Research Laboratories

The university provides a dynamic, discovery-driven intellectual environment that attracts exceptional postgraduate students and trains them for leadership positions in academia, industry, government, research laboratories, and non-profit organizations. Besides a combination of outstanding faculty, state-of-the-art infrastructure, and a culture of rigorous and open inquiry as the foundations of graduate education, the university has invested significant amount of funds in building cutting-edge laboratory facilities to train research scholars and enable them to work on problems of current relevance.

The university is engaged in cutting-edge research themes in areas as diverse as labor law, health care policies, the analysis of big data, the management of natural resources, climate change, drug and polymer design, protein and DNA bioinformatics, chemical and biological networks, inorganic nanomaterials, materials for energy applications, computational finance, mathematics education and research on treatments for cancer, malaria, and other drug-resistant diseases with research findings having been published in high-impact national and international indexed journals.

River Hydraulics Laboratory
River Hydraulics Laboratory

India being endowed with a vast river network; primary settings is conducive for growth of inland water transport (IWT). The navigation logjams could be nullified by provisioning low-cost,...

Strength Of Material (SOM) Laboratory
Strength Of Material (SOM) Laboratory

The Strength of Material (SOM) laboratory contains equipment and facilities for testing different properties of materials as per relevant standards. The laboratory is equipped with universal...

Advanced Materials and Building Energy (AMBE) Lab
Advanced Materials and Building Energy (AMBE) Lab

Energy is central to achieving India's development ambitions. Rapid urbanization fuelled by high economic development and setting up of “Smart cities” are expected to continue to drive up the...

Water Resources Engineering Computational Lab
Water Resources Engineering Computational Lab

The Computational Lab stands at the forefront of technological innovation, utilizing advanced computational tools to address pressing challenges in water management. From simulating river dynamics...

Water Management Field Laboratory
Water Management Field Laboratory

Water Management Field Laboratory, at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, focuses on the investigation of different aspects and issues related to water and its availability such as flood &...

Transportation Engineering Laboratory
Transportation Engineering Laboratory

Transportation engineering materials play a crucial role in ensuring the durability, safety, and sustainability of roads, bridges, and other infrastructure elements. The laboratory focuses on the...

Hydraulic Engineering
Hydraulic Engineering

In the realm of hydraulic engineering, understanding the principles governing gravity flow is paramount. The Hydraulics Lab serves as a crucible for students to delve into the intricate dynamics of...

Intelligent Geosystems Laboratory
Intelligent Geosystems Laboratory

Intelligent Geosystems Laboratory at SNIoE is focused to strengthening the state-of-the-art knowledge and cutting-edge technologies for intelligent sensing and data analytics for geotechnical...

Geoinfomatics Laboratory
Geoinfomatics Laboratory

Geoinformatics is a scientific field that includes the use of emerging techniques such as remote sensing, GIS, and spatial data analysis. These emerging techniques are being widely used for the...

Agricultural  Water Management Laboratory
Agricultural Water Management Laboratory

Agricultural water accounts for more than 85 % of the total fresh water usage in India and more than 70% globally. Considering the present status of stressed fresh water resources, which will only...

Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
Fluid Mechanics Laboratory

The Fluid Mechanics Lab serves as a pivotal arena where students dive into the intricacies of fluid behavior, with a primary focus on pressure-driven flows, particularly in pipe systems. This...

Experimental Soil Mechanics Lab
Experimental Soil Mechanics Lab

Soil is a multiphase natural material which consists of solid, liquid, and gas. Nearly all the civil engineering structure - building, embankment, dam, underground structures, bridge, earth...

Civil Engineering Computing Laboratory
Civil Engineering Computing Laboratory

The Department of Civil Engineering has a UG and PhD curriculum to create strong focus on emerging and disruptive technologies such as Machine Learning (ML), and Remote Sensing (RS) along with core...

Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization (MALDI)
Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization (MALDI)

Bruker Model: Autoflex Max TOF/TOF MALDI Year of Installation: 2018  Specifications Resolution: 26000 Mass range: up to 500,000 Laser: Smart beam II Laser frequency(Hz):...

Liquid Chromatography Mass   Spectrometry (LCMS)
Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LCMS)

Make:- Agilent Technologies Model:- Agilent 6540 UHD Accurate-Mass Q-ToF LC/MS Year of Installation: 2013 Specifications Agilent 6540 UHD Accurate-Mass Q-ToF LC/MS Agilent 1290 UPLC...

