• Gender: Male
• Age: 39
• Designation: Executive
• Highest Education Level: Doctrate
• Notice Period: 30  Days
• Work Experience: 13.4 Year(s)

Education

Ph.D, Polymer Science From Indian Institute of Technology in 2011

M.Sc Chemistry From Vidyasagar University,Midnapore, West Bengal in 2010 

B.Sc Chemistry in 2008

Fulbright English for Graduate Studies From Drexel University, Philadelphia in 2015

Skill Sets

I have the expertise in polymer synthesis by free radical and controlled radical polymerization in solution and emulsion. I have hands on experience with the instruments like NMR, GPC, FT-IR, UV-VIS, GC, DLS, Goniometer, DSC, TGA, AFM etc. I can also characterize the polymers by SEM, TEM, XRD, MALDI-TOF etc.

Work Experience

Fulbright Visiting Scholar - Department of Chemistry
Sep 2015 to Feb 2016
Company Profile: Leading University
Job Profile:
Project title- Preparation of self-cross linking polyfluoroacry lates in surfactant-free emulsion.

Senior Research Fellow: From 2013 to 2015
Junior Research Fellow: From 2011 to 2012
Company Name: Rubber Technology Centre, Indian Institute of Technology
Job Profile: 
Project title- Preparation of fluorinated copolymers via RAFT mediated Pickering mini emulsion polymerization.
Project title- Preparation of polyfluoroacrylates and their nano-composites by RAFT mini emulsion polymerization.

Honors and Awards
Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship
United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF), New Delhi, India - 2015-2016 and U.S. Department of State

Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) 2013-2015
CSIR, New Delhi, India

Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) 2011-2012
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India

Conference Participation
National Symposium on Frontiers in Chemical Sciences (Mar 31, 2010) organized by Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal, India.

UGC sponsored International symposium on Recent Trends of Research in Chemistry (Nov 1-2, 2011) organized by Dept. of Chemistry, Midnapore College, West Bengal, India.

International Conference on Advances in Polymeric Materials & Nanotechnology (PolyTech-2012) (Dec 15-17, 2012) organized by Bharati Vidyapeeth University & National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India.

International Conference on Rubber and Rubber-like Materials’ (ICRRM-2013) (Mar 6-9, 2013) organized by Rubber Technology Centre, IIT Kharagpur, India.

International Symposium on Polymer Science and Technology (MACRO-2015) (Jan 23-26, 2015) organized by IACS Kolkata, India.

Publications in Journals
N. K. Singha. Tailor-made polyfluoroacrylate and its block co polymer by RAFT polymerization in mini emulsion; improved hydrophobicity in the core–shell block co-polymer
J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2013, 408, 66-74.

N. K. Singha. Tunable Morphology and Hydrophobicity of Polyfluoroacrylate/Clay Nanocomposite Prepared by in situ RAFT Polymerization in Mini emulsion Macromol Chem. Phys. 2015, 216, 665-661.

L. Zhang, K. A. Cavicchi, R. A. Weiss, N. K Singha. Tailor-made Fluorinated Co-polymer/Clay Nano composite by Cationic RAFT Assisted Pickering Mini emulsion Polymerization Langmuir 2015, 31, 12472-12480.

K. Naskar, N. K Singha Nano clay Stabilized Pickering Mini emulsion of Fluorinated Co-polymer with Improved Hydrophobicity via RAFT Polymerization (Accepted in RSC Advances 2016)

N. K. Singha Preparation of Superhydrophobic Polymer Surface by the Combination of RAFT Process and Polymerization-induced Self-assembly (Under Preparation)

J. W. Mays, N. K. Singha Surfactant-free Synthesis of Self-crosslinking Polyfluoroacrylate emulsion using Cationic Macro-RAFT agent (Under Preparation)

T. Mariappan, D. Yi, N. K. Singha, C. A. Wilkie. Thermal stability and fire retardancy of polyurea and epoxy nano composites using organically modified magadiite J. Fire Sci. 2014, 32, 346-361.

B. P. Koiry, N. K Singha. Fluorinated amphiphilic block copolymers via RAFT polymerization and their application as surf-RAFT agent in miniemulsion polymerization RSC Adv. 2015, 5, 15461-15468.

Patent Application
Stable hybrid polymer adapted for superhydropho- bicity and process for manufacture thereof by Arindam Chakrabarty, Nikhil K Singha (Application No. 758/KOL/2015).

Research Synopsis
Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) technique is very robust and versatile method in polymer synthesis. My research work involves the use of RAFT process to polymerize fluorinated acrylates/methacrylates in both conventional and surfactant-free emulsion system. I am focused on the preparation of fluorinated homo polymers, block co-polymers and nano-composites to show hydrophobicity and super hydrophobicity required for paint and coating application.

Future Goals

Growth