Postdoctoral Research Experience (University of Groningen, Netherlands): 1.5 Years

Postdoctoral Research Experience (JNCASR): 1 Years

Pre-PhD Academic Experience (SMWC affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, MGKVP, UP, India): 1 Academic year

Pre-PhD Industry Experience at ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore, India: 1 year

Total Research Publication: 16 International Peer-Reviewed Journals

List of publications: Research Citations up to Nov 2024:  538, h-index: 13, i10-index: 14 (Link for Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=M-pmi58AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao)

Researcher Guided: 2 PG, 2 PhD and 1 UG students

Affiliated Member of American Chemical Society (ACS), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Center for Professional Advancement Executive Council (CPACE), International Multidisciplinary Research Foundation (IMRF)

Science Outreach: C. N. R. Rao Education Foundation: Student Mentoring Program: Teaching organic and physical chemistry to young high school students in a fun manner, to inspire them to take up science as a career (May 2019).

Invited Lecture:

1. JAWS Chemistry Lecture, 11^th Oct, Webinar Series Run By@Dr_Dani_AR, @ChemistCraig & @Kurtz_717, University of Birmingham, UK

Research ID for Scientific Publications:

Google Scholar ID: M-pmi58AAAAJ

Orcid ID: 0000-0003-0998-2808

Scopus ID: 57202599347

Researcher ID: AAZ-2253-2021

1. Verma; D. Samanta; P. Sutar; A. Kundu; J. Dasgupta; T. K. Maji, Biomimetic Approach toward Visible Light-Driven Hydrogen Generation Based on a Porphyrin-Based Coordination Polymer Gel. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2023, 15, 21, 25173–25183.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.2c14533

2. A. Rahimi; S. Dey; P. Verma; T. K. Maji, Photocatalytic CO₂ Reduction Based on a Re(I)-Integrated Conjugated Microporous Polymer: Role of a Sacrificial Electron Donor in Product Selectivity and Efficiency. ACS Catal. 2023, 13, 9, 5969–5978.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscatal.3c00053

3. Dey; F. A. Rahimi; P. Verma; S. Suresh; T. K. Maji, Charge-Transfer-Regulated Selective Solar Fuel Production in Aqueous Medium by a Tetrathiafulvalene-Based Redox-Active Metal–Organic Framework. ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2023, 6, 9179 -9187.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsaem.3c00244

4. Verma; A. Singh, F. A. Rahimi, P. Sarkar, S. Nath; S. K. Pati; T. K. Maji, Charge-Transfer Regulated Visible Light Driven Photocatalytic H₂ Production and CO₂ Reduction in Tetrathiafulvalene Based Coordination Polymer Gel. Nature Commun., 2021, 12, 7313.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27457-4

5. Verma; F. A. Rahimi; D. Samanta; A. Kundu; J. Dasgupta; T. K. Maji, Visible Light Driven Multi-electron Photocatalytic Reduction of CO₂ using Coordination Driven Metal-Organic ‘Soft’ Nanoscopic Organogel. (Angew Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 61, e202116094.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/anie.202116094

6. Verma; A. Singh; F. A. Rahimi; T. K. Maji, Colocalization of Light Harvesting and Catalytic Units in ‘Soft’ Coordination Polymer Hydrogel toward Visible-Light Driven Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021, 9, 13608-13614.

https://doi.org/10.1039/D1TA02425F

7. Verma; A. Singh; T. K. Maji, Photo-Modulated Wide-Spectrum Chromism in Eu³⁺ and Eu³⁺/Tb³⁺ Photochromic Coordination Polymer Gels: Application in Decoding Secret Information. Chem. Sci., 2021, 12, 2674-2682.

https://doi.org/10.1039/D0SC05721E

8. Verma; A. Singh; D. Samanta; A. Dey; J. Dey; T. K. Maji, Stabilization of Ultra-Small Gold Nanoparticles in a Photochromic Organic Cage: Modulating Photocatalytic CO₂ Reduction by Tuning Light Irradiation. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021, 9, 5780-5786.

https://doi.org/10.1039/D0TA12195A

9. Singh; P. Verma; D. Samanta; T. Singh; T. K. Maji, Bimodal Heterogeneous Functionality in Redox-Active Conjugated Microporous Polymer toward Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction and Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. Chem. Eur. J., 2020, 26, 3810-3817. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201904938
10. Singh; P. Verma; S. Laha; D. Samanta; S. Roy; T. K. Maji, Photochromic Conjugated Microporous Polymer Manifesting Bio-Inspired pcFRET and Logic Gate Functioning. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2020, 12, 20991-20997.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c05182

11. Samanta; M. Kumar; S. Singh; P. Verma; K. K. Kar; T. K. Maji; M. K. Ghorai, Triphenylamine and Terpyridine-Zinc(II) Complex based Donor-Acceptor Soft Hybrid as a Visible Light Driven Hydrogen Evolution Photocatalyst. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, 8, 21968-21972. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0TA02318C
12. Samanta; A. Singh; P. Verma; S. Bhattacharyya; S. Roy; T. K. Maji, Photoswitchable J‑Aggregated Processable Organogel by Integrating a Photochromic Acceptor. J. Org. Chem., 2019, 84, 10946-10952.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.9b01555

