Plenary Speakers

His research interest includes Organic Photochemistry, supramolecular chemistry: crystal engineering, development of porous metal-organic materials, development of organic light emitting materials, mechanistic organic chemistry.

Research activities of KGT Group at IISER Thiruvananthapuram (IISER TVM) focus on understanding the photochemistry and photophysics of molecular assemblies, plasmonic systems and semiconductor quantum dots, and chiral nanostructures. Plasmonically-powered chemical systems, photochemistry and photophysics of semiconductor quantum dots, chiroptical properties of nanostructures, organization of molecules and nanomaterials on 2D surfaces.

Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh is a research scientist/academician in the domain of interdisciplinary chemistry, and the former Director of the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology. He is known for his studies on supramolecular assemblies, organogels, photoresponsive materials, chemosensory and security materials systems

Professor Narayana specializes in Raman Spectroscopy. Though a trained condensed matter physicist, Prof. Narayan, developed a keen interest in Biology within a few years at JNCASR. His group is a pioneer in the use of Raman spectroscopy in a) drug-protein interaction, for drug screening applications and b) diagnostic applications. Many of his work in these areas are trendsetters in the inter-disciplinary research. Along with his interest in Biology, he also follows his interest in physics and chemistry. Overall his group has been one of the well-known groups in the country for use of Raman spectroscopy in the areas of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.

Design and synthesis of super- and supra-molecular bio-inspired systems for artificial photosynthesis and solar fuels, photochemistry and photophysics, photoinduced electron transfer and energy transfer, organic synthesis, porphyrins, phthalocyanines, nanocarbons (fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, graphenes), two-dimensional materials, organic-metal frameworks (MOF), nanoparticles, polymers, self-assembly, photofunctional materials, organic solar cells (dye-sensitized solar cells, bulk heterojunction solar cells, perovskite solar cells), and drug delivery systems.

Our research target is to develop high-performance organic electro-luminescence devices, organic solar cells, and polymer materials. For the purpose, we have carried out syntheses, device fabrications, precise structure characterizations, and quantum chemical calculations for high functional organic materials. Along with exploring novel synthetic routes and novel devices, detailed analyses of structures and dynamics are performed mainly by sophisticated solid-state NMR spectroscopy in order to obtain structure-dynamics-property relationships.