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Dr. Kalpana Katti

Dr. Kalpana Katti
University Distinguished Professor
Department of Civil Engineering, CIE 201B,
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105
ph: 701-231-9504, fax: 701-231-6185,
email:
Kalpana.Katti@ndsu.edu










Education


Ph.D. 1996, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.


M.S. 1989, Solid State Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.


B.S. 1987, Physics, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.


Awards:

NDSU Peltier award for Innovations in Teaching, 2007
NDSU College of Engineering Researcher of the Year 2003
National Science Foundation CAREER award, 2002
Federation of Societies of Coatings Technology, Roon Award, 1999
Microscopy Society of America Presidential Scholar Award , 1996
Council of Graduate Schools, Nominated for Doctoral Dissertation Award
Materials Research Society, Silver Medal Graduate Student Award, 1995
Society of Women Engineers, Outstanding Engineering Student Award, 1996

Honors:

Chair of Academic Affairs committee of Materials Research Society, 2008
Fellow of Faculty Institute for Excellence in Learning, NDSU, 2001.
Founder and president of University of Washington Student Chapter of Materials Research Society.
Member of Tau Beta Pi, engineering honor society.
National Science Foundation Engineering Educators Scholar, 1996.

Areas of Expertise:


Nanotechnology and Biomimetics, Biomaterials, Nanocomposite systems, Transmission and scanning
electron microscopy, electron energy loss spectroscopy, vibrational spectroscopy, Photoacoustic
spectroscopy, Molecular dynamics and steered molecular dynamics simulations.

Professional Appointments:




University Distinguished Professor, North Dakota State University, Oct 1
st
2007-todate
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105,
August 15
th
2007-todate

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Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo,
ND 58105, August 2004-August 2007
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo,
ND 58105, August 2001-July 2004
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, North Dakota State University,
Fargo, ND November 1999-August 2001.
Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Polymers and Coatings, North Dakota State
University, Fargo, ND 1997-1999
Research/Teaching Assistant, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington,
Seattle. 1992-1996

Research Intern, Superconductivity Division, National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, May-
July 88


RESEARCH


Publications
: 94 peer reviewed publications

Books and Book Chapters

1.

Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings Vol 844. Edited with C. Viney, C.
Hellmich and F. Ulm

2.

Chapter on Characterizing Biointerfaces and Biosurfaces in Biomaterials Design In
Press: in Nanoscience and Its Applications in Biomedicine by Springer.

3.

Chapter on Materials and engineering of joint replacement To appear in Recent
developments in joint replacement technology by Woodhead Publishers

Journal Papers Accepted/ Published / In-press

1.

K. S. Katti, D. R. Katti, R. Dash, (2008), Synthesis and characterization of a novel
chitosan/montmorillonite/hydroxyapatite nanocomposite for bone tissue engineering,
Biomedical Materials, 3, 034122.

2.

P. Ghosh, D. R. Katti, K. S. Katti, (2008), Mineral and Protein-Bound Water and
Latching Action Control Mechanical Behavior at Protein-Mineral Interfaces in Biological
Nanocomposites to appear in Journal of Nanomaterials

3.

R. Bhowmik, K. S. . Katti, D. R. Katti, (2008), Influence of Mineral on the Load
Deformation Behavior of Polymer in Hydroxyapatite- Polyacrylic Acid Nanocomposite
Biomaterials: A Steered Molecular Dynamics Study, Journal of Nanoscience and
Nanotechnology.
.
Vol 8
, No 4, 2075-2084.

4.

D. Sikdar, K. S. Katti, D. R. Katti, (2008), Molecular Interactions Alter Clay and
Polymer Structure in Polymer Clay Nanocomposites, Journal of Nanoscience and
Nanotechnology. Vol 8, No.4, 1638-1657


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D. Verma, K.S. Katti, D.R. Katti, (2008), Effect of Biopolymers on Structure of
Hydroxyapatite and Interfacial Interactions in Biomimetically Synthesized
Hydroxyapatite/Biopolymer Nanocomposites, Annals of Biomedical Engineering Vol.
36, No. 6, 10241032

6.

D. Sikdar, S. Pradhan, D. R. Katti, K. S. Katti, B. Mohanty, (2008), Altered Phase Model
for Polymer Clay Nanocomposites, to appear in Langmuir.

7.

B. Mohanty, K. S. Katti, D. R. Katti, (2008), Experimental Investigation of
Nanomechanics of the Mineral-Protein Interface in Nacre, Mechanics Research
Communications.35, 17-23.

8.

D. Verma, R. Dash, K. S. Katti, D. Schulz, A.N. Caruso, (2008), Role Of Coordinated
Metal Ions On The Orientation Of Phthalocyanine Based Coatings. In press
Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy

9.

