Dr. Tejwant Singh Kang

Personal Information:

Full Name: Tejwant Singh

Official Address: Dr. Tejwant Singh

Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry

Department of Chemistry

Guru Nanak Dev University

Amritsar-143005

Punjab, INDIA

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

tejwantsinghkang@gmail.com

Research Interest: Molecular self-assembly and dynamics of ionic liquids (ILs) in aqueous and non-aqueous media, Self-assembly of surfactants in Ionic Liquids, 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, etc.


Education:

B. Sc.: Punjab University, Chandigarh, (Secured 69.9% marks), 2002.

M. Sc. (Chemistry): Punjabi University, Patiala, (Secured 71.0% marks), 2005.

Ph.D. (Chemistry): Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar (April, 2011), Experimental work for Ph.D. was done at CSMCRI (CSIR), Bhavnagar.

Research Topic .: Studies on Room Temperature Ionic Liquids and Application to Gelling Biopolymer Agar/Agarose


Honours and Awards:

  • Awarded fellowship for “Special Lecture Tour Program” under the Japan-India Cooperative Science Program between Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences (JSPS) and Department of Science and Technology (DST) India from November 29 to December 12, 2015 to Visit Kyushu University, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology and Tohoku University, Japan from November 29, 2015 to December 12, 2015.
  • Worked as Visiting Researcher in the group of Prof. Nobuo Kimizuka, Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kyushu University, Moto-oka, Nishi-Ku, Fukuoka, JAPAN, 819-0395 from December 14, 2014 to December 27, 2014.
  • Worked as Visiting Researcher in the group of Prof. Nobuo Kimizuka, Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kyushu University, Moto-oka, Nishi-Ku, Fukuoka, JAPAN, 819-0395 from January 19, 2014 to February 1, 2014.
  • Awarded Prof. Shantilal Oswal Young Scientist award by Indian Thermodynamic Society for the year 2012 for the work in solution thermodynamics.
  • Awarded JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship (Japan Society for promotion of sciences) for 2 years in January 2011. (Presently availing the fellowship in the group of Prof. Nobuo Kimizuka, Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kyushu University, Moto-oka, Nishi-Ku, Fukuoka, JAPAN, 819-0395.
  • Awarded FCT Portugal (Foundation of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education and Science) Postdoctoral Fellowship in January 2011 for 3 years to work in the group of Prof. Isabel Marrucho at ITQB Portugal.
  • Awarded Council of Scientific and Industrial research-Senior Research Fellowship (CSIR- SRF) (April 2009 – March 2011); Govt. of India.
  • Awarded Department of Science and Technology (DST) Junior Research Fellowship for working in DST sponsored project (August 2006-April 2009); Govt. of India.
  • Qualified CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test for Lectureship in December 2005; Govt. of India.

PUBLICATIONS

Research Articles (Published 49)


1. Gagandeep Singh, Gurbir Singh, Damarala Krishnaiah, Pushpender Kumar Sharma, Arvind Kumar, Tejwant Singh Kang* Highly Stretchable, Self-healing, Conducting, Multi-adhesive and Antimicrobial Ionogels Based on Gelatin

(communicated)

2. Sandeep Kaushal, Gurbir Singh, Pritpal Singh, and Tejwant Singh Kang* Synthesis and Characterization of Tin (IV) Antimonophosphate Nanocomposite Membrane Incorporating 1-Dodecyl-3-methylimidazolium Bromide Ionic Liquid

RSC Advances 2017, 7, 12561-12569.

3. Gurbir Singh, Raman Kamboj, Venus S. Mithu, Vinay Chauhan, Taranjeet Kaur, Gurcharan Kaur, Sukhprit Singh, Tejwant Singh Kang* Nicotine-based Surface Active Ionic Liquids: Synthesis, Self-assembly and Cytotoxicity Studies

J. Colloid. Interface Sci. 2017, 496, 278-289.

4. Preet Shikha, Komal, Tejwant Singh Kang*, B. S. Randhawa,* Mn Doping Induced Physico-chemical Changes in La-Ce Ferrite Nanofabricated by Ionic Liquid Assisted Hydrothermal Route

Journal of Alloys and Compounds 2017, 701, 788-796.

