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Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur - 721302, West Bengal, India
Research in the Organic Materials & Energy Devices Laboratory (OMED lab) includes supramolecular and macromolecular chemistry to generate novel organic materials that can find potential applications in the emerging fields of energy, catalysis, electronic devices etc. In a combination, we will utilize the potential of (i) synthetic organic chemistry to generate new materials, (ii) self-assembly principles to process these materials and (iii) electronic device fabrication techniques to achieve high-end device applications. Efforts will be devoted towards developing new building blocks (n-type or p-type) for the synthesis of novel small molecules and high performance conjugated polymers. Several strategies will be adopted in order to tune the properties of the materials such as the incorporation of chirality, donor-acceptor conjugation, side-chain variation etc. A major part of the active research will involve the synthesis of polymer networks either conjugated or non-conjugated for the applications in renewable energy such as gas storage, dye absorption, catalyst loading and water splitting.
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Multifunctional Cationic Polyelectrolytes
Client : ISIRD, IIT Kharagpur
Consultant : Dr. Suman Kalyan Samanta
Co-Consultant(s) :
Synthesis of Small Molecular and Polymeric Semiconductors
Client : SERB, DST
Consultant : Dr. Suman Kalyan Samanta
Co-Consultant(s) :
Conjugated Polymers for Organic Solar Cells
Client : CSIR
Consultant : Dr. Suman Kalyan Samanta
Co-Consultant(s) :
1) Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (Germany) on March 2013
2) Best Thesis Award (The Guha Research Medal) from IISc, Bangalore for the academic year 2011-12
3) Amulya Kumar Saha best prize for securing highest marks in M.Sc (2006)
4) Gold Medal in M.Sc. for secured highest mark (University of Calcutta, 2006)
Organic Chemistry II (CY21006)
Organic Chemistry I (CY20103)
Biochemical Techniques Lab. (CY49006)
Chemistry Lab. 1st Year (CY19001)
Organic Chemistry Laboratory II (CY39003)
Nanogels, methods and device thereof in pest management(2015) Accept in India
Research in the OMED lab includes supramolecular and macromolecular chemistry to generate novel organic materials that can find potential applications in the emerging fields of energy, catalysis, electronic devices etc. A flow chart (above) represents the broad research topics of the OMED lab. In a combination, we will utilize the potential of (i) synthetic organic chemistry to generate new materials, (ii) self-assembly principles to process these materials and (iii) electronic device fabrication techniques to achieve high-end device applications. Efforts will be devoted towards developing new building blocks (n-type or p-type) for the synthesis of novel small molecules and high performance conjugated polymers. Several strategies will be adopted in order to tune the properties of the materials such as the incorporation of chirality, donor-acceptor conjugation, side-chain variation etc. A major part of the active research will involve the synthesis of polymer networks either conjugated or non-conjugated for the applications in renewable energy such as gas storage, dye absorption, catalyst loading and water splitting.
Supramolecular chemistry of chromophoric conjugated small molecules is interesting for the development of functional nanomaterials with tunable optoelectronic properties. Macroscopic expression of the microscopic self-assembly in terms of morphology, chirality, optical and electronic aspects can enable such advanced materials for high-end applications. An example on this demonstrate aggregation-induced emission switching and white-light emission from a single component-
Chem. Eur. J., 2012, 18, 16632–16641; J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 25277-25287
Research in this direction aims to utilize either existing small molecular p-type or n-type building blocks or developing new building blocks to synthesize functional conjugated polymers for optoelectronic devices. Achieving low bandgap, high charge carrier mobility, visible and NIR absorption etc. to fabricate high-performance optoelectronic devices are the goal. For example, the strategy may involve the conjugation of individually high performing components-
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2018, 10, 32444–32453
Synthesis of cationic polyelectrolytes from either main-chain non-conjugated backbone or fully conjugated side-chain architecture will be of interest. Presence of the cationic charges makes these polymers hydrophilic in nature because of which many new properties emerge. Applications of these materials for solar cells and inter-layers for optoelectronic devices are of high contemporary significance. For example, cationic main-chain polyelectrolytes can be synthesized from tri-p-phenylenevinylene backbone-
Macromol. Chem. Phys., 2017, 217, 1600374
This is a highly interesting and emerging research area where new conjugated polymer networks can be synthesized for their use in gas storage, dye-absorption, and related applications. The challenge in this area is to develop highly efficient polymerization protocols in order to produce a rigid polymer network. The inclusion of optoelectronic functions would invite many advanced applications. For example, such materials can be synthesized efficiently by cyclotrimerization protocol-
Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 9046-9049
In this research area, synthesis of new polymer networks with either conjugated or non-conjugated, rigid or flexible building blocks can be realized. Using the polymer network as the catalyst or a catalyst incorporated within the network can be employed for testing model organic reactions. (Coming up soon)