Single Crystal X-Ray Diffraction (SCXRD)
Single Crystal X-Ray Diffraction (SCXRD)

Make:- Bruker Model:- D8 Venture Year of Installation: 2014 Specifications Highly intense X-ray source 6×10116×10^11 X-ray/mm2 flux density Photon II 14 photon counting detector with mixed...

Thermogravimetric Analysis  (TGA)
Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA)

Make:- Mettler Toledo Model:- TGA 2 STARe System Year of Installation: 2019 Specifications Ultra microgram balance with sub microgram resolution over the whole measurement range Optimal...

Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)

Make:- Mettler Toledo Model:- DSC 3 STARe System Year of Installation: 2017 Specifications DSC sensor with 56/120 thermocouples STARe software (V16.10) analysis Sample required is 1 to...

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)

The Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Bruker Avance III HD 400(NMR) facility at Shiv Nadar University is equipped with a 400-MHz magnet (operating field at 9.4 Tesla), a multinuclear broadband probe (one...

FTIR Spectrometer
FTIR Spectrometer

Make: Thermo Scientific Model: NICOLET iS20 Year of Installation: 2020 Specifications: Scan range: 4000 cm-1 - 400 cm-1 Resolution: 1 cm-1 Mode of measurements: ATR and Transmission...

Fluorescence Lifetime Measurement Facility
Fluorescence Lifetime Measurement Facility

Make:- Edinburgh Instruments Model:- LifeSpec II Spectrophotometer Year of Installation: 2022 Specifications: Time-resolution: 100 ps – 1 ns (depending on light sources) Detector:...

Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR)
Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR)

Make: JEOL, Japan Model: JES – X320 Year of Installation: 2023 X-band Universal Cavity Magnetic-field modulation 100 kHz, 50 kHz and 25 kHz, internal modulation...

Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)
Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)

Make: Oxford Instrument (Asylum Research) Model: MFP3D-Origin Year of Installation: 2023 Specifications Standard X and Y range 120 μm X and Y sensors <0.6 nm noise Z range >15 μm Z...

Computational and Theoretical Soft Matter
Computational and Theoretical Soft Matter

The research focus of the Computational and Theoretical Soft Matter Lab lies at the interface of computational modeling of soft matter systems, solvation thermodynamics, interfacial phenomena and...

Soft matter lab (SM Lab)
Soft matter lab (SM Lab)

SM lab is research laboratory in Department of Chemical Engineering, SNIOE. Our research focus on self-assembly of microparticle, microfluidics, micro-nano fabrication, inkjet printing technique,...

Intencity Lab (Process Intensification and Safety Lab)
Intencity Lab (Process Intensification and Safety Lab)

This lab is associated with the research work in the areas of Process Intensification and Process Safety. Several Projects which are undergoing currently in this lab: a. Study on Micromixing and...

Stimulation Lab (Process Control, Modelling and Simulations Lab)
Stimulation Lab (Process Control, Modelling and Simulations Lab)

This lab is associated with Numerical modelling and simulations, CFD analysis and process control related research work. Several Research Projects are going on in this lab: CFD study of free...

Complex Fluids Lab
Complex Fluids Lab

The lab is dedicated towards investigating complex fluid flow instabilities that affect the quality and performance of final polymeric products. Particularly, the recent activities are dedicated...

Energy and environmental sustainability Laboratory
Energy and environmental sustainability Laboratory

The focus of Energy and Environmental sustainability research group lies in the investigation of ecological technologies to create energy efficient and clean environment. The current focus is on...

Polymer Materials Research Lab
Polymer Materials Research Lab

The group carries out research in membranes, coatings and thin films using polymers, composites, blends, biomaterials and nanomaterials. We use Molecular Dynamics simulations to analyse gas...

Biomass conversion Laboratory
Biomass conversion Laboratory

This lab is well equipped for thermochemical conversion of biomass and waste into bioenergy/biofuels in all the three forms; solid (Bio-char), liquid (Bio-oil), and gas (Syngas). The upgradation of...

Microfluidics Lab
Microfluidics Lab

Dr. V. M. Rajesh's Microfluidics Lab stands as a premier research hub, furnished with state-of-the-art facilities. The lab is dedicated to harnessing the potential of microfluidic technologies to...

