selected presentations/talk at conferences

  1. P. K. Patra, V. E. Kalayci, Y. K. Kim, S C. Ugbolue and S. B. Warner, "Ultrafine Fibers from Electrostatic Solution Spinning," Fiber Society Annual Technical Conference, Natick, MA., Oct 18, 2002.
  2. Viswanathan, G. (RPI), Patra, P. K. (UMD), Warner, S. B. (UMD), Ryu, C. R. (RPI) and Ajayan, P. M. (RPI), "Nano-Structured Morphology of Electrospun Polymer-Carbon Nanotubes," American Physical Society, March 2003.
  3. S. Razdan, P. K. Patra, S. B. Warner and Y. K. Kim, "Effect of Nanofillers on Thermal Stability of Polypropylene," Tenth Annual International Conference on Composite /Nano Engineering (ICCE-10), July 20-26, 2003.
  4. G. Inan, P. K. Patra and S. B. Warner, "In-situ Polymerized Fire Resistant Nylon 6/Clay Nanocomposites," Tenth Annual International Conference on Composite /Nano Engineering (ICCE-10), July 20-26, New Orleans, 2003.
  5. B. Ascioglue, S. Adanur, P. K. Patra, G. Inan, Y. Kim and S. Warner, "Heat Transfer Modeling in Nanofiber Reinforced Composites," Tenth Annual International Conference on Composite /Nano Engineering (ICCE-10), July 20-26, New Orleans, 2003.
  6. G. Inan, P. K. Patra and Y. K. Kim, "Fire Resistant Laponite and Montmorillonite based Nylon 6 Nanocomposite," 31st Annual Conference on Thermal Analysis and Applications (NATAS), September 22-24, 2003.
  7. Y. K. Kim, S. K. Mhetre, P. K. Patra, "Nylon 6-Carbon Nanotube Nanocomposite Fibers," World Textile Conference 4th AUTEX Conference, Roubaix, June 22-24, 2004.
  8. Ming Chen, Prabir Patra, Steve Warner and Sankha Bhowmick, "Optimization of Electrospinning Process Parameters for Tissue Engineering Scaffolds for Bioactive Bandages," Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall meeting, November-December, 2004.
  9. P. K. Patra, S. Razdan and S. B. Warner "Nano-Engineered Flame Resistant Polymer Composites," COMPOSITES 2004, American Composite Manufacturers Research Association (ACMA) Oct 6-8, 2004.
  10. K. Sanmuganathan, S. Deodhar, Q. Fan, P. K. Patra, Y. K. Kim and S. B. Warner, "Structure and Properties of nylon 6/montmorillonite nanocomposite fibers," accepted, Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall meeting, November-December, 2004.
  11. S. Deodhar, K. Sanmuganathan, Q. Fan, P. K. Patra, Y. K. Kim and S. B. Warner, "Polypropylene/silica nanocomposite fibers," accepted, Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall meeting, November-December, 2004.
  12. Ming Chen, Prabir Patra, Steve Warner and Sankha Bhowmick "Optimization of Electrospinning Parameters for Construction of the Bio-active Bandages," Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting, Oct. 13-16, Philadelphia 2004.
  13. Ming Chen, Prabir Patra, Steve Warner and Sankha Bhowmick, "Development of a biodegradable nanofiber scaffold by optimization of electrospinning process parameters," Summer bioengineering conference June 22-26, Vail, CO 2004.
  14. P. K. Patra, Y. K. Kim and Shamal Mehtre and S. B. Warner, "Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube CNT/nylon 6 Nanocomposite Fibers presented in Carbon nanotube reinforced composite workshop," Lexington, KY, organized by University of Kentucky, Center for Applied Energy Research, Institute for Scientific Research and NASA January 11-12, 2005.
  15. S. K. Mhetre, Y. K. Kim, P. K. Patra and S. B. Warner, "Nanocomposite Fibers from In-situ Polymerization of -caprolactam with Carbon Nanotubes," presented in the NTC forum-Textile institute World Conference, March 22-25, Raleigh, NC, 2005.
  16. P. K. Patra, S. B. Warner, Y. K. Kim, S. Mehtre and C. Ceilik, "Composite Fibers from Nanoparticulate Carbon," presented in Fiber Society fall meeting October 2005.
  17. K. Shanmuganathan, S. Deodhar, P. K. Patra, S. B. Warner, Q. Fan and P. D. Calvert "Flame Retardancy and Microstructure of Nylon 6-Layered Silicate Nanocomposite," presented in American Society for Composites (ASC), September 2005.
  18. P. K. Patra, K. Shanmuganathan, S. Deodhar, S. B. Warner, Q. Fan and P. D. Calvert, invited talk on "Flame Retardant Nylon 6/ clay nanocomposite compositions," MRS fall meeting, Dec, 2005.
