Associate Professor
Suhanya Duraiswamy
CHE-410
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Research Lab: CHE-312
PhD: Ph.D, NUS Singapore
Research Interests: Microfluidics, Theranostics, Sensors, Microphotoreactors, Nanomaterial synthesis and assembly
Few 100 µm fluidic channels – microfluidics. Micro and millifluidic channels are typical PFRs. Multiphase flows with bubbles, drops, foams introduce flowing microreaction vessels
Research Overview
Controlled Microenvironments lead to fascinating phenomena that are not obvious in the macroworld we live in. Microfluidics provides us a window to this microworld, and analysis of such properties enable us to develop powerful tools that can, in the long run, be applied to Healthcare and Energy sectors.
Research Highlights
Particle synthesis and assembly
Multiphase micro flows enable automated, reproducible and robust synthesis and/or assembly of the particles due to the control of reagent contacting and their kinetics. Our focus is on plasmonic nanomaterials.
Pathogen isolation and recognition
Pathogen isolation from body fluids for disease diagnostics and personalized therapy using multiphase flows and pathogen specific protein bound nano-materials within few minutes of sample collection is the objective. The isolated pathogen-protein complex will be then processed using on-chip PCR/LAMP/AI-ML tools.
3D organoids for personalized therapy
3D in vitro tumor models such as spheroids and organoids with and without supports are being explored in this research focus. These will be directly extended to high-throughput combinatorial drug testing, delivery and therapy.
Microphotoreactors
We are currently working towards a platform technology which will later find applications in water treatment, waste to value added products, artificial photosynthesis and other solar-driven applications.
Selected Publications
Interplay of network architecture and ionic environment in dictating pNIPAM microgel thermoresponsiveness
KS Syamjith, AR Jacob
Freeze-Dried Bacterial Cellulose-Based Point-of-Care Device for Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing (AST)
Chebiyyam Sarita, Mudrika Khandelwal, and Suhanya Duraiswamy
In Situ Growth and Regeneration of Photocatalyst: A Continuous High-Throughput Microphotoreactor
Sunil Kumar Singh and Suhanya Duraiswamy
Real-time optical spectroscopy for in situ single-droplet analysis
Rama Pandillapally, Pillanagrovi Jayakumar, Shourya Dutta-Gupta, and Suhanya Duraiswamy
Engineering Multicellular Breast Cancer Spheroids in Decellularized Adipose Tissue Hydrogels Using a Microfluidic Platform to Recapitulate Tumor Microenvironment Complexity
mit Ghosh, Sourita Ghosh, Priyanshu Shukla, Suhanya Duraiswamy, and Falguni Pati
Safety management: Hazard identification and risk assessment at the workplace
S Agarwalla; S K Singh; M A Ibrahim; S Duraiswamy
Advanced design and 3D numerical simulation of traveling surface acoustic waves for healthcare applications
S Agarwalla; S K Singh; S Duraiswamy
Chipless millifluidics device for rapid fabrication of hepatic spheroids with decellularized liver matrix
S Ghosh; A Ghosh; F Pati; S Duraiswamy
Pectin emulsions and emulgels: Bridging the correlation between rheology and microstructure
Mohan Kavya, Alan Ranjit Jacob, P Nisha
On the nature of flow curve and categorization of thixotropic yield stress materials
T Bhattacharyya, AR Jacob, G Petekidis, YM Joshi