Dr. Lakshi Nandan Borah

Academic Qualification

• Ph.D from NIT SILCHAR in the Topic “Developing delamination resistant CFRP using low cost functionalized graphitic nanofiller”.
• M.Tech from NIT SILCHAR in the specialization of Material and manufacturing technology.
• B.Tech from ASSAM DON BOSCO UNIVERSITY in Mechanical Engineering department.
• HS & HSLC from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Golaghat.

Experience

• Worked as JRF/SRF, National Institute of Technology, Silchar (NITS) from 1st Oct 2019 till 27th May 2022 project entitled “Enabling innovative multiple self-healing technologies in fiber-reinforced composite with unaltered mechanical properties” under DST-SERB (Total duration = 2 years 7 months 26 days)
• Worked in the Inventorization and rejuvenation of springs under JAL ABHYARANYA CAMPAIGN (JAC 2019) under National Mission on Himalayan Studies (MoEF&CC).
• 4 years of Research experience during Ph.D in the field of hybrid CFRP.

Career Highlights & Awards:

• Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE-2017) fellowship.
• Major internship during B.Tech in Chief Workshop manager Carriage & Wagon Workshop North-East Frontier Railway, New Bongai Gaon (Assam) in 2015.
• Pumps used in Refinery in Numaligarh Refinery Limited in 2016.
• Designing Model of Stirling Engine.
• Design and Analysis for Heat transfer through FIN with extension in CATIA & AUTOCAD Software.
• Worked on Production of BIO-DIESEL and testing its different characteristics in major project work during B.Tech.
• Mini-project on Self-healing of composite materials in M.Tech.
• Worked on the topic “Investigation on Cenospheres Encapsulated Phase Change Material (PCM) Coated with Calcium-Silicate-Hydrate Gel” in M.Tech project.

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zlWhvJsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Orcid id: 0000-0002-5053-6634

Technical Skills:

• Research Areas of interest:
  Composite materials, Hybrid multiscale laminated composites, Bio-composites, Phase change materials and encapsulation technology, Surface engineering and functionalization, Self-healing composite materials and FRP laminate, Energy-efficient building materials
• Instruments Handled:
  Hot Air Oven, Muffle Furnace, Field Emission-Scanning Electron Microscope (FE-SEM), Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC), Thermo Gravimetric Analyzer (TGA), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), Optical Microscopy, Ultrasonic Processing, Auto Clave, Universal tensile testing machine, VRTM machine (Indutch Company), Hydraulic press, OMKAR, Environmental & Humidity Chamber, SR lab instruments, High Precision Ball Mill, Bainpol Grinding/Polishing machine, Twin Wel Belt Grinder.

Publication and Books

International and National Journal published:

• Lakshi Nandan Borah, Sudipta Halder, Pannalal Choudhury, Epoxy composites integrated with functionalized wet milled graphitic nanoparticles: Featuring enhanced mechanical performance and in-plane fracture resistance, Polymer composites, 28 August 2023 (Impact factor = 5).
• Lakshi Nandan Borah, S. Das, Sudipta Halder, Pannalal Choudhury, Milled graphitic nanoparticle toughened epoxy composites via increased resistance to in-plane crack propagation, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 11 Jan 2024 (Impact factor = 4.70).
• NI Khan, S Halder, MS Goyat, LN Borah, S Das, Repetitive self-healing of Diels-Alder grafted graphene hybridized CFRP composites with outstanding mechanical properties, Soft Matter, 2023, 3121-3135 (Impact factor = 4.06).
• Mishra, Ch Kapil Ror, S. Negi, S. Kar, Lakshi Nandan Borah, Development of sustainable 3D printing filaments using recycled/virgin ABS blends: Processing and characterization, Volume 63, Issue 7, 1890-1899, Polymer engineering and science, 14 April 2023 (Impact factor = 3.2)..
• Mishra, Ch Kapil Ror, S. Negi, S. Kar, Lakshi Nandan Borah, 3D printing with recycled ABS resin: Effect of blending and printing temperature, Volume 309, 128317, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 1^st November 2023 (Impact factor = 4.70).
• Anubhav Saikia, M.Tech; Subhankar Das; Lakshi Nandan Borah, M. Tech; Md Saruk Ahamed, M.Tech; Samit Roy, Development of self-healed, thermoformable and fracture resistance epoxy nanocomposites added with disulfide bond grafted TiO₂ nanoparticles, Composites Part B, Manuscript Number: JCOMB-D-24-02486 (In communications).

