SKM Research Group
Laboratory of Inorganic Functional Materials
Welcome to the Mandal Research Group! Our lab at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram performs research in the fields of Material Science and Inorganic Chemistry including Metal-Organic Frameworks, Nanoclusters, Cluster-assembled Materials and Catalysis.
Research
Atom-precise metal nanoclusters are a bridge between the properties of metal complexes and metal nanoparticles. Their ultra-small size (<2 nm) comes up with many unique physical and chemical phenomena with the structure-property relationship.
Here in our group, we study cluster-to-cluster transformation at the nanoscale, defect engineering of metal oxide/sulphide using metal nanocluster, synthesis of cluster assembled materials and their various applications, like oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), oxygen evolution reaction (OER), hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), etc. We are also working on defect engineered metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), conductive MOFs and two-dimensional nanosheets and their applications.
Highlights
We are looking for enthusiastic students for PhD positions in the area of Inorganic Materials Chemistry!!!
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Heartiest congrats to Aparna and Shamna for publishing their work on Advanced Functional Materials.​
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Congrats to Nida and Saniya for publishing their work on The Journal of PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C.
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Congratulations to Saniya and Nida for publishing their work on Accounts of Materials Research.​
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Congratulations, Dr .Akashdeep, on successfully acquiring a Post-doctoral position at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS),France . We wish you all the best in your future endeavors.
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Congrats Dr. Anish on your Thesis Defence, and best of luck for your upcoming postdoctoral experience at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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​Batch 18 and MSc 21 major students from our group have bagged prestigious Ph.D. positions in the US, just like every year. Best of Luck to Rahul (Penn State), Sona (Ohio State), Irin (Rochester), and Avirup (Carnegie Mellon) for their future endeavors!
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Congrats to Manju and Akash for publishing their respective works on Angewandte Chemie.
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Congratulations to Prof. Sukhendu for being one of the two faculties in IISERTVM to be featured in the "World's Top 2% Scientists" list of Stanford University and Elsevier. More...
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Prof. Mandal has been invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry through the 'Leaders in the Field' scheme.
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Batch 17 major students from the Mandal Group have bagged prestigious Ph.D. positions abroad: Debaditya (UC San Diego), Angela (Penn State), Vaibhav (Brown), and Riya (Southern Illinois University). Good luck to them in their future endeavors!
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Prof. Sukhendu Mandal received the CRSI bronze medal at the 27th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry hosted by IISER Kolkata.
Current & Past Funding Sources
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