By Scientific Reports 11 9831- (2021)
• Substrate wettability guided oriented self assembly of Janus particles Banik M., Sett S., Bakli C., Raychaudhuri A.K., Chakraborty S., Mukherjee R. By Scientific Reports 11 1182- (2021)
• Evaporation-induced alterations in oscillation and flow characteristics of a sessile droplet on a rose-mimetic surface Kabi P., Razdan V., Roy D., Bansal L., Sahoo S., Mukherjee R., Chaudhuri S., Basu S. By Soft Matter 17 1487-1496 (2021)
• Non-wetting liquid-infused slippery paper Bandyopadhyay S., Santra S., Das S.S., Mukherjee R., Chakraborty S. By Langmuir 37 13627-13636 (2021)
• Feature Size Modulation in Dewetting of Nanoparticle-Containing Ultrathin Polymer Films Das A., Mukherjee R. By Macromolecules 54 2242-2255 (2021)
• Improved Mesenchymal Stem Cell Proliferation, Differentiation, Epithelial Transition, and Restrained Senescence on Hierarchically Patterned Porous Honey Silk Fibroin Scaffolds Mukhopadhyay A., Das A., Mukherjee S., Rajput M., Gope A., Chaudhary A., Choudhury K., Barui A., Chatterjee J., Mukherjee R. By ACS Applied Bio Materials 4 4328-4344 (2021)
• Ordering in Dewetting of a Thin Polymer Bilayer with a Topographically Patterned Interface Bhandaru N., Mukherjee R. By Macromolecules 54 4517-4530 (2021)
• Influence of Substrate Surface Properties on Spin Dewetting, Texture, and Phase Transitions of 5CB Liquid-Crystal Thin Films Dhara P., Mukherjee R. By The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 124 1293-1300 (2020)
• Pattern-Directed Phase Transitions and VOC Sensing of Liquid Crystal Films Ravi B., Chakraborty S. , Bhattacharjee M. , Bhandaru N. , Thakur S. , Gooh-pattader P. S., Mukherjee R. , Bandyopadhyay D. By Industrial Engineering Chemistry & Reseach 59 1902-1913 (2020)
• Pd nanoparticle-decorated hydrogen plasma-treated TiO2 for photoelectrocatalysis-based solar energy devices Bhattacharyya R., Adak D., Chakrabarty P., Majumdar P., Mukherjee R., Patra S., Mondal A., Bhattacharyya S., Saha H. By ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2 3936-3945 (2020)
• Nanoparticle Induced Morphology Modulation in Spin Coated PS/PMMA Blend Thin Films Das A., Dey A.B., Chattopadhyay S., De G., Sanyal M.K., Mukherjee R. By Langmuir 36 15270-15282 (2020)
• Evaporative Drying of Sodium Chloride Solution Droplet on a Thermally Controlled Substrate Basu N., Mukherjee R. By The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 124 1266-1274 (2020)
• High Temperature Durability of Oleoplaned Slippery Copper Surfaces Bandyopadhyay S., Khare S. , Bhandaru N. , Chakraborty S. , Mukherjee R. By Langmuir 36 4135-4143 (2020)
• Dual Cross-linked Honey Coupled 3D Antimicrobial Alginate Hydrogels for Cutaneous Wound Healing Mukhopadhyay A., Rajput M. , Barui A. , Chatterjee S. S., Pal . K., Chatterjee J. , Mukherjee R. By Materials Science & Engineering C 116 111218- (2020)
• Hydrophobic recovery of cross-linked polydimethylsiloxane films and its consequence in soft nano patterning Bhandaru N., Agarwal N. , Banik M. , Mukherjee R. , Sharma A. By Bulletin of Materials Science 43 186-186 (2020)
• Sulfonated co-poly(ether imide)s with alkyne groups: Fabrication of crosslinked membranes and studies on PEM properties including MFC performance Kumar A.G., Saha S., Tiwari B.R., Ghangrekar M.M., Das A., Mukherjee R., Banerjee S. By Polymer Engineering and Science 60 2097-2110 (2020)
• Polymer Thin-Film Dewetting-Mediated Growth of Wettability-Controlled Titania Nanorod Arrays for Highly Responsive, Water-Stable Self-powered UV Photodetectors Chakrabarty P., Ghorai A. , Ray S. K., Mukherjee R. By ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2 2895-2905 (2020)
