Asha S.K.

Asha S.K.

Polymer Science and Engineering Division

About Me

Our group research activities are focused on synthesis and self assembly whereby we strive to make use of molecular self-organization to build higher ordered polymer architectures which can find potential applications in the opto-electronic devices. We design the monomers and polymers with self assembling tools like hydrogen bonding interactions, pi stacking interaction or alkyl chain interdigitation and study their structure-property relationship using various experimental techniques like absorption and emission, wide angle X ray diffraction (WXRD), Polarized Light Microscopy (PLM), etc. The areas of research expertise in the group include monomer and polymer design and synthesis, supramolecular chemistry, photophysical characterization of fluorescent polymers, thermal and optical characterization of Liquid crystalline polymers, Additive Manufacturing etc.

Professional Experience

  • Period

    Place of Employment

    Designation

    Nature of Duties

    Dec’20 till date

     

    CSIR-NCL, Pune

    Chief Scientist

    Applied Research and Supervising Ph.D. students

    Dec’15 - Dec’ 20

    CSIR-NCL, Pune

     

    Senior Principal Scientist

     

    Teaching,

    Applied Research and Supervising Ph.D. students

    Dec’11 - Dec’ 15

    CSIR-NCL, Pune

     

    Principal Scientist

     

    Teaching,

    Applied Research and Supervising Ph.D. students

    Dec’07 –Dec’11

    CSIR-NCL, Pune

     

    Senior Scientist

     

    Teaching,

    Applied Research and Supervising Ph.D. students

    March’03-Dec’07

    CSIR-NIIST, Trivandrum

    Junior Scientist

     

    Applied Research and Supervising Ph.D. students

    Jan’02-Jan’03

    GE Plastics, JFWTC-Bangalore

    Polymer Scientist

     

    Industrial R&D

     


Selected Publications

  • Shibam Pal, Utreshwar Gavhane And Asha Syamakumari, Biocompatible PVAc-g-PLLA Acrylate Polymers for DLP 3D Printing with Tunable Mechanical Properties, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2024., , (2024).
  • Moumita Roy, Pattuparambil R. Rajamohanan, Sapna Ravindranathan And * and Asha S. K* , Self-Assembly of Bispentadecylphenol Substituted Perylenediimide with PS?b?P4VP for Structure?Property Insight into the Core of Core?Shell Micelles, ACS Appl. Polym. Mater., 2, 805 - 816 (2020), DOI:10.1021/acsapm.9b01099.

Research Interest

  • Polymer Chemistry

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