ANNUAL REPORT | 2017 PRADEEP RESEARCH GROUP, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS This annual report is available here. Annual reports of 2014, 2015 and 2016 are also available (click the respective year). Annual report - 2017 | Pradeep Research Group PRG OUR TEAM Our Thalappil Pradeep FNA, FASc., FNASc., FNAE, FRSC Institute Professor Deepak Parekh Institute Chair Professor and Professor of Chemistry Struggle Is Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai 600 036 INDIA To Be 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 Today and Ph.D. Students Everyday ! Abhijit Nag Amrita Chakraborty Mohd Azhardin Ganayee Arijit Jana Pallab Basuri Avijit Baidya* Papri Chakraborty Biswajit Mondal Paulami Bose Debasmita Ghosh Sandeep Bose Esma Khatun Shridevi Bhat Jyoti Sarita Mohanty* Sritama Mukherjee* Jyotirmoy Ghosh Sudhakar Chennu S. Jenifer* A. Suganya* M. P. Kannan* K. S. Sugi Dr. Krishnan Swaminathan MD Srikrishnarka Pillalamarri* FRCP (Edin)* J. R. Swathy* Madhuri Jash Tanvi Gupte* C. K. Manju Tripti Ahuja Md Bodiuzzaman S. Vidhya* Md Rabiul Islam Vishal Kumar* * Joint students 1 Annual report - 2017 | Pradeep Research Group PRG Postdoctoral/Research Project Associates Project Consultant Associates A. Anil Kumar Hemanta R. Naik Ramesh Kumar Dr. Soujit Sengupta Industrial Consultant Dr. N. Rahul Ananthu Mahendranath Dr. Depanjan Sarkar Ankit Nagar Dr. Kamalesh Chaudhari Dr. Sourav Kanti Jana Karthigai Meena $ Dr. P. Ganesan Programme Dr. G. Velmurugan$ Administrative Officer Dr. Gopi Ragupathy Implementation Officer K. Priya Ragul T Kasiyapa Dr. T. K. Rahul Dr. Wakeel Ahmed Dar% Project Technicians $Institute postdoctoral fellow M.Sc. Students %National postdoctoral fellow E. Sundarraj Vasantha Raj Barshan Biswas Sandip Mondal Glimpses of 2017..……………. 3 Awards & Honors …………....... 4 Publications…………………..... 4 Summer & Winter Lectures Delivered……………... 7 Student(s)/Fellow(s) Student Activities……………..... 9 Mohammad Nazeef Nayanika Bandyopadhyay Patents/Technology/Grants….. 11 Sathvik Ajay M. Nafeesa Shabnam Services…………………………14 T. Ashitha Betsy Rachel Jacob A new Initiative – ICCW ...……14 Annapoorani Hariharan Meeha Mariam Joe Incubation ……………………15 E. Amoluck Recognition………………........ 16 A. K. Amala Anagha Yatheendran Graduation………...………….. 17 Haritha Ramireddy N. Kishore Media Reports……………...…. 19 Era Modi Publication Analysis…...……… 20 Abstracts of Publications……… 21 Acknowledgement…………..... 34 2 Annual report - 2017 | Pradeep Research Group PRG Glimpses of 2017 Professor Pradeep delivered an Institute colloquium on October 13,2017. It was a motivational lecture titled , "From Molecular Acorns to Institutional Oaks" International conference on Emerging Frontiers in Chemical Science EFCS – 2017, was conducted at Farook College, Kozhikode, Kerala, India. ACS editors_ Professors So-Jung Park, Paul Weiss, Deeksha Gupta, Krishna N. Ganesh, Prashant Kamat and T. Pradeep with Vasudevan Biju, editor Elsevier & Springer-Nature at Banglore Nano 2017 Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Award under “More from Less for Many” category, Rastrapati Bhavan, India. March 2017. 1 Lakh INR project Support from BIRAC SRISTI. Ramesh Kumar Soni, Anupam Chandra and Prof. Pradeep receiving the award from Dr. R. A. Mashelkar 3 Annual report - 2017 | Pradeep Research Group PRG Awards and Honors A. Prof. T. Pradeep was awarded the Deepak Parekh Institute Professorship on April 12, 2017. B. Prof. T. Pradeep, is the winner of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) prize in chemistry for the year 2018, “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”. Prof. Pradeep and colleagues with Mr. Deepak Parekh (second from left) Publications JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS 1. Rapid reaction of MoS2 nanosheets with Pb2+ and Pb4+ ions in solution, Biswajit Mondal, Ananthu Mahendranath, Anirban Som, Sandeep Bose, Tripti Ahuja, Avula Anil Kumar, Jyotirmoy Ghosh and Thalappil Pradeep, Nanoscale (2017). (Just Accepted) 2. Propane and propane-water interactions: A study at cryogenic temperatures, Jyotirmoy Ghosh, Annapoorani Kobuvayur Hariharan, Radha Gobinda Bhuin, Rabin Rajan Joseph Methikkalam and Thalappil Pradeep, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (2017). (Just Accepted) 3. Early detection of biofouling on water purification membranes by ambient ionization mass spectrometry imaging, Swathy Jakka Ravindran, Ramesh Kumar, Amitava Srimany, Ligy Philip, T. Pradeep, Anal. Chem. (2017) (DOI:10.1021/acs.analchem.7b04236). (Article ASAP) 4. An aqueous composition for lubricant free, robust, slippery, transparent coatings on diverse substrates, Avijit Baidya, Sarit Kumar Das, T. Pradeep, Global Challenges (2017). (Just Accepted). 