Structural Chemistry Lab
Crystal Engineering & Us...
Our research aims to design and synthesize several functional materials by the utilization of crystal engineering approaches. The judicious choice of hydrogen bonds, several other intermolecular interactions and coordination bonds are the key for the creation of novel materials with predefined structure and therefore desired properties. The extended framework structures via coordination and covalent bonds results in MOFs & COFs, respectively, with high porosity, selective adsorptivity, dye encapsulation and catalysis. Also these materials exhibit excellent ability for post synthetic modifications to produce the materials otherwise can’t be synthesized and they display novel properties which are very different from those of the parent materials. The hydrogen bonding or supramolecular synthon assisted cocrystals, organic salts and metal assisted organogels were also of our interest for their multifunctional properties which include SCSC [2+2] dimerization/polymerization reactions, luminescence and proton conductivity. Furthermore, synthesis of SOFs with intriguing photocatalytic properties for water splitting also is part of our research interests.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Ten-Million-Fold Increase in the Electrical Conductivity of a MOF by Doping of Iodine into MOF Integrated Mixed Matrix Membrane
Swati Bedi, Kamini Bharti, Debamalya Banerjee and Kumar Biradha*
Light-Induced Antiferromagnetic to Ferromagnetic Transition in Halogen Substituted 1,4-Bis(imidazolyl)benzene Systems: An Effect of Spin–Orbit Coupling and π-Stacking in Enhanced Photomagnetism
Superprotonic Conductivity by Synergistic Blending of Coordination Polymers with Organic Polymers: Fabrication of Durable and Flexible Proton Exchange Membranes
Group News
July'24
Welcome Latakshi Sharma in Structural Chemistry Lab as a JRF through the Joint Doctoral Program, University of Manchester-IIT Kharagpur!
July'23
Congratulations to Priya and Debasis for being succesfully promoted to Senior Research Fellows (SRFs)!
April'23
Congratulations to Dr. Anindita Goswami for her successful Defense!
March'23
Congratulations to Dr. Rajib Moi for his successful Defense!
Upcoming Events
Advances in Functional Solids: Fundamental and Applications (1st Edition)
Venue: Gargi Auditorium, IIT Kharagpur
Date: 9th-12th November, 2024
Organized by the Department of Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur
International Conference on Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry (21st Edition)
Venue: Department of Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur
Date: 14th-17th December, 2024
Organized by the Department of Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur