E-Book on Solution Combustion Synthesis of Nanoceramic Materials

Prof. K. C. Patil (retired professor from IPC) and Dr. S. T. Aruna (NAL scientist and IPC Alumnus) have written an e-book with the above title. Some details may be found in the following linked documents: Part 1 and Part 2.

2025
  • Mar. 2025:
    Dr. Abhishek Sirohiwal has been appointed as the Head of the Max Planck Partner Group. His research group will work in close collaboration with the Max Planck Society in Germany to advance cutting-edge biophysics research. Congratulations, Dr. Abhishek.
    • Feb. 2025:
    Surajit Sarker and Poonam Rani from Prof. P. Thilagar's Lab have received the Best Poster Award at the ProUPS-25 International Conference held at SRM University Chennai, between 3-5th Feb 2025. Additionally, Surajit have been granted a special free waiver to publish in Nature Scientific Reports Journal.
    2024
    Dec. 2024:
    Mr. Tabish Iqbal from Dr. Debasis Das' group has been selected for the Stanford Science Fellowship by Stanford University, USA. Tabish would be the first Indian PhD student to receive this very prestigious fellowship, which would allow him to work nearly independently across disciplines at Stanford. Congratulations Tabish.
    Dec. 2024:
    Mr. Rahul Mondal from KGR's Group has won a best poster award from Dalton Transactions (Royal Society of Chemistry) at the International Conference on Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry 2024 held at IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India, from 14-17 December 2024. Congratulations, Rahul.
    Dec. 2024:
    Mr. Soham Ray Chowdhury from Dr. Ranjan's Group has won the best student talk award at the International Conference on Carbon Capture and Utilization -24, at JNCASR, Bengaluru. Soham got this award for his theoretical investigations on Ceria electrodes for CO2 reduction. Congratulations Soham!
    Dec. 2024:
    Mr. Vipin Kamboj from CR Group has won the best paper award for his work on CO2 conversion to fuels at the International Conference on Carbon Capture and Utilization -24, at JNCASR, Bengaluru. The selection process went through several rounds of presentations and selections. The award carries a cash prize of 50000 INR and a citation. Congratulations Vipin!
  • Nov. 2024:
    Dr. Abhishek Sirohiwal has joined the IPC department as an Assistant Professor. Welcome, Abhishek!
    • Sept. 2024:
    Dr. Debasis Das has received the Graeme Hanson AsBIC Early Career Researcher Award 2024. This award recognises early-career researchers in the Asia Pacific region who have demonstrated sustained research excellence in the field of biological inorganic chemistry. Congratulations.
    Sept. 2024:
    Dr. Debasis Das was conferred IISc Award for Excellence in Teaching 2024 for his contributions to promoting a deeper and more engaging learning experience for the students. Congratulations, Dr. Debasis.
    Aug. 2024:
    Mr. Nishant Dhiman from Prof. Umapathy's group has won the best poster award at the XXVIII International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy (ICORS) held in Rome between July 28 – August 2, 2024. Congratulations, Nishant.
    Aug. 2024:
    The work done by by Dr. Susanta Hazra and team on sustainable surfactant derived from agricultural waste, an alternative to the toxic organic solvents in chemical processes, has been featured in Times of India.
    Aug. 2024:
    A subgroup consisting Tabish, Subhashini, and Jayaprakash of Dr. Debasis' team has won the 2024 National Bio Entrepreneurship Competition (NBEC), a nationwide competition held every year. Well done, Team.
    Aug. 2024:
    Mr. Muhammed Munthasir of Prof. Thilagar's group has won the best poster award at the Phosphor Safari 2024, part of the 13th International Symposium for Luminescence materials, held at the National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan between July 30 and Aug 2, 2024. Congratulations.
    Aug. 2024:
    Prof. Sampath has become the Chairperson of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, IISc, from August 2024.
    Jul. 2024:
    Mr. Sufal Paul from Prof. Geetharani's group has received the Springer Book Prize at the 30th International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (ICOMC-2024) held in Agra, between July 14-18, 2024. Congratulations, Sufal.
    Jul. 2024:
    Felicitation: A special talk was delivered by Prof. S. Umapathy, titled The Last Lecture: Research progress to personal experiences on 23rd July 2024. It was followed by the felicitation function of Prof. S. Umapathy and Mr. V.B. Nanjappa. This event can be viewed on the YouTube link.
