Dr Ankur Bordoloi

Research Interest

• Design and development of nano materials (metal, metal oxides, porous materials carbon materials for efficient, selective and stable catalyst systems
• C1 Chemistry
• Syngas generation and utilisation process from renewable and conventional resources
• Structure and activity relationship, Metal Support interactions, Support-substrate interactions and In-situ reaction /operando studies
• Alternative Hydrogen production

Work Experience

Awards and Honours

• Keerti Sangoram endowment award for best research scholar of the year 2007, in Physical/Material sciences, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune
• Prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for postdoctoral research, Germany
• Recipient of Prestigious DR K S KRISHNAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATESHIP, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)
• Awarded DST Fast Track Young Scientist, 2014

Patents

• An improved process and catalyst for selective dehydration of methanol to dimethyl ether
  
  US2016/9468914 B2
• An improved Ni-CeMgAl2O4 catalyst and process for dry reforming of methane with carbon dioxide
  
  US2016/0001269A1
• An improved process and catalyst containing Ni nano-cluster supported on modified CeO2/ZrO2 for tri-reforming of methane
  
  US2016296917 A1
• Heavy petroleum residue derived sp2 carbon nanogranules for improved synthesis of light olefins
  
  Indian patent & US patent applied Application No:0134NF2016
• An improved process for selective synthesis of lower olefins from syngas using boron doped nanostructured iron catalyst
  
  Indian patent & US patent applied Application No:0288NF2016

Selected Publications

• Oxidative coupling of aniline and desulfurization over nitrogen rich mesoporous carbon
  
  Reena Goyal, Deepa Dumbre, L N Sivakumar Konathala, Monica Pandey and Ankur Bordoloi
  
  Catal. Sci. Technol.,5 (2015) 3632–3638
• Support interaction of Ni nanocluster-based catalysts applied in CO2 reforming
  
  Subhasis Das, Sharvani Thakur, Arijit Bag, Manveer Singh Gupta , Prasenjit Mondal and Ankur Bordoloi
  
  J. Catal. 330(2015) 46-60
• Ni nanocluster on modified CeO2-ZrO2 nanoporous composite for tri-reforming of methane
  
  Rajib Kumar Singha, Subhasis Das, Monica Pandey, Sachin Kumar, Rajaram Bal and Ankur Bordoloi
  
  Catal. Sci. Technol., 6(2016)7122–7136
• Studies of synergy between metal–support interfaces and selective hydrogenation of HMF to DMF in water
  
  Reena Goyal, Bipul Sarkar, Arijit Bag, Nazia Siddiqui, Deepa Dumbre, Nishita Lucas, Suresh Kumar Bhargava and Ankur Bordoloi
  
  J Catal 340(2016) 248-260
• Reaction and Mechanistic Studies of Heterogeneous Hydroamination over Support-Stabilized Gold Nanoparticles
  
  Manideepa Sengupta, Arijit Bag, Subhasis Das, Astha Shukla, L N Sivakumar Konathala, C A Naidu and Ankur Bordoloi
  
  ChemCatChem 8,19(2016)3121-3130
• Role of Cs in higher alcohol synthesis over modified Cu-Co nanocomposites under mild condition
  
  Subhasis Das, Manideepa Sengupta, and Ankur Bordoloi
  
  ChemCatChem 9, 2017, 1845-1853)
• Synergy studies between support surface properties and catalyst deactivation for CO2 reforming over supported Ni Nanoparticle
  
  Subhasis Das, Manideepa Sengupta, Jim Patel and Ankur Bordoloi
  
  Applied Catalysis A, 545,2017, 113-126
• Synthesis of AgWCNx nanocomposite for one-step conversion of Cyclohexene to Adipic Acid and its mechanistic studies
  
  Reena Goyal, Siddharth Sameer, Bipul Sarkar, Arijit Bag, Nikita Singhal, and Ankur Bordoloi
  
  Chemistry A European Journal, Chem. Eur.J.2017, 23,16555 –16565
• Facile synthesis of highly disperse Ni-Co nanoparticles over mesoporous silica for enhanced methane dry reforming
  
  Subhasis Das, Manideepa Sengupta ,Mumtaj Shah and Ankur Bordoloi
  
  Nanoscale, 2018,10, 6409-6425