Murali Sastry

Indian material chemist, nanomaterial scientist and college administrator

Murali Sastry

Born|  (1959-06-10) 10 June 1959 (age 65)

Tamil Nadu, India

Nationality| Indian
Alma mater|

* IIT Madras
* International Centre for Theoretical Physics
* Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste

Known for| Studies on surfaces, films and materials chemistry
Awards|

* 1993 CSIR Young Scientist Award
* 2002 CRSI Medal
* 2002 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
* 2003 Materials Research Society of India Medal
* 2006 IITM 2006 Distinguished Alumnus Award

Scientific career
Fields|

* Nanomaterials
* Hybrid materials

Institutions|

* IITB-Monash Research Academy
* Tata Chemicals
* National Chemical Laboratory
* QAD Global Resource Center
* University of Maryland
* CNRS, Orsay
* Indian National Academy of Engineering
* IIT Kanpur
* DSM India Innovation Center

Murali Sastry (born 1959) is an Indian material chemist, nanomaterial scientist and the chief executive officer of the IITB-Monash Research Academy.[1] He is a former chief scientist at Tata Chemicals and a former senior scientist at the National Chemical Laboratory.[2] He is known for his studies on 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

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National Chemical Laboratory

Murali Sastry, born on 10 June 1959 in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, completed his master's degree in chemistry in 1982 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He continued at the institute to secure a PhD in thin film technology in 1987 before doing his post-doctoral studies at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (1988–89) and Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste (1989–91).[2] He joined QAD Global Resource Center in 1997 as a software engineer where he served in such positions as Technical Consultant and Project Manager till his move to the National Chemical Laboratory as a Senior Scientist. In 2005 he shifted to Tata Chemicals as the Chief Innovation Officer and after 6 years of service, he joined DSM India as the director of the Innovation Centre in 2011.[7] When the then chief executive officer of IITB-Monash Research Academy retired in 2015, he was selected for the post and he holds the post till date.[1] He has served as an INAE and C. V. Seshadri chair professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur,[8] DAE professor at the Central University, Hyderabad, and as a visiting scientist at the University of Maryland (1998–99) and CNRS, Orsay (2001–03).[2]

## Legacy

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Sastry's contributions are based on his researches focused on thin films and 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

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Sastry received the CSIR Young Scientist Award in 1993[2] and the Bronze Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India in 2002.[15] The same year, he was elected as a fellow by the Indian Academy of Sciences.[5] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, also in 2002.[16] He is also a fellow of the Maharashtra Academy of Sciences[4] and a recipient of the Materials Research Society of India Medal, which he received in 2003.[17] The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras selected him as a Distinguished Alumnus in 2006.[2] He was listed among the world's most cited materials scientists by Elsevier Scopus in 2016.[18]

## See also

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* Nanotechnology

* India portal
* Chemistry portal

## References

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1. ^ a b c "People". IITB-Monash Research Academy. 2016. Archived from the original on 8 September 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
2. ^ a b c d e "Citations: 2006 Distinguished Alumnus Awards Recipients". IIT Mumbai. 2016.
3. ^ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
4. ^ a b "MAS fellows". Maharashtra Academy of Sciences. 2016.
5. ^ a b "Fellow profile". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
6. ^ "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
7. ^ "Executive Profile". Bloomberg. 2016.
8. ^ a b "Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from an Indian Perspective" (PDF). National Academy of Sciences, India. 2016.
9. ^ "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.
10. ^ "IITB-Monash building a welcome addition". IITB-Monash Research Academy. 2016.
11. ^ "Browse by Fellow". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016.
12. ^ "On Google Scholar". Google Scholar. 2016.
13. ^ "Chief Scientist, Tata Chemicals Innovation Centre". Nano Equity. 2016. Archived from the original on 30 November 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
14. ^ "Patents". Justia Patents. 2016.
15. ^ "CRSI Bronze Medal". Chemical Research Society of India. 2016. Archived from the original on 16 October 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
16. ^ "Chemical Sciences". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2016. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
17. ^ "Awards and honors". Material Research Society of India. 2016.
18. ^ "THE 2016 LIST OF MOST CITED RESEARCHERS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING". MSES Supplies. 2017.

## Further reading

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* Murali Sastry (2014). "Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from an Indian Perspective" (PDF). National Academy of Sciences, India.

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Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Chemical Science

1960s|

* Tuticorin Raghavachari Govindachari (1960)
* Asima Chatterjee (1961)
* S. C. Bhattacharyya (1962)
* B. D. Tilak (1963)
* Sukh Dev (1964)
* Sadhan Basu & R. C. Mehrotra (1965)
* Nanduri Atchuta Ramaiah (1966)
* Mushi Santappa (1967)
* C. N. R. Rao (1968)
* A. C. Jain (1969)

1970s|

* P. T. Narasimhan (1970)
* M. M. Dhar (1971)
* S. V. Kessar (1972)
* A. P. B. Sinha (1972)
* M. V. George (1973)
* H. B. Mathur (1973)
* U. R. Ghatak (1974)
* K. Nagarajan (1974)
* D. S. Bhakuni (1975)
* Animesh Chakravorty (1975)
* Devadas Devaprabhakara (1976)
* Mihir Chowdhury (1977)
* S. Ranganathan (1977)
* Girjesh Govil (1978)
* Goverdhan Mehta (1978)

