Assistant Professor Gr-II
Department of Chemistry
Phone: 8105307522
Email: papri@che.nits.ac.in
AREA OF INTEREST AND SPECIALIZATION (INCLUDING RESEARCH AREA)
- Supramolecular Chemistry
- Organic-inorganic hybrid, metallosupramolecular polymers
- Aqueous self-assembly and co-assembly
- Pathway complexity
- Chiral supramolecular polymers
- Supramolecular electropolymerization
SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Dr. Papri Sutar was born and brought up in Kolkata, India. She obtained her secondary (10th) and higher secondary education from Garia Harimati Devi Uchcha Balika Vidyalaya. She received her bachelor degree (B.Sc.) in Chemistry from University of Calcutta in 2010. She obtained her master’s degree (M.Sc.) from the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 2012. Later, she went to Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore from where she received her PhD degree under the supervision of Prof. Tapas Kumar Maji in 2018. After completing her Ph.D., she worked as postdoctoral research associate in the research group of Dr. John G. Hardy at Lancaster University in United Kingdom till August, 2019. Later she moved to University of Muenster in Germany where she worked as an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Gustavo Fernández till October, 2023. She received a number of fellowships (Internationalization fund, Stipend for Postdoc) during her research stay at University of Muenster. She joined the Department of Chemistry, NIT Silchar in November, 2023.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
- ‘Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Research’, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2020
- ‘Stipend for Postdoc’ fellowship, by WWU Münster, Germany, 2020
- ‘Internationalization fund’ fellowship, by WWU Münster, Germany, 2019.
- Awarded ‘International Travel Support’ by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India to attend ‘ISMSC-ISACS, 2017’ conference in Cambridge, UK.
- Awarded ‘Junior Research Fellowship’, 2012 and ‘Senior Research Fellowship’, 2015, by Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India.
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS
- Sutar, P., Dünnebacke, T., Fernández, Z., Krüger, T., Rest, C., Fernández, G.* (2023): Controlling Molecular Packing in Aqueous Metallosupramolecular Self-assembly by Ligand Geometry, Precision Chemistry, 1, 332-340, DOI: 10.1021/prechem.3c00058. (Impact Factor: not declared yet)
- Verma, P., Samanta, D., Sutar, P., Kundu, A., Dasgupta, J., Maji, T. K.* (2022): Biomimetic Approach toward Visible Light-Driven Hydrogen Generation Based on a Porphyrin-Based Coordination Polymer Gel, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c14533. (Impact Factor: 10.383)
- Sutar, P., Bakuru, V. R., Yadav, P., Laha, S., Kalidindi, S. B., Maji, T. K.* (2021): Nanocomposite Hydrogel of Pd@ZIF-8 and Laponite®: Size-Selective Hydrogenation Catalyst under Mild Conditions, Eur. J., 27, 3268. DOI:10.1002/chem.202004345. (Impact Factor: 5.020)
- Hardy, J.*, Sdepanian, S., Stowell, A., Aljohani, A., Allen, M., Anwar, A., Barton, D., Baum, J., Bird, D., Blaney, A., Brewster, L., Cheneler, D., Efremova, O., Entwistle, M., Esfahani, R., Firlak, M., Foito, A., Forciniti, L., Geissler, S., Guo, F., Hathout, R., Jiang, R., Kevin, P., Leese, D., Low, W.L., Mayes, S., Mozafari, M., Murphy, S., Nguyen, H., Ntola, C., Okafo, G., Partington, A., Prescott, T., Price, S., Soliman, S., Sutar, P., Townsend, D., Trotter, P., Wright, K. (2021): Potential for Chemistry in Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary, and Transdisciplinary Teaching Activities in Higher Education, J. Educ., 98, 1124–1145. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c01363. (Impact Factor: 3.208)
- Sutar, P., Maji, T.K.* (2020): Recent advances in coordination-driven polymeric gel materials: design and applications, Dalton Trans., 49, 7658. (Frontier article). DOI:10.1039/D0DT00863J. (Impact Factor: 4.569).
