Research Highlights

• SK Nataraj and his group successfully tested seaweed sourced electrocatalyst for Fuel Cell applications, Green Chemistry 2016. »
• Geetha Balakrishna and her group have innovated a photocatalytic process for microalgal cell disruption leading to lipid release and thereby oil and biofuel generation. This economical technique yields 52 % of oil on par with the existing techniques using Nannochloropsis oculata, Applied Energy, 2016. »
• Ahipa T N, RK Pai and his group were able to synthesize two novel D-A polymers containing pyridine with vinylene spacer. »
• Dr. Geetha Balakrishna, M V Reddy and group, for the first time synthesized Y2Sn2O7 anode material, with a good stability and capacity retention during cycling, for lithium ion batteries and the same was published in Electrochimica Acta, 182, 2015, 1060-1069. »
• Ahipa T N, RK Pai and his group were able to investigate the properties of hexagonal columnar liquid crystal as a processing additive to a P3HT:PCBM photoactive layer. »
• Ahipa T N, RK Pai and his group were able to publish a review article entitled "Polymer design for solar cell – Current trend and future scenario" in Polymer. »
• Mahaveer Kurkuri, Madhuprasad and his group were able to publish a review article entitled "Isolation of circulating tumour cells by physical means in a microfluidic device: a review" in RSC Advances. »
• B. M. Nagaraja and his group were able to publish a review article entitled "Activity studies of vanadium, iron, carbon and mixed oxides based catalysts for the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene to styrene: a review" in Catalysis Science & Technology. »
• Rangappa S. Keri and his group were able to publish a review article entitled "Benzofuran: an emerging scaffold for antimicrobial agents" in RSC Advances. »
• Geetha Balakrishna and her group were able to fabricate a quantum dot solar cell and study its Quantum Dot - Dye Molecular Interactions in hybrid Solar Cells and the same appeared in Solar Energy »