Research Highlights & News

Dr. A. Pandikumar, Senior Scientist, Eletro Organic and Materials Electrochemistry Division has been bestowed with the "Young Scientist Award-2023" in Chemical Sciences" of The Academy of Sciences, Chennai.

24 July 2024

Congratulations to Ms. Anjeli Sunny for the first publication in Journal of Alloys and Compounds on MXenes from our Group !!!!!!!

Anjeli Sunny, S. Rajalekshmi, A. Pandikumar*

Nanocomposite engineering: Tailoring MXene/Cobalt oxide for efficient electrocatalytic hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions

Journal of Alloys and Compounds 1003, 2024, 175532.

30-July-2024

Congratulations to Ms. Rajalekshmi for the first publication Chemical Engineering Journal (Impact factor 13.3). !!!!!!!

Our latest research effectively shines a light on the proof-of-concept for developing a membrane-free strategy for decoupling alkaline water electrolysis, which could lead to the economical production of green hydrogen. The expense of the membranes and the noble metal-based electrocatalysts remains a significant disadvantage for industries that primarily rely on PEM-based electrolyzers for the production of hydrogen. Here, we have developed non-precious transition metal-based hydroxides as a bifunctional electrocatalyst and solid-state redox mediator to decouple the entire alkaline water-splitting process into two independent steps for the generation of oxygen and hydrogen. This is currently the first and one and only report on membrane-free electrolyzer for decoupled water electrolysis from India.

This work is entitled as "Exploring transition metal hydroxides performance in membrane-free electrolyzer based decoupled water splitting for step-wise production of hydrogen and oxygen" has been published in Chemical Engineering Journal (Impact factor 13.3).

05 August 2024

Welcome to our research group!!!!!!

Mr. Subham Kumar Subudhi has joined as DST-Inspire-JRF and AcSIR Ph.D. scholar in my reaearch group.

19 August 2024

Welcome to our research group!!!!!!

Dr. Sornambigai, Mr. Kavi Arasan and Ms. K. rithanya has joined as project staffs in my reaearch group.

08-September-2024

Congratulations to Ms. Ardra S Darsan for the publication ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (Impact factor 8.3). !!!!!!!

This work is entitled as "From One-Pot to Powerhouse: Al–Fe2O3 Thin Films Coupled with Hexagonal ZnFe LDH for Water Oxidation in Alkaline Environment" has been published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (Impact factor 8.3).

13-September-2024

Congratulations to Ms. Dr. Soundarya Mary for the publication Chemical Engineering Journal (Impact factor 13.3). !!!!!!!

This work is entitled as "Assessing the stability of binary copper oxide photocathodes and augmenting CuO water reduction performance: Comprehensive experimental and theoretical study" has been published in Chemical Engineering Journal (Impact factor 13.3).

20-September-2024

The work entitled “From One-Pot to Powerhouse: Aluminium Doped Hematite Thin Films Heterostructured with Hexagonal ZnFe LDH for Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation in Alkaline Environment” has been bagged the third prize in poster competition with cash prize of Rs. 20,000/- (Twenty Thousand Rupees) in “2nd edition of the International Conference on Green Hydrogen (ICGH) – 2024", at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi during September 11th to 13th, 2024 jointly organized by the “Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Department of Science & Technology, and Office of Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India (GoI)”.

Congratulations to Ms. Ardra S Darsan

20-September-2024

Dr. A. Pandikumar happy to share that I am in the top 2% of scientists list in the world database released by Stanford University, US 2024 (based on Scopus citation records). Moreover He have been recognized as the World’s Top 2% Scientists in the Single-Year Category and also in the Career Achievement Category and He is continuously achieving this record for last five years (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024).

November 4, 2024

The Ph.D. thesis entitled on “Rational design and fabrication of bismuth based photoanodes for photoelectrocatalytic water splitting” submitted by Dr. C. Murugan, Former AcSIR Research Scholar (Enrolment No.10CC18J05007) has been selected for AcSIR Best Thesis Award-2023 under Chemical Sciences Category

Congratulations to Dr. C. Murugan

10 November 2024

Ms. Rajalekshmi S, DST Inspire JRF & AcSIR Scholar (10CC22A05004) n has been nominated by the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India to apply for participation in the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting at Lindau, Germany, dedicated to Chemistry from 29 June to 4 July 2025, for her contributions in the development of membrane-free electrolyzer for green hydrogen production.

Congratulations to Ms. Rajalekshmi

07 February 2025

A new work entitled on "Harnessing Bimetallic Spinel Cobaltite with Hematite for Electrocatalytic Overall Water Splitting: A Comprehensive Experimental & Theoretical Study" has been published in the Journal of Colloid And Interface Science (Impact Factor 9.4)

Congratulations to Ms. Ardra S Darsan

07 February 2025

Last year our article “Investigation of Mn incorporation into NiOOH electrocatalyst loaded on BiVO4 photoanode for enhanced photoelectrochemical water splitting: Experimental and theoretical approach - ScienceDirect”, was one of the top cited articles in 2024 (per Scopus) for Materials Today Energy.

Congratulations to the team.