Research

Agency

Title of Project

PI

CSIR

Design and synthesis of new ratiometric fluorescent chemosensors: excited state proton transfer involving keto-enol tautomerism (2011-14)

Dr. Narinder Singh

CSIR

Design and syntheses of a new class of salen-based metal complexes: a search for catalytic activity (2011-14)

Dr. Avijit Goswami and Dr. Narinder Singh (Co-I)

Indo-Korean Joint Project (DST-ROK)

Design and synthesis of quantum dot-based benzimidazole-coupled chemosensors (2011-14)

Dr. Narinder Singh

ISIRD, IIT Ropar

Synthesis and recognition properties of tripodal and tetrapodal frameworks (completed)

Dr. Narinder Singh

DST

Surface engineering to control erosion-corrosion of steam generating plants by nanoparticle coating (completed)

Dr. Harpreet Singh, SMMEE and Dr. Narinder Singh (Co-I)

Indo-Mexico Joint Project (DST-CONACYT)

Synthesis of Au(I) complexes luminescent-based benzimidazole, pyridyl,and amine: gold nanoparticles for sensor development (2012-15)

Dr. Narinder Singh and Dr. Rajendra Srivastava (Co-I)

DST

Synthesis and catalytic applications of hierarchical/nanocrystalline zeolites (completed)

Dr. Rajendra Srivastava

ISIRD, IIT Ropar

Synthesis of di-cationic and amino acid derived ionic liquid and their application in catalysis and material synthesis (completed)

Dr. Rajendra Srivastava

CSIR

Synthesis and catalytic applications of nanoporous -conjugated polymer silica nanocomposite materials (2011-14)

Dr. Rajendra Srivastava

DST

Synthesis and catalytic applications of crystalline mesoporous materials prepared using hierarchical agents (2013-17)

Dr. Rajendra Srivastava

ISIRD, IIT Ropar

Fuel cell materials for renewable energy: theoretical studies on hybrid nanomaterials

Dr. T. J. Dhilip Kumar

DST

H₂ storage and fuel cell materials for renewable energy: Fundamental study on metal hybrid nanostructures (2011-14)

Dr. T. J. Dhilip Kumar

BRNS

Development of porous metal organic frameworks (MOFS) for H₂ storage (2013-16)

Dr. C. M. Nagaraja and Dr. T. J. Dhilip Kumar (Co-I)

ISIRD, IIT Ropar

Development of porous metal-organic framework materials for H₂ storage and selective CO₂ capture (2012-14)

Dr. C. M. Nagaraja

DST

Development of porous chiral metal-organic frameworks (CMOFs) for heterogeneous asymmetric catalysis (2012-15)

Dr. C. M. Nagaraja

CSIR

Development of novel transition metal complexes with pincer-type ligands for splitting of water (2013-16)

Dr. C. M. Nagaraja

DST

Synthesis, characterization, and investigation of comparative catalytic activities of transition metal complexes of mono, di, tri, and tetrapodal Schiff bases and their reduced products

Dr. Vimal Kumar

DST

Development of [3+3]-cycloaddition of azomethine ylide towards the construction of piperidine ring system: application to the alkaloids synthesis (2011-14)

Dr. Prabal Banerjee

ISIRD, IIT Ropar

Development and characterization of highly active cathode materials for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells

Dr. Tharamani C. N.

DST - Ramanujan Fellowship

Design of non-platinum electrocatalytic material with potential efficacy for low temp fuel cells

Dr. Tharamani C. N.

BRNS

New archetype of ionic liquids and their applications in electrolytes and other systems

Dr. D. Mandal

DST

Fluorous approach towards anion recognition for overcoming the Hofmeister bias (2013-16)

Dr. D. Mandal

ISIRD, IIT Ropar

Design and development of Schiff base-based pH-sensitive degradable hydrogels for vaginal microbicide delivery (2013-15)

Dr. Yashveer Singh

DST

Syntheses and application of heteroatom substitute cyclooctatetraenes (COTs) (2014-17)

Dr. Avijit Goswami

DST

Quantum dynamics of energy transfer-processes in atom-molecular ion interaction (2015-18)

Dr. T. J. Dhilip Kumar

CSIR

A first-principles study metal grafted calix[n]arenes as hydrogen storage material (2014-17)

Dr. T. J. Dhilip Kumar

 CSIR

Polymeric micelles for sustained and targeted delivery of a microbicide (dapivirine) to denritic (DCs) and langerhans cells (LCs), the virus reservoirs in vaginal mucosal and sub-mucosal regions, to prevent HIV-1 infection (2016-2018)

 Dr. Yashveer Singh