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Komal Agarwal, Ph.DPostdoc, Department of Physics and Technology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
Projects
- Digital Life Norway interdisciplinary grant, Funding Agency: Digital Life Norway, Type: Interdisciplinary Grant Status: Ongoing, Duration: July 2021-Dec 2021 [Principal Investigator Dr. Komal Agarwal (UiT)].
- Virtual Stain, Funding Agency: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Type: Thematic Grant Status: Ongoing, Duration: Jan 2021-Dec 2024 [Co-Principal Investigator Dr. Frank Melandso (UiT)].
- Developing high frequency and sensitive acoustic piezoelectric sensors and transducers for integration in the photo-acoustic microscopy
- Live cells (cancer cells, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), fish skin cells and heart cells) label-free acoustic microscopy imaging for tracking biological activities
Ph.D thesis related projects
- Fabrication methodologies of UV curable polyurethane based on Gecko inspired adhesive polymer base for wall climbing robot prototypes
- Automatic fiber placement robot optimization for developing Polyimide/carbon fiber composites composites
- Helicoidal and other complex geometrical fibers and composite prototypes for developing tough and impact-resistant bio inspired materials
- Reducing fiber size while maintaining complex geometrical architecture of the fiber scaffolds
- Free-standing carbon electrode made via carbonization process of the polyacrylonitrile electrospun membrane
- Spider-web inspired electrospun bead-on-string hierarchical fiber prototypes for fog harvesting
- Nanomechanical quantification (indentation and scratch tests) of Copper Graphene (few atomic layers) film vs copper film. Nanoindenation, thermal and mechanical analysis for various polymers and mineralized biomaterials
- Development of chitosan films and membranes and their molecular alignment characterization