Welcome to the website of Engineering Soft Electronics: Materials, Manufacturing, and Mechanics.

Ever enthralled by watching the highly technified sci-fi speculations, you might have lost imagining and envisaging enormous possible applications of futuristic soft technology. Arena of soft matter is not limited to a specific scientific regime, but have its roots in multidisciplinary sciences. Amalgamation of theoretical and applied Physics, Chemistry, Materials, Mechanics, Electronics, and Computations innovates bio-inspired machines as well as their soft, safe and intelligent interactions with human. A new era was born by Feynman’s advocacy and with the unraveling mysteries of tiniest elements in nature.

Having background in Mechanical engineering, I am currently investing my time to study and develop novel functional materials for soft electronics, examine their electro-mechanical characteristics and stability, devise soft electronic miniaturized and portable gadgets (specifically to be used as epidermal electronics or electronic skin for humanoids), and investigating the scalability of material synthesis and device fabrication methods for large scale production of these soft smart electronic devices. I am furthermore curious in investigation of human/humanoid compatible green energy generators (Triboelectric generators, Piezoelectric generators, Thermoelectric generators, Solar cells), energy harvesting devices (Batteries, Supercapacitors), artificial exteroceptive and mechanoreceptive sensors and biological or neuron-inspired electronics (transistors, artificial synapses, artificial muscles, electronically active exoskeletons, electrochemical transistors).

The massive range of functional materials for the bio-inspired soft electronics demands strong fundamental knowledge of material behavior at nano-micro-macro scale. I have been involved in thin films as well as nano-structured inorganic and organic materials to study their fabrication methods (PVD and CVD), possible deformation mechanics and their electro-mechanical stability against different set of mechanical deformations, environmental and tribological degradation.

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