Current members

PhD students

1) Swarnamayee Behera (DST-INSPIRE Fellow)

M.Sc. General Chemistry, Joining Year: June 2021

DST-INSPIRE Fellow-2022

Research Topic: Graphene nanostructures for water harvesting applications

2) Akhina Roshin (JRF)

M.Sc. General Chemistry, Joining Year: Feb 2023

Research Topic: Fluorinated Graphene hybrids for water desalination

3) Surendar P 

M.Sc. General Chemistry, Joining Year: July 2024

Research Topic: Polymeric graphene hybrids for membrane distillation and anticorrosion applications

4) Tony Praveen 

M.Sc. General Chemistry, Joining Year: July 2024

Research Topic: NZVI hybrids for advanced water treatment

5) B. Abinash  

M.Sc. General Chemistry, Joining Year: Dec 2024

Research Topic: Nonisocyanate based polyurethanes composites

6) Priyadarshini Madhavan  

Integrated MSc. Chemistry, Joining Year: Dec 2024

Research Topic: Composites for emerging micropollutant sorption and removal

7) Gnana Arun Mozhi  

MSc. Chemistry, Joining Year: July 2025

Research Topic: Single Copper Atom Catalysts towards Electrochemical Sensing (Co-Supervisor: Dr. Maduraiveeran G)

PhD's completed

1) Dr. Yogapriya Ravi 

Thesis Title: Hydrophobic-Superoleophilic Fluorinated Graphene Nanosheet Composites with Metal Organic Frameworks for Oil-Water Separation (Ph.D. Viva-Voce Examination on 29-09-2023)

2) Dr. S. Iniya Prasanthi

Thesis Title: Superwetting coatings of fluorinated graphene nanosheet supported halloysite and zeolitic imidazole frameworks for oil-water separation (Ph.D. Viva-Voce Examination on 25-04-2024)

3) Dr. Iyyappan Madakannu

Thesis Title: Development of Transition Metal Oxide Nanoparticles Supported Over Reduced Graphene Oxide For Oxygen Electrocatalysis (Ph.D. Viva-Voce Examination on 15-07-2024)

Openings

Undergraduate and graduate students interested in working on graphene chemistry and functionalization, advanced materials for water treatment and porous materials can contact me with a brief write-up of their research interest. 

Young and motivated students who are passionate towards topics like carbon nanomaterials, magnetic nanoparticles and self-healing materials can contact me directly or via email. 

M.Sc. Projects

 1) P. Karthick

Project Title: Nickel Hydroxide and Cobalt Hydroxide: Supported and Unsupported Synthetic Routes (April 2018)

2) Ashika Prakash

Project Title: Hydrophobic/Oleophilic Fluorinated Graphene and ZIF-67 Composites for Oil and Organic Solvent Sorption (March 2019)

3) Navya Mary J (Madras Christian College)

Project Title: In-situ growth of POSS over reduced graphene oxide/ fluorinated graphene and their oil sorption performance (April 2019)

4) Haripriya J S

Project Title: Synthesis and Characterization of Fluorinated Graphene based Magnetic Sorbents (April 2020)

5) Aneesh Anand N

Project Title: Fabrication of halloysite nanotube-fluorinated graphene hybrids demonstrating hydrophobic-oleophilic properties (April 2021)

6) Greeshma Gireesh

Project Title: SYNTHESIS OF ZIRCONIUM METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORK (UiO-66) SUPPORTED ON FLUORINATED GRAPHENE MULTILAYERS (April 2022)

7) R Krishnakumar

Project Title: Supported Nanoscale Zerovalent Iron for Dye Decoloration and para-Nitrophenol Reduction (April 2023)

8) Poushaly Ghosh 

Project Title (Supervisor): New Synthetic Methodologies for Facile Synthesis of Bioactive Polycyclic Heterocycles (April 2024)

B.Sc. Projects

1) Nithish A

Project Title: Design of Superhydrophobic Fluorinated Graphene-Zinc/Cobalt Imidazole Coordination Composites (April 2021)

2) Aarthi S

Bimetallic nano zerovalent iron modified by tannic acid for para-nitrophenol reduction (April 2023)