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     Dharmendra Kumar Bal

Ph.D. fromIIT Kharagpur - Chemical Engineering/IIT kharagpur
Supervisor(s)  Prof. Somenath Ganguly
Ph.D. status  Joined in 2010 :: Completed in 2014
AddressJC Bose Hall of residence,C-119,IIT, Kharagpur
Phone08101133254
Emaildharmendrabal.iitkgp@gmail.com

Research Areas
  • Flow through porous media
  • Hydrogel, Rheology, Flow through thin channel
  • Fabrication of alginate and chitoson scaffolds
  • Controlled release of drugs
  • foam gel as sealant

Fellowships / Scholarships
  • Phd. Scholarship

Papers Published in Journals
  • Use of a co-flow device to make a gel matrix with embedded voids of sub-millimeter tunable dimensions, Filed. by S.Ganguly,D.Bal, S.Patra Patent (Reference Number 466/KOL/2013). (2013)
  • Enhancement of solute release from alginate scaffold with embedded sub-millimeter voids by D.Bal, S.Ganguly Journal of Biomaterials Science Polymer Edition 25, 51-60 (2014)
  • Drying characteristics and evolution of pore space in alginate scaffold with embedded sub-millimeter voids by D. Bal, S. Patra, S. Ganguly Journal of Sol Gel science and Technology 68, 254-260. (2013)
  • Use of a Co-flow device to Generate Alginate Scaffolds with Embedded Voids of Sub-millimeter Tunable Dimensions by D. Bal, S. Patra, S. Ganguly Microsystem Technologies accepted (2014)
  • Enhancement of solute release from chitoson scaffold with embedded sub-millimeter voids by A. Jagadeesh, G. Chaudhari, D. Bal, S. Patra, S.Ganguly International journal of Polymeric Materials accepted (2014)
  • Diffusion in and around Alginate and Chitoson Scaffolds with embedded Sub-millimeter Voids by S. Patra, D. Bal, S. Ganguly Chemical Engineering Science under review (2014)
  • Diffusion of moisture from hydrogel scaffold with induced porosity from self-assembled bubbles by S. Patra, D. Bal, S. Ganguly Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research under review (2014)

Papers Presented at Conferences
  • Alginate Scaffolds with Embedded Voids for Controlled Release Applications by D.Bal, S.Ganguly CHEMCON-2013 oral presntation (2013)

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