Nanostructured  Materials  Group


- where science is religion and lab the temple

Dr. C. Subramaniam

Professor

Email : csubbu[at]chem.iitb.ac.in

Academic Background

  • B.Sc. Loyola College (Autonomous), Chennai (2001).

  • M.Sc. Indian Institute of Technology Madras .

  • Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology Madras (Integrated Ph.D.) with Prof. T. Pradeep (2008).

  • Post-Doctoral Researcher, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan 2008-2010.

  • Partner Researcher, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan 2010-2014.

  • Post-Doctoral Researcher, Technology Research Association for Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes (TASC), Japan 2010-2014.

Dr. Ananya Sah

Education  : Ph.D (2023) - Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
    : M. Sc. (2017) Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Email-id  : 174033034@iitb.ac.in
Research Interest  : Nanomaterials; Polymer Nanocomposites.
 
 

 Dr. Ananya Chowdhury

Education  : Ph.D. (2021) Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
     M. Sc. (2015) Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Email-id :  ananya05@iitb.ac.in
Research Interest : Nanomaterials, Energy Applications, Supercapacitors, Electrocatalysis .
Representative Publications 
 
1. Ananya Chowdhury, Sudipta Biswas, Debabrata Mandal and Amreesh Chandra, Facile strategy of using conductive additive supported NaMnPO4 nanoparticles for delivering high performance Na-ion supercapacitor, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2022, 902, 163733.
 
2. Ananya Chowdhury, Sudipta Biswas, Abyaya Dhar, Poornachandra Shekhar Burada and Amreesh Chandra, Stable Na-ion supercapacitor under non-ambient conditions using maricite-NaMnPO4 nanoparticles, Journal of Power Sources, 2021, 516, 230679.
 
3. Ananya Chowdhury, Joyanti Haldar, Sudipta Biswas, Vikas Sharma, Abyaya Dhar, Baranidharan Sundaram, Brajesh Dubey, Poornachandra Sekhar Burada and Amreesh Chandra, High performance magnetic pseudocapacitors- Direct corelation between specific capacitance and diffusion coefficients, Electrochimica Acta, 2021, 397, 139252.
 
4. Ananya Chowdhury, Sudipta Biswas, Trilok Singh and Amreesh Chandra, Redox mediator induced enhanced electrochemical reactions at the electrode-electrolyte interface: Making sodium ion supercapacitors a competitive technology, Electrochemical Science Advances, 2021, e2100030.
 
5. Ananya Chowdhury, Abyaya Dhar, Sudipta Biswas, Vikas Sharma, Poornachandra Shekhar Burada and Amreesh Chandra, Theoretical model for magnetic supercapacitors -From electrode material to electrolyte ion dependence, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2020, 124, 26613.
 
6. Ananya Chowdhury, Rakesh Shukla, Vikas Sharma, Suman Neogy, Amreesh Chandra, Vinita Grover and Avesh Tyagi, Controlling reaction kinetics of layered zinc vanadate having brucite-like Zn-O layers supported by pyrovanadate pillars for use in supercapacitors, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2020, 829, 154479.
 
 

 Dr. Sudeshna Thombare

Education :   Post-Doctoral Fellow (2009-2012)- School of Material Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
     Ph.D (2003-2010)- Department of Physics, North Maharashtra University, Maharashtra, India.
Email-id :  sudeshna6@iitb.ac.in
Research Interest : Energy Storage, Corrosion Protection, Conducting Polymers .
Research Experience : Research Professor (2012-2014)- Department of Advanced Materials Chemistry, Korea University, Republic of Korea.

Representative Publications 
 
1. K.N. Chaudhari, Sudeshna Chaudhari, J.S. Yu, Synthesis and supercapacitor performance of Au-nanoparticle decorated MWCNT. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 2016, 761, 98-105.
 
2. N.K. Chaudhari, Sudeshna Chaudhari, J.S. Yu, Cube-like αFe2O3 Supported on Ordered Multimodal Porous Carbon as High Performance Electrode Material for Supercapacitors, ChemSusChem. 2014, 7(11) 3102-3111.
 
