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11 Mar 2025: Congratulations Aejaz for the Acceptance of Manuscript titled "Understanding the modulated electrocatalytic H2 generation activity of surface functionalized Ti2C MXenes using the potential of zero charge and electron transfer coefficient as electrochemical descriptors"  in ACS Electrochemistry  (Article no.: ec-2025-00025u ). 

20 Jan 2025: Synopsis presentation of Cini M Suresh on the topic "Advancing Integrated CO2 capture and Electrochemical Conversion in Deep Eutectic Solvents".  

09 December 2024: A talk by PI on reactive CO2 capture and photo-electrochemical photocurrent polarity switching effect via tuning the electrochemical interfaces at ICCCU-2024, JNCSAR Bengaluru, India 

05 December 2024: Congratulations Aejaz for the latest publication on "Activating the basal planes of Ti2C MXene for accelerated ammonia electrosynthesis: Role of surface terminations" in Small  (DOI: 10.1002/smll.202409457 ). 

08 october 2024: Congratulations to Cini and Navneet for the acceptance of their manuscript titled  "Modulating molecular interactions in bulk and electrochemical interface of deep eutectic solvent-based tailored electrolytes for facilitating reactive CO2 capture" in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 

07 october 2024: Congratulations Ajay and Jyoti Saroha for the latest publication on "A changeable critical state for a switchable photocurrent direction via the photo-electrochemical photocurrent polarity switching effect in BiFeO3 nanoparticulate films" in Chemical Science. 

01 Oct 2024: It is glad to share that one of our group members, Miss Jyoti Rohilla, successfully defended her PhD thesis. We congratulate her on this milestone and Best wishes for her future endeavors. Congratulations, Dr. Jyoti Rohilla.

08 Sep 2024: We congratulate Dr. Priya Jain for winning Research Story Writing Competition Award, a cash award of 25000/-, conducted by Research Scholar Forum (RSF), IITD in May 2024.

06 Aug 2024:  It is pleased to share that one of our group members, Miss Priya Jain, successfully defended her PhD thesis. We congratulate her on this achievement and Best wishes for her future endeavors. Congratulations, Dr. Priya.

22 July 2024: Congratulations Priya for the latest publication on "Unravelling the Potential of Prussian Blue Analogues in Oxygen Electrocatalysis: A Perspective on Surface Reconstruction" in Chemical Physics Impact. 

18 July 2024: Congratulations Aamir, Aejaz, and Priya for the latest publication on ""Unraveling the Active Sites on Mesoporous CuFe2O4@N-Carbon Catalysts with Abundant Oxygen Vacancies and M-N-C Content for Boosted Nitrogen Reduction Towards Electrosynthesis of Ammonia" in Small (Research Article, No. smll.202403319R2). 

01 July 2024: Congratulations Ajay and Vaishali for the latest publication on ""High performance flexible supercapacitor based on single precursor derived NiFe2O4 spinel with tailored cationic distribution and oxygen vacancies in acidic medium" in Advanced Sustainable Systems. 

01 July 2024: Congratulations Vaishali and Saurabh for the latest publication on "Synergistic effect of hetero-interface engineering and oxygen vacancy in electro-spun polymer fibres derived carbon-supported 1D hierarchical WO3/SnO2 nanostructures for high-performance supercapacitor devices" in RSC Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 

27 June 2024: Congratulations Aejaz and Paras for the latest publication on "Engineered electron-deficient sites at boron-doped strontium titanate/electrolyte interface accelerate the electrocatalytic reduction of N2 to NH3: A combined DFT and experimental electrocatalysis study" in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.    

31 March 2024: Congratulations Priya for the latest publication on "Tuning the d-band Center in Prussian Blue Analogues via Modulated Carbon and Nitrogen Coordinated Metals for Boosted Bi-functional Oxygen Electrocatalytic Activity " in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.    

🌟 We are thrilled to share some exciting news with our academic family! Our esteemed Group Leader, Prof Pravin Ingole, has been promoted to the distinguished position of Professor. This well-deserved recognition is a testament to his dedication, expertise, and outstanding leadership within our group.  Let's extend our heartfelt congratulations to Professor Ingole as we celebrate this milestone. His promotion not only honors his accomplishments but elevates the entire scientific community.

We are thrilled to share a momentous achievement within our group that will make us all proud. Our esteemed Group Leader Prof. Pravin P Ingole, has been honored with the prestigious title of Chair Professor [Bhandari-Sankhla Chair], for teaching, research and development in Clean energy, Green Hydrogen production, Hydrogen Infrastructure Development, Carbon-dioxide management technology at IIT Delhi, New Delhi. 

We are delighted to inform you that we are organizing an "International Conference On Nanomaterials for Electro-Catalysis Technology (I-CONECT 2023)" in PHYSICAL MODE at Department of Chemistry IIT Delhi on 20, 21, and 22 March 2023. I  would like to extend an invitation to all to participate in the conference. More details at the Conference website.

8 February 2023: Congratulations Dr. Shahla Imteyaz for the latest publication on "Comparison of Physicochemical Properties of Choline Chloride-Based Deep Eutectic Solvents for CO2 capture: Progress and Outlook  " in Journal of Molecular Liquids.

27 December 2022: Congratulations Dr. Nusrat for the latest publication on "Tailoring Motif and Channel Terminating Groups of Conventional Copper MOFs for Their Enhanced Activity, Selectivity and Stability toward Electro-reduction of CO2 to Hydrocarbons " in ACS Applied Energy Materials.

1 December 2022: Congratulations Dr. Shahla and Ms Cini for the latest publication on "Carbon Dioxide capture and its electrochemical reduction study in Deep Eutectic Solvent (DES) via experimental and molecular simulation approaches " in Journal of CO2 Utilization.

23 November 2022: Congratulations Shwetambara for the latest publication on "Enhanced Multifunctional Electrocatalytic Activity Pt-Co

nanoalloy Decorated Graphene Oxide Sheets through Strong Metal-Support Interaction " in ACS Energy and Fuels.

21 April 2022: Congratulations Dr. Soniya for her latest publication on "Enhancing the photon absorption and charge carrier dynamics of BaSnO3 photoanodes via intrinsic and extrinsic defects" in Chemistry of Materials.

15 March 2022: Congratulations Dr. Soniya for her latest publication on "Extending the absorption limit of BiVO4 photoanodes with hydrogen sulfide treatment" in Solar RRL.

28 February 2022: Shwetambara Jha has submitted her PhD Thesis. Congratulations , Shwetambara!!! 

22 May 2021: Our interaction with Nidhi Kumar (lead TV anchor) telecasted on India Science channel. Following is the link to watch it.

Light, Energy, Pollution - Action! (E) (indiascience.in) 

03 Jan. 2021: Sponsored research project highlighted by the leading Newspaper, The Hindu, Business Line. Following is the link to read it.

Strontium titanate for methane 

Group Photos:

• March 2022

Mar-2022 (From left to right) Aamir, Cini, Vaishali, Saurabh, Swati, Paras, Dr. Pravin, Aejaz, Shwetambra, Priya, Ajay, Vaishali, Rohan, Samyak