​​​​Polymers and Advanced Functional Nanofibers Group

April 2024

 

• Our invited paper titled 'Probing the Influence of Strontium Doping and Annealing Temperature on Structure and Biocompatibility of Hydroxyapatite Nanorods' has been accepted by Dalton Transactions .

 

November 2023

 

• Our paper titled 'A facile strategy to achieve high piezoelectric performance in electrospun poly(vinylidene fluoride) non-woven nanofabrics' has been accepted by Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials.

• Govind Shreenivas Ekbote has successfully defended his thesis on the 14th of this month. Congratulations, Dr. Govind!

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August 2023

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• Our paper titled 'A new multifunctional energy harvester based on mica nanosheets-dispersed PVDF nanofabrics featuring piezo-capacitive, piezoelectric and triboelectric effects' has been featured in a cross-journal collection celebrating the scientific accomplishments of RSC Fellows (RSC Applied Polymers, DOI: 10.1039/D3LP00080J, online published: 30 August 2023). This work has been highlighted in https://blogs.rsc.org/lp/2023/10/26/d3lp00080j/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Seb_jj70c0&t=1134s

 

April 2023

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• Our paper titled 'Development of a flexible piezoelectric and triboelectric energy harvester with piezo capacitive sensing ability from barium tungstate nanorod-dispersed PVDF nanofabrics' has been accepted by Flexible and Printed Electronics.

 

October 2022

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• The book titled 'Progress in Polymer Research for Biomedical, Energy and Specialty Applications', edited by Anandhan et al, has been published by Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, USA.

 

August 2022

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• Our paper titled 'Synthesis and Evaluation of a New Gel Polymer Electrolyte for High-performance Li-ion Batteries from Electrospun Nanocomposite of PVDF/Ca-Al Layered Double Hydroxide' has been accepted by Journal of Materials Research.

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July 2022

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• Our paper titled 'Recent development in carbon dots-based gas sensors' has been accepted by Sensors & Diagnostics.

 

May 2022

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• Our paper titled 'Piezoelectric energy harvesting using flexible self-poled electroactive nanofabrics based on PVDF/ZnO-decorated SWCNT nanocomposites' has been accepted by JOM.

 

April 2022

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• Prof. Anandhan has been appointed as a guest editor for the Special Issue on 'Catalysis for Sustainable Energy and Fuel Production' for Results in Engineering, Elsevier.

• Our paper titled 'Evaluation of piezoelectric behavior and biocompatibility of PVDF ultrafine fibers with incorporated talc nanosheets' has been accepted by Journal of Applied Polymer Science.

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March 2022

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• Dr. Sathies T has joined our group as a post-doctoral fellow. Welcome, Dr. Sathies!

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December 2021

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• Sawan Shetty has successfully defended his thesis on the 31st of December. Congratulations, Dr. Sawan!

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November 2021

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• Our paper titled 'A study on electroactive PVDF/mica nanosheet composites with enhanced γ-phase for capacitive and piezoelectric force sensing' has been published by Soft Matter.

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October 2021

 

• Our paper titled 'Physico‑chemical and piezoelectric characterization of electroactive nanofabrics based on functionalized graphene/talc nanolayers/PVDF for energy harvesting' has been published in Journal of Polymer Research.

 

September 2021

 

• Prof. Anandhan has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), UK on the 7th of September.

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August 2021

 

• Our paper titled 'Magnetic Behaviour of Polymorph Composite Nickel Titanate Nanofibers' has been accepted by New Journal of Chemistry.

• Our paper titled 'Highly sensitive and wearable NO2 gas sensor based on PVDF nanofabric containing embedded polyaniline/g-C3N4 nanosheet composites' has been accepted by IOP Nanotechnology.

 

June 2021

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• Our paper titled 'Influence of MWCNTs on the structure and properties of poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate-co-carbon monoxide) nanocomposite' has been published in Polymer Composites.

