Prakash Kanoo
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Special Centre for Nanoscience
Room No
103, SCNS
Email
prakashkanoo@mail.jnu.ac.in, prakashkanoo@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
Qualifications
- Ph.D.: 2012, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru. Supervisor Prof. Tapas K. Maji (2019 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awardee in Chemical Sciences)
- Awarded Junior Research Fellowship JRF by CSIR, Govt. of India in 2007 followed by a Senior Research Fellowship, SRF
- Qualified GATE in 2007 conducted by IIT Kanpur with AIR 45, Percentile 99.04
- Worked as a Project Assistant, Department of Chemistry, Assam University, Silchar, Assam, Supervisor Prof. Chira Ranjan Bhattacharjee during 2005-2007
- M.Sc.: 2005, Inorganic Chemistry Specialization, Assam University, Silchar, Assam (Gold Medalist)
- B.Sc.: 2003, Chemistry Honours, Karimganj College (Assam University), Karimganj, Assam
Areas of Interest/Specialization
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), nano-MOFs, Drug Delivery using nano-MOFs,Catalysis, Adsorption
Experience
- 2016-2024, Assistant Professor at Central University of Haryana (Department of Chemistry, School of Basic Sciences), Mahendergarh, Haryana
- 2014-2016, Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Science (Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit), Bengaluru. Supervisor, Prof. Gautam R. Desiraju
- 2012-2014, JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Kyoto University (Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences), Kyoto, Japan. Supervisor, Prof. Susumu Kitagawa
Awards & Honours
- Nominated as Young Scientist by Vice-Chancellor, Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh to attend IISF-2018 held in Lucknow (2018)
- Early Career Research Award (ECRA), from Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India, duration 3½ years (2017)
- Start-Up Research Grant, from Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology (DST), India, duration 3 years (2015)
- DS Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship, from UGC, India, duration 3 years (2015)
- JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Awarded by JSPS, Japan to conduct research at Kyoto University, Japan, duration 2 years (2012)
- Foreign Travel Grant (partial) from DST, India for attending MOF-2010, an International Conference in Marseilles, France (2010)
- Foreign Travel Grant (partial) from CSIR, India for Attending MOF-2010, an International Conference in Marseilles, France (2010)
- ICAM-I2CAM Junior Travel Award for attending a Gordon Research Conference held at Holderness, NH, USA (2010)
- Poster Award in International Winter School jointly organized by JNCASR, Bangalore and University of Cambridge, UK (2010)
- Certificate of appreciation by Govt. of India for witnessing Republic Day Parade 2006 as a guest of Hon’ble Prime Minister of India at Rajpath, for securing 1st class 1st position in M.Sc. Chemistry (2006)
- Awarded Gold Medal by Assam University, Silchar for securing 1st class 1st position in M.Sc. Chemistry (2005)
- Gajendra Kumar Roy Memorial Endowment Prize by Assam University, Silchar for securing 1st class 1st position in M.Sc. Chemistry (2005)
International Collaboration/Consultancy
Prof. Ryotaro Matsuda, Department of Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan
Dr. George Kostakis, Department of Chemistry, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, UK
Best Peer Reviewed Publications
- Pseudo gated adsorption with negligible volume change evoked by halogen bond interaction in the nanospace of PCPs/MOFs, P. Kanoo, R. Matsuda, H. Sato, L. Li, N. Hosono and S. Kitagawa, Chem. Eur. J., 26, 2148 (2020). (IF: 4.3, Wiley Publication)
- Crystal dynamics in multi-stimuli responsive entangled metal-organic frameworks, P. Kanoo, R. Haldar, S. K. Reddy, A. Hazra, S. N. Bonakala, R. Matsuda, S. Kitagawa, B. Sundaram, T. K. Maji, Chem. Eur. J., 22, 15864 (2016). (IF: 4.3, Wiley Publication)
- Unusual room temperature CO2 uptake in a fluoro-functionalized MOF: Insights from Raman spectroscopy and theoretical studies, P. Kanoo, S. K. Reddy, G. Kumari, R. Haldar, C. Narayana, S. Balasubramanian and T. K. Maji, Chem. Commun., 48, 8487 (2012). (IF: 4.9, RSC Publication)
- A pillared‒bilayer porous coordination polymer with 1D channel and 2D interlayer space, showing unique gas and vapor sorption, P. Kanoo, G. Mostafa, R. Matsuda, S. Kitagawa and T. K. Maji, Chem. Commun., 47, 8106 (2011). (IF: 4.9, RSC Publication)
- New interpenetrated copper coordination polymer frameworks having porous properties, P. Kanoo, R. Matsuda, M. Higuchi, S. Kitagawa and T. K. Maji, Chem. Mater., 21, 5860 (2009). (IF: 8.6, ACS Publication)
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
Total Citations: 1559; h-index: 21; i10-index: 23
- Quest for Desolvated Structure Unveils Breathing Phenomena in a MOF Making it a Greener Catalyst in Solvent-Free Set-Up: Insights from Combined Experimental and Computational Studies, S. Kumari, A. Yadav, A. Kumari, S. Mahapatra, D. Kumar, J. Sharma, P. Yadav, D. Ghosh, A. Chakraborty*, P. Kanoo*, Inorg. Chem. (To Appear, 2024). (IF: 4.6, ACS Publication)
- Metal-Organic Framework Based Drug Delivery Systems as Smart Carriers for Release of Poorly Soluble Drugs Hydrochlorothiazide and Dapsone, P. Yadav, P. Bhardwaj, M. Maruthi, A. Chakraborty, P. Kanoo*, Dalton Trans., 52, 11725 (2023). (IF: 4.0, RSC Publication)
- A Biocompatible Drug Delivery System Based on MOF Platform for Sustained and Controlled Release of Poorly Soluble Drug Norfloxacin, P. Yadav, S. Kumari, A. Yadav, P. Bhardwaj, M. Maruthi, A. Chakraborty*, P. Kanoo*, ACS Omega, 8, 28367 (2023). (IF: 4.0, ACS Publication)
- Open Metal Sites (OMSs) Inspired Investigation of Adsorption and Catalytic Functions in a Porous Metal-Organic Framework (MOF), A. Yadav, S. Kumari, P. Yadav, A. Hazra, A. Chakraborty*, P. Kanoo*, Dalton Trans., 54, 15496 (2022). (IF: 4.0, RSC Publication)
- Probing Time Dependent Phase Transformation in a Flexible Metal-Organic Framework with Nanoindentation, P. Kanoo*, M. K. Mishra and A. Hazra, Dalton Trans. (Communication), 50, 11380, (2021). (IF: 4.0, RSC Publication)
- Metal-Organic Frameworks as Platform for Lewis acid Catalyzed Organic Transformations, A. Yadav, P. Kanoo*, Chem. Asian J., 14, 3531 (2019). (IF: 4.1, Wiley Publication) (Invited Review Article; Top 10% downloaded paper 2018-19, Chem. Asian J., Wiley)
Patents (if any)
- An Efficient Process of Conversion of Aldehydes to Cyanohydrins by a MOF with Lewis Acidic Mn(II) Sites, A. Yadav, S. Kumari, A. Chakraborty, P. Kanoo, Indian Patent Application No. 202311029283 (Year 2023).
- A Process for Sustained and Controlled Release of Norfloxacin Using a Biocompatible MOF based Drug Delivery System, P. Yadav, A. Chakraborty, P. Kanoo, Indian Patent Application No. 202311032462 (Year 2023).