Rajesh Pavan Pothukuchi

About

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. Previously worked as a CV Raman Postdoctoral Fellow at IISc, Bangalore, and obtained a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from IIT Gandhinagar. My fundamental interests lie in the areas of Computational soft matter, Polymer Physics, Nanomaterials, Biopolymers, Nucleation of Metallic nanomaterials, and anti-corrosive polymeric coatings

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Assistant Professor
  2026 - Present
• SASTRA University Assistant Professor Research
  2025 - 2026
• Indian Institute of Science CV Raman Postdoctoral Fellow
  2023 - 2025

Education

• National Institute of Technology Durgapur M.Tech
  2014 - 2016

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (4)

• Understanding asymmetry effects at low grafting density on the self-assembly of polyion grafted nanoparticles
  Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2022 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp02743g
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• Controlled 3D assembly and stimuli responsive behavior of DNA and peptide functionalized gold nanoparticles in solutions
  Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2022 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp02548e
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• Understanding the stimuli responsive behavior of polyion grafted nanoparticles in the presence of salt and polyelectrolytes
  Soft Matter 2022 DOI: 10.1039/d2sm00650b
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• Charge-Driven Self-Assembly of Polyelectrolyte-Grafted Nanoparticles in Solutions
  Langmuir 2021 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c01571
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