Name:                                     Binod Babu Shrestha

Date of Birth                          1979-05-20

Designation:                          Assistant Professor

Present Address:                   363-31, Saijocho-goso, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima

739-0035

Mail: [email protected]

Website:       https://www.hiu-roc.com/member2

Current Field of Interest:

 

  • Design and synthesis of caged compounds and their photoreaction

 

Membership:

  • Nepal Chemical Society.
  • Japan Chemical Society

Present Status:

  • Assistant Professor:    Deign    and    Synthesis    Caged    compounds    and    Their

 

Photoreaction. Department of Chemistry, Hiroshima University, Japan.

 

Academic Qualifications:

  • Postdoctorate (03/2020):   Deign   and   Synthesis   BDTD   Based   Environmentally

 

Responsive Solvatochromic Fluorescent Dyes. Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan.

  • Postdoctorate (03/2019): Synthesis of Mugineic acid and their analogs as iron fertilizer, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima University, Japan

 

  • Postdoctorate (06/2018): Design and Synthesis of Microporous Polymer/ membranes and their  applications  on  gas  separation  and  liquid  separation,  ICEMS,  Kyoto University, Japan
  • Ph.D (09/2015): under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Hidehiro Sakurai. Osaka University, Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Suita, Osaka, Japan The title of Ph.D dissertation is “Synthesis and Properties of π-Extended Derivatives of Sumanene.”
  • M.Sc. (12/2004,    Chemistry),    from    Tribhuvan    University,    Kathmandu,    Nepal. (Specialization   in   Organic   Chemistry)    M.Sc.   Dissertation   (06/2006)   under   the supervision  of  Prof.  Dr.  Mangala  Devi  Manandhar  from  the  Central  Department  of Chemistry,  Tribhuvan  University.  The  title  of  M.Sc.  dissertation  was  “Phytochemical and Biological Studies on Argemone mexicana”

Honors and Awards

Daiko Foundation 2012

Professional Experience:

  • Design and  synthesis  of  microporous  polymers/Hybrid  materials  with  MOF  and  their membrane  fabrication,  Fabrication  of  novel  nanostructure  membrane  materials  with enhanced transport properties and their scale-up production, development of membranes fabrication  with  desirable  transport  properties  to  realize  high  performance  in  some important industrial processes, such as, CO2 capture from industrial flue gases, natural gas  purification.  Liquid  separation  ultrafiltration  membrane by  phase  inversion  method/ interfacial polymerization on solid support. 2015-2018
  • Design and  synthesis  of  target  compounds,  study  of  their  photophysical  properties, multistep   syntheses,   inert   atmosphere   techniques   including   Schlenk   line,   vacuum diffusion  pump,  glovebox  experience,  contemporary  metal-mediated  transformations, modern  separation  technique  (SFC,  GPC,  MPLC,  HPLC)  and  modern  characterization techniques including single crystal x-ray crystallography. 2010-2014
  • Basic skill on DFT, TD-DFT calculation.
  • Lecturer in  Organic  Chemistry,  Department  of  Microbiology,  Kathmandu  College  of Science and Technology, Kalimati , Kathmandu, Nepal since 2008-2010
  • Chemist, Male’ International Pvt. Ltd (Essential oil production company), sister company of Vossen & Co, Brussels, Belgium, from 2005 -2008.
  • Experience on   bioassay-guided   isolation   of   compounds   from   medicinal   plants, derivatization of natural products, and modern chromatographic techniques and modern spectroscopic techniques.
  • Experience on carrying out different bioassay techniques such as antibacterial, antifungal, cytotoxicity, brine shrimps, larvacidal, lettuce seeds and phyto-toxicity.
  • Quality control  of  number  of  essential  oils  through  GC  analysis  and  inspection  on manufacturing and distributing of essential oils and herbs.

Conference/Seminar Attended: Oral presentation:

  • Tsukuba Colloid 2018, Japan

 

  • International Conference  On  Nano-Materials  and  Computational  Physics  (ICNMCP-

 

2017)

 

  • Kathmandu symposia on advanced material, Nepal polymer chemistry, 2014

 

  • The 94th Annual Meeting, Japan Chemical Society, 2014

 

  • Kathmandu symposia on advanced material, Nepal polymer chemistry, 2012

 

  • The 92th Annual Meeting, Japan Chemical Society, 2011

 

  • 5th National Conference on Science and Technology, organized by Nepal Academy of

 

Science and Technology (NAST), Kathmandu, Nepal, 2008

 

Poster presentation:

 

  • ISNA 2014, Taiwan

 

  • The Nagoya symposium 2013, Japan

 

  • ASIAN winter school 2013, Korea

 

  • IKCOC 2012, Japan

 

  • The 23rd symposium on physical organic chemistry 2012, Japan

 

  • Chemical congress, Nepal Chemical Society, 2008

 

Patents/Publications:

 

