Resume of TAPAS KAR (Theoretical/Computational Chemist)

Dr. Tapas Kar Email: tapas.kar@usu.edu

Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Tel: 435-797-7230; Fax: 435-797-3390 Utah State University (USU) Web: http://www.chem.usu.edu/~tapaskar Logan, UT 84322-0300, USA

Employment History:

2000-present Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Utah State University (USU), Logan, UT 84322-0300, USA

1993-00 Scientist/Asst. Prof. (Adjunct), Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Southern Illinois University (SIUC), Carbondale, Illinois, USA.

Nanotechnology Related Activities: 2004-07 Introduced Nanotechnology courses at USU (Funded by NSF/NUE grant)

2003- Owner and Moderator – nanoUtah Weekly Newsgroup. 2005-08 Member, Nanotechnology Advisory Committee, State Economic Development Office,

State of Utah, USA

2005 Organizer, “Nanotech at Community Colleges” Workshop (at USU campus) for Utah’s college faculty members

2005-06 Organizer, K12-Nanoeducation at Utah’s High Schools (West High at SLC) 2006 Organizer, nanoUtah06 conference at Salt Lake City, UT, Oct 5th 2006

2006 Member, The NanoTechnology Group Inc. (Consortium for Global Education)

2007 Organizer and member, Utah’s Technology Workforce Training program committee. 2007 Organizer, nanoUtah07 conference at Salt Lake City, UT, Oct 26 2007

2008 Organizer, USU nanoBio Symposium, USU, Logan, UT, March 17, 2008 2008 Technical Session Chair, nanoUtah08 Conference at Salt Lake City, UT, Oct 16-17, 2008

2008-09 Physics FLEXBOOK (nanoscience chapter) core team member, State Technology

Department, Virginia, USA 2009 Organizing committee member, nanoUtah09, Salt Lake City, UT; Oct 15-16

2009 Co-Chair, University-Community College Session, Partnership for Nanotechnology Education, Univ. South California, April 26-28

2009 Reviewer and panel member of NSF/Nanotech Undergrad Education program

Academic qualification:

1983-88 Ph.D, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India; Theoretical/Computational Chemistry

Supervisor: Prof. A. B. Sannigrahi 1981-83 M. Sc (Chemistry), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India

Division: First Class (A-Grade) Awards and Fellowship:

2009 Summer Faculty Fellow, US DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program

2008 Humboldt Fellow, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany 2005 Summer Faculty Fellow, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), USA

2004-05 Visiting Professor, Federal Univ. of Santa Maria and Sao Paulo University (Brazil) 2004 Summer Faculty Fellow, National Research Council, USA

2003 Summer Faculty Fellow, National Research Council, USA 1991-93 Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellow, Hannover University, Germany

1990-91 Visiting Scientist, Sevilla University, Sevilla, Spain

1988-90 Senior Research Associate, IIT, Kharagpur, India

Supervision of Students/Postdocs: D. Elmore (Undergraduate); Y. Gu (Graduate); M. Cuma. (Ph. D); Dr. J. Pattanayak (Postdoc); Sydney Chamberlin (Undergraduate), Camille Smith

(Undergraduate), Upendra Adhikari (Ph. D, current student), Dr. Suangkou Chen (Chongqing

Univ, China).

Professional Service: Evaluation of Manuscript & Books (Reviewer) Journals (34) – J. Am. Chem. Soc. (JACS), Nano Lett, J. Phys. Chem (JPC), International J.

Quantum Chem (IJQC), Structural Chemistry, J. Organic Chem (JOC) and Organic

Lett., Appl. Phys. Lett. (APL) and J. Appl. Phys., Spectrochimica Acta, Applied

Surface Science, Chemical Physics letter (CPL), Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Nanotechnology, THEOCHEM, Indian J. Chemistry, Journal of Nanoscience

and Nanotechnology, Surface Sci, J. Chem. Phys, Diamond and Related Materials, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, J.

Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys., Canadian J. Chem., ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces,

Physica E, J. Theo. Comp. Chem., RSC Advances, J. Cluster Science, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, Soft Matter, Nanoscale, J. Materials Chem A (RSC), ISRN Physical

Chem.

Books: “Nanoscience Education, Workforce Training, K-12 Resources”, Taylor&Francis/CRC Press;

“Gold Chemistry, Applications and Future Directions in the Life Sciences”, Wiley VCH; "Nanoscience Education, Workforce Training, and K-12 Resources" Judith Light

Feather and Miguel F. Aznar, Taylor&Francis/CRC Press

Member of Editorial Board: International Scholarly Research Network (ISRN), Physical

Chemistry, Journal of Theoretical Chemistry Proposal Reviewer: National Science Foundation (NSF).

U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF)

Initiated and organized: Nanotechnology programs at the State of Utah (2004-2009)

USU Chem & Biochem: Evaluation of Indian applications for graduate program 2003-2011.

Mentoring InTech High School summer internship, 2007 - 2010.

Courses offered at USU (2005-2007):

1. Introduction to Nanotechnology

2. Nanochemistry-I 3. Nanochemistry-II

Current Collaboration:

1. Dr. A. K. Roy, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Wright-Paterson Air Force

Research laboratory (AFRL), Dayton, USA 2. Dr. Paulo C. Piquini, Department of Physics, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil

3. Dr. Sergio Galembeck, Department of Chemistry, Sao Paulo University, Rebero Preto, Brazil

4. Dr. P. K. Nandi, Department of Chemistry, Bengal Science and Engineering University,

Kolkata, India 5. Dr. K. Dey, Department of Chemistry, Kalyani University, India.

6. Dr. S. Scheiner, Dr. V. Parker, Dr. S. Das; Department of Chemistry Utah State

University, USA 7. Dr. L. Li and Dr. A. Zhou, Dept of Mechanical Eng and Biological Eng, Utah State Univ,

USA 8. Dr. H. Bettinger, Institute for Organic Chemistry, University Tuebingen, Germany

9. Dr. S. Chen, College of Chemistry and Chem-engineering, Chongqing University of

Science and Technology, Chongqing, China 10. Dr. Jin-Pei Cheng, Department of Chemistry, The State Key Laboratory of Elemento-

Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, China

Invited Seminar Speaker University of Hannover, Germany, 1992

University of Erlangen, Germany, 1993

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1995 Utah State University, Logan, 2000

Caesar Lab, Bonn, Germany, Aug-2001 University of Bonn, Sept-2001

Wright-Paterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH, Sept, 2002 Horizon’2004 Conference, Salt Lake City, Oct, 2004

Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, Nov, 2005

University of Campinas, Brazil, Jan-2005 University of Sao Paulo, San Carlos, Brazil, Jan-2005

University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil, Feb-05 Dept of Physics, Utah State Univ., Oct, 2005

Bengal Science and Engineering University, Kolkata, India, Mar, 06

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India, April, 06 National Physical Lab (NPL), New Delhi, India, April, 06

SPIE Conference at San Diego, Aug, 2006 NCSSSMST 2006 Student Conference at Salt Lake City,

Academy of Math, Eng & Sci, Oct 7, 2006

Computer Society of India, Kolkata Chapter, Kolkata, India, May 5, 07 InTech High School, Logan, UT Aug 31. 2007

Nanotech in India, Salt Lake City, Gov Office of Economic Development, Utah, June. 09.

