About PI

Academic Positions Held

• 2023 Aug Onwards: Professor, School of Basic Sciences, IIT Bhubaneshwar

• 2022 Sep to Aug 2023: Professor, Chemistry, RGIPT, Jais, Amethi

• 2014 March to 2022 Sep: Associate Professor, Chemistry, RGIPT, Jais, Amethi

• 2010 July to 2014 February: Assistant Professor, Chemistry, RGIPT, Raebareli

• 2006-2010: Post Doctoral Associate, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA

Administrative Positions Held

• 2016 March onward: Dean of Academic Affairs, RGIPT, Jais, Amethi

• 2019 September onward: Chairman, Central Instrumentation Facility, RGIPT, Jais, Amethi

Academic Honors

• 2010-11: Best Teacher Award (RGIPT, Raebareli)

• 2002: Adani award for best teaching assistantship (IIT Bombay).

• 2000: Qualified JRF, Joint entrance test (CSIR-UGC).

• 1999: Qualified graduate aptitude test in engineering, GATE. 91.6 percentile (149 rank)

• 1999: R. K. Nanda award for seminar presentation on “Metallomesogens” (Ravenshaw College).

Representative Publications

• Porous Mo Modified Ni3N/Ni3S2 Hetero Interfacing for Facile Sulfur Oxidation Mediated Green H2 Production. Setia. Y.; Paltasingh S.N.;  Nayak, S. K.; Sinha, A. S. K.; Ojha, U.; Sahoo M. K.; Adv. Sustainable Syst. 2025, e00407 . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adsu.202500407 

• Media Polarity Control Strategy to Tailor Mechanical Behavior of Dual Monomer Single Network Hydrogels and Integrated Machine Learning Approach. Mondal, S.; Anand, S.; Mondal, D.; Sinha, A. S. K.; Ojha, U. Chem. Mater. 2025. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c00418

• Polyelectrolyte Complexation Approach to Devise PEDOT:PSS-Based Moldable, Self-Healable, and Ultra-Stretchable Solid Electrolytes for Underwater Electronics. Anand, S.; Tewary, A.; Upadhyay, C.; Sinha, A. S. K. Ojha, U. ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. 2024. DOI: 10.1021/acsaelm.4c01278

• Ni Surface & Polyacryloyl Hydrazide Mediated Growth of Co3O4@NiCu Alloy Nanocuboids for Effective Methanol Oxidation and Oxygen Evolution Reactions. Semwal, S.; Samal, A.;  Nayak, S. K.; Urkude, R. R.; Sinha, A. S. K.; Ojha, U. Adv. Sustainable Syst. 2024, 2400372. DOI: 10.1002/adsu.202400372

• Hydroxylamine Promoted In Situ Growth of Fe2O3/Ni3N Nanospikes on a Ni Surface for an Effective Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. Tewary, A.; Semwal, S.; Shakir, R.; Karthikeyan, J.; Sinha, A. S. K.; Ojha, U. ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2024, 7, 15923–15931.  DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.4c02787

• Carbohydrate-Based Reprocessable and Healable Covalent Adaptable Biofoams. Upadhyay, C.; Ojha, U. Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2024, 2400239, (Invited Article) DOI: 10.1002/marc.202400239 

• NiFeOOH-Co9S8-Intercalated Nanostructure Arrays for Energy-Efficient H2 Production and Sulfion Oxidation at High Current Density. Semwal, S.; Shakir, R.; Karthikeyan, J.; Sinha, A. S. K.; Ojha, U. ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2023, 6, 20, 18945–18956 DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.3c03438

• Closed-loop Recyclable & Biodegradable Thioester Based Covalent Adaptable Networks. Maity, P. R.; Upadhyay, C.; Sinha, A. S. K.; Ojha, U. Chem. Commun., 2023, (Invited Article) DOI: 10.1039/D3CC00181D

• Scalable Green Synthesis of Ni3N‑Encapsulated NC-Layered FeOOH Heterostructures: Bifunctional Electrodes for Sustainable Electrocatalytic Seawater Splitting. Tewary, A.; Mandal, S.; Alam, Z.; Sinha, A. S. K.; Ojha, U; ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2023.  DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c07248

