3.8 PLANTA DE TRATAMIENTO
3.8.5 Potencia de Bomba sumergible
Brief and specifi c details of process/instruments/equipment/software designed and developed
A fi bre optics spectrophotometer that is capable of measuring both absorbance and fl uorescence spectra has been designed.
New facilities added or major equipment procured
Sl. No. Name of Equipment Value (in lakhs of Rs.)
1 FT- Raman spectrometer 63 2 Scanning electron microscope 95 3 MALDI-TOF spectrometer 164 4 Circular dichromism spectrometer 66
Patents fi led
Sl. No. Name of Faculty Member Topic of Patent
1 K.M. Muraleedharan Synthesis of quinolone antibiotics from Baylis-Hillman adducts 2 T. Pradeep Visible detection of quantity of water fl ow using quantum clusters
Methods for selective visual detection of TNT
A method for preparation of graphenic material from asphalt and its application in water purifi cation
Luminescent graphene patterns
Gel-based water purifi cation: Adsorbent composition and water purifi cation device A granulation composition for powder ingredients
4.5.5. Research and Consultancy
Sponsored research projectsSl. No.
Title Period
(years)
Funding Agency Amount (in
lakhs of Rs.)
Co-ordinators
1 Design And Development of a Modular Fibre- Optic Based Multipurpose Optical Spectrometer for Electronic Absorption and Emission Spectroscopy and its Application to the Analysis of Multifl uorophoric Systems
3 CSIR 25.17 A.K. Mishra
2 High Temperature & High Pressure Thermodynamic Properties of Energetic Nitrogen-Rich Ionic Liquids & Their Mixtures with Organic Solvents
3 DST 27.00 Ramesh Gardas
3 Centre For Catalysis Research—Phase II 5 DST 62.90 B. Viswanathan 4 Measurement of Atmospheric Lifetimes of
Hydrofl uroolefi nes (HFOs), Hydrofl uoroethers (HFEs) and Hydrofl uoroioethers (HFTEs) due to their Reactions with Hydroxyl Radicals and CI in the Earth’s Atmosphere
3 Board of Research
5 Synthesis of Lytropic & Thermotropic Liquid Crystals from Poly(Aryl ether) Dendron Derivatives
1 TT Funds and IIT Madras
3.20 Edamana Prasad 6 Functionalized Poly (Phenylene) Dendrimers and
Dendrimer–Porphyrin Assembles: Synthesis and Their Properties
3 CSIR 13.92 P.Bhyrappa 7 Experimental Measurement and Prediction of
Thermophysical and Electrochemical Properties of Ionic Liquids Useful for Metal Ions Separation
3 UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientifi c Research
6.09 Ramesh Gardas 8 Luminescent Poly(Aryl Ether) Dendron Based
Gel Systems for Nanoparticle Stabilization, Mesophase Formation and Energy Transfer Studies
3 CSIR 17.50 Edamana Prasad
9 A Nanocomposite Material for High-Power
Lithium Battery Cathodes 3 DST 35.15 P. Selvam 10 Electrochemical Synthesis Of Nanomaterials at
Liquid/Liquid Interfaces and Applications 3 DST 42.60 Prof. M.V. Sangaranarayanan 11 Development of Polymer Based Cost Effective
Electrochromic Devices for Automotive Applications
2 DST 27.53 R. Dhamodharan 12 Quantum Cluster Solar Cells 3 DST 165.6 T. Pradeep 13 Opto-magnetic Properties of Cd/Zn Based
Nanoparticles with Magnetic Dopants and Inorganic Materials
3 DST 32.39 T. Pradeep 14 Research of New Layered Oxides for Energy
Storage and Conversion
3 IFCPAR 22.17 U.V. Varadaraju 15 Demonstration of 1.5 W Single Cell All
Vanadium Flow Battery 1 ICSR 7.37 U.V. Varadaraju, R. Kothandaraman 16 Transition Metal-Catalyzed
AsymmetricTrifl uoromethylation and Perfl uoroalkylation of Activated Alkenes: Application Towards the Asymmetric Synthesis of Trifl uoromethylated Building Blocks and Bioactive Natural Products
