Anuttam Patra
Luleå University of Technology
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, 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-
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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)
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Studies of environmentally friendly flame retardants(in association with Associate Prof. Anna-Carin Larsson, Associate Senior Lecturer Alexandra Byström and Prof. Michael Försth )
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Study of agrregation behavior of mixed surfactants (in association with Prof. Amiya Kumar Panda and Mr. Manas Barai)
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Preparation of hybrid vesicles and gel materials as drug delivery system (in association with Prof. Amiya Kumar Panda and Prof. Santanu Bhattacharya)
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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).
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Synthesis and structural studies of Amyloid-beta-peptide coated gold-nanoparticle (in association with Prof. Oleg Antzutkin and Dr. Andrei Filippov).
Academic network
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuttam-patra-958b6526/]
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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Favorite Chemistry Links
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Research Group : Mineral Chemistry
Research centre / subject
[http://www.ltu.se/research/subjects/Gransytors-kemi?l=en]