Research Experiences, Accomplishments and Publications

So far Dr. Kar has published 108 papers in peer-reviewed international journals (such as

Journal of American Chemical Society, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Journal of Chemical Physics,

Chemical Physics Letter, Physics Review) and one chapter in Handbook of Theoretical and Computational Nanotechnology. On average he has published 4.9 papers per year over the last

10 years and has presented papers at several national and international conferences. His

research articles have been cited by other researchers in different journals and the number of citations at present (Dec 31, 2012) is more than 2800 and h-index is 26 and i10-index is 54,

Researchgate score 31.07. Dr. Kar’s research has achieved some national and international recognition and the

numbers of his national and international collaborators over the last five years are more than ten. Several research projects with national laboratories [Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton;

NIST,USA] and Universities [Utah State Univ., and Jackson State Univ] and with foreign

universities from Germany, India, China and Brazil are in progress, with successful interim results. Dr. Kar has been asked to review manuscripts for numerous respected journals (such as

Journal of American Chemical Society (JACS), Nano Letters, Journal of Chemical Physics (JCP), Chemical Physics Letters (CPL), Nanotechnology, Spectrochimica Acta, Applied Surface Science,

and Applied Physics Letters (APL). Dr. Kar has also been a reviewer for various funding agencies

(NSF, U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) and private agencies). He served as a research advisor of two Ph.D. student, one graduate and three undergraduate

students and two postdoctoral fellows. He has been invited for seminars at several national laboratories and international universities.

Dr. Kar’s research interests include a wide range of subjects, starting from fundamental and basic research on chemical science to advanced, current and applied research on

nanotechnology. His research areas and journals where his papers were published are listed

below with number of publications.

Research area and number of publications Various H-bonds, MHH dihydrogen bonds and proton transfer process:

Publication No. 100, 94, 90, 89, 79, 76, 73, 63, 61, 59, 57, 53, 50, 49, 45, 41, 40, 31, 30, 28, 4

Fullerenes and carbon nanotubes: Publication No. 108, 107, 101, 95, 92, 88, 84, 82, 72, 71, 70, 69, 65, 62, 60, 54

III-V Semiconducting Nanotubes and BCN systems: Publication No. 104, 102, 99, 97, 81, 68, 48, 39, 35

Li-battery, - and -cation interaction, Li-bond: Publication No. 91, 56, 55, 15, 11, 10, 7, 5

Porphyrins: Publication No. 74, 67 Corrosion Chemistry: Publication No. 106, 105, 3 Atmoshpheric Chemistry: Publication No. 52 Sensors: Publication No. 96 Tunable optical materials: Publication No. 86, 77, 58 Nonlinear optical properties (NLO): Publication No. 98, 87, 85, 80, 75, 66, 64 Organometallic chemistry: Publication No. 103, 93, 83, 78 Applications of DFT methods: Publication No. 51, 47, 34 Excited state proton transfer: Publication No. 44, 43, 36 Multi-center bonding and non-classical systems:

Publication No. 46, 42, 33, 32, 27, 26, 24, 23, 22, 21, 19, 17

Hardness and Chemical potential: Publication No. 38, 37, 29, Chemical bonding: Publication No. 25, 20, 16, 14, 2, 1 Different population schemes: Publication No. 18, 13, 12, 9, 8, 6

List of Journals and number of publication:

1. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan – 1 2. Chemical Communication - 1 3. Chemical Physics Letters – 16 4. Chem Phys Chem – 1 5. Chemical Reviews – 1 6. European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter Physics – 1 7. Handbook of Theoretical and Computational Nanotechnology - 1 8. Indian Journal of Chemistry, A – 4 9. Inorganic Chemistry – 1 10. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry – 4 11. Internation J of Electrochemical Sci – 2 12. Journal of Biological Chemistry – 1 13. Journal of Chemical Education – 1 14. Journal of Chemical Physics – 2 15. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation – 1 16. Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience – 1 17. Journal of Coordination Chem – 1 18. Journal of Molecular Structure – 3 19. Journal of Physical Chemistry – 1 20. Journal of Physical Chemistry A –22 21. Journal of Physical Chemistry B – 2 22. Journal of Physical Chemistry C – 4 23. Journal of the American Chemical Society – 6 24. Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research - 1 25. Nanotechnology – 2 26. Physicd Letter A – 1 27. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics – 2 28. Spectrochimica Acta, Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy – 1 29. THEOCHEM – 19 30. Theoretical Chemistry Accounts – 1 31. Polyhedron – 1

Current (as of Dec 2012) h-index 26, i10-index 54, ResearchGate Score 31.07 Research Publications:

108. Unusual Low-Vibrational C=O mode of COOH Can Distinguish between purified Zigzag and Armchair Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes, Tapas Kar, Steve Scheiner, Ajit K. Roy and Holger F. Bettinger, J. Phys. Chem. C., 116 2012 26072-26083 DOI: 10.1021/jp309699z

107. Reliability of Approximate Methods To Study Tip-Functionalized Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes, Tapas Kar, Steve Scheiner and Ajit K. Roy, J. Phys. Chem. C , 116 2012 25401-06 DOI: 10.1021/jp3089947

106. Theoretical Study on Relationship Between Structure of Mercapto-Triazole Derivatives and Inhibition Performance, Shuangkou Chen, Steve Scheiner, Tapas Kar, Upendra Adhikari, Int. J. Electrochem. Sci., 7 2012 7128 - 7139

105. Theoretical investigation of inhibition efficiencies of some schiff bases as corrosion inhibitors of aluminum, Shuangkou Chen and Tapas Kar, Int. J. Electrochem. Soc., 7 2012 6265-6275.

104. B3N3 Borazine Substitution in Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene: Computational Analysis and Scholl Reaction of Hexaphenylborazine, Christina Tönshoff, Matthias Müller, Tapas Kar, Florian Latteyer, Thomas Chassé, Klaus Eichele, Holger F. Bettinger, Chem. Phys. Chem., 13 2012 1173-1181.

103. Synthesis, characterization and Density functional study of some Mn(III) Schiff base complexes, Susobhan Biswas, Tapas Kar, Saikat Sarkar, Kamalendu Dey, J. Coordination Chem 65 2012 980-993.

102. The influence of stacking orientation of the C and BN stripes in the energetics, and the structural and electronic properties of BC2N nanotubes, Marcelo Machado, Tapas Kar, Paulo Caser Piquini, Nanotechnology 22 2011 205706

101. IR Characterization of tip-functionalized Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes, Tapas Kar, Steve Scheiner, Soumya S. Patnaik, Ajit K. Roy and Holger F. Bettinger, J. Phys. Chem. C 114 2010 20955-61.