- Rest, C., Philips, D. S., Dünnebacke, T., Sutar, P., Sampedro, A., Droste, J., Stepanenko, V., Hansen, M. R.*, Albuquerque, R. Q.*, Fernández, G* (2020): Tuning Aqueous Supramolecular Polymerization by an Acid‐Responsive Conformational Switch, Chem. Eur. J., 26, 10005. DOI: 10.1002/chem.202001566. (Impact Factor: 5.020)
- Suresh, V. M.#, Sutar, P.#, Verma, P., Das, S., Pati, S. K., Maji, T. K.* (2019): Regulating Charge-Transfer in Conjugated Microporous Polymers for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution, Chem. Eur. J., 25, 3867. (#These authors contributed equally). DOI: 10.1002/chem.201805478. (Impact Factor: 5.020)
- Sutar, P., Suresh, V. M, Jayaramulu, K., Hazra, A., Maji, T. K.* (2018): Binder Driven Self-assembly of Metal-Organic Cubes towards Functional Hydrogels, Nat. Commun., 9, 3587. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05818-w. (Impact Factor: 17.69)
- Chakraborty, A., Sutar, P., Yadav, P., Eswaramoorthy, M., Maji, T. K.* (2018): Charge-assisted Self-assembly of ZIF-8 and Laponite Clay towards Hydrogel Nano-composite for Controlled Drug Release, Inorg. Chem., 57, 14480. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b02545. (Impact Factor: 5.436)
- Sutar, P., Maji, T. K.* (2017): Coordination Polymer Gels with Modular Nano-morphologies, Tunable Emissions and Stimuli-responsive Behaviour Based on an Amphiphilic Tripodal Gelator, Inorg. Chem., 56, 9417. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b01002. (Impact Factor: 5.436).
- Sutar, P., Maji, T. K.* (2016): Bimodal Self-assembly of an Amphiphilic Gelator into a Hydrogel-Nanocatalyst and an Organogel with Different Morphologies and Photophysical Properties, Chem. Commun., 52, 13136. DOI: 10.1039/C6CC06971A. (Impact Factor: 6.065).
- Sutar, P., Maji, T. K.* (2016): Coordination Polymer Gels: Soft Metal–Organic Supramolecular Materials and Versatile Applications, Chem. Commun., 52, 8055. (Review article). DOI: 10.1039/C6CC01955B. (Impact Factor: 6.065)
- Sutar, P., Suresh, V. M., Maji, T.K.* (2015): Tunable Emission in Lanthanide Coordination Polymer Gels Based on a Rationally Designed Blue Emissive Gelator, Chem. Commun., 51, 9876. DOI: 10.1039/C5CC02709H. (Impact Factor: 6.065)
NATIONAL JOURNALS
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
- P (2023): Role of Coordination Geometry on Tuning Metal-Metal Interactions in Supramolecular Polymer in Aqueous Medium, 1st Scientific Meeting on Self-Assembled Materials, 29-30th March, 2023 University of the Balearic Islands in Palma de Mallorca (Spain).
- P., Maji. T. K.* (2019): Binder Driven Self-assembly of Metal-Organic Cubes towards Functional Hydrogels. Northern Postdoctoral Research Meeting 5 (NPRM5), July, 2019, Lancaster University, United Kingdom.
- P., Maji. T. K.* (2017): Binder-Modulated Morphology Transformation and Photo-responsive White-light-emission in Metal-Organic Cage Derived Hydrogels. 24th Congress & General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography 2017 (IUCR-2017), August, 2017, Hyderabad, India.
- P., Maji. T. K.* (2017): Binder-Modulated Morphology Transformation and Photo-responsive White-lightemission in Metal-Organic Cage Derived Hydrogels. International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC) in conjunction with ISACS: Challenges in Organic Materials & Supramolecular Chemistry, July, 2017, Cambridge, UK.
- P., Maji. T. K.* (2015): Tunable Emission in Lanthanide Coordination Polymer Gels Based on a Rationally Designed Anthracene-terpyridyl Gelator. Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Self-assembly and Supramolecular Chemistry, May, 2015, Barga, Italy.
- P., Maji. T. K.* (2014): Supramolecular Gelation of 9,10-Diphenyl Anthracene Derivatives: Tunable Emission and White Light Emission via Metal Coordination. International Conference on Structural Chemistry of Molecules and Materials, December, 2014, Kolkata, India.
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