Nandini Bhandaru of IIT-Kharagpur wins honour for her outstanding contribution. A doctoral researcher at IIT-Kharagpur has bagged the European Materials Research Society’s (E-MRS’s) Young Scientist Award for contribution to materials science.
Nandini Bhandaru won the award based on her outstanding contribution to materials science and nanotechnology, particularly nano-patterning of soft films and surfaces. Ms. Bhandaru works at the Instability and Soft Patterning Laboratory of the institute IIT-Kharagpur. Her area of research is nano-fabrication, including soft-lithography, thin film dewetting, polymer blend films and self-assembly.
Nandini’s innovation proposes the possibility of fabricating nano-scale patterned surfaces, which may act as the “mother board” for many of the devices and applications listed above at an extremely low cost and using an inherently simple methodology.
Did You Know?
- Nano-fabrication and nano-patterning entail developing methods to manufacture nano-materials, or pattern materials on a nanometre scale. Nano-lithography is a common method used in nano-patterning.
- Topographically patterned polymer films and surfaces find wide application in organic electronics, organic light-emitting diodes, opto-electronic devices, thin-film transistors, plastic solar cells, biological sensors micro fluidics etc.