• Flow and deformation characteristics of a flexible microfluidic channel with axial gradients in wall elasticity Karan P., Das S. S., Mukherjee R. , Chakraborty J. , Chakraborty S. By Soft Matter 16 5777-5786 (2020)
• Light Trapping-Mediated Room-Temperature Gas Sensing by Ordered ZnO Nano Structures Decorated with Plasmonic Au Nanoparticles Chakrabarty P., Banik M. , Gogurla N. , Santra S. , Ray S. K., Mukherjee R. By ACS Omega 4 12071-12080 (2019)
• Electrodynamic-contact-line-lithography with nematic liquid crystals for template-less E-writing of mesopatterns on soft surfaces Roy P., Mukherjee R., Bandyopadhyay D., Gooh Pattader P.S. By Nanoscale 11 16523-16533 (2019)
• Colloidal Transfer Printing Mediated Fabrication of Zinc Oxide Nanorods for Self Cleaning Applications Banik M., Chakrabarty P. , Das A. , Ray S. K., Mukherjee R. By Advanced Materials Interfaces 6 1900063- (2019)
• Dynamics of droplet impingement on bioinspired surface: Insights into spreading, anomalous stickiness and break-up Roy D., Pandey K., Banik M., Mukherjee R., Basu S. By Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 475 20190260- (2019)
• Replicating and Resolving Wetting and Adhesion Characteristics of a Rose Petal Dasgupta S., Ghosh U. U., Nair S. , Das A. , Mukherjee R. By Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 561 9-17 (2019)
• Reversible morphological switching and deformation hysteresis in electric field mediated instability of thin elastic films Sahoo S., Bhandaru N., Mukherjee R. By Soft Matter 15 3828-3834 (2019)
• Phase transition and dewetting of a 5CB liquid crystal thin film on a topographically patterned substrate Dhara P., Mukherjee R. By RSC Advances 9 21685-21694 (2019)
• Tunable adhesion and slip on a bio-mimetic sticky soft surface Bandyopadhyay S., Sriram S.M., Parihar V., Das Gupta S., Mukherjee R., Chakraborty S. By Soft Matter 15 9031-9040 (2019)
• Tailored topography: a novel fabrication technique using an elasticity gradient Parihar V., Bandyopadhyay S. , Das S. , Mukherjee R. , Chakraborty S. , Dasgupta S. By Soft Matter 14 7034-7044 (2018)
• Controlled nanoscale electrohydrodynamic patterning using mesopatterned template Dwivedi S., Narayanan R. , Chaudhary R. , Mukherjee R. , Atta A. By ACS Omega 3 9781-9789 (2018)
• Non lithographic block copolymer directed self-assembled and plasma treated self-cleaning transparent coating for photovoltaic modules and other solar energy devices Adak D., Ghosh S., Chakraborty P., Srivatsa K.M.K., Mondal A., Saha H., Mukherjee R., Bhattacharyya R. By Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 188 127-139 (2018)
• Deducing Multiple Interfacial Dynamics during Polymeric Foaming Chandan M. R., Naskar N. , Das A. , Mukherjee R. , G H. By Langmuir 34 8024-8030 (2018)
• Beyond coffee ring: Anomalous self-assembly in evaporating nanofluid droplet on a sticky biomimetic substrate Bansal L., Seth P., Sahoo S., Mukherjee R., Basu S. By Applied Physics Letters 113 - (2018)
• Fabrication of Ordered 2D Colloidal Crystals on Flat and Patterned Substrates by Spin Coating Banik M., Mukherjee R. By ACS Omega 3 13422-13432 (2018)
• Transfer printing of colloidal crystals based on UV mediated degradation of a polymer thin film Banik M., Bhandaru N., Mukherjee R. By Chemical Communications 54 3484-3487 (2018)
• Transition from Spin Dewetting to continuous film in spin coating of Liquid Crystal 5CB Dhara P., Bhandaru N., Das A., Mukherjee R. By Scientific Reports 8 - (2018)
• Capillary Force Lithography Pattern-Directed Self-Assembly (CFL-PDSA) of Phase-Separating Polymer Blend Thin Films Liu X., Bhandaru N. , Banik M. , Wang X. , Al-enizi A. M., Karim A. , Mukherjee R. By ACS Omega 3 2161-2168 (2018)