    Jun. 2024:
    Mr. Subhajit Ghosh from Prof. Thilagar's group is in receipt of RSC Best Poster award from the recently concluded conference on Fundamental and Advanced Research in Chemistry (FARC 2024), organised by IIT Mandi on June 6-8, 2024. Congratulations, Subhajit.
    Jun. 2024:
    Prof. Partha Sarathi Mukherjee has been appointed as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Aggregate-a journal, published by the Wiley. Congratulations, Prof. PSM.
    Jun. 2024: Prof. Mugesh's group has installed a multi-mode plate reader (6-384 well plates) in their laboratory, with funding support from Indegene through Ignite Life Science Foundation. The system has absorption, fluorescence and chemiluminescence capabilities. It also allows spectral scanning for the identification of optimal measurement wavelength. We thank both the organisations for the donation to Prof. Mugesh's group.
    Mar. 2024:
    Subha Biswas and Harsh Baliyan from Dr. Anoop's Group attended the conference on Emerging Trends in Photodynamics and Photochemistry (ETPP 2024) organised by IISER Mohali on 26-28th March 2024. They received a Best Poster Award from RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) and ACS (American Chemical Society). Congratulations, Subha and Harsh.
    Mar. 2024:
    Grandson of Prof. J.C. Ghosh, former Chair of IPC and Director (1939-48) of IISc, Dipankar Ghosh, was a housemate of Prof. Arunan during 1986-87 in Manhattan, Kansas, USA. An interview with Dipankar Ghosh is available with March 2024 Connect issue (page 18, He wanted to leave something behind that lasted forever).
    Mar. 2024:
    Dr. David Wu, Director of Institute of Chemistry and Dr. Ching-Ming Wei, Director of the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences at the Academia Sinica, Taiwan visited the Indian Institute of Science on 1st March 2024. Prof. Arunan organised an interaction with faculty from IPC.
    Mar. 2024:
    Prof. K.C. Patil, retired from our Department in 1997, has donated rupees five lakhs to support summer research fellowship for one student.
    Feb. 2024:
    Mr. Vipin Kamboj from Dr. Chinmoy Ranjan’s Group received a Best Poster Award at the Asian Conference on Solid State Ionics held at Chennai, from 18th-22th Feb. 2024. Congratulations, Vipin.
    Jan. 2024:
    Prof. P. S. Mukherjee has been awarded the J. C. Bose National Fellowship by SERB in December 2023. Congratulations, Partha!
    Jan. 2024:
    IPC introduces IPC Scholars Fund, which has been started with a generous donation by Prof. S. Ramakrishnan and his students, augmented by Prof. E.D. Jemmis. More details available here.
    2023
    Dec. 2023:
    Dr. Debasis Das has been selected as a member of EMBO Global Investigator Network, an inititative that encourages excellent early-stage group leaders across the world. The featured news is available here. Congratulations, Dr. Das.
    Dec. 2023:
    Connect December 2023 issue discusses (from 1908 to 2023) IPC department, which is as old as the Institute.
    Nov. 2023:
    A Conversation with Prof. Srabanti Chaudhury is made available here, who is currently with IISER-Pune, also an alumnus of IPC department.
    Oct. 2023:
    Mr. S. Selvakumar from Prof. Jagirdar's group has won an essay competition - Young Voices in the Chemical Sciences for Sustainability for the South Asia Region. The global essay competition was organised by the International Organization of Chemical Sciences in Development (IOCD) and the published issue on RSC Sustainability can be found here.
    Jul. 2023:
    Mr. Deepak Kumar of Prof. Arunan's group has got the Best Poster Presentation Award in the 34th International Symposium on Shock Waves (ISSW34) that took place in Daegu, Korea during 16-21 July 2023. Congratulations, Deepak.
    Jul. 2023:
    Ms. E. Jusaina from Prof. P. Thilagar's Group received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 17th International Meeting on Boron Chemistry (IMEBORON 17) held at Rennes, France, on July 9-13, 2023. Congratulations, Jusaina.
    Jul. 2023:
    Mr. Debasish Giri from Prof. G. Mugesh's Group has received the Best Poster Award in the 31st CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry held at NIT Rourkela during July 6-8, 2023. Congratulations, Debasish.
    Jul. 2023:
    Prof. Srihari Keshavamurthy has joined IPC as a Visiting Professor from 1st July 2023 for a year.
    Welcome, Prof. Srihari.
    May 2023:
    Prof. Arunan has become a member of the task group formed by International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) to redefine proton affinity. Chair of the committee is an alumnus of IPC, Dr. Emmanuel Etim. More information is available here. Congratulations, Prof. Arunan.