  1. METHOD OF SYNTHESIS AND FABRICATION OF HYDROPHILIC POLYIMIDE BASED POROUS    MEMBRANE    FOR    ULTRAFILTRATION    APPLICATIONS: (Inventors- B. B Shrestha and E. Sivaniah), WIPO(PCT), WO2019138932A1

 

 

  1. HYDROPHILIC POLYIMIDE, MEMBRANES PREPARED THEREFROM, AND USES THEREOF (Inventors- E.  Sivaniah, B. Ghalei, B.  B  Shrestha  and D. Yamaguchi):  US Patents, publication number 20210147628

 

 

  1. M. Suzuki, A. Urabe, S. Sasaki, Ryo Tsugawa, S. Nishio, H. Mukaiyama, Y. Murata, H.

 

Masuda, M. S. Aung, A. Mera, M. Takeuchi, K. Fukushima, M. Kanaki, K. Kobayashi, Y.  Chiba,  B.  B.  Shrestha,  H.  Nakanishi,  T.  Watanabe,  A.  Nakayama,  H.  Fujin,  T. Kobayashi, K. Tanino , N. K. Nishizawa, K. Namba, “Development of a mugineic acid family    phytosiderophore    analog    as    an    iron    fertilizer”    nature    communications doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21837-6.

 

  1. Z. Wang, Y.  Tian, W.  Fang, B.  B.  Shrestha, M.  Huang, J.  Jin,  “Constructing  Strong Interfacial  Interactions  under  Mild  Conditions  in  MOF-Incorporated  Mixed  Matrix Membranes for Gas Separation” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13, 2, 3166

 

  1. G. Huang,  A.  P.  Isfahani,  A.  Muchtar,  K.  Sakurai,  B.   B.   Shrestha,  D.  Qin,  D.

 

Yamaguchi,  E.  Sivaniah  and  B.  Ghalei,  “Pebax/ionic  liquid  modified  graphene  oxide mixed  matrix  membranes  for  enhanced  CO2  capture”.  J.  Membr.  Sci,  2018,  565,  370.

 

 

  1. Z. Wang, A. P. Isfahani, K. Wakimoto, B. B. Shrestha, D. Yamaguchi, B. Ghalei and E.

 

Sivaniah, “Tuning the Gas Selectivity of Troger’s Base Polyimide Membranes by Using Carboxylic Acid and Tertiary Base Interactions Tuning the Gas Selectivity of Troger’s Base Polyimide Membranes by Using Carboxylic Acid and Tertiary Base Interactions”, ChemSusChem, 2018, 11, 1.

 

 

  1. A. P. Isfahani, M. Sadeghi, K. Wakimoto, B. B.  Shrestha, R. Bagheri, E. Sivaniah, and

 

  1. Ghalei, “Pentiptycene-based polyurethane  with  enhanced  mechanical  properties  and CO2-  plasticization  resistance  for  thin  film  gas  separation  membranes”,  ACS  Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2018, 10, 17366.

 

  1. B. B. Shrestha, K. Wakimoto, Z. Wang, A. P. Isfahani,   T. Suma,  E. Sivaniah, B.

 

Ghalei, “A facile synthesis of contorted spirobisindane-diamine and its microporous polyimides for gas separation” RSC Advances, 2018, 8, 6326.

 

  1. B. B. Shrestha, S. Karanjit, S. Higashibayashi, T. Amaya, T. Hirao, H. Sakurai, “Investigation on the Dynamic Behavior of Bisumanenyl” Asian J. Org. Chem, 2015, 4,

62.

 

  1. S. Higashibayashi, B. B. Shrestha, Y. Morita, M. Ehara, K. Ohkubo, S. Fukuzumi, H.

 

Sakurai,   “Sumanenetrione   Anions   Generated   by   Electrochemical   and   Chemical

 

Reduction” Chem. Lett. 2014, 43, 1297.

 

  1. B. B. Shrestha,  Y.  Morita,  T.  Kojima,  M.  Kawano,  S.  Higashibayashi,  H.  Sakurai, “Eclipsed Columnar Packing in Crystal Structure of Sumanenetrione”   Chem. Lett. 2014,

43, 129４.

 

  1. B. B. Shrestha,  S.  Higashibayashi,  H.  Sakurai,  “Columnar/Herringbone  Dual  Crystal

 

Packing of Pyrenylsumanene and its Photophysical Properties”   Beilstein J. Org. Chem.

 

2014, 10, 841.

 

  1. B. B. Shrestha, S. Karanjit, S. Higashibayashi, H. Sakurai, Correlation between Bowl- Inversion Energy and Bowl Depth in Substituted Sumanenes”   Pure Appl. Chem. 2014,

86, 747.

 

  1. B. B. Shrestha,  S.  Karanjit,  G.  Panda,  S.  Higashibayashi,  H.  Sakurai,  “Synthesis  of

 

Substituted  Sumanenes  by  Aromatic  Electrophilic  Substitution  Reactions”  Chem.  Lett. 2013, 42, 386