100. Analysis of the Reactivities of Protein C-H Bonds to H Atom Abstraction by OH Radical, Steve Scheiner and Tapas Kar, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132 2010 16450-59.

99. AlN, GaN, AlxGa1-xN naotubes and GaN/ AlxGa1-xN nanotube heterojunctions. James M. de Almedia, Tapas Kar and Paulo Piquini. Phys. Lett. A 374 2010 877-881.

98. The variants of hyperpolarizabilities in the SOS scheme: An application in the structure-property correlation study of Indigo-derivatives, Prasanta K. Nandi, Nabamita Panja, Tapan K. Ghanty and Tapas Kar, J. Phys. Chem. A. 113 2009 2623

97. The Borazine and Benzene Homo- and Heterodimers, Holger. F. Bettinger and Tapas Kar, J. Phy. Chem A, 113 2009 3353.

96. A novel approach for the design of a highly selective sulfate ion selective electrode, Amarchand Sathyapalan, Anhong Zhou, Tapas Kar, Feng Zhou and Haibin Su, Chem. Comm. 2009 325.

95. Noncovalent stacking and CH Interactions of Aromatics on the Surface of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes (SWNTs): An MP2 Study Tapas Kar, Holger F. Bettinger, Steve Scheiner and Ajit K. Roy, J. Phys. Chem. C 112 2008 20070-20075.

94. Spectroscopic and Structural Signature of a CH--O H-bond, Steve Scheiner and Tapas Kar, 2008 J. Phys. Chem. A. 112 2008 11854-60.

93. An Attempt Towards Coordination Supramolecularity From Mn(II), Ni(II) And Cd(II) With A New Hexadentate [N4O2] Symmetrical Schiff Base Ligand: Syntheses, Crystal Structures, Electrical Conductivity And Optical Properties, Saikat Sarkar ,

Susobhan Biswas, Meng-Sheng Liao, Tapas Kar, Yildirim Aydogdu, Fethi Dagdelen,

Golam Mostafa, Asoke Prasun Chattopadhyay, Glenn P. A. Yap, Rui-Hua Xie, Abu T. Khan, Kamalendu Dey, Polyhedron 27 2008 3370.

92. The Effect on Acidity of Size and Shape of Carboxylated Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes. A DFT-SLDB Study, Tapas Kar, Steve Scheiner and Ajit K. Roy, Chem. Phys. Lett., 460 2008 225.

91. Theoretical Investigation on the Mechanism of LiH + NH3 → LiNH2 + H2 Reaction, Tapas Kar, Steve Scheiner and Leijun Li, THEOCHEM. 857 2008 111-114.

90. Periodicity in Proton Conduction along a H-bonded Chain. Application to Biomolecules. Alexander Isaev, Tapas Kar and Steve Scheiner, Int. J. Quantum Chem. 108 2008 607-616.

89. Underlying Source of the Relation between Polypeptide Conformation and Strength of Hydrogen Bonds, Steve Scheiner and Tapas Kar, J. Mol. Structure, 844-845 2007 166-172.

88 Density functional theory calculations of ozone adsorption on sidewall single-wall carbon nanotubes with Stone-Wales defects, Brahim Akdim, Tapas Kar, Xiaofeng Duan, Ruth Pachter, Chem. Phys. Lett 445 2007 281-287

87. Hyperpolarizabilities of hetero-cycle based chromophores: A semi-quantitative SOS scheme, P. K. Nandi, N. Panja and T. Kar, Chem. Phys. Lett., 444 2007 366-374.

86. Ultraviolet optical absorption spectra of water clusters: from molecular dimer to nanoscaled cage-like hexakaidecahedron, John R. H. Xie, Jijun Zhao, Tapas Kar, and Ralf Ludwig, Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, 4 2007 453-466.

85. Electronic Structure and Spectroscopic Properties of the Two Structural Isomers of Donor-Acceptor Substituted Sesquifulvalene in the Gas and Solution Phases – A Case Study of Sudden Polarization, Tapas Kar, Nabamita Panja and Prasanta Kumar Nandi, J. Phys. Chem A 110 2006 12684-12692

84. Effects of O3 Adsorption on the Emission Properties of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes: A Density Functional Theory Study, B. Akdim, T. Kar, D.A. Shiffler, X. Duan and R. Pachter, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3991 / 2006, pp. 372-378.

83. Spectroscopy, crystal structure, valance molecular orbital energy level diagram and DFT study of cis-[Cr(2,2/-bipy)2Cl2](Cl)0.38(PF6)0.62., Tapas Kar, Meng-Sheng Liao, Susobhan Biswas, Saikat Sarkar , Kamalendu Dey, Glenn P. A. Yap and Kevin Kreisel Spectrochimica Acta, Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 65 2006 882.

82. Open-ended modified single-wall carbon nanotubes: A theoretical study of the effects of purification, Tapas Kar, Brahim Akdim, Xiaofeng Duan, and Ruth Pachter, Chem. Phys. Lett. 423 2006 126-130

81. Theoretical investigation on the stability and properties of III-nitride nanotubes: BN-AlN junction, L. A. Thesing, P. Piquini and T. Kar, Nanotechnology, 17 2006 1637-1641.

80. Theoretical study of static second-order nonlinear optical properties of push-pull heteroquinonoid dimers, P. K. Nandi, K. Mandal and T. Kar, J. Mol. Struct. (THEOCHEM) 760 2006 235.

79. Cooperativity of Conventional and Unconventional Hydrogen Bonds involving Imidazole, Tapas Kar and Steve Scheiner, Int. J. Quantum Chem. 106(4) 2006 843-851.

78. Effects of Peripheral Substituents on the Electronic Structure and Properties of Unligated and Ligated Metal Phthalocyanines, Metal = Fe, Co, Zn, Meng-Sheng

Liao, John D. Watts, Ming-Ju Huang, Sergiu M. Gorun, Tapas Kar, Steve Scheiner; J Comp Theo Chem 1 2005 1201-1210.

77. Tunable optical properties of icosahedral, dodecahedral and tetrahedral clusters; Rui-Hua Xie, Garnett W. Bryant, Hijun Zhao, Tapas Kar and Vedene H. Smith, Jr.; Phys. Rev. B. 71 2005 125422/1-5.

76. Effect of Solvent upon CH··O Hydrogen Bonds with Implications for Protein Folding, Steve Scheiner and Tapas Kar, J. Phys. Chem B 109 2005 3681-3689 .

75. Ab initio SCRF study of solvent effect on the nonlinear polarizabilities of different intramolecular charge-transfer (ICT) molecules, P.K. Nandi, K. Mandal and T. Kar, Theo. Chim. Acta. 114 2005 200-207.

74. Effects of Peripheral Substituents and Axial Ligands on the Electronic Structure and Properties of Iron Phthalocyanine. Meng-Sheng Liao, Tapas Kar, Sergiu M. Gorun and Steve Scheiner, Inorg. Chem. 43 2004 7151-7161

73. Comparison of Cooperativity in C-H---O and OH---O hydrogen bonds. Tapas Kar and Steve Scheiner, J. Phys. Chem. A 108 2004 9161-9168.

