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CHEME 7900 Seminar: Sanat Kumar (Columbia)

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Bio: Sanat Kumar is the Bykhovsky Professor of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University. His research interests are in the field of polymers (nanocomposites, advanced capacitor materials, scattering methods) and biopolymers (protein-surface interactions).

Kumar creates, analyzes, and models new classes of polymer-based materials with improved properties. A particular focus is on hybrid materials (polymer with inorganic filler) with relevance to biomimicry, and energy storage and conversion. His group has been the pioneer over the last decade in the practically relevant topic of Polymer Nanocomposites where inorganic nanoparticles are added to polymers to obtain materials with synergistic properties

Kumar received a B.Tech. in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1981 and a Sc.D. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987.