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DEEPA SACHAN

University College Cork, Indian Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, University of Seoul

Research areas: Environmental Science · Water Science and Technology · Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal · Environmental remediation with nanomaterials · Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications

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I am Deepa Sachan, a research scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India in the field of biomass to biomaterials for water remediation under the supervision of Prof. Gopal Das and Prof. Aiyagari Ramesh. I am writing to explore the possibility of a Postdoctoral position on Biomass derived materials for water remediation, sensing of pollutants and surface modification of biomass derived materials for biomedical application at your laboratory.

I did my B. Tech and M. Tech in Biotechnology specialization from Vellore Institute of Technology and Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad. B. Tech research projects were carried out in Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore India, and M. Tech research projects were carried out in Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Praygraj India. Thereafter, I joined an industry called BIOZEEN (Bangalore Biotech Labs Pvt. Ltd), Bangalore India, where I was undergoing training on “Biopharmaceutical Production and Bioprocess Engineering” under the BCIL-BIPT Scheme (Biotech Consortium India Limited- Biotech Industrial Training Program) under the ageis of Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. After that, I joined in Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, as a Project Engineer and Senior Research Fellow at Center for Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, under the guidance of Dr. Nisith Verma and Dr. K. C. Gupta, then I applied for Ph.D. in IIT Guwahati. My long-term goal is to do multidisciplinary research in the field of nanotechnology i.e., bio nanomaterial production and its application in environmental pollution control and biomedical application.

My Ph.D. research aimed to provide performance efficient nanoparticles based on biomass and agricultural waste as Potential Adsorbents for Water Remediation. Notably, my research has some substantial and promising results in the domain of sustainable environmental chemistry and engineering, where environmentally toxic organic compounds, heavy metals ions, dyes, and drugs are captured by various types of biomass derived materials, such as silica nanoparticles, Salvina minima biomass, hydrochar, and MnO2 modified biochar. Various analytical methods are used to confirm the adsorption of the target analytes on the synthesized adsorbent material. In general, my findings will be helpful in understanding the relatively its potential application in environmental remediation. Each of the synthesized adsorbents unveiled interesting characteristic properties which were exploited in the remediation of toxic environmental pollutants from the aqueous medium.

Besides the above work, I also learned the synthesis of nanoparticles via CVD process (chemical vapor deposition), phenolic beads preperation, biomineralization process, hydrothermal synthesis of carbon dots, metal-organic framework, surface modification of nanoparticles via chemistry-based reactions, biochar production, and little bit knowledge of algal production, hydrothermal synthesis of hydrochar and carbon dots, photocatalytic reaction for the degradation of dyes and other pollutants.

I have strong command on
• Synthesis of nanomaterials from waste biomass and biopolymers.
• Biomass conversion to bio nanomaterials and characterization.
• Handling and production of algal biomass as well as reactors.
• Adsorption and catalytic treatment of environmental pollutants.
• Hydrothermal synthesis of carbon dots and characterization.
• Efficient in operating Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM) and elemental analysis via (Energy Dispersive Scattering EDS).

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