Professional Experience

PRESENT POSITION

· Scientist (PSI Founder Fellow): Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland. 2018 November – Onwards

Implementation of rare earth recycling technology

Foundation of spin-off company REMRETEch for sustainable resource management of rare earths and circular economy

Scholarship: PSI Founder Fellowship sponsored by UBS

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

· Postdoctoral Researcher: Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland. 2015 May – 2018 October

Research Interests: Separations and recycling of strategically important metal ions and rare earth elements from the electronics wastes

Advisor: Prof. Christian Ludwig, Chemical Processes and Materials research group, Energy and Environment Research Division (ENE)

Scholarship: Swiss Federal Ministry of Environment sponsored Postdoctoral Fellowship

· Postdoctoral Researcher: University of Bologna, Italy. 2013 December – February 2015

Research Interests: synthesis of Imidazolidinone (cyclic amino acid amine type) organocatalyst ligands from the amino acid precursors

Advisor: Prof. Claudio Trombini, Department of Chemistry ‘Ciamician’

Scholarship: European Union’s Erasmus Mundus India4EuII Postdoctoral Fellowship

Patent:

Rare Earth Recycling from Fluorescent Powder e-wastes

(Europian patent and PCT (filed in April 2018): WO 2019/201582A1)

Book chapter:

1. Rare earth metals recycling from e-wastes: strategy and perspective

Ajay B. Patil et al.; Progress towards the resource revolution; edited by Prof. Chr. Ludwig and Sonia Valdivia; ISBN 978-3-9521409-8-7, 2019, sub chapter 23, 162-164.

PUBLICATIONS (Total: 19; h index: 8, i10 index: 6, citations: 279@scholar.google.)

19. Surfactant-based green method for the recycling of Rare Earth Elements from end-of-life electronic waste magnets

Ajay B. Patil, Nicole Thalmann, Rudolf Struis, Mohamed Tarik, and Christian Ludwig

Green Chem., 2020, under communication

18. Insights about ICP-OES interferences of Rare Earth Elements present in complex e-waste feeds

Ajay B. Patil, Mohamed Tarik, Albert J. Schuler, Rudolf P.W.J. Struis, and Christian Ludwig

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2020, under communication

17. Exploiting end-of-life lamps fluorescent powder e-waste as a secondary resource for critical rare earth metal raw materials

Ajay B. Patil, Mohamed Tarik, Albert J. Schuler, Rudolf P.W.J. Struis, and Christian Ludwig

2020, under preparation

16. Structural interplay in the reactivity and stereoselectivity of hybrid diarylimidazolinyl silylether organocatalysts

Ajay B. Patil, Shrihari P. Sanap, Lucia Cerisoli, Arianna Quintavalla, Marco Lombardo and Claudio Trombini

2020, under preparation

15. Gnidia glauca Leaf and Stem Extract Mediated Synthesis of Gold Nanocatalysts with Free Radical Scavenging Potential;

Ghosh S., Patil S., Chopade NB., Luikham S., Kitture R., Gurav D., Patil AB., Phadatare SD., Sontakke V., Kale S., Shinde V., Bellare J., Chopade BA.,

J. Nanomed. Nanotechnol., 2016, 7, 358. URL

14. Radiation stability of diglycolamide functionalized calix[4]arenes in ionic liquid: Solvent extraction, EPR and GC-MS studies;

A. Sengupta, P.K. Mohapatra, A. B. Patil, R.M. Kadam, W. Verboom;

Sep. Purif. Technol., 2016, 162, 77-83. URL

13. Thermoresponsive copolymers with pendant D-galactosyl 1,2,3-triazole groups: synthesis, characterization and thermal behavior;

A. B. Dhumure, Ajay B. Patil, A. S. Kulkarni, I. Voevodina, M. Scandola, V. S. Shinde;

New J. Chem., 2015, 39, 8179-8187. URL

12. Novel Dipicolinamide-ionic liquid based solvent system for actinide extraction;

Ajay B. Patil, P. N. Pathak, Vaishali S. Shinde, V. A. Babain, P. K. Mohapatra;

