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Research Areas

  • Porous Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs)
  • Proton Conducting Materials
  • Functional Porous Materials
  • Gas Sorption & Gas Separation
  • Porous H-Bonded Organic Frameworks -HOFs
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Our research interest includes POROUS metal organic frameworks (MOFs), POROUS covalent organic frameworks (COFs) and POROUS H-Bonded Organic Frameworks (HOFs) for their potential applications in gas storage (energy storage) such as CH4, H2 and CO2 capture and storage (CCS), gas separations including hydrocarbon separation, sensing materials, heterogeneous catalysis, enantioselective separation, small achiral molecules separation, electrochemical energy storage and proton conducting membranes for fuel cell application.
  • A robust N-rich porous organic framework for CO2 capture and separation by Das, M. C.; Lin, J.-B.; Zhou, W.; Yildirim, T.; Shimizu, G. K. H. Preprints - American Chemical Society, Division of Energy & Fuels. - (2013)
  • Interplay of Metalloligand and Organic Ligand to Tune Micropores within Isostructural Mixed Metal Organic Frameworks (MMOFs) for Their Highly Selective Separation of Chiral and Achiral Small Molecules by Das M. C., Guo Q. , He Y. , Kim J. , Zhao C. G., Hong K. , Xiang S. , Zhang Z. , Thomas K. M., Krishna R. , Chen B. Journal of the American Chemical Society 134 8703-8710 (2012)
  • A Zn4O-containing Doubly Interpenetrated Porous Metal Organic Framework for Photocatalytic Decomposition of Methyl Orange by Das M. C., Xu H. , Wang Z. , Srinivas G. , Zhou W. , Yue Y. F., Nesterov V. N., Qian G. , Chen B. Chem. Commun. 47 11715-11717 (2011)
  • A Porous Coordination Polymer Exhibiting Reversible Single-Crystal to Single-Crystal Substitution Reactions at Mn(II) Centers by Nitrile Guest Molecules by Das M. C., Bharadwaj P. K. Journal of the American Chemical Society 131 10942-10949 (2009)

Principal Investigator

  • Design and Development of Porous MOFs and Their Composites with Organic Polymers as Solid-State Proton Conductors in H2 Fuel Cell, Corrosion Protection, and Water Treatment
  • Non-porous Coordination Polymers (CPs) and Porous Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Networks as Solid State Proton Conductors Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Extramural Research Division

Ph. D. Students

Akash Kumbhakar

Area of Research: Inorganic Chemistry, Metal-Organic Frameworks

Apu Saha

Area of Research: Inorganic Chemistry

Bikram Pramanik

Area of Research: Inorganic Chemistry, Metal-Organic Frameworks

Janaki Behera

Area of Research: Inorganic Chemistry

Rittik Das

Area of Research: Inorganic Chemistry, Metal-Organic Frameworks

Snehendu Das

Area of Research: Inorganic Chemistry