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Dr Ashutosh Thakur

Designation : Scientist

Education : M.Tech (University of Delhi), MS (JAIST, Japan),Ph.D(JAIST, Japan)

Contact Details:: Coal and Energy Division, CSIR-North East Institute of Science & Technology, Jorhat-785006, Assam, India

Email id : ashutoshthakur@neist.res.in

Experience

• Research Assistant Professor at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology from June 2018 to December 2020
• Research Assistant Professor at International Excellent Core for Materials Informatics, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology from April 2020 to December 2020
• Scientist at CSIR-NEIST since January 2021

Research Interest

• Materials Development for Energy and Environmental Applications
• Nanostructured Carbonaceous Materials and their Applications
• Active site Design for Heterogeneous Catalysis
• Single Atom Catalyst Design
• Optical Materials

   

Projects

• DST-SERB Funded Project (SRG/2022/001365) under Start-up Research Grant Scheme.[PI]
• In-House Project OLP-2059 from CSIR-NEIST. [Member]
• In-House Project OLP-2077 from CSIR-NEIST. [Member]
• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research Project (19K05149) Funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). [Co-PI]
• Catalyst Informatics Project (JPMJCR17P2) Funded by theJapan Science and Technology Agency (JST) CREST. [Member]

• Selected for the Summer Research Fellowship by the Indian Academy of Science Bangalore in 2012.
• Selected by JAIST, Japan, under full scholarship for a research program in the academic year 2013.
• Scholarship awarded by the Department of Chemistry, University of Delhifor excellent performance in M.Tech. CSPT semester examinations.
• Outstanding APO2015/WPOC2015 Poster Presentation Award at World Polyolefin Congress 2015, organized in Tokyo, Japan.
• Excellent Poster Presentation Award in JAIST World Conference 2018 Nomi, Japan.

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  1. AnusuyaBoruah, Sarmistha Bora, Ashutosh Thakur,*HemantSankarDutta, Binoy K. Saikia*, Solid-State Phosphors from Coal-Derived Carbon Quantum Dots, ACS Omega 2023 (DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c02884).
  2. AnusuyaBoruah, Kallol Roy, Ashutosh Thakur, SaikatHaldar, RiturajKonwar, PrasenjitSaikia, Binoy K. Saikia, Biocompatible Nanodiamonds Derived from Coal Washery Rejects:Antioxidant, Antiviral, and Phytotoxic Applications, ACS Omega 2023, 8, 11151−11160.
  3. Thuy Phuong Nhat Tran, Ashutosh Thakur, ThanhNhat Nguyen, Priyank Mohan, Toru Wada, PatchaneeChammingkwan, Toshiaki Taniike, Understanding Chemiluminescence in Catalytic Oxidation of CO and Hydrocarbons, Catalysis Today 2021, 375, 56-63.
  4. Ashutosh Thakur, PatchaneeChammingkwan, Toru Wada, RikuoOnishi, WataruKamimura, KalaivaniSeenivasan, Minoru Terano, Toshiaki Taniike, Solution-State NMR Study of Organic Components of Industrial Ziegler-Natta catalysts: Effect of By-products on Catalyst Performance, Applied Catalysis A: General 2021, 611, 117971.
  5. AnhThi Minh Mai, Ashutosh Thakur, Nhan Nu Thanh Ton, ThanhNhat Nguyen, Tatsuo Kaneko, Toshiaki Taniike, Photodegradation of a Semi-Aromatic Bio-Derived Polyimide, Polymer Degradation and Stability 2021, 184, 109472.
  6. Ashutosh Thakur, Takuya Hamamoto, Tomohiro Ikeda, PatchaneeChammingkwan, Toru Wada, Toshiaki Taniike, Microwave-Assisted Polycondensation for Screening of Organically-Modified TiO2/SiO2Catalysts, Applied Catalysis A: General2020, 595, 117508.
  7. ThanhNhat Nguyen, Thuy Tran Phuong Nhat, Ken Takimoto, Ashutosh Thakur, Shun Nishimura, JunyaOhyama, ItsukiMiyazato, Lauren Takahashi, Jun Fujima, Keisuke Takahashi, Toshiaki Taniike, High-Throughput Experimentation and Catalyst Informatics for Oxidative Coupling of Methane, ACS Catalysis 2020, 10, 921–932.
  8. Ashutosh Thakur, Ryuki Baba, Toru Wada, PatchaneeChammingkwan, Toshiaki Taniike, Cooperative Catalysis by Multiple Active Centers of a Half-Titanocene Catalyst Integrated in Polymer Random Coils, ACS Catalysis 2019, 9, 3648−3656.
  9.Ashutosh Thakur, Ryuki Baba, PatchaneeChammingkwan, Minoru Terano, Toshiaki Taniike, Synthesis of Aryloxide-Containing Half-TitanoceneCatalysts Grafted to Soluble PolynorborneneChains and their Application in Ethylene Polymerization: Integration of Multiple Active Centres in a Random Coil, Journal of Catalysis 2018, 357, 69–79.
  10. Thuy Phuong Nhat Tran, Ashutosh Thakur, Dai Xuan Trinh, AnhThi Ngoc Dao, Toshiaki Taniike, Design of Pd@Graphene Oxide Framework Nanocatalyst with Improved Activity and Recyclability in Suzuki-MiyauraCross-Coupling Reaction, Applied Catalysis A: General 2018, 549, 60–67.

