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Interview with Nikhil Chopra
No full textCNC interviews performance and installation artist Nikhil Chopra about Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX, on exhibit through February 2010 at New York's New Museum.Version of Recor
Ep. #097 - Nikhil Anand
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Cymene and Dominic talk about Al Gore’s visit to Rice and share thoughts on going solar both at home and in Puerto Rico. Then (12:25) we welcome Nikhil Anand from the University of Pennsylvania to the podcast to talk about his fascinating new book, Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai (Duke UP, 2017), which examines the evolution of “hydraulic citizenship” in Mumbai. We begin with the Mumbai floods and why they were no “natural disaster.” Turning to a discussion of liberalism in cities, Nikhil explains how water pressure and political pressure interact in Mumbai to create fickle yet efficacious modes of citizenship. We compare the wasteful yet essential character of electric and hydraulic “gridlife” and discuss how people are increasingly being forced to provide their own infrastructure not only in India but also in places like Detroit and Philadelphia. Nikhil explains how talk of scarce resources connects to a conservative politics of place, how leakiness and porosity are actually crucial to how water infrastructure operates, and how he thinks about the intersection of materiality and publics. We conclude by talking about the promise of infrastructure, what we learn from thinking about cities through water rather than land, and his new research project with Bethany Wiggins, Rising Waters, which investigates racialized and class-based geographies of injustice along rivers and in the wetlands of Philadelphia and Mumbai
3319: Nikhil Moro, 2013
No full textPhotograph of Nikhil Moro, professor in the Mayborn School of Journalism at UNT with his class, Comparative International Communication
Reversible Deactivation Radical Polymerization: Synthesis and Applications of Functional Polymers/ Nikhil K. Singha, Jimmy Mays.
No full textIn English.This book describes strategies and mechanism of reversible deactivation radical polymerization (RDRP) to synthesize functional polymers. Several approaches such as atom transfer radical polymerization and the combination of click chemistry and RDRP are summarized. Contributors from interdisciplinary fields highlight applications in nanotechnology, self-healing materials, oil and water resistant coatings and controlled drug delivery systems.Klumperman, Bert -- Karunakaran, Raghuraman G. / Dhamodharan, Raghavachari -- Patil, Sachin S. / Sane, Prakash S. / Wadgaonkar, Prakash P. / Palaskar, Dnyaneshwar V. -- Lowe, Andrew B. -- Pramanik, Nabendu B. / Mondal, Prantik / Singha, Nikhil K. / Haloi, Dhruba J. -- Banerjee, Sanjib / Chakrabarty, Arindam / Singha, Nikhil K. / Ameduri, Bruno -- Ghosh Roy, Saswati / De, Priyadarsi -- Frontmatter -- Preface -- List of contributors -- Contents -- 1. Introduction to reversible deactivation radical polymerization / 2. Tailor-made polymer-nanohybrid materials via reversible deactivation radical polymerization (RDRP) / 3. Synthesis of functionally terminated polymers by atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) and their applications / 4. Functional (co)polymers via a combination of reversible deactivation radical polymerization techniques and thiol-based "click"/conjugation chemistries / 5. Designing macromolecular architecture via reversible deactivation radical polymerization (RDRP) and Diels-Alder reaction / 6. Recent advances in the reversible deactivation radical (co)polymerization of fluorinated alkenes/acrylates/ methacrylates/styrenes / 7. Polymers prepared via reversibledeactivation radical polymerization (RDRP) for biomedical applications / Abbreviations -- Index1 online resource (XI, 291 pages
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Hydraulic Publics
No full textNikhil Anand explores why reforms to the Mumbai water system failed
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