  19. P. K. Patra, invited talk on "Flame Retardant Polyamide-Clay Nanocomposite," Indian Rubber Manufacturer’s Research Association (IRMRA), January, 2006.
  20. P. K. Patra, invited talk on "Structural Colors by Nano Scale Polymer Ionic Self Assembly," Materials Science Center, IIT Kharagpur,India January, 2006.
  21. P. K. Patra, S. Deodhar, Q. Fan, S. Warner, P. Calvert, "Polypropylene based Novel Flame Retardant Nanocomposite Composition," COMPOSITES and POLYCON 2006, American Composite Manufacturers Research Association (ACMA), St. Louis, Oct 18-20, 2006.
  22. A. Agrawal, P. K. Patra and P. D. Calvert, "Flexible Piezoresistive Strain Sensors," presented in NSTI, 2007 California, Santa Clara
  23. P. D. Calvert, P. Patra, A. Sawhney and A. Agrawal, "Printed Conducting Polymer Strain Sensors for Textiles," SPIE 14 International symposium on Smart Structure and Nondestructive evaluation and Health Monitoring, San Diego, CA, March 18-22, 2007.
  24. P. D. Calvert, P. Patra, D. Duggal, "Epoxy Hydrogels as Sensors and Actuators," SPIE 14th International symposium on Smart Structure and Nondestructive evaluation and Health Monitoring, San Diego, CA, March 18-22, 2007.
  25. Paul Calvert, Prabir Patra, Amit Sawhney, Deepak Duggal and Animesh Agrawal, "Printed Conducting Polymer Strain Sensors for Textiles", International Conference on Digital Fabrication Technologies, Sept 16-21, Anchorage, Alaska
  26. Prabir Patra , Sankha Bhowmick and Ming Chen, " Tissue Engineered Nanofibrous Scaffold" conference on sustainable and responsible nanotechnology , Monterrey, Mexico, December 9-12, 2008
  27. B.Carey, L.Ci, P.K.Patra, G.Silva and P.M.Ajayan, "Dynamic strain hardening in carbon nanotube/polymer composite" 2nd International Conference from Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials to Nanodevices and Nanosystems (IC4N), Rhodes, Greece, June 28-July 3, 2009
  28. Akshat C. Patel, Miral P. Vaghela, Hassan Bajwa and Prabir Patra, "Power Harvesting for Low Power Wireless Sensor Network" Accepted in LAPC Antennas and Propagation Conference, November 2009.
  29. Akshat C. Patel, Miral P. Vaghela, Hassan Bajwa and Prabir Patra, "Conformable Patch Antenna Array for Energy Harvesting." Materials Research Society Fall meeting, November 30- December 4, Boston, MA, 2009
  30. Prabir K. Patra and Sukalyan Sengupta, "Ion Exchange Functional Nanofibers" Materials Research Society (MRS) fall meeting, November 30- December 4, Boston, MA, 2009
  31. P.K.Patra, S. Bhowmick and M.Chen, "Polymer nanofibrous scaffold for tissue engineering", Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering (Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Tissue Engineering), American Chemical Society National Meeting, 2009, Washington DC, August 16-20, 2009
  32. P. Patra, S. Deodhar and C.A.Wilkie, " Flame retardancy of filled polypropylene nanocomposite", Carbohydrate, American Chemical Society National Meeting, 2009, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 22-26, 2009
  33. Prabir Patra, Tissue Engineered Scaffold, Invited talk, CCNY, 2010
  34. Target Engineering of the DNA-Binding Proteins, Christian Bach, Hassan Bajwa and Prabir Patra, International Conference on Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (ICCMB), August 2-4, Singapore (Nanyang Technological University), 2010
  35. Observation of Strain hardening in Nanocomposites, Brent Carey, Prabir Patra, Glaura Silva, Lijie Ci and Pulickel Ajayan, "25 years of Buckyball Discovery" , Houston, TX, October 9-11, 2010 (In honor of three Nobel laureates for Bucky ball (fullerene) discovery and the conference had prominent speakers from the globe).