International and National Conferences Presented/Attended:

• Lakshi Nandan Borah, Kh. Gopal Krishna Singh, Sudipta Halder, Pannalal Choudhury, Encapsulated cenospheres having phase change material coated with poly-dopamine, International Conference on Recent Developments in Mechanical Engineering ICRAME, 07-09 February 2020, NIT Silchar, India.
• Lakshi Nandan Borah, Chandrangith K P, Sudipta Halder. Thermal characterization of polydopamine (Pd) based vitrimer polymer composites. 3rd International Conference on Recent Advancements in Mechanical Engineering, 04 - 06 February, 2022. NIT Silchar, 1007/978-981-97-0900-7.
• Lakshi Nandan Borah, Sudipta Halder, Pannalal Choudhury, High-energy planetary ball-milling of Graphite and characterization of milled graphite based CFRP laminates, International Conference on Advances in Chemical and Materials Sciences, ACMS-2022.
• Lakshi Nandan Borah, Anubhav Saikia, Sudipta Halder, Pannalal Choudhury, Fabrication of thermoformable polymer composite using biobased materials, International Conference on Recent Developments in Mechanical Engineering ICRAME 2020 07-09 February 2023, NIT Silchar, India.
• Lakshi Nandan Borah, Swatantra Kumar, S Halder, P Choudhury, Transformation of natural graphite to ball-milled graphitic nanoparticles (BMG) featuring for functionalization and its compatibility to epoxy network, International Conference on Recent Developments in Mechanical Engineering ICRAME 2020 07-09 February 2024, NIT Silchar, India.
• Biswajit Mazumder, Lakshi Nandan Borah, Sudipta Halder, Pannalal Choudhury, Fabrication of Epoxy Composites Using Functionalized TiO₂ Nanoparticles: Experimental Investigation, International Conference on Recent Developments in Mechanical Engineering ICRAME 2020 07-09 February 2024, NIT Silchar, India.
• Swatantra Kumar, Lakshi Nandan Borah, SudiptaHalder, Pannalal Choudhury, A review on curing study of clay-based nanocomposites by non-isothermal differential scanning calorimetry, International Conference on Recent Developments in Mechanical Engineering ICRAME 2020 07-09 February 2024, NIT Silchar, India.

Poster presentation and exhibition Attended:

• Lakshi Nandan Borah, Sudipta Halder, Pannalal Choudhury, Mechanical characterization of CFRP laminates with graphitic based fillers produced by dry and wet ball milling method (Poster presentation), May 20 - 22, 2022, North-East Research Conclave, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India.
• G G Giridhar, Pannalal Choudhury, Sudipta Halder and Lakshi Nandan Borah, Hygrothermal properties of GFRPs infused with functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), (Poster presentation), May 20 - 22, 2022, North-East Research Conclave, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India.
• Chandrangith K P, Lakshi Nandan Borah, Sudipta Halder, Anubhav Saikia, Tensile Characteristics of Polydopamine Based Vitrimer Polymer Composites, (Poster presentation), May 20 - 22, 2022, North-East Research Conclave, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India.
• Sudipta Halder, Lakshi Nandan Borah, Chandrangith K P, Anubhav Saikia, Tensile Characteristics of Polydopamine Based Vitrimer Polymer Composites (exhibition), May 20 - 22, 2022, North-East Research Conclave, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India.
• Organized one day short term training program on “Fabrication of Self-healing laminated composites through VRTM process” on 26/11/2022 funded by DST.