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Dr. Vinothkumar Natarajan, Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering) Postdoctoral Research Fellow,

Environment Research Institute,

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,

Shandong University, Jinan, P.R.China-250100.

E-mail: adg1x8@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile: +91-822******* / +86-131********

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering – (Course work grade - 8.75/10) 2009-2015 Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati – Guwahati, India. Dissertation: Hydrogen production from water-methanol over visible light active modified titanium and indium oxides based photocatalysts

M.Tech in Industrial Biotechnology – First class with distinction (8.62/10) 2005-2007 Annamalai University – Tamil Nadu, India.

Dissertation: Modeling of a gas phase bioreactor to remove Benzene,Toluene,Ethyl benzene and Xylene B.Tech in Chemical Engineering – First class (70 %) 2001-2005 Anna University – Tamil Nadu, India.

Dissertation: Production of Penicillin-G using Penicillium chrysogenum MAJOR RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Shandong University, Jinan, P. R. China November 2016 - till date Major project: Confining reactive radicals within nanoparticles for Fenton-like degradation of organic compounds by activating oxidants using transition metal composites Other projects and responsibilities:

Developed materials for Fenton catalysis, sensors, SERS and Enzyme-like applications

Designing iron-free catalytic materials for Fenton-like reactions

Fabrication of organic-inorganic integrated materials for selective degradation of micropollutants

Developing materials for activating molecular oxygen and its usage in waste water treatment

Environmental modeling of the removal behavior of micropollutants in wastewater

Waste water treatment, removal of ions from various industrial effluents

Degradation studies of toxic organic compounds in nuclear industries waste water

Assisting graduate, post graduate, and doctoral students

Preparation of project proposals to apply for grants

Operating and In-charge for FESEM, ESR, LC-MS, X-ray Photoelectron spectroscopy, Circular Dichroism, and Isothermal Titration Calorimetry

Ability to independently design, record and interpret experimental results

Involved in catalyst preparation towards target oriented applications Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India January 2009 – February 2015 Dissertation: Hydrogen production from water-methanol over visible light active modified titanium and indium oxides based photocatalysts

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Design and development of metal/ nonmetal modified TiO2, dye-sensitized and coupled semiconductor catalysts for energy and environmental applications

Synthesis of visible light active catalysts with high activity for hydrogen production

Synthesis of zeolite based materials for hydrogen storage

Fabrication of mesoporous materials for methane conversion reactions

Kinetics and environment modeling studies of catalytic reactions

Material development for the degradation of organic pollutants and different dyes

Development of catalysts for wastewater treatment/water purification

Operated various instruments; GC, HPLC, BET (Beckman-Coulter SATM 3100 analyzer),Zeta potential (Delsa Nano C), SEM and FESEM, Gas Chromatography (Bruker, Varian and Nucon), HPLC (Shimadzu),UV-Vis Spectroscopy

(Perkin Elmer Lambda 750), Powder XRD (Bruker), Photoluminescence instrument (Aminco Bowman Series), Thermogravimetric analysis (Metler Toledo 851), Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy, Cyclic Voltammetry, Microbiology laboratory techniques

Other responsibilities: Teaching Assistant for the following subjects;

Heat transfer and Mass transfer operations

Characterization of Materials (Theory and Laboratory)

Chemical reaction engineering

Catalysis and Energy materials (Theory and Laboratory) TEACHING EXPERIENCE (3.1 Years)

E. G. S. Pillay. Engineering College (Autonomous) June 2007- December 2008 Designation: Assistant professor

Adhiyamaan College of Engineering (Autonomous) March 2015- October 2016 Designation: Assistant professor

RESEARCH GRANTS (received as Principal Investigator) Project

Number /

Status

Projects/research topics

Funding Agency

Name/ Level of

Funding

Funding Period

/Funding amount

in RMB (USD)

