Sib Sankar Mal

Designation: 

Associate Professor

Date of Joining at NITK: 

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Professional Experience: 

Total 12 years and 8 years at NITK

Contact Details

E-mail: 

malss@nitk.ac.in; malss@nitk.edu.in

Telephone: 

+91-824-2474000 Extn. 3208

Mobile: 

+91-9880659420
Faculty (author) Identifiers
Academic Background

• Ph.D. (Mentor: Prof: Ulrich Kortz, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany), 2008
• M.Sc. (IITB), 2003
• B.Sc. (Vidyasagar University), 2001

Areas of Interest

• Inorganic Chemistry
• Materials Chemistry
• Renewable Material
• Polyoxometalate Chemistry
• Catalysis

Significant Projects

1. Synthesis of Polyoxometalates-nanoparticles Hybrid based catalysts for Alkane oxidation (2015-2018), DST Young Scientist, Govt. of India.
2. Vanadium Based Polyoxometalates: Synthesis, Structure, Characterization and study of its Electrochemical Properties (2017-2020), CSIR
3. Synthesis of Levulinate esters using heteropolycids as potentially green catalyst"(2019-2020)- Vision Group on Science and Technology (VGST).

Supervision of Ph.D

Completed: 1, Master students: 18, Summer students: 4
Ongoing : 4

Significant Publications

1. Hervé and Krebs Type Magnetic Polyoxometalate Dimers: Review, Aleksandar Kondinski *, Abhishek Banerjee *, Sib Sankar Mal * Magnetochemistry, 2022, 8 (9), 96. (IF: 3.33, Q2)
2. Synthesis and Detailed Characterization of Sustainable Starch-based Bioplastic, Ishita Chakraborty, Pooja N, Soumyabrata Banik, Indira Govindaraju, Kuheli Das, Sib Sankar Mal, Muzamil Ahmad Rather, Manabendra Mandal, Ashamoni Neog, Rajib
Biswas,Vishwanath Managuli, Amitabha Datta, Krishna Kishore Mahato, Guan-Yu Zhuo, Journal of Polymer Science, 2022, e52924 (IF: 3.1)
3. Supercapacitor activity studies of a unique triangular oxo-vanadate – bisphosphonate composite with activated carbon, Dewendra Thakre, Anjana Anandan Vannathan, Abhishek Banerjee* and Sib Sankar Mal* Ionics, 2022, 28, 4001–4010. (IF: 2.8)
4. Polyoxovanadate-activated carbon-based hybrid materials for high-performance electrochemical capacitors, Anjana Anandan Vannathan, Pranay Rajendra Chandewar, Debaprasad Shee*, and Sib Sankar Mal* Journal of Electrochemical Society, 2022, 169, 050538.
(IF: 4.316)
5. Investigation of structural and physico-chemical properties of rice starch with varied amylose content: A combined microscopy, spectroscopy, and thermal study, Indira Govindaraju, Guan-Yu Zhuo, Ishita Chakraborty, Sindhoora Kaniyala Melanthota, Sib Sankar Mal,
Bhaswati Sarmah, Vishwa Jyoti Baruah, Krishna Kishore Mahato, Nirmal Mazumder* Food Hydrocolloids, 2021, 122, 107093 (I.F. 9.1)
6. Investigations into the Supercapacitor activity of bisphosphonate-polyoxovanadate compounds, Anjana Anandan Vannathan, Dewendra Thakre, Sk Rajab Ali, Mrinmoy De, Abhishek Banerjee,* Sib Sankar Mal* Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 2021, 304, 22566 (I.F.
3.5)
7. Organic Cation Linkers Polyoxomolybdate-Polypyrrol nanocomposite based supercapacitors Muhammed Anees P. K., Anjana Anandan Vannathan, Tatinaidu Kella, Debaprasad Shee, Sib Sankar Mal* Ionics, 2021, 27, 4023-4035. (I.F. 2.8)
8. Electrochemical performance of activated carbon-supported polyoxomolybdates electrodes for energy conversion, Sukanya Maity, Anjana Anandan Vannathan, Tatinaidu Kella, Debaprasad Shee, Partha Pratim Das* and Sib Sankar Mal* Ceramics International, 2021,
47, 27132-2741 (I.F. 4.5)
9. Activated Carbon-Supported Vanado-Nickelate (IV) Based Hybrid Materials for Energy Application, Sukanya Maity, Neethu B. M., Tatinaidu Kella, Debaprasad Shee, Partha Pratim Das,* and Sib Sankar Mal* Journal of Energy Storage 2021, 40, 102727 (I.F. 6.6)
10. One-pot synthesis of Polyoxometalate decorated polyindole for the high energy storage supercapacitors, Anjana, Anandan Vannathan, Tatinaidu Kella, Debaprasad Shee, Sib Sankar Mal* ACSOmega 2021, 6(17), 11199-11208. (I.F. 3.5)
11. Recent advances in the preparation of levulinic esters from biomass-derived furanic and levulinic chemical platforms using heteropoly acid (HPA) catalysts, Navya S Bhat, Sib Sankar Mal, Saikat Dutta*, Molecular Catalysis 2021, 505, 111484. (I.F. 5.062)
12. Improved electrochemical performance of graphene oxide supported vanadomanganate (IV) nanohybrid electrode material for supercapacitors, Sparsha Kumari, Sukanya Maity, Anjana A. Vannathan, Debaprasad Shee, Partha Pratim Das,* and Sib Sankar Mal*
Ceramics International, 2020, 3, 3028-3035.
13. Efficient preparation of alkyl benzoates by heteropolyacid-catalysed esterification of benzoic acid under solvent-free condition, Ritesh Tiwari, Anoosha Rahman, Sharath Bandibairanahalli Onkarappa, Sib Sankar Mal*, and Saikat Dutta* ChemistrySylect, 2019, 4,
9119-9123.

Achievements

• Recipient of Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow
• ACS membership
• Recipient of GDCh Scholarship for ‘2nd EuCheMS Chemistry Congress’ Program
• Recipient of DFG Fellowship for the PhD programme.
• Recipient of Madhav Pandya Scholarship from IIT Bombay

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