  36. Nanostructured Biomaterials in Tissue Engineering, P.K.Patra, University of North Bengal, July 28, 2010 (Special lecture for 150th Birthday of the father of Indian Chemistry Sir Acharya Prafullya Chandra Ray)
  37. Scott Bastian, Saion Sinha, Eva Sapi, Ashish Aphale and Prabir Patra, Advanced Materials in Nanotechnology (AMN-5),New Zealand, February, 2011
  38. Nanofabrication of Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Circuits using Magnetotactic Bacteria , I. G. Macwan, S. Patel, A. Aphale, S. Bhosale, J. Rho, and P. Patra, BMES Annual meeting, Hartford, CT, October 12-15, 2011
  39. Glucose Biosensor Based on Modified Electrode of Polypyrrole-Glucose Oxidase-Modified Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, D. M. Savani, A. Santiago, P. Patra, and D. Burton, BMES Annual meeting, Hartford, CT, October 12-15, 2011
  40. Targeted Engineering of DNA-binding Proteins, C. Bach, H. Bajwa, K. Erodula, J. Pallis, P. Patra, and W. Sherman, BMES Annual meeting, Hartford, CT, October 12-15, 2011
  41. Nanoscale Study of Bacterial Biofilm Formation on Hydrogels, S. L. Bastian, S. K. Sinha, E. T. Sapi, A. Aphale, and P. Patra, BMES Annual meeting, Hartford, CT, October 12-15, 2011
  42. Interfacial Interaction of Carbon Nanotube and Nylon 6 in In-situ polymerized nanocomposites, S. Mehtre, P.Patra and Y. Kim, " The 9th ISC" , Venice, Italy, 2011
  43. Intephasic Evolution as a Mechanism of Mechanical Improvement in Compliant Polymer Nanocomposites, B. J. Carey, K.G. Yager, M. Qu, A. Gouldstone, P.K.Patra, P.M. Ajayan, Presented at Rice Quantum Institute (RQI), August 24, 2011
  44. Patterned Polymer Nanofibers Based Biosensors, T.O. Mertz, V. Kunduru, P.K.Patra, K. Vatipalli and S. Prasad, MRS proceedings, Symposia MM; Organic Bioelectronics and Photonics for Sensing applications, 2011
  45. The Anisotropic Viscoelastic Properties of Elastomer-Infiltrated Carbon Nanotube Forests, and Limitations of Their Preparation, B.J. Carey, P. K. Patra, P.M. Ajayan, Proceedings of SAMPE, 2011 (May, 2011, Long Beach, CA)
  46. A simple electric circuit model to explain the impedance of plastic doped with carbon nanotubes" Bhushan Dharmadhikari, Prabir Patra, Navarun Gupta and Lawrence V. Hmurcik, paper presented, 2011 ASEE (The American Society for Engineering Education) Northeast Section Conference, April 29-30, 2011, Hartford, CT
  47. Transformation of the Interphase in Compliant Polymer Nanocomposites by Dynamic Stressing, Brent J. Carey, Kevin G. Yager, Meng Qu, Krystyn J. Van Vliet, Prabir K. Patra and Pulickel M. Ajayan, AAAS conference, Feb 16-20,2012
  48. Mahakalkar K, Aphale A, Bhosale S, Macwan I, Patra P. Tailored collector design for optimization of alignment of biomimetic nanofibers. Faculty Research Day, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport CT. 2012.
  49. Cheng J, Aphale A, Macwan I, Bhosale S, Bhattacharya A, Patra P, Mukerji I. Graphene and amyloid peptide binding and its implications in Alzheimer’s disease. Faculty Research Day, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport CT. 2012.
  50. Bhosale S, Aphale A, Macwan I, Rane K, Patra P. Computer Assisted Detection for Liver Neoplams and its 3D Volumetric Measurement. Faculty Research Day, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport CT. 2012.
  51. Aphale A, Macwan I, Bhosale S, Mahakalkar K, Zhang J, Patra P. Fabrication of aligned PVA nanofibers: A new collector technique. Faculty Research Day, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport CT. 2012.
  52. Macwan I, Zhao Z, Aphale A, Bhosale S, Patra P. Selective Manipulation of Nanoparticles in Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) using Magnetotactic Bacteria. Faculty Research Day, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport CT. 2012.
  53. Vattipalli K, Aphale A, Bhosale S, Macwan I, Selvam A, Patra P, Prasad S. Nanoscale Confinement in Micro-Arrays for Impedance Based Detection of C-Reactive Protein. In: Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. San Diego, CA; 2012.
  54. Macwan I, Zhao Z, Aphale A, Rho J, Patra P. Magnetotaxis as a Means for Nanofabrication. In: Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology. Ka’anapali, Hawaii; 2012.
  55. Ashish Aphale, Isaac Macwan, Shrinivas Bhosale, Miad Faezipour, William Sherman and Prabir Patra “ 2D atomically thin graphene nanoribbons- DNA self-assembly piezo structures for energy self-harvesting”, Faculty research day, University of Bridgeport, Feb 2012 (In collaboration with BNL).
  56. Jennifer Cheng, Ashish Aphale, Isaac Macwan, Shrinivas Bhosale, Anwesha Bhattacharya, Prabir Patra, Ishita Mukerji, “Graphene and amyloid peptide biding and its implications in Alzheimer’s disease” Faculty research day, University of Bridgeport, Feb 2012.
