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Department of Chemistry

Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur | School of Studies of Physical Science

Dr. Ashish Singh

  • Assistant Professor
  • ashishsinghiitk@gmail.com
  • 9670464472

Personal Information

  • Full Name: Dr. Ashish Singh
  • Mobile Number: 9670464472
  • EmailID: ashishsinghiitk@gmail.com
  • Designation: Assistant Professor
Qualification

  • 2016
    PhD

    Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India (Supervisor: Prof. Gurunath Ramanathan)

  • 2008
    MSc

    CSJM University Kanpur

  • 2006
    BSc

    CSJM University Kanpur

Experience

  • 2025 - Present
    Assistant Professor

    Department of Chemistry, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India – 495009

  • 2021 - 2025
    Senior Scientist

    R&D Centre, Merck - Sigma Aldrich Chemicals Pvt Ltd, Bangalore-560100, INDIA

  • 2021 - 2019
    Postdoc Fellow

    Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore (Supervisor: Prof. Tapas Kumar Maji)

  • 2017 - 2019
    National Postdoc Fellow

    Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore (Supervisor: Prof. Tapas Kumar Maji)

  • 2016 - 2017
    Project Scientist

    SAMTEL Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (Supervisor: Prof. S. Sundar Kumar Iyer))

Honours and Awards

National Post-Doc Fellowship, Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), New Delhi

Senior Research Fellowship, UGC New Delhi

Junior Research Fellowship (NET-JRF), UGC New Delhi

GATE, IIT Guwahati

Research Projects

Design and syntheses of novel covalent organic frameworks (COFs) with different chemical functionality; Applications in catalysis, gas storage, sensing and proton conduction

Completed Amount: ₹1920000.00

Funding Agency: SERB New Delhi

Duration : 01:03:2017 - 28:02:2019

Publications

Adsorptive Separation of C1-C2 Hydrocarbons in COFs by Microenvironment Modulation

Anupam Dey, Disha Brahma, Subhajit Laha, Vasudeva Rao Bakuru, Parambil V., Sneha Raj, Ashish Singh, Sundaram Balasubramanian, Tapas Kumar Maji

Publication Type: Journal Article (International)

Journal: Chem. Mater.

Volume: 37 (12)

Year: 2025

Pages: 4314–4324

DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c00099

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Impact Factor: 7.00

Atomically Dispersed Co2+ in a Redox-Active COF for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to Ethanol: Unravelling Mechanistic Insight through Operando Studies

Ashish Singh#, Soumitra Barman#, Faruk Ahamed Rahimi, Anupam Dey, Rohan Jena, Ravi Kumar, Nijita Mathew, Dibyendu Bhattacharyya and Tapas Kumar Maji

Publication Type: Journal Article (International)

Journal: Energy Environ. Sci.

Volume: 17

Year: 2024

Pages: 2315-2325

DOI: 10.1039/D3EE02946H

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Impact Factor: 32.40

GFP Chromophore Integrated Conjugated Microporous Polymers toward Bio-inspired Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction to CO

Faruk Ahamed Rahimi.# Ashish Singh,# Anupam Dey, Rohan Jena, and Tapas Kumar Maji

Publication Type: Journal Article (International)

Journal: ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces

Volume: 16 (33)

Year: 2024

Pages: 43171–43179

DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c09906

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Impact Factor: 8.30

Microwave-assisted Fast Synthesis of a Donor-Acceptor Covalent Organic Framework towards Photooxidative Amidation Catalysis

Anupam Dey, Samiran Chakraborty, Ashish Singh, Faruk Ahamed Rahimi, Sandip Biswas, Tamagna Mandal, and Tapas Kumar Maji

Publication Type: Journal Article (International)

Journal: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.

Volume: 63(28)

Year: 2024

Pages: e202403093

DOI: 10.1002/anie.202403093

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Impact Factor: 16.20

2D Zinc Oxide – Synthesis, Methodologies, Reaction Mechanism, and Applications

Sayali Ashok Patil, Pallavi Bhaktapralhad Jagdale, Ashish Singh, Ravindra Vikram Singh, Ziyauddin Khan, Akshaya Kumar Samal, Manav Saxena

Publication Type: Journal Article (International)

Journal: Small

Volume: 19 (14)

Year: 2023

Pages: 2206063 (1-32)

DOI: 10.1002/smll.202206063

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Impact Factor: 13.00

Charge-transfer regulated photocatalytic H2 production and CO2 reduction in tetrathiafulvalene based coordination polymer gel

Parul Verma, Ashish Singh, Faruk Ahamed Rahimi, Pallavi Sarkar, Sukhendu Nath, Swapan K Pati and Tapas Kumar Maji

Publication Type: Journal Article (International)

Journal: Nat. Commun.