3 CSIR 24.42 P. Anbarasan
17 Design and Development of Novel Tetradendate P- & P,N – Ligands for Fe catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation
3 BRNS 17.00 P. Anbarasan 18 J.C. Bose Fellowship 5 DST 62.2 N. Chandrakumar 19 Unit of Nanoscience at IIT Madras—Phase II 5 DST 555.5 T. Pradeep 20 Total Synthesis of Biologically Active
Isokotanin-A Kotanin and Desertorin-C Natural Products Through Catalytic, Enantioselective Oxidative Coupling
3 CSIR 23.26 G. Sekar
21 Abnormal N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands: Synthesis, Transition Metal Complexes (Pd, Ni, Cu) and Applications in Asymmetric Synthesis
3 CSIR 13.2 S. Sankararaman 22 Low Energy Ion Collision on Molecular Solids:
Chemical Reactions, Phase Transformations and Unique Properties
3 DST 444.5 T. Pradeep 23 Phase-II of the Facility on Spatially Resolved
Magnetic Resonance 5 DST 1349.73 N. Chandrakumar 24 Chemistry and Application of Metallasila and
Metallagermaboranes Derived from Group 14 Unsaturated Organic Substrates
3 Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research
37.63 Sundargopal Ghosh 25 New Class of Organochalcogen Derivatives
Derived from Group 5, 6 Metallaboranes
26 Analysis of Underpotential Deposition of Metals for Electrocatalytic Applications
3 CSIR 16.76 M.V.
Sangaranarayanan 27 Polymerization of Cyclic Esters Using Activated
Monomer Mechanism 3 CSIR 19.26 Debashis Chakraborty 28 Understanding the Microviscosity and
Micropolarity of Different Pluronic Polymers and Their Mixtures
3 DST 22.15 A.K. Mishra 29 Non–Precious Metal catalyst for Oxygen
Reduction Reaction in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC) with Improved Durability and Activity
3 ISRO 27.56 R. Kothandaraman, Raghuram Chetty 30 Functional Noble Metal Nanoparticles 3 CSIR 25.92 Dillip Kumar Chand 31 Non–Precious Metal Catalysts with Increased
Active Catalytic-Site Density for Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction Reaction
2 Nissan Renault Research Support Program
8.80 R. Kothandaraman 32 Encapsulation of Divalent Lanthanides in
Dendrimers and Lanthanide Based Nano- Structures in Dendritic Aggregates to Generate Novel Optically Active Nano-Systems
3 DST 37 Edamana Prasad
33 Water Purifi cation Using Nanotechnology 5 DST 1081 T. Pradeep, Sarit Kumar Das 34 Thermodynamic Studies of Model Electrolyte
and Non-electrolyte Solutes in “Protic Ionic Liquids” and Their Mixtures with the Parent Bronsted Acids and Bases
3 CSIR 20.42 Ramesh Gardas
35 Top Chemistry Departments in the International
Year of Chemistry (2011) 2 DST 150.00 Head of the Department 36 Design and Synthesis of Metalloborane Clusters
for Catalytic Cyclotrimerization of Alkynes
3 Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences
22.44 Sundargopal Ghosh 37 Metal Nanoclusters for Fluorescence, Catalysis,
and Heavy Metal Scavenging 3 DST 42.81 T. Pradeep 38 Chemistry and Applications of Group 4–5
Metallaboranes
3 DST 54.15 Sundargopal Ghosh 39 Generation of Solar Hydrogen 2 DST 50.28 P. Selvam,
B. Viswanathan 40 N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands and their
Lanthanide Ion Complexes: Synthesis, Structure, Redox and Luminescence Studies
3 DST 45.90 S. Sankararaman 41 Thermal Decomposition Studies of Alkyl Silanes
and Alkyl Phenols Behind the Refl ected Shock Waves in a Single Pulse Shock Tube Between 1000–1500K
— CSIR 24.42 B. Rajakumar
