Apurba Das
Professor
Textile Technology
The Indian Institutes of Technology, Delhi
India
Biography
Dr. Apurba Das is Professor in the Department of Textile Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He has completed his Ph. D. from the same department in the year 1994 on the topic "Compressional behaviour of nonwoven fabrics". He has joined IIT Delhi in 2002 as a faculty after working in the textile industries and in a research organization. He has guided Ph.D., M.Tech., M.Sc., B.Tech. students and presently guiding several Ph.D., M.Tech. and B.Tech. students. He has published more than 150 research papers in journals and conferences. He has authored and edited books and written chapters in several books. His main areas of teaching and research interest are clothing comfort, yarn manufacturing, non- conventional spinning techniques, evaluation of textile materials, nonwovens and technical textiles, compression bandages, filter fabrics, nonwovens, electrotextiles and instrumentation.
Research Interest
Clothing Comfort, Nonwovens and Technical Textiles, Filter Fabrics, Electromagnetic Shielding of Textile Materials, Yarn Structure, Instrumentation
Publications
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Apurba Das, V. K. Kothari, S. Makhija, Avyaya, Development of High-absorbent Light-weight Sanitary Napkin , Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 2007, Vol. 107 (3) , Pages 1466 – 1470
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Das, A., V. Sharma, P. Yadav, and S.M. Ishtiaque, A device for measuring frictional characteristics. 2007, (Northern India Textile Research Association, India). India. p. 12pp.
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Apurba Das Sharma, Vikas; Yadav, Pankaj; Ishtiaque, Saiyed Muzffar. (Northern India Textile Research Association, India). Indian Pat. Appl. (2007), 12pp.