3. D.S. Yang, Sudeshna Chaudhari, K.P. Rajesh, J.S. Yu, Preparation of Nitrogen-Doped Porous Carbon Nanofibers and the Effect of Porosity, Electrical Conductivity, and Nitrogen Content on Their Oxygen Reduction Performance. ChemCatChem. 2014, 6 (5), 1236-1244.
 
4. Sudeshna Chaudhari, M. Srinivasan, 1D hollow α-Fe2O3 electrospun nanofibers as high performance anode material for lithium ion batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2012, 22(43), 23049-23056.
 
5. Sudeshna Chaudhari, P.P. Patil, Inhibition of nickel coated mild steel corrosion by electrosynthesized polyaniline coatings. Electrochimica acta. 2011, 56 (8), 3049-3059.

Dr. Vishwanath Kalyani

Education :  Ph.D. (2012) University of Genoa, Italy
     M. Sc. (2006) University of Solapur, Maharashtra
Email-id :  vishwanathkalyani@gmail.com
Research Interest :  Nanomaterials, Hybrid polymers, Catalysis.
Representative Publications 
 
1. Vishwanath Kalyani, Vikram Singh, V.S.V.Satyanarayana, Chillukattil P. Pradeep*, Subrata Ghosh, Kenneth E. Gonsalves, New Polyoxometalates Containing Hybrid Polymers and Their Potential for Nanopatterning, Chem. Eur. J . 2014 , 20 ,1-10.
 
2. Vishwanath Kalyani, Bogdan Vasile, Adelina Ianculescu, Maria Teresa Buscaglia, Vincenzo Buscaglia*, and Paolo Nanni, Hydrothermal synthesis of SrTiO3 mesocrystals: single crystal to mesocrystal transformation induced by topochemical reactions, Crystal Growth & Design. 2012, 12, 4450 - 4456.
 
3. V. S. V. Satyanarayana, Vikram Singh, Vishwanath Kalyani, Chullikkattil P. Pradeep, Satinder Sharma, Subrata Ghosh,* Kenneth E Gonsalves,* A Hybrid polymeric material bearing ferrocene-based pendant organometallic functionality: synthesis and applications in nano-patterning using EUV lithography, RSC Advances 2014, 4, 59817-59820.
 
4. Maria Teresa Buscaglia, Mohamed Sennour, Vincenzo Buscaglia*, Carlo Bottino, Vishwanath Kalyani, and Paolo Nanni, Formation of Bi4Ti3O12 One-Dimensional Structures by Solid-State Reactive Diffusion. From Core-Shell Templates to Nanorods and Nanotubes, Crystal Growth & Design. 2011, 11, 4, 1394 -1401.
 
5. Lalita. B. Kunde, Swapana. M. Gade, Vishwanath Kalyani, S. P. Gupte.* Dibutyltin oxide catalyzed aminolysis of oxalate to carbamate, oxamate and derivatives of imidazolidinetrion, Appl. Organometal. Chem. 2010, 24, 402-407.
 
   


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Poulomi Nandi

Education :   M.Sc (2018)- Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
B.Sc. (2016)- St. Xavier's College, Kolkata

Email-id :  184033021@iitb.ac.in

Research Interest :  Electrodes and electrolytes for solid-state energy storage.
 
 

Subham

Education :   M.Sc (2017)- Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh
B.Sc. (2015)- Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak

Email-id :  18403301@iitb.ac.in

Research Interest :  Multifunctional smart surfaces using nanomaterials.
 
 

Shraddha Shinde

Education :   M.Sc (2017)- Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune
B.Sc. (2015) - Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded

Email-id :  184363002@iitb.ac.in

Research Interest :  Nanomaterial composites for heat storage and recovery applications.
 
 

Gitika Rani Saha

Education :   M.Tech. (2018) -Indian school of mines - IIT Dhanbad
B.Tech. Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata

Email-id :  194034001@iitb.ac.in

Research Interest :  Development of nanostructured carbon supports and nanocatalysts for sustainable heterogeneous organic catalysis.
 
 

Nikita Chitre

Education :   M.Sc. Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai
B.Sc. (2016) Birla College,University of Mumbai

Email-id :  194034003@iitb.ac.in

Research Interest :  Development of pristine Graphene and its composite coatings to increase the corrosion resistance of metals. Mechanistic investigation of corrosion using Electrochemistry coupled with Raman spectroscopy.
 
