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Sanat K Kumar

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Sanat K Kumar
Professor of Chemical Engineering
801 SW Mudd, Mail Code: 4721

Phone: +1 212-854-2193
Fax: +1 212-854-3054
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Education:

B. Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, Chemical Engineering - 1981
S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chemical Engineering - 1984
ScD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chemical Engineering - 1987

Research Interests:

Synthetic-and bio-polymers, nano composites and nanomaterials


Gereral Areas of Research:

  • Biochemical Engineering
  • Composite Materials
  • Interfacial Phenomena
  • Nanotechnology
  • Polymers 

5 Most Relevant Publications

  1. Padala S.C., Cole R., Kumar S.K. and Kane R.S. “Surface Mobility Controls the Diffusion of Adsorbed DNA.” Langmuir, in press.
  2. De S., Fish J., Shephard M.S., Keblinski P. and Kumar S.K. “Multiscale Modeling of Polymers Melt Under Oscillatory Shear Flows.” Phys Rev E., in press.
  3. Desai T., Keblinski P. and Kumar S.K. “Transport of Polymer Chains in Two-Dimensions” J. Chem. Phys., in press.
  4. Ashbaugh, H.S., Patel, H.A., Kumar, S.K. and Garde S. “Mesoscale Modeling of Polymer Melt Structure: Self-Consistent Mapping of Molecular Correlations to Coarse-Grained Potentials.” J. Chem. Phys. 122, 104908(2005).
  5. Desai T., Keblinski P. and Kumar S.K. “Conformations of Chains Adsorbed at Solid Surfaces.” Polymer, in press.

5 Other Relevant

  1. Bansal, A., Yang, H., Li, C., Cho, K., Benicewicz, B.C., Kumar, S.K. and Schadler L.S. “Quantitative Equivalence between Polymer Nanocomposites and Thin Polymer Films.” Nature Materials, 4, 693(2005).
  2. Sen, S., Kumar S.K. and Keblinski P. “Viscoelastic Properties of Polymer Melts from Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, Macromolecules, 38, 650(2005)
  3. Salaniwal S., Kumar S.K. and Douglas J.F. “Amorphous Solidification in Polymer-Platelet Nanocomposites.” Phys. Rev. Lett., 89, 258301(2002).
  4. Orkulas G., Kumar S.K. and Panagiotopoulos A.Z. “Monte Carlo Study of Coulombic Criticality in Polyelectrolytes.” Phys. Rev. Lett.., 90, 048303(2003).
  5. Xu G., Clancy T.C., Mattice W.L. and Kumar S.K. “Increase in the Chemical Potential of Syndiotactic Polypropylene uon Mixing with Atactic or Isotactic Polypropylene.” Macromolecules, 35, 3309(2002).