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Sanjay Rastogi (S.)

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1. Awards and Recognitions

  • Jan 2015 – Dec 2018; Follow up of the Teijin Group Senior Technical Expert award
  • Jan 2012  --- Dec 2015; Teijin Group Senior Technical Expert (an award for the introduction of new business)
  • Sept 2011 – Aug 2016; Outstanding Scientist Council for Science and Industrial Research, India (allocated 1 million Euros to set a group at National Chemical Lab., Pune, India)
  • Oct. 2003 – Sept 2004 Max Planck Society Fellowship, Germany
  • Jan 1999 – 2003 ; Senior Fellow & Program Co-ordinator,

            Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI), The Netherlands

DPI represents consortium of more than 20 chemical industries, such are DSM, OCE, Akzo-Nobel, Dow, GE, Philips, BASELL, SABIC, Shell, etc.

  • Jan 1997 – March 1997 Visiting Professor, Hiroshima University, Japan
  • DPI Innovation award for the years 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2014
  • Principal project leader of a series of allotted beamtimes at European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France (www.esrf.eu). This allowed the group to have access to perform time resolved X-ray scattering studies at three different beamlines.
  • A member of Scientific Advisory Committee at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxford
  • A member of Review Panel at European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble

 

2. Award winning presentations in international conferences

(a). Polymer Technology Netherlands best poster award for the year 1999, meeting held in Lunteren, The Netherlands, L. Kurelec and S. Rastogi

(b). European Polymer Federation, best poster award for the year 2001, meeting held in

Eindhoven, The Netherlands, C.S.J. Corstjens and S. Rastogi

(c). European Polymer Federation, 2nd prize for the poster award, meeting held in Eger,

Hungary, in the year 2001 A. Rastogi, S. Rastogi and V.B.F. Mathot

 

A News and Views section of Nature (vol 404) 9th March 2000 pages 134-135, “Too hot to melt” by A.L. Greer summarizes the work performed by us in paper Macromolecules 1999,26, 8897-8909

 

 

3. Invited/Plenary speaker at following International meetings:

International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry,

American Physical Society,

American Chemical Society,

Polymer Processing Society,

Polymer Physics meetings across the globe,

Royal Society of Chemistry meetings in London,

Australasian polymer symposium,

Meetings associated to Synchrotron Radiation Facility across Europe,

Materials Research Society meetings,

NATO workshop,

North American Thermal Analysis Society

European Polymer Federation meeting

 

4. Organizer of four days symposia on polymers in the European congress on Advanced

Materials and Processes, EUROMAT 2003, 1-5th September 2003, Lausanne, Switzerland

 

Some statistics

Number of published refereed papers: > 125 (Nature, Nature Materials, PRL, Advances in Polymer Science, Macromolecules, Biomacromolecules (60% of the published work) and others)

Number of papers in conferences: >100

Number of patents: >30 (on prostheses (DSM and DPI), water swellable elastomers (patent developed with Shell oil), high modulus high strength tapes of UHMWPE  and products (light weight articles for body and armor protection; pipes); high performance bio-based polymers; nucleating agents for synthetic and bio-polymers; composites.

Number of publications in books: >8

Number of students finished their PhD work: 23

Number of students finished Masters Work: 17

Number of papers communicated: 4

 

 

 

 

  

 

Career history

Work Experience:

1. Academia:

  • Sept 2011- Aug 2016; Outstanding Scientist of Council for Science and Industrial Research (CSIR) India
  • Nov 2008 – Principal Scientist, Teijin Aramid, Arnhem (on secondment)
  • Feb 2006 – Professor, Polymer Technology, Loughborough University, UK
  • Sept. 2000 – March 2013 Associate Professor, Eindhoven University, The Netherlands
  • Jan 2013 -  Professor, Bio-based program, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
  • Oct. 2003 – Oct 2004 Max Planck Society Fellow, Max Planck Institute for

            Polymers, Germany (on sabbatical), running joint projects to date and is a visiting

            fellow.

  • Apr. 1995 – Aug 2000 Assistant Professor, Eindhoven University, The Netherlands
  • July 1994 – April 1995 Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
  • July 1992 - June 1994 Research Fellow, Eindhoven University, The Netherlands

            Worked in the group of Prof. P.J. Lemstra

  • Oct. 1987- Mar. 1991 Research Fellow, Bristol University, England;

In the group of the Late Professor A. Keller, F.R.S.