    May 2023:
    Solving a 30 year-old chemistry problem led to an international collaboration! The University of Newcastle's international collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science is featured here.
    Apr. 2023:
    Dr. R. Shwetharani and Ms. Dimple Rani from Prof. S. Sampath's Group have been individually awarded the certificate of merit for the best paper at the International Conference on Women in Electrochemistry (ICWEC-2023), organised by The Electrochemical Society of India, held at IISc, Bengaluru during April 7-8, 2023. Congratulations, Shwetharani and Dimple.
    Mar. 2023:
    IPC Day was celebrated on 25th March 2023. This is the first IPC Day held at the recently built Chemical Sciences Building, after the department started its function from the new premises. Group photo is available here.
    Feb. 2023:
    Mr. Subha Biswas from Dr. Anoop's Group was awarded the best oral presentation prize in the Chemsci - 2023: Leaders in the Field Symposium, organised by the journal Chemical Science and JNCASR in Bangalore during 23rd-25th January 2023. Congratulations, Subha.
    Feb. 2023:
    Ms. Ekta Chauhan from Prof. G. Mugesh's Group, Mr. Tabish Iqbal from Dr. Debasis Das' Group and Mr. V.A. Rinshad from Prof. P.S. Mukherjee's Group have received individual ACS Best Poster Award at the 30th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry (CRSI-NSC-30) held at JNU, India during February 2-5, 2023. Well done Ekta, Tabish and Rinshad.
    2022
    Dec. 2022:
    Prof. S. Umapathy's research work on quicker identification of bacterial pathogens using a combination of Raman spectroscopy and artificial intelligence method has appeared as a news item in the Deccan Herald (28/12/2022) under Top Karnataka Stories.
    Dec. 2022:
    Mr. Bapuji Mohapatra from Dr. Chinmoy Ranjan’s Group received a best poster award at the Asian Conference on Electrochemical Power Sources 11 (ACEPS’11) held at National University of Singapore, Singapore from 11th-14th Dec. 2022. Congratulations, Bapuji.
    Dec. 2022:
    Ms. E. Jusaina from Prof. P. Thilagar's Group received one of the best ACS oral presentation awards in the International Conference on Aggregation-Induced Emissions: Fundamentals to Applications (IC-AIE-FA 2022) held at BITS Pilani Campus, Goa on December 16-18, 2022. Congratulations, Jusaina.
    Dec. 2022:
    Ms. Suma Dilipkumar from Prof. M. Nethaji's Group has won the best poster award in the 7th Conference of Bangladesh Crystallographic Association held on December 8-9, 2022 at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka. Congratulations, Suma.
    Dec. 2022:
    Prof. E. Arunan has established a strong collaboration with the Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, IISc and the University of Rennes, France. This has been supported by the Indo-French Centre for Promotion of Advanced Scientific Research (CEFIPRA in French). CEFIPRA has released a Youtube video about the project recently. Congratulations, Prof. Arunan.
    Nov. 2022:
    Prof. P.S. Mukherjee has been elected as a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). Congratulations, Prof. Mukherjee.
    Nov. 2022:
    Mr. Shubham Sahu from Prof. G. Mugesh's Group has won a best poster award at the International Conference on Drug Discovery (ICDD-2022) that took place in BITS Pilani KK Birla Campus, Goa on Nov. 10 & 11, 2022. Congratulations, Shubham.
    Nov. 2022:
    Family of Prof. Gopal Jere, former Professor at IIT-Delhi, donated Rs. 5 Lakhs to support summer research fellowship at IPC. Prof. Jere did his Ph.D. during 1956-62 in IPC.
    Nov. 2022:
    Mr. Sekhar Biswal from Dr. Chinmoy Ranjan’s Group has won a best poster award at CACEE-2022 that took place in TIFR, Mumbai between Oct. 31 and Nov. 4, 2022.
    Nov. 2022:
    Mr. Sekhar Biswal from Dr. Chinmoy Ranjan’s Group has won the RSC Best Poster Prize at the 7th Ertl Symposium held in Gwangju, South Korea during October 25-28, 2022. Congratulations, Sekhar.
    Nov. 2022:
    Dr. Soumen Ghosh has joined IPC as an Assistant Professor.
    Welcome, Soumen.
    Oct. 2022: Mr. Mrinal Arandhara from Prof. Sai Ramesh's group has won the JPCA Best Poster Prize at the Current Trend in Theoretical Chemistry (CTTC) Conference held at BARC, Mumbai recently (September 22-24, 2022). Congratulations, Mrinal.
