Soumyakanti Adhikari

Professor
Chemical Sciences
Homi Bhabha National Institute
India

Biography

Soumyakanti Adhikari has done his Ph.D and working as professor in chemical sciences discipline from Department of Atomic Energy in Homi Bhabha National Institute.He has won many awards and recognitions during his period. He won IUPAC Prize for Young Chemist in 2001, Distinguished Service Award in 2004 from Asia Pacific EPR/ESR Society in 2004, Scientific and Technical Excellence Award, DAE, Govt. of India in 2008, Visiting Professor, at ISIR, Sanken, Osaka, Japan in 2007, Vice-President, Society for Free Radical Research-India in 2013.

Research Intrest

Radiation chemistry of microheterogeneous media, Free radical chemistry & biology: antioxidant mechanism of herbal extracts and their active ingredients, Radiation chemical synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials for optical and biological applications, Radiation chemistry of ionic liquids, Radiation cemistry of water at high temperature and high pressure

List of Publications
Joshi R, Adhikari S, Patro BS (2001) Free radical scavenging behaviour of folic acid: Evidence for possible antioxidant activity. Free Radical Biol Med 30: 1390-1399.
Patro BS, Rele S, Chinalwar GJ, Chattopadhyay S, Adhikari S et al. Protective activities of some phenolic 1,3- diketones against lipid peroxidation: possible involvement of 1,3-iketone moiety. Chem Bio Chem 3: 364-370.
Adhikari S (2003) Antioxidant activity of Bakuchiol: Experimental evidences and theoretical treatments on the possible involvement of the terpenoid chain. Chem Res Toxicol 16: 1062-1069.
Guleria A, Adhikari S* (2011) Generation of counter ion radical (Br2.-) and its reactions in Water-in-Oil (CTAB or CPB)/n Butanol/Cyclohexane/Water) microemulsion. J Phys Chem B 115: 10615-10621.
Smina TP, Strayo D, Devasagayam TPA, Adhikari S, Janardhanan KK (2011) Ganoderma lucidum total triterpenes prevent radiation-induced DNA damage and apoptosis in splenic lymphocytes in vitro. Mutation Research 726: 188-194.
Sachin GVM, Adhikari S (2012) Development of new chemical dosimeter for low dose range. Radiation Measurements 47: 430-433.
Shukla P, Roy M, Mukherjee P, Tyagi AK, Mukherjee T, et al. (2012) Interaction of bilirubin with Ag and Au ions: Green synthesis of bilirubin stabilized nanoparticles. Journal of Nanoparticle Research 14: 981-991.
Maity S, Chatterjee S, Variyar PS, Sharma A, Adhikari S, et al. (2013) Evaluation of anti-oxidant activity and characterization of phenolic constituents of Phyllanthus Amarus root. Journal of Agri. Food Chem. 61: 3453-3450.
Guleria A, Adhikari S* (2013) Islands of CdSe nanoparticles within Se nanofibers: A Room Temperature Ionic Liquid templated synthesis. Dalton Trans 42: 15159-15168.
Guleria A, Adhikari S (2014) Radiation induced physicochemical changes in FAP based imidazolium ionic liquids and their mechanistic pathways: Influence of hydroxyl group functionalization of the cation. Dalton Trans 43: 609-625.