About Us:

In the Nanosensor & Clean Energy Laboratory, we focus on implementing innovative ideas based on Nanotechnology to realize nanosensor devices and clean energy technologies for real time applications. Our research group uses multidisciplinary approaches to design and develop novel nanoscale materials for various sensors and renewable energy applications by modulating the unique charge transport across the material. We are currently involved in development of cost-effective high performance devices, such as (i) PEM fuel cell stack development using mesoporous carbon nanofibers based electrocatalyst support materials (ii) gas sensors for environmental monitoring and clinical breath analyzer applications, (iii) microfluidic lab-on-chip sensor platforms for water quality monitoring and SERS biosensor applications. Our laboratory is equipped with the state-of-art facilities for fabrication, testing and calibration of gas sensors, electrochemical sensors and PEM fuel cells. We are also developing high quality self-cleaning coatings based on superhydrophobicity for solar panels for sustainable energy production. These superhydrophobic coatings based on nano-formulations have also been extended for large area non-PV applications, such as glass facades, marine applications, smart textiles, tiles etc. adopting simple coating procedures. Our group has recently developed novel advanced front contact metallization strategy to reduce shadow loss in solar cells based on silver-less approach using nanoimprint lithography.