Dr. Suresha P. R

Senior Technical Officer

Polymer Science and Engineering Division

Phone (Off.): 020-2590-2188

Email: pr.suresha@ncl.res.in

 Research Interests:

•  Synthesis and characterization of flocculants
• Hydrogels application in drug delivery- contact lens based and oral care
• Gel fuels: hydrogels that can be used as fuel- chaffing fuel
• Preparation of membranes for electrochemical applications

 Education:

PhD Chemistry, CSIR - National Chemical Laboratory, Savitribai Phule Pune University

M.Sc Bio Chemistry, Central College, Bangalore University, Bangaluru

Publications:

6. Gokul Patil, ArunTorris, P R Suresha, Sachin Jadhav, Manohar Badiger and Vandana Ghormade, Design and synthesis of a new topical agent for halting blood loss rapidly: A multimodal chitosan-gelatin xerogel composite loaded with silica nanoparticles and calcium, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 198, 111454 (2021), DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2020.111454.

5. Christy P. George, Sridhar H. Thorat, Parth S. Shaligram, Suresha P. R  and  Rajesh G. Gonnade, Drug-drug cocrystals of anticancer drugs Erlotinib-Furosemide and Gefitinib-Mefenamic acid for alternative multi-drug treatment, CrystEngComm, 22, 6137 - 6151 (2020), DOI: 10.1039/D0CE00353K.

4. Venkatakrishnan Balasubramanian, Brindha Velappan, Sandhya Kurvilla Vijayan, Hepzibah Jabamani, Vedaraman Nagarajan, John S. Victor, Suresha P. Ranganath, Manohar V. Badiger, Velappan K. Chinnaraj and Muralidharan Chellappa, Studies on the use of sodium polyacrylate (SPA) for low-salt animal skin preservation, Environmental Science and Pollution Research., 26, 27100 – 27111 (2019), DOI: 10.1007/s11356-019-05871-y.

3. Suresha P. Ranganath and Manohar V. Badiger, Flocculation of kaolin from aqueous suspension using low dosage of acrylamide based cationic flocculants, Journal of Applied Polymer Science., 136 (14), 47286 (2019), DOI: 10.1002/app.47286.

2. Rupali S. Mehare, Suresha P. Ranganath, Vikash Chaturvedi, Manohar V. Badiger and Manjusha V. Shelke, In Situ Synthesis of Nitrogen and Sulfur enriched Hierarchical Porous Carbon for high-Performance Supercapacitor, Energy and Fuels., 32, 908 - 915 (2017), DOI:10.1021/acs.energyfuels.7b02305.

1. Suresha P. R, Manohar V. Badiger And Bernhard Wolf, Polyelectrolytes in dilute solution: viscometric access to coil dimensions   and salt effects, RSC Advances., 5 (35), 27674 - 27681 (2015), DOI:10.1039/c5ra01376c.