Research Areas:

1	Porous Magnetic Materials: My group is focusing on synthesizing materials that are both porous as well as magnetic because of their potential applications in separation of air and absorption of oxygen from air in a non-cryogenic process.
2	Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials: Organic-inorganic hybrid open-framework bismuth sulfates with the layered and three-dimensional structures have been synthesized and characterized. The arrangement in bismuth atom in one of the compound suggests the presence of stereo active lone pair of electrons. All compounds show good fluorescence properties exhibiting blue luminescence.
3	Supercapacitor for Layered Composite Materials: Layered composite materials of metal chalchogenides with reduced graphene oxide are being prepared and their supercapacitor capacity is being tested, as these materials shows potential applications in storage devices.
4	Low-temperature Multiferroics: We are also developing the strategies to synthesize materials with ferroelectric properties at low temperature.
5	Electrocatalyst for Water Splitting: Designing New Catalysts based on earth abundant non-precious elements such as Ni, Co, Fe, Mn, Cu, S, Se, Te, N and P which show high catalytic activity for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) - the two half-cell reactions for water splitting.
6	Heterogeneous Catalysis in Metal-Organic Frameworks: Different strategies are being used to introduce catalytically-active sites to facilitate the reaction inside MOFs. One approach is to utilize the metal-connecting points which coordination environments is saturated with coordinated water or other solvent molecules that can be easily removed without destroying the parent framework. In another approach, the catalytic sites are incorporated directly into the bridging ligands used for the construction of MOFs. The great challenge in MOFs chemistry is to synthesize Rh-MOF with a structure similar to [M3(BTC)2], (BTC= Benzene tricarboxylic acid).
	Characterization Techniques using Instruments: X-ray Diffractometer (single crystal and powder), SQUID Magnetometer, Gas Adsorption and separation (Micrometrics), TGA, DSC, NMR, UV-VIS, FT-IR, NMR, Conductivity, EDX, SEM, TEM, Electrochemical Workstation, GCMS, HPLC and Confocal Microscope