Biography

Amol Chandekar has obtained his PhD at the university of Massachusetts Lowell, USA in the field of materials science and nanotechnology. For his PhD, Dr. Chandekar developed a novel way of making nanostructures on different substrates by altering the surface properties of the substrate using functionalized molecules such as alkane thiols and silanes. He also had synthesized gold nanoparticles, functionalized them with alkane thiols and fabricated chemical vapor sensor using them. Currently, Dr. Chandekar is a vice president R&D at Nanoptek Corporation. At Nanoptek, Dr Chandekar performed groundbreaking research to develop a highly efficient, robust, scalable and low cost TiO2 photocatalyst, which absorbs UV and near visible part of the solar spectrum, for water splitting for hydrogen production using sunlight only. While working at Anderlab technologies, he developed industrial scale formulations for synthesizing several nanoparticles including Titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, aluminum oxide and silicon dioxide and dispersions based on them. He has published several publications in the peer reviewed journals in the field of material science and nanotechnology and also has filed 17 US and international patents.