72. Substitution Patterns in Mono BN-fullerenes: Cn ( n=20,24,28,32,36 and 40), Jayasree Pattanayak, Tapas Kar and Steve Scheiner, J. Phys. Chem., A 108 2004 7681-7685.

71. Functionalization of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes: An Assessment of Computational Methods, B. Akdim, T. Kar, X. Duan and R. Pachter, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3037 / 2004, pp. 260 - 267

70. A theoretical study of functionalized single-wall carbon nanotubes: ONIOM calculations, Tapas Kar, Brahim Akdim, Xiaofeng Duan and Ruth Pachter, Chem. Phys. Lett. 392, 2004, 176-180.

69. Tuning spectral properties of fullerenes by substitutional doping. Rui-Xie, Garnett W. Bryant, Guangyu Sun, Tapas Kar, Zhongfang Chen, Vedene H. Smith, Jr., Yasuyuki Araki, Nikos Tagmatarchis, Hisanori Shinohara and Osamu Ito, Physical Review B, Rapid Communication , 69(20), 2004, 201403/1-4.

68. Theoretical study of Si impurities in BN nanotubes, S. Guerini, T. Kar and P. Piquini, Europ. Phys. J. B, 38, 2004, 515.

67. Meng-Sheng Liao, Tapas Kar and Steve Scheiner, Actinyls in expanded porphyrin. A relativistic density functional study; J. Phys. Chem. A, 108(15), 2004, 3056-3063.

66. Effect of structural changes in sesquifulvalene on the intramolecular charge transfer and nonlinear polarizations – a theoretical study, P. K. Nandi, K. Mondal and T. Kar, Chem. Phys. Lett. 381, 2003, 230-238.

65. Rules of BN substitution in BCN fullerenes. Separate BN and C zones, Tapas Kar, J. Pattanayak and Steve Scheiner, J. Phys. Chem A 107, 2003, 8630-8637.

64. Theoretical study of the nonlinear polarizabilities in H2N and NO2 substituted chromophores containing two hetero aromatic rings, K. Mandal, T. Kar, P.K. Nandi

and S.P. Bhattacharyya, Chem. Phys. Lett. 376, 2003, 116-124. 63. Comparison between hydrogen and dihydrogen bonds among H3BNH3, H2BNH2 and

NH3, Tapas Kar and Steve Scheiner, J. Chem. Phys., 119, 2003 1473-1482. 62. Comparison of BN and AlN substitution on the structure and properties of C60

fullerene, J. Pattanayak, Tapas Kar and Steve Scheiner, J. Phys. Chem. A 107, 2003, 4056-4065.

61. Comparison of Various Types of Hydrogen Bonds Involving Aromatic Amino Acids, S. Scheiner, Tapas Kar and J. Pattanayak, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 2002, 13257-13264.

60. BN-substitution of Fullerenes: C60 to C12B24N24 CBN-ball, Tapas Kar, J. Pattanayak and Steve Scheiner, J. Phys. Chem. A 106, 2002, 2970-2978.

59. Red versus Blue-Shifting Hydrogen Bonds: Are There Fundamental Distinctions? Steve Scheiner and Tapas Kar, J. Phys. Chem. A 106, 2002, 1784-1789

58. Substituent effects upon protonation-induced red shift of phenyl-pyridine copolymers, Steve Scheiner and Tapas Kar, J. Phys. Chem. B 106, 2002 534-539.

57. Influence of Hybridization and Substitution upon the Properties of the CH···O Hydrogen Bond, Steve Scheiner, Slawomir J. Grabowski and Tapas Kar, J. Phys. Chem. A 105, 2001, 10607-10612.

56. Insertion of Lithium ions into carbon nanotubes: an Ab Initio and DFT study. Tapas Kar, Jayasree Pattanayak and Steve Scheiner, J. Phys. Chem. A 105 2001 10397-10403.

55. Electronic Structure, Stability and Nature of Bonding of the Complexes of C2H2 and C2H4 with H+, Li+ and Na+ Ions. Extensive Ab Initio and Density Functional Study. Tapas Kar, R. Ponec and A. B. Sannigrahi, J. Phys. Chem. A 105, 2001, 7737-7744.

54. Boron-Nitrogen (BN) Substitution Patterns in C/BN hybrid Fullerenes: C60-2x(BN)x (x = 1-7) - A Semi-empirical and density functional study. J. Pattanayak, T. Kar and S. Scheiner, J. Phys. Chem. A 105 (2001) 8376-8384.

53. Strength of the C---O Hydrogen bond of amino acid residues, S. Scheiner, T. Kar and Y. Gu, J. Bio. Chem. 276 (2001) 9832-9837.

52. A study of the mechanism of the reaction between ozone and the chlorine atom using density functional theory, J. Tyrrell, T. Kar and L. J. Bartolotti, J. Phys. Chem. A 105 2001 4065-4070.

51. Comparison of Ab Initio Hartree-Fock and Kohn-Sham Orbitals in the Calculation of Atomic Charge, Bond Index, and Valence, Tapas Kar, Janos G. Angyan and A. B. Sannigrahi, J. Phys. Chem A 104 (2000) 9953-9963; 105 (2001) 660.

50. Evaluation of the H-bonding properties of CH---O interactions based upon NMR spectra, Steve Scheiner, Yanliang Gu and Tapas Kar, J. Mol. Struct. (THEOCHEM) 500 (2000) 441.

49. Comparison of the CH---N and CH---O interactions involving substituted alkanes, Yanliang Gu, Tapas Kar and Steve Scheiner , J. Mol. Struct. 552 (2000) 17-31.

48. Structure, stability and bonding of BC2N dimer and trimer - An ab initio study, Tapas Kar, Martin Cuma and Steve Scheiner, J. Mol. Struct. 556 (2000) 275-281.

47. Local reactivity indices of free redicals. Ab initio Hartree-Fock and Khon-Sham density functional calculations, Tapas Kar and A. B. Sannigrahi, Indian J. Chem., A 39 (2000) 68-74.

46. Ab initio theoretical study of three-center bonding on the basis of bond index, A. B. Sannigrahi and Tapas Kar, J. Mol.Struct. (Thcheom) 496 (2000) 1-17.

45. Fundamental properties of the CH---O interaction: Is it a true hydrogen bond? Yanliang Gu, Tapas Kar and Steve Scheiner, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 121 (1999) 9411-9422.

44. Effect of adjoining aromatic ring upon excited state proton transfer. o-hydroxybenzaldehyde, Martin Cuma, Steve Scheiner and Tapas Kar, J.Mol.Struct. (Theochem), 467 (1999) 37.

43. Comparison of methods for calculating the properties of intramolecular hydrogen bonds. Excited state proton transfer. T. Kar, S. Scheiner and M, Cuma, J. Chem. Phys., 111 (1999) 849-858.

