Ph.D. Chemical Engineering University of Massachusetts Amherst 1986
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Reactor Modelling
Drug Delivery
Nano-composites
Polymer Processing
Granular Flow
Rheology
Surfactants
Amar Dyechem Award Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers 1993.
Fellow Indian Academy of Sciences Bangalore December 1996.
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Engineering Sciences Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 1997.
Swarnajayanti Fellowship Department of Science and Technology 1998.
N. R. Kamath Memorial Lecture IPI 1999.
Herdillia Award Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers 1999.
Millennium Gold Medal Indian Science Congress 2000.
Fellow Indian National Academy of Engineering 2001.
Excellence in Teaching Award IIT Bombay 2001.
Fellow Indian National Science Academy 2002.
MRSI Medal Lecture 2003.
H. H. Mathur Award for Applied Sciences IIT Bombay 2005.
Indira Manudhane Best PG Teacher Award Chemical Engineering Department IIT Bombay 2005.
G. Harikrishnan , T. Umasankar Patro , D. V. Khakhar (2006). "Polyurethane Foam−Clay Nanocomposites: Nanoclays as Cell Openers". Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 45 (21): 7126–7134. doi:10.1021/ie0600994.
Ameya Agge, Sumeet Jain, D. V. Khakhar (2000). "Acceleration of the Polymerization of Rodlike Molecules by Flow". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 122 (44): 10910–10913. doi:10.1021/ja001541r.
Arup Nandi, D. V. Khakhar, Anurag Mehra (2001). "Coalescence in Surfactant-Stabilized Emulsions Subjected to Shear Flow". Langmuir. 17 (9): 2647– 2655. doi:10.1021/la001473m.
G. Pulla Reddy, D. K. Chokappa, V. M. Naik , D. V. Khakhar (1998). "Structure Formation in Suspensions with a Liquid Crystalline Medium: Percolation Phenomena". Langmuir. 14 (9): 2541–2547. doi:10.1021/la970558t.
U. S. Agarwal, D. V. Khakhar (1993). "Shear flow induced orientation development during homogeneous solution polymerization of rigid rodlike molecules". Macromolecules. 26 (15): 3960–3965. Bibcode:1993MaMol..26.3960A. doi:10.1021/ma00067a035.