Faculty members at IIT Madras carry out research in their areas of interests, often in collaboration with research scholars, doctoral scholars and other researchers. The Institute has ongoing research collaborations with several universities, governments and industries. The research expertise available at the Institute is organized below by department.
Major Areas of Research
- Organic Synthesis
- Bio-Organic Chemistry
- Bio-Inorganic Chemistry
- Supramolecular Chemistry
- Polymer Chemistry
- Physical Organic Chemistry
- Solid State Chemistry
- Nano Chemistry & Nano Technology
- NMR Spectroscopy
- Photochemistry & Photophysics
- Theoretical Chemistry
- Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics
- Organometallic Chemistry
- Electrochemistry
- Atmospheric & Combustion Chemistry
- Surface Chemistry & Catalysis
- Molecular Materials
- Computational Chemistry
- Optical Spectroscopy
- Colloids & Interfaces
- Ionic Liquids
Research Topics by Faculty Member
- Amrendra Vijay
- Classical and Quantum Optics: Vector Field Equations (Maxwell) and Quantum Electrodynamics, with applications in near–field optics, nano–optics, photonics, meta–materials and other optical devices,Quantum Magnetism, Quantum Many–Body/Field Theory, Quantum Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Phase Transitions: The 4–spinor Dirac equation and its semi–relativistic limit in the presence of external electromagnetic fields, with applications in metal–insulator transitions and magnetic phase transitions involving complex materials,Non–equilibrium Statistical Mechanics: Quantum Scattering, Boltzmann Transport Theory and Continuous Phase Transitions, with applications on ion transport (drift and diffusion) in complex biological systems.
- Anbarasan P
- Transannulation to N-heterocycles,Fluorination and Trifluoromethylation,Activation and functionalization of strong bonds,Development of new Brønsted acids,Synthesis of natural products,Conversion of sugar and carbon dioxide to valuable chemicals
- Archita Pattnaik
- Broad Area: Physical Chemistry,Colloids and Interfaces, 2D Phases and Molecular Order in Anisotropic Monolayers, Real-time FT- IRRAS Spectroscopy and Quatification of Molecular Order,
Tailored Molecular Self-assembly in Functional Amphiphiles, Aggregate Structure and Dynamics,Donor - Bridge - Acceptor Dyads, Organic - Inorganic Hybrid Nanostructures, Layer-by-Layer Assembly and Potential Electrode Fabrication, Electron Transport in Oriented Assemblies,Electronic Structure Calculation ( DFT and TD - DFT), Unconstrained Molecular Dynamics on Optimized Geometries
- Arnab Rit
- Organometallic Chemistry,Inorganic Chemistry,Homogenous Catalysis,Main group chemistry,Small molecule activation,
- Arti Dua
- Statistical Mechanics of Complex Fluids, Stochastic Reaction Dynamics, Single-Molecule Kinetics, Polymer Physics
- Baskaran S
- Development of new strategies in Organic Synthesis, Enantioselective Synthesis, Synthesis of Biologically active Molecules/ Natural Products, Drug Design of Pharmaceutical Importance.
- Byrappa P
- Bioinorganic and Supramolecular Chemistry,Materials Chemistry of Porphyrinoids
- Dhamodharan R
- Polymer Chemistry:Super Absorbing Polymers and Hydrogels: Preparation, Characterization, Properties, Rheology and Applications, Nanocellulose and Nanochitin: Isolation from Natural Resources, Characterization, Properties and Applications. Moulding/Processing of Bioplastics, Mechanochemistry: Reaction of Amine, Anhydride and other Functional Groups in the Solid State through the Application of Mechanical Force and Mechanistic Investigation.
- Dillip Kumar Chand
- Homogeneous catalysis: Mo(VI)-based compounds as mild and selctive catalysts for organic transformations,Supramolecular Chemistry: Metal driven self-assembly Pd(II) and nitrogen ligands, dyanmic aspects of the molecules,Nanoscience: Synthesis and functional (e.g. catalysis) aspects of metal nanoparticles
- Indrapal Singh Aidhen
- Synthesis of Biologically/Medicinally important molecules, Synthetic Carbohydrate Chemistry, Developing Building blocks for Organic Synthesis
- Kothandaraman Ramanujam
- Efficient catalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reaction (OER) and Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (HER) in water Electrolyser system,Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Catalysis, with special emphasis on non-precious/non-platinum metal catalyst synthesis,Development of Efficient Bulk Hetero-Junction Solar Cell System
- Mangala Sundar K
- Theoretical Spectroscopy:High Resolution Molecular and Magnetic Resonance Spectra,Quantum Information Processing,Computational Chemistry
- Md. Mahiuddin Baidya
- Asymmetric synthesis, designer acid catalysis, organocatalysis, photoredox catalysis, and transition metal catalysis,Development of new methodology, oxidation reactions, cascade reactions,C-H activation, carbon-carbon and carbon-hetero atom bonds formation,Synthesis of natural products and bioactive compounds
- Mishra AK
- Fluorescent molecular probes for micro- and nano-scale organized systems,Excited state prototropism and its applications,Synchronous and excitation-emission-matrix fluorescence spectroscopy,Fluorescence based sensors
- Nandita Madhavan
- Organic Synthesis,Bio-materials,Peptide Synthesis
- Pradeep T
- Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Nanomaterials, Drinking water purification, Ice Chemistry, Surface Science, Spectroscopy, Scientific Instrumentation, Business incubation
- Prasad Edamana
- Aggregation in macromolecules and its impact on the photophysical properties
- Rajakumar Balla
- gas phase chemical kinetics,climate change,Global warming,Atmospheric chemistry,Experimental studies using Cavity Ring Down Spectroscopy and Laser Induced Fluerescence
- Ramesh Gardas
- Fluid Phase Equilibria,Chemical Thermodynamics,Ionic Liquids,Property predictions throgh Group Contribution Methods, QSPR, and Correlating Equations
- Ranga Rao G
- Surface chemistry and spectroscopy,Solid state electrochemistry,Heterogeneous catalysis : new materials for catalysis and electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, environmental catalysis and energy storage applications,Materials chemistry: synthesis and applications of new layered-, hybrid-, porous- and nano-materials