42. Some remarks on multi-center bonding, A. B. Sannigrahi and T. Kar, Chem. Phys. Lett. 299 (1999) 518.

41. Activation and cleavage of H-R bonds through intermolecular H---H bonding upon reaction of proton donors HR with 18-electron transition metal hydrides. G. Orlova, S. Scheiner and Tapas Kar, J. Phys. Chem. A 103 (1999) 514.

40. Competition between rotamerization and proton transfer in o-hydroxybenzaldehyde, Martin Cuma, S. Scheiner and Tapas Kar, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 120 (1998) 10497-10503.

39. Structure, stability and bonding of BC2N. Tapas Kar, Martin Cuma and Steve Scheiner, J. Phys. Chem A, 102 (1998) 10134.

38. Hardness and Chemical potential profiles for some open shell HAB -> HBA type reactions. Ab initio and density functional study, Tapas Kar, Steve Scheiner and A. B. Sannigrahi, J. Phys. Chem., 102 (1998) 5967.

37. Ab initio calculations of hardness and chemical potential of open shell systems using SCF, MP2 and MP4 methods, Tapas Kar, Steve Scheiner and A. B. Sannigrahi, J. Mol.Struct. (Theochem), 427 (1998) 79.

36. Excited state intramolecular proton transfer in anionic analogues of malonaldehyde, S. Scheiner, Tapas Kar and Martin Cuma, J. Phys. Chem A., 101 (1997) 5901-5909.

35. BN-naphthalene and carbon-containing derivatives: An Ab initio study, Tapas Kar, D. Elmore and S. Scheiner, J Mol.Struct. (Theochem), 392 (1997) 65.

34. Effect of spin contamination in UHF wavefunctions on charge density-based local quantities, P. K. Nandi, Tapas Kar and A. B. Sannigrahi, J. Mol. Struct. (Theochem), 362 (1996) 69.

33. Three-center bond index profiles, Tapas Kar and Steve Scheiner, J. Mol. Struct. (Theochem), 307 (1996) 45.

32. Origin of the bridged bonding [1,1,1]propellane, Tapas Kar and Karl Jug, Chem. Phys. Lett. 256 (1996) 201.

31. Proton transfer in H5O2+ and H3O2

- with an external restraining force, Tapas Kar and Steve Scheiner, Int. J. Quantum Chem., QBS22 29 (1995) 567.

30. The nonexistence of specially stabilized hydrogen bonds in enzymes, Steve Scheiner and Tapas Kar , J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117 (1995) 6970-6975.

29. Hardness profiles of some nondegenerate isomerization reactions. Tapas Kar and Steve Scheiner, J. Phys. Chem. 99 (1995) 8121.

28. Proton and lithium ion transfer in between two water molecules with an external restraining potential. Tapas Kar and Steve Scheiner, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117 (1995) 1344.

27. Is there any three-center CBC bond in 1,5-C2B3H5 and 1,3-C2B3H3 ? Tapas Kar and Karl Jug, Int. J. Quantum Chem.,.53 (1995) 407.

26. Bonding in beryllium carbonyls. Tapas Kar, P.K.Nandi and A.B.Shannigrahi. Chem. Phys. Lett., 220 (1994) 133.

25. Natural populations and charge transfer in hydrogen and alkali bihalide ions. A. B. Shannigrahi, P.K.Nandi and Tapas Kar. J.Mol.Struct. (Theochem)., 306 (1994) 83.

24. Three center bonding in LiXHn, HBeXHn and H2BXHn dimers: A comparative study. Tapas Kar and K. Jug, J. Mol. Struct.(Theochem), 283 (1993) 177.

23. Role of the central atom in three-center bonding, Tapas Kar, J. Mol. Struct. (Theochem), 283 (1993) 313.

22. The remarkable stability of LiBH2 and HBeBH2 dimers. B=B double bond or multicenter bonds? Tapas Kar and K. Jug, Chem. Phys. Lett., 214 (1993) 615.

21. Theoretical study of multi-center bonding using a delocalized MO approach, A. B. Sannigrahi, P. K. Nandi, L. Behera and Tapas Kar, J. Mol. Struct.(Theochem), 276 (1992) 259.

20. Ab initio theoretical study of the electronic structure, stability and bonding of MXY- ions (M=H, Li, Na; X,Y=F, Cl), A. B. Sannigrahi, Tapas Kar and P. K. Nandi, Chem. Phys. Lett., 198 (1992) 67.

19. Three-center four-electron bonds and their indices, Tapas Kar and E. S. Marcos, Chem. Phys. Lett., 192 (1992) 14.

18. A closer look into the cause of discrepancy between Löwdin and Mulliken atomic charges, L. Behera, Tapas Kar, P. K. Nandi and A. B. Sannigrahi, J. Mol. Struc. (Theochem), 236 (1991) 15.

17. Three-center bond index. A. B. Sannigrahi and Tapas Kar, Chem. Phys. Lett., 173 (1990) 569.

16. Effect of basis set superposition error on atomic charges and valencies in inter-molecular complexes, L. Behera, Tapas Kar and A. B. Sannigrahi, Chem. Phys. Lett., 172 (1990) 487

15. The Lithium bond reexamined. A. B. Sannigrahi, Tapas Kar, B. Guha Niyogi, P. Hobza and P. v. R. Schleyer, Chem. Rev., 90 (1990) 1061.

14. Ab initio SCF study of the ground state electronic structure of SN2+2, SN2, SN2

-2, S2N

+ and S2N-, L. Behera, Tapas Kar and A. B. Sannigrahi. J. Mol. Struc.

(Theochem), 209 (1990) 111. 13. Molecular orbital calculations of valency within the framework of a general

nonsingular transformations of the atomic orbital basis sets, Tapas Kar, L.Behera and A. B. Sannigrahi, J. Mol. Struc. (Theochem), 209 (1990) 45.

12. Effect of general nonsingular transformation of the AO basis set on the MO calculations of valency. Tapas Kar, L. Behera and A. B. Sannigrahi, Chem. Phys. Lett., 163 (1989) 157.

11. Ab initio calculations of binary complexes involving lithium bonding: a review. A. B. Sannigrahi, Tapas Kar and B. Guha Niyogi, J. Sci. Indust. Res., 48 (1989) 428.

10. Ab initio investigation of the nature of bonding in LiY dimers with first-row substituents. A. B. Sannigrahi and Tapas Kar, J. Mol. Struc. (Theochem), 180 (1988) 149.

9. Effect of basis sets on Mulliken and Löwdin atomic charges, bond orders and valencies of some polar molecules. Tapas Kar and A. B. Sannigrahi, J. Mol. Struc. (Theochem), 165 (1988) 47.

8. Molecular orbital theory of bond order and valency. A. B. Sannigrahi and Tapas Kar, J. Chem. Educ., 65 (1988) 674.

7. Ab initio study of hydrogen, lithium and sodium bonding on the basis of atomic charges, valencies, bond orders and overlap populations. Tapas Kar, A. B. Sannigrahi and B. Guha Niyogi, Indian J. Chem., 26A (1987) 989.

