Smita Gupta

Ph.D. in Chemistry | Asst. Prof. of Organic Chemistry | Solar Persulfate Activation | Water Treatment | Nanomaterial Synthesis | Open to Collaborations | Post-Doc, Industrial and Academic Opportunities.

• Solar light induced Degradation of Azo dyes, International Conference on Photo-Irradiation and adsorption-based Novel Innovations for Water Treatment PANI-WATER 2020, 03/2020, BITS Pilani Goa Campus, India, Best Poster Award
• Synthesis of Graphitic Carbon Nitride with Bulk and Hollow Structure for Photocatalytic Degradation of Emerging Contaminant, ICW 2023-International Conference on water: from pollution to purification, 02/2023, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India, Best Poster Award
• International Conference on Photochemistry and sustainable energy-ICPSE 2019, 10/2019, Alappuzha Kerala, India
• International Conference on Aggregation-induced Emission-from fundamentals to applications- ICAIEFA 2022, 12/2022, BITS Pilani Goa Campus, India
• National Conference on New Frontiers in chemistry from fundamentals to application NFCFA 2019, 12/2019, BITS Pilani Goa Campus
• 15th National Symposium on Radiation and photochemistry-NSRP 2023, 01/2023, BITS Pilani Goa Campus
• School on Advanced Oxidation Processes S-AOP 2018, 11/2018, BITS Pilani Goa Campus
• Removal of Acid Orange 7 by Activation of Persulfate Under Outdoor Sunlight: Kinetics, Mineralisation and Mechanism, state level seminar on role of science & technology for sustainable growth, 12/2022, P.E.S’s Ravi S. naik College of arts and science, Farmagudi, Ponda, Goa, India, Consolation prize
• Recent Trends in Chemistry: Student’s Meet-2019, 03/2019, BITS Pilani Goa Campus
• RSC-IITM Desktop seminar on environmental sciences, 10/2022

• Organic Chemistry
• Material Chemistry
• Environmental Chemistry

• Smitagupta1608@gmail.com
• Smita16081995@gmail.com

• LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-smita-gupta-ph-d-4603811b4/
• ResearchGate, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Smita-Gupta-5
• Google Scholar, https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Cy3P6JMAAAAJ
• Scopus, https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57394943200

• Date of Birth: 08/16/95
• Marital Status: Single

• Best Poster Award ICW 2023, 02/2023, International Conference on water: from pollution to purification, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India
• Consolation prize for poster presentation, 12/2022, state level seminar on role of science & technology for sustainable growth, P.E.S’s Ravi S. naik College of arts and science, Farmagudi, Ponda, Goa, India
• Best Poster Award PANI-WATER 2020, 03/2020, International Conference on Photo -Irradiation and adsorption -based Novel Innovations for Water Treatment PANI -WATER 2020, BITS Pilani Goa Campus
• Highest marks in B.Sc. Analytical chemistry for the year 2014 -15, 03/2016, Carmel College

• Evaluation of activated persulfate under real solar light for degradation of organic pollutants: Kinetics, mechanism, and ecotoxicity., Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 11, 5, 2023, 110313, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2023.110313
• Augmented photocatalytic degradation of Acetaminophen using hydrothermally treated g-C3N4 and persulfate under LED irradiation., Heliyon, 9, 5, 2023, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844023036575
• Energy efficient photocatalytic activation of peroxymonosulfate by g-C3N4 under 400 nm LED irradiation for degradation of Acid Orange 7., Chemosphere, 287, 2022, 132099, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.132099

• HPLC
• UV-Visible spectroscopy
• IR Spectroscopy
• Fluorescence spectroscopy
• Total Organic Carbon (TOC)
• Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
• CHN Elemental analyser
• X-ray diffraction (XRD)
• X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS)
• Electron Spin Resonance (ESR)
• Solar radiometer
• LC-MS
• Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET)
• Zeta potential analyzer

• There Is no Earth B Goa and Nirmaan BITS -Goa, Challenges taken up for beach cleaning, Environment
• BITS Pilani K. K. Birla Goa Campus, Teaching Assistant, Education