42 New and General Strategy for the Synthesis of Centrolobine Analogues and Other Important Diarylheptanoids
— Board of Research
in Nuclear Sciences 31.12 Indrapal Singh Aidhen 43 Investigation of Transition Metal Catalyzed
Reactivity of -Diazoimines Derived from 1,2,3 Triazoles: Divergent Synthesis of Molecules of Therapeutic Importance and Bio Active Natural Products
— DST 54.12 P. Anbarasan
44 Organized CNT–Noble Metal Cluster Conjugates — DST 40.07 T. Pradeep 45 Electrospun Calotropis Nanofi ber Scaffolds for
Applications in Tissue Engineering, Agriculture and Environment
3 Department of Biotechnology
25.85 T. Pradeep 46 Augmentation of Research Facilities in the
Department (FIST)
5 DST 407 Head of the Department (CY)
47 Thermodynamic Studies of Ionic Interactions in Pure Ionic Liquids and Their Mixtures with Organic Solvents
3 New Faculty Scheme
19 Ramesh Gardas 48 Exploding Type Metal Precursors for Synthesis
of Non–Precious Metal Catalyst with Improved Oxygen Reduction Activity
2 New Faculty Scheme
20.70 R. Kothandaraman 49 Asymmetric Trifl uoromethylation Using
Transition Metal-Catalyst 3 New Faculty Scheme 19 P. Anbarasan 50 Demonstration of 1.5 W Single Cell All
Vanadium Flow Battery
1 Industrial Consultancy & Sponsored Research 7.37 U.V. Varadaraju, R. Kothandaraman RBIC projects
Sl. No. Name of Faculty Member Title Industry Amount
(lakhs of Rs.)
1 S. Baskaran Synthetic Route for APIs Apex Laboratories
Private Limited 0.66 2 P. Selvam Development of Heterogeneous Catalyst for
Selective Hydrogenation of Nitrobenzene (NB) to
p-Aminophenol (PAP) for Economically Feasible Commercial Application
Granules India Limited
29.64
3 Edamana Prasad Development of Differentiated Gel Ink that can Deliver Better Writing Smoothness with Controlled Ink Flow than Existing Gel Inks
ITC Limited 31.90
Research publications
Total number of papers published in refereed national journals: 3 Total number of papers published in refereed international journals: 179 Total number of papers presented at national conferences: 1
(a) Refereed national journals
1. M. Vinothkumar, G. Nandhini, M.V. Sangaranarayanan (2012) Partition function of the two-dimensional nearest neighbour Ising models for fi nite lattices in a non-zero magnetic fi eld. J. Chem. Sci. (Bangalore, India) 124: 105–113.
2. A. Joseph, G. Venkataramana, S. Sankararaman (2012) Synthesis of dehydrobenzoannulenes with pyrene core. J. Chem. Sci. (Bangalore, India) 124: 597–607.
3. B. Upendra, D.S. Lakshmi Prasanna, B. Rajakumar (2012) Kinetic parameters for the reaction of OH radical initiated atmospheric oxidation of (E)-2-pentenal: Ab initio and transition state theory calculations. Current Science 102: 460–469.
(b) Refereed international journals
1. P. Biji, A. Patnaik (2012) Interfacial Janus gold nanoclusters as excellent phase- and orientation-specifi c dopamine sensors. Analyst 137: 4795–4801.
2. P. Biji, A. Patnaik, (2012) Surface-confi ned crown ether-capped gold nanoclusters: Investigation on their electrochemical behavior. J. Nanoparticle Res. 14: 1–10.
3. I. Ramakanth, A. Patnaik (2012) Novel two-component gels of cetylpyridinium chloride and the bola- amphiphile 6-amino caproic acid: Phase evolution and mechanism of gel formation. J. Phys. Chem. B 116: 2722–2729.
4. I. Ramakanth, N. Ramesh, A. Patnaik (2012) Fibrous gels of cetylpyridinium chloride in binary solvent mixtures: Structural characteristics and phase behaviour. J. Mater. Chem. 22: 17842–17847.