6. Comparison of atomic charges, valencies and bond orders in some hydrogen-bonded complexes calculated from Mulliken and Löwdin SCF density matrices. Tapas Kar, A. B. Sannigrahi and D. C. Mukherjee, J. Mol. Struct. (Theochem), 153 (1987) 93.

5. Ab initio calculations on Lithium-bonded dimers: a brief review. A. B. Sannigrahi, Tapas Kar and B. Guha Niyogi, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Chem.Soc), 96 (1986) 253.

4. Hydrogen bonding in polyfluoride ions. Tapas Kar and A. B. Sannigrahi, Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 59 (1986) 1283.

3. Study of corrosion inhibition from the aspect of quantum chemistry. D. C. Mukherjee, Tapas Kar and A. Chacroborty, Proc. 5th Europian Symp. Corrosion Inhibitors, Ann. Univ. Ferrara N. S.V, Suppl. N8 (1985) 465.

2. Localised molecular orbital studies of some cumulated-multiple bonded systems. S. Bhattacharjee, Tapas Kar and A. B. Sannigrahi, Indian J. Chem., 24A (1985) 276.

1. Localised molecular orbital studies of sulphidoborons. S. Bhattacharjee, Tapas Kar and A. B. Sannigrahi, Indian J. Chem., 24A (1985) 173.

Book Chapter: Nonlinear optical properties of carbon nanostructures. Xie, Rui-Hua; Kar, Tapas; Li, Zhigang. Editor(s): Rieth, Michael; Schommers, Wolfram. Handbook of Theoretical and Computational Nanotechnology (2006), 7 127-207. Publisher: American Scientific Publishers, Stevenson Ranch, CA Presentations at Professional Meetings:

1. International Workshop on the Science and Application of Nanotubes, East Lansing, Michigan, USA, July 24-27, 1999, Tapas Kar, Jayasree Pattanayak and Steve Scheiner, Theoretical investigation on the filling of carbon nanotube by H+, Li+ and H2.

2. The World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemist, WATOC-99, London, 1999, Tapas Kar, M. Cuma and Steve Scheiner, BN-substituted carbon compounds, BxCyNz: An Ab initio Study.

3. Technologies for the future, Texas, Aug, 2000. Tapas Kar, Jayasree Pattanayak and Steve Scheiner, Li-ion nano battery – A theoretical Study.

4. 2nd International Workshop on the Science and Application of Nanotubes, NT01, Potsdam, Germany, July 22-25, 2001, Tapas Kar, Jayasree Pattanayak and Steve Scheiner

a. BN substituted carbon compounds: A theoretical study, b. Theoretical investigation on the Li+ intercalation in carbon nanotubes.

5. 223rd ACS National Meeting, Orlando, FL, United States, April 7-11, 2002, Tapas Kar, and Steve Scheiner, Substituent effects upon protonation-induced red shift of phenyl-pyridine copolymers.

6. International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes, NT02, Boston College, Boston, USA, July 6-12, 2002. Tapas Kar, Jayasree Pattanayak

and Steve Scheiner, Boron and Nitrogen Rich BCN Fullerenes: A Theoretical Study.

7. 2004 Hawaii International conference on Sciences, Honolulu. Jan 15-18, 2004. a) Effect of Solvents on C-H…O Hydrogen Bond: A Theoretical Study, Tapas Kar

and Steve Scheiner. b) Gas-phase acidity of Carboxylated Single-wall Carbon Nanotubes, Tapas Kar,

Brahim Akdim, Xiaofeng F. Duan and Ruth Pachter c) Theoretical investigation of mono BN-substituted lower fullerenes Cn, where n

= 20, 24, 28, 32, 36 and 40. Jayasree Pattanayak, Tapas Kar and Steve Scheiner.

8. Horizons 2004, Technology Conference at Salt Lake City, Oct 11-13, 2004. Panelist of Advanced Materials, “Pilot Program for Nanotechnology Initiative at Utah”, and Invited talk.

9. APS March’2005 Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, Theoretical Study of Side Wall Ozonation of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes, Brahim Akdim , Xiaofeng Duan , Tapas Kar , Ruth Pachter

10. APS March 2006 Meeting, Baltimore, MD, Effects of the Modification of Single- and Double-Wall Carbon Nanotubes: A Theoretical Study of Field Emission Properties Brahim Akdim , Tapas Kar, Xiaofeng Duan , Ruth Pachter.

11. Optics and Photonics 2006, 13 - 17 August 2006 San Diego, CA. “Pilot program to integrate nanotechnology at Utah’s high schools” Annie Kurtz, Melissa Anderson and Tapas Kar (invited Talk at Nano-modeling Session)

12. Finding a Solution: Hydrogen Storage Research in Review, Sydney J. Chamberlin and Tapas Kar, Research on Capitol Hills , Salt Lake City, Jan 16, 2007

13. Spectroscopic and structural signature of the CH--O H-bond. Steve Scheiner and Tapas Kar, 237th ACS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, March 22-26, 2009

14. A Normal Brönsted Alpha for the Proton Transfer Reactions of Simple Nitroalkanes in Water. A Direct Comparison of Experiment with Theory; Zhao Li, Xiaosong Xue , Jin-Pei Cheng, Taps Kar and Vernon D. Parker, ICPOC 21: 21st IUPAC International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, 9 - 13 Sept, 2012 Durham University, UK

15. The Cyclization of Phenyl 3-(1H-imidazol-4-yl) Proprionate in DMSO and Water. Relevance of the Concepts of Near-Attack Complexes and Hidden Intermediates, Xiaosong Xue , Zhao Li, Jin-Pei Cheng, Taps Kar and Vernon D. Parker, ICPOC 21: 21st IUPAC International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, 9 - 13 Sept, 2012 Durham University, UK

Administrative and Managerial Experience, Leadership and Professional services

1. Introduction

Dr. Tapas Kar did his M. Sc. (1983) and Ph.D. (1988) in Theoretical /Computational chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.) Kharagpur, which is one of the most

respected educational and research institutes of India and well-known worldwide for it’s reputation. After spending two more years (1988-90) at the same institute as Research

Associate, he moved to Sevilla University (Spain) as a Visiting Scientist for one year. Dr. Kar

received the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) fellowship and spent two years (1991-93) at Hanover University in Germany. He then pursued his research career at Southern Illinois

University (SIUC) at Carbondale as Scientist and Adjunct Assistant Professor with Prof. Steve Scheiner. After seven years (1993-2000) at SIUC, he moved to Utah State University (USU) at

Logan as Assistant Professor (Research). He paid several visits to Wright-Patterson Air Force Research Lab at Dayton (Ohio, USA) as Summer Faculty Fellow funded by The National Academy

of Sciences, National Research Council and by American Society for Engineering Education

(ASEE). He also visited two Universities in Brazil for research collaborations, funded by Brazilian State and Federal agencies for 3 months in 2004-05. In 2008 summer, he visited Ruhr University

(Bochum, Germany; sponsored by AvH) to develop and conduct collaborative research on -

interactions including carbon nanotubes.

