Chaitanya G. Mahajan

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Dr. Chaitanya Mahajan is an assistant professor in the Industrial Engineering department. His teaching and research interests focus on synthesizing new functional materials, designing print strategies for multi-material deposition techniques, enhancing material properties in 3D printed parts, and examining post-processing techniques to develop novel applications on flexible substrates using various additive manufacturing techniques. 

Education

  • Ph.D. Engineering (Industrial & Systems Engineering), Rochester Institute of Technology
  • M.S. Industrial & Systems Engineering,  Rochester Institute of Technology
  • B.E. Production Engineering, University of Mumbai

Research Interests 

  • Additive manufacturing (3D printing) 
  • Multi-functional printing 
  • Multi-material printing
  • Printed electronics

Select Publications

  1. Srikanthan Ramesh, Md Shihab Shakur, and Chaitanya Mahajan. "Single-step aerosol printing of metallic nanostructures via in-flight plasma reduction." Progress in Additive Manufacturing (2026): 1-21. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s40964-026-01921-3)
  2. Suparna Chatterjee, Rigesh Krishnaraj, Sumanth Nandhikonda, and Chaitanya Mahajan. “Professional development informing teachers’ intention to teach additive manufacturing in K-12 classrooms.” New Mexico Journal of Science, Volume 58, 48-59 (2025). (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22697788)
  3. Abishek Balsamy Kamaraj, Saketh Merugu, Chaitanya Mahajan, and Anju Gupta. “Design of Experiments Informed Investigation of Magnetic Field-Assisted Nickel Electroplating on Copper.” Journal of Micro and Nano Science and Engineering 13, no. 2 (2025). (https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4067792)
  4. Srikanthan Ramesh, Akash Deep, Ali Tamayol, Abishek Kamaraj, Chaitanya Mahajan, and Sundararajan Madihally. “Advancing 3D bioprinting through machine learning and artificial intelligence.” Bioprinting (2024): e00331. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bprint.2024.e00331)
  5. Srikanthan Ramesh, Chaitanya Mahajan, Sam Gerdes, Aniruddha Gaikwad, Prahalada Rao, Denis R. Cormier, and Iris V. Rivero. “Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Aerosol Jet Printing.” Additive Manufacturing (2022): 103090. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2022.103090)
  6. Seyed Alireza Rozati, Praneethreddy Keesara, Chaitanya Mahajan, Kunal Mondal, and Anju Gupta. “Magnetically Aligned Metal-Organic Deposition (MOD) Ink based Nickel/Copper Heater Surfaces for Enhanced Boiling Heat Transfer.” Applied Thermal Engineering (2022): 118473. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2022.118473)
  7. Meda Manoj, Paarth Mehta, Chaitanya Mahajan, Bruce Kahn, and Denis Cormier. “Magnetohydrodynamic liquid metal droplet jetting of highly conductive electronic traces.” Flexible and Printed Electronics 6, no. 3 (2021): 035002. (https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-8585/ac0fee)
  8. Chaitanya G. Mahajan, Amanda Marotta, Bruce E. Kahn, Mark Irving, Surendra Gupta, Richard Hailstone, Scott Williams and Denis Cormier. “Formation of copper nickel bimetallic nanoalloy film using precursor inks.” Materials Sciences and Applications 10 (2019): 349-363. (https://doi.org/10.4236/msa.2019.104026)
  9. Chaitanya G. Mahajan, Alfadhel Ahmed, Mark Irving, Bruce E. Kahn, David A. Borkholder, Scott A. Williams and Denis Cormier. “Magnetic field patterning of nickel nanowire film realized by printed precursor inks.” Materials 12.6 (2019): 928. (https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12060928)
  10. Alfadhel Ahmed, Jing Ouyang, Chaitanya G. Mahajan, Farzad Forouzandeh, Denis Cormier, and David A. Borkholder. “Inkjet printed polyethylene glycol as a fugitive ink for the fabrication of flexible microfluidic systems.” Materials & Design 150 (2018): 182-187. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2018.04.013)

Patent

  1. Chaitanya G. Mahajan, Denis Cormier, Mark Irving, Scott Williams, David Borkholder, and Ahmed Alfadhel. "Magnetic field patterning of nickel nanofibers using precursor ink." U.S. Patent 11,254,156, issued February 22, 2022.

Conference Proceedings (Peer Reviewed)

  1. Syed Ziaul Bin Bashara, Jesus Diaz, Chaitanya Mahajan, and Satyajayant Misra. “AutoSlice: A Fully Automatic LLM-driven Slicing Configuration Framework for Additive Manufacturing.” 54th SME North American Manufacturing Research Conference, 2026.
  2. Chatterjee Suparna and Chaitanya Mahajan. “Concept to Creation: Fundamentals of Additive Manufacturing with Design Thinking.” In Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, pp. 1075-1084. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 2025.
  3. Balsamy Kamaraj, Abishek, Saketh Merugu, Chaitanya Mahajan, and Anju Gupta. “Design of Experiments Informed Investigation of Magnetic Field Assisted Nickel Electroplating on Copper” In ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, vol. 88605, p. V002T03A002. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2024.
  4. Hussain, Huzaifa, Jesus Diaz, Roshira Premadasa, Qianyun Zhang, and Chaitanya Mahajan. "Multi-Material 3D Plate Lattice Structures Using Fused Filament Fabrication Technique." In IISE Annual Conference. Proceedings, pp. 1-6. Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), 2024.

Invited Talks

  1. Selena Connealy and Chaitanya G. Mahajan “Distributed Resilient and Emergent Intelligence-based Additive Manufacturing (DREAM)” University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center Research & Innovation Series. 2026
  2. Chaitanya Mahajan. “Magnetic Field Patterning of Nickel Nanostructures using Precursor Ink” TechBlick. The Future of Electronics RESHAPED, 2025.
  3. Chaitanya Mahajan. “Molten Metal Jetting (MMJ) for Printed Electronics” Metal Additive Manufacturing Symposium, AMTech Expo, Bengaluru, India, 2024.
  4. Chaitanya Mahajan. “Digital Alloying using Inkjet Printing of Metal Precursor Inks” Community of Practice Meetings at Corning Inc., 2024
  5. Chaitanya G. Mahajan. “An Overview of Electrochemistry Application to Additive Manufacturing” 243rd The Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting with the 18th International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC-XVIII), 2023

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