P.I/co-P.I

217******** /

Completed

Unifying the fields of molecular

recognition and Fenton-like catalysis

for the removal of chlorobenzene in

wastewater by MxFe2O4@ -CD

(Under the scheme of Grant for Top

100 International Young Scientists)

National Natural

Science

Foundation of

China

(NSFC)/ National

Level

2018-01-01 to

2018-12-31

/200,000 RMB

(28500 USD)

Principal

Investigator

201703006 /

Completed

MnOx@ -CD for molecular recognition and

catalytic removal of chlorophenols

Shandong Province

Innovation Project

Fund/ State Level

2017-12-18 to 2018-12-

18/ 30,000 RMB

(4300 USD)

Principal

Investigator

SOFTWARE SKILLS

PANalytical X-pert software for crystal studies, Matlab, Microsoft Office, Origin 8 Vinothkumar Natarajan adg1x8@r.postjobfree.com

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LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

N.Vinothkumar and Mahuya De, Hydrogen production from water-methanol solution over visible light active Indium- Titanium oxide photocatalysts modified with copper oxide, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 39 (2014), 114**-*****.

N.Vinothkumar and Mahuya De, Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen production from water–methanol mixture using cerium and nonmetals (B/C/N/S) co-doped titanium dioxide, Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 3

(2014), 1-25.

Dipankar Barpuzary, Ziyauddin Khan, Natarajan Vinothkumar, Mahuya De and Mohammad Qureshi, Hierarchically Grown Urchin-like CdS@ZnO and CdS@Al2O3 Heteroarrays for Efficient Visible Light Driven Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2012, 116, 150-156.

Ziyauddin Khan, Momina Khannam, Natarajan Vinothkumar, Mahuya De and Mohammad Qureshi, Hierarchical 3D NiO-CdS Heteroarchitecture for Efficient Visible Light Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2012, 22, 120**-*****.

Anindya Sundar Patra, Natarajan Vinothkumar, Dipankar Barpuzary, Mahuya De and Mohammad Qureshi, Strontium doped lanthanum manganites for efficient and robust photocatalytic water oxidation coupled with graphene oxide, Material Letters, 131 (2014), 125-127.

Gaurangi Gogoi, Sonia Arora, Natarajan Vinothkumar, Mahuya De and Mohammad Qureshi, Quaternary semiconductor Cu2ZnSnS4 loaded with MoS2 as a co-catalyst for enhanced photo-catalytic activity, RSC Advances, 5 (2015), 404**-*****.

Lei Sun, Min Zhang, Vinothkumar Natarajan, Xiaofei Yu, Xiaoli Zhang* and Jinhua Zhan, Au@Ag core-shell nanoparticles with a hidden internal reference promoted quantitative solid phase microextraction-surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy detection, RSC Advances, 2017, 7, 238**-*****.

Zhenyu Feng, Yanxing Ma, Vinothkumar Natarajan, Quanqin Zhao, Xicheng Ma, Jinhua Zhan, In-situ generation of highly dispersed Au nanoparticles on porous ZnO nanoplates via ion exchange from hydrozincite for VOCs gas sensing, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2018, 255, part 1, 884-890.

Wenwen Ge, Yuhong Chang, Vinothkumar Natarajan, Zhenyu Feng, Jinhua Zhan, Xicheng Ma, In2O3-doped SnO2 hybrid porous nanostructures delivering enhanced formaldehyde sensing performance, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2018, 746, 36-44.

Yanyan Zhu, Min Yue, Vinothkumar Natarajan, Lingshuai Kong, Long Ma, Yuqiang Zhang, Quanqin Zhao and Jinhua Zhan, Enhanced degradation of bisphenol A with Fe3O4@β-CD nanocomposite by persulfate activated, RSC Advances, 8 (2018), 148**-*****.

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Xiaofei Yu, Yuhong Chang, Vinothkumar Natarajan, Xiaoli Zhang and Jinhua Zhan, Recyclable silver nanoplate- decorated copper membrane for on-site solid-phase extraction coupled with surface-enhanced Raman scattering detection, Analytical Methods, 10 (2018), 1353-1361.

