Student’s Awards 

1. Best Poster Award: Pooja Singh, Surinder Singh Bhinder, Sushil Kumar Kansal and Pooja Devi, “Fe2O3/Au-Ti3C2 MXene hybrid assisted photo catalysis of tetracycline as a model pharmaceutical waste water pollutant.” Poster presentation: International Conference on "Emerging Materials for Sustainable Development (EMSD-2022), 9th-11th Oct. 2022, CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh.

2. Gold Medal in Carrom Doubles at Ardour 2.0, Dec 2021 ( Annual Sports Meet, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIO, Chandigarh) ( Prachi Rajput , Pooja Singh) 

3. Best Oral Presentation: Prachi Rajput and Pooja Devi, International conference on Emerging Materials for Sustainable Development (EMSD 2022) “MXene/Au hybrid architecture as SERS substrates for Organic Pollutants Detection, October 9-11, 2022”.

4. Gold Medal: Carrom Women’s Doubles, ARDOUR 2022 (Prachi Rajput)

5. Silver Medal: Cricket Women, ARDOUR 2022(Prachi Rajput)

6. Bronze Medal: Badminton Women’s Doubles, ARDOUR 2022(Prachi Rajput)

7. Silver: Cricket , Ardour 2022(Isha Goyal)

8. Silver: Volleyball , Ardour 2022 (Isha Goyal)

9. Silver : Carrom (women's double) , Ardour 2022 (Isha Goyal)

10. Silver : Cricket (Swapna Pahra  )  

11. Bronze: Badminton (women doubles) ,  Ardour 2022 (Isha Goyal)

Best Poster/Oral presentation Award:

1. Nancy Sidana, Pooja Devi, and Harminder Kaur, [P1]Thiophenol amine based Schiff Base for Colorimetricdetection of Hg2+ions, National Conference on Sustainable Environment: Challenges and Opportunities, September 8-9, 2021.(Best Oral Presentation)

2. Anupma Thakur, Praveen Kumar, R.K. Sinha and Pooja D., Organic Waste derived Plasmonic Nanostructures as Photoanodes for Solar Driven Photoelectrochemical Water splitting, International Conference on Nano Science and Technology (ICONSAT-2020), S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, 5-7 March, 2020(Best Poster Award)

3. Anupma Thakur, Tavishi, Praveen Kumar, R.K. Sinha and Pooja D., “Organic Waste derived Carbon Nanolights and their Plasmonic Nanostructures as Feedstock to Sustainable Energy & Environmental Pollutant Monitoring”, IEEE International Conference on Energy, Environment & Material Sciences (ICE2M-2019), MMMUT, Uttar Pradesh, India, 1-3 December, 2019 (Best Poster Award)

4. Anupma Thakur, Pooja D., Praveen Kumar, Senthil Prasad and R.K. Sinha Bacteriorhodopsin/GaNNanowall Network Hybrid as Bioengineered Artificial Light Harvesting Leaf for Hydrogen Production by Remarkable Solar-Water Splitting Performance”, International Workshop on Energy, Power and Environment (IWEPE-2019), March 17-19, 2019, NIT- Kurukshetra, India (Best Poster Award)

5. Anupma Thakur, Praveen Kumar, R.K. Sinha and Pooja D., “Value added Transformation of Organic Waste to Solar Driven Quantum Leaf for Catalytic and Sustainable Hydrogen Fuel”, National Workshop on Catalysis for Clean Energy and Safe Environment, Panjab University, Chandigarh, November 16, 2019 (Best Poster Award)

6. Rishbah Jain, Pahul Jot, Praveen Kumar and Pooja D., Disposable paper sensor strips for quantitative colorimetric detection of zinc ions in water, Young Scientist Colloquium 2018, Material Research Society of India, Kolkata, September 21, 2018 (Best Poster Award)

7. Praveen Kumar and Pooja D., “Surface Modified InGaN/Si(111) Photoanode For Efficient Photoelectrochemical Water-Splitting”, Proceedings of the 4th World Congress on New Technologies (NewTech'18), Madrid, Spain – August 19 – 21, 2018, doi: 10.11159/icnfa18.126. (Best Oral Presentation)

8. Rishabh Jain, A.Thakur, M.Kumar, P.Kumar and Pooja D, “Electrochemical Synthesis of Au/ZnO Modified ITO Electrode for Sensitive Detection Selenite in Water”, 6th National Conference on Nanoscience and Instrumentation Technology (NCNIT-2018) March 29-30, 2018 (Best Oral Presentation Award)

9. Pooja D, Anupma Thakur and Praveen Kumar “Light Harvesting Nanowall Network for Photoelectrochemcial Hydrogen Production from Water”, 5th National Conference on Nanoscience and Instrumentation Technology (NCNIT-2017), Kurukshetra, Haryana, March 05-06, 2017 (Best Oral Presentation Award)

10. Rishabh Jain, Pooja D, Anupma Thakur, R. K. Sinha and Praveen Kumar, “Efficient & Durable Modified InGaN/Si Photoelectrode for Water-Splitting”, 3rd Nanoscience Day Chandigarh Region Innovation & Knowledge Cluster (CRIKC), CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh, 29th August 2017 (Best (1st) Poster Presentation Award)

11. Anupma Thakur, Lovepreet Singh, Rishabh Jain, Praveen Kumar, and Pooja D., “Organic Waste Derived Carbon Dots for Total Chromium detection”, 3rd Nanoscience Day Chandigarh Region Innovation & Knowledge Cluster (CRIKC), CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh, 29th August 2017 (2nd Best Poster Presentation Award)

12. Anupma Thakur, Pooja D, Rishabh Jain and Praveen Kumar “Green Synthesis of Highly Photoluminescent 0-D Carbon Quantum Dots from Carica Papaya Recycled Pulp and its Chemosensory Application towards Cr(III) Ion Detection”, National Conference on Advanced Materials: Processing and Characterization, National Institute of Technology (NIT),Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, February 27-28, 2017 (Best Oral presentation Award)

13. Pooja D.,BabanBansod and Manoj K. Nayak, 0-D Carbon Quantum Dots for Highly Sensitive and Selective Heavy Metalloids Sensing”, International Conference of Young Researchers on Advanced Materials, IISc, Bangalore, 11-15 December 2016 (Best Poster Presentation Award)

14. Amita, Pooja D. and Manish Kumar, “Synthesis, Characterization of PVP Stabilized Silver Nanoparticles for Gas Sensing Applications”, 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on Advances in Mechanical, Material, Manufacturing, Automobile, Aeronautical Engineering and Applied Physics (AMAEAP-2014), 7-8 June, 2014, New Delhi, India. (Best Oral Presentation)

15. Pooja D., M.L. Singla and P. Kapur, “Silica@Silver based Chemical Nanosensor for Detection of Nitro Explosives”, HEMCE-2011, TBRL, Chandigarh, 1012 November, 2011. (2nd Best Poster Award)