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Pratyush Dayal
Assistant Professor
 

B.Tech.: IT-BHU, Varanasi, 1998
Ph.D.: University of Akron, 2007

Email: pdayal@iitgn.ac.in
Phone:+91-79-32210156
 
Research Interest
  • Self-oscillating polymer gels
  • Structure development in polymer blends and solutions
  • Polymer processing

Work Experience
  • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, (June-2012 to present)
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, USA, (July-2007 to June-2012)
  • Research Associate, Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, USA (Mar-2007 to June-2007)
  • Project Engineer, Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited, Gandhar Petrochemicals Complex, India (June-1998 to July-2001)
 
Selected Recent Publications
  • O. Kuksenok, V.V. Yashin, P. Dayal and A. C. Balazs, “Mechano-chemical Waves”, Rep. Prog. Phys., 2011.
  • P. Dayal, O. Kuksenok, V. V. Yashin and A. C. Balazs, “Copying from nature: Designing adaptive, chemo-responsive gels”, J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys., 48(24), 2533, 2010.
  • P. Dayal, O. Kuksenok and A. C. Balazs, “Designing autonomously motile gels that follow complex paths”, Soft Matter, 6(4), 768, 2010.
  • P. Dayal, O. Kuksenok and A. C. Balazs, “Using light to guide the self-sustained motion of active gels”, Langmuir, 25(8), 4298, 2009.
  • P. Dayal, O. Kuksenok and A. C. Balazs, “Forming ordered structures in ternary photosensitive blends through the use of masks”, Soft Matter, 5, 1205, 2009.