Late post! Congratulation Mr. Gautam Prabhudesai for the best M. Tech Thesis Award received in the last convocation. He worked on natural gas storage using graphene oxide under the guidance of Prof. Ateeque Malani and Prof. Sanjog Nagarkar.

AI in Research_A User's Perspective Workshop_Why choose this workshop? Link to the second video with the workshop details: https://t.co/fG3kV1f00F The website is here: https://t.co/OXtK2c9euz

Announcing my hands-on workshop: "AI in Research: A User's Perspective" at IISER Pune, Dec 12-14. Responsible AI use for literature search, brainstorming, writing & presentation. https://t.co/iClnqHjx8o #workshop #researcher #artificial_intelligence #phdlife #STEM #Education #AI

Dreaming of cutting-edge research in Chemical Engineering? Applications are now open for the PhD (Spring 2025‑26) at @IITBombay! Last date is approaching fast — apply now: 👉 https://t.co/mBbobXhp7S

👏 Please join us in congratulating Prof. Ratul Dasgupta on receiving the Class of 1973 Faculty Award for Research Excellence 2025! Wishing him and his group continued success in their research journey. #ResearchExcellence #IITBombay

Delighted to share that Prof. Supreet Saini has been invited to join NPJ Systems Biology & Applications @Nature_NPJ as an Associate Editor 🎉 Congratulations @SupreetSaini13! So well deserved. #SystemsBiology #AcademicExcellence

Congrats to Dr. Nimish Pankhedkar for winning the Naik & Rastogi Award for Excellence in PhD Research (2023–25) 👏 His thesis on chemical looping–based CO₂ capture & utilization opens new paths for integrated carbon capture & valorization. (1/2)

Announcing the 9th Edition of the online "Biostatistics: A User's Perspective" course. This will be an intuitive understanding of the useful bits, without getting bogged down by the gory maths. https://t.co/Mk8vXVcVQN Please consider spreading the word. Thanks!

IISER Kolkata is starting a new 2-yr MS program in Sustainability Science. For details about the program and career prospects, visit https://t.co/f0H4It5aFR Application deadline: 9th July 2025 @iiserkol @EduMinOfIndia

The New MS Programme in Sustainability Science offered by IISER Kolkata. For details, please visit https://t.co/bwGk2QDMFO Application deadline: 9th July 2025 @EduMinOfIndia @PTI_News @PIB_India @skkhare781 @priyank_june

Are you PhD? Passionate about sustainable soft material research? If yes, Prof. @GuruKumaraswamy group is willing host you as #NPDF. They are working on a variety of exciting projects. Please see the attached image. If interested, please write to: guruswamy@iitb.ac.in

We invite all JEE (Advanced) 2025 candidates and their families for a special Open House. This online event will be held on Sunday, 8th June, 2025 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM IST. It is designed to offer prospective students and their families a comprehensive introduction to

The NPDF application portal is open. We invite PhDs passionate about sustainable soft materials to collaborate with the our group. We are working on a variety of exciting projects. If you'd like to write an NPDF proposal, I'm happy to discuss. Write to: guruswamy@iitb.ac.in

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@iitbombay @tifr Excited to be the first article accepted to the @softmatter collection on Soft Matter Underpinning of Micro- and Nano-plastics. Collaboration with Shankar Ghosh, @tifr and @sanatkk, @columbia Soft Matter, 2025, DOI: https://t.co/RBUkqgKSGG

@iitbombay @tifr What is the way out? We are now working on ways to capture the emitted micro and nanoparticles. Since these tyre wear nanoparticles hadn’t been observed earlier, we don’t know if existing methods are efficient at capturing these.

@iitbombay @tifr Regulation focused on PM10 or PM2.5 restricts the total weight of emitted particles. Even when nanoparticle numbers go up, they don’t change the total weight much due to their small size. The PM2.5 comes mostly from the larger microparticles that settle gravitationally.

@iitbombay @tifr Microparticles settle under gravity, but nanoparticles stay suspended in the air for a long, long time. Likely, we breathe in these particles. So, while EVs don’t generate CO2 by burning fuel, due to their heavy battery packs, they generate more tyre nanoparticle pollution

@iitbombay @tifr Nanoparticles do not show a well defined average size. The smaller the nanoparticles, the more numerous they are, described by a power law distribution. Heavier the vehicle or higher the speed, the more numerous the smaller nanoparticles (viz. the power law gets steeper)

@iitbombay @tifr Our most important finding: when tyres wear, micro- and nanoparticles form. Microparticles show a log-normal distribution, with a well defined peak size. This appears to be determined by the tyre material and the road surface (not so much the vehicle weight/ speed)