Rohit Kumar Rana
Principal Scientist
Chemical Technology
CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology
India
Biography
Dr. Rohit Kumar Rana received his doctorate in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1999. Before joining Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad in 2005, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Chemistry Department of Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan (Israel) and the Department of Chemical Engineering, Rice University, Houston (USA). His main research interest concerns bio-inspired materials science, carbon nanotube synthesis, sonochemical methods to prepare nanoscale materials and heterogeneous catalysis.
Research Interest
• Mimicking Biomineralization routes to synthesize functional materials. • Nanoparticle-assembly to form nano-structured materials. • Synthesis of materials with hierarchical structures, mesostructures, vesicles etc. • Sonochemical synthesis of nanomaterials. • Heterogeneous catalysis • Light induced properties: Photocatalysis, sensor and dye sensitized solar cell • Nanomaterials in Biology: Encapsulation and release of drugs, dyes and enzymes
Publications
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Rakesh Chilivery and Rohit Kumar Rana* Microcapsule Structure with Tunable Textured Surface via Assembly of Polyoxomolybdate Clusters: A Bio-inspired Strategy and Enhanced Activities in Alkene Oxidation ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2017, 9 (3), 3161–3167.
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G. Begum, T. Naveen Reddy, K. P. Kumar, K. Dhevendar, S. Singh, M. Amarnath, S. Misra, V. K. Rangari, and R. K. Rana* An in situ Strategy to Encapsulate Antibiotics in a Bio-inspired CaCO3 Structure Enabling pH-Sensitive Drug Release Apt for Therapeutic and Imaging Applications ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2016, 8 (34), 22056–22063.
