Professor Rajiv Padhye
Details
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Department: Fashion & Textiles
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Campus: Brunswick Australia
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rajiv.padhye@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0002-9726-8075
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Professor Rajiv Padhye is the Director, Centre for materials Innovation and Future Fashion (CMIFF) at the School of Fashion and Textiles.
Rajiv has published 5 co-edited books, 12 book chapters and over 250 research papers in high ranked periodicals and journals and presented at the National and International refereed Conferences.
Rajiv has completed number of funded research projects worth $ 8.3 million as a chief investigator mainly with Defence Materials Technology Centre, Victorian Government, Australian Wool Innovation and other industry partners.
Rajiv was involved in designing, making and assessing various textile products for army, police and fire-fighters uniforms and sports applications to enhance performans aqnd comfort. He has worked with CSIRO nad RMIT STEM on Nano-fibre drug delivery systems, tissue engineeringb and other mediacl applications.
Rajiv has three joint Patents and a commercialisation agreement. He holds two joint patents on “Soft Ballistic fabric” and “Deployable air bags” and two commercialisation agreement one with GRT Pty ltd on Abrasion resistive fabric in sports application and second with Bruck Textiles on Application of sensors in fire fighter’s uniform.
Rajiv has been honoured by RMIT University with “Research Leadership Award” “Research Excellence Team Award” and “Media Person” award.
Rajiv is the Fellow of the Textile Institute (FTI) UK. He was a vice President of Textile Institute Southern Australia section and currently a member of Textile Institute (uk), Society of Dyers and Colourists for Australia and AUTEX (Association of Universities for Textiles).
Rajiv has completed his undergraduate degrees from the Mumbai University, India and Doctoral (Ph D) degree from the University of Leeds, UK.
Research fields
- 4014 Manufacturing engineering
- 4016 Materials engineering
- 4018 Nanotechnology
- 3509 Transportation, logistics and supply chains
Academic positions
- Professor
- RMIT University
- Fashion and Textiles
- Melbourne, Australia
- Feb 2000 – Present
- TAFE Teacher
- Melbourne Institute of Textiles
- Textiles
- Melbourne, Australia
- Apr 1998 – Feb 2000
- Head School of Fashion and Clothing
- SNDT University
- Textiles
- Mumbai, India
- May 1987 – Jul 1994
- Lecturer
- Institute of Chemical Technology
- Fibre and Textiles
- Mumbai, India
- Feb 1986 – May 1987
Supervisor projects
- Novel drug loaded bio active wound dressing for atopic eczema
- 12 Dec 2023
- MULTI-LAYERED SAFETY CLOTHING FOR PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT
- 13 Apr 2023
- Studies in Fabrication of Multilayered Therapeutic Wound Dressing with Integrated Electrostimulatory Strategies for Managing Chronic Wound
- 15 Mar 2023
- Paper-Based Nanosensors for Iron (Fe³⁺) Ion Detection in Water.
- 9 Dec 2022
- Textile Waste Management in Australia: Current Practices and Strategies for Reducing Environmental Impacts
- 13 Dec 2021
- Biopolymers based Carbon Nanofibers Flexible Sheet for Supercapacitor Application
- 17 Jun 2021
- Spacesuits for Preserving Human Health and Mobility
- 10 Dec 2020
- Towards a Martian Mechanical Counter Pressure Spacesuit: Material Properties, Modelling and Pressure Application
- 1 Sep 2020
- Development of Novel Multilayered Nanocomposite Scaffold for Next-Generation Artificial Nerve Guide Conduit
- 15 Apr 2020
- RECYCLING OF CLOTHING AND HOME TEXTILES HOW SUSTAINABLE IS THIS APPROACH TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE REUSE AND CONSUMPTION OF TEXTILES?
- 22 Jan 2020
- Development of a Nano Composite Substrate With Two Unique Surface Properties, Cell Attachment and Protein Anti-adsorption
- 17 Sep 2019
- The History of Textile Manufacture in Australia from 1788 until 2020
- 1 Mar 2017
- Application of Superomniphobic Finishes on Fabrics for Chemical Protection
- 3 Mar 2014
- Modelling the impact of port-centric logistics cluster on inter-firm competition
- 16 Jul 2012
- Variables Affecting Severance Evidence From Knife Attacks
- 2 Mar 2009
Teaching interests
Supervisor interests
Textile manufacturing technology: chemistry and application of dyes; fibre science; fabric finishing; novel dyes and ink-jet printing; industrial fabric (non-woven) engineering and quality and performance testing (value added) and Suatainability.
Research interests
Rajiv’s areas of expertise are Colouration of textiles including eco-friendly dyeing, Printing, Finishing including Nano Coatings, Fibre Chemistry, Nanotechnology, sustainability including LCA and materuials substituion and fabric designs for Protective, Sports and Medical applications.
