Energy and Environmental Catalysis Research Laboratory
This laboratory focused on multidisciplinary research for the development of energy and environmental catalysis that includes chemists, materials scientists, and environmentalists working towards the improvement of human health and life quality.
Dr. Rakesh K. Sharma's Research Group focuses on sustainable materials for catalysis. It includes a diverse group of chemists and material scientists specializing in catalysis, feed-stock chemistry, energy harvesting and storage, environmental remediation and fuels. The main goal is to understand fundamental chemical processes and also to develop highly efficient materials inspired by nature. The researchers develop simple, reproducible and scalable methods for sustainable science. The research undertaken in the group is intended to have far lasting implications to utilize and design materials for applications that are required by a booming technology minding the effect on the environment. The group nurture philosophy of collaboration expedites new discoveries and innovations. Researchers are actively engaged with, international universities, inter-institutional, numerous government agencies and industries to harvest the benefits of our research work for end-users.
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Laboratory Users:
Student Name | Details | Research Topic |
Devika Laishram |
PhD (R K Sharma) (2015-Present) |
Advanced Functional Nanomaterials for Energy and Environmental Applications |
Unnati Gupta |
PhD (R K Sharma) (2015-Present) |
Metal Confined Nano-reactors for Catalytic Applications |
Bhagirath Saini |
PhD (R K Sharma) (2018-Present) |
2D Clays for Energy Storage Applications |
Apoorva Malik |
PhD (R K Sharma) (2019-Present) |
Designing Supramolecular Organocatalysts for Long-Range Chiral Induction by Non-Covalent Approach |
Ganpat Choudhury |
PhD (R K Sharma) (2018-Present) |
Advanced Functional Nanomaterials for Water and Air Remediation |
R Krishnapriya |
Postdoctoral Fellow (R K Sharma) (2018-present) |
Heterogeneous Catalysis for Automobile Applications |
Pragati R Sharma |
Women Scientist (PI of Project) (2019-Present) |
Chiral Calix Crowns for Asymmetric Phase Transfer Catalyst |
Kanika |
MSc (R K Sharma) (2018-Present) |
Chiral-Calix-amides for asymmetric catalyst |
Avleen Kaur Chawla |
MSc (R K Sharma) (2018-Present) |
Asymmetric catalysis on polypeptide surface |
Vishav Kant |
MSc (R K Sharma) (2018-Present) |
Perovskite Nanomaterials for Wastewater and Soil Remediation |
Divya Kumar |
Junior Project Assistant (R K Sharma) (2020-Present) |
Utilization of Hydrogen as Fuel in Cement Production |