Soft Matter Rheology Lab - SMR

PhD student, Sanchari Swarupa, attended the DLRWSA 2025 workshop at IIT Bombay. It aims to foster leadership roles in women in academia by addressing gender barriers and developing actionable strategies to improve gender equity.

Sanchari was also awarded a travel grant to attend the workshop. More power to women in academia!

"Curiosity Carnival" an opportunity to celebrate, share and inculcate the curiosity behind science to 3000 students from 80+ schools on 18-19th of January held in IIT Gandhinagar

Heartfelt congratulations to our alumna, Dr. Panchami Patel, on successfully defending her PhD thesis titled "k-carrageenan Hydrogels, Beads, Emulsion Gels as Functional Materials- Rheology, 3D Extrusion Printing, and Applications"🎓✨

Do have a look at her contributions to the academic field👇
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Dcdvd1YAAAAJ&hl=en

Sanchari Swarupa, PhD student of Soft Matter Rheology Lab, presented her research work at the 8th China-Europe Symposium on Biomaterials in Regenerative Medicine (CESB 2024) in Nuremberg, Germany.

Here's a glimpse of the event and beautiful Munich!

Our new article on Rheology and extrusion printing of K-carrageenan/olive oil emulsion tablets focuses on how the dual drugs, vitamin c and curcumin release behaviour varies with change in their surface to volume ratios. Check out this interesting article through the link below 👇

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c00894

Rheology and Extrusion Printing of κ-Carrageenan/Olive Oil Emulsion Gel Tablets with Varying Surface Area to Volume Ratios for Release of Vitamin C and Curcumin In this work, κ-carrageenan and olive oil at different oil to κ-carrageenan ratios (OCR) are homogenized to create emulsion gels. Interestingly, confocal imaging shows that the oil droplets are stabilized in the κ-carrageenan-structured gel matrix without using any surfactants. Rheological studie...

Check out our new collaborative review article with prof. Dhiraj Bhatia's group on Self-healing, injectable chitosan-based hydrogels: Structure, properties and biological applications.
The review also highlights incorporation of self-healing nature to the widely experimented chitosan biopolymer with various chemical strategies. Click the link below to read it.

Self-healing, injectable chitosan-based hydrogels: Structure, properties and biological applications Conventional biomaterials suffer from mechanical stresses and biochemical degradation, compromising performance and structural integrity. Unlike hydrogels, they cannot repair their inherent structure after damage due to the absence of reversible bonds, but these hydrogels can withstand and reverse d...

Double the achievement, Double the excitement !!
SMSE group is happy to share one more publication in the same week based on "Techniques, applications and prospects of polysaccharide and protein based biopolymer coatings: A review."
It focuses on various biopolymeric coating applications on 3D scaffolds, biomedical implants, food preservation in the form of food packaging and edible coatings and anti corrosive coatings.
Check out the latest paper here https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0141813024019093

SMSE Lab is thrilled to announce our latest publication in the ACS Journal of Chemical Education titled "Colloids and Interfaces: Where Science Meets Engineering, a Hands-on Learning Approach"
This paper mainly focuses on facilitating both the student and teaching community suggesting various experiments to enhance teaching protocols with similar course plans.
Check out the full paper here

Colloids and Interfaces: Where Science Meets Engineering, a Hands-on Learning Approach This article describes two sets of experiments designed to enhance the understanding of colloidal systems. These experiments were designed as a part of the theme “Colloids: Where Science Meets Engineering” taught in the Department of Chemical Engineering and additionally offered to physics, chem...

SMSE group had a blast celebrating National Science Day on 28th February. We demonstrated rainbow milk, density gradient column, alginate crosslinking and classes of liquids to school students. Scroll through the snaps below!