Creating Value with Chemistry
Creating Value with Chemistry
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Creating value with chemistry
Soumyajit was born and brought up in Kolkata, where at present he leads EFAML Materials Science Center of DCS at IISER Kolkata. Soumyajit believes in creating value with chemistry. In that pursuit of value creation, Solaire Initiative Pvt. Ltd., a research innovation Deep Tech Start Up, was founded by Soumyajit with his team of other enthusiastic scientists, engineers, meds, who have created a highly acclaimed Oxygen Maker device, OM REDOX, Your Oxygen Box, to address the Oxygen crisis during SARS-COV-19 pandemic. The product was launched by the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India and included in DBT-BIRAC's book inaugurated by the Hon'ble Science Minister in a book showcasing 75 innovations under 75 years of India. Soumyajit is an alumnus of IIT Delhi, University of Bielefeld (Germany), University of Utrecht (The Netherlands) and BASF-ISIS (JONAS at present) University of Strasbourg (France). An avid reader, Soumyajit, is on the look out to address the immediate next need of our society using Chemical Sciences. Soumyajit serves on the editorial board of several international journals, viz., Journal of Materials and Engineering Materials, Frontiers in Chemistry, Frontiers in Fuels, Chemistry Africa, Materials Open. He has authored till date more than 100 research papers in premier journals like Nature Communications, Angewandte Chemie, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Nanoletters, etc. He further holds several patents and has also authored more than 10 books including several in Bengali aimed at popularization of science in his mother tongue. Soumyajit is a member of several learned societies and academies, like, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), West Bengal Academy (FAScT), Indian Chemical Society (FICS), Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Westfaelia Lippe University Society, Germany. Soumyajit is married to a Neuroscientist. In his free time Soumyajit loves to paint, write and cook.
Carbon dioxide Conversion to fuels
Soumyajit's research group over the last ten years have been developing the frameworks of sustainable solutions to convert carbon dioxide into fuels like alcohol (Ethyl alcohol) and acids (formic acid) and aldehydes (formaldehyde) etc. In this pursuit they have been developing SOM (soft-oxometalate) based pre-catalysts and of late N containing systems that shows possibilities of scaling. Bio-inspired artificial photosynthesis to achieve sustainable solutions is one of their research objectives. This avenue of research has led to publications of several high impact articles in top venues like Nature Communications, Angewandte Chemie, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, etc. The group actively collaborates with top research groups of Austria, Germany and P. R. China and the USA. The group further welcomes post-docs and talented MS students to pursue PhD in this direction of research. A schematic of an algorithmic CO2RR is shown in the artwork.
Looking AHEAD to the Future
Our present research group is gearing up for an extended Time-gel based dynamical, modular and pre-catalytic framework development which would be a plug and play type artificial life like catalytic systems. Our future work will prominently feature the synthesis based on analysis of our ongoing works that aims at addressing and striking a balance between algorithmic design, chemical epistemology and valorization of waste to wealth using Chemical Sciences at the interface of Physics. Please do get in touch with us if you are an environment enthusiast who believes in application of sciences to improve human condition in general, in years to come. Do check out Soumyajit's books in Bengali and Solaire's activities to get to know us more. We believe the future finds herself in crucibles of chemistry!
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