Soft Materials Research Laboratory
Department of Metallurgy Engineering and Materials Science
Indian Institute of Technology Indore
Research Interests :
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Development of Conductive and Fluorescent Metallogel,
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Gel as battery Electrolyte,
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Superabsorbent Materials,
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Structural Supramolecular Materials Chemistry (Coordination, Crystallography, Chiro-optical effect) based on chiral ligands
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Development of Fluorescent Carbon dots.
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Corrosion Engineering and Electrochemistry ​
Summary of Research Interest
Our research group is dedicated for the development of the multifunctional Soft Materials particularly Metallogels with an objective to achieve conductance, catalysis, superabsorbent, morphology, rheological and optical (luminescent) properties for various kind of applications. In the present era, gels are directly applicable in human daily routine life like medicine, cosmetics, electronic devices, tissue engineering etc. The direct applications as well as interesting chemistry of gels motivated me to establish my research lab for the synthesis of chiral inorganic gelators. Recently, our group explored the conductive metallogels can be utilized as soft diodes and battery electrolytes. Also, our research interest includes synthesis for luminescent carbon dots for anti-counterfeiting application.