Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Nanostructures Engineering and MOdeling (NEMO) Laboratory
Principal Investigators
Prof. Sumit Saxena, PhD, FIMMM, FNESA, FRSC
Professor
Prof. Saxena obtained his Ph.D. in Material Science & Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), USA. He moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana champaign (UIUC) and then to Harvard University for his Postdoctoral research. He is a fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOMMM) UK, fellow of the National Environmental Science Academy (FNESA) India, fellow of the University of Birmingham India Institute, UK, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) London, Member of the Materials Research Society India (MRSI).
Phone: (+91) 022-2576-7615
Email: sumit.saxena[at]iitb.ac.in
Address: 327, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
ORCID, Google Scholar, Linkedin, ResearchGate
Prof. Shobha Shukla, PhD
Professor
Senior Member, Optical Society of America
Prof. Shukla obtained her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York, Buffalo (SUNY-Buffalo), USA. She moved to Harvard University for her Postdoctoral research. She is a fellow of the University of Birmingham India Institute UK, member of the National Environmental Science Academy (NESA), India. She is the Center & Professor-in-charge of the water innovation center (WICTRE) at IIT Bombay. She is the editorial board member for Scientific Reports published by Nature Publishing Group and Journal of Physics - Photonics published by IOP.
Phone: (+91) 022-2576-7607
Email: sshukla[at]iitb.ac.in
Address: 327, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Aatreyee Sarkar
Dr. Aatreyee is an Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (IPDF) at IIT Bombay, India. She obtained her B.Tech in Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from the West Bengal University of Technology. She pursued her M.Tech in Advanced Materials Science and Technology from the National Institute of Technology Durgapur. She did her PhD from the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, National Institute of Technology Durgapur. Her current research area focuses on the application of nanostructured materials in new age energy storage and energy harvesting.
Email: sarkar.aatreyee@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Dr. Basant Roondhe
Dr. Basant is an Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (IPDF) at IIT Bombay, India. He received his Ph.D. in computational condensed matter physics from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Gujarat in May 2020. His area of research is Bio-conjugated systems and low dimensional nano materials for the development of advanced sensors.
Email: basantroondhe@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Dr. Chandan Kumar
Dr. Chandan is an Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (IPDF) at IIT Bombay, India. He received the Bachelor's degree from Muzaffarpur Institute of Technology, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India, and the Master's degree from NIT Durgapur, India, in 2011 and 2014, respectively. He has obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Electronics Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India, in June 2019. Before joining as IPDF at IIT Bombay, he has worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology, Meerut, India. He is a recipient of DST-CEFIPRA Fellowship 2018 and IC-IMPACTS Fellowship 2016. His current research interest includes flexible electronics and thin-film hybrid devices for solar cells, photodetectors, and sensing applications
Email: chandan.ece.mit@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Dr. Karthik Kiran Sarigamala
Dr. Karthik is currently institute postdoctoral fellow. He was also a research fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK. He obtained his PhD from Center for Research in Nanotechnology & Science (CRNTS), IIT Bombay. He He received his M.Tech in Energy Technologies. His research focus is tailoring electrode materials with engineered nanostructures that can meet the critical requirements of electrochemical energy storage technologies. His current areas of research are multifunctional 2D nanostructured materials using biomimetic strategies that involve expansion of compositional chemistry of interfacial layers, 3D hybrid architectures using nanostructured carbon materials, graphene, transition metal LDHs and dichalgoenides. Fabrication of high performance flexible supercapacitors, batteries and integrated hybrid energy storage devices.
Email: karthikkiran4016@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Dr. Pranav B. Pawar
Dr. Pawar is presently working as Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (IPDF) at IIT Bombay, India. He recieved his bachelor's degree in Electronics and Telecommunication from the University of Pune, and M.Tech in Nanotechnology from school of electronics, VIT University, Vellore. He obtained his PhD from the Dept. of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, IIT Bombay. His current research, involves the application of graphene-based material in the energy storage device and water desalination and purification.
Email: pranav18590@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Dr. Rahul Kumar Das
Dr. Das is working as Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (IPDF) at IIT Bombay. His obtained bachelor's degree from Bangalore University in 2009 followed by master's degree (Distinction) in Chemistry from Christ University in 2011. He did his master's project on organic fluorescent peptide synthesis at Department of Chemistry, I.I.T. Kanpur, India. Subsequently he joined Department of Chemistry, I.I.T. Kharagpur and worked on nonionic photoacid generators. In 2020, he obtained PhD in Chemistry (doped carbon quantum dots, porous magnetic silica, carbon and titania nanospheres) from N.I.T. Rourkela, Odisha. He has authored seven international publications and received three research awards during his PhD tenure. His research areas include fluorescence sensing, targeted nanomedicine, and environmental remedies.
