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Kripa Varanasi - “If you really understand the phenomena, you can reduce it to a few nondimensional parameters,” MIT mechanical engineer Kripa Varanasi says. That collapses the complexity into manageable formulas and phase diagrams, “and then we can design new processes, new products, and zero-tradeoff solutions.” That approach, he says, has been “at the heart of the companies we’ve started.”
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Materials & Packaging

Kripa Varanasi

LiquiGlide no-stick packaging coating

India · United StatesEvidence: high confidenceChecked July 2026

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Profile overview

Who is Kripa Varanasi?

Kripa Varanasi is an inventor associated with India and United States. Their documented work in materials & packaging includes LiquiGlide no-stick packaging coating, the contribution at the center of this evidence-backed profile.

Kripa Varanasi co-invented LiquiGlide, a liquid-impregnated coating that lets viscous products slide from container surfaces. Used first for packaging, the physical surface treatment reduces product left in bottles and manufacturing vessels, lowering waste and making containers easier to empty, recycle or reuse.

Known forLiquiGlide no-stick packaging coating
FieldMaterials & Packaging
Associated withIndia and United States
Evidence reviewed2 sources
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What did Kripa Varanasi invent?

Co-invented the liquid-impregnated no-stick surface technology commercialized as LiquiGlide with David Smith.

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What did Kripa Varanasi accomplish?

MIT reports that LiquiGlide was commercialized in 2012 and used for products including no-stick toothpaste and packaging.

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What is known about Kripa Varanasi today?

MIT News identified Varanasi as a professor and named inventor in a July 2024 report, positive current institutional evidence.

The invention in pictures

Source-linked views of the object associated with Kripa Varanasi. Captions identify the reviewed invention; image ownership remains with the credited source.

LiquiGlide no-stick packaging coating, associated with inventor Kripa Varanasi01

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LiquiGlide no-stick packaging coating

A reviewed source view of LiquiGlide no-stick packaging coating, the notable contribution associated with Kripa Varanasi.

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