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Members

Vinod Kumar Gupta

Professor

Research 

  1. Nanotechnology for Water
  2. Environmental Engineering
  3. Electro-analytical Chemistry
  4. Chemical sensors
  5. Waste Management

Awards:

 

  • KHOSHLA RESEARCH PRIZE (Commendation Certificate) 1991.
  • European Commission Post Doctoral Fellowship awarded by European Commission and DST, Govt. of India in 1992 - 1993 to work at Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Regensburg (Germany). 
  • First KHOSLA RESEARCH AWARD and GOLD MEDAL, 1996.
  • SECOND KHOSLA RESEARCH AWARD and SILVER MEDAL, 1996
  • DAAD Visiting Professorship for two months during 2002-2003.
  • Star Performer at IIT, Roorkee in the Session 2002-2003; 2003-2004.
  • Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation (2004).
  • India Citation Laureate Award (2004).
  • Star Performer at IIT, Roorkee in the Session 2004 - 2005.
  • Star Performer at IIT, Roorkee in the Session 2005 - 2006.
  • Star Performer at IIT, Roorkee in the Session 2006 - 2007.
  • Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, (FNASc) 2008.

International Collaboration:

 

  1. National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India.
  2. Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee, India.
  3. Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow, India.
  4. Jiwaji University, Gwalior, India.
  5. Chemnitz Technical University, Chemnitz, Germany.
  6. Freie University of Berlin, Germany.
  7. Korea National University of Education, Seoul, Soth Korea.
  8. University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
  9. University of Belgrade, Bor, Serbia, Yugoslavia.
  10. King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran-31261, Saudi Arabia
  11. University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Publications

Books

Nano Chromatography and Capillary Electrophoresis:Pharmaceutical and Environmental Analyses,John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2009).

Environmental Water: Advances in Treatment, Remediation and Recycling, Elsevier (2012).

Nanomaterial/Polymer Membranes. From Synthesis, Characterization to Applications, Elsevier, (2016 under publication).

Lanthanide Series Determination by Various Analytical Methods, Elsevieer, (2016).

Invited chapters:

  1. Synthetic Dyes for the ‘Handbook of TLC’ Marcel and Dekker, U.S.A. 1990.
  2. Synthetic Dyes for the ‘Handbook of TLC’ Marcel and Dekker, U.S.A. 1996.
  3. Adsorbents for Water Treatment: Low Cost Alternatives to Carbon for the ‘Encyclopedia of Surface and Colloid Science’ edited by Arthur Hubbard for Marcel Dekker, U.S.A., volume 1, pages 136-166, 2002.
  4. Synthetic Dyes for the ‘Handbook of TLC’ Marcel and Dekker, U.S.A. 2003.

5.Adsorbents for Water Treatment: Development of Low Cost Alternatives to Carbon for the updated ‘Encyclopedia of Surface and Colloid science’ edited by Somasundaran for Marcel Dekker, Pages 1-34, 2003.

  1. Advances in Chiral Pollutants Analysis by Capillary Electrophoresis for ‘Encyclopedia of Chromatography’ published by Marcel Dekker, 2004 pages 92-100.
  2. Adsorbents for Water Treatment: Development of Low Cost Alternatives to Carbon for ‘Encyclopedia of Surface and Colloid Science’, Second Edition; Taylor & Francis: New York, 2006; 1, pp. 149 – 184.
  3. Ion-Selective Electrodes for Sensing of Metal Cations for the ‘Encyclopedia of Sensors’ Volume 5, edited by Craig A. Grimes and Beth Dickey, published by American Scientific Publishers (2006) pp.133-150.
  4. Metal Ions Speciation in the Environment: Distribution, Toxicities and Analyses for the book Concepts and Applications in Environmental Geochemistry, Developments in Environmental Science, Volume 5: edited by Dibyendu Sarkar, Rupali Datta, Robyn Hannigan, published by Elsevier (2007), pages 33-56.
  5. Electrochemical Sensors for Liquid Environment, for the book “Chemical Sensors” edited by Prof. Ghenadii Korotcenkov and published by Momentum Press (USA) (2011) Vol. 5 pages 125-169.
  6. Syntheses of Carbon Nanotube-Metal Oxides Composites; Adsorption and Photo-degradation, for the book " Carbon Nanotubes - From Research to Applications” Edited by: Stefano Bianco; Published by Publisher: InTech; ISBN 978-953-307-500-6 (2011) pages 295-312.
  7. Adsorption on carbon Nanotubes, For the book “Solvent Extraction, Ion-exchange and adsorption” Edited by: Dr. Naushad Ghauri: published by, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., USA. (2012).
  8. Covalent and Non-Covalent Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes. Advanced Carbon Materials and Technology (2013): 317. John Wiley & Sons.
  9.  Liquid-Liquid Separation through Polymeric Membranes; in Transport Properties of Polymeric Membranes (2017) Elsevier