Volume: 12

Year: 2021

Pages: 7313

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27457-4

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Impact Factor: 14.70

Metal-Free Catalysis: A Redox-Active Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Microporous Polymer for Selective Visible-Light-Driven CO2 Reduction to CH4

Soumitra Barman#, Ashish Singh#, Faruk Ahamed Rahimi and Tapas Kumar Maji

Publication Type: Journal Article (International)

Journal: J. Am. Chem. Soc.

Volume: 143 (39)

Year: 2021

Pages: 16284–16292

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c07916

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Impact Factor: 14.40

Colocalization of Light Harvesting and Catalytic Units in ‘Soft’ Coordination Polymer Hydrogel toward Visible-Light Driven Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production

Parul Verma, Ashish Singh, Faruk Ahamed Rahimi, Tapas Kumar Maji

Publication Type: Journal Article (International)

Journal: J. Mater. Chem. A

Volume: 9

Year: 2021

Pages: 13608-13614

DOI: 10.1039/D1TA02425F

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Impact Factor: 10.70

Stabilization of Ultra-Small Gold Nanoparticles in a Photochromic Organic Cage: Modulating Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction by Tuning Light Irradiation

Ashish Singh, Parul Verma, Debabrata Samanta, Anupam Dey, Jyotirmoy Dey, Tapas Kumar Maji

Publication Type: Journal Article (International)

Journal: J. Mater. Chem. A

Volume: 9

Year: 2021

Pages: 5780-5786

DOI: 10.1039/D0TA12195A

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Impact Factor: 10.70

Photo-Modulated Wide-Spectrum Chromism in Eu3+ and Eu3+/Tb3+ Photochromic Coordination Polymer Gel: Application in Decoding Secret Information

Parul Verma, Ashish Singh and Tapas Kumar Maji

Publication Type: Journal Article (International)

Journal: Chem. Sci.

Volume: 12

Year: 2021

Pages: 2674 – 2682

DOI: 10.1039/d0sc05721e

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Impact Factor: 7.60

Photochromic Conjugated Microporous Polymer Manifesting Bio-Inspired pcFRET and Logic Gate Functioning

Ashish Singh, Parul Verma, Subhajit Laha, Debabrata Samanta, Syamantak Roy and Tapas Kumar Maji

Publication Type: Journal Article (International)

Journal: ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces

Volume: 12 (18)

Year: 2020

Pages: 20991-20997

DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c05182

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Impact Factor: 8.30

Redox active conjugated microporous polymer as heterogeneous bifunctional catalyst for electrocatalytic oxygen reduction and photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

Ashish Singh, Parul Verma, Debabrata Samanta, Tarandeep Singh and Tapas Kumar Maji

Publication Type: Journal Article (International)

Journal: Chem. Eur. J.

Volume: 26 (17)

Year: 2020

Pages: 3810 – 3817

DOI: 10.1002/chem.201904938

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Impact Factor: 3.90

Unraveling the Effect on Luminescent Properties by Post-synthetic Covalent and Non-Covalent Grafting of gfp Chromophore Analogues in Nanoscale MOF-808

Ashish Singh, Sanchita Karmakar, Irine Maria Abraham, Rambabu Darsi, Dhwanit Dave, Ravi Manjithaya and Tapas Kumar Maji

Publication Type: Journal Article (International)

Journal: Inorg. Chem.

Volume: 59 (12)

Year: 2020

Pages: 8251-8258

DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00625

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Impact Factor: 4.30

Partially graphitized Iron-carbon hybrid composite as electrochemical supercapacitor material

Sai Rashmi M., Ashish Singh, Chandra Sekhar Rout, Akshaya K. Samal and Manav Saxena

Publication Type: Journal Article (International)

Journal: ChemElectroChem

Volume: 7

Year: 2020

Pages: 1928 –1934

DOI: 10.1002/celc.202000377

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Impact Factor: 3.89

Iron-Carbon Hybrid Magnetic Nanosheets for Adsorption-Removal of Organic Dyes and 4-Nitrophenol from Aqueous Solution

Sai Rashmi M., Ashish Singh, Bhavya M. B., Akshaya K. Samal, Sachchidanand Srivastava, and Manav Saxena

Publication Type: Journal Article (International)

Journal: ACS Appl. Nano Mater.

Volume: 3

Year: 2020

Pages: 1571 – 1582

DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.9b02348

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Impact Factor: 5.30

Gfp chromophore integrated conjugated microporous polymers: Topological and ESPT effects on emission properties

Ashish Singh, Debabrata Samanta, Mrinal Boro and Tapas Kumar Maji

Publication Type: Journal Article (International)

Journal: Chem. Commun.

