Personal Information
- Full Name: Dr. Ashish Singh
- Mobile Number: 9670464472
- EmailID: ashishsinghiitk@gmail.com
- Designation: Assistant Professor
Qualification
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2016PhD
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India (Supervisor: Prof. Gurunath Ramanathan)
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2008MSc
CSJM University Kanpur
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2006BSc
CSJM University Kanpur
Experience
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2025 - PresentAssistant Professor
Department of Chemistry, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India – 495009
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2021 - 2025Senior Scientist
R&D Centre, Merck - Sigma Aldrich Chemicals Pvt Ltd, Bangalore-560100, INDIA
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2021 - 2019Postdoc Fellow
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore (Supervisor: Prof. Tapas Kumar Maji)
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2017 - 2019National Postdoc Fellow
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore (Supervisor: Prof. Tapas Kumar Maji)
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2016 - 2017Project Scientist
SAMTEL Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (Supervisor: Prof. S. Sundar Kumar Iyer))
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Impact Factor: 2.00