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Dr Ashutosh Thakur

Dr Ashutosh Thakur

Designation : Scientist D

Education : M.Tech (University of Delhi), M.S. (JAIST, Japan), Ph.D (JAIST, Japan)

ID. No.: 1304

Contact Details: ashutoshthakur@neist.res.in

Email id : ashutosh.thakur.neist@csir.res.in

Areas of Interest

1. Materials Development for Energy and Environmental Applications,

2. Nanostructured Carbonaceous Materials and their Applications,

3. Single Atom Catalyst Design, 4. Optical Materials

Projects(Ongoing & Completed)

  • Design and Exploration of Early Transition Metals Decorated Carbonaceous Single Atom Electrocatalysts for Overall Water Splitting. Role: PI, Sponsoring Agency: CSIR, Duration: 24 months, Status: Ongoing
  • Development of Heteroatom Doped Carbon Nanostructured Single Atom Catalysts and Their Applications as Sensors and Electrocatalysts. Role: PI, Sponsoring Agency: SERB, Duration: 28 months, Status: Completed.
  • Pilot Scale Production of Graphene from North East Indian Coal Feed Stock and Scale-Up of High Carbon Content Natural Graphite from Low-Grade Natural Graphite Sources in Arunachal Pradesh. Role: Member, Sponsoring Agency: CSIR, Duration: 24 months, Status: Ongoing.

List of Publications

  • Sarmistha Bora, Poulami Mukherjee, Kalaivani Seenivasan, Koichi Higashimine, Toru Wada, Toshiaki Taniike, Binoy K Saikia, Ashutosh Thakur*. Biomolecules-Derived Nitrogen-Doped Turbostratic Graphene Nanoscaffold Decorated with Cobalt Single Atoms for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Energy Fuels 2025, 39, 3226−3242. DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.4c05389. (Impact factor: 5.3)
  • Diksha J. Baruah, Ashutosh Thakur*, Hiranmoy Barman, Prasenjit Manna, Manash R. Das* Ultra Fine Palladium Nanoparticle-Encapsulated Graphene Oxide Framework: A Bifunctional Photonanozyme for Colorimetric Detection of Dopamine. ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2025, 8, 828 843. DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.4c06184. (Impact factor: 5.5)
  • Diksha J. Baruah, Ashutosh Thakur*, Esha Roy, Kallol Roy, Sumanjita Basak, Dipankar Neog, Himangsu K. Bora, Rituraj Konwar, Vikash Chaturvedi, Manjusha V. Shelke, Manash R. Das*. Atomically Dispersed Manganese on Graphene Nanosheets as Biocompatible Nanozyme for Glutathione Detection in Liver Tissue Lysate Using Microfluidic Paper-based Analytical Devices. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2023, 15, 41, 47902 47920. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c08762. (Impact factor: 8.2)
  • Anusuya Boruah, Sarmistha Bora, Ashutosh Thakur*, Hemant Sankar Dutta, and Binoy K. Saikia*. Solid-State Phosphors from Coal-Derived Carbon Quantum Dots. ACS Omega 2023, 8, 25410−25423. DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c02884. (Impact factor: 4.3)
  • Ashutosh Thakur, Ryuki Baba, Toru Wada, Patchanee Chammingkwan, Toshiaki Taniike*. Cooperative Catalysis by Multiple Active Centers of a Half-Titanocene Catalyst Integrated in Polymer Random Coils. ACS Catal. 2019, 9, 4, 3648–3656. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b00214. (Impact factor: 13.1)

Patents/Technologies

  • Title of patent: A process for the preparation of high-grade graphene from subbituminous coal Inventors: Binoy K Saikia, Abhishek Hazarika, Debashis Sarmah, Prasenjit Saikia, Tonkeswar Das, Ashutosh Thakur, Ajit Singh. Indian Patent Application No. 202411032275

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