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Sapana Jadoun

Research areas: Materials Science · Polymers and Plastics · Conducting polymers and applications · Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques · Environmental remediation with nanomaterials

ORCID iD 0000-0002-3572-7934
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Dr. Sapana Jadoun is a Professor (Assistant) at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Chile. She was a FONDECYT Postdoctoral researcher (2021-2024) funded by Agencia National de Investigacion y Desarrollo (ANID), Chile. She won the FONDECYT postdoctoral project entitled “Nanohybrid Materials for Novel Solar Photocatalytic Reduction of Copper: Fundamentals toward a Solar Harvesting of Copper” at the Department of Analytical and Inorganic Chemistry, University of Concepción with Prof. Jorge Yáñez. Before that, she won postdoctoral funding from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 2019. Also, she crossed the threshold score of the Marie Curie Postodtcoral fellowship in 2022. She completed her Ph.D. in 2019 on the topic “Synthesis, Characterization, and Fluorescence Studies of Amine-Based Conducting Polymers and Copolymers” with Dr. Ufana Riaz in Materials Chemistry from the Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. She earned her master’s in Organic Chemistry from St. Willfred’s PG College, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India, and her bachelor’s degree from the Govt. College, University of Kota, India. She has also worked as a Junior Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow from Dec 2014 to July 2018 in a DST-SERB sponsored project entitled “Enhancement of Fluorescent Properties of Conjugated Polymers using Luminol and its Derivatives for their Application in Near-Infrared Region”. She has qualified for CSIR (Council for Scientific & Industrial Research) NET (National Eligibility Test) in Chemical Sciences with All India Rank 19th (Dec 2011) and All India Rank 36th (June 2011). She was also selected for various awards in her research journey, such as being listed in the Top 2% of Scientists in the world in the prestigious list released by Stanford University, USA, in 2023, 2024 being selected as a Brand Ambassador for India in 2020 from Bentham Science Publishers, United Arab Emirates, member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC) and so on. She was associated with Lingaya’s Vidyapeeth, Faridabad, India, as an Assistant Professor at the School of Basic & Applied Sciences. She also held the position of “Coordinator-Research & Publications” after her thesis submission. Before her Ph.D., She was associated with Jaipur National University, Rajasthan, India, as an Assistant Professor in the Chemistry and Environment Engineering Department. She has more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, including original articles, reviews, books, book chapters, and patents, with 2900 citations, an H-index of 29, and an i10 index of 51 (Google Scholar). During her research journey, she has worked on UV, ATR FTIR, TEM, SEM, XRD, TGA, DRS, AFSS, EPR, NMR, CV, ICP-OES, Fluorescence, and so on. Her expertise includes conducting polymers and their functionalization for their application in photocatalysis (Advanced oxidation and reduction process for metal recovery) and other environmental remediations.

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Projects & Funding

  • Synthesis and Characterization of Nanohybrid Materials for Novel solar Photocatalytic Reduction of Copper: Fundamentals toward to a Solar Harvesting of Copper Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo
    2021 - 2024
  • Enhancement of Fluorescent Properties of Conjugated Polymers using Luminol and its Derivatives for their Application in Near Infrared Region Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology
    2016 - 2017
  • Enhancement of Fluorescent Properties of Conjugated Polymers using Luminol and its Derivatives for their Application in Near Infrared Region Department of Science and Technology- Science & Engineering Research Board
    2014 - 2016

Publications (166)