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During the visit of Prof. R. Graham Cooks, Purdue University, Dec. 14, 2018. Pictured above are, from left to right: 1st row (sitting) - Shibalik Mukherjee, Sandeep Bose, Debasmita Ghosh, Rabiul Islam, Jayoti Roy, C. K. Manju, Dr. Wakeel Ahmed Dar, Prof. T. Pradeep, Prof. R. G. Cooks, Anil Kumar, Dr. Angshuman RayChowdhuri, Sritama Mukherjee, Atanu Ghosh. 2nd row (on knees) - Sudhakar Chennu, Md. Bodiuzzaman, Papri Chakraborty, Spoorthi Bhat, Vidhya Subramanian, Madhuri Jash, Biswajit Mondal, Abhijit Nag, Bhaskar Manne, Dr. Avijit Baidya, Gaurav Vishwakarma. 3rd row (standing) - Dr. Saurav Kanti Jana, Paulami Bose, Karthigai Meena, S. Jenifer, Jyoti Sarita Mohanty, K. S. Sugi, Tripti Ahuja, Dr. G. Velmurugan, Dr. Gopi Ragupathy, M. P. Kannan, Ananthu Mahendranath, Esma Khatun, K. Priya, Tanvi Gupte, Subhashree Das, Amrita Chakraborty, Sukanya Bagchi. 4th row (standing) - Ankit Nagar, Srikrishnarka Pillalamarri, Asish Kurian, Manav Shah, Dr. Kamalesh Chaudhari, E. Sundarraj, Dr. P. Ganesan, Shamil Iqbal, Jyotirmoy Ghosh, Pallab Basuri, Harsh Dave, Md Azhardin Ganayee. Not pictured: A. Suganya, Arijit Jana, Ramesh Kumar, Swathy Ravindran, Vishal Kumar, Dr. Krishnan Swaminathan. ANNUAL REPORT | 2018 PRADEEP RESEARCH GROUP, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS Annual reports of 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 are also available (click the respective year). Annual report - 2018 | Pradeep Research Group PRG OUR TEAM Our Thalappil Pradeep FNA, FASc., FNASc., FNAE, FRSC, FTWAS, FAAAS Institute Professor Struggle Is Deepak Parekh Institute Chair Professor and Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai 600 036 To Be INDIA Phone: +91-44-22574208 Fax: +91-44-2257 0545/0509 Creative… Laboratories: DST Unit of Nanoscience and Thematic Unit of Excellence Web: www.dstuns.iitm.ac.in/pradeep-research-group.php TodayOur struggle and i s Ph.D. Students to be Every day! Abhijit Nag Md Rabiul Islam c Amrita Chakraborty Mohd. Azhardin Ganayee reative… A. Anil Kumar Pallab Basuri Ankit Nagar Papri Chakraborty Arijit Jana Paulami Bose today and Biswajit Mondal Sandeep Bose Debasmita Ghosh Shridevi Bhat every day ! Esma Khatun Spoorthi B. K. Gaurav Vishwakarma Sritama Mukherjee* Jayoti Roy Sudhakar Chennu Jyoti Sarita Mohanty* Sukanya Bagchi* Jyotirmoy Ghosh A. Suganya* S. Jenifer * K. S. Sugi M. P. Kannan* Srikrishnarka Pillalamarri* Dr. Krishnan Swaminathan J. R. Swathy* MD FRCP (Edin)* Tanvi Gupte* Madhuri Jash Tripti Ahuja C. K. Manju S. Vidhya* Md Bodiuzzaman Vishal Kumar* * Joint students 1 Annual report - 2018 | Pradeep Research Group PRG Postdoctoral/Research Administrative Officer Architect Associates Shamil Iqbal K. Priya Dr. P. Ganesan$ Dr. Sourav Kanti Jana Dr. G. Velmurugan$ Project Technicians Industrial Consultant Dr. Wakeel Ahmed Dar% E. Sundarraj Dr. Kamalesh Chaudhari Dr. T. K. Rahul Asish Kurian Dr. Gopi Ragupathy Dr. Angshuman RayChowdhuri Dr. Avijit Baidya Project Associates M.S. Students Ramesh Kumar Karthigai Meena $ Ananthu Mahendranath Institute postdoctoral fellow M. Bhaskar % National postdoctoral fellow Glimpses of 2018.……..………. 3 Awards & Honors …………....... 4 Summer & Winter Publications…………………..... 4 Student(s)/Fellow(s) Graduation …………………... 11 Keerthana Unni 2 Meera P. Ragunath Lectures Delivered…………….1 M. P. Hridya Student Activities……………... 14 Sankavi Jesswin Lobo Recognition………………........ 17 T. Athira PoojaM.Sc Duhan. Studen ts Research Grants…………........ 19 Shibalik Mukherjee Aniruddha Jana Lab Visitors…………………….20 DipannitaAtanu Ghosh Saha Subhashree Das Service ..22 V. S. Amal WHAT’S s………………………. A New Initiative – ICCW ...……22 INSIDE? Incubation...……………………23 Popular Science………..…….... 23 Media Reports……………...….. 24 Publication Analysis…...……… 25 Abstracts of Publications……… 26 Acknowledgement…………...... 43 2 Annual report - 2018 | Pradeep Research Group PRG Glimpses of 2018 Prof. T. Pradeep has been elected the fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Papri Chakraborty won a Karnataka DST Nanoscience Fellowship at Bengaluru INDIA NANO, 2018. Ramesh Kumar and J. R. Swathy received a Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) award from the President of India in a function held at the Rastrapati Bhavan, New Delhi on March 19, 2018. From left: Prof. R. A. Mashelkar, Dr. Harsh Vardhan (Minister, GOI), Shri Ram Nath Kovind (President of India), Prof. Ashutosh Sharma (Secretary, DST). Pallab Basuri and Depanjan Sarkar (not in picture) received a Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Appreciation Award from Dr. Harsh Vardhan (Minister, GOI) in a function held at the Rastrapati Bhavan, New Delhi on March 19, 2018. Prof. R. A. Mashelkar and Prof. Ashutosh Sharma are also in the picture. 