5. N. Ramesh N.K. Sarangi, A. Patnaik (2013) Establishing the ellipsoidal geometry of a benzoic acid-based amphiphile via dimer switching: Insights from intramolecular rotation and facial H-bond torsion. J. Phys. Chem. B 117: 5345–5354.
6. N.K. Sarangi, A. Patnaik (2012) L-Tryptophan-induced electron transport across supported lipid bilayers: An alkyl-chain tilt-angle, and bilayer-symmetry dependence. ChemPhysChem 13: 4258–4270.
7. N.K. Sarangi, A. Patnaik (2012) Structure-directing L-tryptophan for supported DPPC helices and frac- tals: An alkyl-chain tilt-angle dependence. ChemPlusChem 77: 898–907.
8. K. Senthil Kumar, A. Patnaik (2013) Thermodynamic kinetic and electronic structure aspects of a charge transfer active bichromophoric organofullerene. J. Chem. Sci. 125: 237–246.
9. K.O. Eyong, S.P. Kumar, V. Kuete, G.N. Folefoc, H. Langmi, M.J.J. Meyer, N. Lall, S. Baskaran (2012) Cobalt mediated ring contraction reaction of lapachol and initial antibacterial evaluation of naphthoqui- nones derived from lapachol. Med. Chem. Res. 21: 2117–2122.
10. K.O. Eyong, M. Puppala, P.S. Kumar, M. Lamshoft, G.N. Folefoc, M. Spiteller, S. Baskaran (2012) A mechanistic study on the Hooker oxidation: Synthesis of novel indane carboxylic acid derivatives from lapachol. Org. Biomol. Chem. 11: 459–468.
11. S. Gore, S. Baskaran, B. Konig (2012) Fischer indole synthesis in low melting mixtures. Org. Lett. 14: 4568–4571.
12. S. Gore, S. Baskaran, B. Koenig (2012) Synthesis of pyrimidopyrimidinediones in a deep eutectic reaction mixture. Adv. Synth. Catal. 354: 2368–2372.
13. S. Gore, K. Chinthapally, S. Baskaran, B. Konig (2012) Synthesis of substituted hydantoins in low melting mixtures. Chem. Commun. 49: 5052–5054.
14. M. Puppala, A. Murali, S. Baskaran (2012) Concise enantioselective construction of a bridged azatricyclic framework via domino semipinacol–Schmidt reaction. Chem. Commun. 48: 5778–5780.
15. P. Bhyrappa, V. Velkannan (2012) -Tetrakis(2-thienyl)-meso-tetraphenylporphyrins: Synthesis, struc- tural and electrochemical redox properties. Inorg. Chim. Acta 387: 64–73.
16. C. George, N. Chandrakumar (2013) Accelerated spin dynamics in NMR driven by homonuclear scalar couplings. Chem. Phys. Lett. 563: 107–111.
17. N. Haridharan, R. Bhandary, K. Ponnusamy, R. Dhamodharan (2012) Synthesis of fl uorescent, dansyl end-functionalized PMMA and poly(methyl methacrylate-b-phenanthren-1-yl-methacrylate) diblock copolymers, at ambient temperature. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 50: 1491–1502.
1 8. N. Haridharan, V. Ramkumar, R. Dhamodharan (2012) N,N′(1,4-Phenylene)bis(2-bromo-2-methyl- propanamide). Acta Crystallogr., Sect. E: Struct. Rep. Online 68.
19 . K. Ponnusamy, R.P. Babu, R. Dhamodharan (2013) Synthesis of block and graft copolymers of styrene by raft polymerization, using dodecyl-based trithiocarbonates as initiators and chain transfer agents. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 51: 1066–1078.
20 . P.B. Rajendran, D. Raghavachari, D. (2012) Synthesis of graft copolymers onto styrenic polymer back- bone via “grafting from” raft process. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 50: 4772–4782.
21 . H.S. Sundaram, D. Raghavachari (2012) Controlled radical polymerization of tert-butyl acrylate at ambient temperature: Effect of initiator structure and synthesis of amphiphilic block copolymers. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 50: 996–1007.
