24 July 25: MKM delivered a talk on ‘The Crystal World – Where Science Meets Beauty’ during the ‘One Day as a Scientist’ program at CSIR–NCL, Pune, under CSIR-Jigyasa, highlighting crystals in life, technology, and biology, with a live demo for Class 8–10 students.
22 July 25: MKM delivered an invited talk on "From Motion to Mitigation: Designing Crystalline Materials for Smart Actuation and Direct Air Capture" at the International Conference on Advances in Chemical Sciences For Sustainable Energy and Environment (ICACSEE-2025), 21-22 July 2025, MIT World Peace University, Pune, India.
4 July 25: Congratulations, Aritra for the publication "Water-driven modulation of multiresponsive properties in acylhydrazone-based crystals" in Chem. Commun, RSC.
10 June 25: MKM delivered a talk on "Investigating Structure–Property Relationships in the Design of Smart Molecular Materials" at Acharya Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangalore, Karnataka.
9 June 25: Congratulations, Aritra for the publication "Mechanical Flexibility, Photosalience, and Acidochromism of Benzylidene Indanone-Based Molecular Crystals" in Crystal Growth & Design, ACS.
5 June 25: Congratulations, Aritra and Sanjivani, for the publication "Caffeine vs. Theophylline Cocrystals: Insights into Structure–Mechanical Behavior and Piezoelectricity " in Crystal Growth & Design, ACS.
17 March 25: MKM delivered a talk on "Crystal Engineering of Smart Crystalline Materials" at Thiruvalluvar University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu
01 March 25: Muhammad Azhar from Kannur University joined our lab as M. Sc. Intern
06 Feb 25: MKM Recognized as an Emerging Investigator 2025 by Crystal Growth & Design Journal by the American Chemical Society. Link
24 Jan 25: MKM delivered a talk on "Crystal Engineering of Smart Crystalline Materials" at PMC division, CSIR-NCL, Pune.
20 Dec 24: MKM delivered an INYAS guest lecture on "Exploring Structure-Property Relationships in the Design of Functional Molecular Materials" at CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI), Chennai.
17 Dec 24: MKM chaired a session at the "Conference on Advances in Chemistry for Energy and Environment CACEE-2024" at TIFR, Mumbai, India. Link
28 Nov 24: MKM delivered an invited talk on "Crystal Engineering with Ionic Liquids" at the 51st National Seminar on Crystallography (NSC51) conference November 27-29, 2024, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India. Link
21 Nov 24: Sudeshna Mukherjee from IISER TVM joined our lab as M. Sc. Intern
15 Nov 24: Mithila Swadesh Pandey from Mumbai University joined our lab as M. Sc. Intern
20 Sep 24: Congratulations, Aritra, for his first publication, "Structural basis for a two-dimensional flexible pharmaceutical solvate crystal: indomethacin methanol" in CrystEngComm, RSC.
19 Aug 24: MKM delivered a Guest Lecture on “Exploring Structure-Property Relationships in the Design of Functional Molecular Materials” at the Centre for Functional Materials (CFM), Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore.
12 July 24: MKM delivered closing remarks for the "RSC Meet the Editors session" event at IISER Pune, organized by CSIR-NCL and IISER Pune
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13 May 24: Tharini Shree M. from IISER Kolkata joined as M.Sc. Intern
28 March 24: MKM delivered an invited talk on "Investigating Structure-property Relationships in the Design of Functional Molecular Materials" in the Chemistry Department at SRM, Chennai.
1 March 24: Sanjeevani Bamane joined our lab as a SERB-SRG project associate
11 Jan 24: MKM transferred the SERB-SRG grant from VIT Vellore
01 Jan 24: Aritra joined the lab as an M.Sc. Intern
18 Dec 23: MKM delivered a talk on "Recent Advances in Nanomechanics of Molecular Crystals" at International Indentation Workshop 7 (IIW7), UOH, Hyderabad
16-Dec 23: MKM organized Nanomechanics for Pharmaceutical Applications (NPA) 2023 conference, Hyderabad
24 Nov 23: MKM joined CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune