Research Projects
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, require creative imagination and marks real advance in science …… Albert Einstein
TOTAL FUNDS
Total Funds Mobilized: Worth ₹18.61 Million = ₹186.15 Lakhs.
Current Projects
Ongoing Projects:
1. DRDO-ARDB sponsor project (2023- onward) Design/Development of cost effective and ultra-safe superior aqueous Zn ion battery for Military aviation (Principle Investigator) Amount Rs. 66.23 Lakhs. ( ₹6.623 Million) ARDB/1072067/M/I
2. SERB grant for Assistant to Professional Bodies and Seminar Symposia for "NANOEXPRESS 2024: Two Days National Conference on Nanosciences and Nanotechnology to Express Sustainable Development" (Principle Investigator/Convenor) Amount Rs. 2 Lakhs. ( ₹ 0.2 Million)
Completed Projects:
DST-SERB sponsor Young Scientist Research Scheme Grant (2016 -19) An Excellent Alternative for Solar Energy Conversion: Band-gap Tuning of Multiferroic Oxide Thin Films (Principle Investigator) Amount Rs. 25.58 Lakhs. (₹ 2.558 Million) P.Code: YSS/2015/001937
UGC Raman Award Grant (2016-Not Availed) Multiferroic oxide thin films solar cell: band gap tuning approach (Individual Grant) Amount Rs. 23.17 Lakhs. (₹ 2.317 Million) F. No. 5-157/2014 (IC)
DRDO sponsor project (2017-2019) Development of Chemosensor based portable device for on- site detection of buried landmines and explosives for military applications (Co-Principle Investigator) Amount Rs. 46.12 Lakhs.(₹4.612 Mllion) ERIP/ER/1503212/M/01/1666
ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education (CIFE) Institutional Project (2019-2022) Studies on Synthesis and Toxicity of Bioconjugated Carbon Nanotubes in Zebrafish Model (Co-Principle Investigator) Amount Rs. 10.00 Lakhs.(₹1.00 Million) ICAR/CIFE/25082022
Thrust areas
1] Hybrid systems using nanostructures and nanomaterials for energy application.
2] Flexible electronic devices using semiconducting nanostructures for sensors, transistors, batteries, supercapacitors etc.
3] Multiferroic oxide thin film solar cell
4] Carbon based composite nanomaterials for energy application
5] Nanolaminates as a high k dielectric materials