Dr. Bhabani K. Satapathy is a professor in the Department of Materials Engineering. He did his Ph.D. from IIT Delhi in the area of polymer composites and specifically on the tribological aspects of composites for automotive braking applications. He subsequently pursued his research career as a Postdoctoral fellow at Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden (IPF Dresden) and in Mechanics of Functional Materials (MfM) group of Institute of Material Science and Technology at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. He also has an M. Tech. degree in Polymer Science and Engineering from IIT Delhi. His main research interests are on phase behaviour, tribology and fracture mechanics of polymer based blends, composites, block copolymers and allied materials. 

Research Interests:

Morphology and Phase Behaviour of Block Copolymers, Polymer Blends and Composites, Micromechanics, Fracture and Fatigue of Polymer Nano-composites, Tribology of Polymer Based Materials, Biotribology, Thermo-Mechanical Behaviour of Biomaterials.