Principal Investigator: Dr. Sajesh P. Thomas

      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 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 just 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