Email: dasrahulk@iitb.ac.in
Address: WICTRE, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Graduate Students
Abhishek Pandey
Abhishek received his bachelor degree in Mechanical engineering from Barkatullah University, Bhopal. He received his Masters degree from Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal. His current research topic is application of graphene based materials for remediation of environmental polluion namely air and water pollution. His work mainly focuses on dye removal from wastewater using graphene based materials.
Email: abhishek_p@iitb.ac.in
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Ajinkya Palawe
Ajinkya completed his Bachelors degree in Electronics and Telecommunication from VJTI, Mumbai in 2017 and Master's degree in Electronics and Communication (Photonics) from IIT (ISM), Dhanbad in 2019. He explored 3D self assembled photonic crystals as for his master's Thesis. His current research interests include photonics with emphasis on photonic crystals.
Email: palweajinkya@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Aman Singhal
Aman obtained his M.Tech in Materials Science & Technology from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra in 2020 and B.Tech in Aerospace Engineering from University of Petroleum & Energy Studies in 2017. He worked on graphene based microwave absorbing materials in CSIR - Central Scientific Instruments Organization (CSIO). Aman Singhal is pursuing his PhD at Department of Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science, IIT Bombay. His research interests include computation and experimental work on metamaterials, photonics, two-photon lithography and optoelectronics.
Email: 204110007@iitb.ac.in
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Ankit Dodla
Ankit has completed his M.Tech in biological engineering from IIT Gandhinagar and B.Tech in Biotechnology from NIT Raipur. He is working on Graphene-based composite sensors for real-time heavy metal monitoring in water environment in IIT B Monash academy under the supervision of Prof. Sumit Saxena and Prof. Shobha Shukla from IIT Bombay and Dr. Tanveer Adyel from Monash University.
Email: ankitdodla11793@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Arun Jaiswal
Arun received his bachelor's degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from SSIPMT, Raipur and his Master's degree in Optoelectronics and Laser, Technology from Pt. R.S.U., Raipur.His research interests lies in development of fromulations of two photon polymerizable doped composite resins for optoelectronics, metamaterials and biomedical applications..
Email: arun.jaiswal64@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Arun Kumar
Arun completed his Masters in Chemistry from Central University of Punjab in 2019 and is a CSIR JRF fellow. He has worked on Vanadium pentoxideNano-chemistry during his post-graduation project. His current research interests is in the area of development of electrode materials for supercapacitor..
Email: kumar120arun@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Arthi Karunanithi
Arthi has received M.Tech Nanoscience and Technology from Anna University, Chennai. Her current research interests are in on oil-water separation using electrospun polymeric nanofibers funded by the Department of Science & Technology, Science and Engineering Research Board.
Email: 194116012@iitb.ac.in
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Ashok Kumar Sharma
Ashok obtained his bachelors degree in Production Engineering & Management from NIT Jamshedpur in 2007. Since then he has been working in Product & Technology Development Centre at L&T Defence. He is pursuing her PhD (external) at the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science at IIT Bombay. His research areas include photonics and optoelectronics.
Email: 214114002@iitb.ac.in
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Dharmveer Yadav
Dharmveer completed his M.Tech in Environmental Engineering with honours from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He worked on the detection of pharmaceuticals, antibiotics, and pesticides during his research work at Technical University Dresden, Germany. He served as Assistant Professor at College of Technology and Engineering, Udaipur. His current research interests includes removal of organic pollutants & oil-water separation using graphene.
Email: dharmveer.water@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Gaurav Pratap Singh
Gaurav received his master's degree in Physics from IIT Bhubaneswar. Currently, he is a Ph.D. student at IIT Bombay. His research interest includes experimental work on the fabrication of the optical metamaterial by two-photon lithography. He is currently focusing on the FDTD simulation for simulating electromagnetic response of metastructures.
Email: singhphysics17@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Haritha Joseph
Haritha is a research scholar at the IITB Monash Research Academy. She completed her Master's in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2018 and Bachelor's from Union Christian College, Aluva in 2016.Her current research interest is development of plasmonic metamaterials for SERS applications using two photon lithography.
Email: harithajoseph95@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Jyotiraman De
Jyotiraman received his M.Tech in CAD-CAM from RTM Nagpur University in 2016 and B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from University of Pune in 2012. He worked as Technology and Intellectual Property Division Head at Kalyani Studio (Kalyani group product development start-up) for 3.5 years and prior to that as an Engineer at Mahindra and Mahindra Limited for 1 year. He is also a licensed Patent Agent registeredwith the Indian Patent Office, Government of India. He is presently working as PhD student at the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science at IIT Bombay. His research focuses on development of graphene based filters, sensors and devices for water filtration and sensing purpose.
