We have expertise in different areas in our advisory board.

• Dr. P.N. Pandit
• Abhijeet Bhattacharya
• Dr. G. U. Kulkarni
• Dr. Jayesh R. Bellare
• Koshal Agarwal
• Amitabh Agarwal

• Dr. Jayesh R. Bellare - He is one of the leading scientists in Nanotechnology alliance in India and he has contributed as an Advisor to YASHNANOTECH in the year 2005-06. Dr. Jayesh R. Bellare is Professor of Chemical Engineering at I.I.T.-Bombay. He was the first Head of IIT's new School of Biosciences and Bioengineering. He has also been visiting Professor at U.D.C.T., Bombay University. He did his schooling at the Bombay Scottish School and his B.Tech., Chemical Engineering, from I.I.T. Bombay (with First rank).

He earned his Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science) from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A. and was post-doctoral fellow at M.I.T., Cambridge, U.S.A. His research includes nanotechnology, liposomes, biomedical devices, microscopy & imaging technology. He has several international publications, conference presentations, and patents, including international patents.

He has won several national and international awards like the Presidential Award of the Electron Microscopy Society of America and ICI award of IIChE. Dr. Bellare strongly believes in close interaction between academia and industry and is a very active industry consultant.


Research Areas

· Nanotechnology and microengineering; Microstructured materials, devices and processing: surfactants, ceramics, polymers, membranes, soft solids & complex liquids; Cryo-electron and optical microscopy; Image processing; Technical photography; Prototyping, Instrumentation.


Awards and Affiliations

1. ICI Award for Excellence in Process/Product Development, Ind. Inst. of Chem. Engineers, 1996.

2. Best Microscopist from Developing Countries Award, Microscopy Society of America, 1993.

3. Presidential Award, Electron Microscopy Society of America, 1986.

4. Kazato Grant, International Congress on Electron Microscopy, 1986.

NRDC Invention Intelligence/National R&D Council Prize for Automatic R.I. sensor, 1983.


Current Research

· Liposome and vesicle microreactors
Liposome and vesicle microreactors, their microstructure, deformability under shear, and reactions in them to produce ultrafine particles.

· Electron Microscopy of Complex Fluids
Electron Microscopy of Complex Fluids, including development of new microscopy techniques. Morphology of soft solids and complex liquids.

· Membrane Technology
Membrane Technology, including composite, supported, asymmetric, hollow-fiber, and ceramic membranes; their preparation, industrial manufacture and characterization.

· Artificial organs
Blood oxygenerators, dialysers; new designs and industrial production.

· Ceramic materials
Their precursors, powders and membranes; microstructure development; optical properties; bioglasses.

· Micro-chemical engineering
Specialized instrumentation, process miniaturization and intensification. Excellent facility set up for cryo-scanning electron microscopy and sample preparation of soft solids and complex liquids; and for Thermal conductivity of fluids: applied to vegetable oils, suspensions and soft solids.

· Industry interaction
Retainer consultant to several companies. Over 15 projects in these areas. Several products / processes are commercialized. Over 12 Patents.


Selected Publications

1. Jayesh, B., Srivastava, A. and Menon, A., "Electron microscopy of modified aluminum alkoxide microstructures on freeze drying", J. Coll. Interface Sci., 191,521-524 (1997).

2. Jayesh, B., Haridas, M., Menon, A., Goyal, N. and Chandran, S., "Cryogenic-Scanning Electron Microscopy as a technique to Image sol-to-gel transformation in chelated alkoxide systems", Ceramics International, 22,155-159 (1996).

3. Jayesh, B., Shah, P.B., and Bandopadhayay, S., "Environmentally degradable starch filled low density polyethylene", Polymer Degradation and Stability, 47, 165-173 (1995).

4. Jayesh, B., Haridas, M., Menon, A., Goyal, N. and Chandran, S., "Cryo-SEM imaging microstructures in a chelated sol-gel process", Transactions of Indian Ceramic Society, 54, 149 (1995).

5. Jayesh, B., Menon, A., Prabhu, C.S., Haridas, M. and Mohan, T.R.R., "In situ formation and imaging of cellular alumina in a Cryo-SEM environment", Journal of Materials Science Letters, 16, 1506 (1997).