Namita Choudhury
  1. Current research activities

    2. My current research activity in the general field of C& T Engineering pertains to preparing microporopus scaffolds from biodegradable polymers and their blends by various methods, magnetic polymeric materials from self assembled block copolymer and dendrimer-titania hybrid. Also work has been directed to biomimetic polymeric gels and conjugate that can find potential use as nanospring, artifical muscle or can be used to modulate bacterial adhesion.

  2. Keywords

    3. Multifunctional Polymer, Polymeric membrane and scaffold, biodegradable polymer, polymeric nanocomposite and hybrid, anitimicrobial polymer, Surface modification and coating, sol-gel chemistry, adhesion and interface study.

  3. End-user applications

    • Packaging for food and pharmaceutical product
    • Elastomeric materias and gels for biomedical use
    • Automotive plastic parts
    • Lubricants
    • Protective Surface coating, thin films on metal and polymer
    • Recycling of polymer
    • Polymeric scaffold and membrane for tissue engineering
    • Antimicrobial agent

  4. Key publications

    5. I. Organic-Inorganic Hybrid from Ionomer Y. Gao and N. R. Choudhury, in Handbook of Organic_Inorganic Hybrid Materials and Nanocomposites, Ed. H. S. Nalwa, American Scientific Publishers, USA, 2003, pp 271-293.
    II. Visulaisation and Characterisation of surface and bulk morphology by Microthermal Analysis and Atomic Force Microscopy, S. Edwards, M. Provatas, P. Tran, N. K. Dutta and N. R. Choudhury, in Surface Modification and processing: Physical and Chemical Trobological Methodologies, G. E Totten, and H. Liang, Ed. Marcel Dekker, New York, (In press, 2004).
    III. Yan Gao, Namita Roy Choudhury, Jani Matisons, Ulrich Schubert, and Bogdan Moraru, Organic-inorganic hybrid from surface-modified oxotitanate cluster Chemistry of Materials, 14(11), (2002) 4522.
    IV. N.Roy Choudhury, N, Dutta, P. Tran, Molecular Tailoring of Elastomer Surface By Plasma Polymerization 16th Symposium on Swiss Bonding 2002, Zurich, Switzerland,26 May, 2002.
    V. N. Roy Choudhury, Template Mediated Hybrid from Dendrimer, International Workshop on Sol-Gel Science and Technolology, August 2003, Sydney., J. Sol-Gel Sci. & Technol., (under revisison)

  5. Outreach activities

    6. None as Yet.

  6. Key organisation membership

    7. None as Yet.

  7. Early career researcher?

    8. No.

  8. Young investigator?

    9. No.

  9. Skills and expertise

    •  New materials including Elatomer, plastic and their filled hybrid systems ·
    • Polymer characterisation
    • Advanced thermal analysis
    • Surface coating
    • Sol-gel chemistry
    • Surface analysis
    • Mcroporous membrane and scaffold
    • Nanostructure control in polymer
    • Viscoelasticity
    • Novel method of interface analysis
    • Rheology
  10. Specialist equipment and infrastructure

    •  Advanced thermal analysis
    • scanning thermal microscopy including microthermal analysis and pulsed force microscopy
    • stress control rheometer
    • small angle neutron scattering
    • photoacoustic FTIR.

  11. Contact Details 

    Assoc. Prof Namita Choudhury
    Address: Ian Wark Research Institute University of South Australia
    Country: Australia
    Phone: +61 8 8302 3719
    Fax: +61 8 8302 3755
    Email: namita.choudhury@unisa.edu.au

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