Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents

Dr. Sapna Raghav is presently working as the Head of the Department of Chemistry at Shri Jagdishprasad Jhabarmal Tibrewala University, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, India. Her primary research interests lie in environmental and materials chemistry, with a focus on water decontamination, sensing technologies, and material science. She has contributed more than 25 research articles to reputed international journals, including Carbohydrate Polymers, ACS Publications, and Journal of Molecular Liquids. In addition, she has authored more than 50 book chapters with renowned publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, and CRC Press. Dr. Raghav has actively participated in numerous national and international conferences and completed the WISE internship in Intellectual Property Rights under DST-TIFAC in New Delhi, India.

Dr. Vishwajit Chavda has been serving as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Institute of Science, Humanities, and Liberal Studies (ISHLS), Indus University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, since December 2024 and will join the Department of Environmental Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea, in November 2025. His research interests include nanomaterials, wastewater treatment, environmental science, and polymer chemistry. He has published more than 20 research articles in Scopus-indexed journals in addition to 8 book chapters and 5 Indian patents. He has presented his work at numerous national and international conferences, receiving awards for best paper presentations. Dr. Chavda is a lifetime member of multiple scientific societies and serves as an editor and reviewer for reputed journals published by the ACS, RSC, Wiley, and Taylor & Francis.

Prof. Bahadur has served as a postdoctoral fellow/visiting scientist at several institutions before joining the Department of Chemistry, North-West University, South Africa, in 2015. He is currently working as a full-time professor in the discipline of physical chemistry. With more than 15 years of teaching and research experience, his multidisciplinary research interests include ionic liquids, DESs, phase equilibria, thermodynamics, corrosion science, biofuels, biomass, and cellulose. He serves on the editorial advisory boards of several national and international journals and has published more than 200 articles in reputed high–impact factor journals, including book chapters and books, with more than 12,300 citations. He is also a member of numerous scientific societies, including IUPAC, ACS, FRSC, SACI, ITS, etc.

Dr. Prashant Singh is currently a professor in the Department of Chemistry, Atma Ram Sanatan Dharam College, University of Delhi, India, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK. He has nearly 20 years of teaching experience and has completed four research projects from different funding agencies in India. He has published more than 190 research articles/reviews/preprints/chapters, with nearly 4300 citations. His research interests include DFT calculations, molecular dynamics simulations, and electrochemistry to understand the behaviour of small molecules, both with and without macromolecules. He serves on the editorial boards of Scientific Reports, PLOS One, Mitochondrial DNA Part B and has edited special issue in Nanoscience & Nanotechnology-Asia, Molecules, ChemistrySelect. Additionally, he has edited books published by Elsevier, CRC Press, and other publishers.