Reviews:

  1. V. K. Gupta, I. Ali, and H.Y. Aboul-Enein, Chiral resolution of some environmental pollutants by capillary electrophoresis, Electrophoresis, 24(9) 1360-1374-(2003).
  2. V. K. Gupta, I. Ali, and H.Y. Aboul-Enein, Chirality: A challenge for the Environmental Scientists, Current Science, 84(2), 152-156 (2003).
  3. V. K. Gupta, Potentiometric sensors for heavy metals- an overview, Chimia, 59,209-217(2005).
  4. I. Ali, V.K. Gupta and H.Y. Aboul-Enein, Metal Ion Speciation and Capillary Electrophoresis: Application in the New Millennium, Electrophoresis, 26(21)     3988-4002 (2005).
  5. I. Ali, H.Y. Aboul-Enein, V.K. Gupta and Sam F.Y. Li, Pharmaceuticals analysis by capillary electrophoresis at nanolevel detection J. Cap. Electrophoresis and   Microchip Tech., 009(5/6), 85 - 99 (2006).
  6. I. Ali and V. K. Gupta, Advances in Water Treatment by Adsorption Technology, Nature Protocols, 1(6), 2661 - 2667 (2007).
  7. I. Ali, V. K. Gupta, H. Y. Aboul-Enein, P. Singh, B. Sharma, Role of racemization in optically active drugs development, Chirality, 19(6), 453-463 (2007).
  8. V. K. Gupta, I. Ali, H. Y. Aboul-Enein, Metal Ions Speciation in the Environment: Distribution, Toxicities and Analyses, Developments in Environmental Science, 5 (2007) 33-56.
  9. I. Ali, V. K. Gupta and H. Y. Aboul-Enein, Capillary Electrophoresis at Nano Level Detection : Applications in pharmaceutical analysis, Egypt. J. Chem., Special Issue (M.Sidky), 1-29 (2007).
  10. I. Ali, V. K. Gupta, H. Y. Aboul-Enein, Chiral Resoution of Racemic Environmental Pollutants by Capliary Electrophoresis, Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry, 38, 132-146 (2008).
  11. Imran Ali, V.K. Gupta, Hassan Y. Abul-Enein and Afzal Hussain, Hyphenation in Sample Preparation: Advancement from Micro to Nano World, J. Sep. Sci. 31, 2040-2053 (2008).
  12. Imran Ali, Hassan Y. Aboul-Enein and V.K. Gupta, Microchip-Based Nano   Chromatography and Nano Capillary Electrophoresis in Genomics and Proteomics,  Chromatographia, 69, S13-S22 (2009).
  13. V. K. Gupta and Suhas, Application of low cost adsorbents for dye removal- A review, J. Environmental Management, 90(2009) 2313-2342.
  14. V.K. Gupta, P.J.M. Carrott, M.M.L. Ribeiro Carrott, Suhas, Low cost adsorbents: Growing approach to wastewater treatment – A review, Crit. Rev. Environ. Sci.Technol, 39, 783–842 (2009).
  15. V.K. Gupta, Potentiometric sensors for inorganic anions based on neutral carriers - a review, The Arabian J. Sci.  Engg. A-Science,35(2A), 7-25 (2010).
  16. V. K. Gupta, R. Jain, Shilpi Agarwal, Voltammetric Techniques for the Assay of Pharmaceuticals-a Review, Analytical Biochemistry 408 (2011)  179-196.
  17. V.  K. Gupta, A. Nayak, Shilpi Agarwal,  Barkha Singhal, Recent Advances on Potentimetric Membrane Sensors for Pharmaceutical Analysis, Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening, 14(4)(2011) 284-302.
  18. V.  K. Gupta, M. R. Ganjali, P. Norouzi, H. Khani, A.  Nayak, and Shilpi Agarwal, Electrochemical Analysis of some Toxic Metals and Drugs by Ion Selective Electrodes, Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry, 41(2011)282–313.
  19. M. Ahmaruzzaman,V. K. Gupta, Rice husk and its ash as low-cost adsorbents in water and wastewater treatment, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 50 (2011) 13589–13613.
  20. V. K. Gupta, Arunima Nayak, Shilpi Agarwal, Rajendra Dobhal, D.P. Uniyal, Prashant Singh, Bhavtosh Sharma, Shweta Tyagi, Rakesh Singh, Arsenic speciation analysis and remediation techniques in drinking water, Desalination and Water Treatment, 40(2012)231-243.
  21. V. K. Gupta, A.Nayak, Shilpi Agarwal, R. Dobhal, D.P. Uniyal, P. Singh, B. Sharma, S. Tyagi, R. Singh, Advanced and hyphenated techniques for nano level analysis of iron in water,    Crit. Rev. Anal. Chem., 42(03) (2012) 245 - 256.
