Recent Highlights

Our review paper titled "Ionic Liquid-Based Soft Actuators: Materials, Mechanisms, and Applications in Robotics" is out! Available Online! Click here!!

In March'26, I attended National Postdoc Conference at San Francisco, CA. It was a great experience to know how other Postdoctoral Associations are running accross US. 

Our patent application on "Ionic liquid-based piezoelectric apparatus and related methods has been granted". You can call me 'Scientist' now!!

https://patents.google.com/patent/US12308765B1/en

I am glad to share that I have joined as a Potsdoctoral Research Associate at Purdue Chemistry . I'll be working with Professor Shelley Claridge. Lot's of cool science is loading!!!!

Check out! Our recent works available online (2024)

IN THE NEWS MEDIA

The publication of 'Ionic Lqiuds Exhibit the Piezoelectric Effect' in Journal of Physical can Chemistry Letters has been highlighted by meida all over the worlds. A few are given below

“Piezoelectric material found in liquid form for the first time” (EEWorld)

China engineering news (English version) report covering the discovery. EEWorld

“The First Known Piezoelectric Liquids Have Been Discovered” (IFLScience)

A large international science-news outlet that discusses the discovery and names Md Iqbal Hossain and Gary Blanchard. IFLScience

“Scientists spot piezoelectric effect in liquids for the first time” (The Hindu, India)

This article contextualized the discovery as a profound challenge to existing piezoelectric theory and emphasized the potential environmental and technological applications of these novel materials. The Hindu

“Entering uncharterd waters: researchers observe piezoelectric effect in liquids for the first time” (The American Ceramic Society)

This article provides contexts of solid piezoelectric materials along with the discovery of piezoelectric effect in liquid state of matter. They talked into details of experiments conducted by us. The American Ceramic Society

“Piezoelectric effect in liquids observed for the first time” (Phys.org)

Highlighted the breakthrough as the first observation of piezoelectricity in liquids, describing how squeezing ionic liquids generated electricity, and noting the potential for future applications in optics and hydraulics. Phys.org 

“Liquid Salts Bring Push-button Lenses Into Focus” (IEEE Spectrum)

Described the team’s discovery as groundbreaking, suggesting that electrically controllable optics and hydraulics could become possible thanks to liquid piezoelectrics. IEEE Spectrum 

MSU News: “Blanchard Lab Discovers the Piezoelectric Effect in Liquids” (MSU Today)

Showcases the unexpected experimental journey leading to the discovery, the paper’s strong altmetric attention, and its implications for practical energy conversion technologies. MSU Chemistry 

“Piezoelectric liquids: NSF award builds on first-ever discovery” (MSU Today)

Reports on a $450,000 NSF award granted to support continuation of this work, underlining both the scientific and training potential arising from this discovery. Michigan State University 

Additional international coverage includes:

The Register (United Kingdom)

Nouvelles du monde (France)

3D News (Russia)

Nation.lk (Srilanka)

Hindustan Times (India)

Strange Liquid That Produces Electricity When Touched (YouTube)

The publication of 'The effect of dilution on induced free charge density gradients in room temperature ionic liquids' in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics has been highlighted by

Advances In ENGINEERING

Past Conferences!!

I am delighted to share that I presented my upcoming works at ACS Spring 2023 at Indianapolis titled 'Selective Interrogation of polar and non-polar regions in the 1-Decyl-1-methylpyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide (DMPyrr+TFSI-) and 1-decanol binary system'