• Enhanced performance of hybrid self-biased heterojunction photodetector on soft-lithographically patterned organic platform Chakrabarty P., Gogurla N., Bhandaru N., Ray S.K., Mukherjee R. By Nanotechnology 29 - (2018)
• Morphology modulation in evaporative drying mediated crystallization of sodium chloride solution droplet with surfactant Basu N., Mukherjee R. By Soft Matter 14 7883-7893 (2018)
• Therapeutic interfaces of honey in diabetic wound pathology Sarkar S., Mukhopadhyay A. , Chaudhary A. , Rajput M. , Pawar H. S., Mukherjee R. , Das A. K., Banerjee P. , Chatterjee J. By Wound Medicine 18 21-32 (2017)
• Selective Molecular Separation by Interfacially Crystallized Covalent Organic Framework Thin Films Dey K., Pal M. , Rout K. C., Kunjattu S. H., Das A. , Mukherjee R. , Kharul U. K., Banerjee R. By Journal of the American Chemical Society 139 13083-13091 (2017)
• A new class of self-healable hydrophobic materials based on ABA triblock copolymer via RAFT polymerization and Diels-Alder ?click chemistry? Pramanik N. B., Mondal P. , Mukherjee R. , Singha N. K. By Polymer 119 195-205 (2017)
• Programmable Nanopatterns by Controlled Debonding of Soft Elastic Films Bhandaru N., Sharma A. , Mukherjee R. By ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 9 19409-19416 (2017)
• Programming feature size in the thermal wrinkling of metal polymer bilayer by modulating substrate viscoelasticity Das A., Banerji A. , Mukherjee R. By ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 9 23255-23262 (2017)
• Formation and control of secondary nanostructures in electro-hydrodynamic patterning of ultra-thin films Dwivedi S., V. , Mukherjee R. , Atta A. By Thin Solid Films 642 241-251 (2017)
• Differential Behavior of Normal and Fibrotic Fibroblast under Synergistic Influence of Micropillar Topography and Rigidity of Honey/Silk-Fibroin Substrate Rajput M., Bhandaru N. , Anura A. , Pal . , Pal B. , Paul R. R., Chatterjee J. , Mukherjee R. By ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 2 1528-1539 (2016)
• Thermally amendable and thermally stable thin film of POSS tethered Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) synthesized by ATRP Ata S., Dhara P. , Mukherjee R. , Singha N. K. By European Polymer Journal 75 276-290 (2016)
• Confinement induced ordering in dewetting of ultra-thin polymer bilayers on nanopatterned substrates Bhandaru N., Das A. , Mukherjee R. By Nanoscale 8 1073-1087 (2016)
• Solvent-Vapor-Assisted Dewetting of Prepatterned Thin Polymer Films: Control of Morphology, Order, and Pattern Miniaturization Bhandaru N., Gooh-pattader P. S., Faruqui D. , Mukherjee R. , Sharma A. By Langmuir 31 3203-3214 (2015)
• GaAs metal-oxide-semiconductor based non-volatile flash memory devices with InAs quantum dots as charge storage nodes Islam S. M., Chowdhury S. , Sarkar K. , Nagabhushan B. , Banerji P. , Chakraborty S. , Mukherjee R. By AIP Conference Proceedings 1665 050035- (2015)
• Interplay of Substrate Surface Energy and Nanoparticle Concentration in Suppressing Polymer Thin Film Dewetting Roy S., Bandyopadhyay D. , Karim A. , Mukherjee R. By Macromolecules 48 373-382 (2015)
• Low temperature MOCVD growth of high density and defect free InAs quantum dots on (100) p-GaAs substrates for nonvolatile flash memory applications Islam S. M., Biswas P. , Banerji P. , Mukherjee R. By Journal of Nanoscience Letter 4 26- (2014)
• Ordered Alternating Binary Polymer Nanodroplet Array by Sequential Spin Dewetting Bhandaru N., Das A. , Salunke N. , Mukherjee R. By Nano Letters 14 7009-7016 (2014)