• Stress-Induced Shape-Shifting Materials Possessing Autonomous Self-Healing and Scratch-Resistant Ability. Upadhyay, C.; Ojha, U. Chem. Asian J. 2023, e202201082. (Invited Article) DOI:  10.1002/asia.202201082 (Special Collection on Sustainable Solutions for Plastic Issues)

• Mechanically Robust Anisotropic Hydrogel–Organogel Conjugates for Soft Actuators with Fast Response Time and Diverse Bi-Axial Programmable Folding Ability. Mandal, S.; Vignesh, A.; Debnath, S.; Ojha, U. Chem. Mater., 2022, 34, 5125. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c00606

• Healable, Recyclable, and Programmable Shape Memory Organogels Based on Highly Malleable Catalyst-Free Carboxylate Linkages. Debnath, S., Upadhyay, C., Ojha, U. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2022 ,14, 9618-9631. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c24946

• Supplementary Networking of Interpenetrating Polymer System (SNIPSy) Strategy to Develop Strong & High Water Content Ionic Hydrogels for Solid Electrolyte Applications. Mandal, S., Kumari, S., Kumar, M., Ojha, U., Adv. Funct. Mater. 2021, 2100251. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202100251 (Hot Topic Collection: Flexible Electronics) 

• Dynamic Carboxylate Linkage Based Reprocessable and Self-Healable Segmented Polyurethane Vitrimers Displaying Creep Resistance Behavior and Triple Shape Memory Ability, Debnath S., Tiwary S., Ojha U., ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 2021, 3, 4, 2166–2177 (Listed among most read articles in April 2021) 

• Catalyst Free Partially Bio-Based Polyester Vitrimers, ACS Appl. Polym. Mater., 2020, 2, 2, 1006 (Listed among the most read articles in Feb 2020) 

• Solvent processable and recyclable covalent adaptable organogels based on dynamic trans-esterification chemistry: separation of toluene from azeotropic mixtures, Polym. Chem., 2020,11, 1471-1480 (Invited Article in the themed collection: Chemistry for Covalent Adaptable Polymer Networks & Published as the back cover)

• Nanocomposite Grafted Stretchable and Conductive Ionic Hydrogels for Use as Soft Electrode in a Wearable Electrocardiogram Monitoring Device, ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 2020, 2, 2, 618-625.

• Polyacryloyl Hydrazide Incorporation in Ionic Hydrogels Improves Toughness, Elasticity, Self-Healability, Adhesive & Strain Sensing Properties, Mater. Chem. Front., 2019, 3, 690-701 

• Self-Healable & Recyclable Dynamic Covalent Networks Based on Room Temperature Exchangeable Hydrazide Michael Adduct Linkages. Macromolecules, 2018.(Listed as the most read article) 

• Ionization-Induced Reversible Aggregation of Self-Assembled Polycarbonyl Hydrazide Nanoparticles: A Potential Candidate for Turn-On Base Sensor and pH-Switchable Materials ACS Appl Nano Mater, 2017. (Listed among top 5 articles in 2017)  

• Recyclable Thermosets based on Dynamic Amidation and Aza-Michael Addition Chemistry Macromolecules, 2016, 49, 7814-7824.

• A General Reagent Free Route to pH Responsive Polyacryloyl Hydrazide Capped Metal Nanogels for Synergistic Anticancer Therapeutic ACS Appl. Mater. Interface, 2015, 7, 11497-11507.

• Polyacryloyl Hydrazide Based Injectable & Stimulai Responsive Hydrogel with Tunable Properties J. Mater. Chem. B, 2014.

• Polyacryloyl Hydrazide: An Efficient, Simple and Cost Effective Precursor to a Range of Functional Materials through Hydrazide Based Click Reactions ACS Appl. Mater. Interface, 2014, 6, 1855-1865.

• Thermoresponsive Semicrystalline Poly(ε-caprolactone) Networks: Exploiting Cross-linking with Cinnamoyl Moieties to Design Polymers with Tunable Shape Memory. ACS Appl. Mater. Interface, 2012, 4, 645-657.

• “A novel approach to synthesis of different end-functionalized polyisobutylenes using nucleophilic substitution reactions” Macromolecules 2008, 41, 3832-3841.