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{{Short description|Indian material chemist, nanomaterial scientist and college administrator}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Murali Sastry
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1959|6|10}}
| birth_place = [[Tamil Nadu]], India
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| fields = {{ublist | [[Nanomaterials]] | [[Hybrid materials]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[IITB-Monash Research Academy]] | [[Tata Chemicals]] | [[National Chemical Laboratory]] | QAD Global Resource Center | [[University of Maryland]] | CNRS, Orsay | [[Indian National Academy of Engineering]] | [[IIT Kanpur]] | [[DSM (company)|DSM]] India Innovation Center }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[IIT Madras]] | [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]] | [[ELETTRA|Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste]] }}
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| known_for = Studies on surfaces, films and materials chemistry
| awards = {{ublist | 1993 [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research|CSIR]] Young Scientist Award | 2002 [[Chemical Research Society of India|CRSI]] Medal |2002 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] | 2003 Materials Research Society of India Medal | 2006 [[IIT Madras|IITM]] 2006 Distinguished Alumnus Award}}
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'''Murali Sastry''' (born 10 June 1959) is an Indian [[Material chemistry|material chemist]], [[Nanomaterials|nanomaterial]] scientist and the chief executive officer of the [[IITB-Monash Research Academy]].<ref name="People">{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitbmonash.org/about-us/ |title=People |date=2016 |publisher=IITB-Monash Research Academy |access-date=30 November 2016 |archive-date=8 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120908150019/http://www.iitbmonash.org/about-us/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> He is a former chief scientist at [[Tata Chemicals]] and a former senior scientist at the [[National Chemical Laboratory]].<ref name="Citations: 2006 Distinguished Alumnus Awards Recipients">{{Cite web |url=http://alumni.iitm.ac.in/citations-2006-distinguished-alumnus-awards-recipients/ |title=Citations: 2006 Distinguished Alumnus Awards Recipients |date=2016 |website=IIT Mumbai}}</ref> He is known for his studies on [[Surface chemistry|surfaces]], films and materials chemistry<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=37 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> and is an elected fellow of [[Maharashtra Academy of Sciences]]<ref name="MAS fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://mahascience.org/files/Fellowship/files/academyMembers.htm#s |title=MAS fellows |date=2016 |publisher=Maharashtra Academy of Sciences}}</ref> and the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]].<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Sastry,_Dr_Murali |title=Fellow profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2002, for his contributions to chemical sciences.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref>

== Biography ==
[[File:Ncl-pune.jpg|thumb|235px|left|National Chemical Laboratory]]
Murali Sastry, born on 10 June 1959 in the south Indian state of [[Tamil Nadu]], completed his master's degree in chemistry in 1982 at the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Madras]]. He continued at the institute to secure a PhD in [[Thin film|thin film technology]] in 1987 before doing his post-doctoral studies at the [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]] (1988–89) and [[ELETTRA|Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste]] (1989–91).<ref name="Citations: 2006 Distinguished Alumnus Awards Recipients" /> He joined [[QAD Inc.|QAD]] Global Resource Center in 1997 as a software engineer where he served in such positions as Technical Consultant and Project Manager till his move to the [[National Chemical Laboratory]] as a Senior Scientist. In 2005 he shifted to [[Tata Chemicals]] as the Chief Innovation Officer and after 6 years of service, he joined [[DSM (company)|DSM India]] as the director of the Innovation Centre in 2011.<ref name="Executive Profile">{{Cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=25004443&privcapId=878472 |title=Executive Profile |date=2016 |publisher=Bloomberg}}</ref> When the then chief executive officer of [[IITB-Monash Research Academy]] retired in 2015, he was selected for the post and he holds the post till date.<ref name="People" /> He has served as an [[Indian National Academy of Engineering|INAE]] and [[C V Seshadri|C. V. Seshadri]] chair professor at the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]],<ref name="Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from an Indian Perspective">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/Nano/22%20-%20Murali%20Sastry.pdf |title=Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from an Indian Perspective |date=2016 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India}}</ref> [[Department of Atomic Energy|DAE]] professor at the [[University of Hyderabad|Central University, Hyderabad]], and as a visiting scientist at the [[University of Maryland]] (1998–99) and [[French National Centre for Scientific Research|CNRS]], [[Orsay]] (2001–03).<ref name="Citations: 2006 Distinguished Alumnus Awards Recipients" />

