Dr. Manoj Kumar Nayak

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INTEREST AREAS

• Molecular Design and Synthesis of Multifunctional Proton transfer & Supramolecular materials and its Structure Properties Relationship
• Fluorescent Molecular Probes for Micro- and Nano-scale Organized Systems.
• Excited State Intra-molecular Proton Transfer (ESIPT) and its Applications
• Aggregation Induced Enhanced Emission (AIEE)
• Fluorescence Based Chemosensors
• Mechanistic Organic Photochemistry

EDUCATION

• PhD, 2004, [Chemistry]/IIT-Kanpur, India
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2005-2007, SNU, South Korea
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2007-2008, UVIC, Victoria, BC, Canada

EXPERIENCE

• DBT Postdoc Fluorescent Molecular Probes for Micro- and Nano-scale Organized Systems.Dept. Inorganic & Physical Chemistry,   Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India, 2005
• BK 21 Postdoc Sol-gel Chemistry, Thin Film Formation and Characterization, Electroplating, Block Copolymer based Self-assembly School of Materials Science & Engineering., Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, 2007
• Postdoc Mechanistic Organic Photochemistry Dept. of Chemistry, University of Victoria, BC, Canada, 2008

RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Direct and water-mediated excited state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) from phenol OH to carbon atoms of extended ortho-substituted biaryl systems,Manoj Kumar Nayak and Peter Wan, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2008

Colorimetric and Highly Selective "Turn-On" Fluorescent Anion Chemosensors with Excited State Proton Transfer, Manoj Kumar Nayak, Jangwon Seo, Sanghyuk Park, and Soo Young Park, , J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem., 191, 2007, 228.