J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem., 2014, 302(3), 1087-1093. URL

11. DMDCDDEMA as the new malonamide analogue for actinide partitioning: Synthesis, Extraction and Membrane Transport studies;

Ajay B. Patil, P. N. Pathak, V. S. Shinde, P. K. Mohapatra;

Sep. Purif. Technol., 2015, 145, 83-91. URL

10. Effect of irradiation on some actinide and fission product ions' extraction using several tetraalkyl diglycolamides;

R. B. Gujar, G. B. Dhekane, Ajay B. Patil, P. K. Mohapatra;

Radiochim. Acta, 2015, 103(5), 335-344. URL

9. Diosgenin from Dioscorea bulbifera: Novel Hit for Treatment of Type II Diabetes Mellitus with Inhibitory Activity against a-Amylase and a-Glucosidase

S. Ghosh, P. More, A. Derle, A. B. Patil, P. Markad, A. Asok, N. Kumbhar, M. L. Shaikh, B. Ramanamurthy, V. S. Shinde, D. D. Dhavale, and B. A. Chopade;

Plos One, 2014, 9(9), e106039. URL

8. Phytochemical Analysis and Free Radical Scavenging Activity of Medicinal Plants Gnidia glauca and Dioscorea bulbifera

S. Ghosh, A. Derle, M. Ahire, P. More, S. Jagtap, S. D. Phadatare, A. B. Patil, A. M. Jabgunde, G. K. Sharma, V. S. Shinde, K. Pardesi, D. D. Dhavale, and B. A. Chopade;

Plos One, 2013, 8(12), e82529. URL

7. Studies on the radiolytic stability of newly developed solvent systems containing four calix-crown-6 ligands for radio-cesium recovery

P. Jagasia, P. K. Mohapatra, P. S. Dhami, A. B. Patil, V. C. Adya, A. Sengupta, P. M. Gandhi, P. K. Wattal;

J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem., 2014, 302(3), 1087-1093. URL

6. Synthesis and evaluation of N,N′-dimethyl-N,N′-dicyclohexyl-malonamide (DMDCMA) as an extractant for actinides

Ajay B. Patil, P. N. Pathak, V. S. Shinde, P. K. Mohapatra;

Sep. Sci. Technol., 2014, 49(18), 2927-2932. URL

5. A novel dipicolinamide-dicarbollide synergistic solvent system for actinide extraction

Ajay B. Patil, P. N. Pathak, V. S. Shinde, V. A. Babain, and P. K. Mohapatra;

Radiochim. Acta, 2014, 120(6), 481-487. URL

4. Evaluation of DMDOHEMA based supported liquid membrane system for high level waste remediation under simulated conditions

Ajay B. Patil, P. Kandwal, V. S. Shinde, P. N. Pathak, and P. K. Mohapatra;

J. Membra. Sci., 2013, 442, 48-56. URL

3. Modified Synthesis Scheme for N,N′-dimethyl-N,N′-dioctyl-2,(2′-hexyloxyethyl) malonamide (DMDOHEMA) and its Comparison with Proposed Solvents for Actinide Partitioning

Ajay B. Patil, V. S. Shinde, P. N. Pathak, P. K. Mohapatra, and V. K. Manchanda;

Radiochim. Acta, 2013, 101, 93-100. URL

2. Evaluation of malonic acid diamide analogues as radical scavenging agents;

Ajay B. Patil, Saugata Ghosh, S. D. Phadatare, G. K. Sharma, B. A. Chopade, P. N. Pathak, V. S. Shinde;

New J. Chem., 2015, 39, 1267-1273. URL

1. Efficient solvent system containing Malonamides in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids: Actinide extraction, Fluorescence and Radiolytic Degradation Studies

Ajay B. Patil, P.N. Pathak, V. S. Shinde, S. V. Godbole, and P. K. Mohapatra;

Dalton Trans., 2013, 42(5), 1519-1529. URL