5. Gagandeep Singh, Gurbir Singh, Tejwant Singh Kang,* Effect of Alkyl Chain Functionalization of Ionic Liquid Surfactants on Complexation and Self-Assembling Behavior of Polyampholyte Gelatin in Aqueous Medium

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2016, 18, 25993-26009.

6. Shruti Chabba, Rajni Vashishat, Tejwant Singh Kang,* Rakesh Kumar Mahajan, Self–aggregation Behavior of Dialkyl Imidazolium based Ionic Liquids in Aqueous Medium: Effect of Alkyl Chain Length,

Chemistry Select 2016, 1, 2458–2470

7. Chanda Chadha, Gurbir Singh, Gurpreet Singh, Harsh Kumar,* Tejwant Singh Kang* Modulating the Mixed Micellization of CTAB and An Ionic Liquid 1-Hexadecyl-3-Methylimidazolium Bromide via Varying Physical States of Ionic Liquid.

RSC Advances 2016, 6, 38238-38251.

8. Gurbir Singh, Gagandeep Singh, Tejwant Singh Kang* Micellization Behavior of Surface Active Ionic Liquids Having Aromatic Counterions in Aqueous Media.

J. Phys. Chem B 2016, 120, 1092-1105.

9. Preet Shikha, B. S. Randhawa,* Tejwant Singh Kang*, Ionic liquid assisted nanofabrication of Ferromagnetic Co-doped La-Ce Ferrites.

RSC Advances 2015, 5, 96799-96808

10. Renu Mahajan, Tejwant Singh Kang,* Rakesh Kumar Mahajan* Interactional Behavior of Polyelectrolyte Poly Sodium 4-Styrene Sulphonate (NaPSS) with Imidazolium Based Surface Active Ionic Liquids in Aqueous Medium.

Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015, 17, 23582-23597.

11. Gurbir Singh, Tejwant Singh Kang*, Ionic Liquid Surfactant Mediated Structural Transitions and Self-assembly of Bovine Serum Albumin in Aqueous Media: Effect of Functionalization of Ionic Liquid Surfactants.

J. Phys. Chem B 2015, 119, 10573-10585.

12. Preet Shikha, B. S. Randhawa,* Tejwant Singh Kang*, Greener Synthetic Route for Superparamagnetic and Luminescent α-Fe2O3 Nanoparticles in Binary Mixtures of Ionic liquid and Ethylene glycol.

RSC Advances 2015, 5, 51158-51168.

13. Shruti Chabba, Sugam Kumar, Vinod Kumar Aswal, Tejwant Singh Kang,* Rakesh Kumar Mahajan*, Interfacial and Aggregation Behavior of Aqueous Mixtures of Imidazolium based Surface Active Ionic Liquids and Anionic Surfactant Sodium Dodecylbenzenesulfonate.

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 2015, 472, 9-20

14. Renu Sharma, Tejwant Singh Kang,* Rakesh Kumar Mahajan* Complexation of Triblock Reverse Copolymer 10R5 with Surface Active Ionic Liquids in Aqueous Medium: A Physico-chemical Study.

RSC Advances 2015, 5, 16349-16360.

15. Vinay Chauhan, Raman Kamboj, Suraj Prakash Singh Rana, Taranjeet Kaur, Gurcharan Kaur, Sukhprit Singh,* Tejwant Singh Kang,* Aggregation Behavior of Non-cytotoxic Ester Functionalized Morpholonium Based Ionic Liquids in Aqueous Media.

J. Colloid. Interface Sci. 2015, 446, 263-271.

16. Pankaj Bharmoria, Vaneet, Parampaul Kaur Banipal, Arvind Kumar*, Tejwant Singh Kang* Modulation of Micellization Behavior of Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide (CTAB) by Organic Anions in Low Concentration Regime.

J. Soln. Chem. 2015, 44, 16-33.

17. Preet Shikha, Tejwant Singh Kang*, B. S. Randhawa,* Effect of Different Synthetic Routes on the Structural, Morphological and Magnetic Properties of Ce Doped LaFeO3 Nanoparticles.

Journal of Alloys and Compounds 2015, 625, 336-345.

