Group Members

1) Dr. Subham Naik (Feb 2024-Dec 2026), PhD from NIT Rourkela

Reaserch Topic: Design, Crystal Growth, and Magnetic and Electrical transport properties of Novel transitional Metal Oxides and Chalcogenides

Publications:

1)   Discovery of Superconductivity in a Bulk Moire Superlattice Material, S Naik, P Monson, S Manna, P Mishra, S Chatterjee, S Kuila, PP Jana, Sreedhara M. B. and Gohil S. Thakur*, arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.06622. 

2) Near-Room-Temperature Antiferromagnetic Ordering in the Quadruple-Perovskite Sr4NaRu3O12, Subham Naik, Biswajit Singh, Hiranmayee Senapati, Akshay Karayil Thekkute Unnikrishnan, Ramesh C Nath, Soumyojit Chatterjee, Rahul Sharma, Thomas Doert, Walter Schnelle, Manfred Reehuis, Thomas C Hansen, Michael Ruck, Gohil S Thakur, Inorganic Chemistry 65 (32), 18836-18847

3) Cerium-Doped WS2/ZnO Heterostructure with Engineered Interfacial Defects for Enhanced Photocatalytic/Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution and Antimicrobial Applications, Rajkanya Das, Saman Shaheen, Subham Naik, Kritty Sree Kakati, Tokeer Ahmad, Gohil S Thakur, Debasish Borbora, Arabinda Baruah, ACS Appl. Eng. Mater. (2026) 4 (6): 3085–3100. 

4) Boron and Sulfur-Codoped g-C3N4 Nanostructures and Their l-Cysteine-Functionalized Quantum Dots for Selective Detection of Triethylamine Gas and Hg2+/Pb2+ Ions, R Newar, A Kashyap, N Sultana, S Naik, H Kalita, GS Thakur, A Baruah, ACS Applied Nano Materials 9 (14), 6130-6144

5) Crystal Growth, Structure, Magnetism, and Electrochemical Properties of Hexavalent Strontium Ruthenium Oxyhydroxide. S Naik, S Dutta, H Senapati, S Yadav, S Ray, J Prakash, R Sharma, Gohil S. Thakur*, ACS Omega, (2026) 11 (2): 3205–3213. 

1) Ms. Hiranmayee Senapati, MSc Chemistry

Joined Aug. 2024

Research topic: Crystal Growth and Magnetism in Novel Family of Transitional Metal Posphates

Publications:

1)  Near-Room-Temperature Antiferromagnetic Ordering in the Quadruple-Perovskite Sr4NaRu3O12, Subham Naik, Biswajit Singh, Hiranmayee Senapati, Akshay Karayil Thekkute Unnikrishnan, Ramesh C Nath, Soumyojit Chatterjee, Rahul Sharma, Thomas Doert, Walter Schnelle, Manfred Reehuis, Thomas C Hansen, Michael Ruck, Gohil S Thakur, Inorganic Chemistry 65 (32), 18836-18847.

2) Crystal Growth, Structure, Magnetism, and Electrochemical Properties of Hexavalent Strontium Ruthenium Oxyhydroxide. S Naik, S Dutta, H Senapati, S Yadav, S Ray, J Prakash, R Sharma, Gohil S. Thakur*, ACS Omega, (2026) 11 (2): 3205–3213. 

2) Mr. Paul Monson, MSc Physics

Joined Dec. 2025

Research topic: Crystal growth, Transport and Magnetic Properties of Novel Bulk Moire Superlattice Materials and TMD van Der Waals Compounds

Publications:

1)   Discovery of Superconductivity in a Bulk Moire Superlattice Material, S Naik, P Monson, S Manna, P Mishra, S Chatterjee, S Kuila, PP Jana, Sreedhara M. B. and Gohil S. Thakur*, arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.06622.