FACULTY
Biography
Dr. Santosh Kumar Meena joined as assistant professor at chemical engineering department IIT Ropar in Dec 2022. Before joining IIT Ropar, he worked as a Scientist at National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune from July 2019-Dec 2022. Before NCL, He worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Material Science and Engineering Department, University of Sheffield, England, Chemistry Laboratory, ENS Lyon, France, and Chemistry and Biochemistry Department, University of California, San Diego, USA. In April 2016, he received his Ph.D. degree under Prof. Marialore Sulpizi at the Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenburg University of Mainz, Germany. He earned his Dual Degree (B. Tech and M. Tech) in 2010 from Chemical Engineering Department, IIT Bombay, where he worked with Prof. Rajdip Bandyopadhyaya for his dual degree project. His research interests include but are not limited to Nanotechnology, Nanomaterials, molecular simulations of interfaces of nanoparticles, their self-assembly, metal-organic frameworks and bio-minerals.
Education
- Ph.D. (Johannes Gutenburg University of Mainz, Germany)
- B.Tech+M.Tech. (Dual Degree) (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)
Teaching
- Technology Museum Lab (GE 101) (UG- Course, Ongoing).
- Chemical reaction engineering (August-December semester, 2020-21).
- Multiscale Simulations in Materials (Feb-June semester, 2020-21).
Selected Publications
- Santosh Kumar Meena and Chandrakala Meena, “The implication of adsorption preferences of ions and surfactants on shape control of gold nanoparticles: a microscopic , atomistic perspective”, Nanoscale., 2021, 13, 19549-19560 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/D1NR05244F
- Santosh Kumar Meena, Frederic Lerouge, Patrice Baldeck, Marco Garavelli, Stephane Parola, Marialore Sulpizi and Ivan Rivalta, “On the Origin of Controlled Anisotro pic Growth of Monodisperse Gold Nanobipyramids”, Nanoscale., 2021, 13, 15292-15300 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/D1NR01768C
- Michael S Denny, Jr, Lucas R Parent, Joseph P Patterson, Santosh Kumar Meena, Huy Pham, Patricia Abellan, Quentin M Ramasse, Francesco Paesani, Nathan C Gianneschi , Seth M Cohen, “Transmission Electron Microscopy Reveals Deposition of Metal Oxide Coatings onto Metal-Organic Frameworks.” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 1348-135 7 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b10453
- Santosh Kumar Meena, Claire Goldmann, Douga Nassoko, Mahamadou Seydou, Thomas Marchandier, Simona Moldovan, Ovidiu Ersen, Francois Ribot,Corinne Chanéac, Clément S anchez, David Portehault, Frederik Tielens and Marialore Sulpizi, “Nanophase segregation of self-assembled monolayers on gold nanoparticles.” ACS Nano, 2017, 11, 7 371-7381 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.7b03616
- Philipp Schäfer, Anusha Lalitha, Paula Sebastian, Santosh Kumar Meena, Juan Feliu, Marialore Sulpizi, Monique A. van der Veenf, Katrin F. Domkea, “Trimesic acid on Cu in ethanol: Potential-dependent transition from 2-D adsorbate to 3-D metal-organic framework” J. Electroanal. Chem., 2017, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jel echem.2017.01.025
- Santosh Kumar Meena and Marialore Sulpizi, “From nanoseeds to rods: The microscopic origin of the anisotropic growth”Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 19, 55(39), 11960 -11964 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201604594
- Santosh Kumar Meena and Marialore Sulpizi, “From nanoseeds to rods: The microscopic origin of the anisotropic growth”Angewandte Chemie., 2016, 128 (39), 55(39), 12 139 -12143 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.201604594
- Santosh Kumar Meena, Andreas Henkel, Carsten Soennichsen, Marialore Sulpizi, “Role of halide ions in the anisotropic growth of gold nanoparticles: A microscopic, a tomistic perspective” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 13246-13254 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CP01076H
- Santosh Kumar Meena and Marialore Sulpizi, “Understanding the microscopic origin of gold nanoparticle anisotropic growth from molecular dynamics simulations” Langm uir, 2013, 29 (48), 14954-14961 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/la403843n
- Chettiannan Ravikumar, Santosh Kumar, Rajdip Bandyopadhyaya, "Aggregation of dextran coated magnetic nanoparticles in aqueous medium: Experiments and Monte Carlo s imulation" Colloids Surf. A., 2012, 403, 1-6 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2012.02.007
- Santosh Kumar, Chettiannan Ravikumar, Rajdip Bandyopadhyaya, "State of dispersion of magnetic nanoparticles in an aqueous medium: Experiments and Monte Carlo simul ation" Langmuir, 2010, 26 (23), 18320–18330 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/la1017196
Projects
- Rational Self-assembly of Nanoparticles on Molecularly Tailored Substrate: Theory and Experiments (DST-SEB funded)
- Design and development of nanorods for various applications (CSIR funded)
- CSIR Mission-Mode Project on “BULK CHEMICALS” (CSIR funded)
- Crystallization of inorganic materials (collaborated with Prof. John H. Harding and Dr. Colin L Freeman, University of Sheffield)
- Anisotropic growth of gold nanobipyramids (collaborated with Prof. Ivan Rivalta, Department of Industrial Chemistry, University Bologna, Italy,Dr. Frederic Lerouge an Prof. Stephane Parola, ENS Lyon, France)