INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH BHOPAL

 

Name: Dr. Amit Paul
Designation: Assistant Professor
Department: Chemistry
E-Mail: apaul@iiserb.ac.in
Phone: +91-755-4092336
Fax: +91-755-4092392

Academic Profile:

  • Assistant Professor (October 2011-),Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India.

  • Post-doc. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA (Nov 2009-Oct 2011) Hydrocarbon and water oxidation by ruthenium based catalyst under the supervision of Prof. Thomas J. Meyer.

  • Post-doc. University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Nov 2008-Sep 2009). Electrochemical Supercapacitor under the supervision of Prof. Prashant N. Kumta.

  • Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Aug 2003-Oct 2008) Charge Transfer through Peptide Nucleic Acid (PNA) and Chiral Organic Molecules under the supervision of Prof. David H. Waldeck (In Collaboration with Prof. David N. Beratan (Duke University), Prof. Catalina Achim (Carnegie Mellon University), Prof. Ron Naaman (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) and Prof. Eric Borguet (Temple University))

Research Interest:

  • Charge Transfer/Electron Transfer

  • Electrochemical Supercapacitor.

  • Electrocatalysis.

Selected Publications:

  1. Paul, A.; Watson, R. M.; Lund, P.; Xing, Y.; Burke, K.; He, Y.; Borguet, E.; Achim, C.; Waldeck, D. H. Charge Transfer through Single-Stranded Peptide Nucleic Acid Composed of Thymine Nucleotides. J. Phys. Chem. C 2008, 112, 7233-7240.  

  2. Paul, A.; Bezer, S.; Venkatramani, R.; Kocsis, L.; Wierzbinski, E.; Balaeff, A.; Keinan, S.; Beratan, D. N.; Achim, C.; Waldeck, D. H. Role of Nucleobase Energetics and Nucleobase Interactions in Single Stranded Peptide Nucleic Acid Charge Transfer. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 6498-6507.

  3. Paul, A.; Watson, R. M.; Wierzbinski, E.; Davis, K. L.; Sha, A.; Achim, C.; Waldeck, D. H. Distance Dependence of the Charge Transfer Rate for Peptide Nucleic Acid Monolayers. J. Phys. Chem. B 2010, 114,14140-14148.

  4. Venkatramani, R.; Davis, K. L.; Wierzbinski, E.; Bezer, S.; Balaeff, A.; Keinan, S.;   Paul, A.; Kocsis, L.; Beratan, D. N.; Achim, C.; Waldeck, D. H. Evidence for a Near-Resonant Charge Transfer Mechanism for Double-Stranded Peptide Nucleic Acid.  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 62-72.

  5. Chen. Z.; Concepcion, J. J.; Luo, H.; Hull, J. F.; Paul, A.; Meyer, T. J. Nonaqueous Catalytic Water Oxidation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010,132, 17670-17673.  

  6. Paul, A.; Hull, J. F.; Norris, M. R.; Chen, Z.; Ess, D. H.; Concepcion, J. J.; Meyer, T. J. Multiple Pathways for Benzyl Alcohol Oxidation by RuV=O3+ and RuIV=O2+. Inorg. Chem. 2011, 50, 1167-1169.

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