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Education : Ph.D (Polymer Chemistry)

ID. No.: 1080

Contact Details: Extn: 2343 Fax: +91-0376-2370011

Email id : saikiapj@neist.res.in

Research Interest

Projects

As a Member in the International Collaborative project “New Advances in the integrated Management of food processing waste in India and Europe: Use of Sustainable Technologies for the exploitation of byproducts into new foods and feeds.” DBT funded Europe-India collaborative project, (Completed).
As a Principal Investigator in the National project “Molecules to Materials to Devices”. (Completed).
As a Member in the National project “CSIR Advanced Analytical Facility for North East”. (Completed).
As a Co-Investigator in the DBT funded project “DNA Fingerprinting of Lignocellulose degrading microbes isolated from protected forest areas of Assam and Mizoram”, (Completed).
As a Co-Investigator in the Central Pollution Control Board, New Delhi funded project “Assessment of Air, Water and Soil quality in Baghjan oil blowout site and its vicinity, Tinsukia, Assam” (Completed).
As a Co-Investigator in the Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers, Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals, New Delhi funded project “Polymers, their Composites and Polymeric Membranes for Sustainable Development of Petroleum Industries” (Ongoing).
As a Co-Investigator in the DBT funded project “Promoting Integrated Bee Keeping for economic upliftment of the ST (Rural) population of Arunachal Pradesh”
(Ongoing).

List of Publications (Most Recent Ten)

Poly(octadecyl methacrylate) via RAFT Technique and Its Rheological Study for Waxy Crude. PP Dutta, B Mohan, PJ Saikia, Industrial &Engineering Chemical Research, 63 (25), 10879-10891 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.4c00509
Functionalized polyethylene on property enhancement of lubricating oil and their performance evaluation study. U Baruah, M Saikia, IJ Bora, B Mohan, PP Dutta, PJ Saikia and S D Baruah, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 10 (4), e53360, 2022 DOI: 10.1002/app.53360
Controlled Copolymerization of 1-Octene and Butyl Methacrylate via RAFT and Their Nonisothermal Model-Free Thermokinetic Decomposition Study. M Saikia, U Baruah, S Borphukan, PJ Saikia, BK Saikia and SD Baruah, J. Polym. Sci. Part A Polym Chem, 57, 2093-2103, 2019 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/pola.29476
Mechanism of the Formation and Growth of the Cross-Linked Poly(divinylbenzene) Spheres Using Poly(styrene-block-4-vinylpyridine). J Min Lee, PJ Saikia, K Lee, S Choe. Macromolecules, 41, 2037-2044, 2008 DOI: 10.1021/ma071719v
Reverse Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization of Stearyl Methacrylate Using 2,2'-Azobisisobutyronitrile as the Initiator. PJ Saikia, A Goswami, and SD Baruah. J. Appl. Polym. Sci., 86 (2), 386-394, 2002. DOI: DOI: 10.1002/app.10687

Awards and Fellowships

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Inha University, South Korea, (2005 – 2007)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Universite du Maine, France, (2004 – 2005)
IUPAC Best Poster award. 4th IUPAC sponsored International Symposium on Radical Polymerization: Kinetics and Mechanism, SML ’06, Il, Italy, 2006
Senior Research Fellowship, CSIR, 2003, Govt. of India, New Delhi.

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Last updated date : 8/04/2026