In the E-MRS`s 2016 Spring Meeting, Nandini won the award. This meeting is based on outstanding contribution to material science and nanotechnology, soft films patterning and surfaces said IIT Kharagpur statement. Nandini works at Instability and soft patterning laboratory from IIT Kharagpur.
The young scientist award Nandini Bhandaru is a Ph.D. student at IIT Kharagpur has won the award from European Materials Research Society`s (E-MRS`s). Thr doctoral research is a nanofabrication including soft lithography thin film dewetting, polymer blend films and self-assembly mentioned in the statement.
“The technique developed has been fully stabilized and patented and can be commercialised with minimal capital investment. With this technique, the fabrication costs of these surfaces can be reduced to one-tenth of the current photolithography or electron beam lithography based methods which require high-end expensive instrumentation,” added the statement.
Nanofabrication and nanopatterning developing methods to nanomaterial manufacturer or pattern materials on a nanometer scale. Topographically patterned films and surfaces with wide application in organic electronics, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), optoelectronic devices, thin film transistors (TFTs), plastic solar cells, biological sensors microfluidics, smart and super adhesives, data storage media, lab-on-a-chip devices, surfaces for nano-biotechnology applications such as patterned substrates for probing of cell behaviour, etc.
Nandini proposes this fabricating nanoscale patterned surfaces that which act as a motherboard for many devices and applications with extremely low cost and using inherently simple methodology.