Surface and Macromolecular Chemistry LabORAToRY

Dr. Nebhani’s research group (Surface and Macromolecular Chemistry Laboratory) at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at IITD is focused on synthesizing hybrid functionalized porous materials. 

The aim is to obtain hybrid functionalized materials with engineered physicochemical properties using orthogonal and controlled polymerization techniques. Her group has worked extensively on engineered materials based on silica. 

Another important area of the research is to develop engineered materials from polybenzoxazine, a class of advanced thermosetting resins. Her group has developed new approaches to immobilize benzoxazine monomers from the surface of silica, aiding in better dispersion to silica, while preparing composites using polybenzoxazine and silica. Her group has developed multifunctional polybenzoxazines which are interesting materials in high-temperature adhesives. Because of the molecular design flexibility, these multifunctional polybenzoxazines are an important precursor for the synthesis of heteroatom-doped carbon materials as well as reprocessable thermosets.