Murali Sastry
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Murali Sastry (born 1959) is an Indian
surfaces, films and materials chemistry[3] and is an elected fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences[4] and the Indian Academy of Sciences.[5] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2002, for his contributions to chemical sciences.[6]
Biography
Murali Sastry, born on 10 June 1959 in the south Indian state of
Legacy
Sastry's contributions are based on his researches focused on
nano materials,[9] as well as the commercial applications of the technologies he has developed. As the chief scientific officer of Tata Chemicals, he introduced a low-cost water purifier, Swach, which utilized nano-silvers as the filtering agent. He established an innovation centre there which worked on a number of projects based on nanotechnology.[8] It was during his tenure as the CEO of IITB-Monash Research Academy, the institution set up a new headquarters in Mumbai where he oversees inter-disciplinary scientific research with participation from some of the leading Indian and overseas business houses.[10] He has published his research by way of chapters contributed to books authored by others and over 360 peer-reviewed articles.[11][12] He holds many US and Indian patents;[13] Justia Patents has listed 24 of these.[14] He has also been associated with many governmental and semi-governmental science agencies such as Department of Biotechnology, Department of Science and Technology, Presidential Nanotechnology Committee and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research as well as a number of science journals.[1]
Awards and honors
Sastry received the CSIR Young Scientist Award in 1993Elsevier Scopus in 2016.[18]
See also
References
- ^ a b c "People". IITB-Monash Research Academy. 2016. Archived from the original on 8 September 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ^ a b c d e "Citations: 2006 Distinguished Alumnus Awards Recipients". IIT Mumbai. 2016.
- ^ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
- ^ a b "MAS fellows". Maharashtra Academy of Sciences. 2016.
- ^ a b "Fellow profile". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
- ^ "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
- ^ "Executive Profile". Bloomberg. 2016.
- ^ a b "Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from an Indian Perspective" (PDF). National Academy of Sciences, India. 2016.
- ^ "Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners" (PDF). Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ^ "IITB-Monash building a welcome addition". IITB-Monash Research Academy. 2016.
- ^ "Browse by Fellow". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016.
- ^ "On Google Scholar". Google Scholar. 2016.
- ^ "Chief Scientist, Tata Chemicals Innovation Centre". Nano Equity. 2016. Archived from the original on 30 November 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ^ "Patents". Justia Patents. 2016.
- ^ "CRSI Bronze Medal". Chemical Research Society of India. 2016. Archived from the original on 16 October 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ^ "Chemical Sciences". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2016. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
- ^ "Awards and honors". Material Research Society of India. 2016.
- ^ "THE 2016 LIST OF MOST CITED RESEARCHERS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING". MSES Supplies. 2017.
Further reading
- Murali Sastry (2014). "Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from an Indian Perspective" (PDF). National Academy of Sciences, India.
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