Conferences and Workshops organized
Jan 2017: Involved in coordinating with invited speakers, chairing session, reports and recommendations for various sessions related to 104th Indian Science Congress held at Tirupati.
July 2018: Coordinator for Materials Characterization Workshop (MCW-2018) organized by Department of Chemistry and involved in press and conference report preparation.
Sep 2018: Coordinator for Stadler Seminar Series: 2018 Edition organized by Anton Paar India Pvt. Ltd. & Chemistry Department and involved in seminar series report preparation.
29-30 March 2022, Co-convenor for What paradigm shift can we expect in materials chemistry in the next decade? - From fundamentals to translational research (MCFTR-2022) - Virtual Mode
11-12 August 2022, Co-convenor for Workshop on Experimental Approaches in Materials Characterisation (EAMC-2022)
Conferences attended
1. Talk: “Water-solubilized aminoclay-metal nanoparticle composites and their novel properties”. IUMRS-ICAM, 10th International Conference on Advanced Materials, Oct, 2007, Bangalore, India.
2. Talk: “Pore Directed Growth of Metal Nanoparticles with Controlled Size in Mesoporous Carbon Nitride”. 5th NIMS/MANA-IRC-UCLA/CNSI Nanotechnology Summer School, July, 2008, NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan.
3. Talk: “Synthesis of size-discrete metal nanoparticles within channels of mesoporous carbon nitride” The 61st Divisional Meeting on Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Sep, 2008, Fukuoka, Japan.
4. Talk: “Multifunctional Nanoporous Carbon Materials”. School and Conference on Emergent Properties and Novel Behavior at the Nanoscale, JNCASR, April, 2010 Bangalore, India
5. Poster: “Aminoclay: A Versatile Layered Material with Diverse Applications”. Winter School on Chemistry and Physics of Materials, Dec, 2010, Bangalore, India.
6. Invited Talk: “Light Harvesting Hybrid Hydrogels”.1st International Conference on ‘TAP SUN: The Sustainable Future’, IICT, Nov 2011, Hyderabad, India
7. Poster: “Magnesium Phyllo (organo) Silicate: A Clay to Play with in Materials Science”. NANOCON, Oct 2012, Brno, Czech Republic.
8. Talk: “Graphene hybrids”, 1st conference of POST-UP, Palacky University, January 2014, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
9. Poster: “Carbon Dot Modified Graphene Oxide with Tunable Fluorescence for Selective Cell Labeling”, 4th edition of Graphene Conference, May 2014, Toulouse, France.
10. Poster: “Quaternized carbon dot-modified graphene oxide for selective cell labelling - controlled nucleus and cytoplasm imaging”, Graphene Week 2014, June 2014, Gothenburg, Swedan.
11. Invited talk: “NZVI modified magnetic filter paper with high redox and catalytic activities”, 2nd International Conference on Nanostructured Materials and Nanocomposites, December 2014, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India.
12. Invited talk: “Carbon Nandots Emitting Longer Wavelength with High Fluorescence and Colloidal Stability”, Silver Jubilee Celebrations, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research, January 2015, Bangalore, India
13. Invited Talk: “New Outlook on Iron and Carbon Nanomaterials”, 2nd conference of POST-UP, Palacky University, February 2015, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
14. Poster: “Nano-zero-valent iron modified magnetic filter paper with high redox and catalytic activities for advanced water treatment technologies”, ‘4th International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials’ March 2015, Sitges, Barcelona.
15. Invited talk: “Nano-zero-valent iron modified magnetic filter paper with high redox and catalytic activities for advanced water treatment technologies”, ‘WASOT 2015-Environmental friendly technologies for water and soil treatment’ May 2015, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
16. Invited talk: “Superhydrophobic/superoleophilic Highly Fluorinated Graphene Oxide and ZIF-8 Composites for Oil-Water Separation”, 7th International Conference on Nanomaterials-Research & Application, Oct 2015, Brno, Czech Republic.
17. Poster: “Superhydrophobic/superoleophilic Highly Fluorinated Graphene Oxide and ZIF-8 Composites for Oil-Water Separation”, 4th Nano Today Conference 2015, Dec 2015, Dubai.
Talks after joining at SRMIST
Invited talk: “Functional Nanomaterials: Fluorographene Hybrids and Yellow Emitting Carbon Dots” International Workshop on Functional Materials, Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyalaya, Nov. 2016, Kanchipuram.
Seminar on ‘A Modern Outlook of Aminoclay’ at Physics Research Colloquium, Physics Dept. SRMIST, August 2016, Chennai.
Seminar on ‘Magnesium Phyllo (organo) Silicate: A Clay to Play with in Materials Science’ at Chemistry Department, FDP programme, July 2017.
Participation, chairing session, reviewing manuscripts, posters and organizing committee member at ‘International Conference on Recent Advances in Material Chemistry’ (February 2017 - 2020). Also, involved in preparing the press and conference report for the years 2019-2020.
Participation and organizing committee member for AOSS-3, September
Participated in Electrochemical Energy Application Workshop (EEAW – 2019) July 2019.
Seminar on ‘Porous Fluorinated Graphene Composites with Superhydrophobic-Superoleophilic Properties towards Oil Recovery Prototypes and Oil Spill Clean-up’, DST-SERB Review Meeting, January 2020, IIT Bhubaneswar.
Participated in ‘Graphene for Energy Storage Applications’ under Graphene Flagship program June 2020.
Participated in ‘Seminar Series on Clean Water: Emerging Frontiers’ organized by ICCW-IIT Madras, June 2020.
Participated in various webinars organised by Chemistry Department, Research Institute (SRMIST), ACS, KRUSS during July-Dec 2020.
Invited Presentation (Video Lecture) on ‘Fluorinated Graphene Nanoarchitectonics: From Inception to Self-Cleaning Applications’, MANA International Symposium, Japan March 2021.
Invited Talk: Modern trends of Organic-inorganic hybrid functional materials and their prospective in Energy and Environmental applications, May 2022