Suman Thakur

Departamento de Nanomateriales Poliméricos y Biomateriales

Address: C/ Juan de la Cierva 3. 28006
Madrid, 28006
Spain

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Scopus ID: 9246032200


  • Short CV

I have received my Ph.D. from the Department of Chemical Sciences, Tezpur University, India in March 2016. During PhD, my work was focused on vegetable oil based hyperbranched polyurethane/graphene nanocomposites for smart applications such as shape memory, self-healing and self-cleaning, etc. After submitting my PhD thesis, I have joined as a postdoctoral fellow at Chonbuk National University, the Republic of Korea from October 2015-September 2016. During this period my work was supervised by Prof. Joong Hee Lee and was involved in sustainable production of hydrogen peroxide from water and oxygen by using graphene based hybrid catalyst. In November 2016, I have joined as a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Textile and Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. During this stage, I mainly worked on shape memory polyurethane moisture permeable membrane for advanced smart garments. In March 2018, I joined in University of Guelph, Canada. The research work was mainly involved in the development of biobased polymer from different waste materials for their value-added applications.

  • Research Interests

My research interests are in the area of biobased polymeric materials for advanced applications.

  1. Biobased shape memory materials,
  2. Self-healing materials,
  3. Smart coating materials.
  • Publications

- Summary: A total of 21 scientific publications in prestigious peer-reviewed international journals, including: J. Mater. Chem. (2), Carbon (2), J. Catal. (1), ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. (1), J. Phys. Chem. C (1), among others. H factor = 14

- Top 3 Publications:

  1. S. Thakur et al., Multi-stimuli responsive smart elastomeric hyperbranched polyurethane/reduced graphene oxidenanocomposites, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2 (36), 14867-14875
  2. S. Thakur, et al., Tuning of sunlight-induced self-cleaning and self-healing attributes of an elastomeric nanocomposite by judicious compositional variation of the TiO2-reduced graphene oxide nanohybrid, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2015, 3, 12334-12342,
  3. S. Thakur, et al., Sunlight-driven sustainable production of hydrogen peroxide using CdS-graphene hybrid photocatalyst, J. Catal. 2017, 345, 78-86.