2. Nanotechnology Related Activities: Dr. Kar initiated several projects on nanotechnology at Utah State University and the

state of Utah. He is working on a statewide nanotechnology initiative project for last few years. Because of his initial effort, Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED Utah) has

considered nanotechnology as one of the key competitive accelerators for the state’s economic

development cluster strategy.

On April 26th 2005, he organized a statewide

roundtable meeting, hosted by GOED Director Mr.

Martin Frey, at Utah’s State Capitol to discuss and layout Utah’s future programs on nanotechnology.

Governor Huntsman Jr. welcomed the meeting attended by higher authorities from three research

University’s, Industries, Business organizations, VCs and GOED. An advisory committee was formed to

carry out the program(s), nanomedicine and nano-

bio-technology was considered one thrust area besides composite and devices.

Gov. Huntsman thanking Dr. Kar at the 26th April meeting for his initiative and efforts.

2.1 nanoUtah annual Conference Dr. Kar worked with Dr. Ian Harvey from University of Utah (UofU) to organize a one-day

statewide nanotechnology conference nanoUtah’06, at UofU campus on Oct 5th 2006 to bring

Utah’s educators, researchers, business, industries, state government and Universities higher authorities and representatives to a common platform. The format of the conference was to first:

present a challenge for researchers and businesses in the state; second: provide a rapid-fire

format for presenting the unique research capabilities and business interests in Utah; and third: plan and facilitate specific action to make Utah competitive. Besides two keynote talks by Dr.

Sandhu of Micron Technology at Boise, Idaho and Dr. Sawan of Intelligent Medical Devices from Canada, three panel sessions (Making Utah Competitive, Obtaining Resources, and Education &

Outreach) were part of the conference. Out of 200 participants, 36 were from business, industries and Venture Capital firms. This is the first time in the state that participants from all

sectors of Utah learned and interacted with nano research activities at the basic science level. By

all reports the audience and speakers enjoyed the 43 presentations. (Details from the presentations are available at or http://www.chem.usu.edu/~tapaskar/).

In next year conference on Oct 26th 2007, about 220 participants enjoyed twenty 15-min oral presentations in four sessions (Sensors & Devices; Synthesis, Characterization & Analyses;

Composite, Coating & nanoMaterials, Comercialization of nanotechnology) in addition to keynote

lectures. Since one of the research strengths and focus of Utah’s research universities are Biotech and Cancer research, Dr. Piotr Grodzinski (Director, Nano Medicine and Cancer Nanotechnology,

National Institute of Health) was invited as keynote speaker along with two USTAR (Utah Science Technology and Research) Professors (Marc D. Porter and Hamid Ghandehari) hired at UofU on

nano-bio research in 2007 conference. To encourage business and industries of Utah in future technology, he added Dr. Perl Chin (President of Foresight Institute) as other keynote speaker.

To improve UofU’s nanofab facilities and develop networks with NSF funded Nanocenter’s

facilities, Dr Chunfei Li (representative from Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute, ONAMI) was invited to present facilities available at their center and how Utah’s researchers can

access those. Students from Universities were encouraged to participate in both conferences by

waiving their registration fees and the amount was sponsored by Metal Matrix company in 2006

and by USTAR in 2007. In 2007, Dr. Kar introduced “award for best student presentation” at nanoUtah’07 conference and awarded two students out of 22 presentations, each award amounts

$200 and sponsored by USTAR. To develop Industry-University interactions in nanoscience and nanotech area, industries

were encouraged to display their products, research facilities at nanoUtah 2007 conference and

conference witnessed five exhibition booths. Dr. Kar managed to raise about 50% of conference expenses from sponsors through his network developed over 2-3 years, keeping registration fees

low for participants ($35 in 2006 and $50 in 2007). Expenses include morning refreshment, drinks and lunch in 2006 and dinner was added in 2007 and these amounts were sponsored

mostly by Industries & Business and some by USTAR. After two successful conferences, a working committee was formed comprising faculties

from universities and industries to organize nanoUtah 2008 on Oct 16-17 at Huntsman Cancer

Institute and this year theme of conference was “Nanomedicine – Bridging the gap”. In summary, Dr. Kar initiated and organized the annual statewide conference attended

by university faculties, students, industries & business community and the state government and USTAR officials. He designed the program schedule, invited keynote speakers and arranged

sponsorship, while UofU faculty organized the venue and conference related arrangements at

their campus. Utah Technology Council helped on conference registration and will continue their support for future events.

2.2 Building nano team at USU

Dr. Kar also engaged himself organizing and managing Utah State University (USU) nano team by arranging several meetings. As an outcome, five faculties from college of science and

engineering including him received a NUE grant (Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education and

Emphasis at Utah State University) from NSF in 2004 to start nanotech based courses at USU. In another event, eight faculties jointly submitted a NSF-MRI proposal in 2006, which was

recommended by the panel but not funded. Once again Dr. Kar took initiative to form the team for developing the proposal. He with other two faculties from Mechanical Eng. Department

received an NSF-NER grant in 2005 on Hydrogen-storage research.

This March, he invited two USTAR faculties from UofU to visit USU to meet and share their research activities in a mini symposium. After two lectures by guests, USU faculties

presented snap-shot of their research followed by a roundtable discussion to explore possibilities on how two Universities can work together on nano-bio area. Dr. Whichard from USU Technology

Commercialization Office (TCO) office helped him to organize this symposium.

2.3 Education & Outreach Programs:

(i) Undergrad courses: Dr. Kar took initiative jointly with other faculty from physics, biology and engineering departments to start undergrad nanotechnology courses at USU and received

funding from NSF/NUE in 2004-05. This was the first Nanotechnology Educational fund received by USU in the State of Utah. The introductory course (PHYS2400) “Materials Today:

Nanotechnology” was offered in Spring’05 and he taught the Chemistry part of the course. This

course, the first of its kind in the entire State of Utah, was attended by 22 freshmen students including two students from Business School of USU. Due to growing interest among students,

Dr. Kar continued this educational program at USU by offering Nano-Chemistry course (PHYX3500/ CHEM3750). Six undergrad students attended this course in Fall’ 05 and seven in

Fall’ 06 classroom. The students had the opportunity to visit different labs, engaged in nano related research, at USU including Space Dynamics Lab. In 2007 Fall, he introduced NanoChem-II

course (PHY5500) and one student from earlier Nanochem-I class was taught theoretical tools

used for molecular modeling and simulation and a project was assigned based on Quantum dots using simulation tools available at NSF funded “nanohub.org” website.

To encourage students, he invited several scientists and faculty from national labs and other universities for seminars on nanotechnology and also presented his own research works for

last five years at USU

(ii) Workshop for Utah’s Community Colleges: Dr. Kar organized a workshop at USU for

community college faculties with the intention to encourage colleges to start nanotechnology related courses on their premises. Seven faculty from science and engineering departments of

Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) and Utah Valley State College (UVSC) attended that three-

day workshop in summer 2005 (May 25-27) funded by NSF. Nanotechnology researchers from USU’s science and engineering departments offered lectures at the workshop. As an outcome,

SLCC offered an introductory (ENGR-1050-001) course and nine students attended that course in last fall and six in this spring semester. He is in touch with Dr. H. Moore who is teaching this

course and reviewing her course materials on regular basis.

