Dr. SIAMKHANTHANG NEIHSIAL
Designation: Asst. Professor
Department: Chemistry
Phone: +91 6909559307
E-mail: siam@rayburncollege.ac.in
Area of specialization: Physical Chemistry
Qualification: M.Sc. Ph.D.(Post-Doc, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Banglore)
Employment and Experiences
| 2018-present | Assistant Professor |
| Dept. of Chemistry, Rayburn University College (Manipur University), Manipur | |
| 2010-2013 | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced for Research, Bangalore | |
| Supervisor: Prof. Swapan K. Pati | |
| 2014-2017 | DST-SERB FAST Track Young Scientist Fellow |
| Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore | |
| Supervisor: Prof. Swapan K. Pati | |
| Education | |
| 2010 | Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D), Chemistry |
| North Eastern Hill University, Shillong | |
| Research Supervisor: Prof. Richard H. Duncan Lyngdoh | |
| 2003 | Master of Science (M. Sc), Chemistry |
| North Eastern Hill University, Shillong | |
| Project Supervisor: Prof. M. K. Mahanti | |
| 1999 | Bachelor of Science (B. Sc), Chemistry (Hons) |
| Physics & Maths as allied subjects | |
| St. Edmund’s College (North Eastern Hill University), Shillong | |
| Other Certificates | |
| 2008-2012 | Completed e-courses from Nano Science Technology Consortium, Noida, India |
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| Student Supervised | |
| 2006 | Taught scientific software (Linux, MOPAC & Gaussian 03) to younger research Scholar, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India |
| 2006,2007 | Guided M. Sc (Chemistry) students in their project |
| works, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong | |
| 2011 | Guided Integrated Ph. D in their project |
| Equilibrium Bond Length of Hydrogen Bond Length : A Computational Study , Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Research, Bangalore | |
| Research Interests |
| Computational Materials Chemistry & Nanochemistry, Quantum Chemical Design of DNA Analogues, Fuel Cell, Li-Ion Battery | |
| Research Publication | |
| 1 | Suante, H. Siamkhanthang, N. Lalnundanga, Mahanti, M. K |
| “Kinetics and Mechanism of the Oxidation of Substituted | |
| Benzoic acids by Quinolinium Dichromate” | |
| Oxidation Communications, 28, 2005, 99-107 | |
| 2 | Siamkhanthang Neihsial and R. H. Duncan Lyngdoh |
| “Novel H-bonded Base Pairs as Potential Repeats Units for Information-bearing Macromolecular Duplexes: A B3LYP/6-31G* Search” | |
| J. Molec. Struct: THEOCHEM, 806, 2007, 213-221 | |
| 3 | Siamkhanthang Neihsial and R. H. Duncan Lyngdoh |
| “Novel H-bonded Base Pairs Units for Information-bearing Self-associative Macromolecular Duplexes: A B3LYP/ Search “ | |
| J. Comput. Chem.29, 2008, 1788-1797 | |
| 4 | SiamkhanthangNeihsial, Ganga Periyasamy,Pralok K. Samanta, Swapan K. Pati |
| “Understanding the Binding mechanisms of Various Chiral SWCNTs and ssDNA: A Computational Study” | |
| J. Phys. Chem B. 2012, 116, 14754-14759 | |
| 5 | Swastika Banerjee, Siamkhanthang Neihsial,and Swapan K. Pati |
| “First-Principles Design of a Borocarbonitride-based Anode for Superior Performance in Sodium Ion Batteries and Capacitors” | |
| J. Mater. Chem. A, 2016, 4, 5517- 5527 | |
| 6 | Esther Chingbiaknem, SiamkhanthangNeihsial,R.H.DuncanLyngdoh |
| “Isomorphic Repeats Units for Putative Information-bearing H-bonded Duplexes, Part I. Pyrimidine Base Pair with Polyamide Backbone” |
| Comput. and Theor. Chem. 2018, 1126, 33-43 | |
| Paper Under Review | |
| 7 | Siamkhanthang Neihsial and R. H. Duncan Lyngdoh |
| “Computational Design of Complete Repeats Units of Novel Information-Information bearing Macromolecular H-Bonded Duplexes” | |
| J. Phys. Chem A (under review) | |
| Paper Communicated | |
| 8 | Siamkhanthang and Swapan K. Pati |
| “Pi-extended Porphyrin as two-photon Absorbents : A Numerical Study” | |
| (Advanced Materials) | |
| 9 | Siamkhanthang and Swapan K. Pati |
| “Computational Study on the Transverse Electronic Transport Properties through PNA and Graphene Electrode” | |
| J. Mar. Chem | |
| Presentations at Conferences | |
| International | |
| Short Talk | |
| 1 | Siamkhanthang Neihsial |
| “Understanding the Binding Mechanism of Various Chiral SWCNTs and ssDNA: A Computational Studies” | |
| The 108th Statistical Mechanics Conference, Center for Mathematical Sciences Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Piscataway, USA, | |
| Dec 16-18, 2012 | |
| 2 | Siamkhanthang Neihsial |
| “First-Principles design of a borocarbonitride-based Anode for Superior Performance in Sodium-ion batteries and Capicitors” | |
| Materials Science & Engineering Congress, Darmstadt University of Technology , Germany, September, 27-29, 2016 | |
| Poster | |
| National Conference | |
| 1 | Siamkhanthang Neihsial |
| “Design of DNA-like Supramolecular Nanostructures from pyrimidine derivatives” | |
| School & Conference on Multiscale Modeling & Simulation of Soft & Hard Materials, JNCASR & Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, 7th-20th, Dec, 2009 | |
| 2 | Siamkhanthang Neihsial |
| “Novel Information-bearing Macromolecular Duplexes Built from Pyranose Phosphate & Polyamide Backbones” | |
| North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, 3th-7th Jan, 2009 |
| 3 | Siamkhanthang Neihsial |
| “H-Bonded Base Pairs Dimers as Repeats Units for Information-bearing Self-Associative: A B3LYP/6-31G* Approach” | |
| 2nd Mid-Year Symposium of the Chemical Research Society of India, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. 21st July, 2007 | |
| Worship/Conference/Seminar Attended | |
| 1 | Workshop on Molecular Modelling |
| Centre for Biotechnology, Anna University, Chennai. 1st-4th December, 2005 | |
| 2 | Mid-Year Symposium of the Chemical Research Society of India |
| Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. 21st July, 2007 | |
| 3 | 96th Indian Science Congress |
| North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong. 3rd -7th Jan, 2009 |
| 4 | Frontier Lecture Series in Chemistry |
| Tezpur University, under the Auspices of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore. 20th Nov-22nd Nov, 2009 | |
| 5 | School on Numerical Quantum Many-body Methods in Physics and Chemistry |
| Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research,29th Oct- 4th Nov, 2007 |