13. S. Mothika; P. Sutar; P. Verma; S. Das; S.K. Pati; T. K. Maji, Regulating Charge-Transfer in Conjugated Microporous Polymers for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. Chem. Eur. J., 2019, 25, 3867-3874. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201805478
14. Samanta; P. Verma; S. Roy; T. K. Maji, Nanovesicular MOF with Omniphilic Porosity: Bimodal Functionality for White-Light Emission and Photocatalysis by Dye Encapsulation. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. 2018, 10, 23140-23146.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b06363

15. Verma; S. Anoop; V.S. Rao; A. K. Sharma, U. Rani, Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube-Poly Vinyl Alcohol Nanocomposite Multifunctional Coatings on Aerospace Alloys. Material Today Proceedings, 2018, 5, 21205-21216.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2018.06.520

Scientific Conferences/Seminars/Symposium

International

1. International Molecular Nanotour Symposium Oct 2022, University of Leuven, Belgium. Journey from “Molecule to Medicine”
2. Inorganic-Biochemistry International Conference, University of Manchester, UK August 2022.
3. International Chemical Science Symposium 2021, by Royal Society of Chemistry.
4. International conference (8^th ICOPVS, 2020) JNCASR.
5. Chemical Frontiers 2018, August, International Conference, Goa.
6. 9th Bengaluru India Nano International Conference, India, 2017.
7. International Conference of Smart Engineering Materials (ICSEM, 2016) Banglore, India.

National

1. National In House Symposium, JNCASR, 2018.
2. National Symposium on Electrochemical Science and Technology (NSEST 2016), IISc Banglore.
3. 15^th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry, Chemistry Dept. B.H.U., Varanasi, U.P., India, 2013.

Training Programmes/Workshops/Winter School Programmes attended

1. Winter School 2020 on Frontiers in Materials Science, University of Cambridge.
2. Winter School 2017 on Frontiers in Materials Science, University of Cambridge.
3. “Science Academies” Lecture Workshop on Spectroscopy in Chemical Biology, Chemistry Dept. Faculty of Science, B.H.U., Varanasi, U.P., India, March 2014.
4. “Science Academies” Lecture Workshop on Supramolecular Chemistry, Chemistry Dept. Faculty of Science, B.H.U., Varanasi, U.P., India, April 2014.
5. “Science Academies” Lecture Workshop on Molecular Spectroscopy, Theory, Instrumentation & Applications, Chemistry Dept. Faculty of Science, B.H.U., Varanasi, U.P., India, March 2012.
6. “Computer Aided Drug Designing” (CADD) national level workshop, Dept. of life science, Integral University, Lucknow, U.P., India, 2013.

1. Visible Light Driven Photocatalytic CO₂ reduction to CO/CH₄ using Metal-organic Soft Coordination Polymer gel. International Chemical Science Symposium 2022, 1-3 March by Royal Society of Chemistry.

2. Charge-Transfer Regulated Visible Light Driven Photocatalytic H₂ Production and CO₂ Reduction in Tetrathiafulvalene Based Coordination Polymer Gel. International Chemical Science Symposium 2021, 14-16 Dec by Royal Society of Chemistry.
3. Charge-Transfer Regulated Visible Light Driven Photocatalytic H₂ Production and CO₂ Reduction in Tetrathiafulvalene Based Coordination Polymer Gel. 8^th ICOPVS, 2020, 24-28^th Feb, International Conference, Bangalore.

4. Hydrogen evolution by Porphyrin-Based Coordination Polymer Gel under visible light. Chemical Frontiers 2018, August 19-22, International Conference, Goa.

5. Nanovesicular MOF with Omniphilic Porosity: Bimodal Functionality for White-Light Emission and Photocatalysis by Dye Encapsulation. In-house National Symposium 2017, JNCASR, Bangalore.

6. Photoswitchable J‑Aggregated Processable Organogel by Integrating a Photochromic Acceptor, 9th Bengaluru India Nano International Conference 2017, India.

7. Characterization of self-lubricating super-hydrophobic coating on aluminium alloy 6061 using silane. National Symposium on Electrochemical Science and Technology (NSEST) 2016, July 15-16, By Electrochemical Society of India, IISc.

8. Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube-Poly Vinyl Alcohol Nano-composite Multifunctional Coatings on Aerospace Alloys. International Conference on Smart Engineering Materials ICSEM 2016, Oct 20-22, RVCE Banglore, India.

Community Service 

1. Member of “National Service Scheme” (NSS) of India from 2009-2011

International 

1. Best Oral Presentation and Poster Award in International Chemical Science Symposium 2021, by Royal Society of Chemistry.
2. Best Poster Award, in international conference (8^th ICOPVS, 2020) JNCASR.

 National 

1. National Young Scientist Award 2021 in Chemistry, by International Multidisciplinary Research Foundation (IMRF) of India.
2. International Education Excellence Award 2021 in Chemistry, by Center for Professional Advancement Continuous Education (CPACE) Council of India.
3. Best Oral and Poster Presentation Award at Chemical Frontiers Goa Conference, 2018.
4. Best Oral Presentation Award, In House Symposium, JNCASR, 2018.