Active Micro and Nanosystems Lab

Welcome to AMN Lab at IIT Bhilai

Welcome to the research group website of  Dr. Dhruv Pratap Singh, Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, IIT Bhilai, India.

Our interdisciplinary research group is focused on the design and applications of active systems at micro and nanometer scales. These active systems include the autonomous robots, self-propelled motors, and high density artificial active matter, etc. Motivated from the design principles of small scale biological active systems like bacteria and cells we aim to develop different types of artificial active systems for specific applications like targeted drug delivery, non-invasive surgery, dynamic colloidal assembly, and reconfigurable materials, etc.    

Selected videos of our recent work

Controlled swimming of light-driven microrobotshttps://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201706660 
Reversible colloidal crystallization by microrobotshttps://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201701328
Lattice controlled crystal growth using microrobots.https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201701328
Dynamic size control of the colloidal microstructure.https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201701328
Self-organized flows in active matter in a drophttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15713-y 
Communications between active dropshttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15713-y 

Recent Publications

Suvendu Kumar Panda, Srikanta Debata and Dhruv Pratap Singh     

Chemical Physics Impact,2024. doi.org/10.1016/j.chphi.2024.100588 

pH-Responsive swimming behavior of light-powered rod-shaped micromotors 

Srikanta Debata, Suvendu Kumar Panda, Satyaprakash Trivedi, William Uspal, and Dhruv Pratap Singh   

Nanoscale, 2023, .  doi.org/10.1039/D3NR03775D 

Bubble propelled micro/nano motors: A robust platform for the detection of environmental pollutants and biosensing 

Nomaan Alam Kherani,   Srikanta Debata,   Suvendu Kumar Panda  and  Dhruv Pratap Singh   

Mater. Adv., 2023.  doi.org/10.1039/D2TB01367C 

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