 

Mohammed Aslam

Education :   M.Sc. National Institute of Technology, Karnataka
B.Sc. PSMO College, Calicut University

Email-id :  @iitb.ac.in

Research Interest :  .
 
 

Dipin T.

Education :   M.Sc. National Institute of Technology, Calicut
B.Sc. Farook College, Calicut University

Email-id :  @iitb.ac.in

Research Interest :  Organic electrochemical transistor.
 
 

Goutam Nayak

Education :   M.Sc. IIT Kharagpur
B.Sc. Ramakrishna Mission vivekananda centenary College, Rahara

Email-id : 214033039@iitb.ac.in

Research Interest :  Photo-thermal route for green catalytic chemical conversion .
 
 

Pranitha P.T

Education :   M.Sc. Chemistry (2022) - Central University of Punjab
B.Sc. Chemistry (2020) – St. Joseph’s College, Devagiri (Autonomous), Kerala

Email-id :  23d0213@iitb.ac.in

Research Interest :  .
 
 

Amrutha Suresh

Education :   M.Sc. Chemistry (2023) - NIT Trichy
B.Sc. Chemistry (2021)- Christ college (autonomous), Kerala

Email-id :  amruthasuresh@iitb.ac.in

Research Interest :  The development of porous polymers as scaffolds for sodium-ion and potassium-ion supercapacitors .
 
 

Arnab Chowdhury

 
Education :  B.Sc    B.Sc- Maulana Azad College, CU
Email-id : 22n0170@iitb.ac.in
Research Interest :  .

Sovan Dolai

 
Education :  B.Sc    Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira
Email-id : 22n0169@iitb.ac.in
Research Interest
 
1. Archana Ramakrishnan  
 
 

Post-Doctoral Researchers :

Dr. Seemesh Bhaskar  
 
Dr. Pramiti Hui  
 
Dr. Rajeshkhanna Gadam - Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology, Warrangal  
 
 
 

Doctoral Students :

Dr. Ashwini Gajarushi - Engineering Manager, TIH Foundation for IoT and IoE, IIT-Bombay.  
 
Dr. Itisha Dwivedi - Product Development Engineer at Tan90 Thermal Solutions  
 
Dr. Jayeeta Saha - Postodoctoral research scientist, Department of Materials and environmental chemistry, Stockholm University, Sweden  
 
Dr. Mihir Kumar Jha - Development Editor, American Chemical Society  
 
Dr. Sudeshna Mondal - Associate Scientific Editor, Elsevier  
 
Dr. Maku Moronshing - Post-doctoral Fellow, Southern University of Science and Technology,Shenzhen , China  
 

M.Sc. Students & Research Assistants :

Sayantani Sur -  
 
Shalin Sagar Mollick -  
 
Banti Barman  
 
Amardeep Kumar  
 
Deepti Taneja - works at Aarti Industries, Vapi, Gujrat  
 
Raksha Jain - works at Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd, Japan  
 
Abhudhya -  
 
Ranadeb Ball- Ph. D at University of pennsylvania, Phildelphia, USA  
 
Deep Banerjee - Ph. D at Kitakyushu Institute of Technology (KYUTECH Wakamatsu, Japan)  
 
Mohit Kumar  
 
Souradeep Gupta  
 
Tanya Jain  
 
Priya Rathi  (Ph.D at Washington University in St. Louis)  
 
Vishnu Nair  (Doing PhD at University of Chicago)  
 
Indrajit Palani   (IRCC internship student)  
 
Manoj Sai  (Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Education, Puttaparthi)  
 
Vikas Tard (4 Yr BS)
 
Shyama, A. - M.Sc. Amrita Vshwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita University)
 
  • Prof. T. Pradeep (Institute Chair Professor, IIT Madras, India)

  • Prof. Kenji Hata (Director, Nanotube Research Center, AIST Tsukuba Japan)

  • Prof. Yoke Khin Yap (Professor, Michigan Technological University)

  • Prof. John R. Reynolds (Professor, Georgia Tech)

  • Dr. Vivek Pachauri (Post-doctoral fellow, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)

  • Prof. Hirofumi Tanaka (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)