Department of Chemistry, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus

Admission to the Ph.D. program for Second Semester, Academic Year 2022-23 is now open. Interested candidates can apply through the following link. Deadline for Ph.D Application Submission is 5:00 PM on 21 November 2022...

Doctoral Programmes BITS Pilani offers UG, PG and PhD programs to over 17,000 students across its campuses in Pilani, Goa, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Dubai. BITS Pilani was declared as an Institution of Eminence by the Ministry of Education, Government of India in 2020. QS World University Subject Rankings 2022 has ranked B...

Department of Chemistry, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus is honored to invite you to the National Symposium on Convergence of Chemistry & Materials (CCM-2023) which will be held during January 6-7, 2023.
It will embrace Experiment, Theory, and Computation along with recent Technological Advances in the field of materials chemistry.
We invite students, Ph.D. students, and experienced researchers to speak at the conference.
Altogether, the conference will feature about 17 presentations from eminent scientists on emerging science and technologies. We will have industry leaders and start-ups also participating in it. There would be thought-provoking poster seasons in the symposium and around 10 winners would be rewarded for the best posters.
Details regarding registration are available on the conference website;
https://bits-pilani.ac.in/Hyderabad/ccm2023/home
Please find the attached brochure for the details. You may also write to us at [email protected].
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/jQJFeAqu7YYB1frAA
See you at BITS HYD soon!

------ Research Position Openings ------
We have several research positions (project associates I and II) available here in BITS Pilani on the waste-to-energy theme funded by DST PURSE for 4 years. It is an excellent opportunity to be part of a challenging project with an interdisciplinary research team from Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, Chemistry, and Biological Sciences. The selected candidates will be working on prototype development to technology transfer. In this project, Dr. Chanchal Chakraborty is planning to recruit ONE Project Associate-I/II position on the topic of "Development of electrode materials for hydrogen fuel cell and fabrication of indigenous fuel cell stack".Interested candidates should apply AFTER READING ANNEXURE-I of this advertisement, by filling out this form: https://forms.gle/1Q43ynoLcDoKrLsg8
on or before Monday, June 20, 2022.
The detailed advertisement can be found on the BITS website https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/Hyderabad/ResearchFellow
Feel free to write to me ([email protected]) for any clarifications.

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Happy moment: Prof. B.M. Reddy, Senior Professor Emeritus from our department has been selected for the 2021 SMC Gold Medal and Dr. Himanshu Aggarwal has been selected for the 2021 SMC Bronze Medal by the Society for Materials Chemistry (SMC), BARC, Mumbai, 2021. Let's congratulate to both of them.

Congratulations to Prof. Amit Nag for publishing the book chapter entiled “Carbon dots as smart optical sensors” in the edited book “Carbon Dots in Analytical Chemistry”, Published by Elsevier, 2022.

Congratulations to Prof. K Sumithra for her recent book chapter entiled "Adsorption of Ammonia on p-doped Graphene Bilayer Surface; Energetics and Electronic Structure". The link is given below;

Adsorption of Ammonia on p-doped Graphene Bilayer Surface; Energetics and Electronic Structure The adsorption of ammonia on pristine AB stacked graphene bilayers and also on p-doped surfaces of bilayer graphene are investigated using first principles density functional calculations. Modifications of the adsorption interactions and electronic structure effects...

Very recently, Prof. Ramakrishnan Ganesan and his group studied the structural, electronic, and thermoelectric properties of Bi2Se3 thin films deposited by RF magnetron sputtering. Let's congratulate Prof. Ganesan for his recent publication;

Structural, Electronic and Thermoelectric Properties of Bi2Se3 Thin Films Deposited by RF Magnetron Sputtering - Journal of Electronic Materials Thin films of Bi2Se3 were deposited on Si (100) substrates using RF magnetron sputtering at a deposition temperature of 633 K. The surface morphology of Bi2Se3 films revealed the variation of grain sizes with thickness, while elemental analysis showed the stoichiometric Bi2Se3 films. The high-intens...

Congratulations once again to Prof. Ramakrishnan Ganesan for the recent publications from his group. The link is given below;

Enhanced antibacterial, antioxidant and anticancer activity of caffeic acid by simple acid-base complexation with spermine/spermidine (2022). Enhanced antibacterial, antioxidant and anticancer activity of caffeic acid by simple acid-base complexation with spermine/spermidine. Natural Product Research. Ahead of Print.

Congratulations to Prof. Ramakrishnan Ganesan and his group for their recent publications in ACS Food Sci. Technol. entitled "Edible Acid–Base Complexes of Caffeic Acid with Histidine and Arginine Exhibit Enhanced Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Characteristics"

Edible Acid–Base Complexes of Caffeic Acid with Histidine and Arginine Exhibit Enhanced Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Characteristics Caffeic acid (CA), an edible plant-derived polyphenol, is known for its various beneficial characteristics such as antimicrobial, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory. Recently, our group reported a facile acid–base complexation of CA with dopamine (Dopa) to circumvent its poor water solubility. Des...

Congratulations to Prof. Sounak Roy and his group for their recent development on the electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 to platform chemicals over M*F-derived inter-metallic nano-alloys. The link to access the ACS AEM journal is given below;

Unprecedented Electroreduction of CO2 over Metal Organic Framework-Derived Intermetallic Nano-Alloy Cu0.85Ni0.15/C Designing suitable catalysts for efficient and selective electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 is a need of the hour, and in this regard, the well-defined, highly dispersed active metal centers can be a trendsetting research endeavor toward CO2 electroreduction due to the maximum atom utilization and un...

Congratulations to Prof. Sounak Roy and Dr. Chanchal Chakraborty for their recent collaborative publication entitled "The role of synthesis vis-à-vis the oxygen vacancies of Co3O4 in the oxygen evolution reaction"

The role of synthesis vis-à-vis the oxygen vacancies of Co3O4 in the oxygen evolution reaction The oxygen evolution reaction over oxide vacancy-induced spinel Co3O4 is a topic of tremendous scientific attention owing to the favourable adsorption of water, as also shown here through DFT calculations. However, the inclusion of an optimum amount of oxygen-ion vacancies at the surface and in the....

is an energy-effective valorization process to mitigate anthropogenic CO2. Congratulations to Prof. Sounak Roy for the recent publication on the topic of Photo- and Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 over Metal-Organic Frameworks and Their Derived Oxides: A Correlation of the Reaction Mechanism with the Electronic Structure
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c03317

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Photo- and Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 over Metal–Organic Frameworks and Their Derived Oxides: A Correlation of the Reaction Mechanism with the Electronic Structure A Ce/Ti-based bimetallic 2-aminoterephthalate metal–organic framework (M*F) was synthesized and evaluated for photocatalytic reduction of CO2 in comparison with an isoreticular pristine monometallic Ce-terephthalate M*F. Owing to highly selective CO2 adsorption capability, optimized band gaps, hig...