18. Raman Kamboj, Pankaj Bharmoria, Vinay Chauhan, Gurbir Singh, Arvind Kumar, Sukhprit Singh,* Tejwant Singh Kang*, Effect of cationic head group on micellization behavior of new amide-functionalized surface active ionic liquids.

Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014, 16, 26040-26050.

19. Raman Kamboj,‡ Pankaj Bharmoria,† Vinay Chauhan,‡ Sukhprit Singh,‡,* Arvind Kumar,† Venus Singh Mithu,‡ Tejwant Singh Kang‡,* Micellization Behavior of Morpholinium Based Amide Functionalized Ionic Liquids in Aqueous Media

Langmuir 2014, 30, 9920-9930.

20. Tejwant Singh Kang, Keita Ishiba, Masa-aki Morikawa, Nobuo Kimizuka,* Self-Assembly of Azobenzene Bilayer Membranes in Binary Ionic Liquid−Water Nanostructured Media.

Langmuir 2014, 30, 2376-2384.

21. Reshu Sanan, Tejwant Singh Kang*, Rakesh Kumar Mahajan,* Interactions of Methylene Blue with Biamphiphilic Ionic Liquids in Aqueous Solutions: A Detailed Spectroscopic and Electrochemical Study.

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2014, 16, 5667-5677.

22. Amalendu Pal,* Bhupinder Kumar, Tejwant Singh Kang, Effect of Structural Alteration of Ionic Liquids on their Bulk and Molecular Level Interactions with Ethylene Glycol. Fluid Phase Equilibria 2013, 358, 241-249.

23. Pankaj Bharmoria; Tejwant Singh; Arvind Kumar.* Complexation of Chitosan with Surfacatnt like Ionic Liquids: Molecular Interactions and Preparation of Chitosan Nanoparticles.

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 2013, 407, 361-369.

24. Tejwant Singh; Pankaj Bharmoria; Masa-aki Morikawa; Nobuo Kimizuka;* Arvind Kumar.* Ionic Liquids Induced Structural Changes of Bovine Serum Albumin in Aqueous Media: A Detailed Physicochemical and Spectroscopic Study.

Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2012, 116, 11924.

25. Tejwant Singh;* Tushar J. Trivedi; Arvind Kumar.* Ionic Liquid Assisted Preparation of ZnO Nanostructures.

Nanomaterials and Energy 2012, 1, 207–215.

26. Tejwant Singh;* Srinivasa K. Rao; Arvind Kumar.* Effect of Ethylene Glycol and its Derivatives on Micellization Behaviour of an Ionic Liquid 1-Butyl-3-Methyl Imidazolium Octylsulfate in Aqueous Medium.

Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2012, 116, 1612–1622.

27. Tushar J. Trivedi; Pankaj Bharmoria; Tejwant Singh; Arvind Kumar.* Temperature Dependence of Physical Properties of Amino Acid Ionic Liquid Surfactants.

Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data 2012, 57, 317–323.

28. Bhupinder Kumar; Tejwant Singh; Srinivasa K. Rao; Arvind Kumar;*Amalendu Pal.* Thermodynamic and Spectroscopic Studies on Binary Mixtures of Imidazolium Ionic Liquids in Ethylene Glycol.

Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics 2012, 43, 121–127.

29. Srinivasa K. Rao; Tejwant Singh; Tushar J. Trivedi; Arvind Kumar.* Aggregation Behavior of Amino Acid Ionic Liquid Surfactants in Aqueous Media.

Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2011, 115, 13847–13853.

30. Srinivasa K. Rao; Tejwant Singh; Arvind Kumar.* Aqueous Mixed Ionic Liquid System: Phase Transitions and Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles.

Langmuir 2011, 27, 9261–9269.

31. Tushar J. Trivedi; Srinivasa K. Rao; Tejwant Singh; Subir K. Mandal; Narottom Sutradhar; Asit B. Panda; Arvind Kumar.*Task Specific Biodegradable Amino Acid Ionic Liquid Surfactants.

ChemSusChem 2011, 4, 604–608.

Highlighted by Nature India, 2011: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nindia.2011.69

32. Tejwant Singh; Arvind Kumar.* Thermodynamics of Dilute Aqueous Ionic liquid Solutions.

Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics 2011, 43, 958–965.

