Dr. Takshak Shende founded PoreSoft Lab in 2022. PoreSoft Lab studies the fundamental principles governing the application of viscoelastic non-Newtonian fluids, deformable soft matter, ultrasonic cavitation, advanced oxidation processes, and adsorption in environmental science, energy, and biotechnology. Polymeric solutions, colloidal suspensions, and bio-fluids such as biofilms and blood are all of interest. PoreSoft Lab employs experimental and numerical methodologies to solve industry challenges, focusing on geological carbon and hydrogen storage, subsurface remediation, contaminant hydrogeology, microfluidics, porescale modelling, water and wastewater treatment, and environmental impact assessement.

PoreSoft Lab investigates the fundamental principles governing the use of viscoelastic non-Newtonian fluids and soft matter in environmental science, energy, and biotechnology. The materials of interest are polymeric solutions, colloidal suspensions, and bio-fluids such as biofilms and blood. Many of these materials and fluids have the potential to solve engineering problems such as subsurface remediation, enhancing oil recovery, water and wastewater treatment, and carbon sequestration. However, the complex nature of these complex fluids/materials makes their understanding complicated, specifically in complex and deformable pore-spaces such as porous media and biological tissues. We intend to use and integrate microfluidics, microscopy, mass spectroscopy, tomography, image processing, rheology, and computational modelling to understand how soft matters behave in a complex and deformable environment. In addition, Poresoft Lab intends to conduct collaborative and multi-disciplinary studies on soft matters based on polymer physics, fluid dynamics, solid mechanics, and statistical mechanics for net-zero and sustainable systems.