News

Aug 2025: Ayan's preprint on the electrocatalytic activity of coordinatively saturated systems is online

Feb 2025: Our patent on Zn-Br2 batteries gets granted! Solon is scaling this to large format cells.

Jan 2025: Prateek's paper on the effects of internal electrostatics on the redox potentials of bimetallic complexes gets accepted in PCCP.

Jan 2025: Hearty congratulations to Maneesha for winning the Asha Navani Graduate Fellowship; and to Prateek Saini for winning the Best Poster Award at iSAEST-13, Trivandrum, India. 

Dec 2024: Titir's first paper on Zinc-Br2 batteries gets accepted.

Nov 2024: Soumyajit's first paper on disordered nanocarbon florets gets accepted.

Oct 2024: (Funding) The lab wins funding from GESH for Loveneesh's work on Li separation, and from DST on Na-ion batteries.

Oct 2024: NMSB-1, 1st National Meeting on Na-ion batteries successfully closes with 200+ participants from industry, academia and government.

Sep 2024: Dr. Dharamraj Prajapati from IISc joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Scholar

Aug 2024: Lab welcomes the highly energetic MSc students, Debanjan ("D1") and Dibyanghu ("D2")!

Jul 2024: Our MBraun Glovebox finally arrives!

Feb 2024: Strategic research initiative on advanced batteries, a joint center on battery R&D gets approved.

Aug 2023: Ayan converts his MSc degree to a MSc-PhD; Loveneesh joins the group. Welcome!

Jul 2023: Dr. Tushar joins us from Academia Sinica, Taiwan as a Postdoctoral Scholar. Welcome!

Jun 2023: Lab welcomes summer interns Nandana and Vishnu from NISER-B.

Apr 2023: Our first SERB Core Research Grant gets sanctioned.

Jan 2023: Titir and Maneesha join the group. Welcome!

Dec 2022: PI gets his first big grant. 

Aug 2022: Ayan joins for his MSc thesis work.

Apr 2022: Lab renovation finally gets done and is ready for occupation!

Jan 2022: Piyali1, Piyali2 and Soumyajit join as PhD students. Welcome!

Aug 2021: Prateek joins the group as the 1st PhD student. Welcome!

Jun 2021: Dnyanesh, Shreyas, Kinshuk and Shubham join the group.