Professor Siddharth V Patwardhan
BE, MS, PhD, CChem, FRSC
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Professor of Sustainable Chemical and Materials Engineering
Head of the Green Nanomaterials Research Group
EPSRC Fellow


+44 114 222 7593
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School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Room F51
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street
葫芦影业
S1 3JD
- Profile
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I am educated in chemical engineering (B.E., Pune, 2000) and materials science (MS and PhD, Cincinnati, 2003) followed by post-doctoral experience in inorganic chemistry (Delaware and Nottingham, 2003-2008). After taking up a short-term lectureship in Chemistry (Nottingham Trent University), I became a Lecturer in Chemical Engineering (Strathclyde, 2010-15). I then moved to 葫芦影业 to take up a position of Senior Lecturer (2016-17), and then became a Professor of Sustainable Chemical and Materials Engineering (2018). At 葫芦影业, I am a member of the department鈥檚 leadership team.
I am currently EPSRC Fellow in Manufacturing and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. I lead the with a vision to develop sustainable routes to functional nanomaterials. The group focusses on the discovery of bioinspired nanomaterials, assessing their scalability and developing manufacturing technologies for energy, environmental, biomedical and engineering applications. This research has produced a book, 70+ publications (h index of 34, over 3800 total citations), 50+ presentations at conferences and a number of inventions.
I am a committee member of the RSC's and in the past has played a key role in a number of national and international networks as well as conference organisation, e.g. EPSRC鈥檚 , , EPSRC鈥檚 and ACS .
Along with various funding awards, I am proud to receive the Dedicated Outstanding Mentor award four-times in recognition of mentoring skills that helped mentees 鈥渕ake a significant transition in knowledge, work, or thinking鈥. I have also received the Teaching Excellence Award twice and SuperVisionary awards for the recognition for all-round supervision.
- Research interests
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Research in the group undertakes the using biologically inspired green routes.
In our new , the aim is to address the highly sought aspect of how to translate the understanding of biominerals into new green manufacturing methods. We cover aspects from the discovery of new green synthesis methods all the way to considering their commercial manufacturing routes.
The group aims to demonstrate potential of green methods for nanomaterials synthesis by realisation of their real-life applications. Current projects are focussed on developing application of green nanomaterials in four distinct sectors:- (e.g. carbon capture and battery electrodes),
- (e.g. decontamination of water and air)
- (e.g. metal or enzyme supported catalysts)
- (e.g. drug delivery systems).
A significant research focus is on developing the science underpinning scale-up of green nanomaterials, thus enabling their large-scale manufacturing.
Focus is on increasing technology readiness level (TRL) for new developments and delivering technologies that are ready for commercialisation.New technologies invented
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- Publications
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Books
Journal articles
Chapters
Conference proceedings papers
Other
Preprints
- Research group
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See full details of supervisions .
PhD Supervision
- Balashanmugam, Abitha
- Entwistle, Jake
- Keegan, Amber
- Mulay, Manasi
- Norfolk, Laura
- Routoula, Eleni
- Yan, Maximilian
PDRA and other Supervision
- Dr. Yahaya Baba
- Dr. Justin Driver
- Dr. Charles Oseghale
- Dr. Robert Pilling
- Alex Riley
- Julie Swales
- Grants
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Current grants:
- Design and green manufacturing of functional nanomaterials, EPSRC Fellowship (), PI.
- Bioinspired green manufacturing of next generation energy storage materials, EPSRC (), PI.
- Manufacturing Functional Nanomaterials from Waste, funded by Industry and Scottish Enterprise, PI.
- Enabling manufacturing of Functional Nanomaterials using SynBio, EPSRC (), PI.
Recently concluded grants (selected):
- Commercialisation of bioinspired technology, funded by Intellectual Property Development and Commercialisation Fund, PI.
- A Green Synthesis as a New Route to Silica for Tyres, funded by Industry and Impact Acceleration Award, PI.
- Silica Synthesis - Proof of market, Intellectual Property Development and Commercialisation Fund, PI.
- Manufacturing Green Nanoparticles for Efficient Cell Manufacture, EPSRC (), PI.
- Chemical, economic, engineering and market analyses for waste composites, Scottish Funding Council, PI.
- Feasibility of a wetting layer absorption carbon capture process based on chemical solvents, EPSRC (), Co-I.
- Teaching interests
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- Curriculum development (Chair of Curriculum transformation committee, 2016-20). Read our article 鈥溾, published in 5th Annual Symposium of the Engineering Education Research Network.
- Innovative teaching delivery methods, e.g. style teaching approach.
See further details .
- Teaching activities
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Teaching Activities
- Systems for Sustainability (a small section, 2019)
- Introduction to Fuels and Energy (a small section, 2019-19)
- Oil and Gas Utilisation (module leader, 2016-19)
- Materials, Processing & Applications (module leader, 2011-15)
- Environmental Engineering (module leader, 2010-14)
- Petrochemical Engineering (module leader, 2012-15)
- Chemical Engineering Design Projects (2010-2019)
- Personal tutorials
- MEng research projects (2010-present)
- Consultancy
My group provides consultancy and R&D services to a wide variety of sectors and markets including energy, waste-derived products, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, natural products. Specific examples include:
- Design, discovery and characterisation of nanostructured and porous materials
- Exploring scalability and optimisation of production of particles and particulate formulations
- Valorisation of waste into valuable products.
- Novel solutions for air and water decontamination
- Techno-economic and market evaluation of a variety of processes and materials.
We also offer specialised training on
- science communication,
- Structuring independent academic career
- Techno-economic analysis,
- Chemical engineering for non-engineers,
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