  22. V. K. Gupta, I. Ali,  T. A. Saleh, A. Nayak, S. Agarwal, Chemical Treatment Technologies for Wastewater Recycling –a Review, RSC Advances (2 (2012)6380 – 6388.
  23. V. K. Gupta, Arunima Nayak, Shilpi Agarwal, Rajendra Dobhal, D.P. Uniyal, Prashant Singh, Bhavtosh Sharma, Shweta Tyagi, Rakesh Singh, Toxic metal ions in water and their prevalence in Uttarakhand, India, Water Science and Technology: Water Supply, 12(6) (2012)773-782.
  24. M. Ahmaruzzaman, V. K. Gupta, Application of coal fly ash in air quality management, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 51, (2012) 15299−15314.
  25. V. K. Gupta, T. A. Saleh, Sorption of Pollutants by Porous Carbon, Carbon Nanotubes and fullerene: an overview, Env. Sci. Pollut. Res., 20 (2013) 2828-2843
  26. V. K. Gupta, R. Kumar, A. Nayak, T. A. Saleh, M.A. Barakat, Adsorptive removal of dyes from aqueous solutions onto carbon nanotubes: A review, Adv. Colloid Interface Sci., 193-194 (2013) 24-34.
  27. T. A. Saleh, V. K. Gupta, Processing Methods and Characteristics of Porous Carbons Derived from Waste Rubber Tires: A Review, Adv. Colloid Interface Sci, 211 (2014) 93-101.
  28. V. K. Gupta, A. Nayak,  B. Bhushan, S. Agarwal, A critical analysis on the efficiency of activated carbons from low cost precursors for heavy metals remediation, Crit. Rev. Environ. Sci.Technol. 45 (2015) 613–668.
  29. V. K. Gupta, S. Khamparia, I.Tyagi, D. Jaspal, A. Malviya, Decolorization of mixture of dyes: A critical review, Global J. Environ. Sci. Manage, 1(2015)71-94.
  30. V. K. Gupta, H. Sadegh, M.Yari, R. S. Ghoshekandi, B.Maazinejad, M.Chahardori, Removal of ammonium ions from wastewater A short review in development of efficient methods, Global J. Environ. Sci. Manage., 1(2) (2015) 149-158.
  31. V. K. Gupta, A. Nayak, S. Agarwal, Bioadsorbents for remediation of heavy metals: Current status and their future prospects, Environmental Engineering Research, 20(1) (2015)001-018.
  32. K. Zare, V. K. Gupta, O. Moradi, A. S. H. Makhlouf, M. Sillanpa, M. N. Nadagouda,  H. Sadegh, R. Shahryari-ghoshekandi, A. Pal, Z.Wang, I. Tyagi, M.Kazemi, A comparative study on the basis of adsorption capacitybetween CNTs and activated carbon as adsorbents for removal of noxious synthetic dyes: a review, J Nanostruct Chem, 5(2015)227–236.
  33. V.K. Gupta, I.Tyagi, H. Sadegh, R.Shahryari-Ghoshekandi, A. S. Hamdy Makhlouf, B. Maazinejad, Nanoparticles as adsorbent; a positive approach for removal of noxious metal ions: A review, Science, Technology and Development 34 (2015)195-214.
  34. V. K. Gupta, I. Tyagi, S. Agarwal, O. Moradi, H. Sadegh, R. Shahryarighoshekandi, A. S. H. Makhlouf, M. Goodarzi, A. Garshasbi, Study on the removal of heavy metal ions from industry waste by carbon nanotubes: effect of the surface modification-A review, Crit. Rev. Environ. Sci.Technol, 46 (02), (2016) 93 – 120.
  35. V. K. Gupta, Suhas, I. Tyagi, S. Agarwal, R. Singh, M. Chaudhary, A. Harit, S. Kushwaha, Column operation studies for the removal of dyes and phenols using a low cost adsorbent, Global J. Environ. Sci. Manage., 2(1) (2016)1-10.
  36. Suhas, V.K. Gupta, P.J.M. Carrott, R.D. Singh, M. Chaudhary, Sarita Kushwaha, Cellulose: A review as natural, modified and activated carbon adsorbent,Bioresource Technology, 216(2016) 1066-1076.
  37. Hamidreza Sadegh; Gomaa A. M. Ali, Vinod Kumar Gupta, Abdel Salam Hamdy Makhlouf, Ramin Shahryari-ghoshekandi; Mallikarjuna N. Nadagouda, Mika Sillanpää, Elżbieta Megiel, The Role of Nanomaterials as Effective Adsorbents and Their Applications in Wastewater Treatment: A Review, J Nanostr. Chem.7 (1), 1-14 (2017).

 

 



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