    Aug. 2022:
    The Department has started its function from the new premises at the Chemical Sciences Building, which is nestled among Physical and Biological Science Divisions.
    July 2022:
    Prof. Jemmis' Advance Article, published in Chemical Science, has been selected as Today's Pick in Chemical Science and also featured as Pick of the Week. Congratulations, Prof. Jemmis.
    July 2022:
    Ms. U. Aarti Upadhyay from ARC's Group has won best poster award in the 16th European Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference (EuroBIC) held in Grenoble, France during July 17-21, 2022.
    May 2022:
    Dr. Susanta Hazra joined IPC as an Assistant Professor on 27th May 2022.
    Welcome, Susanta.
    Mar 2022:
    Ms. Keerthika K. from Prof. K. Geetharani's lab has received the ACS Best Poster Prize at the 28th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry held on March 25-27, 2022 at IIT Guwahati. Congratulations, Keerthika!
    Feb 2022:
    Prof. P.S. Mukherjee has been listed as one of the top 75 scientists under 50, shaping Science in India.
    [ Book launch function video link]
    2021
    Dec 2021: Ms. Ankita Das from Prof. U. Harbola's group and Mr. Mrinal Arandhara from Prof. Sai Ramesh's group have been awarded a Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) Poster Prize each at Theoretical Chemistry Symposium (TCS 2021) held at IISER Kolkata, during Dec. 11-14, 2021. Congratulations, Ankita and Mrinal.
    Dec 2021: Ms. E. Jusaina from Prof. P. Thilagar's group has bagged a best poster award at the International Conference on Main-group Molecules to Materials-II, organised by NISER, Bhubaneswar, during Dec. 13-15, 2021. Congratulations, Jusaina.
    Sep 2021: Dr. K. Geetharani has been invited to be a member of the Editorial Board of Chemistry - An Asian Journal and will be joining the team from 2022. Congratulations.
    Sep 2021: Prof. U. Harbola has received Marie S. Curie Frias Cofund Fellowship. The FCFP is intended for current or future leaders in their fields. Congratulations.
    May 2021: Prof. E. Arunan will be giving an online lecture organised by the International Conference on Noncovalent Interactions on 5th July 2021, a part of a nine-lecture series by various researchers across three continents.
    Jan 2021: Prof. E. D. Jemmis is the recipient of the INSA Golden Jubilee Commemoration Medal for Chemical Sciences 2019.
    Jan 2021: Prof. G. Mugesh has been selected for the IIT Bombay Distinguished Alumnus Award for the current year, to be presented during the IIT Bombay Insitute Foundation Day in March. Congratulations, Mugesh!
    2020
    Dec 2020: Prof. P. Thilagar has joined the Editorial Board of Aggregate and the Editorial Advisory Board of ChemPhotoChem, both journals published by Wiley-VCH. Congratulations, Thilagar!
    Dec 2020: Prof. G. Mugesh is on the 2020 edition of Asian Scientist 100 (AS100) list. Congratulations, Mugesh!
    Dec 2020: Prof. G. Mugesh would receive the SASTRA-CNR Rao Award in Chemistry and Material Science for the year 2021. He and Prof. Ashok Ganguli (IIT Delhi) have been selected for this award. Congratulations, Mugesh!
    Dec 2020: Dr. Anoop Thomas has joined the IPC Department as an Assistant Professor. Welcome, Anoop!
    Oct 2020: IPC Faculty members Prof. Kaushal Kishore, Prof. K. C. Patil, Prof. N. Munichandraiah, Prof. G. Mugesh, Prof. E. D. Jemmis, Prof. E. Arunan, Prof. P. S. Mukherjee and Prof. S. Sampath have been listed in the top 2% of World Scientists in their field as evaluated by their c-score. The method to obtain this metric has been outlined in a recent publication. Congratulations to all!
    Aug 2020: Prof. E. D. Jemmis has been conferred the Golden Jubilee Commemoration Medal (Chemical Sciences, 2019) by the Indian National Science Academy. Congratulations, Prof. Jemmis!
    Jul 2020: Prof. K. L. Sebastian has been conferred the CRSI Gold Medal 2021. The announcement on Twitter notes that "this is the Lifetime Achievement Award given to a person of high eminence with a life-time contribution to Chemistry." Congratulations, Prof. KLS.
