IITKGP

Santanu Chattopadhyay

Professor

Rubber Technology

+91-3222-2821758

santanu@rtc.iitkgp.ac.in

I am pleased to announce that I have given a new 8-week NPTEL online certification course on "Rheology and Processing of Paints, Plastic, Adhesives and Elastomer Based Composites". 23rd July is the last date of enrollment which is absolutely free. Kindly refer to the following link: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc23_ch75/preview |

Responsibilities

  • Associate Dean, Students Affairs

Research Areas

  • Viscoelasticity of rubbery nanocomposite
  • Advanced Rubber Compounds
  • Biopolymer and Biocomposites
  • FEA of rubber and product design
  • Smart and Stimuli-responsive materials
Our group is working on rubber nanocomposites for smart applications. We recently developed knowledge know-how to develop nuclear inflatable seal along with design modification with help of the software simulation. Currently, the projects such as “Development bioactive glass composite for drug delivery” and “Fatigue and viscoelastic behavior estimation by simulation” are going well. We are also working on green tyre, smart textiles, smart cement-rubber composites along with biopolymers and biocomposites.
  • The heat-chill method for preparation of self-assembled amphiphilic poly(ε-caprolactone)-poly (ethylene glycol) block copolymer based micellar nanoparticles for drug delivery Sanal Payyappilly, Santanu Dhara and Chattopadhyay S. By Soft Matter Royal Society of Chemistry, 10 (2014), 2150-2159 (2014)
  • Metal Ion Ornamented Ultrafast Light-Sensitive Nanogel for Potential in Vivo Cancer Therapy Panja S, Goutam Dey, Rashmi Bharti, Pijush Mandal, Mahitosh Mandal and Chattopadhyay S By Chemistry of Materials ACS, Chemistry of Materials., 2016, 28 (23) 8598-8610 (2016)
  • Macro-structured carbon clusters for developing waterproof, breathable conductive cotton fabric Sarkar K, Das D, Chaki T. K and Chattopadhyay S. By Carbon Elsevier, Carbon 116 (2017) 1-14 (2017)
  • A smart magnetically active nano vehicle for on-demand drug delivery: where van der Waals force balances the magnetic interaction Panja S, S. Maji, T.K. Maiti and Chattopadhyay S By ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2015, 7 (43) 24229-24241 (2015)
  • Synthesis of Novel Four Armed PE-PCL Grafted Superparamagnetic and Biocompatible Nanoparticles Panja S, Biswajit Saha, S. K. Ghosh, and Chattopadhyay S. By Langmuir ACS, 29 (2013), 12530-12540 (2013)
  • Organic solvent-free low temperature method of preparation of self-assembled amphiphilic poly (caprolactone)-poly (ethylene glycol) block copolymer based nanocarriers for protein delivery Sanal Payyappilly, Panja S, P. Mandal, S. Dhara and Chattopadhyay S By Colloids and Surface B: Biointerfaces Elsevier, 135 (2015) 510-517 (2015)

Principal Investigator

  • Development of Long Lasting Polyurethane Nanocomposite Films and Life Time Estimation using Finite Element Analysis with respect to Aerostat Application
  • Gaskets for Smoke Dampers
  • Sustainable Exploitation of Industrial Wastes in Rubber Composites for Isolators and Battery Packing in Electrical Vehicles

Co-Principal Investigator

  • Development of Next Generation Elastomeric Pad for Heavy Haul freight Wagon Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO)
  • Training and Skill Development and its Evaluation for IRI Members Indian Rubber Institute (IRI)

Ph. D. Students

Abhay Kumar

Area of Research: Studies on viscoelastic behavior and fatigue of elastomers

Abhijit Bera

Area of Research: Rubber based composites for advanced tyre applications

Abhinava Chandra

Area of Research: Segmented smart copolymers for biomedical applications

Akash Ghosh

Area of Research: Polymer Nanocomposite

Aparajita Pal

Area of Research: Nanomaterials and nanocomposites for advanced application

Aparna Guchait

Area of Research: Polymer nanocomposites

Baitali Ghosh

Area of Research: Polymers blends and composites

Lakshmi M Mukundan

Area of Research: Polymer-bioactive glass composites for biomedical applications

Mrinmoy Mondal

Area of Research: Finite Element Based Rubber Flow Simulation

Nikhil Kumar

Area of Research: Smart drug delivery vehicle

Piyush Gupta

Area of Research: Polymer Rheology and Processing

Praveen S

Area of Research: Sound and vibration damping with elastomer based composites

Ramya Devi K

Area of Research: Smart nanocomposites

Riya Koley

Area of Research: New Generation additives

Roumita Hore

Area of Research: Smart rubber based new generation composites

Sahoo Suchismita

Area of Research: Green Compounding and Manufacturing

Saikat Das

Area of Research: Modification of Rubber

Souma Jyoti Ghosh

Area of Research: Polymers for biomedical applications

Trina Roy

Area of Research: Bioresorbable Vascular graft