Lingshuai Kong, Guodong Fang, Ya Kong, Meng Xie, Vinothkumar Natarajan, Dongmei Zhou, Jinhua Zhan,Cu2O@β-cyclodextrin as a synergistic catalyst for hydroxyl radical generation and molecular recognitive destruction of aromatic pollutants at neutral pH, Journal of hazardous materials, 2018,357,109-118.

Shuo-Shuo Zhang, Ning Yang, Shou-Qing Ni, Vinothkumar Natarajan, Hafiz Adeel Ahmed, Shiping Yu, Xu Fang, Jinhua Zhan,One-pot synthesis of highly active Ni/Fe nanobimetal by simultaneous ball milling and in situ chemical deposition, RSC Advances, 2018, 8, 26469.

Meng Xie, Junchuan Tang, Lingshuai Kong, Wenhui Lu, Vinothkumar Natarajan, Feng Zhu, Jinhua Zhan, Cobalt doped g-C3N4 activation of peroxymonosulfate for monochlorophenols degradation, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2019,360,1213-1222.

Xing Rong, Meng Xie, Lingshuai Kong, Vinothkumar Natarajan, Long Ma, Jinhua Zhan, The magnetic biochar derived from banana peels as a persulfate activator for organic contaminants degradation, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2019,372, 294-303.

Shuo-Shuo Zhang, Ning Yang, Xuming Zhuang, Liying Ren, Vinothkumar Natarajan, Zhaojie Cui, Hongyu Si, Xiaohan Xin, Shou-Qing Ni and Jinhua Zhan, Montmorillonite immobilized Fe/Ni bimetallic prepared by dry insituhydrogen reduction for the degradation of 4-Chlorophenol, Nature: Scientific Reports, 2019,9,13388.

Wenhui Lu, Jiaxin Zhang, Nianlu Li, Zhi You, Zhenyu Feng, Vinothkumar Natarajan, Jing Cheng, Jinhua Zhan, Co3O4@β-cyclodextrin with synergistic peroxidase-mimicking performance as a signal magnification approach for colorimetric determination of ascorbic acid, Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical, 2020, 303,127106.

Vinothkumar Natarajan, Lingshuai Kong, Wenhui Lu, Meng Xie, Maoxia He, Jinhua Zhan MnO2@ -CD as a highly efficient and sustainable Fenton-like system for the degradation of chlorobenzene at neutral pH (filed for patent).

Vinothkumar Natarajan, Jinhua Zhan, Crednerite CuMnO2 nanoribbons modified by β-Cyclodextrin for the Fenton- like degradation of nitrobenzene (Submitted).

CONFERENCES AND INVITED TALK

Poster titled “Photocatalytic hydrogen production over cerium and nitrogen modified titania under visible light irradiation” presented in 12th Mediterranean Congress of Chemical Engineering held at Barcelona (Spain) on Nov' 15-18, 2011.

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Oral presentation titled “Cu doped TiO2 and ZnO photocatalysts for hydrogen production under visible light irradiation” presented in International conference on sustainable technologies for energy and environment in process industries held at NIT Jalandhar (Punjab, India) on Dec' 27-30, 2012.

Oral presentation titled “Biomimetic catalysts for removal of persistent toxic substances" The 3rd International Symposium on Advanced Inorganic Materials (Japan) on Aug' 03-05,2017

Invited talk on “National Seminar on Recent Advances in Materials Science – SRAMS 2019 at PRIST University, Tamil Nadu.

REFERENCES

DECLARATION

I Vinothkumar, hereby confirm that all the information given above are true to the best of my knowledge. Yours Sincerely,

(Vinothkumar Natarajan)

Dr. Mahuya De (Doctoral mentor)

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

Department of Chemical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Assam- 781039

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Dr. Mohammad Qureshi (Research Collaborator)

Professor of Chemistry

Department of Chemistry

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Assam-781039

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Dr. Jinhua Zhan (Post-Doctoral mentor)

Professor of Chemistry

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

No:27, Shanda Nan Lu,

Shandong University, Jinan,

P.R.China- 250100

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