    Jun 2020: A recent work by IPC PhD students, Dr. Kritika Khulbe and Dr. Sourav Ghosh, both from the Mugesh's group on a nanozyme-based strategy that prevent biofilm formation on medical devices, carried out in collaboration with the group of Prof. Dipshikha Chakravortty (MCBL), has received some press coverage. Congratulations to all authors!
    May 2020: Prof. E. Arunan is a recipient of the IISc Alumni Award for Excellence in Research for Science & Engineering – 2020. Congratulations, Prof. Arunan.
    Mar 2020: Dr. Namrata Singh from the Mugesh's group is one of the winners of the 2020 IUPAC-Solvay International Award for Young Chemists, presented for the best Ph. D. theses in Chemical Sciences. Congratulations, Namrata!
    Mar 2020: RAIDER-X, a new Raman spectroscopy (UMARS) based explosive detection device has been developed by Prof. Umapathy's group and DRDO's High Energy Material Research Laboratory (HEMRL), Pune. It was launched recently at the National Workshop on Explosive Detection, Pune. Congratulations to all, specially those from IPC, who worked on the project!
    Feb 2020: Dr. K. Geetharani has been selected for the SERB Women Excellence Award. She will be shortly receiving this award from the Hon'ble President of India. Congratulations, Geetha!
    Feb 2020: Prof. P. S. Mukherjee has been elected a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences. He is among six faculty from IISc to receive the honour this year. Congratulation, Partha!
    Feb 2020: Prof. E. D. Jemmis received the Sir Devaprasad Sarvadhikari Medal at the recent Convocation ceremony of the University of Calcutta. Congratulations, Prof. Jemmis!
    Jan 2020: Prof. G. Mugesh is an member of the Editorial Board of Chemistry — A European Journal. Congratulations, Mugesh!
    2019
    Dec 2019: Prof. S. Sampath has been elected a Fellow of the The World Academy of Sciences.
    Congratulations, Sampath!
    Nov 2019: Dr. K. Geetharani would be joining the Early Career Advisory Board of Chemistry — An Asian Journal starting from 2020. Congratulations, Geetha!
    Nov 2019: Prof. G. Mugesh has received the 11th Infosys Award in Physical Sciences. The award recognises "his seminal work in the chemical synthesis of small molecules and nanomaterials for biomedical applications." Congratulations, Mugesh!
    Sep 2019: Dr. Namrata Singh from the Mugesh's group has been awarded the IIT Bombay Metrohm Young Chemist Award 2019 for Innovation in Research. The award was given for her research on uncovering the role of an antioxidant nanozyme that provides cytoprotection in Parkinson’s Disease model. Congratulations, Namrata!
    Sep 2019: Dr. K. Geetharani is a recipient of the INSA Young Scientist Award and the NASI Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award for the year 2019. Congratulations, Geetha!
    Aug 2019: Prof. E. Arunan received the National Prize for Research in Chemical Spectroscopy and Molecular Structure, awarded by the C. N. R. Rao Education Foundation, on 16th August 2019. Congratulations, Prof. Arunan.
    Jul 2019: Arijit Das from the Arunan's group has received the best poster award at the Manchester International Symposium on Highly Excited States, Many-body and Non-covalent Interactions, held between 19th and 21st June, 2019. Congratulations, Arijit!
    Jul 2019: Dr. Veerabhadrarao Kaliginedi has joined the department as an Assistant Professor. Welcome, Bhadra!
    May 2019: Md. Kausar Raza from the ARC group has been selected to receive the SBIC Student Travel Grant to attend the International Conference on Inorganic Biological Chemistry 2019 (August 11-16), which will be held in Interlaken, Switzerland. Congratulations, Kausar!
    Apr 2019: Recent work carried out in Prof. Mugesh's lab on increased uptake of proteins by cells has been featured in The Hindu. Congratulations to the Mugesh group!
    Apr 2019: A paper by Dr. Sanjoy Mukherjee and Prof. P. Thilagar has been featured in a Chemical News commentary by Derek Lowe. Kudos, Sanjoy and Thilagar!
    Feb 2019: Dr. Soumya Singha Roy has joined the IPC Department as a faculty member. Welcome, Soumya!
    Feb 2019: Dr. Geetharani is featured in the IISc website. Kudos, Geetharani!
    Feb 2019: Ms. Rinkumoni Chaliha from the Jemmis' group has received the best poster presentation award at the TCS-2019 conference held at BITS-Pilani recently (Feb. 13-16, 2019). Congratulations, Rinkumoni!
