Chemical Engineering Research

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Abhijeet Ojha (Ph.D.)

Soft Material Science and Engineering Research Lab

IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India – 382355

E.mail: ********.****@*****.**.**

Phone: +91-982*******

EDUCATION

Ph.D.

Indian Institute of Technology,

Gandhinagar

2013 -2020

M.Tech.

(Nanotechnology with

Hons.)

National Chemical Laboratory, Pune

And University of Rajasthan

2012

B.Tech.

(Nanotechnology)

Centre for Converging Technology,

University of Rajasthan, Jaipur

2010

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

(1) Doctoral Student-Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India. (December, 2013-August, 2020)

Dissertation title: Development of two-dimensional films and three-dimensional nanostructures from the aqueous dispersion of graphene oxide: Synthesis, rheology and applications

Supervisor: Dr. Prachi Thareja, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar

Joined as second member of the research group and contributed in building research facility at IIT Gandhinagar.

Trained and advised undergraduate and Master students for their thesis work.

(2) Junior Research Fellow- Discipline of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India. (March- December, 2013)

Project Title: Colloidal particles self-assembly in liquid crystals

(3) Research Intern- National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India. (November, 2011-June, 2012)

Dissertation Title: Novel drug immobilized protein based nanogels: synthesis, characterization and drug release profile studies

Supervisor: Dr. Rathna GVN, Polymer Science and Engineering division, NCL, Pune

(4) Summer Research Fellow- National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India. (May – July, 2011)

Dissertation Title: Synthesis and characterization of thermo-responsive polymer nanogels and their application in targeted drug delivery

Supervisor: Dr. Siddhartha Jena, Department of Physics, NIT Rourkela, India.

(5) Research Intern- Defense Research Laboratory, Jodhpur, Rajasthan (January – March, 2011)

Project Title: Synthesis, Magnetic, Optical, Microwave Studies of W-Phase Co-Zn substituted Barium hexagonal ferrites and its various defense applications

Supervisor: Dr. Manoj Patra, Materials Development Unit, Defense Lab, Jodhpur, Rajasthan. 2

PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES

Peer-reviewed journals:

1. Abhijeet Ojha, Manish Thakker, D.O shah and P. Thareja, ‘Flow directed assembly of non-spherical titania nanoparticles into super hydrophilic thin films’, Frontiers of material science, Springer, 2016, 10(1), 1-7. 2. Abhijeet Ojha and P. Thareja, ‘Electrolyte induced rheological modulation of graphene oxide suspension and its application in adsorption’, Applied Surface Science, 2018, 435, 786–798. 3. Abhijeet Ojha, Helen Ibrahim, Natalia, Alyabyeva, Rémi Lazzari, Michel Goldman and P. Thareja, ‘Nanosheet size-dependent rheology, microstructure, adsorption properties of graphene oxide-electrolyte dispersions and adsorbents’ Synthetic Metals, 2020, 269, 1164393.

4. Abhijeet Ojha and P. Thareja, ‘Graphene based nanostructures for enhanced photocatalytic degradation of industrial dyes, Emergent Materials, Springer Nature, 2020, 42247, 81-86. 5. Jagadish Katla, Akshay J. M. Nair, Abhijeet Ojha and Sriram Kanvah, Organogel composed of trifluoromethyl anthryl cyanostyrenes: enhanced emission and self-assembly, Photochemical and photo biological sciences, 2018, 17 (4), 395-403.

6. Jagadish Katla, Abhijeet Ojha, AJM Nair, K. Rangan, Sriram Kanvah, ‘Photophysical studies of pyrenyl cyanostyrenes: effect of trifluoromethyl substitution on gelation’, New Journal of Chemistry, 2018, 42 (22), 182**-*****.

7. Asha Liza James, Manis Lenka, Nidhi Pandey, Abhijeet Ojha, Ashish Kumar, Rohit Saraswat, Prachi Thareja, Venkata Krishnan, and Kabeer Jasuja, ‘Processable dispersions of photocatalytically active nanosheets derived from titanium diboride: self-assembly into hydrogels and paper-like macrostructures’, Nanoscale, 2020, DOI: 10.1039/d0nr03677c.

