IIT-Kharagpur's Nandini Bhandaru wins European Materials Research Society Award

Nandini Bhandaru, a PhD student at IIT-Kharagpur has won the Young Scientist Award of the European Materials Research Society’s (E-MRS) for contribution to materials science.

She had won the award for her outstanding contribution to materials science and nanotechnology, particularly nano-patterning of soft films and surfaces.

Presently, Ms. Bhandaru is working at the Instability and Soft Patterning Laboratory of the institute IIT-Kharagpur. Her area of doctoral research is on nano-fabrication, including soft-lithography, polymer blend films, thin film dewetting and self-assembly.

What is Nanofabrication?

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  Nano-fabrication and nano-patterning technology entail developing methods to manufacture nano-materials or pattern materials on a nanometre scale.

  
  


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  Nano-lithography is a common method used in nano-patterning especially for producing topographically patterned polymer films and surfaces required in the organic electronics. 

  
  

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  Applications: It acts as the mother board for many of the devices and applications such as

  
  


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  (i) organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), (ii) opto-electronic devices, (iii) thin film transistors (TFTs), (iv) biological sensors microfluidics, (v) plastic solar cells, (vi) data storage media, (vii) smart and super adhesives, (viii) lab-on-a-chip devices, (ix) surfaces for nano-biotechnology applications such as patterned substrates for probing of cell behaviour, etc.

  
  

Ms. Nandini Bhandaru innovative Research proposes

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  Possibility of fabricating nano-scale patterned surfaces at an extremely low cost and by using an inherently simple methodology.

  
  


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  These surfaces may act as the mother board for many of the devices and applications.

  
  


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  This technique can be commercialised with minimal capital investment of the fabrication costs of these surfaces.

  
  


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  The fabrication costs can be reduced to one tenth of the current high end expensive photolithography or electron beam lithography based methods.

  
  

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