    Feb 2019: Mr. Souvik Mandal from the Geetharani's group has received the RSC poster prize at the 24th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry held at CSIR-CLRI, Chennai, recently (Feb. 8-10, 2019). Congratulations, Souvik!
    Feb 2019: Dr. Namrata Singh from the Mugesh group has received the ACS poster prize at the 24th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry held at CSIR-CLRI, Chennai, recently (Feb 8-10 Feb, 2019). Congratulations, Namrata!
    Jan 2019: Prof. E. D. Jemmis has been awarded the Year of Science Chair Professorship by SERB. Congratulations, Prof. Jemmis!
    Jan 2019: Mr. Orodepo Gabriel Ogunsola (PhD student, Ramakrishnan's group) was awarded the best poster prize at the SPSI MACRO-2018 Conference held in IISER-Pune & CSIR-NCL Pune in December 2018. Congratulations, Gabriel!
    Jan 2019: Congratulations to the Prof. Umapathy's group on the development of a spectrometer for rapid detection and identification of bacteria, called RAIDER-B. They have transferred the technology to DRDO, Bangalore.
    Jan 2019: A new edition of Elixir, IPC's own magazine, is out! Click on the cover to get the pdf. Click here to access the previous editions.
    2018
    Dec 2018: Dr. Debasis Das has joined the IPC Department as a faculty member. Welcome, Debasis!
    Dec 2018: Ms. Chirasmita Bhattacharya (PhD student, Jagirdar's group) has received the 2019 Future Research Talent Travel Award conferred by the Australian National University. Congratulations, Chirasmita!
    Dec 2018: Ms. Ritu Ghanghas (PhD student, Vasudevan's group) has selected to be part of team India for the Asia-Oceanic Ultimate and Guts Championships to be held in Shangai, China, in July 2019. Congratulations, Ritu!
    Dec 2018: Mr. Rameshnaidu Jenjeti (PhD student, Sampath's group) has received the Karnataka DST Nanoscience Fellowship award for the year 2018. The award was instituted by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of Karnataka. Congratulations, Rameshnaidu!
    Dec 2018: Mr. Amit Kumar Joshi (PhD student, Umapathy's group) and Mr. Punarbasu Roy (UG student, Mugesh's group) have together received the best poster prize at the I-DEC 2018 conference held at IISER Bhopal. Congratulations, Amit and Punarbasu!
    Nov 2018: Congratulations to Prof. Mugesh on being selected for the R. C. Mehrotra Commemoration Lecture Award by the Indian Science Congress Association. He would give the Lecture at the 106th Indian Science Congress, to be held in Jalandhar in January 2019. Congratulations, Mugesh!
    Jul 2018: Dr. K. Geetharani has been elected a Young Associate (2018-2021) by the Indian Academy of Sciences. Congratulations, Geetharani.
    Jun 2018: Md. Kausar Raza from the ARC group has recieved the GRC Carl Storm International Diversity award to attend the 2018 Metals in Medicine Gordon Research Conference (24th-29th June 2018). Congratulations, Kausar!
    Jun 2018: Prof. E. Arunan has joined the International Advisory Board for the 1st International Conference on Non-Covalent Interactions, to be held in Lisbon, Portugal (1–6 Sep 2019).
    Jan 2018: Prof. S. Sampath has been awarded the CRSI Silver Medal for the year 2018. Congratulations, Prof. Sampath.
    Jan 2018: Prof. E. D. Jemmis received the Prof. R. P. Mitra Memorial Award and delivered the Lecture on 12th January, 2018.
    Jan 2018: Prof. P. Thilagar, is now an Editorial Advisory Board Member of Organometallics, a journal published by the American Chemical Society (USA). Congratulations, Prof. Thilagar
    Jan 2018: Congratulations to Ramesh Naidu Jenjeti from Prof. S. Sampath's group. He will attend and present the work on “Electrocatalytic Studies on Layered Metal Phosphochalcogenides” in the forthcoming Gordon Conference on Electrochemistry, Ventura, California, USA in January 2018. He has been awarded the GRC Carl Storm International Diversity Award to attend the Gordon Research Conference.
    2017
    Dec 2017: Congratulations to Neena K. K. from Thilagar's research group, whose work on "Diarylboryl-phenothiazine based multifunctional molecular siblings" has been featured in this article published by ATLAS of Science
    Oct 2017: Congratulations to Gabriel O. Orodepo from Prof. S. Ramakrishnan's research group, who has been adjudged the best in poster presentation by research students (Chemistry Section) at the 24th National Conference on Liquid Crystals held at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, from October 11 - 13, 2017.
