Science & Engineering Research Board CRG Projects Sanctioned in the Year 2019-20 S.No Discipline Sub Area Title PI Details Total Cost 1. Chemical Inorganic and Advanced Materials Towards Tharamani Chikka Nagaiah, 5783370 Sciences Physical Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Indian Institute of Technology Chemistry Reaction For Sustainable Energy Ropar, Conversion Ropar,Punjab, 140001 2. Chemical Inorganic and Chemistry In Self-Assembled Partha Sarathi Mukherjee, 5519890 Sciences Physical Coordination Architectures Indian Institute of Chemistry Science,Bangalore, Bangalore,Karnataka, 560012 3. Chemical Inorganic and Detoxification of Arsenic Gouriprasanna Roy, 5953775 Sciences Physical Compounds: Enzyme Mimetic Shiv Nadar University, Chemistry Studies To Understand The Gautambudh Nagar,Uttar Methylation of Arsenic By Ar(III) Pradesh, S-Adenosylmethione (SAM) 203207 Methyltransferase (AS3MT) 4. Chemical Inorganic and Investigation of Zintl phases as Manoj Raama Varma, 3034800 Sciences Physical efficient thermoelectric materials National Institute For Chemistry for energy conversion Interdisciplinary Science & Technology, Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala,6 95019 5. Chemical Inorganic and High Potency of Complex Dietary Durba Roy, 3666520 Sciences Physical Β-Glucan Fibers As Cholesterol Birla Institute of Technology Chemistry And Low-Density Lipoprotein And Science Pilani-Hyderabad, Lowering Agents: A Hyderabad,Telangana, Comprehensive Mechanistic 500078 Investigation Through Advanced Dynamical Simulations. 6. Chemical Inorganic and Photophysics of Acetylene Ashok Kumar Mishra, 4573890 Sciences Physical Bridged Push-Pull Systems: Indian Institute of Technology Chemistry Torsional Effects On Local, Madras, Intramolecular Charge Transfer Chennai,Tamil Nadu, And Aggregate Emissions 600036 7. Chemical Inorganic and Metal-Based Targeted Akhil Ranjan Chakravarty, 4128695 Sciences Physical Photodynamic Therapy In Red Indian Institute of Chemistry Light Science,Bangalore, Bangalore,Karnataka, 560012 8. Chemical Inorganic and Chemical Transformations of T Pradeep, 7653890 Sciences Physical Clathrate Hydrates Under Ultra- Indian Institute of Technology Chemistry High Vacuum* Madras, Chennai,Tamil Nadu, 600036 9. Chemical Inorganic and Investigation of Charge Transport Aninda Jiban Bhattacharyya, 5657695 Sciences Physical In Proteins And Organic Polymers Indian Institute of Science, Chemistry of Relevance To Electrochemical Bangalore, Processes And Systems Bangalore,Karnataka, 560012 10. Chemical Inorganic and Computational Studies On Charge Ganga Periyasamy, 3178485 Sciences Physical Transfer And Hole Migration Bangalore University, Chemistry Dynamics In Functionalized Bangalore,Karnataka, Bimetallic Nanocluster 560056 11. Chemical Inorganic and ‘Light-Emitting D8 And D10 Joydev Dinda, 2953010 Sciences Physical Transition Metal -N-Heterocyclic Utkal University, Chemistry Carbene (NHC) Complexes’ Bhubaneshwar,Orissa, 751007 12. Chemical Inorganic and Development of Flexible and Sreekumar Kurungot, 3535920 Sciences Physical Rechargeable Zinc-Air Batteries National Chemical Laboratory, Chemistry based on Bi-functional Pune,Maharashtra, Nanostructured Electrocatalysts 411008 possessing in-situ Derived Active Electrolyte Interface and Ionomer Membrane 13. Chemical Inorganic and Excited State Hydrogen Transfer Surajit Maity, 5385315 Sciences Physical in Microsolvated N-H Bearing Indian Institute of Technology Chemistry Molecules: Determination of the Hyderabad, Hydrogen Bonded Structures, Hyderabad,Telangana, Properties and Tautomerization 502205 Reaction Products 14. Chemical Inorganic and Nano-layered Transition Metal Sakthivel Ayyamperumal, 2800280 Sciences Physical Based Hydrotalcite Materials: Central University of Kerala, Chemistry Preparation, Characterization and Kasargod,Kerala, its Catalytic Applications on 671123 Hydrogenation of Bio-mass model compounds & CO2 Utilization 15. Chemical Inorganic and Rational Design And Sandhyarani N, 4148890 Sciences Physical Development Of Non-Precious National Institute of Chemistry Mixed Transition Metal Oxides Technology Calicut, For Oxygen Reduction Reaction Calicut,Kerala, 673600 16. Chemical Inorganic and Al(I)/Al(III) Lewis Pairs for the Ajay Venugopal, 2046000 Sciences Physical Activation of Inert Chemical Indian Institute of Science Chemistry Bonds Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala,6 95016 17. Chemical Inorganic and Fluorogenic detection of miRNAs Kalyan K Sadhu, 5254830 Sciences Physical and their mutant versions in Indian Institute of Technology Chemistry cancer cells via alternative base Roorkee, pairing methodology Roorkee,Uttarakhand, 247667 18. Chemical Inorganic and Designing of Mn-Based Catalysts Biswarup Pathak, 5031090 Sciences