  • Jan 1985 – Jun. 1992 Lecturer, Lucknow University, India

 

2. Team Leader

Supervised and developed various Polymer Programs related to understanding of “structure versus performance” of polyolefin’s, engineering plastics and bio-polymers. The programs combine Chemistry, Physics and Processing, crossing length scales from molecular structures up to macroscopic properties, such as strength, toughness, wear properties etc. At present, I am leading a team of fifteen researchers and also coordinating research activities in the Dutch Polymer Institute and Teijin Aramid.

 

Some of successful programs which are of fundamental and commercial relevance:

  • Knee prosthesis – developed with DSM, Geleen, Netherlands
  • Water Swellable Elastomers – developed with Shell Oil, Rijswijk, Netherlands
  • Water dissolving hydrogen bonded polymers – developed with Dutch Polymer

            Institute

  • Stress free polymers: volume expansion on crystallization
  • Disentangled polymers for high modulus high strength fibers: Teijin Aramids, The Netherlands

 

The development of disentangled ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene has provided an environmental friendly route to the manufacturing of high modulus, high tensile strength tapes having applications in body armour, helmets, ropes and cables, amongst other applications. Commercialisation is being undertaken by a Japanese company, Teijin, in the Netherlands. The new business, started in 2011 under the brand name Endumax®, employs >80 staff and the positive results suggest sales of >€15M from 2014 with an increase of ~10% over the first 5 years. Competitors such as Du Pont (Tensylon®) and DSM (Dyneema BT10®) have also initiated development of products using the new process route developed by us at Loughborough University. Thus the technology has initiated a new era in engineering polymers.

 

3. Research Interests and Activities

Focus is the fundamental understanding of structure-property relationship; molecular architecture by controlled synthesis, morphology development during polymerisation, resultant polymer physics, rheology to achieve the ultimate mechanical and physical properties for high demanding applications. Over 20 research grants obtained totalling more than US$ 21M leading to more than 125 publications in peer reviewed  journals,  >100 publications in conferences, and more than 12 base patents granted.

Specific interests include:

Bio-based high performance polymers
Chain dynamics in thermodynamically metastable polymer melts
Amorphous state in semi-crystalline polymers
Flow induced crystallization
Hydrogen bonding in synthetic and bio-polymers
Ultimate fibres and tapes for high demanding applications
Conducting polymers
Polymers for prostheses

 

Grants/Contracts held at Loughborough University (principal investigator)

Funding agency                                              fEC                  Start date         End date

1. Dutch Polymer Institute (MPJ11)                   £302,453          01-Mar-2007      28-Feb-2011

2. Dutch Polymer Institute (MPJ10792)              £228,929          01-Mar-2007      24-Nov-2009

3. Teijin Twaron, NL (MPJ11168)                       £312,328          15-Jul-2007       14-Jul-2009

4. Teijin Twaron, NL(MPJ11168)                        £450,000          15-Jul- 2009      01-Nov-2011

4. Teijin Twaron, NL(MPJ11168; extension)        £150,000          01-Nov- 2010    01-Nov-2011

5. Dutch Polymer Institute (MPJ11170)              £269,900          01-Sep-2009     31-Aug-2012

6. Evaluation of fishing ropes (MPJ11472)        £10,000

7. Teijin Twaron, NL (MPJ10783)                       £50,103            15-Jan-2007      14-Jul-2007

8. Dutch Polymer Institute (MPJ10793)              £269,900          1st Aug 2008     31-Jul-2011

9. Teijin Twaron, NL (Rastogi’s secondment agreement)                        1st Aug 2008    1-Nov-2012

10. Dutch Polymer Institute (J13341)                 £715,194          1st April 2012     1st May 2016

11. Teijin Twaron, NL extension of grant                         £350,000(app) 01 Nov 2012     1st Nov 2014

12. Borealis AG, Austria                                               £150,000(app)   01 March 2014   28th Feb 2015

 

Grants/Contracts currently held at Eindhoven University of Technology, NL (principal investigator)

DPI project on High performance Polymers for natural resources            approx. Euro 300K (end date March 2015, started in Feb 2011)

Grants/Contracts currently held at the National Chemical Lab., Pune, India (principal investigator)

Council of Science and Industrial Research grant for the outstanding scientist  approx.. 1 million Euros . Started in Sept 2011 and to end in Aug 2016.

Setting up of the bio-based program at Maastricht University, NL

The province of Limburg has provided five full time permanent staff at the level of Assistant Professors. My role is to steer the program and develop it with the involvement of Aachen University at the site Chemelot, Geleen, NL. For more details on this new venture please see the vision provided in the website on AMIBM (www.amibm.org)

 

4. Technical consultant

  • Shell polymer division, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • DSM Geleen, The Netherlands
  • Teijin Twaron, Arnhem, The Netherlands
  • GE Plastics, Bangalore (India)