    Oct 2017: Prof. E. D. Jemmis has been elected as a member of the International Advisory Board of IMEBORON, a triennial international conference on Boron chemistry. Congratulations, Prof. Jemmis.
    Oct 2017: Congratulations to Satish Kumar R from Prof. Nethaji's lab. He won the best poster award at the 24th Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography (August 21-28, 2017, HICC, Hyderabad, India).
    Oct 2017: Congratulations to Namrata Singh from Prof. Mugesh's lab, whose work has been featured in The Hindu. She is a member of the IISc team that fabricated nanomaterials to treat Parkinson's disease.
    Sep 2017: Congratulations to Prof. Mugesh has been elected as the President of the Asian Chemical Editorial Society (ACES), an organisation of 13 major chemical societies in Asia-Pacific.
    Aug 2017: Congratulations to Mr. Prodip Howlader from PSM's lab, who has been awarded a Best Poster award in IUCr 2017, held in Hyderabad.
    Jul 2017: Dr. Santosh K. Behera from Prof. P. Thilagar's group was awarded the Chemical Science (RSC) best poster presentation prize at the 21st CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry held recently at CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad.
    Jun 2017: Prof. Mugesh was featured in the article "Research needs to be multi-disciplinary, say scientists" in the Times of India.
    Mar 2017: Prof. G. Mugesh has been awarded the National Prize for Research on Interfaces between Chemistry and Biology by the C.N.R. Rao Education Foundation and supported by the AVRA Laboratories Pvt Ltd. Congratulations, Prof. Mugesh.
    Feb 2017: Prof. G. Mugesh has been selected for the Rajib Goyal Prize in Chemical Science by the Kurukshetra University. Congratulations, Prof. Mugesh.
    2016
  • Oct 2016: Prof. E. D. Jemmis has received the Linus Pauling Lecture Award from the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam. Congratulations, Prof. Jemmis.
  • Oct 2016: Prodip Howlader from Prof. P. S. Mukherjee's group has been selected for the Bristol-Myers-Squibb Fellowship 2016. Congratulations, Prodip!
    • Sep 2016: Prof. P. S. Mukherjee has been selected for the S. S. Bhatnagar Prize in Chemistry for the year 2016. Congratulations!
    Sep 2016: Prof. G. Mugesh recently received the 2012 S. S. Bhatnagar award from the Minister for Science and Technology, Government of India. Congratulations, Mugesh!
    Jul 2016: Ramaraj Ayyappan from Prof. Balaji Jagirdar's group has been awarded a Dalton Transactions Poster Prize at the 27th International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (17th-22nd July 2016. Congratulations, Ramaraj!
    Jul 2016: Prof. P. Thilagar has been selected for the bronze medal (CRSI) of the Chemical Research Society of India.
    Jun 2016: Prof. P. S. Mukherjee is now an Editorial Advisory Board Member of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, a journal published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (U.K.)
    Jun 2016: Prof. P. S. Mukherjee is now an Associate Editor of Inorganic Chemistry, a journal published by the American Chemical Society
    Jun 2016: Prof. Mugesh is now an Editorial Board member of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, an RSC journal. Congratulations!
    May 2016: Recent research work on “white-light emissive molecular siblings” from Dr. Thilagar research group has been features in this article published by ATLAS of Science.
    May 2016: Prof. Mugesh has been elected as the Vice-President of the Asian Chemical Editorial Society (ACES), an organization of 13 major chemical societies in the Asia-Pacific region. Congratulations, Prof. Mugesh!
    Apr 2016: Prof. E. Arunan is now an Editor for the Journal of Molecular Structure. Congratulations!
    Mar 2016: Recent cancer-related research by the group of Prof. A. R. Chakravarty on photodynamic therapy using Fe-based compounds has been features in this article published by The Hindu.
    Mar 2016: Congratulations to Mr. Nandha Kishore M, Glass Blower of IPC, IISc. His demonstration of glass-blowing on the Open Day got featured in this article in the New Indian Express.
    Jan 2016: Prof. E. D. Jemmis received the P. C. Ray Memorial Award 2015-2016 at The Indian Science Congress. Congratulations, Prof. Jemmis!
    Jan 2016: Prof. E. D. Jemmis received the 2016 Fukui Medal, an award given by the Asia-Pacific Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (APATCC).
    2015
    Dec 2015: Emmanuel Etim, a PhD scholar in the Arunan group, has won the best poster prize at the Challenges in Organic Materials and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISACS18) meeting in November 2015 in IISc, Bangalore. Congratulations, Emmanuel!
