News Coverage: Graphitic Porous Carbon Derived from Human Hair as 'Green' Counter Electrode in Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells" authored by S.Bhattacharyya and co-workers (Carbon 2016, 107, 395-404). News coverage in Solar Novus Today, The Hindu, Anandabazar Patrika and Rajya Sabha TV ( In English; In Hindi)

Cover Page News: "Mechanically Flexible Organic Crystals Achieved by Introducing Weak Interactions in Structure: Supramolecular Shape Synthons” authored by C. Malla Reddy and co-workers (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 13561-13567). See the Cover Page here

The publication by Dr. Debasish Haldar and co-workers on “A self-assembled peptide mimetic of a tubular host and a supramolecular polymer” Polym. Chem. 2017, 8, 396-403 gets highlighted in the Back Cover Page of the Polymer Chemistry

Editorial Board Members:

Dr. C. Malla Reddy: Associate Editor of RSC Advances

Dr. C. Malla Reddy: Co-editor for "Acta Crystallographica Section B" published by "International Union of Crystallography"

Advisory Editorial Board Members:

Dr. Priyadarsi De: Advisory Editorial Board Member of ACS Macro Letters (ACS, 2016), Macromolecules (ACS, 2016) and Polymer Chemistry (RSC, 2015)

Dr. Raja Shunmugam: Advisory Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports (NPG, 2015)

Dr. M. Venkataramanan: Advisory Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports (NPG, 2015)

Dr. Prasun K. Mandal: Advisory Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports (NPG, 2015)

Dr. Punyasloke Bhadury: Advisory Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports (NPG, 2015)

Dr. Mousumi Das: Advisory Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports (NPG, 2015)

Awards:

Prof. Priyadarshi De: Kaushal Kishore Award (2019)

Prof. Punyasloke Bhadury:  SwarnaJayanti Fellowship, DST (2019) in the discipline of Earth & Environmental Sciences

Dr. Rahul Banerjee:  Shantiswarup Bhatnagar Award, CSIR (2018)

Prof. Raja Shunmugam: Joint Runner Up award in the 8th National Award for Technology Innovation for his research on drug delivery

Dr. C. Malla Reddy: SwarnaJayanti Fellowship, DST (2016)

Dr. Raja Shunmugam: Joint runner-up for 6th National Award for Technology Innovation under polymeric materials category for the work on Arsenic sensing and trapping.

Dr. Debasish Haldar is selected for the "Emerging Investigators 2016: Novel Design Strategies for New Functional Materials" by the prestigious Journal of Materials Chemistry A.

Dr. Punyasloke Bhadury is awarded the prestigious ‘Namamai Gange’ project, funded by Water Technology Initiative of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India

Dr. Raja Shunmugam becomes the Joint Winner for 7th National Award for Technology Innovation for the research work on nerve agent sensing. This national award is given by the Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers.

Dr. Sayan Bhattacharyya has been highlighted as one of the Emerging Investigators in 2017 by the prestigious Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Royal Society of Chemistry

The research work by Dr. Debasish Haldar and co-workers on “POSS-Appended Diphenylalanine: Self-Cleaning, Pollution-Protective, and Fire-Retardant Hybrid Molecular Material" published in ACS Omega 2017, volume 2, pp. 1938-1946 gets highlighted in The Hindu

Dr. Raj Kumar Das, CAFM Postdoctoral Fellow in the group of Dr. Sayan Bhattacharyya, has been offered an Assistant Professor position in Akal University, Punjab which he accepted

The research work by Dr. Soumyajit Roy along with his collaborators on “In situ Self-assembly and Photopolymerization for Hetero-phase Synthesis and Patterning of Conducting Materials using Soft Oxometalates in Thermo-optical Tweezers” published in J. Mater. Chem. C 2017,volume 5,pp. 6718-6728 gets highlighted in India Today

Dr. Punyasloke Bhadury has been elected as the President of Biogeosciences Section of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) for the term 2018-2020.

The research work by Dr. Debasish Haldar and co-workers on cleaning oil spills and removing fluoride and metal ions from drinking water gets highlighted in The Hindu and by a video in Chemical & Engineering News, American Chemical Society
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Dr. Rahul Banerjee: SwarnaJayanti Fellowship, DST (2018)