Biography

Dr. Dinesh Amalnerkar is currently Brain-Pool Invited Scientist at Hanyang University, Seoul,South Korea. Previously, he served as CEO of Center for Materials for Electronics Technology (Government of India) since February 2009 till his retirement in November,2014.He held prestigious long-term Visiting Positions in Gifu University, Japan; Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon, and Sungkuynkwan University, Suwon in South Korea.Besides, he has taken up short-term invited positions at various universities/institutes in Singapore, Switzerland, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Japan and Saudi Arabia. Basically, he is Physical Chemist with versatile research contributions in Functional Electronic and Nanostructured Materials which include more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 20 Indian patents, 3 US patents, 1book Chapter and 2 technology transfers.

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Research Interest

formulate inorganic nanoparticles-based antiseptics that may be linked to broad-spectrum activity and far lower propensity to induce microbial resistance than antibiotics. The way-out approaches in this direction are inorganic nanomaterials based (i) bactericidal and (ii) bacteriostatic activities