22 . S. Venkatanarasimhan, D. Raghavachari (2013) Epoxidized natural rubber–magnetite nanocomposites for oil spill recovery. J. Mater. Chem. A 1: 868–876.
23 . S.R. Borkar, B.N. Manjunath, S. Balasubramaniam, I.S. Aidhen (2012) Convenient synthesis of D- and L-xylo-1,2,3,4-alkane tetrols from a D-gluco-confi gured common building block. Carbohydr. Res. 358: 23–30.
24 . B.N. Manjunath, I.S. Aidhen (2012) Attempted synthesis of ophiocerin A using D-gulonic acid--lactone. Arkivoc 2013: 100–111.
25 . C.K.R. Namboodiri, P.B. Bisht, R. Mukkamala, B. Chandra, I.S. Aidhen (2013) Solvatochromism, multiphoton fl uorescence, and resonance energy transfer in a new octupolar dye-pair. Chem. Phys. 415: 190–195.
26 . A. Senthilmurugan, I.S. Aidhen (2012) Convenient strategies for the synthesis of 1,4-phenylene spaced sugars. Carbohydr. Res. 347: 55–63.
27 . K. Sudarshan, I.S. Aidhen (2013) Synthesis of (+)-centrolobine and its analogues by using acyl anion chemistry. Eur. J. Org. Chem.: 2298–2302.
28 . T.K.N. Nguyen, V.M. Tran, V. Sorna, I. Eriksson, A. Kojima, M. Koketsu, D. Loganathan, L. Kjellen, R.I. Dorsky, C.B. Chien, B. Kuberan (2013) Dimerized glycosaminoglycan chains increase FGF signaling during zebrafi sh development. ACS Chem. Biol. 8: 939–948.
29 . A. Srivastava, B. Varghese, D. Loganathan (2012) X-ray crystallographic investigation of fully acetylated
N-(2-deoxy-2-acetamido--D-glucopyranosyl)alkanamides as N-glycoprotein linkage region analogs. J.
Carbohydr. Chem. 31: 31–47.
30 . V.M. Tran, T.K.N. Nguyen, V. Sorna, D. Loganathan, B. Kuberan (2013) Synthesis and assessment of glycosaminoglycan priming activity of cluster-xylosides for potential use as proteoglycan mimetics. ACS Chem. Biol. 8: 949–957.
31. M. Mohapatra, A.K. Mishra (2012) Fluorescent molecular probes based on excited state prototropism in lipid bilayer membrane. Progr. Biomed. Opt. Imaging: Proc. SPIE 8233: 1–10.
32. K. Kumar, A.K. Mishra (2012) Application of parallel factor analysis to total synchronous fl uorescence spectrum of dilute multifl uorophoric solutions: Addressing the issue of lack of trilinearity in total synchro- nous fl uorescence data set. Anal. Chim. Acta 755: 37–45.
33. K. Kumar, A.K. Mishra (2012) Quantifi cation of ethanol in petrol–ethanol blends: Use of Reichardt’s ET(30) dye in introducing a petrol batch independent calibration procedure. Talanta 100: 414–418. 34. K. Kumar, A.K. Mishra (2012) Application of ‘multivariate curve resolution alternating least square
(MCR–ALS)’ analysis to extract pure component synchronous fl uorescence spectra at various wavelength offsets from total synchronous fl uorescence spectroscopy (TSFS) dataset of dilute aqueous solutions of
fl uorophores. Chemometr. Intell. Lab. 116: 78–76.
35. K. Kumar, A.K. Mishra (2012) Quantifi cation of ethanol in ethanol–petrol and biodiesel in biodiesel– diesel blends using fl uorescence spectroscopy and multivariate methods. J. Fluoresc. 22: 339–347. 36. K. Kumar, M.E. Mohanty, V. Jayashankar, A.K. Mishra, S. Suresh (2012) Designing tissue phantoms for
ultrasonography and elastography with TiO2 incorporated polyacrylamide hydrogels. AIP Conf. Proc. 1461: 151–159.
37 . G.S. Siluvai, B. Varghese, N.N. Murthy (2012) Synthesis and characterization of trivalent tribridged dico- balt complexes incorporating alkoxide, aqua-hydroxide, acetate and phosphate ligating groups. Inorg. Chim. Acta 388: 46–51.
