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Project Title: Unlocking Synergies Between Liquid Crystal-Polymer Composites: Study and Design of Advanced Thermoelectric Generators for Real-World Applications.

Duration: Three years (2024-2027)

Reference No.: IGSTC-02746

Funding Agency: IGSTC

Cost: Rs. 38,90,880

Status: Ongoing

Project Title: Liquid crystal-based scanning interferometers for pressure measurements.

Co-PI: Prof. M. R. Shenoy (Physics, IITD)

Duration: Five years (2019-2024)

Reference No.: DFTM/03/3203/P/01/JATC-P2QP-01

Funding Agency: DRDO

Cost: Rs. 1,43,19,000

Status: Completed Successfully.

Project Title: Theoretical and experimental studies of suspensions of magnetic nanoparticles, their applications and generalizations.

PI: Prof. Varsha Banerjee (Physics, IITD, India) and Prof. Apala Majumdar (University of Bath, Bath, UK and University of Strathclyde, UK)

Co-PI: Prof. Aloka Sinha

Duration: Three years (2017-2020)

Funding Agency: DST-UKIERI

Cost: Rs. 45.48 Lakhs

Status: Completed Successfully.

Project Title: Study of bent-core liquid crystal systems.

Duration: Three years (2016-2019)

Reference No.: EMR/2015/00/1897

Funding Agency: SERB-DST

Cost: Rs. 23,28,480

Status: Completed Successfully.

Project Title: Design, fabrication, and characterization of liquid crystal-based integrated optical waveguides.

Co-PI: Prof. M. R. Shenoy (Physics, IITD)

Duration: Two years (2015-2017)

Reference No.: ERIP/ER/1400474/M/01/1571

Funding Agency: DRDO

Cost: Rs. 25,20,960

Status: Completed Successfully.

Project Title: V-shaped switching in ferroelectric liquid crystals.

Duration: Three years

Reference No.: SR/S2/CMP-007/2010

Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology

Cost: Rs. 23,91,900

Status: Completed Successfully.

Project Title: Biometric-based optical system for identification, authentication and classification.

Duration: Three years

Reference No.: SR/WOS – A/ PS – 106/2003

Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology

Cost: Rs. 14,64,000

Status: Completed Successfully.