Sustainability & Polymer Laboratory
Sustainability & Polymer Laboratory

The research activities of “Sustainability and Polymer Lab” are broadly aligned to address global climate challenges. The “sustainability” objective focuses on reducing carbon footprint of...

Advanced Physics Laboratory
Advanced Physics Laboratory

Advanced Physics Laboratory provides the second and third-year undergraduate students a platform to learn some of the basic laws of physics by doing experiments. Here we cover experiments based on...

General Physics Teaching Laboratory
General Physics Teaching Laboratory

The General Physics Laboratory offer students, experiential learning by doing experiments on ideas that are taught in the First year of introductory courses in Physics. The experiments are mainly...

Chemical Processing Laboratory
Chemical Processing Laboratory

This laboratory is equipped with chemical hoods in which researcher synthesize new materials in various sizes and shapes by chemical and hydrothermal routes. It is equipped with necessary...

Sample Processing Laboratory
Sample Processing Laboratory

When research samples are synthesized by physical or chemical methods, they generally contain various kinds of internal as well as surface defects. These intrinsic defects influence the fundamental...

High Temperature Processing Laboratory
High Temperature Processing Laboratory

Materials are required to process at high temperatures in different gaseous environments in order to change their physical and chemical properties. Also, the thermal processes help in removing...

HF Processing Laboratory
HF Processing Laboratory

Being an extremely corrosive, hydrofluoric (HF) acid requires special attention in semiconductor industries as it is commonly used for cleaning Si surfaces via dissolving natural oxide layer in a 5...

Semiconductor Physics Laboratory
Semiconductor Physics Laboratory

How do electrons behave in semiconductor materials? What are the physical mechanisms governing electricity-to-light OR light-to-electricity conversion in semiconductor-based devices? Our research...

Nanocarbon And Sensor Laboratory
Nanocarbon And Sensor Laboratory

In this laboratory, varieties of nanostructured materials (such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, metal oxide nanoparticles) using chemical vapor deposition, chemical exfoliation, and physical vapor...

Dielectric Materials Laboratory
Dielectric Materials Laboratory

Dielectrics are the attractive class of materials which find enormous applications in our daily life. Starting from the electric circuit breaker to more advanced technological applications such as...

Functional Oxide Materials Laboratory
Functional Oxide Materials Laboratory

Nanotechnology deals with the precise control and manipulation of atoms and molecules to create novel materials and device structures with unique properties. The emerging new device concepts and...

X-Ray Diffraction Laboratory
X-Ray Diffraction Laboratory

XRD laboratory X-ray machine is essential to characterize the structure of materials, primarily the crystalline structure. In the x-ray diffraction laboratory, both thin film and powder samples...

Optical Microscopy Laboratory
Optical Microscopy Laboratory

The structure of a material at micron scale is related to optical, electrical, mechanical, chemical and thermal properties. Optical microscopy, an important investigative technique, is used to...

Low Temperature Measurement Laboratory
Low Temperature Measurement Laboratory

The Low-temperature laboratory consists of a closed cycle cryocooler (with an electromagnet) from Advanced Research Systems, Inc. The closed cycle cryocooler is a precision machine carefully tuned...

Optical Spectroscopy Laboratory
Optical Spectroscopy Laboratory

SHIMAZU’s spectrophotometer (UV-Vis 3700) can be used to measure the optical properties (such as absorption and transmission coefficients) of thin films, powder samples, and liquids. This...

Surface Topography Laboratory
Surface Topography Laboratory

The surface profilometer from Bruker is used for determining a thickness of the deposited thin films and also for determining layer uniformity. It can be used for measuring the surface topography...

Surface Characterization Laboratory
Surface Characterization Laboratory

Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) is a powerful tool for imaging a specimen surface by scanning with a physical probe. It operates in two basic ways: (i) contact and (ii) non-contact of the probe...

Physics Electronics Teaching Laboratory
Physics Electronics Teaching Laboratory

Electronics teaching laboratory provides a hands-on experience in electronics to Physics undergraduate students. In this laboratory, students will learn circuit design, voltage & current...

Computational Physics Research Laboratory
Computational Physics Research Laboratory

Computational facilities at SNS include a high-performance AMD cluster consisting of 8064 cores (plus two nodes with GPU processors) delivering a theoretical peak performance of ~238 TF....