Anuttam Patra

PhD Student position
Luleå University of Technology

Research Area: Chemistry of Interfaces

Division: Chemical Engineering

Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering

anuttam.patra@ltu.se
+46 (0)920 491934
C147 Luleå

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

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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 Dr. 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, I moved to Luleå University of Technology, SWEDEN to work as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. At present my main research interest is-

Synthesis of novel mineral-specific surfactants for improved flotation recovery: Optimization of flotation recovery of different minerals at varying surfactant concentration and pH (in association with Prof. Oleg Antzutkin, Associate Prof. Anna-Carin Larsson, Prof. Hanumantha Rao Kota and Mr. Tommy Karlkvist).
Search of Novel Surrogates for the Liposomes with Special Reference to Monolayer and Membrane Mimetic Bilayer Systems (in association with Prof. Amiya Kumar Panda and Prof. Satya Priya Moulik)
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 am 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

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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