5. Reactivity of monolayer protected silver clusters towards excess ligand: A calorimetric study, Ananya Baksi, Megalamane Bootharaju, Pratap Chhotaray, Papri Chakraborty, Biswajit Mondal, Shridevi Bhat, Ramesh Gardas, T. Pradeep, J. Phys. Chem. C., 121 (2017) 26483–26492 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b07557) . 6. Organic solvent-free fabrication of durable and multifunctional superhydrophobic paper from waterborne fluorinated cellulose nanofiber building blocks, Avijit Baidya, Mohd Azhardin Ganayee, 4 Annual report - 2017 | Pradeep Research Group PRG Swathy Jakka Ravindran, Kam (Michael) Tam, Sarit Das, Robin Ras, T. Pradeep, ACS Nano , 11 (2017) 11091−11099 (DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b05170). 7. Sequential dihydrogen desorption from hydride protected atomically precise silver clusters and the formation of naked clusters in the gas phase, Atanu Ghosh, Mohammad Bodiuzzaman, Abhijit Nag, Madhuri Jash, Ananya Baksi, T. Pradeep, ACS Nano, 11 (2017) 11145–11151 (DOI:10.1021/acsnano.7b05406). 8. Dual probe sensors using atomically precise noble metal clusters, Vidhya Subramanian, Sanjoy Jena, Debasmita Ghosh, Madhuri Jash, Ananya Baksi, Debdutta Ray, T. Pradeep, ACS Omega , 2 (2017) 7576−7583 (DOI:10.1021/acsomega.7b01219). 9. Catalytic paper spray ionization mass spectrometry with metal nanotubes and the detection of 2, 4, 6- trinitrotoluene (TNT), Depanjan Sarkar, Anirban Som, T. Pradeep, Anal. Chem., 89 (2017) 11378−11382 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b02288). 10. Probing coordination complexes by carbon nanotube-assisted low voltage paper spray ionization mass spectrometry, Rahul Narayanan, T. Pradeep, Anal. Chem., 89 (2017) 10696−10701 (DOI:10.1021/acs.analchem.7b01129). 11. Structure-reactivity correlations in metal atom substitutions of monolayer protected noble metal alloy clusters, K. R. Krishnadas, Debasmita Ghosh, Atanu Ghosh, Ganapati Natarajan, T. Pradeep, J. Phys. Chem. C. , 121 (2017) 23224−23232 (DOI:10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b07605). 12. Unusual accumulation of silver in the aleurone layer of an Indian rice (Oryza sativa) landrace and sustainable extraction of the metal, Soujit Sen Gupta, Ananya Baksi, Priyabrata Roy, Debal Deb, T. Pradeep, ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng., 5 (2017) 8310−8315 (DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng. 7b02058). 13. Interparticle reactions: An emerging direction in nanomaterials chemistry, K. R. Krishnadas, Ananya Bakshi, Atanu Ghosh, Ganapati Natarajan, Anirban Som, T. Pradeep, Acc. Chem. Res., 50 (2017) 1988−1996 (DOI:10.1021/acs.accounts. 7b00224). 14. Au22Ir3(PET)18 : An unusual alloy cluster through inter-cluster reaction, Shridevi Bhat, Ananya Baksi, Sathish Mudedla, Ganapati Natarajan, Venkatesan Subramanian, T. Pradeep, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 8 (2017) 2787-2793 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett. 7b01052). 15. Isomerism in monolayer protected silver cluster ions: An ion mobility-mass spectrometry approach, Ananya Baksi, Atanu Ghosh, Sathish Mudedla, Papri Chakraborty, Shridevi Bhat, Biswajit Mondal, K. R. Krishnadas, Venkatesan Subramanian, T. Pradeep, J. Phys. Chem. C, 121 (2017) 13421-13427 (DOI:10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b04559). 16. Gold-induced unfolding of lysozyme: Towards the formation of luminescent clusters, Debasmita Ghosh, Ananya Baksi, Sathish Mudedla, Abhijit Nag, Mohd Azhardin Ganayee, Venkatesan 5 Annual report - 2017 | Pradeep Research Group PRG Subramanian, T. Pradeep, J. Phys. Chem. C, 121 (2017) 13335-13344 (DOI: 10.1021/acs. jpcc.7b02436). 17. Manifestation of geometric and electronic shell structures of metal clusters in intercluster reactions, K. R. Krishnadas, Ananya Baksi, Atanu Ghosh, Ganapati Natarajan and T. Pradeep, ACS Nano, 11 (2017) 6015-6023 (DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b01912). 18. [Ag59(2,5-DCBT)32]3–: A new cluster and a precursor for three well-known clusters, Esma Khatun, Atanu Ghosh, Debasmita Ghosh, Papri Chakraborty, Abhijit Nag, Biswajit Mondal, Sudhakar Chennu and T. Pradeep, Nanoscale, 9 (2017) 8240-8248 (DOI: 10.1039/C7NR01670K). 19. Atomically precise clusters of noble metals: Emerging link between atoms and nanoparticles, Indranath Chakraborty and T. Pradeep, Chem. Rev., 117 (2017) 8208-8271 (DOI:10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00769). 20. Synergistic effects in green extraction of noble metals and its consequences, Abhijit Nag, Ananya Baksi, K. C. Krishnapriya, Soujit Sen Gupta, Biswajit Mondal, Papri Chakraborty and T. Pradeep, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2017 (2017) 3072-3079 (DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201700182). 21. Atomically precise transformations and millimeter scale patterning of nanoscale assemblies by ambient electrospray deposition, Anirban Som, Depanjan Sarkar, Sisira Kanhirathingal and T. Pradeep, Part. Part. Syst. Charact.,