38 . A. Baksi, T. Pradeep, B. Yoon, C. Yannouleas, U. Landman (2013) Bare clusters derived from protein templates: Au25+, Au
38
+ and Au 102
+. ChemPhysChem 14: 1272–1282.
39 . A. Baksi, P.L. Xavier, K. Chaudhari, N. Goswami, S.K. Pal, T. Pradeep (2013) Protein-encapsulated gold cluster aggregates: The case of lysozyme. Nanoscale 5: 2009–2016.
40 . M. S. Bootharaju, K. Chaudhari, T. Pradeep (2012) Real time plasmonic spectroscopy of the interaction of Hg2+ with single noble metal nanoparticles. RSC Advances 2: 10048–10056.
41 . M.S. Bootharaju, G.K. Deepesh, T. Udayabhaskararao, T. Pradeep (2013) Atomically precise silver clus- ters for effi cient chlorocarbon degradation. J. Mater. Chem. A 1: 611–620.
42 . M.S. Bootharaju, T. Pradeep (2012) Understanding the degradation pathway of the pesticide, chlorpyrifos by noble metal nanoparticles. Langmuir 28: 2671–2679.
43 . I. Chakraborty, A. Govindarajan, J. Erusappan, A. Ghosh, T. Pradeep, B. Yoon, R.L. Whetten, U. Landman (2012) The superstable 25 kDa monolayer protected silver nanoparticle: Measurements and interpretation as an icosahedral Ag152(SCH2CH2Ph)60 cluster. Nano Lett. 12: 5861–5866.
44 . I. Chakraborty, T. Udayabhaskararao, T. Pradeep (2012) High temperature nucleation and growth of gluta- thione protected ~Ag75 clusters. Chem. Commun. 48: 6788–6790.
45 . I. Chakraborty, T. Udayabhaskararao, T. Pradeep (2012) Luminescent sub-nanometer clusters for metal ion sensing: A new direction in nanosensors. J. Hazard. Mater. 211–212: 396–403.
46 . A. Chandrasekar, T. Pradeep (2012) Luminescent silver clusters with covalent functionalization of graphene. J. Phys. Chem. C 116: 14057–14061.
47. S.M. Maliyekkal, T.S. Sreeprasad, K. Deepti, K. Summayya, K.M. Abhishek, V.W. Umesh, T. Pradeep (2012) Graphene: A reusable substrate for unprecedented adsorption of pesticides. Small (doi:10.1002/smll.201201125). 48 . D. Choudhury, P.L.. Xavier, K. Chaudhari, R. John, A.K. Dasgupta, T. Pradeep, G. Chakrabarti (2013)
Unprecedented inhibition of tubulin polymerization directed by gold nanoparticles inducing cell cycle arrest and apoptosis. Nanoscale 5: 4476–4489.
49 . J. Cyriac, T. Pradeep, H. Kang, R. Souda, R.G. Cooks (2012) Low-energy ionic collisions at molecular solids. Chem. Rev. (Washington, DC, U.S.) 112: 5356–5411.
50 . L. Dhanalakshmi, T. Udayabhaskararao, T. Pradeep (2012) Conversion of double layer charge-stabilized Ag@citrate colloids to thiol passivated luminescent quantum clusters. Chem. Commun. 48: 859–861. 51 . A. Ganguly, I. Chakraborty, T. Udayabhaskararao, T. Pradeep (2013) A copper cluster protected with
phenylethanethiol. J. Nanoparticle Res. 15: 1522.
52 . A. George, E.S. Shibu, S.M. Maliyekkal, M.S. Bootharaju, T. Pradeep (2012) Luminescent, freestanding composite fi lms of Au 15 for specifi c metal ion sensing. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 4: 639–644.
