Research Journal Club is a weekly seminar event, where students of the department make an in-depth presentation on one of the recently published works in top journals. The event is regularly attended by the faculty and students and the discussions that follow enrich all with critical and insightful thinking.
Sl. No. | Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Research/Journal | Topic |
1 | 16 October 2019 | K.L. Sebastian | Faculty, Dean Research, IIT PKD | Research | |
2 | 31 October 2019 | Aparna G. Nair | PhD (Dr. Padmesh lab) | Journal | Kinetics of Aqueous Media Reactions via Ab Initio Enhanced Molecular Dynamics: The Case of Urea Decomposition |
3 | 13 November 2019 | Liya T | PhD (Dr. Mintu Porel lab) | Journal | Rapamycin-inspired macrocycles with new target specificity |
4 | 02 December 2019 | Dr. N. Pandurangan | Post-Doctoral Fellow | Journal | Sequence Defined Polymer |
5 | 23 May 2020 | Rajendran | PhD (Dr. Dinesh Lab) | Journal | Single-site catalyst promoters accelerate metalcatalyzed nitroarene hydrogenation |
6 | 20 June 2020 | Anna Jose | PhD (Dr. Mintu Porel lab) | Journal | Effective removal of mercury from aqueous streams via electrochemical alloy formation on platinum |
7 | 01 July 2020 | Binduja Mohan | PhD (Dr. Shanmugaraju lab) | Journal | Multicavity [Pd n L 4 ] 2n+ Cages with Controlled Segregated Binding of Different Guests |
8 | 15 July 2020 | Nayana | PhD (Dr. Padmesh lab) | Journal | pH-Induced Changes in Polypeptide Conformation: Force-Field Comparison with Experimental Validation |
9 | 29 July 2020 | Ananthu | PhD (Dr. Shanmugaraju lab) | Journal | “Single-crystal x-ray diffraction structures of covalent organic frameworks” |
10 | 12 August 2020 | Anna Sebastian | PhD (Dr. Supratik lab) | Journal | Photostable Copper Nanoclusters-Compatible Forster Resonance Energy Tranfer Assays and a nanothermometer |
11 | 26 August 2020 | Revathy | PhD (Dr. Sushabhan lab) | Journal | Activity-Based Sensing of S-Depalmitoylases: ChemicalTechnologies and Biological Discovery |
12 | 07 October 2020 | Tarun Gera | PhD (KLS group) | Journal | Manipulating molecules by vibrational strong coupling |
13 | 10 December 2020 | Liya T | PhD (Dr. Mintu Porel lab) | Journal | Multi-targeting of functional cysteines in multiple conserved SARS-CoV-2 domains by clinically safe Zn-ejectors |
14 | 18 September 2021 | Dr. John Mohanraj | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bayreuth, Germany | Research | Organic electronics and photovoltaics |
15 | 02 October 2021 | Aparna G. Nair | PhD (Dr. Padmesh lab) | Research | |
16 | 9 October. 2021 | Prof. Ranjan Dey | BITS Pilani, Goa | Research | Newly developed, simple yet highly effective approaches for predicting thermophysical properties |
17 | 30 October 2021 | Debashis Barik | PhD (Dr. Mintu Porel lab) | Journal | Amphiphillic Janus dendrimer for mRNA delivery |
18 | 13 November 2021 | Aarya | PhD (Dr. Supratik lab) | Journal | Lysozyme directed synthesis of yellow emitting CuNC for Co2+ ion sensing |
19 | 08 January 2022 | Shabin | PhD (Dr. Sushabhan lab) | Journal | |
20 | 29 January 2022 | Noushija | PhD (Dr. Sushabhan lab) | Journal | |
21 | 05 February 2022 | Roshni | PhD (Dr. Dinesh Lab) | Journal | Geometrical site dependant catalytic activity of ordered mesoporous Co-based spinel for benzene oxidation: in situ DRIFTS study coupled with Raman and EXAFS spectroscopy |
22 | 12 February 2022 | Dr. Indrajit Maity | (Postdoctoral researcher, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany) | Research | Complex chemical reaction network for biomimetics and material design |
23 | 26 February 2022 | Revathy | PhD (Dr. Sushabhan lab) | Journal | |
24 | 05 March 2022 | Anna Sebastian | PhD (Dr. Supratik lab) | Journal | Luminescent Silver Nanoclusters Acting as a Label-Free Photoswitch in Metal Ion Sensing |
25 | 12 March 2022 | Ananthu | PhD (Dr. Shanmugaraju lab) | Journal | Fluorescent aminal linked porous organic polymer for reversible organic polymer for reversible iodine capture and sensing |
26 | 30 March 2022 | Nayana | PhD (Dr. Padmesh lab) | Journal | |