Volume: 55

Year: 2019

Pages: 2837 – 2840

DOI: 10.1039/C9CC00357F

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Impact Factor: 4.30

Tuning Thin Film Properties by Structural Modulations in the Red Fluorescent Protein Chromophore Analogues

Ashish Singh, Raghav Gupta, Nazia Siddqui, S. Sundar Kumar Iyer and Gurunath Ramanathan

Publication Type: Journal Article (International)

Journal: ChemistrySelect

Volume: 4 (45)

Year: 2019

Pages: 13320 – 13326

DOI: 10.1002/slct.201903024

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Impact Factor: 2.10

Photoswitchable J-Aggregated Processable Organogel by Integrating a Photochromic Acceptor

Debabrata Samanta, Ashish Singh, Parul Verma, Sohini Bhattacharyya, Syamantak Roy and Tapas Kumar Maji

Publication Type: Journal Article (International)

Journal: J Org Chem

Volume: 84

Year: 2019

Pages: 10946 – 10952

DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b01555

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Impact Factor: 3.30

Realization of ORR and OER bifunctional electrocatalytic activity by in‐situ stabilizing Co nanoparticles in a redox‐active donor‐acceptor porous organic polymer

Ashish Singh, Debabrata Samanta and Tapas Kumar Maji

Publication Type: Journal Article (International)

Journal: ChemElectroChem

Volume: 6

Year: 2019

Pages: 3756 – 3763

DOI: 10.1002/celc.201900905

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Impact Factor: 3.89

Metallophthallocyanine based redox active metal-organic conjugated microporous polymers for OER catalysis

Ashish Singh, Syamantak Roy, Chayanika Das, Debabrata Samanta and Tapas Kumar Maji

Publication Type: Journal Article (International)

Journal: Chem Commun

Volume: 54

Year: 2018

Pages: 4465 – 4468

DOI: 10.1039/C8CC01291A

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Impact Factor: 4.30

Protonation of imino nitrogen deactivates the excited state of the imidazolin-5-one in the solid state

Ashish Singh, Khalid Badi-Uz Zama and Gurunath Ramanathan

Publication Type: Journal Article (National)

Journal: J. Chem. Sci.

Volume: 130 (24)

Year: 2018

Pages: 1-9

DOI: 10.1007/s12039-018-1429-0

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Impact Factor: 2.00

Red Fluorescence Protein chromophore inspired selective optical chemosensor for Cu2+ and Hg2+ metal ions

Ashish Singh and Gurunath Ramanathan

Publication Type: Journal Article (International)

Journal: J. Lumin.

Volume: 182

Year: 2017

Pages: 220 – 225

DOI: 10.1016/j.jlumin.2016.10.024

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Impact Factor: 3.60

Rational design of heterogeneous silver catalysts by exploitation of counter anion induced coordination geometry

Ashish Singh and Gurunath Ramanathan

Publication Type: Journal Article (International)

Journal: Asian JOC

Volume: 5 (7)

Year: 2016

Pages: 865 – 869

DOI: 10.1002/ajoc.201600173

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Impact Factor: 2.80

Green Fluorescent Protien Chromophore Inspired Biodegradable Material for Ternary Active Layer Organic Solar Cell

Bikram Kunwar, Ashish Singh, Ramanathan Gurunath and S. Sundar Kumar Iyer

Publication Type: Conference Proceeding

Journal: IEEE PVSC Conference

Year: 2016

Pages: 1645-1648

DOI: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7749901

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Impact Factor: 0.65

A multi-step synthesis of imidazolinone in in “Comprehensive Organic Chemistry Experiments for the Laboratory Classroom”

Gurunath Ramanathan* and Ashish Singh

Publication Type: Book Chapter

Journal: Royal Society of Chemistry, U.K.

Year: 2016

Pages: ISBN No. 1849739633

Introduction of an electron push-pull system yields a planar Red Kaede Fluorescence Protein chromophore analogue stabilized by a C=O...π interaction

Ashish Singh, Basanta K. Rajbongshi, Gurunath Ramanathan

Publication Type: Journal Article (National)

Journal: J. Chem. Sci.

Volume: 127 (5)

Year: 2015

Pages: 941–948

DOI: 10.1007/s12039-015-0855-5

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Impact Factor: 2.00

Tuning of intermolecular interactions results in packing diversity in imidazolin-5-ones

Ashish Singh, Basanta K. Rajbongshi, Gurunath Ramanathan

Publication Type: Journal Article (National)

Journal: J. Chem. Sci.

Volume: 126 (5)

Year: 2014

Pages: 1275 – 1284

DOI: 10.1007/s12039-014-0689-6

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Impact Factor: 2.00

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