Dr. Rajan Kumar

About

Dr. Kumar is an experienced faculty fellow with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry, skilled in Polymer Chemistry, Click Chemistry, and Supramolecular Chemistry. Dr. Kumar is a strong Education and Research professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) focused on "3D crosslinked Polymer synthesis", from the Indian Institute of Science Education & Research Kolkata (IISER Kolkata, 2015-21). Dr. Kumar has qualified both NET and SLET. Dr. Kumar worked as Research Assistant at Gauhati University (2014) and IACS Kolkata (2015). Dr. Kumar worked as Research Associate at IISER Kolkata (2020-21). Dr. Kumar served as Assistant Professor at the Assam Royal Global University (2021-2023). Presently he is working as a faculty fellow at IIT Guwahati (2023). Dr. Kumar's core research focuses on polymer synthesis and material applications such as water purifiers, chemosensors, photoluminescent materials, magnetic materials, and shock resistors.

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati DST Faculty Fellow
  2023 - Present
• The Assam Royal Global University Assistant Professor
  2021 - 2023
• IISER Kolkata Research Associate
  2020 - 2021

Education

Education history is unavailable.

Projects & Funding

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Publications (21)

• DFT study on interaction of some pharmaceutical residues with 4-nitrotoluene: a model system for nitro-functionalized material
  Structural Chemistry 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s11224-025-02693-2
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• Carbazole-imidazole synergy for discriminative BSA sensing and a self-assembled organogel
  Journal of Materials Chemistry B 2026 DOI: 10.1039/D5TB02095F
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• Polarization Tunability in Mercury Coordinated Crosslinked Material: An Optical Sensing Model
  ChemistrySelect 2026 DOI: 10.1002/slct.202506574
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• Urea‐Functionalized Degradable Material as an Efficient Adsorbent for Amphiphilic Dyes: Rhodamine B and Methylene Blue
  ChemistrySelect 2025 DOI: 10.1002/slct.202404420
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• 4‐Vinylpyridine derived physically crosslinked hydrogel as efficient mercury indicator
  Polymer Engineering & Science 2023 DOI: 10.1002/pen.26512
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• Functional Polymer Material with Efficient Optical Tunability
  ChemistrySelect 2023 DOI: 10.1002/slct.202302213
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• Optically tunable engineered macromolecular fluorescent material analyzed using optical parameters
  Polymers for Advanced Technologies 2023 DOI: 10.1002/pat.5971
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• Efficient removal of rhodamine B and methylene blue from water using polyurethane based porous material
  Polymer Engineering & Science 2022 DOI: 10.1002/pen.26168
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• Engineering a unique Multi-tasking polymer that specifically prevents rhodamine B and fluoride ion toxicity with Anti-bacterial responses against MRSA
  European Polymer Journal 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2022.111401
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• Engineering Spherically Super-Structured Polyamides for the Sustainable Water Remediation
  ACS Materials Au 2022 DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialsau.1c00042
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