1. Sarbjeet Kar and Kailash C. Jena, “Structural and Orientational Investigations of Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) polymer at Air/Water Interface by Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy”, 8th International Conference on Perspectives in Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICOPVS-2020), JNCASR Bangalore, India (Feb. 24-28, 2020).
2. Bhawna Rana, selected for Newton-Bhabha PhD placement fellowship 2019-20. She will join Prof. David Fairhurst for four months, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.
3. Deepak Tomer, Abhay T. Sangamwar and Kailash C. Jena, “Probing the Molecular level Drug-Polymer Interactions at Air-Biorelevant Interface by Nonlinear Vibrational Spectroscopy”, National Symposium on Light-Matter Interaction, NSLIMI – 2019, (Dec. 26, 2019), Department of Physics, IIT Madras, Chennai. (Best Poster Presentation Award)
4. Monika, Narinder Singh and Kailash C. Jena, “Amino Acid Based Carbon Quantum Dots for Detection of Heavy Metal Ions Studied by Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy”, National Symposium on Light-Matter Interaction, NSLIMI – 2019, (Dec. 26, 2019), Department of Physics, IIT Madras, Chennai. (Best Poster Presentation Award)
5. Harpreet Kaur received “Certificate of Appreciation” for her outstanding performance in research, Research Conclave, IIT Ropar, 2019.
6. Bhawna Rana and Kailash C. Jena, “Water Molecules in the Vicinity of Polyvinylpyrrolidone polymer at Air/Water Interface: Structure and Orientation Determination by Non Linear Optical Vibrational Spectroscopy” 4th Physics Day, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, Punjab, India (August 10, 2019). (Best poster presentation award)
7. Monika, Narinder Singh and Kailash C. Jena, “Cation Displacement Induced Ordering of Water molecules at the Air-Water Interface”, Research Conclave – 2019, IIT Ropar, May 14-15, 2019. (Best Poster Presentation award)
8. Bhawna Rana and Kailash C. Jena, “Probing the Conformation and Orientation of Water Molecules at Air/Water Interface in Presence of Polyvinylpyrrolidone using NonLinear Optical Vibrational Spectroscopy”, National Laser Symposium-27, (Dec.3-6, 2018), RRCAT, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. (Best poster presentation award)
9. Bhawna Rana and Kailash C. Jena, “Structural and Orientational Investigations of Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) polymer at Air/Water Interface by Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy”, 7th International Conference on Perspectives in Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICOPVS-2018), BARC Mumbai, India (Nov. 25-29, 2018).
10. Monika, Narinder Singh and Kailash C. Jena, “Characterization of Amino Acid Based Carbon Quantum Dots by Sum Frequency Generation (SFG) Spectroscopy”, Trombay Symposium on Radiation & Photochemistry (TSRP) – 2018, BARC Mumbai, India.
11. Harpreet Kaur, Shilpi Chaudhary, Narinder Singh and Kailash C. Jena, “Probing In-situ Dynamical Response on Interaction of Silicon Alkoxide with Water at Air/Water Interface”, International Symposium on Functional Materials: Energy and Biomedical Applications, 2018, Chandigarh, India. (Best poster presentation award)
12. Harsharan Kaur, Meenakshi Verma, Narinder Singh and Kailash C. Jena, “Unraveling the Bulk and Interfacial Behavior of DNA Binding by Polyethylenimine Derivatives”, National Conference on Advances in Spectroscopy: Molecules to Materails-2018, IITRAM, Ahmedabad, 4-6th October, 2018. (Oral Presentation) (Received Best Oral Presentation Award)
13. Bhawna Rana and Kailash C. Jena, “Probing Water Molecules in Vicinity of Ions at Air/Water Interface using Sum Frequency Generation (SFG) Vibrational Spectroscopy”, National Conference on Advances in Spectroscopy: Molecules to Materials (NCASMM-2018), IITRAM, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India (Oct. 4-6, 2018). (Appreciation for Oral presentation)
14. Harpreet Kaur and Kailash C. Jena, “Probing in-situ dynamical response on interaction of silicon alkoxide with water at air/aqueous interface”, Research Conclave-2018, IIT Ropar, Birbal Sahni award for Best Poster Presentation.
15. Harsharan and Kailash C. Jena, “Understanding the Bulk and Interfacial DNA Recognition Properties of Polyethylenimine Derivative”, Research Conclave at IIT Ropar, 2018, Hargobind Khurana award for Best Poster presentation.