(iii) K-12 NanoEducation: Nanoscience and technology education in high school serves not

only to encourage career interest among students but also to build the foundation of their literacy and knowledge about future technology. The challenge is to introduce nano-education in

a systematic and thoughtful way at school level. Since at present nano-educators at the school level are not available, Dr. Kar plans to utilize current resources by splitting the course into

different modules such as Chemistry, Physics, and organize the syllabus and detailed lecture

notes for each module, but these modules will be part of a coherent whole. Thus, teachers of each subject can include a particular module in their regular course as expansion and extension

of those general courses of school science subjects. After an initial training they will be able to teach the newly added sections of their course with references in further reading section as these

modules will be part of a coherent whole.

With this objective, a pilot program (funded by Utah State Office of Education -USOE)

was carried out by utilizing West High School of Salt Lake City School District as the model. After a few training sessions, Chemistry and Physics teachers introduced those nano-modules to their

respective classes in 2005-06. Ninety students were part of this test program. Main conclusions of this pilot project are:

• Isolated and stand-alone sections on nanotechnology seems hard for student’s

understanding and teachers had to provide background to correlate with new section and that absorbs class time.

• If these newly added sections are considered as an integrated part of regular curriculum in appropriate places, the lesson was very well received, and easily understood by most

of the students. • Advantages of integrated lessons:

– students will get lessons regularly over the year which is related to their regular

class work, thus the word nano and its importance will insinuate more thoroughly into their awareness.

– teachers will avoid extra class-load for the additional isolated parts.

This project was presented at S.P.I.E conference in Aug, 2006 at San Diego, and comments from

experts were encouraging and they think this add-on technique is one of the best mechanisms to introduce nanotech at schools. As follow-up program, he is working with USOE’s science

education specialist and few member of Utah State Board of Education to introduce nanotech add-ons to entire Utah’s high schools.

(iv) Workforce development: On Sept 26th 2007, he called a brainstorming meeting at Salt

Lake City to discuss on workforce development on future technology and outreach programs,

attend by Dean from community colleges, state science advisor, USOE’s science specialist, Director of Utah Science museum and few university faculties. As an outcome a white-paper was

prepared by ad-hoc committee, formed at the meeting, to obtain funding from various sources including USTAR and industries to develop Utah’s technology workforce pipeline. Dean Sanders of

SLCC presented the proposal in nanoUtah07 conference. Recent nanoUtah08 witnessed a

Technology workforce development workshop session, and a proposal for future programs on school education to elevate and structure Utah’s workforce pipeline is submitted to Governor.

2.4 nanoUtah newsgroup and weekly news

Dr. Kar launched a Yahoo newsgroup “nanoUtah” in Nov 2003 for Utah’s nano team, and

from Oct 2006 started a Weekly News service. About 300 members now enjoying wide-range of news on nanotechnology (such as, global and US events, business, research, nano-risk, reports &

articles, education & outreach news) including funding solicitations from different sources. Dr. Kar keeps good track on funding announcements and includes those immediately in

the weekly news. Dr. William Johnson from Geology and Geophysics department of UofU contacted Dr. Kar after receiving NSF’s Center for the Environmental Implications of

Nanotechnology (CEIN) pre-proposal announcement posted on 10-05-07 weekly news and

express his interest to submit one from Utah. Dr. Kar provided names of experts from Universities and industries (from his database) who could be involved in this proposal. The pre-

proposal was not invited for a full proposal. Members of nanoUtah newsgroup occasionally request help through discussion forum.

For example, recently Dr Tiwari from UofU was looking for electron paramagnetic resonance

(EPR) facility and within 12 hours he received four responses. Dr. Kar also maintains his personal webpage (informative but not decorative) and

updates regularly. Information related to nanoUtah conferences and weekly news is available at www.chem.usu.edu/~tapaskar. He also updates nanotech interested students on fellowship,

internship, PhD and postdoc open-positions through his weekly news.

In summary, Dr. Kar has excellent communication and networking skills which spans

from the State’s highest authorities (such as Directors, GOED and USTAR, State Science advisor) to high school teachers. His management skill helped him to develop a wide and strong network

within the State of Utah on nanotechnology area. He is taking leading role on organizing several state and university level meetings, formed working committees and distributed work load to key

and potential players.

Activities between 1993-present: Dr. Kar took the initiative to setup computer lab for Prof.

Steve Scheiner’s (who is well known worldwide for his work on H-bonding in biological systems) research group at SIUC. This computer lab contains nine workstations/servers and several PCs.

Dr. Kar assumed all the initiative for setup, maintenance, and tuning and upgrading those computers over last several years. Several programs related to theoretical/computation research

(such as Gaussian, Gamess, ADF, MOLPRO, MOLCAS, MOLDEN, NWCHEM, AMSOL, XMOL,

SIESTA, CPMD etc) has been installed. Besides research activities, Dr. Kar acts as a group leader in several respects. He has managed about twenty researchers (maximum of seven at a time)

including undergrad and grad students, national and international postdocs and scientists for last fifteen years. He trained undergrad, MS, Ph.D students and Post Docs to effectively use several

programs and computers, managed and distributed computer times effectively among the group.

He is the lead troubleshooter for the group on both technical and research problems.

Activities between 1986-1990: Dr. Kar always keeps himself up to date on current research as well as being actively involved in developing infrastructure for educational and research for the

next generation. Comprehending the importance of Computers in Chemistry, he took the initiative and setup the first computer laboratory for Chemistry graduate students at IIT-Kharagpur (India)

in 1987. In 1988, he introduced Computer programming course for final year Chemistry graduate

students. He also installed Gaussian76 program in the CDC840 mainframe computer for Master and Doctoral students in theoretical chemistry. Outcome of his efforts was three PhD and five

master’s theses in theoretical /computational chemistry from Chemistry department within five years of such infrastructure development. Those PhD students are now faculties at different

Colleges and Universities.

Extracurricular activities: Since his student life, Dr Kar has been actively involved and participated in various

cultural programs, such as dramatics, and has been awarded best actor, best director prizes in IIT cultural events and inter-college competitions at Kolkata, besides the prestigious IIT Blue

award in 1988 for his overall performance. He was an active member of anti-ragging and anti-

drug committees of IIT, Kharagpur.

In summary, Dr. Kar has been actively involved in research and infrastructure development all through his career for more than twenty years. He always accepts challenging

jobs and successfully completes such works whether it is for a research group or for large community. Although his proposal ‘Pilot program for Nanotechnology Initiative at the State of

Utah” to NSF Discovery Corps program was not funded in 2004 and 2005, he managed and

completed the project even with limited resources. For the last few years he has been working on this project, and it is growing to full scale. He has received very positive responses and

encouragement from different sectors of Utah. It can be seen from his publication record that those service-related works did not block his research activities, but rather improved

opportunities for research collaboration.