Nanohybrid Materials for Water Purification

Prof. Sarat Kumar Swain is currently working as a Professor of Chemistry at Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), Burla, Sambalpur, India since 2011. Prof. Swain was working as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA after receiving his Doctoral degree from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India.  He was also working as a visiting researcher at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata and Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced and Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore. Added to his credits, Prof. Swain was the former Dean (Academic Affairs), Dean (PG studies & Research) and Head of the Department of Chemistry of the VSSUT. He has more than twenty five years of experience in teaching and research in Organic Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanotechnology and Polymer Chemistry at UG, PG and PhD levels. His area of research interest includes hybrid nanomaterials, reinforced polymer nanocomposites, advance materials like graphene, nanoclay, CNT, CNF, CQD for improving of gas barrier, fire retardant, thermal, mechanical and chemical resistance properties of the composites. He has designed various kinds of nano structured materials for waste water treatment, packaging, anti-corrosion performance, superconductor properties, sensing behaviors and biomedical applications. There are sixteen scholars are successfully awarded PhD degree along with more than fifty master thesis are completed with supervision of Prof. Swain. He has published more than 100 research papers in different SCI indexed international journals of repute. So far he has authored/edited 04 books, 35 book chapters, along with inventions of two patents (One USA and One Indian). Prof. Swain has received BOYSCAST Fellowship, DAE-Young Scientist Research Award and Samanta Chandra Sekhar Award for various academic achievements.