12 Oct: Our work "Modeling Interlayer Interactions and Phonon Thermal Transport in Silicene Bilayers" has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B. Congratulations to Sapta!๐
29 Sep: Our work "Insights into the Structure and Ion Transport of Pectin-[BMIM][PF6] Electrolytes" has ben accepted for publication in the Journal of Chemical Physics. Congratulations to Sipra and Sougata!๐
01 Sep: Hitesh has been selected to participate in aditya L1 support cell workshop which is organised jointly by ARIES and ISRO from 29 September to 1st October. Congratulations to him!๐
07 Aug: Sapta has presented his work titled "Temperature Induced Electronic Structure and Phonon Thermal Properties in Bilayer Silicene" at the 34rd IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics held in Kobe, Japan.
30 June: Dr. Mogurampelly has joined IIT Jodhpur as an Associate Professor. Congratulations! ๐
09 June: Priyanka has been selected to participate in "High-end Workshop on Next-Generation Energy Storage Materials" at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Indore. Congratulations to her!๐
15 May: Salman has been selected to participate in "Workshop on Stochastic Thermodynamics - WOST IV" at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste from 18 May 2023 to 26 May 2023. Congratulations to him!๐
24 Apr: Priyanka got a Ph.D. position at Comenius University Bratislava under Prof. Stefan Matejcik on the topic โMonitoring of processes initiated by the atmospheric discharges using the methods of IMS and IMS/MS spectrometry". Congratulations to her!๐
15 Apr: Sourav's team secures 1st position in "Science Quiz " on Department's Day at Physics Dept.
21 Apr: Sipra received financial assistance from SERB (Science and Engineering Research Board), India, for attending an international conference, "Seventh International Symposium Frontiers in Polymer Science, 29 May - 1 June 2023 at Gothenburg, Sweden. Congratulations to her! ๐
30-31 March: Prof. Roland R. Netz, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Freie Universitรคt Berlin and Infosys Chair Professor, Department of Physics, IISc Bangalore visited our group and interacted with the group members!
28 Feb: Santosh started a small library for the group members which is a great way to encourage learning and growth.
10 Jan: Sipra attended a CECAM winter school on "Virtual Winter School on Computational Chemistry" during 6-10 January 2023
2022
28 Dec: Sourav has been offered a Ph.D. position at Saarland University, Germany. Congratulations, Sourav! ๐
08 Dec: Hema, Sourav and Priyanka are presenting their work at the National Coference on Energy Materials and Devices (EMAD 2022), IIT Jodhpur, 16 Dec-18 Dec. 2022
05 Nov: Sipra has given a talk at the Research Scholar Day 2022, Department of Physics, IIT Jodhpur.
05 Nov: Suleman, Sapta, Hema, Priyanka have presented poster at the Research Scholar Day 2022, Department of Physics, IIT Jodhpur.
30 Sep: Santosh visited Max Planck Institute for structure and dynamics in Hamburg and gaveย aย seminarย talk.
22 Sep: Santosh gave a research seminar on "The interplay of ion-pair and polymer relaxations on ionic diffusivities in different classes of electrolytes" at the Department of Physics, Freie Universitat Berlin.
19-21 Sep: Santosh presented a poster titled "Ion transport through pectin-graphene membranes and rechargeable battery electrolytes" at the international conference on "Biomembrane Days 2022" organized by the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany.
10 Sep: Priyanka got selected for the CECAM flagship workshop (for remote participation) on "Reduced Density-Matrix Functional Theory: Improving its foundation and extending its scope" to be held at ECT*, Trento, Italy between 03-14 October 2022.
01 Sep: Santosh arrived Berlin and started working as a Guest Scientist at the Freie Universitat Berlin for a collaborative project with Prof. Roland R. Netz under the SIRE fellowship scheme.
05 Aug: Sapta has delivered a contributed talk titled "Phonon Mediated In-plane and Out-of-plane Thermal Transport in Silicene Bilayers" at the 33rd IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics held at The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA.
28 June: Priyanka has been selected for IIA Online Summer Programme at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore. Congratulations to her! ๐
17 June: Sapta and Hema have presented their Research Proposal Seminar.
17 June: Priyanka has been selected for Vigyan Shala Kalpana (STEM) Programme. Congratulations to her! ๐
23-25 June: Hema has participated in 3 days national webinar on Lithium-ion batteries and beyond: A perspective for future energy storage and needs organised by the department of ceramic Engineering, NIT Rourkela.
