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UTNRL Director
Dr. Gajanan Bhat gbhat@utk.edu MSE Faculty Home Page After earning his MS and Ph.D. from Georgia Tech, Dr. Bhat accepted a position at Image Carpets, Rome, GA where he was responsible for conversion of recycled PET into fibers for carpets. He then joined the faculty of the University of Tennessee, Textile Science program in August 1990. At UTK, his research covers nonwovens - melt blown, spunbonded and biodegradable, plastics recycling, and high performance fibers. He has also conducted research at Edwards Air Force Base, CA on specialty fibers. Dr. Bhat has published about 125 papers and US Patents have been issued for two inventions resulting from his research. In recognition of his achievements, he was inducted as an Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni by the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech in 1996 and he received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Fiber Society in 1999. In 2005, he was elected as a Fellow of the Textile Institute. Recent Publications:
R. Uppal, G. Bhat, C. Eash, and K. Akato, Meltblown Nanofiber Media for Enhanced Quality Factor, Polymers and Fibers, Vol. 14(4), 660-668 (2013). T. Lin, D. Luckas and G. S. Bhat, Nanofiber Manufacture, Properties and Applications, Journal of Nanomaterials, Vol. 2013, Article ID 368191 (2013). D. V. Parikh, B. Ingber, S. Nam, G. S. Bhat, M. Warnock and L. Harrington, Flame Retardant Cotton Barrier Nonwovens for Mattresses , Journal of Fire Science, Vol. 31(3), 276-290 (2013).

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Email: utnrl@utk.edu LINKS: UT Department of Materials Science and Engineering INDA The Fiber Society

G. S. Bhat and R. Nanjundappa, Bond Structure and Tensile Properties of Thermal Bonded Polypropylene Nonwovens, Textiles and Light Industrial Science and Technology, Vol. 2(2), 49-53 (2013). R. Hegde, B. Deshpande and G. S. Bhat, Morphology and Properties of Nylon 6 Blown Films Reinforced with Different weight percentage of Nanoclay additives. International Journal of Polymer Science 2012, Article ID 959035, 14 pages (2012). P. Gulgunje, G. Bhat and J. E. Spruiell, Structure and Properties Enhancement in Poly(phenylene sulfide) Melt Spun Fibers-Part III: Effect of Two Zone Drawing and Annealing, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 125, #3, 1693-1700 (2012).

P. Gulgunje, G. Bhat and J. E. Spruiell, Structure and Properties Development in Poly(phenylene sulfide) Fibers-Part II: Effect of One Zone Draw-annealing, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 125, #3, 18901900 (2012).

R. Hegde, J. E. Spruiell and G. S. Bhat, Different Crystallization Mechanisms in Polypropylene-Nanoclay Concentrates,Journal of Materials Research , 27, #10,
1360-1371 (2012). R. Uppal, G. Bhat, K. Akato, D. V. Parikh, S. Nam and B. Condon, Flame Retardant Antibacterial High-loft Cotton Nonwovens,Journal of Industrial Textiles, 41, #4, 281-291 (2012). P. Gulgunje, G. Bhat and J. E. Spruiell, Structure and Property Development in Melt Spun PPS FIbers: Effect of Material and Melt Spinning Process Variables,Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 122, #5, 3110-3121 (2011). R. Hegde and G. S. Bhat, Structure and Properties of Nanoclay Reinforced Polypropylene Spunbond Webs Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 118, 3141-3155 (2010). R. Hegde and G. S. Bhat, Nanoparticle Effects on Structure and Properties of Polypropylene Meltblown Webs,Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 115 (2), 1062-1072 (2010).

All publications by Dr. Gajanan Bhat

Affiliated Faculty

Dr. Larry Wadsworth lwadswor@utk.edu MSE Faculty Home Page Dr. Larry C. Wadsworth, Emeritus Professor, MSE, who was the Founding Director of The Textiles and Nonwovens Development Center (TANDEC), which was the forerunner of UTNRL, is active in Nonwovens research and is affiliated with UTNRL.

Process Engineer
Stephen Sheriff sheriff@utk.edu Office Phone:(+1)865-974-1018

Graduate Students
Josh Fogle jfogle@utk.edu Vincent Kandagor vkandago@utk.edu Nitilaksha Hiremath nhiremat@utk.edu

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Jordan Willingham jwillin2@utk.edu Nick Cross ncross3@utk.edu Daniel Prather dprather@utk.edu Aaron Bales abales1@utk.edu Josh Seylar jseylar@utk.edu

Visiting Professor
Dr. Yalcin Yesil yyesil@utk.edu Textile Engineering Department at Bartin University

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