Anuttam Patra

Academic background

After obtaining my B.Sc. (Hons.) degree from the University of Calcutta, INDIA in 2000, I joined to the Integrated PhD Programme at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, INDIA. Later at the same Institute, at the Chemical Biology Group, Department of Organic Chemistry, I studied as a Research Student with a project entitled ‘Synthesis, purification and characterization of novel poly-cationic surfactants. Study of their aggregation behavior in aqueous solution’, guided by Prof. Santanu Bhattacharya and Prof. Jayanta Haldar. In 2004, I commenced my PhD project at the Ian Wark Research Institute, University of South Australia, AUSTRALIA with Laureate Prof. John Ralston, Dr. Rossen Sedev and Dr. Jingfang Zhou. The title of my PhD thesis was ‘Design of Pyrimidine-based Photoresponsive Surfaces and Light Induced Wettability Control’. In 2008, after my PhD, I moved to Luleå University of Technology, SWEDEN to work as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. At present my main research interest is-

• Synthesis and study of novel mineral-specific collectors for improved flotation recovery:  (in association with Associate Prof. Anna-Carin Larsson, Prof. Christina Wanhainen  and Prof. Hanumantha Rao Kota)

• Studies of environmentally friendly flame retardants(in association with Associate Prof. Anna-Carin Larsson,  Associate Senior Lecturer Alexandra Byström and Prof. Michael Försth )

• Study of agrregation behavior of mixed surfactants (in association with Prof. Amiya Kumar Panda and Mr. Manas Barai)

• Preparation of hybrid vesicles and gel materials as drug delivery system (in association with Prof. Amiya Kumar Panda and Prof. Santanu Bhattacharya)

• Molecular Recognition Process at the Organic/Inorganic Interface; Aggregation Behavior of Multiheaded Anionic Surfactants – Using  Neutron Scattering Experiments (in association with Prof. Adrian Rennie and Dr. Maja Hellsing)

Here I was also involved with other projects, including-

• Synthesis, Characterization and Crystal Structure Analysis of Blood-Cholesterol Reducing Compound Eritadenine and Its Homologues (in association with Senior Lecturer Josefine Enman).

• Synthesis and structural studies of Amyloid-beta-peptide coated gold-nanoparticle (in association with Prof. Oleg Antzutkin and Dr. Andrei Filippov).

Academic network

Fields of competence

Organic and Bioorganic Synthesis

Surface Chemistry
          Mineral-Specific flotation
          Wetting behavior of solid surfaces
          2D and 3D self- assembled monolayers
          XPS, ToF-SIMS and RA-FTIR

Bioactive molecules
          Surfactants and Lipids
          Peptides
          Derivatives of DNA bases

Molecular Spectroscopy
          FT-NMR, FT-IR, UV-Vis and Mass spectroscopy

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• Classic Chemistry Papers
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• Advanced Chemistry Development (ACD) Labs

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Research Group : Mineral Chemistry

• Anna-Carin Larsson (Associate Professor)
• Anuttam Patra (Senior Researcher)
• Nima Esmaeili
• Suchandra Sar

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