24 May: Souhitya has been selected for a scholarship to undertake Bolt IoT and ML training. Congratulations to him! ๐
17 May: Sougata has been selected as a Summar Intern at the Bennett University, Greater Noida. Congratulations to him! ๐
12 May: Santosh received the SERB International Research Experience (SIRE) fellowship from the DST. Santosh will visit the research group of Prof. Roland R Netz at the Free University Berlin for three months to work on different aspects of soft matter physics in Germany. Congratulations and kudos to the group!๐
11 May: Our work on the Effect of Succinonitrile on Ion Transport in PEO-based Lithium Ion Battery Electrolytes has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Chemical Physics. Congratulations to Sipra and Shubham from the group. ๐
23 Apr: Souhitya has been selected for a conference on "Random Matrices, Random Graphs and Statistical Physics for Machine Learning and Inference" organized by the ICTP, Italy. Congratulations, Souhitya! ๐
28-29 Mar: Sipra, Sapta and Sougata have been presented their works titled "Molecular Dynamics Study of Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) Based Biocompatible Solid Polymer Electrolyte", "Thermal Transport and the Interplay of Phonon Modes in 2D Layered Materials" and "Ion Transportation Studies of Pectin Containing Ionic Liquid Electrolytes" respectively in Supercaps and Batteries - India 2022.
19 Feb: Sipra and Sapta's abstract has been selected for Supercaps and Batteries- India 2022.
18 Feb: Sapta got ankle injury while playing Badminton. Get well soon Sapta!
18 Feb: Shubham has been offered a Ph.D. position in the Max Planck IMPRS-UFAST, Germany. Congratulations, Shubham! ๐
15 Feb: Sourav, Priyanka and Salman have joined our group for their M.Sc. project. Welcome to the group!
28 Jan: Sapta and Hema have presented in their State-of-the-Art (SoTA) Seminar.
10 Jan: Megha has joined our group as an intern working on ionic conductivity. Welcome Megha!
07 Jan: Dr. Mogurampelly's collaborative work on deep eutectic solvents has been published in Journal of Molecular Modeling.
2021
11 Dec: Sapta and Sipra have presented their work at Condensed Matter Days 2021 (CMDays-2021).
Hema's talk has been adjudged as the Best Mini Talk at Soft Matter Young Investigators e-Meet (e-SMYIM) - 2021. Congratulations to her! ๐
Sipra and Hema have presented their work at Soft Matter Young Investigators e-Meet (e-SMYIM) - 2021.
Hema has appeared in the Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination.
14 Sep: Santosh gave a Webinar on "Advanced Sampling Methods: A Short Course on Fundamental Concepts" at a Workshop on "Advanced Molecular Dynamics Simulations 2021" jointly organized by the International School of Photonics, CUSAT, India, Department of Physics, and the Green Club of Thoughts, Kathmandu University, Nepal.
22 July: Sougata, Souhitya and Shobhit have joined our group for their M.Sc. project. Welcome to our group!
19 July: Suleman and Sipra presented their research proposal.
Hema completed Ph.D. course work.
05 May: Sipra's collaborative work on Existence of ฮฒ-diketone form of curcuminoids has been published in Food Chemistry.
30 Apr: Sapta appeared in the Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination.
28 Feb: Sapta completed Ph.D. course work.
Our collaborative work on Computational and spectroscopic studies of biologically active coumarin-based fluorophores has been published in Luminescence.
2020
30 Dec: Sipra and Suleman has presented in their State of the Art Seminar (SOTA).
08 Oct: Sipra and Suleman has appeared in the Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination.
Our collaborative work on Quantum chemical and solvatochromic studies of biological active 1, 3, 4-thiadiazol coumarin derivatives has been published in Chemical Data Collections.
01 Sep: Sapta and Hema has joined IIT Jodhpur for their Ph.D. degree. A warm welcome to the group!
Our collaborative work with UT Austin and UIC Chicago on phosphorene-loaded polymer electrolytes has been published in Advanced Functional Material.
30 June: Suleman and Sipra completed Ph.D. course work.
Santosh has given two invited lectures at the workshop, "Winter School on Computational Modelling (WISCOM-2020)".
18-20 Feb: Santosh has presented poster titled "Multiscale Modeling of Soft Matter Physics: My Scientific Adventures with Mike" at the international conference on "Modern Approaches in Chemistry and Biology (MACB2020)" at Bangalore, India. A moment of celebration of Mike's 80th birthday.
13 Jan: Our work on R-VAPOL-phosphoric acid based 1 H and 13 C-NMR for sensing of chiral amines and acids has been published in RSC Advances.
2019
08 Nov: Santosh gave a seminar presentation on the group's research, simulation methods, and Hands-on teaching session at the University of Seoul, South Korea.
03-06 Nov: Santosh gave a keynote seminar at the prestigious "5th International Conference on Molecular Simulation (ICMS 2019)" held at Jeju, South Korea.
22 July: Suleman and Sipra has joined IIT Jodhpur for their Ph.D. degree. Welcome to the group!
10 June: Aman Sriperumbuduru (UG student from SNIST) has joined the group for Summer Internship. First member of the group!