53 . A. Ghosh, T. Udayabhaskararao, T. Pradeep (2012) One-step route to luminescent Au18SG14 in the condensed phase and its closed shell molecular ions in the gas phase. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 3: 1997–2002. 54 . A. Giri, N. Goswami, M.S. Bootharaju, P.L. Xavier, R. John, N.T.K. Thanh, T. Pradeep, B. Ghosh,
A.K. Raychaudhuri, S.K. Pal (2012) Emergence of multicolor photoluminescence in La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 nanoparticles. J. Phys. Chem. C 116: 25623–25629.
55 . N. Goswami, A. Giri, S. Kar, M.S. Bootharaju, R. John, P.L. Xavier, T. Pradeep, S.K. Pal (2012) Protein- directed synthesis of NIR-emitting, tunable HgS quantum dots and their applications in metal-ion sensing. Small 8: 3175–3184.
56 . S.S. Gupta, T.S. Sreeprasad, S.M. Maliyekkal, S.K. Das, T. Pradeep (2012) Graphene from sugar and its application in water purifi cation. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 4: 4156–4163.
57 . S. Kumar, E.S. Shibu, T. Pradeep, A.K. Sood (2013) Ultrafast photoinduced enhancement of nonlinear optical response in 15-atom gold clusters on indium tin oxide conducting fi lm. Optics Express 21: 8483–8492.
58 . M.I. Litter, W. Choi, D.D.D. Dionysiou, P. Falaras, A. Hiskia, G. Li Puma, T. Pradeep, J. Zhao (2012) Nanotechnologies for the treatment of water, air and soil. J. Hazard. Mater. 211–212: 1–2.
59 . S.M. Maliyekkal, T.S. Sreeprasad, D. Krishnan, S. Kouser, A.K. Mishra, U.V. Waghmare, T. Pradeep (2013) Graphene: A reusable substrate for unprecedented adsorption of pesticides. Small 9: 273–283. 60 . A. Mathew, P.R. Sajanlal, T. Pradeep (2012) Selective visual detection of TNT at the sub-zeptomole level.
Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 51: 9596–9600.
61 . M.R. Mohammadi, S.A. Tabei, A. Nemati, D. Eder, T. Pradeep (2012) Synthesis and crystallization of lead–zirconium–titanate (PZT) nanotubes at the low temperature using carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as sacri-
fi cial templates. Adv. Powder Technol. 23: 647–654.
62 . J.S. Mohanty, P.L. Xavier, K. Chaudhari, M.S. Bootharaju, N. Goswami, S.K. Pal, T. Pradeep (2012) Luminescent, bimetallic AuAg alloy quantum clusters in protein templates. Nanoscale 4: 4255–4262. 63. P.L. Xavier, K. Chaudhari, B. Ananya, T. Pradeep (2012) Protein-protected luminescent noble metal
quantum clusters: An emerging trend in atomic cluster nanoscience. Nano Reviews 3: 14767 (doi:10.3402/ nano.v3i0.14767)
64 . Y. Niihori, M. Matsuzaki, T. Pradeep, Y. Negishi (2013) Separation of precise compositions of noble metal clusters protected with mixed ligands. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135: 4946–4949.
65 . T.N.V.K.V. Prasad, P. Sudhakar, Y. Sreenivasulu, P. Latha, V. Munaswamy, K. Raja Reddy, T.S. Sreeprasad, P.R. Sajanlal, T. Pradeep (2012) Effect of nanoscale zinc oxide particles on the germination, growth and yield of peanut. J. Plant Nutr. 35: 905–927.
66 . K.P. Remya, T. Udayabhaskararao, T. Pradeep (2012) Low-temperature thermal dissociation of Ag quantum clusters in solution and formation of monodisperse Ag2S nanoparticles. J. Phys. Chem. C 116: 26019–26026. 67 . P.R. Sajanlal, T. Pradeep (2012) Functional hybrid nickel nanostructures as recyclable SERS substrates:
Detection of explosives and biowarfare agents. Nanoscale 4: 3427–3437.
68 . M.U. Sankar, S. Aigal, S.M. Maliyekkal, A. Chaudhary, A.A. Anshup Kumar, K. Chaudhari, T. Pradeep (2013) Biopolymer-reinforced synthetic granular nanocomposites for affordable point-of-use water puri-