External links
- Binoy Kumar Saikia publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Low-quality coal to CQDs on YouTube
Binoy Kumar Saikia | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Debraj Roy College Cotton College North East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat |
| Awards | Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, 2021 [2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Tezpur University North East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat |
Binoy Kumar Saikia, an eminent scientist and academician in India and currently at North East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat (NEIST), Assam, India. He is also leading the Coal & Energy Research Group of NEIST and a Professor of AcSIR. His research interests span sustainable energy and environment in general and in particular coal-based nanotechnology, carbon and nano-materials, atmospheric chemistry, and energy storage devices. He has developed different chemical processes/technologies towards alternative applications of coal feedstocks presenting a new promising opportunity to reposition coal from a polluting energy source to a value-added material platform in the fight against climate change. He has developed and patented, both in India and the US, a technology for the production of blue-fluorescent carbon quantum dots from Indian coal. [3] [4]
Saikia earned his MSc degree in inorganic chemistry from Gauhati University in 2001 and PhD degree from Dibrugarh University in 2008 for a thesis titled "Some aspects of the structural investigation of Assam coal".
The honours and awards conferred on Saikia include: [5]
