Ion conducting membranes for fuel cells and water electrolyzers
Sustainable polymers for packaging
Polymer nanocomposites and blends
Chemistry
Environmental Science
Academic Experience / Industrial Experience: 2 years
Assistant Professor, SRM IST Vadapalani
Principal Project Associate, CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad, 2022-2023
Postdoctoral Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, 2019-2021
National Postdoctoral Fellow (NPDF) at IIT Madras, 2016-2018
Received INAE-CEEE program fellowship, 2026
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Postdoctoral Fellowship, Sweden, 2019-2021
NPDF Best Poster Award for online poster competition, 2018
National Post-Doctoral Fellowship awarded by DST-SERB, India, 2016-2018
CSIR Senior Research Fellowship awarded by CSIR, India, 2012 – 2015
CSIR Junior Research fellowship awarded CSIR, India, 2010- 2012
Qualified in GATE exam in Chemistry with 92 percentile, 2010
Qualified in CSIR-NET exam in Chemical Sciences, 2009
Awarded international travel grant by DST for attending international conference (ACS Meetings and Exposition) in Colorado, USA, March 2015.
Veerababu Polisetti, Subramaniyam Sathiyaraj, Singha, Shuvra, Minna Hakkarainen, Anna Savagn, Mikael Hedenqvist. Plant cutin-inspired co- and terpolyesters as potential packaging materials, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2024, 12, 8001 (IF: 7.1).
Anton Bjurström, Antonella Scotto di Uccio, Sirui Liu, Anna J. Svagan, Shuvra Singha, Alessandra Cesaro, Stefano Papirio, Silvio Matassa, Mikael S. Hedenqvist, Single-cell Protein Bioplastic Films from Recovered Nitrogen and Carbon with High Anaerobic Biodegradability and Biogas Potential at End-of-Life, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2024, 12, 15603 (IF : 7.1)
Bhupanapati V. Aravind, Nallamilli Meghana Devi, Syed Shameem, Rambabu Koyilapu, Shuvra Singha*, N. V. N. K. Suresh Kumar, P. S. Srinivasa Babu, and S. Marutheeswaran, Valoriaztion of Turmeric Leaves for the Preparation of Mesoporous Carbon for Supercapacitor Application, J. of Mater. Science: Mater. Electronics, 2026, 37:867. (I.F 2.8)
Akhil Gorre, Shuvra Singha, Tushar Jana, Polybenzimidazole Cross-linked with Polymeric Ionic Liquid to develop PEM, J. Chemical Sci. 2026.
Singha, Shuvra; Jana, Tushar. Effect of Composition on the Properties of PEM based on Polybenzimidazole and Poly(vinylidene fluoride) Blends, Polymer, 2014, 55, 594-601. (IF = 4.432)
Singha, Shuvra; Jana, Tushar. Structure and Properties of Polybenzimidazole/Silica Nanocomposite Membranes: Influence of Organic/Inorganic Interface, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2014, 6, 21286-21296. (IF = 10.383)
Singha, Shuvra; Jana, Tushar; Annie, Modestra; Naresh, Amradi; Mohan, S. Venkata. Highly Efficient Sulfonated Polybenzimidazole as PEM in Microbial Fuel Cells, J. Power Sources, 2016, 317, 143-152. (IF = 9.794)
Singha, Shuvra*; Hedenqvist, Mikael; A Review on Barrier Properties of Poly(lactic acid)/Clay Nanocomposites. Polymers, 2020, 12, 1095. (IF = 4.967)
Singha, Shuvra; Gowda, Vasantha; Hedenqvist, Mikael; Plant Cuticle Inspired Polyesters as Green and Sustainable Polymer Materials. ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 2021, 3, 4088-4100. (IF= 4.855)
Singha, Shuvra*; Mahmutovic, Muhmad; Zamalloa, Carlos; Stragier, Lutgart; Verstraete, Willy; Hanner, Anna; Das, Oisik; Hedenqvist, Mikael, Novel Single Cell Protein based Bioplastic as a Potential Packaging Material. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2021, 9, 6337. (IF = 9.224)
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