Plasmonic Photothermal Lab - Sanjeev Soni, CSIO Chandigarh, INDIA
March 2025
Gourav Sharma successfully defended his thesis titled Exploration of stability and thermal conductivity of graphene based nanofluids for heat transfer performance
Congratulations!
February 2025
Amit Kumar Shaw successfully defended his thesis titled Photothermal transport phenomenon within a biological tissue in presence of photothermal agents.
Congratulations!
January 2025
Dr. Divya Khurana joins the group as a DST WISE-Post Doctoral Fellow (Woman Scientist)!
Congratulations to Dr. Divya Khurana on joining the research group as a WISE-Postdoctoral Fellow (Woman Scientist) under the prestigious WISE-Post Doctoral Fellowship program, awarded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. Her postdoctoral research will focus on developing microneedle patches for multimodal cancer therapeutics.
December 2024
Rizul Gautam through National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)- international internship pilot program (IIPP) joined as a project intern at Ming Chi University of Technology, Taiwan.
November 2024
Sarabjot Kaur has successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis.
October 2024
September 2024
Rizul Gautam attended IEEE NAP 2024 (IEEE International Conference on Nanomaterials: Applications & Properties) at Riga, Latvia for Oral Presentation on the topic "MXene-GNRS Nanocomposite Incorporated Injectable Hydrogel for Photo-chemotherapy of Cancer " during.................
August 2024
A new DST-sponsored Post-Doctoral Project for the group!
Congratulations to Dr. Divya Khurana on being selected as a Woman Scientist and awarded the prestigious national-level Women in Science and Engineering-Post Doctoral Fellowship (WISE-PDF) and a project funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
October 2024
Prof. Soni... october conference details (chaired a session,,,,,) (add image)
March/April
Prof. Soni chaired a session at PGI... conference details
February 2024
First Book from the group Published!
We are delighted to to announce the publication of the first book from the group titled, "Recent Trends in Cancer Therapeutics: Plasmonic Photothermal-Based Multimodal Cancer Therapy", with Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. This book provides a step-by-step approach to develop and evaluate the therapeutic outcome of multifunctional nanocomposites tailored for plasmonic photothermal-assisted multimodal cancer therapeutics, serving as a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students.
Gourav Sharma presented an oral presentation on the "Effect of functionalization and sonication on stability and thermophysical properties of Graphene Oxide Nanofluids." India International Science Festival 2023 held at DBT THSTI-RCB Campus, Faridabad (Haryana), India, during January 17-20, 2024.
2023
November
Rizul Gautam attended “3rd International Conference on Nanomaterials in Biology (ICNB – 2023)” at IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India for Oral Presentation on the topic "MXene-GNRs incorporated injectable hydrogel for NIR-triggered anti-cancer drug release "
October 2023
Sarabjot Kaur attended 5th International Conference on Applied Microbiology and Beneficial Microbes held at London, UK .
June
Vikas has successfully defended his thesis. Congratulations!
Rizul Gautam attended workshop on Advancement in Healthcare Technologies (AiHT) 2023 at CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh, India for Poster Presentation on the topic "Gold nanomaterial incorporated injectable hydrogel as a biomaterial for cancer therapeutics "
Dr. Divya Khurana joins the group!
Dr. Divya Khurana joined as Project Associate-II in the project titled, "Plasmonic photothermal based sterilization device for surgical Instruments".
Dr. Divya Khurana got the CSIR Foreign Travel Grant to Attend IEEE NANO 2023!
Dr. Divya Khurana has been awarded the prestigious CSIR Foreign Travel grant from the CSIR-HRDG, Government of India, to attend the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO 2023), held from July 2-5, 2023, at Jeju Island, Korea.
First PhD defense of the group!
Congratulations to Divya Khurana for defending her Ph.D. thesis!
February
Gourav Sharma presented a poster titled "Effect of Sonication on Stability of Graphene Oxide/Deionized Water Nanofluids". 13th in series and 1st International Conference on Recent Advances in Chemistry (CRAC-2023) held at Department of Chemistry, Punjabi University, Patiala, India, during February 23-24, 2023.
March 2023
Rizul Gautam attended "International Conference on Recent Trends in Biomolecules and Therapeutics: Promoting Health and Clinical Research (RTBT – 2023)” at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India for Poster Presentation on the topic "Photothermal agent incorporated hydrogel as a biomaterial for cancer therapeutics " and won 2nd prize.
Sarabjot Kaur attended International conference on Recent Trends in Biomolecules and Therapeutics (RTBT-2023) Promoting Health and Clinical Research held at Department of Biophysics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
Sarabjot Kaur attended International conference on Biotechnology and human Welfare: Vision 2023 and Beyond (ICBHW-2023) held at Department of Biotechnology, Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa, Haryana, India,
Gourav Sharma presented the poster "Role of Graphene Oxide/Deionized Water Nanofluids in Biomedical Technology." International Conference on Biotechnology and Human Welfare: Vision 2030 and Beyond (ICBHW-2023) held at Department of Biotechnology, Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa (Haryana) India, during March 03-04, 2023.
2022
November
Vikas attended Conference on Optics, Photonics & Quantum Optics (COPaQ-2022) held at IIT Roorkee, India for Poster presentation on the topic "Optical properties of gold nanoparticle embedded tissue phantoms for plasmonic photothermal therapeutics".
September
Dr. Soni France trip...
Sarabjot Kaur attended International Conference of Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI)- Microbes and Society: Current Trends and Future Prospects (MSCTFP-2022) held at University of Mysore, Mysore, India.
August
Rizul Gautam selected for Synergistic Training program Utilizing the Scientific and Technological Infrastructure (STUTI) programme at IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
Sarabjot Conference details
Vikas conference details
Presented a paper titled "Lattice Boltzmann Method based Computation of Tumor Size Dependent Thermal Damage during Plasmonic Photothermal Therapy" at 26th National and 4th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC 2021) organised by Indian Institute of Technology, Madras from 17-21 December 2021.
2021
September
August
Gourav conference details
Sarabjot Conference details
Amit conference details
Presented a paper titled “Thermal Transport within Porous Biological Tissue for Thermal Therapeutics” at CHT-21, International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during 15-19 August 2021.
2020
September
August
February
Sarabjot Conference details
Amit conference details
February
Divya Khurana got Travel Grant to Present Research at IWAM-2020, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE!
Divya Khurana attended International Workshop on Advanced Materials (IWAM-2020) held at Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates for Poster presentation on the topic "Plasmonic Photothermal Agent loaded with Photosensitizer and chemotherapeutic drug for Multimodal Cancer Therapy". She got travel grant funding from Ras Al Khaimah Center for Advanced Materials (RAK CAM) to present her research work in IWAM-2020.
January
Sarabjot Kaur attended Science Academics’ Lecture Workshop on Materials Engineering for Sustainable Environment and Energy (MESEE- 2020), held at CSIR- Central Scientific Instruments Organisation, Sector-30 C, Chandigarh, India
November 2019
Sarabjot Kaur attended International conference on Biomaterial- based Therapeutic Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (BioTERM) 2019, held at IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India
Paper titled "Thermo-Fluid Analysis of a Device for Medical Applications" is being presented at 12th International Conference of Thermal Engineering: Theory and Applications (ICTEA 2019) organized by School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat in collaboration with Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada during 23-26 February 2019.