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SMITA Research Labs

Department of Textile Technology
Indian Institute of Technology
Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016
(India)

About SMITA

Research group on "Smart Materials and Innovative Textile Applications (SMITA)" is a body of faculty and students from IIT Delhi who are working on developing novel intelligent, smart and functional materials for textile applications. The research group is working very closely with Indian Industry in developing Smart Textiles or Intelligent Textile materials and taking some of these technologies to commercial scale.

Prof. Ashwini Agrawal and Prof. Manjeet Jassal, faculties, IIT Delhi and their group have core competency in this field of Smart Textile and have developed several active technologies. These technologies are radically changing the functionality of textile by creating sensitive, interactive and intelligent textile materials.  The main objectives of the group are:

  • To create a national facility, where both basic research and technology development for industrial applications would be taken up in the area of smart textile based on innovative materials such as nanoparticles, nanofibres, nano-surface engineering, phase change materials, and stimuli sensitive polymers. Specifically following areas of technologies are being pursued under this project:
  1. Stimuli (temperature, pH, and electric field) sensitive materials for applications in artificial muscles, robotics, and responsive textile.
  2. Encapsulated phase change materials for thermo-regulated smart textile
  3. Nanofinishes for active functionality of textile substrates.
  4. Nanofibres, organic and inorganic, using electrospinning. 
  5. Nano-surface engineering using atmospheric pressure cold plasma.
  6. Functional Coatings for Textile
  • To bring together expertise from Academia and Industry to facilitate development of new technologies/products in the upcoming area of smart textile at par with anywhere in the world.
  • It is also proposed to create trained manpower that can assist industry in further research, product development, and production of smart textile based on new technologies. 


    The SMITA group (2011-12)

    (Bottom to top) First row: L-R: Mr. Prasanta Panda, Ms. Ratyakshi Naon, Ms. Nidhi Goyal, Ms. Kavipriya, Ms. Saranshu, Ms. Kamlesh, Dr. Bhavana Sharma, Ms. Jyoti Sharma, Prof. Manjeet Jassal and Mr. Grijesh

    Second Row: L-R: Prof. Ashwini K. Agrawal, Mr. Sidhharth Sirohi, Mr. Shitij Chohan, Mr. Dhirender Singh, Ms. Deepika Gupta, Mr. Abhishek Brahmania, Mr. Abhishek Singh and Mr. Alankar Rastogi

    Third Row: L-R: Mr. Ramesh, Ms. Sangita Paul, Ms. Kiran Yadav, 

    Dr. Naminita Lahon, Ms. Shilpi Sharma and Mr. Ishan Jain.

News & Recent Activities

  • 1st SMITA Research Symposium First SMITA Research Symposium was held on January 6, 2012 in the Department of Textile Technology, IIT Delhi. Twenty three members participated during the deliberations. Eight technical papers were presented ...
    Posted Jan 9, 2012 10:05 PM by Ashwini Agrawal
  • Dr. Kotresh T.M. and Dr. Kartick K. Samanta completed Ph.D. SMITA group proudly announces the successful completion two PhDs in April 2011Dr. Kotresh T.M., who has carried out an outstanding work in the research area of Thermal Protection ...
    Posted Jan 8, 2012 4:33 AM by Ashwini Agrawal
  • Technology development project with SRF Ltd. SMITA Research Labs, IIT Delhi, signed joint initiative for technology development in the area of functional textiles with SRF Ltd., Chennai. The project aims at developing next generation textile materials ...
    Posted Jan 26, 2011 5:46 AM by Ashwini Agrawal
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Important Documents

  • SMITA analysis charges.pdf   614k - Oct 4, 2011 3:21 AM by Nidhi Goyal (v1)
    ‎SMITA Research Labs analysis charges- October'11 to March '12‎
  • SMITA instrument facility.pdf   2794k - Dec 6, 2010 4:02 AM by Nidhi Goyal (v1)
    ‎Brief review of the characterisation, analytical and pilot facilities available with SMITA labs‎
  • SMITA brochure 2010.pdf   1726k - Dec 3, 2010 3:45 AM by Ashwini Agrawal (v1)
    ‎Brochure of SMITA Research Lab for overall view of the group and its current activities. It may be downloaded and printed for internal communication about SMITA within your organization.‎
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For additional information on research group activities; contact Dr. Ashwini K. Agrawal at ashwini@smita-iitd.com or Dr. Manjeet Jassal at manjeet.jassal@smita-iitd.com. 

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