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Jamia Millia launches new self-financed B.Tech and M.Tech Programmes

Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) has announced the launch of several innovative self-financed programs in B.Tech and M.Tech for the academic year 2024-25.

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Quince Therapeutics to Present at Upcoming Scientific Meetings

Quince Therapeutics to Present at Upcoming Scientific Meetings
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Opportunities in Experimental High-Throughput Materials Research

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The adoption of data-sciences within chemical engineering and materials science is primed to accelerate materials discovery and developments in molecular understanding. Yet, this movement is still dominated by information originating from molecular modelling, or from physical data that is acquired from legacy sources (e.g. databases, literature mining) accumulating decades of careful experimental work. In order to advance data-driven materials developments into the future, high-throughput experimentation (HTE) and automation throughout the complete laboratory workflow must also be developed and widely adopted to accelerate rates of experimental data production. In this talk I will outline examples and experiences showcasing how researchers in our group (and others) are developing and adapting hardware and software infrastructure to accelerate the pace of molecular discovery in soft-matter systems for applications in health care, clean energy and materials synthesis. The talk will highlight recent research examples related to the implementation of HTE for colloidal formulation/synthesis and electrolyte design. It will also highlight significant challenges that emerge when transitioning from established ‘wet-laboratory’ practices to HTE. These relate to adapting specialized experimental methods to HTE, developing new skills within the research workforce, the adoption of new data stewardship practices, financial and infrastructure obstacles, needs for autonomous data sorting/classification, algorithms for automatic modeling and analysis and many others. Conversely, I will also highlight the numerous opportunities that can emerge for enhancing virtual collaboration, enabling open data/hardware/software sharing, tackling challenging irreducible problems (e.g. optimization of complex formulations), and outlooks for the implementation of self-driving laboratories.

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IIC-JMI conduct workshops to train students for startups and entrepreneurship ecosystem

The institution’s Innovation Council (IIC), Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE), Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) has conducted a number of workshops to train students about various intricacies of the startup and entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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Using biomimetic polymers to understand and control sequence/structure/function relationships and achieve rational design of biomineralization

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Peptoids, or n-substitued glycines, are complex and diverse oligomeric structures which have been explored for a number of biomimetic applications including drug delivery, surfactants, and catalysts. In contrast to their peptide counterparts, on peptoids the sidechain is bonded to the backbone nitrogen resulting in a flexible omega backbone dihedral that is able to isomerize into both stable cis- and trans- backbone conformations. This unique feature of peptoids allows for these structures to potentially span a significantly larger configurational space of chemical and structural functionality through the careful tuning of their side chains. This vast chemical and structural space has created significant challenges for rational design of new structures and functions as the underlying molecular scale driving forces that give rise to sequence/structure/function relationships have proven difficult to uncover.
This talk will highlight recent developments from our group in the use of statistical mechanical tools to accelerate molecular simulations of rare events like peptoid folding, aggregation and adsorption on inorganic surfaces. The first part of the talk focuses on studies of peptoid folding. Peptoids can freely explore a 12-dimensional helical configurational space with stabilization dictated largely by interactions between sidechains. I will discuss the thermodynamic basis of helix stabilization by chiral sidechains as well as fundamental aspects of the simulation science and the role of solvent in folding. Implications for rational design of higher order (tertiary structures) will be discussed. The remainder of the talk focuses on the use of peptoids in biomineralization. We discuss the rational design of peptoid mimics of the well-known R5/silaffin system, compare their nanoscale properties with peptides, and highlight experimental findings showing the efficacy of peptoids in biomineralization applications as well as similarities and differences between the peptoid and peptide systems. If available time remains, I will briefly discuss our group’s use of machine learning models to assist in high throughput screening towards inverse design of new sequences that precisely tune surface adsorption energies for biomolecules.

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Drinking and Diving

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Fluids are vital to all life forms, and organisms have presumably adapted their behaviors or features in response to mechanical forces on the body to achieve better performance. In this talk, I will discuss two biological problems in which animals exploit mechanics principles. First, we investigated how animals transport water into the mouth using an inertia-driven (lapping) mechanism. Dogs accelerate the tongue upward (up to 4 g) to create a larger water column while drinking, whereas cats use a tongue motion with relatively small acceleration. We found that to maximize water intake per lap, both cats and dogs close the jaw at the column break-up time governed by unsteady inertia. This break-up (or pinch-off) time can be predicted using the stability analysis of the water column in which surface tension balances with inertia. Second, we studied how birds with long slender necks plunge-dive and survive from the impact. Physical experiments using an elastic beam as a model for the neck attached to a skull-like cone revealed limits for the stability of the neck during plunge-dive. This neck response can be simplified as the Euler beam buckling problem with unsteady impact force on the head. We found that the small angle of the bird’s beak and the strong muscles of the neck predominantly reduce the likelihood of injury during high-speed plunge dives. If time permits, I will discuss the mechanism of head acceleration to release water lodged in the ear canal, which is analogous to the Rayleigh-Taylor instability.

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Factory-on-a-chip: scaling-up droplet microfluidics for large-scale materials synthesis

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Taking advantage of the precise control over the fluid flows in microchannels, droplet microfluidics has enjoyed a tremendous success in enabling synthesis of highly uniform and uniquely structured liquid droplets and gas bubbles. Although some successes in translating microfluidic-based assays and diagnostics to commercial technologies have been achieved, few examples of such translations in the domain of materials manufacturing based on microfluidics have been accomplished, largely due to the very low throughput of droplet/bubble generations. Without solving the scale-up challenge, microfluidic-based materials synthesis will continue to remain an academic exercise that may not reach its true potential in transforming various sectors of industry including medicine, personal/home care products, separations and catalysis. In this talk, I will present the recent developments that the Issadore and Lee Groups at the University of Pennsylvania have made in enabling large-scale manufacturing of materials using microfluidics. By parallelizing flow focusing generation units coupled with flow resistors in solvent-resistant materials, microfluidic generation of droplets and bubbles with precisely controlled size and morphology has been achieved at the liters-per-hr scale. Critical issues in enabling scale-up and outstanding challenges in future development of the scale-up devices will be discussed.

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