Research

Preamble

In the last five years or so, we have been pursuing three intertwined directions of research in the group.

Some of the prominent subtopics are listed below.

Methodological developments and implementation

Directed hybrid atomic Wannier orbitals from first-principles

Mximally valent orbitals

Transferability of correlation incorporated through self-energy correction in directed basis.

Optical excitation in directed basis

Correlated quantum transport

Real space model di-electric screening

Physics of low dimsional systems

Room temperature ferromagnetism in honeycomb-Kagome double lattice of magnetic graphene islands embedded in hBN.

Bias induced localization driven ferromagnetic ordering in graphene ribbons

Length scale of covalent intractions

New materials for cleaner greener planet

Oxygen reduction on chemically activated magnetic graphene islands embedded in hBN

Reduction of SOx NOx COx on carbon substituted hBN

Photo-voltaic and super-capacitor applications of graphene-hBN hybrid systems

Switchable topological transition in layers of p-block elements

Switchable catalysis in 2D