1980s|

* D. Balasubramanian (1981)
* B. M. Deb (1981)
* C. L. Khetrapal (1982)
* G. S. R. Subba Rao (1982)
* Samaresh Mitra (1983)
* Naba Kishore Ray (1983)
* Paramasivam Natarajan (1984)
* K. J. Rao (1984)
* P. Balaram (1986)
* Debashis Mukherjee (1987)
* Kaushal Kishore (1988)
* Srinivasan Chandrasekaran (1989)
* M. K. Chaudhuri (1989)

1990s|

* B. M. Choudary (1990)
* N. Sathyamurthy (1990)
* Biman Bagchi (1991)
* J. S. Yadav (1991)
* Sumit Bhaduri (1992)
* Suryanarayanasastry Ramasesha (1992)
* S. R. Gadre (1993)
* T. Ramasami (1993)
* E. D. Jemmis (1994)
* D. D. Sarma (1994)
* Jayaraman Chandrasekhar (1995)
* K. L. Sebastian (1995)
* Narayanan Chandrakumar (1996)
* Mariappan Periasamy (1996)
* Kankan Bhattacharyya (1997)
* Adusumilli Srikrishna (1997)
* A. R. Chakravarty (1998)
* K. N. Ganesh (1998)
* Ganesh Prasad Pandey (1999)
* Deb Shankar Ray (1999)

2000s|

* Sourav Pal (2000)
* Pradeep Mathur (2000)
* Uday Maitra (2001)
* T. K. Chandrashekar (2001)
* Murali Sastry (2002)
* T. K. Chakraborty (2002)
* Santanu Bhattacharya (2003)
* S. Ramakrishnan (2005)
* Srinivasan Sampath (2006)
* K. George Thomas (2006)
* Amalendu Chandra (2007)
* A. Ajayghosh (2007)
* Thalappil Pradeep (2008)
* Jarugu Narasimha Moorthy (2008)
* Charusita Chakravarty (2009)
* Narayanaswamy Jayaraman(2009)

2010s|

* Swapan Kumar Pati (2010)
* Sandeep Verma (2010)
* Balasubramanian Sundaram (2011)
* Garikapati Narahari Sastry (2011)
* Gangadhar J. Sanjayan (2012)
* Govindasamy Mugesh (2012)
* Yamuna Krishnan (2013)
* Kavirayani Ramakrishna Prasad (2014)
* Souvik Maiti (2014)
* Pradyut Ghosh (2015)
* D. Srinivasa Reddy (2015)
* Partha Sarathi Mukherjee (2016)
* G. Naresh Patwari (2017)
* Swadhin Kumar Mandal (2018)
* Rahul Banerjee (2018)
* Tapas Kumar Maji (2019)

2020s|

* Subi Jacob George (2020)
* Jyotirmayee Dash (2020)
* Kanishka Biswas (2021)
* T Govindaraju (2021)
* Akkattu T. Biju (2022)
* Debabrata Maiti (2022)

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Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Laureates of Tamil Nadu

Biological Sciences|

* Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan
* M. S. Swaminathan
* C. V. Subramanian
* T. C. Anand Kumar
* M. K. Chandrashekaran
* Ramamirtha Jayaraman
* Govindarajan Padmanaban
* Thavamani Jegajothivel Pandian
* Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam
* Jayaraman Gowrishankar
* Narayanaswamy Srinivasan
* Rajan Sankaranarayanan

Chemical Sciences|

* T. R. Govindachari
* Kuppuswamy Nagarajan
* Dorairajan Balasubramanian
* Paramasivam Natarajan
* Srinivasan Chandrasekaran
* Narayanasami Sathyamurthy
* Thirumalachari Ramasami
* Mariappan Periasamy
* Narayanan Chandrakumar
* Murali Sastry
* Narayanaswamy Jayaraman
* Govindasamy Mugesh

Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences|

* Kunchithapadam Gopalan
* Rengaswamy Ramesh

Engineering Sciences|

* Tanjore Ramachandra Anantharaman
* Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman
* Paul Ratnasamy
* Ramarathnam Narasimhan
* Viswanathan Kumaran
* B. S. Murty
* G. K. Ananthasuresh
* Shanthi Pavan

Mathematical Sciences|

* C. S. Seshadri
* Kalyanapuram Rangachari Parthasarathy
* E. M. V. Krishnamurthy
* Sundararaman Ramanan
* Srinivasacharya Raghavan
* Ramaiyengar Sridharan
* Rajagopalan Parthasarathy
* Thiruvenkatachari Parthasarathy
* Raman Parimala
* Ramachandran Balasubramanian
* Annamalai Ramanathan
* Vaikalathur Shankar Sunder
* Trivandrum Ramakrishnan Ramadas
* Subhashis Nag
* Sundaram Thangavelu
* Vikraman Balaji

Medical Sciences|

* Subramanian Kalyanaraman
* Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath

Physical Sciences|

* Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan
* G. N. Ramachandran
* Sivaraj Ramaseshan
* Ramanuja Vijayaraghavan
* E. S. Raja Gopal
* N. S. Satya Murthy
* Ramanujan Srinivasan
* Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti Ramakrishnan
* Muthusamy Lakshmanan
* Ganapathy Baskaran
* Rajiah Simon
* E. V. Sampathkumaran
* Vijay Balakrishna Shenoy

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