Research Scholars
Dr. Manisha Devi
Thesis Title : Development of new fluorescent chemosensors for various analytes and their evaluation as molecular logic gates.
Thesis Submission :
March 2017
Current Position :
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, NIT Jalandhar, Punjab.
Dr. Abhishek Kumar Gupta
Thesis Title : Development of new Schiff base derivatives as fluorescent chemosensors, NIR emitters and catalysts.
Thesis Submission :
November 2017
Current Position :
Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, UK.
Dr. Darsi Rambabu
Thesis Title : Metal Organic Materials (MOMs) for environmental, biological and catalytic applications.
Thesis Submission :
June 2017
Current Position :
FSR-FNRS Researcher at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
Dr. Shilpa Sharma
Thesis Title : Synthesis and photo-physical properties of carbazole and benzimidazole based fluorescent derivatives.
Thesis Submission :
May 2017
Current Position :
Research Scientist, Department of Cancer Systems Imaging, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA.
Dr. P. Guru Prasad Reddy
Thesis Title : Development of new non-chemically amplified resists for high resolution lithography applications.
Thesis Submission :
July 2018
Current Position :
Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Turku, Finland.
Dr. Ashwani Kumar
Thesis Title : Aromatic sulfonium polyoxometalates as photochromic materials and self-separating catalysts.
Thesis Submission :
August 2019
Current Position :
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Higher Education, Government of Himachal Pradesh, India.
Dr. Suman
Thesis Title : Development of new styryl quinoline derivatives as chemosensors, organic thin film transistors materials and anticancer agents.
Thesis Submission :
October 2021
Current Position :
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan.
Dr. Aranya Kar
Thesis Title : Polyoxometalates based materials for photochromic, photocatalytic and electrocatalytic applications.
Thesis Submission :
June 2023
Current Position :
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beersheba, Israel.
Dr. Ranjit Singh
Thesis Title : New organic solid-state deep red to NIR emitters and their metal complexes for latent fingerprint imaging, explosive detection, and anti-counterfeiting applications.
Thesis Submission :
August 2023
Dr. Mahender Singh
Thesis Title : Polyoxometalates Based Class 1 Organic-Inorganic Hybrids and their Derived Materials for Photocatalytic Waste Water Treatment Applications.
Thesis Submission :
June 2024
Current Position :
Assistant Professor, School of Chemical Engineering and Physical Sciences, Lovely Professional University.
Dr. Kousik Routh
Thesis Title : Effect of Counterion Functionality on Polyoxovanadate-based Hybrid Materials for Photochromic, Catalytic, and Antioxidant Applications.
Thesis Submission :
October 2024
Current Position :
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven, Belgium.
M.Sc. Students
Ms. Snigdha Jain
(Aug. 2014-June 2016)
M.Sc. Project Title: Design and Synthesis of New Cholesterol Derivatives for Sensing and Gelation.
Ms. Navneet
(Aug. 2015-June 2017)
M.Sc. Project Title: Design and Synthesis of Sulfonium based POM-Organic Hybrids and their Photochromic Applications.
Mr. Sudhanshu
Sharma
(Aug. 2015-June 2017)
M.Sc. Project Title: Development of Fluorescent Chemosensors for the Selective Detection of Zn2+ and Cu2+ Ions.
Mr. Ganga Singh
(Aug. 2015-June 2017)
M.Sc. Project Title: Development of New POMs Imidazole Hybrids for Photochromic Applications.
Mr. Rohit
(Aug. 2016-June 2018)
M.Sc. Project Title:
Synthesis and Photophysical Properties of New Aggregation Induced Emission based Materials.
Mr. Abdul Salam
(Aug. 2016-June 2018)
M.Sc. Project Title: Transesterification of Waste Oils and its Application towards Bio-diesel Synthesis Using Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Catalysts.
Mr. Kamaldeep
(Aug. 2016-June 2018)
M.Sc. Project Title: A Novel Class of Schiff bases and their Complexes as Solid State Red to Deep Red Emitters.
Ms. Anjali Varshney
(Aug. 2016-June 2018)
M.Sc. Project Title: Aromatic Sulfonium Based POMs-Organic Hybrids: Design, Synthesis and Photocatalytic Dye Decomposition Studies.
Mr. Nishkanth
Malkoti
(Aug. 2017-June 2019)
M.Sc. Project Title: Aromatic sulfonium based Hybrid POMs: Photochromism to Catalysis.
