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    Dr Amit Ranjan

    Chemical Engineering
    Professor
    Ph D 2007 University of Minnesota, USA
    M Tech 1999 Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur
    5 Year Integrated M Sc 1995 Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur

     

    2022 – Till Date Professor, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Jais, Amethi

    2016 – 2022

    Associate Professor, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Jais, Amethi

    May 2013-December 2016

    Assistant Professor, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Jais, Amethi

    May 2011-April 2013

    Assistant Professor (On Contract) Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Jais, Amethi

    July 2010-May 2011

    Senior Research Associate, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Jais, Amethi

    June 2009-June 2010

    Scientist, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur

    June 2008-March 2009

    Postdoctoral Researcher, FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    March 2007-June 2008

    Postdoctoral Researcher,  UNC-Chapel Hill, USA

     

     

     

    • Polymeric Nanostructures
    • Oxide Semiconductor Nanoparticles
    • Composite Materials
    • Novel Oxide Nanoparticles 
    • Fracture in Soft Materials
    • Complex Fluids
    • Computational Materials Science
    • Studies on three dimensional fracturing due to hydrostatic pressure generated under point loading in viscoelastic media for fabrication of functional mesoporous materials
      Science and Engineering Research Board
      2012-2015
    • Development of New Polymeric Materials with Potential Applications in Various Areas of Petroleum Engineering
      Science and Engineering Research Board
      2012-2015
    1. Polyacryloyl Hydrazide Incorporation into Ionic Hydrogels Improves Toughness, Elasticity, Self-Healability, Adhesive & Strain Sensing Properties. S. Mandal, N. Pandey, S. Singh, A. Ranjan, and U. Ojha. Mater. Chem. Front., 2019,3, 690-701. (An RSC journal, Impact Factor pending).
    2. Influence of BiFeO3 Nanoparticles on Properties of Clay Containing Water Based Muds. Shama Perween, Nitu Kumari Thakur, Mukarram Beg, Shivanjali Sharma, Amit Ranjan. Colloids and Surfaces A 561, 165 (2019). IF: 2.829
    3. PVA-PDMS-Stearic acid composite nanofibrous mats with improved mechanical behavior for selective filtering applications. Shama Perween, Ziyauddin Khan, Somendra Singh, Amit Ranjan. Scientific Reports 8, 16038 (2018). IF: 4.122
    4. Effect of zinc titanate nanoparticles on rheological and filtration properties of water based drilling fluids. Shama Perween, Mukarram Beg, Ravi Shankar, Shivanjali Sharma, Amit Ranjan. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 170, 844 (2018). IF: 2.382
    5. Improved Visible-Light Photocatalytic Activity in ZnTiO3 Nanopowder Prepared by Sol-Electrospinning. S. Perween and Amit Ranjan. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 163, 148 (2017). IF: 5.018
    6. Recyclable Thermosets Based on Dynamic Amidation and Aza-Michael Addition Chemistry. Ranjana Baruah, Anuj Kumar, Rewati Ujjwal, Soumya Kedia, Amit Ranjan, Umprasana Ojha. Macromolecules, (2016). IF: 5.914
    7. Composite Nanofibrous Sheets of Fatty Acids and Polymers as Thermo-regulating Enclosures. Ruchika Gupta, Soumya Kedia, Neelam Saurakhiya, Atul Sharma, and Amit Ranjan, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 157, 676-685 (2016). IF: 5.018
    8. Embedded macro-porous elastomers by hydrostatic fracturing for flexible strain-sensor applications. K. Phanishwar, Shama Perween, Neelam Saurakhiya, and Amit Ranjan. J. Appl. Polymer Science, 133, 43681 (2016). IF: 1.9
    9. One-Step Fabrication of Microchannels Lined with a Metal Oxide Coating.  S. Patil, A. Ranjan, T. Maitra, and A. Sharma. ACS Appl. Mater. & Interf., 8, 10494 (2016). IF: 8.097
    10. Pre-fracture instabilities govern generation of self-affine morphology in tearing of soft viscoelatic sheets.  Sandip Patil, Amit Ranjan, and Ashutosh Sharma. Macromolecules 45 (4), pp 2066–2073 (2012). IF: 5.914
    11. Block copolymer lamellae on fractal surfaces. Amit Ranjan, M. Kulkarni, A. Karim, and Ashutosh Sharma, J. Chem. Phys. 136, 094903 (2012). IF: 2.843
    12. Linear response and stability of ordered phases of block copolymer melts. Amit Ranjan, Jian Qin, and David C. Morse, Macromolecules 41, 942 (2008). IF 5.914
    13. Landau theory of the orthorhombic Fddd phase. Amit Ranjan and David C. Morse, Physical Review E. 74, 011803 (2006). IF: 2.284
    14. Monte Carlo simulation of plume evolution from laser ablated graphite and barium titanate. A. Ranjan, S. Sinha and P. K. Ghosh, Chemical Physics Letters, 277, 545 (1997). IF: 1.686
    • Best MSc Project Award
      Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur
      1995
    • Best Teacher Award
      Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Jais, Amethi
      2011

    Website:  https://sites.google.com/a/rgipt.ac.in/materials_science/

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