Anagha joined as an IITB-Monash PhD student at SMNLab!

A journey exploring air–water interfaces reached an exciting milestone on 7th July 2026, as Akash Mishra successfully defended his PhD thesis. Titled "Adsorption Mechanisms, Interfacial Assembly and Structural Behaviour of Langmuir Films," his work investigated the interfacial self-assembly of biomolecules and colloidal nanoparticles. His research unraveled their interfacial interactions and structural evolution while directly linking the surface morphology of these Langmuir

Prof. Sunita Srivastava and Gayathri visited the PETRA III synchrotron facility at DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) in Hamburg, Germany. Marking SMNL's second experimental run at PETRA III—and their first at the P03 beamline—the team conducted high-resolution synchrotron X-ray scattering experiments to investigate structural ordering and self-assembly in soft matter systems