Dr. Shrutidhara Sarma

 MISSION STATEMENT OF FERN LAB

 

We design and fabricate highly reliable and mechanically robust physical sensors systems based on novel nanocomposites with applications in wearable sensors, defence, automotive and aerospace technologies. Click here

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OVERVIEW

Our research interests lie at the intersection of Mechanical Engineering, Material Science and Nanotechnology.

Our focus areas are:

• investigate novel nanocomposite, structural configurations, and processing methodologies to enhance sensor characteristics to enable high performance under dynamic and flexed conditions.

• find resource-efficient fabrication techniques that would facilitate scale up production while maintaining cost-efficiency and performance reliability.

• integrate IoT with innovative power management solutions that can address critical challenges in their system level deployment.

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FUNDED PROJECTS

1. "Multifunctional sensing skins for curved aircraft surfaces (MultiSENSE)”, Funded by SERB Core Research Grant in collaboration with IIT Roorkee, India , 2024-2027 ~47 lakh

2. "Flexible sensoR Array for health Monitoring of Morphing structurEs (FRAMME)", Funded by SERB POWER Grant in collaboration with IIT Delhi, India , 2023-2026 ~48 lakh

3. "Mechanically resilient and ultra-sensitive flexible strain sensors for soft machines", Funded by SERB International Research Experience (SIRE) Fellowship in collaboration with LNBD lab, Technion, Israel, 2023-2024.

4. "Towards development of ultrasensitive strain measurement system using laminated nanocomposites (TESSLA)", Funded by Indo-German Science & Technology Centre (IGSTC) in collaboration with Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany, 2023-2026 ~40 lakh

5. "Developing high performance linear temper- ature sensor from nanocomposites" Funded by Indo-German Science & Technology Centre (IGSTC) in collaboration with Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany, 2023

6. "Development of High performance flexible pressure sensors from nanocomposites using hierarchical microstructures" Funded by IIT Jodhpur, SEED Grant, 2021-2023~ 25 lakh

7. ​"Highly conductive nanocomposite fibers for flexible temperature sensors (FlexTem)" Startup Research Grant funded by SERB SRG Grant, 2020-2022~ 28 lakh

8. "Real Time Temperature Monitoring using Flexible Temperature Sensors (Flexmon)" Funded by Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Summer School, Cardiff University, 2018

9. "Developing Multi-layered Nanocomposite based Thin Film Sensor" Funded by  Erasmus Mundus Action-II Interweave Grant by European Commission, 2015-20 16

 

Ongoing WORK:

1. Development of self-powered sensors using OPV

2. Clinical test for the "smart respiration with synchronised oxygen supply" system

3. Complex gesture recognition using dynamic time warping

4. Development of flexible, multifunctional sensing skins for aircrafts 

 

PREVIOUS WORK:

• Development of ultrasensitive strain measurement system using printed flexible/stretchable strain sensors

• High Performance Soft Strain/Pressure Sensors with Hierarchical Microstructures

• Statistical analysis of skin temperature measurement in a population

• Development of flexible temperature sensors from highly conductive electrospun nanocomposite fibers

• Prediction of electrospun PVDF fibers properties using Interpretable Machine Learning

• Impact of Taylor cone height on nanofiber formation through electrospinning

• Visualizing stress transfer mechanism in BLG-PDMS nanocomposites

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