27 | 09 April 2022 | Rajendran | PhD (Dr. Dinesh Lab) | Journal | Platinum nanoparticles/Ti3C2Tx (MXene) composite for the effectual electrochemical sensing of Bisphenol A in aqueous media |
28 | 23 April 2022 | Anna Jose | PhD (Dr. Mintu Porel lab) | Journal | Intracellular Self-Immolative Polyprodrug with Near-Infrared Light Guided Accumulation and in Vivo Visualization of Drug Release |
29 | 04 May 2022 | Liya T | PhD (Dr. Mintu Porel lab) | Journal | Efficient Mercury Capture Using Functionalized Porous Organic Polymer |
30 | 04 June 2022 | Dr. Krishnapriya | Research Associate (Dr. Priya group) | Research | Singlet fission in DPP bridged pentacene dimers |
31 | 24 August 2022 | Deepraj | PhD (Dr. Dinesh Lab) | Journal | Porous carbon Nonowire array for surface enhanced raman spectroscopy |
32 | 31 August 2022 | Ankitha | PhD (Dr. Abdul Lab) | Journal | Competitive electrochemical aptasensor based on a cDNA-ferrocene/MXene probe for detection of breast cancer marker Mucin1 |
33 | 21 September 2022 | Debashis Barik | PhD (Dr. Mintu Porel lab) | Journal | Effective mrna delivery by ionised amphiphilic janus dendrimer. |
34 | 28 September 2022 | Shabin N. C. | PhD (Dr. Sushabhan lab) | Journal | Visualisation and In-situ ablation through intracellular bacterial pathogens through metabolic labelling |
35 | 26 October 2022 | Aarya Prasaadham | PhD (Dr. Supratik lab) | Journal | Fluorescent Gold Nanoclusters for Selective Detection of Dopamine in Cerebrospinal fluid |
36 | 09 November 2022 | Roshni M | PhD (Dr. Dinesh Lab) | Journal | Engineering cobalt oxide with coexisting cobalt defects and oxygen vacancies for enhanced catalytic oxidation of toluene |
37 | 16 November 2022 | Revathy S | PhD (Dr. Sushabhan lab) | Journal | Carbon Quantum Dots Based Nanozyme from Coffee Induces Cancer Cell Ferroptosis to Activate Antitumor Immunity |
38 | 23 November 2022 | Abra Mathew | PhD (Dr. Rositha lab) | Journal | Discovery of Redox-Promoted Bronsted Acid Catalysis in the Gold(III)-Catalyzed Annulation of Phenol and Cyclohexadiene |
39 | 30 November 2022 | Ananthu S | PhD (Dr. Shanmugaraju lab) | Journal | Construction of Pyridine-Based Chiral Ionic Covalent Organic Frameworks as a Heterogeneous Catalyst for Promoting Asymmetric Henry Reactions |
40 | 25 January 2023 | Noushija M K | PhD (Dr. Shanmugaraju lab) | Journal | Synthesis of Ultrafine and Highly Dispersed Metal Nanoparticles Confined in a Thioether-Containing Covalent Organic Framework and Their Catalytic Applications |
41 | 01 February 2023 | S. Hafila Khairun | MSc student | Journal | Energy Generation from Pharmaceutical Residual Water in Microbial Fuel Cells Using Ordered Mesoporous Carbon and Bacillus subtilis as Bioanode |
42 | 04 October 2023 | Paul Mathew | PhD (Dr. Debarati Chatterjee lab) | Journal | Binding Mechanisms of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins: Theory, Simulation and Experiment. |
43 | 18 October 2023 | Rakhi Mol K M | PhD (Dr. Mintu Porel lab) | Journal | Binding Mechanisms of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins: Theory, Simulation Pillar[5]arene-Based Fluorescent Sensor Array for Biosensing of Intracellular Multi-neurotransmitters through Host-Guest Recognitions. |
44 | 23 October 2023 | Vishnu N V | PhD (Dr. Sushabhan lab) | Journal | Chemical Proteomics Reveals Antibiotic Targets of Oxadiazolones in MRSA |
45 | 01 November 2023 | Anjalin Roy | PhD (Dr. Padmesh lab) | Journal | Prediction of Excited-State Energies and Singlet−Triplet Gaps of Charge-Transfer States Using a Restricted Open-Shell Kohn−Sham Approach. |
46 | 08 November 2023 | Dr. R Shyama | Postdoctoral researcher(Dr. Padmesh Group) | Research | Investigation on the Interconversion Process of Superoxo Peroxo Complexes in Ni-TMC Complexes |
47 | 22 November 2023 | Abhineet Verma | MSc. 2nd year | Journal | Quantifying Oligomer Populations in Real Time during Protein Aggregation Using Single-Molecule Mass Photometry |
48 | 29 November 2023 | Nandamol P. S | PhD (Dr. Mintu Porel lab) | Journal | Reticular Synthesis of Highly Crystalline Three-Dimensional Mesoporous Covalent−Organic Frameworks for Lipase Inclusion |