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We are a diverse group of chemists and material scientists specializing in catalysis, feed-stock chemistry, energy harvesting and storage, environmental remediation and fuels. Our goal is to understand fundamental chemical processes and also to develop highly efficient materials inspired by nature. We develop simple, reproducible and scalable methods for sustainable science. The research undertaken in our group is intended to have far lasting implications to utilize and design materials for applications that are required by a booming technology minding the effect on the environment. We nurture philosophy of collaboration expedites new discoveries and innovations. We engage with, international universities, inter-institutional, numerous government agencies and industries to harvest the benefits of our research work for end-users.

Rakesh K Sharma, FRSC

Professor

Department  of Chemistry

IIT Jodhpur India

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About Us

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Recent News

  • 15 October 2022

Congratulations to Vishav Kant for their remarkable work  "Effect of Wood-Derived Porous Carbon Framework on Zinc Adsorption–Desorption Kinetics for Nutrient Flow" in "ACS Agric. Sci. Technol."

  • 30 September 2022

Congratulations to Dr. Devika Laishram for their excellent work  "Activated Hollow and Solid Carbon Spheres for Enhanced Removal Efciency of Pharmaceutical Pollutants and Heavy Metals in Water" in "Water, Air and Soil Pollution"

  • 31 July 2022

Congratulations to Dr. Pragati and Apoorva for their excellent communication   "Experimental and Computational Studies on Cinchona Anchored Calixarene Catalysed Asymmetric Michael Addition Reaction" in "ChemComm (Cover Page)"

  • 20 May 2022

Congratulations to Dr. Shrikanth and others for their futuristic Article  "Lithium Free Batteries: Needs and Challenges" in "ACS Energy & Fuels"

  • 30 March 2022

Congratulations to Dr. Devika and others for their Article "Air- and Water-Stable Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals Protected with Nearly-Monolayer Carbon Nitride for CO2 Photoreduction and Water Splitting" in "Elsevier-Applied Surface Science"

  • o5 March 2022

Congratulations to Dr. Sreekanth and others for their Article "Understanding the Endocrine Disruptor and Determination of Bisphenol A by Functional Cu-BTABB-MOF/rGO Composite as Facile Rapid Electrochemical Sensor: An Experimental and DFT Investigation" in "RSC-Analytical Methods"

  • 14 Febuary 2022

SMCRL Group welcomes Dr. Sreekanth for joining as Postdoctoral Associate in SERB sponsored Project "Natural clay-plasma catalyzed hydrogenation of carbon-dioxide for methanol production under ambient conditions"

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  • 15 November 2021

Congratulations to Dr. Devika and others for their Article "Boosting Photocatalytic Activity using Carbon Nitride Based 2D/2D van der Waals Heterojunctions" in "ACS-Chemistry of Materials"

  • 20 October 2021

Congratulations to Dr. Kiran and others for their review "Recent Advances in Ultra-low Temperature (sub-zero to 100°C) Synthesis, Mechanism, and Applications of Titania (TiO2) Nanoparticles" in "RSC-Materials Advances"

  • 17 July 2021

Congratulations to Dr. Devika and others for their paper "Nickel and Cobalt Transfigured Natural Clay: A Green Catalyst for Low-Temperature Catalytic Soot Oxidation" in "RSC-New Journal of Chemistry "

  • 30 May 2021

Congratulations to Dr. Krishnapriya and Dr. Vineet K Soni for their book chapter  "Algae: Biomass to Biofuel”, in Elsevier Book "Biofuels and Biodiesel"

  • 31 March 2021

Congratulations and Welcome to Dr. Devika Laishram, Dr. Anita Nehra, Vishav Kant and Divya Kumar for joining the SMCRL group as postdoctoral and Project fellow.  

  • 23 February 2021

Congratulations to Unnati and Dr. Krishnapriya  for their paper  "A Sustainable Palladium Intercalated Montmorillonite Clay Catalytic System for Imine Hydrogenation under Mild Conditions" in ChemPlusChem Front Cover

  • 10 February 2021

Congratulations to Devika Laishram for successfully defended her thesis"Advanced Functional Nanomaterials for Energy and Environmental Applications"

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  • 1 December 2020

Congratulations to Dr. Krishnapriya and Devika for their book chapter  "Multifunctional materials for clean energy conversion" in Elsevier Book "Advanced Lightweight Multifunctional Materials"

  • 15 September 2020

Congratulations to Poonam and PuraRam for their paper "Improved electrochemical performance of LiMn1.5M0.5O4 (M=Ni, Co, Cu) based cathodes for lithium-ion batteries" in "Journal of Alloys and Compounds" 

  • 15 August 2020

Congratulations to Devika, Krishnapriya, Poonam, Unnati, Pragati, Divya, Bhagirath for three book chapters in ACS Book "Subnanometric-Scale Catalysts: Bridging the Gap between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysts" 

  • 04 July 2020

Congratulations to Devika for ACS Omega best presenter award, 2020. 

  • 01 July 2020

Congratulations Krishnapriya and Unnati for the front cover page in Sustainable Energy & Fuels (RSC)  on their work on biofuel.

  • 24 June 2020

The paper of  V C Janu "Surface Fluorinated Hematite for Uranium Removal from Radioactive Effluent" published in  Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (Elsevier)

  • 01 May 2020

The paper of  V C Janu "On the Study of Surface Fluorinated Fe2O3 for Microwave Absorption" published in  IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (IEEE)

  • 24 March 2020

The paper of  Devika, Kiran and  Krishnapriya "Nitrogen-Enriched Carbon Nanobubbles and Nanospheres for Applications in Energy Harvesting, Storage, and CO2 Sequestration" published in  ACS Applied Nano Materials (ACS)

  • 17 March 2020

The paper of  Krishnapriya and Unnati "Catalytic conversion of methyl oleate to hydrocarbons: Impact of cobalt oxide species integration in SiO2-Al2O3" published in Sustainable Energy & Fuels (RSC)

  • 04 March 2020

Paper of    "Synthesis and characterization of CuS, CuS/graphene oxide nanocomposite for supercapacitor applications" published in AIP Advances (AIP)​

  • 29 January 2020                            

Vikash C Janu has successfully defended his PhD thesis  "Surface Fluorinated Hematites for Enegy, Stealth and Environmental Applications"

  • 27 January 2020

Paper of  S. Pandey and Pragati R Sharma  "On the Study of Cucurbit[6]uril and 4-tert-Butylcalix[6]arene for Multifunctional Lubricant Additives" accepted in New Journal of Chemistry (RSC)

  • 1 January 2020                           

Paper of  Vineet Soni, Krishnapriya and Suman Dhara  "Highly Selective Co3O4/Silica-Alumina Catalytic System for Deoxygenation of Triglyceride-based Feedstock" accepted in Fuel (Elsevier) 

Collaborations

Prof. Alison Parker

Cranfield Water Science Institute

UK

Prof. Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez

Ikerbasque Professor & Scientific Director, BCMaterials –Basque Center for Materials, Spain & Departamento de Física, Campus de Gualtar,University of Minho,

Portugal

Prof. Rahul Singhal

Physics & Engineering Physics

Central Connecticut State University

New Britain, CT, USA

Prof. Irina Petrovna Beletskaya

Head of the Laboratory of elementoorganic compounds
Department of Chemistry
Moscow State University, Russia

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