Physical for Conversion of Ethanol to Indian Institute of Technology Chemistry Butanol: A Biofuel Alternative to Indore, Gasoline Indore,Madhya Pradesh, 452011 19. Chemical Inorganic and Developing Polypyridyl Appended Sanjib Kumar Patra, 3172400 Sciences Physical Functional Polymers to Access Indian Institute of Technology Chemistry Self-healing Side-chain Kharagpur, Metallopolymers Kharagpur,West Bengal, 721302 20. Chemical Inorganic and Exploring the binding between Anbazhagan Veerappan, 2048750 Sciences Physical new cationic fatty acid amide and Sastra University, Chemistry lectin for dual targeting the Thanjavur,Tamil Nadu, membranes of ESKAPE pathogens 613401 21. Chemical Inorganic and Structural orientation effects of Deepa Khushalani, 3896725 Sciences Physical new low dimensional hybrid Tata Institute of Fundamental Chemistry perovskites on their physical Research, Mumbai, properties Mumbai,Maharashtra, 400005 22. Chemical Inorganic and Multifaceted Trifunctional Sangit Kumar, 4756400 Sciences Physical Organoseleniums and Their Dual Indian Institute of Science Chemistry Beahviour as Oxidants and Education and Research Antioxidants Bhopal, Bhopal,Madhya Pradesh, 462023 23. Chemical Inorganic and Non-linear dielectric materials R Boomi Shankar, 6438695 Sciences Physical based on cyclic and acyclic Indian Institute of Science Chemistry organo and amino-P(V) motifs for Education and Research Pune, energy harvesting and storage Pune,Maharashtra, applications 411008 24. Chemical Inorganic and Low Valent NHC-based Iron Geetharani K, 4521000 Sciences Physical Catalyst: Synthesis and Indian Institute of Science, Chemistry Applications in C-H and C-X Bangalore, Borylation Bangalore,Karnataka, 560012 25. Chemical Inorganic and Functional Materials for the C Retna Raj, 5181000 Sciences Physical Electrocatalytic Nitrogen Indian Institute of Technology Chemistry Reduction Reaction and Oxidative Kharagpur, Upgrading of Biorefinery Products Kharagpur,West Bengal, 721302 26. Chemical Inorganic and Charged copolymer conetwork Uma Chatterjee, 2343860 Sciences Physical membranes for waste water Central Salt & Marine Chemistry treatment and different Chemicals Research Institute, electrochemical separation Bhavnagar,Gujarat, application 364002 27. Chemical Inorganic and Synthesis of biocompatible silver Atanu Singha Roy, 2512400 Sciences Physical and gold nanoparticles using National Institute of Chemistry dietary polyphenols as reducing Technology Meghalaya, agents: Further investigation into Shillong,Meghalaya, their binding efficacies with the 793003 carrier proteins, biomolecular detections, anti-bacterial properties and cell cytotoxicity 28. Chemical Inorganic and Developing Self-Drug-Delivery Parthasarathi Dastidar, 1630800 Sciences Physical Systems from Coordination Indian Association For The Chemistry Complexes/Polymers Cultivation of Science, Kolkata,West Bengal, 700032 29. Chemical Inorganic and Chemical and Structural Chivukula V Sastri, 4782230 Sciences Physical Intricacies in the Formation, Indian Institute of Technology Chemistry Stability and Reactivity of Metal- Guwahati, Oxygen Adducts in Non-Heme Guwahati,Assam, Synthetic Scaffolds 781039 30. Chemical Inorganic and Designing Of Smart Molecules Anirban Misra, 3625670 Sciences Physical And Materials By Correlating North Bengal University, Chemistry Optical, Magnetic And Transport Darjiling,West Bengal, Properties Through Electronic 734430 Structure Analysis 31. Chemical Inorganic and Unravelling the Mechanism of Vivek Tiwari, 6923400 Sciences Physical Ultrafast Exciton Delocalization in Indian Institute of Science, Chemistry Organic Photovoltaic Thin Films Bangalore, through Spatially-Resolved Bangalore,Karnataka, Femtosecond Two-dimensional 560012 Electronic Spectroscopy 32. Chemical Inorganic and Investigation of nanostructured Chandramouli Subramaniam, 3282400 Sciences Physical hard-carbons as anodes for all- Indian Institute of Technology Chemistry carbon, solid-state Na-ion Bombay, capacitors with high energy Mumbai,Maharashtra, density 400076 33. Chemical Inorganic and Non-heme Metal-Peroxynitrites: Apparao Draksharapu, 4972000 Sciences Physical Synthesis and Reactivity Indian Institute of Technology Chemistry Kanpur, Kanpur,Uttar Pradesh, 208016 34. Chemical Inorganic and Mixed metal oxide electrodes for Chinmoy Ranjan, 4380995 Sciences Physical electrochemical water oxidation Indian Institute of Science, Chemistry Bangalore, Bangalore,Karnataka, 560012 35. Chemical Inorganic and Inference of long-time Jagannath Mondal, 4734720 Sciences Physical biochemical processes via Tata Institute of Fundamental Chemistry combination of short-length Research Centre For Molecular Dynamics simulation Interdisciplinary Sciences, with Markov State Model. Hyderabad,Telangana, 500075