Inorganic and Organic Materials Chemistry

Research Activity

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Developing p-conjugated systems for redox and optoelectronic applications. The efforts are devoted towards the p-conjugated systems, useful for the absorptive/transmissive and reflective electrochromic devices, polymer-based solar cells, light emitting devices and field effect transistors.

p-conjugated systems comprising heavier chalcogens.

Development of novel lanthanide-doped luminescent nanomaterials and nanocomposites for optical and photonic applications using a variety of sol-gel and colloidal synthetic routes

Synthesis of new upconverting nanomaterials which can find potential interest as optical biomarkers in addition to authentication applications.

Template-assisted synthetic routes to make luminescent nanoarchitectures.

Polymetallic clusters and cages with tunnel structures, towards magnetic materials and quantum computation

Bioinspired inorganic chemistry and photochemical/electrochemical water splitting towards sustainable, renewable alternative energy. Non-biological approaches to oxygen-oxygen bond formation will be the target.

Designing discrete high nuclearity metal clusters as single molecule magnets and their encapsulation in diamagnetic polyoxometalate frameworks.