Email: jyotiraman.de@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Jyotsna Mishra
Jyotsna obtained her master's (M.Sc.) in bioinformatics from Banaras Hindu University in 2021. She obtained her bachelor's (B.Sc.) in Life Sciences from Delhi University in 2019. She is pursuing her P.hD. at the Center for Research in Nanotechnology and Science (CRNTS) under the guidance of Prof. Shobha Shukla at IIT Bombay. Her research mainly focuses on ecotoxicity studies of nanomaterials.
Email: 214363003@iitb.ac.in
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Kousik Pradhan
Kousik is pursuing his PhD at Center for Research in Nanotechnology & Science (CRNTS), IIT Bombay. He received his M.Sc. in Physics from Vidyasagar University, West Bengal in 2018. His current research tropic include 2D Graphitic Carbon Nitride based Nanocomposite materials as Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) in THz Frequency Regime
Email: kousik.pradhan@iitb.ac.in
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Kshitij Taneja
Kshitij Taneja is currently enrolled as external PhD student at the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, IIT Bombay. He received his Bachelors degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the University of Delhi. He is working at BHEL corporate research and development on the development of new materials to address power plant and manufacturing needs. His current research interests include multi-walled carbon nanotubes fibres and graphene based materials for energy storage and sensor applications along with thin-film solar cells.
Email: ktaneja77@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Madhurima Deb
Madhurima is pursuing her PhD at Center for Research in Nanotechnology & Science (CRNTS), IIT Bombay. She has received her B.Tech in Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata (WBUT) in 2014 and M.Tech in Nano Science and Technology from Jadavpur University, Kolkata in 2017. Her current research is based on developing graphene based heavy metal sensors for water testing.
Email: 174360001@iitb.ac.in
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Mayur Darak
He is a PhD student at Centre for Research in Nanotechnology and Sciences (CRNTS), IIT-Bombay. He is working on the design and fabrication of Sub-wavelength Structures for Near-field Beam Engineering. His research interests include the design of Metamaterial and Plasmonic structures, Electromagnetic Bandgap structures and Optically transparent Antennas
Email: darak.mayur@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Navdeepak
Navdeepak is pursuing his PhD at Center for Research in Nanotechnology & Science (CRNTS), IIT Bombay. Prior to joining the PhD at IIT Bombay, he graduated from National institute of technology, HP, India with a M.Tech in Material science and engineering. He received his B.Tech from JSS, Uttar Pradesh, India in Electrical Engineering. His current research interests include design, synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials for energy storage and water treatment applications.
Email: nav.deepak456@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Neha Redkar
Neha completed her master's in Biotechnology from Goa University and joined the NEMO lab as CSIR-Research scholar in July 2019. Currently, her research focuses on oil/water separation using graphene based composite and immobilized bacteria.
Email: neha.redkar24@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Prasanth B. Ramesh
Prasanth is a research scholar at the IITB Monash Research Academy. He obtained Bachelors degree in Biotechnology from Anna University and PG Diploma in Biotechnology and Management from University of Glassgow (UK) His research interests include understanding effect of microplastics in aquatic environment, transport dynamics, microbial interaction of microplastics and its influence in water resource systems.
Email: prasanth.babu@iitb.ac.in
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Rohan Mondal
Rohan is currently pursuing his Doctoral thesis at the Center for Research in Nanotechnology and Science (CRNTS), IIT Bombay. He obtained Bachelors degree in Chemistry from Calcutta University and Masters in Chemistry from Banaras Hindu University (BHU). His research interests include Polymeric composite membranes for oil-water separation.
Email: rohanmondal052@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Sonali Baviskar
Sonali obtained her masters and bachelors degree in Civil Environmental Engineering from North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon. She is currently working as faculty member at the Civil Engineering Department, Pillai Hoc College of Engineering and Technology. She is pursuing her PhD (external) at the Center for Research in Nanotechnology and Science at IIT Bombay. Her research areas include water purification and treatment techniques.
Email: sonalivikrant@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Sarika Joshi
Sarika is a research scholar at the IITB Monash Research Academy. She majored in Physics, Chemistry and Math for BSc at Govindram Seksaria Science College, Belgaum. Subsequently, she studied MSc in Nanoscience and technology at Mount Carmel College, Bangalore. Her doctoral project focuses on 2D and 3D patterned surfaces for tip-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy.