== Legacy ==
Sastry's contributions are based on his researches focused on [[thin films]] and [[nano materials]],<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{Cite web |url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf |title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners |date=2016 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |access-date=30 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> as well as the commercial applications of the technologies he has developed. As the chief scientific officer of [[Tata Chemicals]], he introduced a low-cost water purifier, ''Swach'', which utilized [[Silver nanoparticle|nano-silvers]] as the filtering agent. He established an innovation centre there which worked on a number of projects based on [[nanotechnology]].<ref name="Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from an Indian Perspective" /> It was during his tenure as the CEO of [[IITB-Monash Research Academy]], the institution set up a new headquarters in Mumbai where he oversees inter-disciplinary scientific research with participation from some of the leading Indian and overseas business houses.<ref name="IITB-Monash building a welcome addition">{{Cite web |url=http://www.monash.edu/news/articles/iitb-monash-research-academy-the-academy-building-a-welcome-addition |title=IITB-Monash building a welcome addition |date=2016 |publisher=IITB-Monash Research Academy}}</ref> He has published his research by way of chapters contributed to books authored by others and over 360 peer-reviewed articles.<ref name="Browse by Fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Sastry=3AMurali=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}</ref><ref name="On Google Scholar">{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Qv0F1zcAAAAJ&hl=en |title=On Google Scholar |date=2016 |publisher=Google Scholar}}</ref> He holds many US and Indian patents;<ref name="Chief Scientist, Tata Chemicals Innovation Centre">{{Cite web |url=http://nanoequity2009.cns.ucsb.edu/program/8859365936.html?tmpl=component&task=preview |title=Chief Scientist, Tata Chemicals Innovation Centre |date=2016 |publisher=Nano Equity |access-date=30 November 2016 |archive-date=30 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130184628/http://nanoequity2009.cns.ucsb.edu/program/8859365936.html?tmpl=component&task=preview |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Justia]] Patents has listed 24 of these.<ref name="Patents">{{Cite web |url=http://patents.justia.com/inventor/murali-sastry |title=Patents |date=2016 |publisher=Justia Patents}}</ref> He has also been associated with many governmental and semi-governmental science agencies such as [[Department of Biotechnology]], [[Department of Science and Technology (India)|Department of Science and Technology]], Presidential Nanotechnology Committee and the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] as well as a number of science journals.<ref name="People" />

== Awards and honors ==
Sastry received the CSIR Young Scientist Award in 1993<ref name="Citations: 2006 Distinguished Alumnus Awards Recipients" /> and the Bronze Medal of the [[Chemical Research Society of India]] in 2002.<ref name="CRSI Bronze Medal">{{Cite web |url=http://www.crsi.org.in/index.php/crsi-awards/year-1999-2008 |title=CRSI Bronze Medal |date=2016 |publisher=Chemical Research Society of India |access-date=30 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161016123938/http://www.crsi.org.in/index.php/crsi-awards/year-1999-2008 |archive-date=16 October 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The same year, he was elected as a fellow by the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]].<ref name="Fellow profile" /> The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards, also in 2002.<ref name="Chemical Sciences">{{cite web | url=http://www.csir.res.in/External/Heads/career/award/BPRIZE/CHEMICAL_SCIENCES.htm | title=Chemical Sciences | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=2016 | access-date=7 November 2016 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912012851/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/CHEMICAL_SCIENCES.htm | archive-date=12 September 2012 }}</ref> He is also a fellow of the [[Maharashtra Academy of Sciences]]<ref name="MAS fellows" /> and a recipient of the Materials Research Society of India Medal, which he received in 2003.<ref name="Awards and honors">{{Cite web |url=http://www.mrsi.org.in/awardshonours.php |title=Awards and honors |date=2016 |publisher=Material Research Society of India}}</ref> The [[Indian Institute of Technology, Madras]] selected him as a Distinguished Alumnus in 2006.<ref name="Citations: 2006 Distinguished Alumnus Awards Recipients" /> He was listed among the world's most cited materials scientists by [[Elsevier (magazine)|Elsevier Scopus]] in 2016.<ref name="THE 2016 LIST OF MOST CITED RESEARCHERS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING">{{Cite web |url=https://www.msesupplies.com/blogs/news/2016-the-most-cited-researchers-in-materials-science-and-engineering-by-elsevier-scopus-data |title=THE 2016 LIST OF MOST CITED RESEARCHERS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING |date=2017 |publisher=MSES Supplies}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Nanotechnology]]
{{portal|India|Chemistry}}

== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* {{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/Nano/22%20-%20Murali%20Sastry.pdf |title=Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from an Indian Perspective |date=2014 |publisher=[[National Academy of Sciences, India]] |last=Murali Sastry}}

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