Materials & Quantum Crystallography Lab (MQCL)
SPT Group
Focus areas:
Physical Chemistry of Molecular Solids,
Design and Control of Crystal Forms (Crystal Engineering),
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Principal Investigator: Dr. Sajesh P. Thomas
Principal Investigator: Dr. Sajesh P. Thomas
MQCL Youtube channel link: http://www.youtube.com/@MQCLIITDelhi
Link for applying the Joint PhD Program ( IIT Delhi - University of Queensland Australia, UQIDAR): https://uqiitd.org/projects/high-resolution-crystallographic-studies-on-mechanically-flexible-crystals/
For external students applying for Summer Internships and Masters projects:
As per IIT Delhi norms, external students are required to pay an institute fee of around ₹25,000 (₹ 47000 for a full semester project). This does not include any hostel accommodation. Kindly consider this before applying for project positions.
January 2025
Congratulations Ashi, Srijan and Atiq... for their paper "Prediction and Validation of Mechanical Flexibility in Molecular Crystals: Dispersion Interactions Dictate Bending" is accepted in Angewandte Chemie. 👏🎈
Congratulations Soyal and Srijan... for their paper "From flexible crystals to piezoelectrics: The advent of a new class of flexible functional molecular materials" is accepted in small.
November 2024
Congratulations Ravi Teja... for winning the best poster prize in 51st National Seminar on Crystallography Conference held in VNIT Nagpur.
Congratulations Athul and Arti... Thrilled to share that Athul (Sponsored by Jounal of Molecular Structure) and Arti (Sponsored by RSC) have won the best poster prize at the prestigious International SAGAMORE XX Conference. 🎉
January 2024
Congratulations Ashi, Avinash and Masoumeh... for their paper "Dynamic Covalent Bonds in the Ebselen Class of Antioxidants Probed by X-ray Quantum Crystallography " selected as hot paper in Chemistry- A European Journal.
October 2023
Congratulations Srijan Mondal... for being selected for the prestigious PMRF.
April 2023
Congratulations Ashi Singh... Her first paper "The Ambiguous Origin of Thermochromism in Molecular Crystals of Dichalcogenides: Chalcogen Bonds versus Dynamic Se−Se/Te−Te Bonds" is accepted in Angewandte Chemie. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202311044
Congratulations Athul and Avinash … Their paper “Fluorine versus hydroxyl in supramolecular space: Effect of organic fluorine in molecular conformation, lattice cohesive energies and receptor binding in a series of a-fluoroketones” is accepted in Crystal Growth & Design.
Congratulations Athul… His second paper “Variable Cl∙∙∙O Halogen Bonding Modes in Dimorphs of a Room Temperature Liquid Ethylchloroformate revealed by in situ Cryo-Crystallography” is accepted in Crystal Growth & Design.
March 2023
Our paper on “Coordination Sphere Flexibility Leads to Elastic Deformation in a One-Dimensional Coordination Polymer Crystal” in Chemistry of materials (Impact factor- 10.5). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c03625
February 2023
Congratulations Avinash … Our project student, Avinash Kiran got PhD Admission in Purdue University, USA.
August 2022
Congratulations Athul… His first paper “Conformational preferences in a series of α-hydroxy ketone derivatives: interplay of conformational energies and lattice cohesive energies” got published in RSC journal CrystEngComm. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CE00700B
Welcome to MQCL. Atiqurrahman joined the group under the joint PhD program (UQIDAR) of IIT Delhi and University of Queensland, Australia.
uqidar.org/.../combining-mechanical-flexibility.../
October 2021
Our paper on mechanical properties of crystals in Angewandte Chemie (Impact factor- 16.82) : https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202110716
August 2021
Our paper on molecular alloys in Chemical Science (Impact factor- 9.96) https://doi.org/10.1039/D1SC03714E
Contact us:
Department of Chemistry
Main building, 6th floor
Room No: 732
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110016
+91 11 2659-1565
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