Email: sarikajoshi196@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Saumya Kriti
Saumya is currently enrolled as PhD Student at the Center for Research in Nanotechnology and Science (CRNTS) at IIT Bombay. Prior to joining IIT Bombay, she worked as a Junior Research Fellow in Nanocrystalline Group at the Centre For Materials For Electronics Technology, Pune and as a project fellow in the Chemical Engineering Department at National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune. She received her M.Tech in Nanotechnology from Central University Of Jharkhand in 2017. Her research focuses on the development of nanostructures and their functionalization for application in Energy Storage and Waste Water Treatment..
Email: saumyakriti@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Suyog Hawal
Suyog Hawal has received his B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunications from Shivaji University, Kolhapur. He received his M.Tech. in Nanotechnology with distinction from VIT University, Vellore. He served as an Assistant Professor at department of Electronics and Telecommunications, P.V.P.I.T.,Budhgaon for one and half years (2013-14). His current research focuses on investigation of the role of surface plasmons in photoconductivity of photo devices, essentially made up of semiconductor nanostructures.
Email: suyog.hawal@iitb.ac.in
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Sweta Rani
Sweta is a research scholar at the IITB Monash Research Academy. She completed her master's in Electronics and Communication from Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad. Her master’s dissertation was on applications of non-linear optics in supercontinuum generation. Currently, she is working on the fabrication of tunable photonic crystals by 4D patterning of functional polymers using femtosecond laser lithography. She aims to functionalize polymers by incorporating active materials such as magnetic and metallic nanoparticles and explore novel applications of the fabricated photonic crystals
Email: sweta.rani@monash.edu
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Tejas Suryawanshi
Tejas is pursuing his PhD at Center for Research in Nanotechnology & Science (CRNTS), IIT Bombay. He completed his Masters in Biotechnology from St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Mumbai. His current research interests are study of stem cells using 2D and 3D nanostructures.
Email: 194363007@iitb.ac.in
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Tejaswi Challa
Tejaswi is an PhD scholar (external) at the Department of Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science, IITB. He completed his M.Tech in Laser Technology & Opto-electronics and B.E in Electronics & Communications Engineering. He is working as Lead Optics Designer for Tier-1 Automotive Lighting Company in Pune. His research interests include Nanophotonic devices for Lighting applications.
Email: tejaswi.challa@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Umisha Singh
Umisha is pursuing her PhD at Center for Research in Nanotechnology & Science (CRNTS), IIT Bombay. She received her Bachelors's and Master's degree in Chemistry from Kirori Mal College, Delhi University. Her current research focuses on the Synthesis of Iron Oxide based nanostructures and its various application in the field of catalysis and the electrochemical performance of the material.
Email: 194363005@iitb.ac.in
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Abhishek Kumar Arya
Abhishek is enrolled as PhD student at the IITB - Monash Research Academy and is working on use of Cu-Ni alloys as substrate for graphene as corrosion barrier He is being supervised by Prof. Raman Singh at Monash University and by Prof. Sumit Saxena and Prof MJNV Prasad at IIT Bombay.
Email: abhishekkumararya@monash.edu
Address: Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Monash University
Project Staff
Govardhan Kumar
Govardhan is currently affiliated as Project Assistant at the Water Innovation Center:Technology Research & Education (WICTRE), IIT Bombay. He worked as an Intern at the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore. He recieved his Master's in Science (General Chemistry) from the University of Mysore.
Email: govardhan.kumar01@gmail.com
Address: WICTRE, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
KVSP Pawan
Pawan obtained his Masters in Nanotechnology from Amity University and is currently developing algorithms for image processing and device for Glaucoma diagnosis and documentation.
Email: choudarykvsp@gmail.com
Address: MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Guest Professors
Prof. Donald McNaughton, PhD
Monash University
Prof. McNaughton is an emeritus professor of molecular sciences in the school of chemistry and a member of the centre for biospectroscopy. His main interests are : Infrared and Raman spectroscopy and spectroscopic imaging directed to understanding the molecular basis of biological systems; microwave and high resolution infrared spectroscopy directed at characterizing transient species, atmospheric species and interstellar molecules; synchrotron infrared spectroscopy
Email: Donald.McNaughton[at]monash.edu
Address: 327, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Prof. Kishore Paknikar, PhD, FNAAS, FAMI, FBRS, FMAS
Professor Agharkar Chair, Agharkar Research Institute
Visiting Faculty, IIT Bombay
Prof. Paknikar is the Agharkar Chair Professor and Ex-Director at the Agharkar Research Institute. His work in the field of delivery systems focuses on the delivery of drugs, proteins, peptides, siRNA and nutrients. Various delivery system e.g. polymeric nanoparticles and dendrimers are being explored for delivery of bioactive molecules in the treatment of cancers, Alzheimer's disease, candidiasis etc.
Email: kpaknikar[at]iitb.ac.in
Address: 327, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076