33. Tejwant Singh; Srinivasa K. Rao; Arvind Kumar.* Polarity Behaviour and Specific Interactions of Imidazolium Based Ionic Liquids in Ethylene Glycol.

ChemPhysChem 2011, 12, 836–845.

34. Harsh K. Manchanda*; Meenu Singla; Akanksha Khosla; Tejwant Singh; Tushar J. Trivedi; Arvind Kumar.* Volumetric and Surface Properties of Aqueous Mixtures of Polyethers at T = (298.15, 308.15, and 318.15) K.

Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data 2011, 56, 2669–2676.

35. Tejwant Singh; Arvind Kumar.* Cation-Anion-Water Interactions in Aqueous Solution of Imidazolium Based Ionic Liquids.

Vibrational Spectroscopy 2011, 55, 119–125.

36. Manjinder Kaur; Srinivasa K. Rao; Tejwant Singh; V. P. Mohandas; Arvind Kumar.* Effect of Ethylene Glycol and its Derivatives on the Solubility Behavior of CaSO4·2H2O in the Aqueous NaCl System and Physicochemical Solution Properties at 35°C.

Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data 2010, 55, 4704–4708.

37. Tejwant Singh; Markus Drechsler; Axel H. E. Müller, IndrajitMukhopadhyay; Arvind Kumar.*Micellar Transitions in the Aqueous Solution of a Surfactant Like Ionic Liquid: 1-Butyl-3-Methylimidazolium Octylsulfate.

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2010, 12, 11728–11735.

38. Tejwant Singh; Shilpi Boral; Himadari B. Bohidar; Arvind Kumar.* Interactions of Gelatin with Room Temperature Ionic Liquids: A Detailed Physicochemical Study.

Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2010, 114, 8441–8448.

39. Tejwant Singh; Tushar J. Trivedi; Arvind Kumar.* Dissolution, Regeneration and Ion-Gel Formation of Agarose in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids.

Green Chemistry 2010, 12, 1029–1035.

40. Amalendu Pal;* Rekha Gaba; Tejwant Singh; Arvind Kumar. Excess Thermodynamic Properties of Binary Mixtures of Ionic Liquid (1-Butyl-3-Methylimidazolium Hexafluorophosphate) with Alkoxyalkanols at Several Temperatures.

Journal of Molecular Liquids 2010, 154, 41–46.

41. Tejwant Singh;* Arvind Kumar.* Volumetric Behaviour of 1-Butyl-3-Methyl Imidazolium Hexafluorophosphate with Ethylene Glycol Derivatives: Application of Prigogine-Flory-Patterson Theory.

Journal of Molecular Liquids 2010, 153, 117–123.

42. Tejwant Singh;* Arvind Kumar.* Temperature Dependence of Physical Properties of Imidazolium Based Ionic Liquids: Internal Pressure and Molar Refraction.

Journal of Solution Chemistry 2009, 38, 1043–1053.

43. Tejwant Singh; Ramavatar Meena; Arvind Kumar.* Effect of Sodium Sulfate on the Gelling Behaviour of Agarose and Water Structure inside the Gel Networks.

Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2009, 113, 2519–2525.

44. Tejwant Singh; Arvind Kumar;* Mandeep Kaur; Gurpreet Kaur; Harsh Kumar. Non-Ideal Behaviour of Room Temperature Ionic Liquid in Ethylene Glycol at (298.15, 308.15, and 318.15) K.

Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics 2009, 41, 717–723.

45. Tejwant Singh; Arvind Kumar.* Fluorescence Behaviour and Specific Interactions of an Ionic Liquid in Ethylene Glycol Derivatives.

Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2008,112, 4079–4086.

46. Tejwant Singh; Arvind Kumar.* Static Dielectric Constant of Room Temperature Ionic Liquids: Internal Pressure and Cohesive Energy Density Approach.

Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2008, 112, 12968–12972.

47. Tejwant Singh; Arvind Kumar.* Self-Aggregation of Ionic Liquids in Aqueous Media: A Thermodynamic Study.

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicohemical and Engineering Aspects 2008, 318, 263–268.

48. Tejwant Singh; Arvind Kumar.* Physical and Excess Properties of a Room Temperature Ionic Liquid (1-methyl-3-octylimidazlium tetrafluoroborate) in n-Alkoxyethanols C1Em (m = 1-3) at T = (298.15 to 318.15) K.

Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics 2008, 40, 417–423.

49. Arvind Kumar;* Tejwant Singh; Ramesh L. Gardas; Joao A. P. Coutihno. Non-Ideal Behaviour of a Room Temperature Ionic Liquid in Mono or Polyethers at 298.15, 308.15, and 318.15) K.

Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics 2008, 40, 32–39.

50. Tejwant Singh; Arvind Kumar.* Aggregation Behaviour of Ionic Liquids in Aqueous Solutions: Effect of Alkyl Chain Length, Cation and Anion.

Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2007, 111, 7843–7851.

Proceedings article

1. Tejwant Singh, RamavatarMeena, Arvind Kumar. Characterizing Solution and Gel Structure of Agarose in the Aqueous Sodium Sulfate Solutions, Recent Advances in Thermodynamic Research, 2008, 125–131, NCTCBS, Nagpur, India.

Seminars/conferences (poster/oral presentation)

1. Gurbir Singh, Tejwant Singh Kang, presented a paper as oral presentation entitled, “Structrual Transitions and Self-assembly of Bovine Serum Albumin in Aqueous Solutions of Ionic Liquid Surfactants” was made at National conference organized by Indian thermodynamic Society, held at Punjab University, Chandigarh on 20-21 Nov, 2015.

2. Tejwant Singh, Masa-aki, Morikawa, Nobuo Kimizuka, Invited talk on “Nematic Liquid Crystalline Microspheres of Azobenzene Amphiphiles Formed in Binary Aqueous Ionic Liquids” was made at 4th National Conference on Recent Advances in Chemical and Environment Sciences held at Arya Post Graduate College, Panipat, February 27-28, 2015.

3. Tejwant Singh, Invited Talk on “Ionic Liquids: Environment Friendly Materials for Diverse Applications” was made at National Conference on Thermodynamics of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Processes (TCBEP-2012) held at Sri Vanketeshwara University, Tirupati, Andhara Pradesh, India, December 10-12, 2012.

4. Tejwant Singh, Masa-aki Morikawa, Nobuo Kimizuka*, gave invited lecture on “Thermal control over specific self-assembly of azobenzene surfactant in ionic liquid/water mixtures”in the International Conference “Chemical Constellation Cheminar-2012” [CCC-2012] organized by the Department of Chemistry, NIT-Jalandhar on September 10-12, 2012.

5. Tejwant Singh, and Arvind Kumar, Oral presentation on “Self Aggregation of Room Temperature Ionic Liquids in Aqueous Media: A Spectroscopic Study” Annual Conference on Recent Advances in Chemical and Environmental Sciences (RACES –2009) held at M. M. Modi College, Patiala, Punjab, India, January 16–17, 2009.

6. Tejwant Singh, and Arvind Kumar, Poster Presentation on “Physicochemical Characterization of Imidazolium based Room Temperature Ionic Liquids” was made at National Conference on Recent Advances in Thermodynamic Research, 2008, NCTCBS, Nagpur, India, October 16-17, 2008.

7. Tejwant Singh, and Arvind Kumar, Poster Presentation on “Fluorescence Behavior and Specific Interactions of an Ionic Liquid in Ethylene Glycol Derivatives” was made at National Conference on Recent Advancement and Developments in Chemical Sciences (RADCS-2008), held at D. A. V. College, Abohar, India, January 07–08, 2008

Research Projects Going On

1. A research project entitled, “Synthesis, Characterization and Self-assembling Behavior of Porphyrin based Ionic Liquids” has been completed as a part of the start-up grant for newly recruited faculty funded by University Grants Commission, Govt. of India, New Delhi. (April 2013- March 2016).

2. A major research project entitled, “Thermo-responsive Liquid Crystalline Microemulsions Based on Ionic Liquids: Preparation, Characterization and Applications” funded by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, is going on. (2014-2017)

3. A major research project entitled, “Self-assembled Polymer Architectures and Their Composites with Quantum Dots in Ionic Liquids and Ionic Liquid/water Binary Mixtures” has been sanctioned by Council of Scientific Research (CSIR), Govt. of India. (October 2014-October 2017)