• Total No. of Presentations: 25
  • A. Thakur, M. Terano, T. Taniike, Origin of Cooperative Ethylene Polymerization Among Multiple Active Centers Integrated in Polymer Random Coils, Asian Polyolefin Workshop 2019, Hiroshima, Japan. [Oral Presentation]
  • A. Thakur, T. Taniike, Origin of Multicenter Mediated Synergistic Ethylene Polymerization with Polynorbornene-Supported Half-Titanaocene Catalysts, The 49th Petrochemical Symposium of Japan Petroleum Institute 2019, Yamagata, Japan. [Oral Presentation]
  • A. Thakur, T. Hamamoto, T. Taniike, Development and High-Throughput Screening of Solid Catalysts for Polyester Synthesis, The 8th Asia Pacific Congress on Catalysis 2019, Bangkok, Thailand. [Oral Presentation]
  • A. Thakur, R. Baba, M. Terano, T. Taniike, Side Chain Functionalized Soluble Polynorbornene as Flexible Support for Multicentre Mediated Synergistic Ethylene Polymerization, 10th International Symposium on High-Tech Polymer Materials 2018, Beijing, China. [Oral Presentation]
  • A. Thakur, R. Baba, M. Terano, T. Taniike, Integration of Multiple Active Centres in a Random Coil of Single Polynorbornene Chain to Embody Catalytic Multifunctionality in Ethylene Polymerization, Asian Polyolefin Workshop 2017, Tianjin, China [Oral Presentation]
  • A. Thakur, R. Baba, M. Terano, T. Taniike, Development of Single Polynorbornene Chain Supported Half Metallocene Catalysts to Embody Catalytic Multifunctionality in Ethylene Polymerization, 66th Symposium on Macromolecules 2017, Ehime, Japan. [Oral Presentation]
  • A. Thakur, M. Terano, T. Taniike, Single Polymer Chain Supported Well-defined and Multifunctional Catalyst Design for High Precession Olefin Polymerization, 253rd ACS National Meeting on Advanced Materials, Technologies, Systems & Processes 2017, San Francisco, California, USA. [Poster Presentation]
  • A. Thakur, M. Terano, T. Taniike, Synthesis of Side-Chain Functionalized Polynorbornene Supported Half-Metallocene Catalysts and Their Application in Ethylene Polymerization, The 46th Petrochemical Symposium of Japan Petroleum Institute 2016, Kyoto, Japan. [Oral Presentation]
  • A. Thakur, M. Terano, T. Taniike, Identification of Regio-Defects in Polypropylene Formed in Quasi-Living Stopped-Flow Polymerization Process, World Polyolefin Congress 2015, Tokyo, Japan. [Poster Presentation]
  • A. Thakur, M. Terano, T. Taniike, Ultra-Short Time Propylene Polymerization for Characterization of Primary Structure of Polymer by High-Temperature Cryo-Probe NMR, IUPAC 11th International Conference on Advanced Polymers via Macromolecular Engineering 2015, Yokohama, Japan. [Poster Presentation]