Research & Consultancy

Department of Chemistry

Sr no	Name of the faculty member	Research Specialization to be displayed on the R&C website	Any specific interesting research problems that the faculty member is working or intends to work upon
1.	Dr. Smita Jauhari	Corrosion Polymers and Wastewater treatment	• Synthesis of Heterocyclic scaffolds and their biological evaluation. • Synthesis of Heterocyclic compounds and their evaluation as corrosion inhibitors.
2.	Dr. Kalpana Maheria	Synthesis of materials Ion-exchange Waste water treatment and Catalysis	• Design, preparation, characterization and applications of inorganic and hybrid materials (zeolite / mesozeolites based catalysts and ion exchangers and TMA salts based catalysts and ion exchangers) for organic synthesis (via MCRs), synthetic fuels, biomass valorization and waste water treatment (for heavy, toxic and precious metals’ removal, color removal and pharmaceutical waste removal).
3.	Dr. Premlata Kumari	Organic Synthetic chemistry; Natural product extraction; Wastewater treatment	• Designing and synthesis of reaction intermediates and bioactive compounds against various diseases like tuberculosis, cancer, bacterial infections, fungal infections, etc. • Extraction of natural products from various medicinally important plants; development of HPLC methods for chemical markers of medicinal plants. • Biogenic synthesis of nanoparticles using plant extracts and their applications such as biological property, dye discoloration, antibiotic removal, and metal detection.
4.	Dr. Naved Malek I.	Synthesis and Physical Properties of Polymers	• Development of stimuli-responsive Ionogel (ionic Liquid-based hydrogel) for smart drug delivery.
5.	Dr. Bharatkumar Dholakiya	Polyester resin for specialty applications Biofuels-Ultra efficient biodiesel manufacturing	• Development of polymeric cement from PET waste for construction application.
6.	Dr. Suban K. Sahoo	Inorganic Supramolecular Chemistry and Molecular Modeling	• Exploring new chemistry (mainly recognition, sensing and biosensing applications) with vitamin B6 cofactors by adopting nano and supramolecular concepts.
7.	Dr. Suresh Kumar	Miniaturized Extraction Techniques and Capillary Electrophoresis Functional Nanomaterials,MALDI- and ESI- Mass Spectrometry, Plasmonic and Fluorescent Nanosensors,Biosensing, Bioimaging and Drug Delivery,Green and Environmental Chemistry	• Synthesis of functional nanomaterials for analytical method development: Miniaturization and visual readouts. • Biocompatible materials for drug delivery and biomedical applications.
8.	Dr. Ketan C. Kuperkar	Surfactant Science, Polymer Chemistry, Metal Corrosion, Waste water treatment, Materials Science, Soft Condensed Matter Computational Chemistry	• Exploring the solution behavior and micellization phenomenon using Surfactants and Polymers for evaluating their biological applications.
9.	Dr. Ritambhara Jangir	Materials Synthesis and Applications Catalysis	• Fabrication of COF-membranes for various purposes.
10.	Dr. Togati Naveen	Metal Catalyzed C-H Functionalization Using Transient Directing Groups Heterocycles Synthesis via C-H Functionalization Metal Catalyzed Functionalization of Unactivated sp3 C-H Bonds Photoredox Catalysis Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry Metal free C-H Functionalization	• Late stage functionalization of drug molecules via visible-light photo redox catalysis.
11.	Dr. Lata Rana	Coordination chemistry, Synthetic inorganic chemistry, Catalysis (homogeneous and heterogeneous), and Bioinorganic chemistry.	• Synthesis of immobilized compounds, functionalized graphene oxide, and magnetic nanoparticles for functional mimicking activity, dye degradation, and catalysis.
12.	Dr. A Sivaiah	Organic synthesis, Inorganic Supramolecular chemistry, Nano/Bio sensors & Biomaterial applications	• Synthesis of fluorescent supramolecular Inorganic/organic frameworks for recognition of biomolecules in biological systems to provide diagnosis for the disease.
13.	Dr. Subrata Dutta	Organic synthesis, Bio-organic and medicinal chemistry. Nucleic acid chemistry.	• Synthesis of NIR dye for biomedical applications. • DNA and peptide-based catalysis. • Design and synthesis of small molecule drugs for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. • Point - of - Care detection of viral RNA, antibody, and antigen.
14.	Dr. Arup Kumar Ghosh	Environmental Chemistry Computational Chemistry Instrumentation Spectroscopic Analysis Atmospheric Chemistry	• Photodissociation and photofragmentation studies of atmospheric pollutants. • Design and development of gas/vapour sensitive materials (with varied morphological shapes for effective degradation and sensing of atmospheric pollutants). • Investigation of reaction kinetics of volatile organic compounds with catalysts/sensors. • Instrument Development for chemical analysis using spectroscopic and mass spectrometric methods. • Electronic structure and energy calculations of molecules, clusters, and ions.