Dr. Pradip Pachfule

January 2025-Present: Associate Professor, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata - 700106, India.
August 2021-December 2024: Assistant Professor, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata - 700106, India.
March 2019-August 2021: Postdoctorate Research Fellow, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin 10623, Germany.

January 2017-February 2019: Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctorate Research Fellow, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin 10623, Germany.

October 2015-October 2016: JSPS Postdoctorate Research Fellow, National Institute of Advanced Industrial of Science and Technology (AIST), Osaka 563-8577, Japan.

Adviser: Prof. Dr. Qiang Xu

September 2014-September 2015: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Institute of Advanced Industrial of Science and Technology (AIST), Osaka 563-8577, Japan.

Adviser: Prof. Dr. Qiang Xu

Latest News

Our article entitled "Covalent Organic Framework Catalyzed Amide Synthesis Directly from Alcohol Under Red Light Excitation" has been accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie International Edition and highlighted as a HOT ARTICLE.
Our article entitled "Covalent Organic Frameworks as Heterogeneous Photocatalysts for Cross-Coupling Reactions" has been accepted for publication in Green Chemistry.
Our article entitled "Covalent Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Peroxide Generation" has been accepted for publication in ACS Materials Letters virtual special issue “Materials for Water Splitting”.
Our article entitled "A Thiazole-linked Covalent Organic Framework for Lithium-Sulphur Batteries" has been accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
Our review article entitled "Strategic design of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) for photocatalytic hydrogen generation" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Materials Chemistry A.
My corresponding author paper entitled "Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) for electrochemical applications" has been accepted for publication in Chemical Society Reviews .

More Highlights

An oral presentation entitled ‘Functionalized Covalent Organic Frameworks for Photocatalysis’ was delivered on 22nd July, 2024 at “International Conference on Sustainable Catalysis: Synthesis, Theory, and Applications (SusCat-STA 2024)” held in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.
An oral presentation entitled ‘Functionalized Covalent Organic Frameworks for Photocatalysis’ was delivered on 11th July, 2024 at “the International Conference on Materials and Membranes for Water and Energy (ICMMWE-24)” organized at CSIR-CSMCRI, Bhavnagar-364002 (Gujarat) India.
Oral presentation entitled “Functionalized Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation” was delivered in the 8th International Conference on Metal-Organic Frameworks and Open Framework Compounds (2022) at Dresden, Germany.
Oral presentation entitled “Functionalized Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation” was delivered in the virtual lecture series '#TheLightStuff', co-run by Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) Berlin and Diamond Light Source, 2020.
Oral presentation entitled “Functionalized Covalent Organic Framework (COF) for Photocatalysis” was delivered in '6th International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials, arranged at Meliá Sitges, Sitges, Spain, 2019.