My research thrust areas covers the current national strategies for moving towards new technology development for success of “
green and sustainable future”. My research encompasses new material synthesis for nanotechnology driven energy, catalytic, corrosion protection, improvement of interfacial strength between dissimilar materials (for example, metal-polymer bonding), light-weight composite materials, hybrid material fabrication by twin polymerization and water treatment aspects. Major research domains are:
- Polymer science, polymer chemistry, polymer engineering and rheology.
- Fabrication of wide variety of porous carbon with different nano-architectures.
- Exploring Inverse vulcanization method to obtain sulfur based copolymers with redox active functional crosslinkers.
- Elastomer based flexible-stretchable solid polymer electrolytes.
- Hybrid nanomaterials by twin polymerization
- Modification of interfaces by self-assembly approaches and chemical / physical modifications
- Water treatment
- In-situ spectroscopic investigation by x-ray spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy.
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Nanoporous Cathodes for High-energy Li-S Batteries from Gyroid Block Copolymer Templates Choudhury S., Agrawal M. , Formanek P. , Jehnichen D. , Fischer D. , Krause B. , Albrecht V. , Stamm M. , Ionov L. By ACS Nano 9 6147- (2015)
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Hierarchical Porous Carbon Cathode for Lithium Sulfur Batteries Using Carbon Derived from Hybrid Materials Synthesized by Twin Polymerization Choudhury S., Ebert T. , Windberg T. , Seifert A. , Goebel M. , Simon F. , Formanek P. , Stamm M. , Spange S. , Ionov L. By Particle & Particle Systems Characterization 35 1800364- (2018)
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Microporous Novolac-derived Carbon Beads / sulfur Hybrid Cathode for Lithium-sulfur Batteries Choudhury S., Krüner B. , Massuti-ballester P. , Tolosa A. , Prehal C. , Grobelsek I. , Paris O. , Borchardt L. , Presser V. By Journal of Power Sources 357 198- (2017)
Principal Investigator
- Binary Composite Solid Polymer Electrolyte for Li-S Battery Chemistries
- Development and Understanding of Solid State Li-S Batteries Combining Polarity Matched Flexible Sulfur Network Cathode and Polymerized Ionic Liquid as Solid Polymer Electrolyte
- Development of Flexible Cathodes for Li/S Batteries Via Catalytic Inverse Vulcanization
Co-Principal Investigator
- Design and Application of Mechanophoric Smart Polymers Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)
Ph. D. Students
Aby Alex
Area of Research: Analysis and evaluation of properties on nano-structured polymer and its composites
Aliha Naqvi
Area of Research:
Arnab Sarkar
Area of Research: Polymer nanomaterials
Arup Ghorai
Area of Research: Polymeric materials
Mrinmoy Debnath
Area of Research: Polymeric materials
Praveen Balaji T
Area of Research: Polymer Nanocomposites
Shubham Verma
Area of Research: New polymers; design, properties and applications
Simran Shaw
Area of Research: Nanostructured materials
Swadhin Chakraborty
Area of Research: Synthesis of new functional polymers and its applications