 

December 2020

 

• Our paper titled 'Cationic Surfactant Assisted Enhancement of Dielectric and Piezoelectric Properties of PVDF nanofibers for Energy Harvesting Application' has been published by Soft Matter.

 

September 2020

 

• Prof. Anandhan will be delivering an invited lecture in a webinar on 'Thin Film Solid State Batteries' organized jointly by IIT Kharagpur and University of Cambridge on the 30th of September.

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August 2020

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• Prof. Anandhan has been asked to edit a book with the working title 'Current Trends in Polymer Research for Advanced Applications' by CRC Press, USA. Dr. M. Selvakumar (NITK, India) and Dr. A. Mahendran (Wood K-plus, Austria) will be the co-editors.

 

July 2020

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• NITK and NYU collaborate to enhance 3D printing activities through United States NSF grant (Daijiworld, The Hindu, UNI India, TOI, AM Chronicle). Our group is one of the partners from NITK in this collaborative Indo-US project. The other collaborators are: NYU, New York, USA; New York City College of Technology (CityTech), USA; IIT Kanpur (IITK) and Aha 3D Innovations Pvt Ltd, Jaipur.

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June 2020

 

• Shamitha has successfully defended her thesis on the 9th of June. Congratulations, Dr. Shamitha!

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May 2020

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• Our paper titled 'Development of a new flexible nanogenerator from electrospun nanofabric based on PVDF/talc nanosheets composite' has been accepted by Soft Matter.

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April 2020

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• A couple of our papers, published in Polymer Composites, is among the top 10% most downloaded papers among work published between January 2018 and December 2019! Congratulations to the first author, Dr. Khalifa, and my co-authors!

  • PVDF/halloysite nanocomposite‐based non‐wovens as gel polymer electrolyte for high safety lithium ion battery

  • Durable, efficient, and flexible piezoelectric nanogenerator from electrospun PANi/HNT/PVDF blend nanocomposite

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October 2019

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• Our paper titled 'Sol-gel electrospun ZnMn2O4 nanofibers as bifunctional electrocatalyst for hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions' has been accepted by Materials Research Express.

• Our paper titled 'Effect of Polarization Switching on Piezoelectric and Dielectric Performance of Electrospun Nanofabrics of PVDF/Ca-Al LDH Nanocomposite' has been accepted by Journal of Applied Polymer Science.

• Our paper titled 'Polymorphism, dielectric and piezoelectric response of Organo-modified Ni-Co layered double hydroxide nanosheets dispersed electrospun PVDF nanofabrics' has been accepted by Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics.

• Our paper titled 'PVDF Nanofibers with Embedded Polyaniline-Graphitic Carbon Nitride Nanosheet Composites for Piezoelectric Energy Conversion' has been accepted by ACS Applied Nanomaterials.

• Khalifa has successfully defended his thesis on the 4th of October. Congratulations, Dr. Mohammed Khalifa!

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July 2019

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• Our paper titled 'Polymorph Nickel Titanate Nanofibers as Bifunctional Electrocatalyst towards Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution Reactions' has been accepted by Dalton Transactions.

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April 2019

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• Congratulations to Mohammed Khalifa for being appointed as a Research Scientist by Kompentenzzentrum Holz GmbH, Austria!

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March 2019

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• Our paper titled 'Graphene Nanoclusters Embedded Nickel Cobaltite Nanofibers as Multifunctional Electrocatalyst for Glucose Sensing and Water-splitting Applications' has been accepted by Ceramics International.

 

February 2019

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• Our paper titled 'Synergism of Graphitic-carbon nitride and Electrospinning on the Physico-chemical characteristics and Piezoelectric Properties of Flexible Poly(vinylidene fluoride) based Nanogenerator' has been accepted by Journal of Polymer Research.

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January 2019

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• Sachin has successfully defended his thesis on the 25th of January. Congratulations, Dr.Sachin!

• Sachin joins as a material scientist in Adelika Research and Agricultural Institute, Indore. Congratulations Sachin!

