​Crystal Engineering approach to design new nano-photo/electrocatalyst using supramolecular hydrogen bonded materials, act as an efficient electrocatalyst, even better than graphene.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Supramolecular Nanomaterials Laboratory
(C3H3 LAB)
Clear Head, Clever Hand and Clean Habit
Research Interests
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Crystal Engineering approach to design new nano-photo/electrocatalyst.
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Supramolecular nanocatalyst driven Photo/Electrocatalytic water oxidation.
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Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) based materials for drug delivery.
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Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) based materials for Photo/Electrocatalytic water oxidation.
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Crystal Engineering & Supramolecular Chemistry.
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Solid-State Pharmaceutical Chemistry. (Co-crystals and Polymorphs)
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Research Highlights
 Developed a new type of material using supramolecular hydrogen bonded nanomaterials, act as an efficient electrocatalyst, even better than graphene which is a new direction of Crystal Engineering field.
 Synthesized water stable microporous MOF which showed outstanding drug loading capacity.
 Established a reliable structure-mechanical property relationship in pharmaceutical solids for structure based design of tablet formulation.
 Optimized a fast evaporation crystallization method by a systematic study, for quick screening of possible solid forms of pharmaceuticals, which has gained attention of researchers due to its high efficiency and complementary nature to the existing methods.
Research Expertise
 Experienced in different types of crystallization experiment of small organic molecules and MOF materials.
 Skilled in solid-state synthesis, mechanochemical synthesis, organic synthesis, hydrothermal synthesis, photosynthesis, nanomaterial synthesis etc.
 Solved the single crystal X-ray structure of small molecules and performed structure solution for more than 100 single crystals.
 Acquainted with FT IR, UV-Vis, Fluorescence, Raman, Mass spectra, Electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray single/ powder diffraction, Photo/ Electrochemical workstation etc.
 Structure elucidation of molecules from the spectrochemical (NMR, IR and Mass Spectroscopy) data and elemental (C, H, N) analysis and analyze the data of SEM, TEM and HRTEM, XPS, ICP-AES, EDX.
Research Fund(s)
1. Teachers Associateship for Research Excellence (TARE) Fellowship, SERB-DST, 2021. (18 lakhs, Ongoing).
2. CRS funding, TEQIP III, 2020 (10.37 lakhs).
3. Seed Grant for Research, TEQIP III, IIT Gandhinagar, 2019. (1.5 lakhs)
4. NSFC Postdoctoral Research Fund, China, 2015. (RMB 200,000)