Dr. Tejwant Singh Kang

Personal Information

Full Name: Tejwant Singh Kang

Official Address: Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Department of Chemistry

Guru Nanak Dev University

Amritsar-143005, Punjab, INDIA

E-mail: tejwant.chem@gndu.ac.in; tejwantsinghkang@gmail.com

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4589-9772 (Link)

Google Scholar Citations: Link

Professional Experience, Academic Qualifications and Research Interests

• June 02, 2018 -till date: JSPS Invitation Fellow, Kyushu University, Japan

Research Host: Prof. Nobuo Kimizuka, Current target is to develop new colloidal systems suitable for energy up conversion for biomedical applications.

• December 03, 2012-till date: Assistant Professor at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar-143005, India

My small independent research group having its own funding is engaged in exploring a variety of ionic liquids in different fields such as colloidal systems (self-assembly, microemulsions, biopolymer-ionic liquid systems), material preparation and characterization using ionic liquids and preparation and characterization of iono-gels etc.

• June 14, 2011-December 01, 2011: JSPS Postdoc Fellow, Kyushu University, Japan

Research Host: Prof. Nobuo Kimizuka) , During my postdoc tenure, I worked on developing new soft and supramolecular ferroelectric systems and successfully developed. Besides that, I targeted to modulate and control the self-assembly behaviour of different amphiphiles such as those based on Azobenzene using control over their aqueous/self-assembled nano-interfaces employing ionic liquids.

• August 2006-April 2011: PhD, Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSMCRI), Bhavnagar, India

PhD Supervisor: Dr. Arvind Kumar (Principal Scientist)

I worked during my PhD for thesis entitled, “Studies on Room Temperature Ionic Liquids and Their Application to Gelling Biopolymer Agar/Agarose”. A variety of ionic liquids were explored for their self-assembly behaviour. We conceived the idea to study self-assembly behaviour of ionic liquids in aqueous medium considering their future applications in micellar catalysis or as surfactants, if one can synthesize non-toxic and biodegradable ionic liquids. The hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity of various ionic liquids were exploited to prepare highly stable iono-gels along with utilizing ionic liquids as medium for dissolution and modification of hard to dissolve biopolymer Agarose. During tenure of PhD, I also worked on thermodynamic behaviour of mixed systems involving ionic liquids and other solvents.

• June 2003 to June 2005: M.Sc. in Chemistry from Punjabi University, Patiala with 71 % marks.

• August 2002 to June 2003: B.Ed. (Life Science) from Punjabi University, Patiala with 73 % marks.

• July 1999 to June 2002: B.Sc. from Punjab University, Chandigarh, with 69% Marks.

Research Interest: Molecular self-assembly, Ionic liquids (ILs), Behaviour of proteins in aqueous IL solutions, Nano-structured materials using ILs, Ion-Gels, Thermo-physical properties and utilization of binary mixtures of ILs, Functional ILs for sustainable energy, Microemulsions etc.