Dr. K. Deepa

Dr. K. Deepa

Assistant Professor (O.G)
Area: Nanotechnology
Affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Kattankulathur Campus, SRM Institute of Science and Technology (formerly known as SRM University).

Email Id: deepak1@srmist.edu.in

Other Details:

Courses

• Chemical Reaction Engineering
• Mechanical Operations
• Physical and Analytical Chemistry
• Fluid Mechanics
• Heat Transfer
• Mass Transfer
• Physical and Analytical Chemistry Laboratory
• Technical Analysis and Instrumentation laboratory
• Chemical Reaction Engineering Laboratory

Research Interests

• Nanotechnology, Nanocomposites, Nanoparticles in catalysis 

Selected Publications

• Deepa, K., and Panda, T. (2019). Biogenic Gold Nanoparticles from Fusarium oxysporum: The Impact of Fungal Morphology and Localization Studies. Journal of Cluster Science, 1-13.
• Divya, G. A., Sakthibalan, R., Varthini, K. S. P., Deepa, K., and Samdavid, S. (2019). Experimental investigation of hydrodynamics and chromium (VI) adsorption in continuous countercurrent fluidized column. Chemical Papers, 1-8.
• Ramakoti, B., Dhanagopal, H., Deepa, K., Rajesh, M., Ramaswamy, S., and Tamilarasan, K. (2019). Solvent fractionation of organosolv lignin to improve lignin homogeneity: Structural characterization. Bioresource Technology Reports, 7, 100293.
• Deepa, K., and Panda, T. (2014). Synthesis of gold nanoparticles from different cellular fractions of Fusarium oxysporum. Journal of nanoscience and nanotechnology, 14(5), 3455-3463.
• Deepa, K., Singha, S., and Panda, T. (2014). Doxorubicin nanoconjugates. Journal of nanoscience and nanotechnology, 14(1), 892-904.
• Deepa, K., and Panda, T. (2013). Gold Nanoparticles, Biosynthesis. Encyclopedia of Metalloproteins, 916-921.
• Panda, T., and Deepa, K. (2011). Biosynthesis of gold nanoparticles. Journal of nanoscience and nanotechnology, 11(12), 10279-10294.

Papers Presented

• K. Deepa and T. Panda, “Green synthesis of gold nanoparticles”, National Conference on Chemical and Biological waste treatment processes for Green Environment, Trivandrum, Kerala (June 2010) p.77.
• K. Deepa and T. Panda, “Studies on biosynthesis of gold nanoparticles by Fusarium oxysporum”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Built Environment, Kandy, Srilanka (Dec 2010) pp. 337-339.
• K. Deepa and T. Panda, “Biosynthesis of gold nanoparticles by Fusarium oxysporum”, International Conference on Materials for the Future (ICMF), Thrissur, Kerala (Feb 2011) p.87

Work in Progress

• Continuous synthesis of nanoparticles in a millifluidic reactor
• Nanoparticles based sensors for detection of pollutants

Academic Experience:

• Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology July 2016 to till date.

Workshops /Seminars/Conferences

• Mihul Gabhane, Vaibhav Singh Rana, Vijay Vaishampayan, K. Deepa, Ashish Kapoor, “Detection of Arsenic(III) using functionalized gold nanoparticles on Microfluidics platform”, 5th International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2019
• S. Sam David, Souvik Sen, Saptarchita Datta, Khyati Parikh, K. Deepa, “Design of a Low-cost Microbial Fuel Cell”, InDA &IEEE-(OES) Conference on Technologies for Renewable energy and Water, 2019
• Vaibhav Singh Rana, Sai Tejaswi Basina, K. Deepa, “Continuous flow synthesis of gold nanoparticles”, International Conference on Desalination (InDACON), 2018
• Jadhav Pankaj Nagnath, P. Ovia, Delphy Davis, K. Deepa, “Synthesis and kinetic studies of silver nanoparticles”, International Conference on Desalination (InDACON), 2018

Achievements and Awards:

• Qualified in GATE 2007

Memberships:

• Life member, Indian Science Congress, 2016