Selected conferences and workshops:

1. Abhijeet Ojha and P. Thareja, “Rheology of aqueous graphene oxide suspensions: Influence of aspect ratio and electrolytes”, International Conference on Soft Materials (ICSM -2018), Jaipur, India, December 09-14, 2018. 2. Prachi Thareja, Abhijeet Ojha and M Sai Geetha, "Graphene Oxide gels and thin films", 12th International Conference on Complex Fluids and Soft Matter (COMPFLU-2018), IIT Roorkee, India, Dec. 06-09, 2018. 3. Ibrahim Helen, Abhijeet Ojha and Goldmann M " Mixed Langmuir films of Graphene oxide, Graphene, and the ionic liquid 1-Octyl,3-methylimidazolium chloride at the air-water interface", Condensed matter conference, JMC, Grenoble (Journées de la matière condensée JMC-Grenoble ), Grenoble Alps University, Grenoble, France, August 27-31, 2018. (Best Poster Award)

4. Abhijeet Ojha and P. Thareja, “Mechanically tunable adsorbent graphene oxide gels” 2nd International Conference on Applied Surface Science (ICASS-2017), Dalia, China, June 12-15, 2017. (SPECS Best Research Poster Award)

5. Abhijeet Ojha and P. Thareja, “Rheological studies of electrolyte induced gelation in 2D graphene oxide dispersions, Chemference-2016, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India, December 03-04, 2016. 6. Abhijeet Ojha and P. Thareja, “Electrolyte induced gelation and rheology of graphene oxide dispersion: Effect of salt type and valance”, 17th International Congress on Rheology (ICR-2016), Kyoto, Japan, August 08-13, 2016. 7. Abhijeet Ojha and P. Thareja, “Rheological studies of sol-gel transitions in aqueous GO dispersions”, Complex Fluids-2016, IISER Pune, India, January 2-4, 2016. 8. Abhijeet Ojha and P.Thareja “Surfactants: Fundamentals and applications”, poster presented at Shah-Schulman centre for Surface science and Nanotechnology, Dharmsinh Desai University, India, March 11-12, 2015. 9. Abhijeet Ojha and P.Thareja, “Flow directed assembly of colloidal TiO2 based nanostructured thin films”, International Conference on Nanoscience and Engineering Applications, JNTU, Kukatpally, Hyderabad, India, January 26-28, 2014.

10. “Neutrons as probes of condensed matter”, workshop at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, organized by UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Mumbai, January 27-31, 2015. Courses taught during teaching assistantship at IIT Gandhinagar

Materials characterization

Synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials

Colloidal and interfacial science

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HONOURS AND AWARDS

1. Awarded Outstanding Graduate Teaching Fellow (GTF) Award for the course Characterization of Materials (MSE 632) in the Materials Science and Engineering discipline of IIT Gandhinagar for academic year 2018-19. Also worked as teaching assistant of the same course for academic year 2017- 18 and 2016-17 (Contributed in course design, lab development and experimental design) 2. Received best research poster award at Condensed matter conference, JMC, Grenoble, Grenoble Alps University, Grenoble, France, 2018.

3. Awarded IIT Gandhinagar Overseas Research Fellowship program to work at Institute of Nanoscience, UPMC, Paris, France, 2018.

4. Won “SPECS Best Research Poster Award” for the poster “Mechanically tunable adsorbent graphene oxide gels” at International Conference at Applied Surface Science, Dalian, China, 2017. 5. Awarded international travel grant from DST-SERB, Govt. of India to attend ICASS-2017 at Dalian, China, 2017.

6. Awarded Atlas travel grant from Atlas group and IIT Gandhinagar to attend ICSM-2018 at Jaipur, India, 2017.

7. Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test, GATE, (Biotechnology, 2012) 8. Selected for research internship program conducted by NIT Rourkela, May-July, 2011 CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

1. Worked as a core organizing committee member for Chemference-2016, organized at IIT Gandhinagar 2. Worked as a core team member for REFECO-2015, an annual research event organized at IIT GN TECHNICAL SKILL

Proficient in both English and Hindi

Professional software’s: Origin 9.1, Image J, Endnote 7, Nanoscope

Characterization techniques

Transmission Electron Microscopy and Scanning Electron Microscopy

Atomic Force Microscopy

X-Ray Diffractometer (XRD)

Dynamic Laser Scattering and Zeta potential analysis

UV-visible spectrophotometer and FTIR

X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

TGA/DSC analysis, XPS Analysis

Contact angle and Surface energy analysis

References:

Prof. Prachi Thareja (Supervisor) Prof. Michel Goldmann Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering Professor, Institute of Nanoscience Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar University of Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris Email: ******@*****.**.** Email: ******.********@****.****.** Dr. Kabeer Jasuja

Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar

Email: ******@*****.**.**

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