Mr. Akash Kumar
(Aug. 2017-June 2019)
M.Sc. Project Title: Encapsulation of transition metal based decavanadate clusters inside ZIF-8: Synthesis, characterization and water oxidation at acidic pH.
Mr. Rajdip Soni
(Aug. 2018-June 2020)
M.Sc. Project Title: Synthesis of Dansyl Styryl Quinoline Derivatives and Their Application in Metal Sensing.
Mr. Rajat Saini
(Aug. 2018-June 2020)
M.Sc. Project Title: Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer (ESIPT) Based Bis-Benzothiazole and their Zinc Complexes: Synthesis, Solid-State Fluorescence, Single Crystal Structure Analysis and Latent Finger printing.
Mr. Vijay
(Aug. 2018-June 2020)
M.Sc. Project Title: Synthesis and Characterization of New Aromatic Sulfonium Polyoxometalate Hybrids for Photochromic Applications.
Mr. Narender Kumar
(Aug. 2019-June 2021)
M.Sc. Project Title: Bifunctionality of Phosphonium based organic-inorganic hybrid for photochromic and dye adsorption application.
Mr. Hari Prakash Shukla
(Aug. 2019-June 2021)
M.Sc. Project Title: Synthesis and Characterization of Rare Class of Trinuclear Zinc Complex of Compartmental Schiff Bases: Single Crystal Structure Analysis.
Mr. Gaurav Kumar
(Aug. 2019-June 2021)
M.Sc. Project Title: Synthesis of polyoxometalate and quinoline based anticancer hybrid materials.
Mr. Sourav
(Aug. 2020-June 2022)
M.Sc. Project Title: POM-ZIF composites as catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction.
Mr. Aman Yadav
(Aug. 2020-June 2022)
M.Sc. Project Title: Polyoxometalate hybrids for photocatalytic dichromate reduction.
Mr. Rohit Yadav
(Aug. 2020-June 2022)
M.Sc. Project Title: Chiral metal complexes for chiral separation applications.
Mr. Aman
(Aug. 2020-June 2022)
M.Sc. Project Title: Synthesis and Emission Study: Schiff-base [2+2] Macrocycles.
Mr. Aakash Yadav
(Aug. 2021-June 2023)
M.Sc. Project Title: POM-based organic-inorganic hybrids for photocatalytic ferricyanide reduction.
Mr. Himanshu Gupta
(Aug. 2021-June 2023)
M.Sc. Project Title: Polyoxometalate derived composite materials for photocatalytic applications.
Mr. Rohit
(Aug. 2021-June 2023)
M.Sc. Project Title: Polyoxometalates based hybrid compounds and their applications for hydrogen evolution reactions.
Mr. Pawan
(Aug. 2021-June 2023)
M.Sc. Project Title: Spinel ferrites for dye adsorption applications.
Mr. Rahul Jain
(Aug. 2022-June 2024)
M.Sc. Project Title: POMs hybrids catalysts for oxidative desulfurization reaction.
Ms. Anchal
(Aug. 2022-June 2024)
M.Sc. Project Title: POMs hybrids for CO2 conversion.
Mr. Prasoon Bedi
(Aug. 2022-June 2024)
M.Sc. Project Title: The structural architectural effect of alkyl sulfonium counterions towards POMs hybrid's photocatalytic and morphological propreties.
Mr. Tushar Sharma
(Aug. 2022-June 2024)
M.Sc. Project Title: The POMs precursors derived photocatalytic materials for dye degradation.
Mr. Yoganshu Saxena
(Aug. 2023-June 2025)
M.Sc. Project Title: Polymeric Ionic Frameworks based on Decavanadate POM & Imidazolium Transition Metal Units for Efficient CO2 Cycloaddition Catalysis.
Project Students
Ms. Shradha Sharma
Duration : Mar. 2022-Nov. 2022.
M.Sc.: Himachal Pradesh University
Project Title: Synthesis of Schiff Base Ligands and Multinucleated Zinc Complexes.
Internship Students
Ms. Latakshi Sharma
Duration : June 2023-July 2023.
M.Sc.: IIT Ropar
Project Title: Synthesis and Characterization of Class 1 Se+ Counterions Centre based POMs Hybrids.
Mr. Athavan R
Duration : June 2025-July 2025.
Integrated M.Sc.: UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences (CEBS), Mumbai
Project Title: Reproducible Synthesis and Crystal Structure-Controlled CO2 Cycloaddition in a Nickel-Decavanadate-2-Methylimidazole System.