Research Interests
Additive Manufacturing, Polymer Materials, Composites, Textiles, Nanomaterials, Vitrimers, Polymer Characterization, Textiles-inspired Metamaterials, Finite Element Analysis, Electrospinning.
Research Experience
1. Additive Manufacturing of Textile-inspired Metamaterial for Structural Applications
(i) Ajay Jayswal, Polyxeni P. Angelopoulou, Sargun Singh Rohewal, Logan T. Kearney, Sumit Gupta, Christopher C. Bowland, Michael D. Toomey, Amit K. Naskar, "High compressive energy absorption and shape recovery behavior of additively manufactured textile-inspired cylindrical braided metamaterials", Additive Manufacturing, 110, 104925, 2025, DOI: 10.1016/j.addma.2025.104925.
(ii) Ajay Jayswal, Russell. W. Mailen, Jia Liu, Greg Harris, Midhan Siwakoti, Sabit Adanur, "Thermomechanical behavior of three dimensionally printed fabric structures", Polymer Engineering and Science, 63(6), 1725, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1002/pen.26319.
(iii) Sabit Adanur, Ajay Jayswal, Katherine O Griffin, Julia L Hancock, "Additive manufacturing of weft knitted and braided fabric structures with fused deposition modeling" , The Journal of The Textile Institute, 115(6), 893–903, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1080/00405000.2023.2201910.
(iv) Ajay Jayswal, Sabit Adanur, "Effect of heat treatment on crystallinity and mechanical properties of flexible structures 3D printed with fused deposition modeling" Journal of Industrial Textiles, 51(2_suppl):2616S-2641S, 2022, doi:10.1177/15280837211064937.
(v) Ajay Jayswal, Sabit Adanur, "An overview of additive manufacturing methods, materials, and applications for flexible structures" Journal of Industrial Textiles, 52, 2022, doi:10.1177/15280837221114638.
(vi) Sabit Adanur, Ajay Jayswal, "Additive manufacturing of interlaced fibrous structures". Rapid Prototyping Journal, 27(4), 671–681, 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/RPJ-05-2020-0095.
2. Design of Composites for Additive Manufacturing of Polymeric Heat Exchangers
(i) Ajay Jayswal, K. Li, N. Kanbargi, et al., "Processing-microstructure-properties of graphene nanoplatelets reinforced nylon 6 composites for heat exchanger applications", 2025, In- preparation.
(ii) Ajay Jayswal, K. Li, L. T. Kearney, K. Nawaz, and A. K. Naskar, "Additive manufacturing of polymer heat exchangers", Progress in Polymer Science , 2025, In-preparation.
(iii) Ajay Jayswal, K. Li, L. T. Kearney, et al., "Thermal transport in carbon fibers reinforced nylon 6 composites", Composites B, 2025, Submitted.
(iv) Ajay Jayswal, K. Li, et al., "Ceramic nanomaterials reinforced composites for heat exchanger applications", 2025, In-preparation.
(v) Ajay Jayswal, Arbind Kumar Sah, Prabin Pradhananga, Rohit Sah, Hari Bahadur Darlami, "Design, Fabrication and Testing of Waste Plastic Pyrolysis Plant", Proceedings of IOE Graduate Conference, 5(37), 275 – 282, 2017.
3. Design of Polymer Composites for Additive Manufacturing of Mechanical Metamaterials
(i) Ajay Jayswal, Sabit Adanur, "Characterization of polylactic acid/thermoplastic polyurethane composite filaments manufactured for additive manufacturing with fused deposition modeling", Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials, 36(4):1450-1471, 2021. DOI:10.1177/08927057211062561.
(ii) Ajay Jayswal, Jia Liu, Greg Harris, Sabit Adanur, " Thermo-mechanical properties of composite filaments for 3D printing of fabrics", Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials, 2023;36(12):4800- 4825, 2023. DOI:10.1177/08927057231163489.
(iii) Ajay Jayswal, Jia Liu, Greg Harris, Russell Mailen, Sabit Adanur, "Creep behavior of 3D printed polymer composites", Polymer Engineering and Science, 63(11): 3809-3818, 2023. doi:10.1002/pen.26486.
4. Design of reusable cloth facemasks
(i) Sabit Adanur, Ajay Jayswal, "Filtration mechanisms and manufacturing methods of face masks: An overview", Journal of Industrial Textiles, 51(3_suppl):3683S-3717S, 2020, doi:10.1177/1528083720980169.
(ii) Laine Alby, Ajay Jayswal, Sarah Morris, Will McAtee, Vrishank Raghav, Sabit Adanur, "A novel face mask design with improved properties for COVID-19 prevention", Textile Research Journal, 93(11- 12):2754-2764, 2023, doi:10.1177/00405175221146295.
5. Other Collaborative Projects
(i) Yawei Gao, Ajay Jayswal, Arit Das, Jan Michael Y Carrillo, Joshua T Damron, Christopher C Bowland, Zeyang Yu, Michael Toomey, Polyxeni P Angelopoulou, Shankar Kharal, Gamini Mendis, Holly Humphrey, Bobby G Sumpter, Logan T Kearney, Amit K Naskar, "Enhanced Interfacial Bonding of Graft Copolymers", ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 17(36), 51094-51104, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5c07832.