D. Sikdar, K. S. Katti, D. R. Katti, (2008), The Role of Interfacial Interactions on the
Crystallinity and Nano-mechanical Properties of Clay Polymer Nanocomposites: A
Molecular Dynamics Study, J. Appl. Pol. Sci. 107, 3137-3148.


10.

D. Verma, K.S.Katti, D.R. Katti, B. Mohanty, (2008), Mechanical Response and
Multilevel Structure of Biomimetic Hydroxyapatite/ Polygalacturonic /Chitosan
Nanocomposites, Materials Science and Engineering C. 28 , 399405.

11.

R. Bhowmik, K. S. Katti, D. R. Katti, (2007), Mechanics of Molecular Collagen is
Influenced by Hydroxyapatite in Natural Bone, J. Mater. Sci. 42, 87958803.

12.

D. Sikdar, D. R. Katti, K. S. Katti, , and B. Mohanty, (2007), Effect of Organic Modifiers
on Dynamic and Static Nanomechanical Properties and Crystallinity of Intercalated Clay-
Polycaprolactam Nanocomposites, Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 105, 790-802.

13.

Katti, D.R., Schmidt, S., Ghosh, P., and Katti, K.S ., (2007), Steered Molecular
Dynamics Simulations of Dry and Hydrated Sodium Montmorillonite Interlayer,
Canadian Geotechnical Journal. 44, 425-435.

14.

P. Ghosh, D. R. Katti, K. S. Katti, (2007), Mineral proximity influences mechanical
response of proteins in biological mineral-protein hybrid system, Biomacromolecules, 8,
851-856.

15.

R. Bhowmik, K.S. Katti, and D.R. Katti, (2007) Molecular Modeling of polyacrylic acid-
hydroxyapatite interface, Polymer, 48, 664-674.


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R. Bhowmik K.S. Katti, D. Verma and D.R. Katti, (2007), Probing Molecular
Interactions in Bone Biomaterials: Through Molecular Dynamics and Fourier Transform
Infrared Spectroscopy, Mater. Sci. Eng C 27(3), 352-371.

17.

D. Verma, K. S. Katti, D. R. Katti, (2007), Nature of water in Nacre: a 2D FTIR
spectroscopic study, Spectrochimica Acta Part A 67 (2007) 784788.

18.

Sikdar, D., Katti, D. R., and Katti, K. S., (2006), Molecular Model for -caprolactam
Based Intercalated Polymer Clay Nanocomposite: Integrating Modeling and
Experiments, Langmuir, 22, 7738-7747.

19.

P. Ghosh, D. R. Katti, K. S. Katti, (2006), Impact of -sheet conformations on the
mechanical response of protein in biocomposites, Materials and Manufacturing
Processes, 21, 676-682.

20.

K. S. Katti, Phanikumar Turlapati, Devendra Verma, Praveen Kumar Gujjula, Dinesh R.
Katti, (2006) Static and dynamic mechanical behavior of hydroxyapatite-polyacrylic
acid composites under simulated body fluid, American Journal of Biochemistry and
Biotechnology, 2 (2), 73-79.

21.

Sikdar, Debashis; Katti, Dinesh R.; Katti, Kalpana S.; and Bhowmik, Rahul, (2006),
Insight into molecular interactions between constituents in polymer clay nanocomposites,
Polymer, 47, 5196-5205.

22.

B. Mohanty, K. S. Katti, D. R. Katti, (2006), Dynamic nanomechanical properties of
nacre, Journal of Materials Research, 21, 2045-2051.

23.

D. Verma, K. S. Katti, D. R. Katti, (2006), Bioactivity in Insitu Polycaprolactone-
Hydroxyapatite composites, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research78A, 772-780.

24.

K. S. Katti, B. Mohanty and D. R. Katti, (2006), Nanomechanical properties of nacre,
Journal of Materials Research, 21,1237-1242.

25.

K. S. Katti, D. Sikdar, D. R. Katti, P. Ghosh, D. Verma, (2006) Molecular Interactions In
Intercalated Organically Modified Clay In Clay-Polycaprolactam Nanocomposites:
Experiments And Modeling, Polymer, 47, 403-414

26.

K.S. Katti and D. R. Katti, (2006), Silica-Water Interactions In Montmorillonite Using
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy: Relationship To Swelling And Swelling
Pressure, Langmuir, 22, 532-537

27.

D. Verma, K. S. Katti, D. R. Katti, (2006), Photoacoustic FTIR Spectroscopic Study of
Undisturbed Nacre from Red Abalone, Spectrochimica Acta, 64(4), 1051-1057


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