    Dec 2015: Prof. G. Mugesh has been awarded the J. C. Bose National Fellowship 2015 by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. Congratulations, Prof. Mugesh.
    Nov 2015: Prof. E. D. Jemmis has been invited to join the International Advisory Board of ChemPlusChem, a journal published by ChemPubSoc Europe and Wiley-VCH. Congratulations, Prof. Jemmis!
    Oct 2015: Prof. E. Arunan has been elected as Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of India. Congratulations, Prof. Arunan!
    Sep 2015: Prof. P. S. Mukherjee has been invited to join the Editorial Advisory Board of Inorganic Chemistry, a journal published by the American Chemical Society. Congratulations, Prof. Mukherjee!
    Aug 2015: Ms. Koushambi Mitra has been awarded the Bristol-Myers-Squibb Fellowship for the academic year 2015-2016. She is a PhD student of the IPC Dept. working with Prof. A.R. Chakravarty. Congratulations, Koushambi!
    Aug 2015: Prof. S. Umapathy is now the Chairman of the IPC Department.
    Aug 2015: Prof. P. S. Mukherjee has been selected for the bronze medal of the Chemical Research Society of India.
    Apr 2015: Prof. E. D. Jemmis has received the Goyal Prize, 2012-13 for Chemical Sciences at Kurukshetra University.
    Apr 2015: Prof. S. Vasudevan has received the IISc Alumni Award for Excellence in Science (2014).
    Apr 2015: Prof. G. Mugesh has featured in the list of Top 10 famous Indian Science Personalities of 2014 published by Scientific India.
    2014
    Nov 2014: Prof. E. D. Jemmis was awarded the Swadeshi Sasthra Puraskaram 2014 of the Swadeshi Science Movement, the Kerala wing of Vignana Bharati, on 6th November 2014 at the Swadeshi Science Congress held at Malayalam University Campus, Malappuram, Kerala.
    Nov 2014: Prof. S. Sampath has been elected a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy.
    Nov 2014: Prof. G. Mugesh has joined the Editorial Board of the Bioorganic Chemistry, an Elsevier journal.
    Oct 2014: Prof. E. Arunan has joined the Editorial Board of the Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, an Elsevier journal.
    Sep 2014: Prof. S. Vasudevan has joined the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Physical Chemistry A, an ACS journal.
    Jul 2014: Prof. B. R. Jagirdar has been selected for the Professor C. N. R. Rao National Prize for Chemical Research for the year 2015 by the Chemical Research Society of India.
    Jun 2014: Profs. G. Mugesh and P. S. Mukherjee have joined the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports, a journal of the Nature Publishing Group.
    Jun 2014: Prof. A. R. Chakravarty has received the IISc Alumni Award for Excellence in Research (2013).
    May 2014: Prof. B. R. Jagirdar was awarded the A.V. Rama Rao Foundation Prize at JNCASR, Bangalore.
    Feb 2014: Prof. E. Arunan has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK.
    26th Jan. 2014: Prof. E. D. Jemmis awarded the Padma Shri in Science and Engineering.
    Jan 2014: Prof. H. Manohar, a former Professor of the IPC Dept., was honoured as a Senior Guru by the IISc Alumni Association. He was the first crystallographer to join a chemistry dept. in India.
    Jan 2014:Prof. E. D. Jemmis is invited to be a member of the International Advisory Board of Chemistry: An Asian Journal.
    2013
    Dec 2013: Prof. S. Umapathy takes charge as one of the Editors for the journal Spectrochimica Acta A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy.
    Dec 2013: Prof. B. R. Jagirdar has been awarded the R. D. Desai 80th birthday Commemoration Award for 2013 by the Indian Chemical Society.
    Nov 2013: Prof. Puspendu K. Das takes over from Prof. Ashok G. Samuelson as the new chairman of the IPC department.
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    Prof. B. R. Jagirdar has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences
    Oct. 2012 : Prof. S. Ramakrishnan joins as ChemComm Associate Editor
    Prof. P. S. Mukherjee has been awarded Swarnajayanti Fellowship of DST, Govt. of India
    Prof. G. Mugesh has been elected as Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India.
    Prof. G. Mugesh receives Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize-2012.
    Prof. Partha Sarathi Mukherjee has been selected for NASI-SCOPUS young scientist award in Chemistry.
    Prof. G. Mugesh has been elected as Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
    Prof. G. Mugesh receives AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award 2011