Amit Kumar
Associate Professor
IIT Guwahati
Amit Kumar completed his Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India in 2002 and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware, USA in 2009. His PhD research was focused on studying the transport of small gas molecules in nanoporous materials and dense polymer using molecular simulation techniques such as Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics. He joined the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati in April, 2010 where he is presently an associate professor.
Principal Investigator
Further information
Research interest in relevance of the project
- Molecular Modelling and Simulation
- Computational Materials Science.
Field of Expertise
- Molecular Modelling and Simulation
- Polymer Nanocomposites
- Gas Adsorption and Transport in Porous Materials.
Selected publications
- Bhasney, S. M., Bhagabati, P., Kumar, A., Katiyar, V. Morphology and crystalline characteristics of polylactic acid [PLA]/linear low density polyethylene [LLDPE]/microcrystalline cellulose [MCC] fiber composite. Composites Science and Technology. 171, 54-61, 2019.
- Kumar, K., Kumar, A. Enhanced CO2 Adsorption and Separation in Ionic Liquid-Impregnated Mesoporous Silica MCM-41: A Molecular Simulation Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122, 8216– 8227, 2018.
- Dhar, P., Gaur, S. S., Kumar, A., Katiyar, V. Cellulose Nanocrystal Templated Graphene Nanoscrolls for High Performance Supercapacitors and Hydrogen Storage: An Experimental and Molecular Simulation Study. Scientific Reports. 8, 3886, 2018.
- Sridhar, A., Srikanth, B., Kumar, A., Dasmahapatra, A. K. Coarse-grain molecular dynamics study of fullerene transport across a cell membrane. Journal of Chemical Physics. 143, 024907, 2015.
- Kumar, A., Lobo, R.F. and Wagner, N.J. Grand canonical Monte Carlo simulation of adsorption of nitrogen and oxygen in realistic nanoporous carbon models, AIChE Journal, 57(6), 1496-1505, 2011.
Contact details
Address:
Room No. 003
Dept. of Chemical Engineering
IIT Guwahati
Assam – 781039
Phone: +91 361 258 2274
Fax: +91 361 258 2291
