Presentations and Session Chairs

Presentations Abroad

1. Design and engineering of Cu₂O-CuO heterostructures for solar energy harvesting

Online ORAL presentation at the MRS Spring Meeting (Virtual), 2021 .April 21-23 , 2021 Organised by Materials Research Society , USA.

2 Solar powered CO₂ reduction using graphene wrapped TiO₂ nanotubes

Advanced Energy Materials (AEM), Surrey, UK, Sept. 10-12, 2018

Invited Talk and Session Chair on Graphene based composite materials.

3. Photocatalytic reduction of CO₂ into fuel: towards a sustainable energy cycle

Inviated Talk at the World Sustainability Symposium -Asia Pacific, Sydney, Australia June 1-5, 2015.

4. B. M. Rao and Somnath C. Roy, Photo-Electro-Chemical Hydrogen Generation through Solvothermally Crystallized TiO₂ Nanotube Arrays,

Chair, Opening Session at the International Workshop on Material Challenges in Devices for Fuel Solar Production and Employment, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, May 2014

Presented in India

Fabrication of novel nano- and hetero-structures through simple chemistry; Invited Web Talk; JIIT Noida, December 2021

Fabrication of novel nano- and hetero-structures for photoelectrochemical solar energy harvesting; Invited (Virtual) Presentation; Ravenshaw University, Cuttack November 2021

Some Recent Progress in TiO₂ and CuO One-Dimensional Nanostructures; Invited Talk(Webinar), ICFAI University Tripura, September 2021.

1. IITM Guru Talks: Building Real Estate in a Nano World (May 29, 2021) Hostel by IIT Madras Alumni Association

Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3X2cW9_Q8w

2. Co-Organiser and Chair, 4^th Technical session MHRD-SPARC sponsored Two-day Indo-Italian (virtual) workshop on Electrode materials for SOFC Fuel Cell, March 24-25, VIT University, Chennai

3. Invited Speaker, 3^rd International Conference of Current Trends in Materials Science and Engineering (CTMSE), Virtual Mode, IEM Kolkata, March 12, 2021.

4. Science and Engineering of Gas Sensors,

National Science Day Talk, Research and Innovation Centre, Defence Research and Dev Org (DRDO), IIT Madras Research Park, Chennai. March 01, 2021.

5. Recent advances in one dimensional heterostructures for solar energy harvesting

Webinar presented at the Surface Engineering Division, CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratory, Bengaluru, Aug 24, 2020.

6. The Fascinating World of Nanomaterials (Web lecture)

ICFAI University, Agartala, Tripura, May 25, 2020

7. Nanotechnology today: from basic research to daily life (Web lecture)

GSFC University, Vadodara, Gujarat, April 24, 2020.

8. One dimensional nano and heterostructures

Invited Talk, ETAMS 2020, BML Munjal University, Gurgaon, Jan 16 2020

9. Some recent advanced in one-dimensional nano and heterostructures

Invited Talk, AMN 2020, JIIT University, NOIDA, February 20, 2020

10. Photoelectrochemical water splitting with one-dimensional nano and heterostructures

Invited Talk, CTMSE 2019, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, July 2019.

11. Fabrication and application of BiFeO₃ nanostructures

Invited Talk, ISMANAM 2019, July 12, Chennai, India.

12. Development of one-dimensional metal oxide nanostructures for solar energy applications

Guest Lecture, Centre for Energy Studies, IIT Delhi, April 23, 2019.

13. Nanotechnology today: fundamental science to daily life

Keynote Address : 5^th National conference on information and communication technologies NCICT-2019, SSN College of Engineering, April 1-2, 2019.

14. X-ray Photoelectron and Auger Electron spectroscopy techniques

TEQIP Short Term course on Advanced Characterization Technique,

CIT Coimbatore, February 20, 2019

15. The Exciting world of One-dimensional nanostructures

Keynote speech on Nanotechnology and Session Chair, IEEE-INDICON, Amrita University Coimbatore December 16-19, 2018.

16. Photocatalysis with metal oxide nanostructures

Short Invited Talk, ICCFM-2018, SN Bose Centre, Kolkata,

December 13-16, 2018.

17. 1D metal oxide nanostructures for harvesting solar energy;

5^TH International Conference on Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites

VIT University, Chennai Campus, February 8 -10, 2018.

18. Nanomaterials for energy and environment

National Conference on Emerging Trends in Applied Materials Science and Surface Engineering (ETAMS 2018).

BML University, Gurgaon, 29 – 30 January 2018.

19. Engineering TiO₂-Graphene nanocomposites towards solar energy harvesting

Special Lecture in Nanoscience, Institute of Nanoscience and Technology

INST Mohali, 13 October 2017.

20. Solar powered CO₂ reduction: opportunities and challenges

Shaping the Energy Future: Challenges and Opportunities (SEFCO 2017)

CSIR- Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP) Dehradun, 11 May 2017.

21. Nanotechnology for CO₂ reduction

Keynote address in the Recent Advances in Nanotechnology (RADIANT)

BHEL Campus, Tiruchirappalli 23 February 2017.

22. Towards Better Photocatalysts: Graphene and MoS₂ Wrapped TiO₂ Nanotubes

International Conference on Functional Electroceramics and Polymers (ICEP 2017)

IIT Kharagpur, February 2017.

23. Nanoscale Cobweb: Synthesis and applications of Graphene wrapped TiO₂ nanotubes

IUMRS-International Conference of Young Researchers in Advanced Materials (ICYRAM), IISc Bangalore, December 2016

24. Novel Nanomaterials Architecture for Solar Powered Recycling of CO₂ to Fuel

International Conference on 21^st Century Energy Needs (ICTFCEN 2016)

IIT Kharagpur, November 2016.