 

July 2018

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• Our paper titled 'PVDF/Halloysite Nanocomposite-based Non-Wovens as Gel Polymer Electrolyte for high safety Lithium Ion Battery' has been accepted by Polymer Composites.

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June 2018

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• Our group's B.Tech. alumnus, Bachu Sravan, has been selected for Prime Minister's Research Fellowship! Congratulations,  Sravan!

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April 2018

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• Our paper titled 'Pyrolysis-controlled synthesis, and magnetic properties of sol-gel electrospun nickel cobaltite nanostructures' has been accepted by Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology.

• Our paper titled 'Durable, Efficient and Flexible Piezoelectric Nanogenerator from Electrospun PANi/HNT/PVDF Blend Nanocomposite' has been accepted by Polymer Composites.

• Our paper titled 'A Mechanistic Study on the Structure Formation of NiCo2O4 Nanofibers decorated with In-situ formed Graphene-like Structures' has been accepted by Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials.

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March 2018

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• Our paper titled 'Synergism of Electrospinning and Nano-Alumina trihydrate on polymorphism, crystallinity and piezoelectric performance of PVDF nanofibers' has been accepted by JOM: the Journal of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.

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January 2018

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• Our paper titled 'Synergism of Fictitious Forces on Nickel Cobaltite Nanofibers: Electrospinning Forces Revisited' has been accepted by Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

 

August 2017

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• Dr. Anandhan is elected Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India).

• Our paper titled 'Effect of Solvents on the Solution Electrospinning of Poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile)' has been published in Kautschuk Gummi Kunststoffe.

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July 2017

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• Our paper titled 'Sol-gel Electrospun Mesoporous ZnMn2O4 nanofibers with Superior Specific Surface area' has been accepted by Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics.

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May 2017

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• Mr. Nanjunda Shanmuga Velu, a B.Tech. alumnus of our group (currently with Ecole Nationale Superieure d´arts et Metiers in Paris, France) has won an award for innovative thesis from Borealis, Finland for his B. Tech. thesis titled, "Synthesis of carbon nanostructures through catalytic decomposition of polymer precursors". Congratulations, Velu!

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February 2017

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• Our paper titled 'Some New Observations on the Structural and Phase Evolution of Nickel Titanate Nanofibers' has been accepted by Ceramics International.

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December 2016

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• Our paper titled 'Probing the Synergism of Halloysite Nanotubes and Electrospinning on Crystallinity, Polymorphism and Piezoelectric Performance of Poly(vinylidene fluoride)' has been published in RSC Advances.

 

October 2016

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• Our paper titled 'Organoclay enabled Nanofiber formation from a Polyolefin Elastomer' has been accepted by Advances in Polymer Technology.

 

August 2016

 

• Our paper titled 'Polyaniline/Poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) blend nanofibers Exhibit Enhanced Ammonia and Nitrogen dioxide Sensing Characteristics' has been accepted by Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics.

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July 2016

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• The book titled 'Advances in Polymer Materials and Technology' (ISBN: 9781498718813), edited by Anandhan Srinivasan and Sri Bandyopadhyay has been published on 25 July 2016 by CRC Press, Boca Raton, USA.

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June 2016

 

• Our paper titled 'Electroactive poly(vinylidene fluoride) separator for sodium ion battery with high coulombic efficiency' has been published in Solid State Ionics.

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May 2016

 

• Our paper titled 'Tuning Characteristics of Co3O4 Nanofiber Mats Developed for Electrochemical Sensing of Glucose and H2O2' has been published in Thin Solid Films.

 

March 2016

 

• Our paper titled 'Chitosan Composites Reinforced with Nanostructured Waste Fly Ash' has been accepted by Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management.

• Akshata has successfully defended her thesis on the 11th of March 2016. Congratulations, Dr.A.G.P.!

 

November 2015

 

• Gibin received his doctoral degree. Congratulations Dr.Gibin!

 

September 2015

 

• Dr. Senthil joined as a post-doctoral fellow in Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, CAS, China.

• Gibin achieved a hat-trick in RSC Advances!