• Thermally Tailored Gradient Topography Surface on Elastomeric Thin Films Roy S., Bhandaru N. , Das R. , G H. , Mukherjee R. By ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 6 6579-6588 (2014)
• Control of Morphology in Pattern Directed Dewetting of a Thin Polymer Bilayer Roy S., Biswas D. , Salunke N. , Das A. , Vutukuri P. , Singh R. , Mukherjee R. By Macromolecules 46 935-948 (2013)
• Lithographic Tuning of Polymeric Thin Film Surfaces by Stress Relaxation Bhandaru N., Roy S. , Suruchi S. , G H. , Mukherjee R. By ACS Macro Letters 2 195-200 (2013)
• Influence of Substrate Wettability on the Morphology of Thin Polymer Films Spin-Coated on Topographically Patterned Substrates Roy S., Ansari K. J., Jampa S. S., Vutukuri P. , Mukherjee R. By ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 4 1887-1896 (2012)
• Ordered to Isotropic Morphology Transition in Pattern-Directed Dewetting of Polymer Thin Films on Substrates with Different Feature Heights Roy S., Mukherjee R. By ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 4 5375-5385 (2012)
• Creating Self-Organized Submicrometer Contact Instability Patterns in Soft Elastic Bilayers with a Topographically Patterned Stamp Mukherjee R., Sharma A. By ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 4 355-362 (2012)
• Creation of Self-Organized Complex Meso Patterns in Sol Gel Thin Films by Confined Capillary Dynamics Roy R. D., Sil D. , Jana S. , Bhandaru N. , Bhadra S. K., Biswas P. K., Mukherjee R. By Industrial Engineering Chemistry & Research 51 9546-9553 (2012)
• Stability and Dewetting of Metal Nanoparticle Filled Thin Polymer Films: Control of Instability Length Scale and Dynamics Mukherjee R., Das S. , Das A. , Sharma S. K., Raychaudhuri A. K., Sharma A. By ACS Nano 4 3709-3724 (2010)
• Solvent Vapor-Assisted Imprinting of Polymer Films Coated on Curved Surfaces with Flexible PVA Stamps Mukherjee R., Patil G. K., Sharma A. By Industrial Engineering Chemistry & Research 48 8812-8818 (2009)
• Control of Self-Organized Contact Instability and Patterning in Soft Elastic Films Gonuguntla M., Sharma A. , Mukherjee R. , Subramanian S. A. By Langmuir 22 7066-7071 (2006)

Principal Investigator

• FABRICATION & DURABILITY STUDIES ON STRUCTURED SUPER HYDROPHOBIC SURFACES
• TUNABLE MESO PATTERNING OF POLYMER THIN FILMS WITH ELECTRIC FIELDS
• FABRICATION OF NANOSTRUCTURED SURFACES BY SOFT LITHOGRAPHIC ANDNON LITHOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES
• INSTABILITY & PATTERN FORMATION IN THIN POLYMER BILAYERS
• Evaporative drying assisted meso patterning under lateral confinement
• Novel Fabrication of Nano Structured Surfaces and their Integration with Solar Cells
• Interfacial Interactions of Polymer Chains on the Walls of Graphame and Fullerene Particles
• Fabrication of Optical Meta Material for Cloaking in Visible Wavelength 7183
• Fabrication of Optical Meta Material for Cloaking in Visible Wavelength 7183
• Development of Nano Patterned Perovskite Solar Cells (SGBSI-2015)
• 12th Indo German (DST-AvH) Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
• SERB Meeting Chemical Engineering
• Surface Nano Imaging
• Surface Nano Imaging

Co-Principal Investigator

• Development of Thermally Actuated Shape Memory Elastomers for Smart Sensing and Actuator Applications with Self Healing Capability
• Flow of Complex Fluids in Constricted and Parallel Microchannels
• Metal - oxide - semiconductor (MOS) based non-volatile memory devices using III - V semiconductor quantum dots as charges storage elements on Si substrates
• Ultra Low Cost Honey - Silk Fibroin Therapeutic Patches for Control of Oral Cancer Recurrence