  57. Ashish Aphale, Daniel Coman, Prabir Patra and Fahmeed Hyder, “ NMR detection of graphene nanoribbons”, Faculty research day, University of Bridgeport, Feb 2012
  58. Ashish Aphale, Isaac Macwan, Shrinivas Bhosale, Kapil Mahakalkar, Junjie Zhang and Prabir Patra “ Fabrication of PVA aligned nanofibers: A new collector technique”, ASEE-NE, UMASS-Lowel, March 2012.
  59. Shrinivas Bhosale, Ashish Aphale, Isaac Macwan, Miad Faezipour, Priya Bhosale, Prabir Patra “Computer Assisted Detection of Liver Neoplasm (CADLN)”, Engineering in Medical and Biology Society (EMBC 2012), San Diego, USA.
  60. Ashish Aphale, Shrinivas Bhosale, Isaac Macwan, Kapil Mahakalkar, Junjie Zhang, Krishna Vattipalli, Shalini Prasad, Prabir Patra, “Fabrication of Electrospun Composite Nanofibers and Their Application in Early Detection of Femtogram C- reactive protein (CRP)”, BMES October 2012, Atlanta, USA.
  61. Ashish N Aphale, Krishna M Vattipalli, Shrinivas Bhosale, Isaac G Macwan, Anjan P Selvam, Shalini Prasad, Prabir K Patra, “Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Deposited Micro-electrode for Ultra-Small Level Detection of Protein”, Materials Research Society (MRS), Nov 2012, Boston, USA.
  62. Aphale A, Macwan I, Mahakalkar K, Patra P. Ultrathin flying objects (UFO): Layered nanofibers. In: Proceedings of the 2013 Northeast section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, 2013.
  63. Macwan I, Zhao Z, Aphale A, Rho J, Mahmood A, Patra P. Magnetotaxis as a Means for Nanofabrication. In: Connecticut Symposium on Microelectronics and Optoelectronics. New Haven; 2013.
  64. Ashish Aphale, Aheli Chattopadhyay, Kapil Mahakalkar and Prabir Patra, “Algae Derived Cellulose-Graphene Nanocomposite Energy Storage Device”, Materials Research Society (MRS), Dec 2013, Boston, USA.
  65. Macwan I, Zhao Z, Sobh OT, Patra PK. Magnetotaxis for nanofabrication. In: Proceedings of the 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education. IEEE; 2014:1-10. doi:10.1109/ASEEZone1.2014.6820681.
  66. Macwan I, Zhao Z, Sobh O, Patra P. A flagellum based study of semiconductor nanofabrication through magnetotaxis. In: Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Chicago, IL; 2014.
  67. Macwan I, Zhao Z, Sobh O, Patra P. Interaction of flagellin with single-walled carbon nanotubes. In: Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society. San Antonio, TX; 2014.
  68. Macwan I, Zhao Z, Patra P. Interaction of metallic and semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes with flagellin. In: 2014 Material Research Society Fall Meeting. Boston, MA; 2014.
  69. Ashish Aphale, Roqui Wei, Angela Santiago and Prabir Patra, “ Energy Storage using Graphene-Polymer nanocomposite thin film”, American Society of Engineering Education, April 2014.
  70. Khyati Patel, Vikram Kandala, Ashish Aphale and Prabir Patra, “Polycaprolactone Nanofibrous Materials as an Efficient Dry Eye Test Strip”, Biomedical Engineering Society, BMES Texas 2014.
  71. Pamela Hitscherich, Ashish Aphale, Dr. Pabir Patra and Dr. Eun Jung Lee, “Biocompatibility of PCL-graphene electrospun scaffolds with mouse embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes”, TERMIS-AM, Washington DC, 2014.
  72. Khyati Patel, Ashish Aphale, Isaac Macwan, Miad Faezipour, Prabir Patra, “Polycaprolactone Nanofibrous Materials as an Efficient Dry Eye Test Strip”, IEEE, EMBS: Special Topic Conference on Healthcare Innovation & Point-of-Care Technologies, Seattle, Oct, 2014 (Talk).
  73. A. N. Aphale, K. Maisuria, M. Mahapatra, P. Singh, and P. Patra, “A Novel Hybrid Nanocomposite Electrode for Supercapacitor,” in Material Research Society (MRS); Track: Graphene and Graphene Nanocomposites, Boston, Dec 2014.
  74. Md. D. H. Khan, Aphale A, Macwan I, Liu J, Hingorani M, Patra P. “Functional protein detection for DNA mismatch repair: A novel nano-biosensor for colorectal cancer diagnostics”. In: 2015 Material Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston MA, 2015.
  75. Macwan I, Aikebaier K, Patra P. “Directed Self-Assembly of Magnetite through Electrospinning with Potential Application in Nanopatterning”. In: 2015 Material Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston MA, 2015.