Who is Who: the Nanomagnetite Researcher of the Department of Chemistry of IPB
Dr. Deden Saprudin, M.Si is the faculty member of the Department of Chemistry, of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of Bogor Agricultural University (FMIPA IPB). The reason why he took this academic career in the Department of the University, as the newly established Department, the Department of Chemistry of IPB which was founded in 1994 opened vacant positions for faculty members. Dr. Deden interested in such post, then applied for the post. As newly appointed faculty member he decided to devote himself by concentrating on the analytical chemistry.
He explained that much of our daily life is dependent on chemical analysis. Accurate quality-control analysis ensures the quality of the food we eat, the medicine we use, the water we drink, and the air we breathe. Among the sciences, analytical chemistry stands out as a practically versatile, useful and important field. Analytical Chemistry is the oldest branch of Chemistry and is the foundation block on which other branches, namely, inorganic, organic, physical and biochemistry have grown to their present level. Analytical Chemistry is poised to make even greater contributions to betterment of life and understanding of new materials. It will lead the way to development of new materials having desired features and detection at levels which could not be imagined before. From there it can be used to develop a tool or a method for knowing or detecting elements in a compound.
Since he had been graduated and got his Doctoral degree (S3) in 2012, he began to pursue in nanomagnetite field. Recently, magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) have emerged as viable alternatives to conventional materials, as robust, readily available, high surface area heterogeneous catalyst supports. Nanomagnetite has many benefits, in agriculture, nanomagnetite has been utilized to improve the productivity of agricultural crops. Because this nanomagnetite has a function like growth hormone.
"Currently this new nanomagnetit has been tested on germinating plants. However, the future of its application will be widespread, i.e. to various types of mature plants, "he added.
Before choosing IPB as his career, Dr. Deden is worth to emulate. After graduating from high school, he worked temporarily in the Tire Fabric Industry for one month approximately while he had been waiting for the announcement for the result of the written test for State University (PTN). His initial capital enabled him to finish his undergraduate degree (S1) of state university was the Rp 200 thousand funds given by his grandfather. At that time, his parents were only capable to shoulder his educational costs up to high school, so while he undertook his undergraduate program he actively taught for tutorials to get his living costs. After he has been graduated from his undergraduate degree program, he devoted himself to the Department of Chemistry of IPB. Though he had been the faculty member of the Department, but he was still active provided tutorial teaching.
The Awardee of the Graduate Program scholarship (PPS), urge his colleagues “Jadilah insan kamil yang bermanfaat bagi orang lain” (helping others is a key to achieving happiness). We should not only have good intellectual ability, but we should also have sufficient supplies of ruhiyah and to support themselves and others.
In addition to be active lecturer to pass knowledge to students, the Secretary of the Department of Chemistry of IPB, has been the active member of the Indonesian Chemical Association (HKI) West Java branch for 2002-2007. Currently he is also active as the Executive Boards of Himpunan Kimia Indonesia (HKI the Indonesian Chemical Society) for Research and Innovation, as well as members of the Electro Chemical Society (ECS). Other activities that he carries out among others are provide trained program for participants of the National Science Olympiad (OSN), and on chemistry for high school level and organized Training Courses on Instrumentation for teachers in Bogor city.
In 2013, he attended an ECS meeting held in Canada that discussed on nanomagnetite. Some of the international events he attended among others were the International Workshop on Asian Fischer Science Network at Kochi University in 2009, and the International Congress for Analytical Science (ICAS) in Kyoto in 2011. (Wied)
