Chemical Engineering
Sanat K. 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.
- Director’s postdoctoral fellow, IBM Almaden, San Jose, CA, 1987-1988
- Bykhovsky Professor of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, 2016–
- Chair of chemical engineering, Columbia University, 2010-2016
- Professor of chemical engineering, Columbia University, 2006-
- Professor of chemical engineering, Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute, 2002-2006
- Professor of materials science & engineering, Penn State University, 1997-2002
- Associate professor of materials science & engineering, Penn State University, 1993-1997
- Assistant professor of materials science & engineering, Penn State University, 1988-1993
- American Physical Society
- American Chemical Society
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers
- Chair, Gordon Conference, Polymer Physics, 2020
- Associate editor, Soft Matter, 2017-
- Chair, APS Polymer Physics Division, 2017-18
- Editor, NPJ Computational Materials, 2016-2017
- Editor, Journal of Polymer Science, 2002-2007
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 1999
- Zhao, D., Gimenez-Pinto, V., Jimenez, A.M., Zhao, L., Jestin, J., Kumar, S.K., Kuei, B., Gomez, E.D., Prasad, A.S., Schadler, L.S., Khani, M.M. and Benicewicz, B.C. Tunable Nanoparticle Ordering in Semicrystalline Polymers, ACS Central Sci., in press (2017).
- Kumar, S.K., Benicewicz, B., Vaia, R.A. and Winey, K.I. 50th Anniversary Perspective: Are Polymer Nanocomposites Practical for Applications? Macromolecules, 50, 714(2017).
- Starr, F., Douglas, J.F., Meng, D. and Kumar, S.K. Bound Layers “Cloak" Nanoparticles in Strongly Interacting Polymer Nanocomposites, ACS Nano, 10, 10960(2016).
- Baeza, G.P., Dessi, C., Costanzo, S., Zhao, D., Gong, S., Alegria A., Colby, R.H., Rubinstein, M., Vlassopoulos, D. and Kumar, S.K. Network dynamics in nanofilled polymers, Nature communications, 7, (2016).
- Zhang, Y., Pal, S., Srinivasan, B., Vo, T., Kumar, S.K. and Gang O. Selective Transformation Between Superlattices via the Reprogamming of DNA Interactions. Nat. Mat., 14, 840-847(2015).
- Mahynski, N. A., Panagiotopoulos, A. Z., Meng, D. & Kumar, S. K. Stabilizing colloidal crystals by leveraging void distributions. Nature communications 5 (2014).
- J. T. Kalathi, U. Yamamoto, K. S. Schweizer, G. S. Grest, S. K. Kumar. "Diffusion in Polymer Nanocomposites". Physical Review Letters v. 112, pp. 108301, 2014.
- Kumar, S.K., Jouault, N., Benicewicz, B. and Neely, T. Nanocomposites with Polymer Grafted Nanoparticles, Macromol., 46, 3199(2013).
- Akcora, P., Liu, H., Kumar, S.K., Moll, J., Li, Y., Benicewicz, B.C., Schadler, L.S., Acehan, D., Panagiotopoulos, A.Z., Pryamitsyn, V., Ganesan, V., Ilavsky, J., Thiyagarajan, P., Colby, R.H. and Douglas, J.F. Anisotropic self-assembly of spherical polymer-grafted nanoparticles. Nat. Mat., 8, 354 (2009).
- Bansal, A., Yang, H., Li, C., Cho, K., Benicewicz, B.C., Kumar, S.K. and Schadler L.S. “Quantitative Equivalence between Polymer Nanocomposites and Thin Polymer Films.” Nature Materials, 4, 693(2005).