Dr Bornali Sarma

Designation: Senior Principal Scientist

Qualification:

PDF     Innsbruck University, Austria 2005

PhD    Gauhati University: Title of Thesis: "Sheath Phenomena in Magnetized and Thermally Ionic Plasmas" , 2004

MSc     Cotton College, Gauhati University , 1997

BSc      Cotton College, Gauhati University, Physics (Honors), Chemistry, Mathematics, 1994

Area of Interest:

Experimental Plasma Physics, Plasma assisted Materials Science, Nonlinear Plasma Dynamics, Electronic Smart Textiles, Science Communication and Policy Research

Phone Number: 08667691194

Email: drbornali.sarma@csir.res.in

Accomplishments

  • 36 Scholarly research articles published in Sci Journals & Book Chapters, Books under AICTE, Govt. of India 
  • Guided 3 Ph D Students & many B Tech. Students for mini projects.
  • Completed 5 Mega research projects sponsored by ISRO, DAE, DST- Govt. of India
  • Filed Patents
  • INSA Visiting Scientist at SAHA Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata
  • Popular Science Articles published in reputed magazines and News papers
  • Collaborative research work with Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, Facilitation Center for Industrial Plasma Technologies (FCIPT) Gandhinagar, SINP Kolkata etc.
  • Industry connectivity: Oerlikon Balzer- Global leader in plasma coating
  • Delivered invited talks in India & Abroad

Papers presented in International Conferences

  • Bornali Sarma,  6th International Conference on the Challenges, Opportunities, Innovations and Applications in Electronic Textiles, 19th – 21st November 2024, Fraunhofer Forum, Berlin, Germany, presented a research paper entitled “Design of textile-based flexible, eco-friendly pressure sensors embedded with Ag/Cu nanoparticles using plasma sputtering technology”
  • Bornali Sarma, 5th International Conference on the Challenges, Opportunities, Innovations and Applications in Electronic Textiles, 14th – 16th November 2023, Ghent, Belgium, presented a research paper entitled “Fabrication of Electronic Silk Fabrics via RGO adhesion incorporating Oxygen Plasma Treatment.”
  • Bornali Sarma, International Conference on Advanced Materials for Better Tomorrow” held at BHU, Banaras,10th to 13th October 2023, presented a research paper entitled “Nitrogen plasma treated cotton fabrics coated with SiO2 followed by RGO deposition for water purification process”
  • Bornali Sarma, “Characteristic behavior of plasma fluctuations inside plasma bubble in presence of magnetic field due to the formation of potential well”, presented an invited talk in 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics organized by AAPPS at Kanazawa. Japan held during 12 -17 November 2018.
  • Bornali Sarma, “Plasma treatment of graphene coated cotton cellulose for enhanced electro-conductive properties” presented a poster in 28th International Conference on Diamond and Carbon Materials -2017, held during 4th -7th September, 2017 at Guthenburg, Sweden.
  • Bornali Sarma, “Plasma sputtering process of copper deposition on polyester/silk blended fabrics for preparation of self-cleaning and antibacterial fabrics”, presented an invited talk in International conference on Polymers & Composite Materials-2016, held during 20th -23rd May, 2016 at Hangzhou (Wuhan Advanced Materials Society), China.
  • Bornali Sarma,Continuous Wavelet transform analysis for self similarity properties in magnetized dc glow discharge plasma”, presented in International conference on Complex processes in Plasmas and nonlinear Dynamical Systems, 2012, Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India.

Reviewer to International Journals

  • Plasma Sources Science and Technology, IOP Publishing Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol, BS1 6HG, UK
  • Thin Solid Films, Elsevier Publication
  • Cellulose, Springer Publication 
  • Applied Surface Science, Elsevier Publication 
  • Materials letters, Elsevier Publication 
  • Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, IOP Publishing Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol, BS1 6HG, UK
  • Fibers & Polymers, Springer Nature Publication
  • Physica Scripta, IOP Publishing Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol, BS1 6HG, UK
  • IEEE Plasma Science, IEEE 
  • Journal of Plasma Physics, Cambridge University Press, UK 
  • Plasma Science & Technology, IOP Publishing Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol, BS1 6HG, UK