MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
Development of facile synthesis protocol to fabricate a variety of functional materials consisting metal oxides, doped metal oxides, perovskites, pyrochlorre, chalcogenides, metal phosphate, graphene and carbon nitride based nanocomposites with variation in structural, optical and electronic properties in sustainable development and application in green chemistry.
NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
Design and development of novel nano metal oxides, metal oxide nanocomposites, graphene and carbon nitride based composites, functional layered materials, chalcogenides, metal phosphates, perovskites, pyrochlore, chacogenides for photocatalytic application in water splitting for hydrogen production in visible light, solar light driven photo-catalytic decomposition of organic and inorganic pollutants and solar to chemicals.
FUNCTIONALISED HYBRID MATERIALS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Fabrication of hierarchical porous materials, organic-inorganic hybrid materials, functionalized mesoporous and layered metal oxides, metal phosphates and clays, solid acids and bases for organic and biomolecule transformation reactions in clean and green environment solventless/water medium and removal of gaseous and aqueous pollutants.
NANO HYBRID MATERIALS FOR ENERGY STORAGE
For the past few decades, energy production from renewable resources is the main topic of concern. Beside this, its storage and production (when required) is drawing the attention of many researchers. Hence, supercapacitor will be considered as the promising energy storage device, in the forth coming years which would bridge the gap between conventional capacitor and batteries. The excellent cyclic stability with 95.7% retention, phase angle 780 close to the ideal phase angle 900 and t0 values from Bode plot and Nyquist plot indicates LTO (specific capacitance 71 F/g) as a future supercapacitor.