3 Annual report - 2018 | Pradeep Research Group PRG Awards and Honors 1. Prof. T. Pradeep was awarded The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) prize in chemistry for his discovery of novel nanomaterials and development of products using such materials, leading to applications which support a clean environment, affordable clean water and ultrasensitive devices, November 27, 2018. 2. Prof. T. Pradeep has been awarded IITM Alumni Prof. Pradeep receiving the TWAS prize from Prof. Chunli Bai, president of TWAS. Association Award for Faculty in Innovation by IIT Madras Alumni Association during a function held at Hotel Leela Palace, Chennai, September 29, 2018. 3. Prof. T. Pradeep has been elected as a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). 4. Prof. T. Pradeep has been invited to be a member of the advisory board of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) journal, Nanoscale Advances. Prof. Pradeep receiving an IITM alumni association award. Publications JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS* 1. Clathrate hydrates in interstellar environment, Jyotirmoy Ghosh, Rabin Rajan J. Methikkalam, Radha Gobinda Bhuin, Gopi Ragupathy, Nilesh Choudhary, Rajnish Kumar and T. Pradeep, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2018. (Just Accepted) 2. UPLC and ESI-MS analysis of metabolites of Rauvolfia tetraphylla L. and their spatial localization using desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) mass spectrometric imaging, Mohana Kumara P., Uma Shaanker R. and T. Pradeep, Phytochemistry, 2018. (Just Accepted) 3. Sustainable and affordable composites built using microstructures performing better than nanostructures for arsenic removal, Sritama Mukherjee, Avula Anil Kumar, Chennu Sudhakar, 4 Annual report - 2018 | Pradeep Research Group PRG Ramesh Kumar, Tripti Ahuja, Biswajit Mondal, Srikrishnarka Pillalamarri, Ligy Philip and T. Pradeep, ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng., 2018 (DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05157). (Just Accepted) 4. Metal-ligand interface in the chemical reactions of ligand protected noble metal clusters, Kumaranchira Krishnadas, Ganapati Natarajan, Ananya Baksi, Atanu Ghosh, Esma Khatun and T. Pradeep, Langmuir, 2018 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b03493). (Artcle ASAP)- Feature article. 5. Rapid isotopic exchange in nanoparticles, Papri Chakraborty, Abhijit Nag, Ganapati Natarajan, Nayanika Bandyopadhyay, Ganesan Paramasivam, Manoj Kumar Panwar, Jaydeb Chakrabarti and T. Pradeep, Science Advances, 2018. (Just Accepted) 6. Appearance of SERS activity in single silver nanoparticles by laser-induced reshaping, Kamalesh Chaudhari, Tripti Ahuja, Vasanthanarayan Murugeshan, Vidhya Subramanian, Mohd. Azhardin Ganayee, Thomas Thundat and T. Pradeep, Nanoscale, 11 (2018) 321–330 (DOI: 10.1039/c8nr06497k). 7. Approaching materials with atomic precision using supramolecular cluster assemblies, Papri Chakraborty, Abhijit Nag, Amrita Chakraborty and T. Pradeep, Acc. Chem. Res., 2018 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00369). (Article ASAP) 8. Camouflaging structural diversity: Co–crystallization of two different nanoparticles having different cores but the same shell, Mohammad Bodiuzzaman, Atanu Ghosh, Korath Shivan Sugi, Abhijit Nag, Esma Khatun, Babu Varghese, Ganesan Paramasivam, Sudhadevi Antharjanam, Ganapati Natarajan and T. Pradeep, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 57 (2018) 1-7 (DOI: 10.1002/ange.201809469R1). 9. Isomerism in supramolecular adducts of atomically precise nanoparticles, Abhijit Nag, Papri Chakraborty, Ganesan Paramasivam, Mohammad Bodiuzzaman, Ganapati Natarajan, and T. Pradeep, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140 (2018) 13590–13593 (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b08767) 10. Thirty-fold photoluminescence enhancement induced by secondary ligands in monolayer protected silver clusters, Esma Khatun, Atanu Ghosh, Papri Chakraborty, Priya Singh, Mohammad Bodiuzzaman, Ganesan Paramasivam, Ganapati Nataranjan, Jyotirmoy Ghosh, Samir Kumar Pal, and T. Pradeep, Nanoscale, 10 (2018) 20033–20042 (DOI: 10.1039/C8NR05989F). 11. Atomically precise cluster-based white light emitters, Esma Khatun, Sandeep Bose, Madhuri Jash and T. Pradeep, J. Chem. Sci. (Prof. M. V. George Special Issue), 130 (2018) (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12039-018-1559-4). 12. Monolayer protected noble metal clusters as potential standards for negative ion mass spectrometry, Ananya Baksi, Papri Chakraborty, Abhijit Nag, Debasmita Ghosh, Shridevi Bhat and T. Pradeep, Anal. Chem., 90 (2018) 11351−11357 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.8b02280). 5 Annual report - 2018 | Pradeep Research Group PRG 13. Holey MoS2 nanosheets with photocatalytic metal rich edges by ambient electrospray deposition for solar water disinfection, Depanjan Sarkar, Biswajit Mondal, Anirban Som, Swathy Jakka Ravindran, Sourav Kanti Jana, C. K. Manju and T. Pradeep, Global Challenges, (2018)